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There seems to be a recurring theme so far this year. Everyone wants to up their game and increase their value through marketing and a redesign of something. As I work in each of these areas I find this trend intriguing. I have always had a curiosity about what drives people to want to make a change.
As we start off 2012, and I delve deeper into this world of magic and sparkles, (yes I said sparkles because I keep getting asked for pop, and bling in design) I wonder where does the line between what you need and what you desire blur.
Designing for SharePoint (or really any web platform) is an interesting world. It is full of pitfalls and obstacles that require at times someone with catlike agility or the determination of a U.S. Navy Seal to overcome the challenges. It is all about making form and function work with pretty and well designed. And determining which side of the line you would prefer to stay on.
There are some universal truths that no matter which side of the line you normally stand on that bring us to walking down the straight line ahead.
By answering these 5 questions you will start to gain insight into the actual drivers for the project. Some of biggest hurdles that I face when designing what the client "needs" vs "wants" is lack of content definition and lack of a clear purpose.
1. Define the purpose: What are we hoping is our end result? Communication, Collaboration, both?
There are different design considerations for different site types. When working on an intranet most likely you will have to split your attention between communication and collaboration. This means you are really straddling the line of pretty vs functionality.
Example of want vs need:You might want a fixed width site, but the site's primary purpose might be collaboration meaning you need fluid/dynamic width.
2. Identify our primary target audience: Who are we communicating with or targeting for collaboration.
Audience is a huge component in branding. We need to know who our audience is in order to understand how they will interact with the site. Will they be using the site daily, weekly, monthly, hourly? Are they visiting to absorb information or to collaborate?
Example of want vs need: You might want to create a navigation that is determined by organizational structure but visitors are using the site for business driven tasks so you need a business factor driven navigation.
3. What defines success?
How do you measure the success of your site? This is a very important goal to define when working with branding. Knowing the driving factors behind the site whether visual or not will help you to determine the emphasis to put on certain factors like: navigation, content placement, images, brand, and functionality.
Example of want vs need: One of your success factors is increasing the number of documents put onto your site for storage, but you make uploading too difficult by burying links under other items. You need to focus on how to bring attention to the upload areas and desired behavior of the client. This is a need for function over design.
4. Who is creating the content?
It is hard to think about how to visualize content when we don't know what the content is in the first place. This is a major difference in working with SharePoint as a web development platform. SharePoint is content and user centric in design. Understanding your content and who is creating this is essential to a successful site.
Example of want vs need: You want to make the Ribbon scrollable on a collaboration site to save space, but you really need to leave it fixed to the top of the page so that users have access to the actions they need to perform on content within your sites.
5. What is the budget for the project?
The second biggest hurdle is always budget. We always want Filet Mignon on a Ramen Noodles budget. So then it becomes a challenge for the designer and developer as to how to add the right mix ins to the Ramen to make it as satisfying as a juicy Filet.
Example of want vs need: You want to provide dynamic content in your sites, you design the site with concepts like tabbed content controls and custom jQuery in mind. What you need is to focus more time on the navigation controls so you should be looking to use some of the Out of the Box components of SharePoint to provide this dynamic content.
Don't overlook the value that the Out of the Box SharePoint components can play in your site design with just a very minimal amount of customizations.
Which side is the right side of the line? Should I be walking the straight and narrow right down the middle? It depends is my favorite answer, because honestly each situation is different.
Answering these questions will provide you with information that you can use to guide your user interface and user experience. Great user experience is about taking chances and finding new ways to present the same information in a new way.
Walking the line is a challenge. So whether you are a tightrope walker, an acrobat, or someone pulled over for suspicion of DUI… walking the line requires balance and stability. So make sure you examine and analyze the details that your users and system requires before you take your first step.


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Many maybe sceptical looking out of their windows tomorrow morning and seeing a white blanket covering the landscape as to whether global warming actually exists. Fair enough; from the title you would expect the climate to get warmer, and with temperatures hitting -10.C, you would understandably say there is definitely no warming happening here. However, the term global warming is fully appropriate to describe why we are experiencing these current weather conditions.
There exists a global warming myth that states if the Arctic polar cap melted it actually would not raise ocean levels - a key concern of the effects of climate change. However, there is a distinction to be made between sea based ice and land based ice. The Arctic is largely made up of frozen sea based water and so would not affect ocean levels a huge amount if it melted. This is best described using the following example: when ice cubes are placed into a cup and then filled to the top with water, the ice will melt in the cup without overflowing it. The space the ice retains in the cup will retain the same space once melted.
The problem arrives where land based ice falls into the sea. Imagine one more ice cube on top of the others in the cup. If this melts undoubtedly the water will overflow the glass. Unfortunately, there are two distinct points on the Earth where there is enough land ice to raise sea levels by up to six metres (20 feet) if it fell into the sea and melted - Greenland and Antarctica. The consequences include the flooding of major populated cities like Bangkok and Shanghai, and would leave the Netherlands completely submerged.
How could this happen? The Earth's ocean has one large current running through it, like an escalator belt. As the current passes through the Arctic, the cold water is heated by the current coming from the equator, to which this newly formed hot air is blown across the whole of Europe giving us our temperate climate - hotter in the summers, while colder in the winters. However on the east coast of Greenland lays an ice sheet, which if fully melted will no longer be able to contain the land based ice it currently imprisons. This will fall and melt in the sea, causing the rising of sea levels up to six metres. To make matters worse, because this land based ice is freshwater, it will disrupt the saltwater current; ultimately there will be a point in the near future where we will receive no more temperate climate, forcing the whole of Europe into a continental ice age. Global warming is therefore an appropriate term of use to describe our unusually cold winter.
If the above is true, it is likely that this treacherous weather is going to become a regular occurrence. If governments are not prepared for it, schools will be shut for months on end, roads will be even deadlier and thousands of families could face a shortage of supplies. But perhaps worse: the extinction of millions of species of flowers, insects and plants who will not be able to stand this new climate. So what could this mean? Poorer education, useless roads, starving families and the extinction of species.
This is only a few of the many reasons why the government needs to focus a lot more on climate change as the most important issue for the future. Climate change is a cycle, and we can keep up with it, even if we quicken it up. The most frustrating thing is that action taken against global warming is too slow and not progressing anywhere near fast enough to what we need to reach to counter it's effects. We will lose the ability to adapt to the environment, and when that time comes the amount of regret millions of people will have for not doing anything to stop it will be nothing compared to the anger of these words: 'I told you so'.


