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Our next safari began at the end of August with four nights at Amboseli NP, in southern Kenya. This time of the year is very dry in Amboseli, but it's a very good time to visit because wildlife is highly concentrated around the marshes at the heart of the park. As usual, Amboseli for me primarily means Elephants. From the very first morning, with a beautiful family feeding at sunrise on the few remaining grass, we spent a long time with them. We saw some nice play fight between two big bulls, and many tiny calves walking with their families. Unfortunately, the number of cattle coming daily into the reserve to feed and drink this time was extremely high. Large herds walked across the dry lake daily back and forth, leaving deep and ugly tracks on the soil. Sometimes the elephants were walking alongside them, giving us the possibility to take some interesting images of coexistence between wildlife and livestock. However, the balance is extremely delicate.
Another highlight of our time in Amboseli was a Spotted Hyena den with four tiny pups. The overcast weather helped us a lot as it kept them out and active much longer than it would have been had it been hot and sunny. We had some beautiful moments and interactions between mother and pups, in a nice clean setting, something which is typical of the Amboseli plains.
The sky and atmosphere in Amboseli is often fascinating and dramatic. There are big clouds, rays of light through them, dust storms and wind, which provide great settings for images. These three giraffes were returning to the woodlands around the park at sunset, after drinking at the marshes.
We then flew to the Mara, where we found the great migration in full swing, with animals moving frequently across the river, back and forth from the Mara Triangle. We had many wildebeest crossings in different crossing spots and in different directions, providing my guests with a variety of photographic opportunities.
One of the highlights of this week was the sighting of the Double Crossing Leopard's two tiny cubs. After leaving them timidly pop out of their hole at the end of August, I was happy to see them coming out of the den much more frequently, nursing from their mother and playing on the exposed roots and in the bushes behind. Photography was not easy as the area where the mother used to lie to nurse them was above the banks of the river and hardly visible. But we still had some very nice moments and my guests could often take good photograph from the only available vantage point.
Both Cheetah families, Rani with her three adolescent cubs and Malaika with her two small cubs, had moved to the east of the reserve, quite far from our camp. But we still managed to spend some time with both families. Malaika was heavily guarded by the rangers to limit disturbance, so we could spend a very short time with her. But Rani gave us a beautiful afternoon of repeated unsuccessful hunting attempts.
It was particularly nice on the first afternoon to find the Cheetah Imani's three sub-adult cubs on their own, after just separating from their mother, in the middle of a downpour.
On the last two days of the safari we were based in the Musiara Marsh, in the north of the reserve. It's a wonderful area both scenically and in terms of wildlife. Lions dominate here. The famous Marsh pride was just starting to get back together and shape up again after the devastating poisoning of three members the previous December by Maasai livestock owners. The previous dominant males, the four Musketeers have by now completely abandoned the area and two new young and beautiful males settled in.
The Marsh is also a heaven for other big game, such as Elephants and buffalos. On this trip I saw the biggest herd of Buffalo I have ever seen in the Mara, I reckon there must have been over a thousand buffaloes one afternoon, so many that it was impossible to photograph them properly.
Other interesting sightings in the Marsh were two Impala rams fighting just at sunrise and a baby Waterbuck with some premature sexual instincts.