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Custom Car Seat Covers
Some manufacturers provide custom tailoring of car seat covers for particular vehicles. Customized car seat covers provide a snug fit with no sagging ends and therefore make the car seat look more visually appealing.
Custom car seat covers are a viable solution for hard-to-fit seats like 40/20/40 seats, 70/30 seats, 60/40 seats, as well as difficult-to-fit seats in jeeps, trucks, tractors and SUVs. The company first sends some representatives to take accurate measurements of the car seats and then builds up an estimate. This service is most often free of charge.
A wide variety of materials may be used for making custom car seat covers. The person ordering the car seat covers gets to choose from among cotton, vinyl, neoprene, sheepskin, denim, velour cloth, tweed cloth and several other materials. Specific colors and patterns can also be chosen. Materials can be chosen according to the climatic factors and the amount of wear and tear the car seats may be subjected to. The client may have to pay for the material in advance. At other times, the company quotes a lump sum charge, with the cost of the material included.
While customizing a car seat cover, the customer can seek any combination. The cover can be tailored as aesthetically as designed, creating a sense of fashion consciousness within the car. Different kinds of fasteners like Velcro, zippers, buttons or strings can be decided upon to enhance the look and durability of the cover.
Custom car seat covers are obviously more expensive than standard car seat covers available in the stores. While standard car seat covers may be available at $30 to $70 per cover, customized car seat covers are sold at anywhere upwards of $60 per cover. Car seat cover providers also provide other accessories such as car covers and floor mats. Floor mats are provided complementary by some companies with a custom order of car seat covers.
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On Tuesday just before dinner Wally sneezed four times in a row. Caroline looked at me. A feeling of dread passed between us: We both knew how things would go from here.
A few years ago, before Jay was born, I spent a Saturday morning reading Tolstoy's wonderful novella The Death of Ivan Ilych. Near the beginning of the story Ivan Ilych is standing on a stepladder hanging curtains in his house. He slips, knocks himself against a knob on the window frame, but regains his balance before he falls. Afterwards he thinks to himself, "It's a good thing I'm a bit of an athlete. Another man might have been killed, but I merely knocked myself, just here; it hurts when it's touched, but it's passing off already—it's only a bruise."
Of course, it's not only a bruise. Ivan's symptoms get worse and worse. Each step along the way he rationalizes to himself: Oh, it's nothing. But in the end that slip on the stepladder proves fatal. He bumped himself in just the wrong way. A few weeks later, Tolstoy writes (in a sentence characteristic of the barbed style that makes the story so entertaining), Ivan's "so-called friends" are left "to fulfill the very tiresome demands of propriety by attending the funeral service and paying a visit of condolence to the widow."
A few sneezes from Wally don't make me worry that his life is in danger, but they do predict with great accuracy that the coming weeks aren't going to be fun. Since Jay was born I've become very good at recognizing the first signs of a cold. All it takes is a misplaced sniffle or the faintest sheen of snot beneath one nostril and the rest, as they say, is written: the fever, the cough, the sleepless nights and ruthless mornings. The cold picks us off one by one. It'll be a month before we're all healthy again.
And indeed, my eyes are slits right now. It's turned out to be Jay who's gotten it worst. He's been running a fever and has a spot of red on each cheek as bright as if he'd stolen into Caroline's rouge again. He's sneezing and coughing. Droopy in the eyes. Utterly pathetic to look at. And because of it all, he can't sleep: Last night he coughed himself awake around 2am and spent the next 90-minutes calling to us (very good naturedly, as it happened) with one request or another: I need a tissue; I need water; take my blanket off; put my blanket back on; Daddy, is the vaporizer working?
Wally has born his illness more sensibly. Last night he slept for 14 hours. We went in to check on him at 9am just to make sure he was still breathing. To be fair, he hasn't gotten it as bad as Jay. No fever that I've noticed and no cough yet, either. His biggest problem is that nursing with a stuffy nose is about as pleasant as being waterboarded.
In a way it's funny that all it takes is one little germ that's not even very menacing as far as germs go to knock a whole world-beating family on its back. Most days we scheme great schemes—about how we want to live abroad; have a third child; buy a house; make our marks in the world. Then we get sick and we're thankful just to make it to naptime.
Not everything about a family cold is bad, though. Being sick has a mellowing effect on Jay's personality. He's sweeter, cuddlier, maybe even more empathetic. Yesterday we were settling in together for our afternoon nap and Jay turned to me and said: "I like your shirt." He's never said that before. I figured either he was buttering me up because he knew he'd be asking a lot of me later that night, or, as sometimes happens, his sickness had made him more aware of the water he swims in—his itchy eyes, his burning forehead, his godforsaken nose—and thus more aware of other people, too.
And that, I guess, is one of the virtues of sickness generally—that it throws normal life into relief, at least in those moments where it's gentle enough to let you think.
About an hour ago I put Wally down for his nap. I held him in my right arm, put a bottle to his mouth, and walked him around his room. At first he couldn't eat and breath at the same time but after a few false starts he cleared an opening in his nasal passages just wide enough for the task. He gulped the milk. His eyelids fluttered. He breathed in one rattling breath after another and at last, fell asleep.
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Spotted over at Freshome, we love this industrial-looking outdoor grill.
The goal was to create outdoor items that that could withstand the elements without requiring major care. The rugged fire pit and barbecue, designed by Materia Litica, features reinforced concrete made of marble and red quebracho tree legs.
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The status is the current state of the RMA. There are 7 possible statuses
- Requested: *Only for merchants on manual authorization mode. The shopper has requested a return, but merchant has not yet authorized the return.
- Authorized: The return has been authorized, either manually or automatically. This indicates that the shopper has been presented with and/or emailed their shipping label.
- In Transit: The product return has been shipped and is in transit to your return address
- Delivered: The shipping carrier is reporting that the return has been delivered to your return address
- Refunded: The refund amount due to the shopper for the item(s) returned was issued to the shopper's original payment method
- Cancelled: The return was cancelled from the dashboard.
- Incomplete: The shopper initiated but did not complete return process; this means that they stopped the process prior to generating a return shipping label.


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Welcome to Bill Flannery Automotive!
Exceptional sales, service and support have earned Bill Flannery Automotive the elite status of "Platinum Distributor" by PPG, the world leader in automotive finishes. The Platinum symbol is your assurance that we meet the highest standards in the industry. It also means you can count on us to provide a lot more than just products.
We're here to provide insight in such areas as process improvement, personnel and inventory management, new products, equipment, techniques and much more. Together, PPG and Bill Flannery Automotive bring you the products and practices to help your business prosper.
We want to help our customers succeed, so we'll become a trusted partner to your business. We offer reliable and consistent delivery, accurate inventory management, in-house technical assistance, management consulting services, endless amounts of information to keep you informed, and the most experienced staff in the industry. When you see all that we offer, it's easy to understand why Bill Flannery Automotive continues to grow year after year.
The Bill Flannery Automotive Mission Statement
"We are guided by the integrity shown since our founding in 1979. Each Bill Flannery Automotive Team member shares the belief that without our customers, we would simply not exist. To that end, we strive to bring the best practices and quality products to the customers that rely on us."
How It All Began...
Bill Sr. meeting face to face with his customers.
The tradition continues today with Sales and Tech Reps on the road offering the best service in the business to our customers.


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Read more about this Hotel
The hotel includes restaurants and bars offering something to suit every taste, from Turkish to foreign cuisine. Each of these has its own distinctive menu.,The family-friendly hotel welcomes guests into a lobby with a 24-hour reception service. It has 48 comfortable, split air-conditioned rooms. Facilities at the hotel include hotel safety deposit boxes, a currency exchange, cloakroom, lift access, TV lounge and bar. For an additional fee, guests can use the hotel's WLAN Internet access, order from 24-hour room service or take advantage of the hotel's laundry service.,The hotel is situated in Kumkapi, one of the ancient quarters of Istanbul, 5 minutes from the important cultural and historical centres of old Istanbul. There is public transport within a 5-minute walk. Atatürk International Airport is approximately 16 km away and Sabiha Gökçen International Airport is approximately 65 km away.,All of the en suite rooms have a bath and hairdryer. They are furnished with double beds and amenities include a telephone, cable and satellite TV and minibar. A split air-conditioner and central heating are standard features in all accommodation.
- 24 Hour Reception
- Air Conditioning
- Air Conditioning in public areas
- Bar
- Currency Exchange
- Doctors / Medical Centre
- Entertainment
- Family Hotel
- Internet Access
- Kitchen Facilities
- Laundry Service
- Lifts
- Minibar
- Reception
- Restaurant
- Room Service
- Safety Deposit Box
- Satellite TV
- Shops
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Saturday, April 1, 2017
A is for AND SO IT BEGINS #AtoZChallenge 2017: FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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Great start! I look forward to the rest of your entries!ReplyDelete
John Holton
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Thanks for visiting, John. Morning starts later here, and I'm just getting rolling!ReplyDelete
Confession: I love antichoks. As a matter of fact, I'm cooking them tomorrow ;-)ReplyDelete
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Sarah, I just wish they were easier to fix. Eating them is the fun part.ReplyDelete
The older I get, the more I like artichokes. Something about them no longer tastes like lard.ReplyDelete
Funny how our tastes buds mature over time, Jacqui! Or maybe they capitulate.ReplyDelete
I LOVE this challenge theme and look forward to reading more "food thoughts" throughout the month!ReplyDelete
I must confess I had my first artichoke only a few years ago. At the time, no one explained how to eat one, so it was not the best experience...
I know several people who adore them, however, and after reading your post, I am not so intimidated to try preparing them at home.Replies
It is definitely not a "user friendly" vegetable! Thanks for visiting today, Molly, and I look forward to reading your journaling posts throughout April.Delete
Artichokes, yum! I will admit to typically going straight for the artichoke hearts (especially at the salad bar), so I enjoyed your idea of stripping them down as a kind of unveiling of a mystery. Looking forward to more Food For Thought this month!ReplyDelete
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Yes, so much easier to hit the salad bar for the hearts! Thanks for visiting, Laura. I look forward to seeing you through the alphabet at World's Coolest Jobs.Delete
Wonderful start to the A-Z! I love artichokes..okay, so I've only had pickled ones, but I love them! ;)ReplyDelete
DB McNicol, author & traveler
Theme: Oh, the places we will go!
Wow, you've introduced me to so many amazing food already! Now I want to try an artichoke.ReplyDelete
I'm a pantser whose characters control the show, so I never know what's going to happen in my books. It's always a nice surprise. Sometimes I watch them painting themselves into horrible corners and say, "Okay, fine, but I hope you guys know how to get yourselves out of this mess, because I have no idea what you're doing."
Thankfully, they do. Eventually.
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3D Desktop Butterfly Screen Saver... Watch as real 3D butterflies begin to flutter around, and land on, the screen you were just working on!
- From the makers of the 3D Desktop Aquarium Screen Saver.
- Real time 3D butterflies that fly around your screen and land on both the desktop and the "glass" of your monitor, as if your monitor is a glass box filled with butterflies!
- As each butterfly goes near your desktop, it casts a shadow.
- Many different types of butterfly are available to download directly from the settings screen of the full registered version. You'll never see so many different
What's New in 3D Desktop Butterfly Screen Saver
Version 1.1 updates all the screen capture and background image code as well as re-writing the butterfly flight code.
Requirements for 3D Desktop Butterfly Screen SaverMac OS X 10.3 or later
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Information about the Science and Education Center at Black Rock Forest
The Footprint of a building is the area of land the structure stands on. For the Black Rock Science and Education Center (SEC), the footprint is approximately 22m x 13m or 286 sq meters. The total useable interior floorspace of the building is 8881 sq feet, or 825 sq meters, spread across three floors.
The long dimension of the building is oriented on an east-west axis to take advantage of solar heat in winter, and to protect against solar heat in summer.
The windows are on the south and north facades to reduce solar gain in summer, and increase solar gain in winter, and to allow for cross-ventilation. Windows use high R-value glass with high visibility, low shading coefficient, and have overhang and awnings for shade on the south side.
The SEC additionally has these green building features: energy efficient lighting, light sensors, a good thermal insulation envelope, efficient HVAC system using the GHP, good Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and rate of air exchange, non-toxic interior materials and finishes; uses sustainably harvested wood and local stone; has composting toilets.
Information about Geothermal Heat Pumps and Energy Use
The Geothermal Heat Pump (GHP) at BRF is installed within five 500 ft bore holes in rock.
The GHP at BRF accounts for approximately one half of its total power demand.
Space heating and air conditioning account for 20% of energy used in the US.
A Geothermal Heat Pump uses 45% of the amount of fuel as a furnace, and can reduce consumption of heating energy by 20-40%; and of cooling energy by 30-50%. In general, a GHP uses < 1/2 the conventional energy to heat and cool SEC, according to Pachi Modi.
Fact about Energy Use and Global Warming
About 99% of the energy used to heat the earth and all its structures is derived directly from the Sun.
Solar energy is converted into renewable resources: biomass of trees and other plants by converting to chemical energy through photosynthesis, and wind and water by converting to mechanical energy.
About 1% of the remaining energy is generated primarily from non-renewable fossil fuels.
According to the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), July 2000, average global temperature could warm by 5.8° C by 2100, twice the previously anticipated rate.
The United States with about 4.6% of the worlds population uses 25% of the worlds commercial energy, 85% of that from non-renewable fossil fuels.
In the US, roughly 43% of commercial energy used is wasted unnecessarily due energy inefficiency of poorly designed buildings.
A modern power plant produces electrical energy at the rate of about one billion watts or 1000 megawatts.


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A meeting of the Party Leaders of the parties which support the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) is scheduled to be held this evening (20).
The meeting, chaired by Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, will be held at his official residence in Wijerama at 6 pm to
Former Acting General Manager of Lanka Sathosa, Wimal Perera, has been sentenced to one year in prison after being found guilty on corruption charges.
Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne today delivered the verdict in the case filed against the accused by Com
Deputy Speaker Ananda Kumarasiri today (19) informed the Parliament that the Supreme Court has rejected 3 petitions submitted against the implementation of the death penalty, says Ada Derana reporter.
A Bill to repeal the death penalty was presented to the Parliam


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The site is Putiidhem, a unique archaeological site that has cultural, spiritual, and scientific value. It is listed in the California Native American Heritage Commission's Register of Sacred Sites. It has been determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under criterion A as a Traditional Cultural Property, the founding village of the Juaneño/Acjachemem. The traditional cultural values are documented through oral traditions regarding the founding of Putiidhem that were passed from generation to generation and documented in mission records and the historic accounts of Father Gerónimo Boscana in the 18th century. Based on this information it is eligible under criterion B as a place that is associated with a person important in history: Corrine, the woman chief who founded the village; it is extremely rare that a prehistoric archaeological site can be associated with a named person. Finally, it is eligible under criterion D for the potential to provide information important in history and prehistory.
The site is located in San Juan Capistrano on a 29-acre property on the corner of Camino Capistrano and Junipero Serra. The site has been almost completely destroyed by the construction of sports facilities, including a gym, swimming pool, and playing fields for a private Catholic high school, which ironically is named after Junípero Serra, the priest who established the missions that led to the destruction of the traditional culture of California Indians, including the Juaneño who are named after Mission San Juan Capistrano.
Putiidhem once was a thriving village with a spring, wetlands, community spaces, and burial grounds. The Junípero Serra Catholic high school now occupies the site. The wetlands and drainage place it under the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles District Corps of Engineers. The developer needed a Corps Section 404 permit to construct storm drain structures and a parking lot which provide infrastructure support. The issuance of the permit is a federal undertaking and places the project under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. Under 36 CFR 800.16 (d) the area of the undertaking's potential environmental impact is defined as that geographical area within which direct and indirect effects caused by the undertaking could reasonably be expected to occur and cause a change in the archaeological or cultural qualities possessed by a National Register-eligible property.
Unfortunately, the Corps used their counterpart regulations Appendix C to limit the Area of Potential Effect (APE) to a very small strip of land within the western portion of the site adjacent to Camino Capistrano Street and the remnant wetlands within the eastern portion of the site. Both the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and the State Historic Preservation Officer wrote letters stating that the Corps is in violation of 36 CFR 800 and has not properly determined the APE.
While the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act consultation process for the permit drug on, the developers fenced off the two small areas of the site designated by the Corps as the APE and graded and filled the remaining areas of the site, including an area designated as a cemetery area that was supposed to be capped and protected. They constructed the gymnasium, excavated the swimming pool, and completed the trenching and installation of the storm drains and underground utilities.
The capping of the so-called sensitive area of the site (based on a 2% subsurface sample of eight acres of the site and where the reburials lie) was not done according to the National Park Service archaeological site-capping guidelines and cannot be considered a preservation measure as the cemetery area was graded and compacted. Other mitigation measures to protect the sensitive area, such as monitored hand digging for the installation of various underground facilities, were not always followed.
Since 2002 CCRPA has worked with the Juaneño/Acjachemem tribal members and the Sierra Club Sacred Sites Task Force to try to preserve the site. CCRPA and the Sierra Club Sacred Sites Task Forcemet with city council members, the property owners, Pueblo Serra, Inc. (the developers), the bishop of the Orange County Archdiocese, and the Trust for Public Lands, and held public education events to present an alternate plan which would preserve the site with native plants and a minimally invasive interpretive center. When these efforts failed, we wrote letters to politicians and opinion pages, spoke to reporters and participated in a Channel 4 documentary regarding attempts by the California Indians to protect their sacred sites. The Sierra Club Sacred Sites Task Force and Native Americans held prayer vigils at the site. CCRPA, the Sierra Club Sacred Sites Task Force, and Native Americans went door-to-door with petitions, spoke against the destruction at the public hearings, and wrote letters criticizing the inadequate and insensitive mitigation measures in the environmental impact report. Realizing that the California Environmental Quality Act provided no protection, CCRPA and the Sierra Club Sacred Sites Task Force, with strong support from the Native American community, turned to the federal courts for protection.
CCRPA felt that federal laws and regulations were circumvented and the site was almost completely destroyed. Therefore, CCRPA, with assistance from the Sierra Club, brought suit to preserve what was left of the site.
The overall objective was to prevent any further impacts to the known burial area and to obtain off-site mitigation in terms of funding for appraisals and options to purchase adjacent properties containing cultural deposits believed to be associated with the sacred site. These properties are in danger of development and the hope is to assist the city in their purchase for preservation as open space.
The lawsuit forced the developer to employ an independent archaeologist, limit excavation, and provide daily logs among other mitigations and protective measures. The lawsuit was then settled with payment from the developer to a trust to aid in the acquisition of off-site property in order to protect other important resources and to provide access for the Juaneño descendants to their ancestral lands. Off-site mitigation is an available form of mitigation under the regulations implementing Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act.


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Cheddar Puffs (Gougeres)/
Let the partying begin!! I love this time of year! The approaching holidays here at the Circle B Kitchen mean lots of family around, lots of parties and well…lots of eating and lots of cooking. And it's my favorite kind of cooking, really. Party food is just as fun for me to cook as it is to eat. Well, almost. But for the next few weeks I will be sharing some of my favorite party foods with you, and we'll start here with some cheddar puffs that just sit on that little plate crying out for a glass of cabernet or pinot or zinfandel…actually just a glass of wine, any wine.
The French cousin of this cheddar puff is a "gougeres" and is usually made with gruyere cheese. The dough is called pate a choux and they're really, really good. I've made both versions and like them equally.
They're really pretty easy to make…the dough is cooked in a saucepan first and then transferred to a mixer where the eggs and cheese are added.
Then they can be spooned onto baking sheets or piped for a more refined look. I'm sort of thinking that a gougeres should be piped, but a cheddar puff should be spooned.
Then you just bake them....
...cool, and eat. So good. They're sort of a cross between a popover and savory, cheesy, cream puff with a hollow center that just begs to be filled (another post).
And one of the really great things about them is that you can make them ahead and freeze them and then re-heat when needed. So it's on you to think of a reason to throw a party, then pour a glass of wine and get yourself some cheddar puffs made. Here's the recipe...
Cheddar Puffs
1 cup (2 sticks) butter
2 cups water
2 teaspoons sugar
2 teaspoons salt
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
2 to 2½ cups all-purpose flour
4 cups of extra sharp Cheddar cheese
6 eggs
1. Preheat oven to 400F.
2. Combine butter, water, sugar, salt and cayenne in a large saucepan. Cook until butter melts. Add 2 cups of flour all at once. Reduce heat and stir constantly with a wooden spoon about 1 minute. Pour into mixing bowl; using a mixer with a paddle attachment, beat 1 minute at medium-low speed to cool the mixture. Increase speed to medium; add eggs one at a time, beating to incorporate before adding the next. Batter should be firm, not runny. If necessary, blend in an additional ½ cup flour. Fold in cheese. Drop by tablespoons onto baking pan lined with parchment paper. Sprinkle with paprika.
3. Bake 10 minutes, turn the pan, and bake 10 more minutes. Leftover puffs can be frozen. Makes about 60.


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"Agile is ingrained in our culture now, because we're passionate about rapidly delivering results and responding to market needs. The market changes faster than you can plan for, as do the needs of customers. Working in an Agile way enables us to quickly make decisions – far more so than with traditional project methodology. It's like comparing an oil tanker and a jetski. With Agile innovation, CommBank is a jetski."
Rapidly developed in response to a fundamental market need, the CommBank Small Business app is a great example of innovation. Tu, Executive Manager for Small Business Digital Channels, discusses how – and why – the bank tackled the challenges:
"This all came about through observation and listening to our customers. We discovered a way to improve the lives of our customers when we saw that a lot of our mobile business customers didn't have an efficient way of issuing invoices. Some also struggled with accepting payments. So for example, if I'm a locksmith at your house, creating a paper invoice when I've finished the work, then having to chase the customer for payment at a later date isn't very efficient.
"We asked, what if we could give our small mobile businesses the ability to generate invoices on the road. How could we save them time and effort so that they can focus on what they're passionate about?"
The key to making it work internally, said Tu, was not only to bring together a diverse group of stakeholders, but also "getting everyone to buy into our clear vision".
"The vision of this project was critical. It meant everyone who participated could see how and why it benefited our customers, and whenever we came across a challenge we could always refer to our vision - the true north for the project.
"For example, we believed that every small business customer should have the ability to put BPAY on their invoices and that every business who signed up to the service would have it built in. This potentially had a big impact on the BPAY product team, however they understood our vision and the customer benefit. So together we collaborated to work through the technical, process and business challenges and ended up building a whole new set of processes to make this work. They went out of their way to help realise this great customer experience."
In the end the app went from concept to release with an incredibly short turnaround time. "For me it was a magical moment to see this app released to the market. It was a very involved project, but it gave me a huge sense of pride and achievement, knowing this will have a massive impact on the lives of our small business customers. I can look back and say 'wow!', I've had a great time working on this and so many people have benefited."
Tu Duong
Executive Manager, Digital Channels Small Business, Retail Banking Services


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More and more people are making a living by sharing content online, via YouTube, blogs or other social media sites.
Recently, some of Africa's most successful bloggers met in Senegal's capital, Dakar, to share ideas.
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It has been a long time since I have read Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness and his reference to fruitful monotony. I am thinking of it this morning, as my period of retreat with my paintings will soon come to an end.
I speak to my students about the merits of boredom, not as an end in itself, but rather as way of not rushing to an end result, of staying with your work long enough to discover what is on the other side of the door. To be delighted and surprised! I cannot cultivate images arising, or glimpse the the edge of the muse's gown, without limiting my access to friends and entertainment– and enduring some periods of ennui. The long term effect of this gestation and interiority is even more than I could have imagined at the beginning. I need less sleep and cannot wait to get up. I am delightfully assaulted by images, so that my brush flies on its own.
This enlivening experience is a desperate need in this time where we have removed almost all traces of boredom, even for our children, by providing anytime access to gadgets and entertainment.
I will post some images from my upcoming exhibit soon– in the meantime, here are some photos of my recent visit to see my father on St George Island. I collected shells for my Poetic Landscape workshops, enchanted by their marks, and the way they feel in my hand. I am thinking of all kinds of possibilities with shells, paint, ink and paper.
Do you cultivate limitations or restrictions that make you restless or open the door to boredom? I'd love to hear from you.


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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Annual from slender taproot, ± hairy (but appearing glabrous)
Stems generally simple or branching in lower half of plant, erect, generally flexible, glabrous to hairy, green to reddish
Leaves generally narrowly linear, ciliate, green
Inflorescence: heads radiate, disciform or discoid, nodding in bud, solitary, terminal; peduncles slender; involucres 37 mm, generally bell-shaped; phyllaries in 23 generally equal series, lanceolate to (ob)ovate, green, margins widely scarious; receptacle naked
Ray flowers present or 0, or corolla reduced to tube; corollas white, yellow, or reddish
Disk flowers fewmany; corollas yellow to reddish or maroon; style tips linear, acute
Fruit 1.53 mm, oblong-fusiform, generally compressed, generally hairy; pappus of 020 fragile, slender bristles
Species in genus: 6 species: CA
Etymology: (Greek: five bristles, from pappus)
Reference: [Van Horn 1973 Univ Calif Publ Bot 65:141]
Stems 314 cm, hairy below heads
Leaves < 3.5 cm, 1 mm wide; upper surface hairy; lower surface generally glabrous
Inflorescence: heads < or = 200 per plant; peduncles hairy; involucres narrowly obconic; phyllaries elliptic, glabrous or sparsely hairy
Ray flowers generally 5; ligule < 1 mm, generally reduced to tube, light yellow, tips reddish
Disk flowers generally 4; corollas 3-lobed, colored as rays
Fruit: pappus bristles 3, slightly expanded at base
Chromosomes: 2n=18
Ecology: Grassy areas
Elevation: < 320 m.
Bioregional distribution: Outer North Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada Foothills, San Francisco Bay Area, South Coast Ranges, w Western Transverse Ranges
Synonyms: Chaetopappa a. (Greene) D.D. Keck


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Sunday, December 11, 2011
A Whimsicle Rug
The other day as I was viewing pinterest I came across a really cool idea by Shannon Berrey. It was a rug made out of the foamy link blocks that our kids use as a rug to play on.For months I have been meaning to buy one of those pricey kitchen chef mats but due to my lack of funds I was thrilled to make this one.
These are so easy to make that its almost ridiculous,you need a package of foam floor blocks,primer acrylic paint and a sealer of your choice.
All you do is prime paint and seal and your good to go!I just was having fun and missing my garden so I put a bit of whimsey on mine.My 13 year old loved it so much that we are going to make a ginormous one for her room{only with a cool design lol}
Have fun creating your foam rug:)
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If you had to choose, would you keep Thanksgiving or Christmas? If recent conversations are a clue, many of my friends would say Thanksgiving. They say it's all about expectations. Thanksgiving is simple. Time spent with those we love, eating a great meal and reflecting on our blessings. (I suppose it may also includes naps, football and parades.) Christmas, despite it's origins, is saddled with a very high bar of expectations. It's no longer about expressing love. There are "time-honored" (and often guilt-motivated) traditions to uphold. These include tree buying (or dragging from the attic) and trimming, house decorating (inside and out…a constant untangling of lights), baking cookies, attending holiday parties (with a dish or a gift), caroling, volunteering, donating, pulling off secret santa shenanigans, sending out Christmas cards (after finding the right sentiment, updating the address list, buying Christmas stamps and writing a detailed annual letter ), watching holiday classics, attending church services and, of course, buying just the right gifts for everyone (including the mailman) while remembering to fill the stockings. All this squeezed into already over-scheduled lives with the added headaches of coordinating complex family schedules (and perhaps dealing with challenging dynamics).
I've had many Christmases like that. There are good moments…and lots of stress. Our commitment to simplify has encompassed Christmas in the last few years. Cutting back on activities, expenses, the number of gifts, etc. This year, our (adult) children agreed to not exchange gifts. Instead, we will have an experience together (yet to be determined). I love the simplicity of that plan, made even sweeter by the promise of time together and shared memories. We have a few decorations in our house but no tree (which I could never quite reconcile anyway given my reverence for nature). Since we're all complaining about weight, there's on pressure to make cookies. And I gave up Christmas cards years ago when the stress of meeting my own expectations outweighed the joy. Instead, I'm seeking other ways to embrace the season. Holiday music played anytime. Treating a friend to coffee. Attending (only one or two) seasonal events (like neighborhood caroling or a musical meditation at church). It leaves time for reflection, restoration and gratitude. Space to be both humbled and inspired by the meaning of the celebration. And a calmer entry into the new year.


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It's hard to be unemployed. It's hard not to have the monthly salary come in, hard to budget carefully, hard to decide whether we can afford this doodle or that doodah. Hard to talk to family and friends, hard when meeting strangers, hard to believe in yourself. Then I met TS*.
For a little over a month now, I have been volunteering three days a week with the Hamilton Group Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA). The RDA works with the physically/intellectually disabled, helping them by teaching them how to ride. This is therapeutic at both physical and emotional levels. My job is primarily to lead horse and rider around an arena, sometimes a paddock, and when lucky, a walk in the country. The ultimate goal is to help the rider (mostly children) canter on their own.
When I first met TS, I was told I needed to go with him because he disliked women, and was known to have slammed his mother against a wall. TS is autistic, and can barely talk. Most of our conversations have been rather one sided, with me prattling about the weather, and TS responding with the occasional "Yeah". He finds it hard to hold himself upright, especially when we trot. He cannot comprehend right and left, and so finds it difficult to steer the horse. His favourite activity apart from the horse riding seems to be story writing, which always go-"Dear TS" and stop. When asked, he tells me that the grass is red and the sky is green. And the tractor is purple. And his favourite song (I haven't managed to catch it yet) is by the Bee Gees. I am really excited because TS has started pulling the reins and trying to guide the horse.
Point is, it is unlikely that TS will ever be 'employable'. He may always need care. I don't know if he'll ever fall in love or get married. Or move to another country. He may never ride a Yezdi** in the pouring rain with his mates (David and Venky, I still love that trip). Or argue politics on Facebook. He may never play a power chord or the drums. Or Football. Or Scrabble. And suddenly, perspective changes.
I know I have family who love me (most days, at least). Many of the children who come to the RDA live with caregivers, not parents. I hear that some parents haven't had any contact with their children for years on end. I am married to my best friend. I have friends (um, I do, right?). I can write. Read. Work. Break bottles. Volunteer at the RDA. People visit my blog (!). There are so, so, so many things I have. It's not that I don't have a job-it's just that I am not paid for it. Not in money, at least. Not yet.
It still isn't easy being unemployed. I really do hope to get a paying (money) job soon, doing something I love. But it simply isn't as hard, anymore. TS has problems. But he sings Bee Gees and rides his horse and things are better, somehow. I really hope the therapy at the RDA is helping him. It sure is helping me!
*Name changed to protect privacy.
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Crazy mad or something...I don't know what to say really. Everything that could have gone wrong with this poor doll, has gone wrong believe me. I am trying very hard to remain optimistic and see things with a light mood, but it is so hard when every time I do something on her I make a horrible mistake and I have to start all over. Let us recapitulate, shall we?
First off, the fabric is not interlock, so it behaves way different than the fabric I use for my dolls. It is taking a lot of time and patience to get acquainted with it, but I have decided this is the fabric for Figlette and I am sticking to it. Second, the wool batting is acting out...getting all retarded on me, since the fabric acts differently I have had to learn other different methods to stuff this little beauty. Stuffing this doll was so not fun, and I usually enjoy stuffing the dolls as it lets me see how they are "filling up" and becoming their chubby little selfs.
Third, she is so skinny and petite that fiddling with those tiny seams gave me a headache. I am not even going to go there because if I start remembering I will be so depressed just knowing that I am not the doll maker I thought I was becoming.
Fourth, the mouth. Oh! the mouth. I totally fudged the mouth. I wanted her to have pouty lips and just didn't make it happen. So a little tiny pout was put in place but I think the previous mouth has left now a mark on her face. Not extremely visible, and there are still a few things recommended to me that need to be done there before I can call this doll a total fluke. Fifth, the hair. She was going to have a different style of hair, but since things were spiralling out of control I decided to go for the tried and true yarn version. I gave her a bob, it suits her so well. She has dirty blonde hair like the inspiration behind her.
I take no responsibility for her clothes...Finn dressed her!!
Perhaps working on this doll seems like a total mistake. But my creative life needed to work on her, while there are massive amounts of outfits waiting to be serged, and buttons to be picked, and the cutest little custom doll waiting for her photos.
Sometimes, just sometimes, you gotta leave everything where it is and take photos of your maximum obsession and play pretend. Dolls are good for the heart that way.


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Two weeks without a manicure, oh the horror! Seriously. I did my own in between the holiday break, but I've lost my steady hand and patience from when I maintained them myself. College and having no money forces oneself to become thrifty, resourceful and creative. When you come out on the other side, you become lazy and wasteful. Hence, my splurges on makeup and manicures - burning money FTW!
French Pink currently carries Essie's Fall 2011/12 collection, but it doesn't cast its usual gleam. This one can "Carry On" as well as a workroom filled with a dozen uninspired designers and one awfully sad Tim Gunn. In other words, skip it. Which I did - instead, I grabbed for a random colour that seemed to be calling my name. Essie's Sexy Divide it was.
Deep purple, shimmery with a touch of fall.
Essie's Sexy Divide leans a bit more red, definitely more eggplant with a little less merlot. If you're on the hunt for a deep / electric hue (a true purple), Butter London's HRH might be up your alley.
For those wondering why I have a bottle in hand this week... Erin of French Pink deemed the bottle as unfit for future applications, so I ended up being the lucky one to walk away with the remnants. Maybe next time I'll pick a colour based on how little polish is left. Heck, it's worth a roll of the dice.


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A significant voice in court is necessary for foster parents if they are to provide the judge with the personal knowledge of the child that they possess. The federal Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) granted them the right to be heard but this has often been misunderstood or overlooked. Frequently, it has proven difficult to get the attention of the judge.
All the other significant parties, including the caseworker, the birth parent, the prosecutor, the CASA (court-appointed-special-advocate), and the GAL (guardian-ad-litem) have legal standing. Not the foster parent. Foster parents may come to court represented by an attorney and file a "motion to intervene." But with or without an attorney they may not be heard. Foster parents in Indiana have obtained legislation giving them the right to be notified of all court hearings, the right to present oral and written evidence, and the right to cross-examine all witnesses. More is needed.
To achieve a significant voice in court, grant legal standing to long-term foster parents, those who have had the child in their home for a year or more. This allows them to speak out in court as an equal party. After one year, the system has already failed to meet the deadline for permanence mandated by ASFA. Legal standing would give a significant voice to long-term foster parents: those who have intimate daily knowledge of the children in their care, who adopt 70 percent of foster children who are adopted, and who care about these children more personally than institutions, agencies, welfare departments, or courts.


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How Their Faith Still Guides Us: A Tribute on the 175th Anniversary of the Relief Society
In honor of the 175th Anniversary of the Relief Society—the oldest organization of women—guest poster Kristen Howey is sharing her tribute to the bold faith of women who have gone before her, and how their faith has buoyed her own.
Tolstoy wisely said "Faith is the force of life."
Doesn't that say it all? Faith is what keeps us going into the great unknown called life. And I've never felt it so much or so palpably as in the past few months.
Let me get a bit personal here…
Last October, at the not-so-young age of 43, I got married. It's quite a love story, if I do say so myself. I reunited with an old college friend (on whom, admittedly, I had a bit of a crush) 25 years after we first met. We both experienced a lot over two plus decades—good and bad—and now we were beginning a new chapter of our lives together. I also became a new step-mom, and moved to Western New York, leaving friends, family, and a career. Jokingly, I called myself "the reverse pioneer."
Ohhhhh, moving. If you want to reconnect with every single emotion in your soul, move somewhere brand new. There are highs and lows, joys and trials, excitement and anxiety. I felt so alone some days—even though I had the best new husband a girl could ask for. Suddenly, I didn't have a job, which was both refreshing and horribly frightening. I felt unsure about my purpose and insecure about my abilities to contribute in meaningful ways. Adjusting to major life changes has been such an exercise in faith for me. To help buoy up my own faith, I've earnestly sought out examples of women of faith and have, some days, relied on their conviction to help my own.
American women who publicly shared their faith—women who were pioneers physically and spiritually—inspire me because they found a voice against all cultural odds. Although females made up a great majority of the congregations, they didn't speak much in churches. They weren't allowed. Culturally, it usually wasn't permitted and many people believed that, doctrinally, it wasn't acceptable either (see First Corinthians 14:34).
One of the earliest accounts of a woman speaking up in church was in the 1630s in Boston. Anne Hutchinson studied the Bible and began teaching select groups of women, usually in their homes and often during labor and childbirth. Eventually, she gained a bit of a following and began holding additional meetings. She spoke with a bold faith. Tragically, she was chased out of the state and she was killed. It wasn't until the early-to-mid 1800s that women really started speaking on faith and religion, particularly the Quaker and Methodist women. Around this same time, the LDS Church established the Relief Society, a faith-based organization for women to "seek out and relieve the distressed," both spiritually and temporally.
We don't have many first-hand accounts from these early faithful women because they weren't recorded as readily as men's talks. But I have loved reading some of the discourses that are available and learning about women's faith history. Maybe it's because I worked so closely with the women's history specialists while working at the LDS Church? Maybe it's because now I live in the historic northeast? Maybe it's because my New York house is older than my hometown of Las Vegas? Who knows why, but now, more than ever before, these histories have come alive for me. I see how these ladies faced challenges, and yes, they felt anxious, but they put their trust in God. It has helped me to read how they too strived to discover God's will for them. And how their faith carried them through tricky times.
I look at these women in our history who spoke up and shared their faith as laying the groundwork for us today. They laid the foundation for women's faith leaders, clergy and chaplains, teachers and academics, even writers and bloggers. They even paved the way for me in my former job as a church spokesperson and my current role as a "reverse pioneer."
There's a short passage written in 1882 by a multiracial woman, Ellanor Jones, that struck me. Based on the years of her life, her race, and the hardships she faced, her words seemed so calming to me. She said:
Should you at any time find yourself overwhelmed with disappointment and sorrow, remember that although your prayer may be like the wailings of the most feeble infant, God, being more loving than the more tender mother, will hear and answer you. But we cannot say that he will always answer according to the desires of your mind; but in his great wisdom he sees and knows what is for your best good and will answer according to his wisdom.
So now, nearly six months into this new life of mine, I still haven't quite settled into things. I can't find my way around town without Siri and I haven't landed a proper job. But I do know I can be still, I can seek guidance, I can pray, I can learn from the past and look forward to the future, and I can have faith.
Hooray for these bold women whose voices can still be heard. May their legacies live on and may we continue to allow faith to be the force of life.


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Injun Devils
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 30th, 2006
There are many offensive terms for different kinds of people. The list is long. One phrase that you will find in old records and some modern ones, denoting Native Americans or American Indians, is "Injun."
The exact origins of "Injun" are lost in time, but dictionaries will tell you that the word seems to have surfaced in 1805-1815, as a variation of "Indian," through assibilation (the act of changing a name by pronouncing it with a hissing or whistling sound). Scholarly sources even compare "Injun" to what happened in 1875-1880, to those who settled in Louisiana and Maine, descended from Acadians (people from Nova Scotia), who became known as "Cajuns."
Today, there is a general embracing and acceptance of "Cajun," but not of "Injun." Of course, it is not too politically correct to use "Injun." But it is part of American history and we have to try to understand it was rather more commonly used. For example, you've find "Injun Joe" and the expression "Injun devil" in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Linguistics is a subject of some importance to cryptozoology, and we must take into context names, places, and times. Carefully, I would like to take you on a pre-pc trek, regarding the use of the term "Injun" in conjunction with cryptozoological phenomenon in my home state. (Please take into account too, if you wish, that I am part Eastern Band Cherokee, so the use of this word is not out of disrespect but only my attempt to examine it in a historical context at Cryptomundo.)
Old records exist of cryptozoological animals called "Injun Devils."
In Maine, Injun Devils could mean, usually, one of two types of cryptids.
One form of Injun Devils was the "lucifees or lynxes," as well as mountain lions and panthers. In other words, some "Injun devils" appeared to be tied to members of the Felidae, the cat family.
Injun Devil could also be employed and attached to, rather literally, as Maine's preferred name for the eastern Bigfoot, also known as Windigo. For example, I've interviewed some individuals, oldtimers actually, in the Rangeley, Maine, area who told of seeing Injun Devils, and describing them as bipedal hairy hominoids, like Bigfoot, with glowing eyes apparently reflected from campfires – near lumbering sites near the Rangeley lakes around the turn of the 19th to 20th century. Tales from Mt. Katahdin also mention Injun Devils.
Thanks to Mark LaFlamme, Judith Meyer, and their separate articles about the Maine Mutant or Mystery Beast, an archival news item has surfaced of an old Maine Injun Devil report. I have already spoken elsewhere as to the shortcomings of Meyer's articlee (including the fact the 2004-2005 reports of the four-legged Turner-Greene Mystery Beast do not match the folklore of the Bigfoot-like Windigo or Wendigo, as noted in that long piece). But Meyer's article did carry text from the public domain 1906 article, at least.
Here it is:
Lewiston Daily Sun, 1906
The "Injun" devil is frightening the West Gardiner berry pickers. They have seen him lying on his side in fields and pastures – a strange dun brown thing with lolloping chops and tasseled ears. They have caught glimpses of him flying through the thickets at dusk, and he has been faintly seen on distant hills against the twilight, a ghostlike creature scenting the evening woods. His height is five feet, and the tracks that he has made as determined by local observers, measures ten feet apart. Some call him "Lucifee," some call him the Indian devil. The range of running is around Cobbossecontee, Manchester, West Gardiner and Purgatory Mills. He has injured nobody as yet, but the berry pickers ar afraid to go to the pastures. No attacks have been made by him upon domestic animals, and hence it is supposed that he lives on rabbits, and other food most desired by Indian devils.
What kind of Injun Devil is this 1906 one? Well, it is hard to tell, isn't it? But just as in the use of the phrase "New Jersey Devil," an umbrella name like "Injun Devil" can be used to hide any unknown creature that the local people wish to describe.
You can begin to see what has happened. A confusing cryptozoological situation is being made more difficult to unravel with the addition of an enigmatic phrase that has never been helpful to use: Injun Devil.
Are they hominoids, felids, or canids? No one knows, and what often happens is that the eyewitnesses forget to specifically describe them because they have the false notion that they are telling us something when they merely use the "Injun Devil" label. To begin to see the media in Maine doing this will not be a useful addition to this Maine Mutant business, even though it is really on its last legs.
Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world's leading cryptozoologists, some say "the" leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson's Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman's daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.


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Opportunities for Digital Health Vendors in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Vice President of Marketing
Naomi Fried, PhD is a highly experienced thought leader in healthcare innovation and digital health, with many years of innovation experience. Most recently, as Biogen's first VP of Innovation, Medical Information, and External Partnerships, she led five functions that catalyzed innovation to support patients and healthcare professionals. She developed the strategy for and led the "innovation beyond the molecule" program to deliver non-pharmacological value to patients and providers.
In our July, 2017 podcast Travis Good, MD interviewed Dr. Fried, resulting in a lively chat about the differences between the way pharma and hospital systems innovate, as well as the advantages digital health vendors can tap when working with pharma. Here were a few key takeaways from the podcast.
A whole world of opportunity exists for startups to bring new digital ideas into the market. Digital health vendors should be seeking out pharma for expertise and advice and working with providers to get to patient populations and to bring these new ideas forward to us. - Dr. Naomi Fried, Founder and CEO, Health Innovation Strategies
Pharma companies are slower to innovate than hospitals
Innovation centers are prevalent throughout today's healthcare ecosystem. But when innovation at Pharma companies is compared to innovation at hospitals and large health systems, hospitals cross the finish line first. "When it comes to testing and implementing patient-facing innovations, particularly new digital health tools, I think providers generally move more quickly," says Fried. "They are closer to the patient, with fewer regulatory barriers to navigate around. So they tend to be more likely to jump in and try things. I'd say when it comes to digital health innovation for patients, hospitals are probably actually a bit ahead of pharma."
Digital health vendors and pharma should partner
Innovation in the pharmaceutical industry is fueled by both internal development and the external development taking place in digital health startups across the globe. The fastest path to innovation is in the partnerships being developed between the two. "Digital health companies usually have specialized domain knowledge," Fried comments. "Tech-savvy, entrepreneurial startups tend to have a consumer bent and are better at developing user experiences and consumer-oriented solutions than large pharma companies."
Digital health startups generally move more quickly and often develop products in months rather than years, and they can also make changes quickly and respond to feedback they get.
On the flip side of the coin, pharma companies can help digital health vendors get past some of the healthcare-specific hurdles to get their products to market faster. Fried explains, "Digital health startups can leverage and learn from pharma's well-established processes around healthcare industry-specific details. Those include things like CPT coding and thinking about payer reimbursement. They don't have to reinvent the wheel or invest heavily in developing regulatory expertise but really can look to a pharma partner who can help them leapfrog to where they are going."
"Where startups lack the infrastructure needed to reach customers and have trouble scaling up, this is something that pharmaceutical companies have done well. So I think that teaming up with pharmaceutical companies and tapping their extensive marketing infrastructures and distribution channels can really help digital startups get traction, much faster than they could if they were on their own."
The three biggest opportunities for digital health products
Dr. Fried describes three areas within digital health patient care that improve value and have the potential to reduce costs.
1. Medication adherence
Medication adherence has a big effect on outcomes and is supported and driven by digital tools. "When patients are more compliant in taking their medications, the stakeholders — doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and payers — all benefit. I think medication adherence is one of the Holy Grails in healthcare. Getting patients to take their medications at the right time, with the right dosage for a condition can really save costs and improve patient outcomes," explains Fried.
2. Digital diagnosis and prediction
A cost savings to the system and better outcomes for the patients make diagnosis and prediction technology a winning opportunity for digital health vendors to explore. Fried explains by example, "Prophylactically taking medication that will avoid an asthma attack may mean a patient takes more drugs at a certain time. But the net result is a lower cost for the overall episode or even no episode at all, avoiding expenses like a trip to the emergency department."
3. Digiceuticals
These are digital therapies that treat a patient for a condition in addition to, or instead of, a traditional pharmaceutical solution. Fried says, "They can either be complementary to medication or they may even have the potential to substitute for medication. An example of a complementary digiceutical would be a pain management app that goes along with pain medication that a patient might take after surgery. This could result in the patient needing less medication or healing more quickly. An example of a substitute digiceutical is a treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Kids could use these apps rather than taking a medication."
I think digiceuticals will clearly drive improved outcomes and lower the cost of healthcare with digital health solutions that bring value in addition to medication. I think that the complementary and synergistic effects of digital health with medications are a net-win for patients, for pharma, and also for the payers.
Tune in for the entire podcast, Naomi Fried, PhD — How Digital Health Companies Can Help Pharma Innovate Faster and don't forget to subscribe to our podcast series to catch them all.


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Noise can include, but is not limited to, yelling, shouting, loud music, horns, power tools and air conditioners.
Under the bylaws, the following cannot be used at night in a residential development :
These activities are allowed during the "daytime," meaning:
Under the bylaws, you cannot cause (or permit to be caused) a continuous sound that exceeds:
Under the bylaws, you cannot cause (or permit to be caused) a non-continuous sound that exceeds:
Fines for violations of these regulations range between $250 to $500.
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Teenager Cameron Gaffney was the hero for Leverstock Green Corinthians as they booked their place in the third round of the BSFL Sunday Senior Cup.
Gaffney, 16, got the only goal of the game as Corinthians beat Apsley Athletic 1-0 to keep their cup hopes alive.
It was not such good news for Hemel Athletic as they were beaten 5-1 after extra-time by Blacksmiths Arms in the Herts FA Sunday Intermediate Cup fourth round.
This week's only tie in the BSFL intermediate Cup second round saw Focus triumph 3-1 at The Queens Head courtesy of goals from Sean Lane, Luke Reid and Harry Crane.
In league action, Premier Division side Comets Sports Club recorded a 7-1 win at Berko Athletic thanks to goals from Luke Sharpley (3), Alex McCarthy, Joel Williams, Paul Meaney and Stuart Meaney.
Berko Tornadoes and AFC Boars shared a 2-2 draw, while efforts from Chris Di-Pascale and Josh Hutchinson-Kemal secured a 2-1 win for Flaunden against Doves United, and Park Rangers won 2-0 over Gossoms End through Greg Goodchild and Ben Judge.
Division One saw Potten End Sunday earn a 3-1 success at Jam United through Ned Ozkasim (2) and Liam Hunter, while Greenacres II and The Bull Athletic drew 2-2.
Robin Hood were the big winners in Division Two, thumping The Midland 6-1 with goals from Dale Evans (2), Tommy North (2), Dom Banks and Matt Brace.
Palace beat Jocketts 2-0 courtesy of goals from Ben Woods and Jamal Ayoub, Clarkwood had Sam Darker, Pelle Cole and Rob Hopkins to thank for a 3-1 win at Adeyfield, and FC Intervino drew 3-3 with Landrovers.
There were plenty of goals in Division Three, with Ryan Luke, Mark Relf, Spencer Warby and Mark Edney earning a 4-3 win for Adeyfield Reserves over The Old Bellgate, and Steve Brown, Adam Aly, Dean Conroy and James Woodward netting in A&A Flooring's 4-2 victory at Berko Tornadoes A.
Jack Watts, Paul Joyce, Clint Findley and Gary Roberts were the Echoes scorers in their 4-3 victory over Berko Athletic Reserves, while two goals from Haydn Cassidy and one from Tom Colquhoun secured a 3-2 win for Boxmoor at Hemel Tudors.
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