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@1:05am woke up suddenly, went to porch for cigarrette, immediately saw massive triangle in sky, and not tr3b like, more of a spear head?? it hovered anove the texaco for almost 3 minutes..3 bluish glowing orbs did descend from bottom of craft, do a quick lap around the shopping square, vanish quickly towards lockheed, then the orbs returned and went back into underneath of ship, no "door" was visible although a faint sound heard of sliding mechanisims. the surface was visible as low enough street lights cast off bottom, faint symbolicistic etchings markings on black surface? but a diff black? not as light absorbant in these etchings i guess? i saw no form of engine nore saw any light/flame for engine, however, faint static discharge in whirring motion hearsd,immediately i felt ill to stomach, high anxiety, as if complete hertz change within body rythm, shaking, i couldn't talk, and as i lifted my camera to take a picture i could feel speech??? not hear it, but feel it???? i can even almost make out what i heard, and then immediately it began to ascend and then leave to west at high rate off speed, for it's size, i would imagine it would have made it from here, to austin in about 5 minutes at that speed, both of my cats that went out with me were affected as they hissed and scuttled under house and i did see them look up too! i felt a weight, as if it had a pressure om me as if i was unable to move as quickily as i would hav eliked, the cell phone out of pocket was a feet i didnt expect. my cell phone however was showing nothibng but fuzz on the screen, my televison immediately became very loud with high pitch wail, as the ascent and leaving took place two neighbors came outside, one asked if i had heard a strange electrical noise outside... i just sat in middle of hwy lauging at my explanation to this guy i know. he would have flailed me if i said ufo. i live about 8 miles from lockheed and carswell.... the craft did not return to that driect, and besides, the massive size would not be contained on that site... attempted calling lockhed/carswell to see if they had anytyong on radar i was so laughed at. the etchings on seurface if u call it that, ver intersting, as i sit and remember it seems to me it lookd very aztec in nature.
UFO Sighting in Fort Worth, Texas on 2016-11-14 01:05:00 – Walk out to smoke, hovering massive triangle, i start to take picture, it leaves abruptly with fast dirct change.
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"Red Light, Green Light" in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Evening hued mountains,
Lush with autumnal forestry
That plays "red light, green light" with the sun.
Glorious gold
Angry crimson
Grieving brown
Joyful orange.
Silent guardians
Of the new buds
And the watching undergrowth.
Benevolent providers
Of the parasitic spectators,
And small
That feed off them
And nestle in their trunks
And burrow in to their strong bodies.
The providers themselves hope to become each a sun;
That is how "red light green light" goes.
In the black time of every day,
The provider goes away
And the players are lost
And are eaten by the Shadows
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Anger is usually viewed as a disrupting, destructive emotion, especially in business — unless, of course, you're a well-placed executive without those limitations. The religious typically view anger as bad stuff, something we should set aside and, to quote St. Paul, never go to sleep with. Paul, however, never kept his own rule. So like most generalities, there are exceptions. Indeed, there are times when anger is strategic, and also times when it's simply not useful to set anger aside, much less forgive the target of your anger.
To be clear, studies have shown that anger evolved as a means to help us...
I'm not talking about the irrational, lowbrow rants of the Donald Trumps or Rush Limbaughs of our political world, and in this paper I'm not referring to the anger of hostility — the hyperbolic, imbalanced heat that only flares tempers. Nor to the anger that does not listen and is completely unwilling to make compromises. Furthermore, I'm certainly not referring to that corrosive emotion that can run off with both your mental and physical health. Strategic, productive anger may be initially emotional, even highly emotional, but also deliberate and disciplined. It is a behavior that is often calculated, a calculation that flows out of the situation.
Induced Anger
Studies have found that people induced anger within themselves if they perceived personal benefit. The research emphasized, however, that the anger demonstrated must be authentic. One study, for example, found that faking anger in a negotiation setting fails to achieve objectives. It can cause a partner to see you as untrustworthy and result in more demands upon you.
The problem with that conclusion is that there is no real means for assessing the ability of others to define anger as faked or authentic. Furthermore, like Jeff Pfeffer, I've long understood that authenticity is misunderstood and overrated. Indeed, emotions, including anger, can be and often are subject to personal management. Successful leaders understand that using emotions strategically is essential for effective leadership, and they spend time developing those competencies.
Acting, but not acting out.
Emotional acting can be a significant means for managing work relations and for changing identity. Those who view that as problematic tend to hold a static definition of the person. Instead, we understand identity as flexible and manipulable, and that there is no "true self." In other words, as Hazel Markus of Stanford tells us, there's a whole cast of characters in our hearts and minds. The smart leader, on occasion, lets people see his emotions, inauthentic or otherwise.
Water-cooler conversations during or after a negotiation often reflect questions about whether or not a participant's anger was authentic, but often the conversation concludes with the participants deciding that the anger was authentic, especially when the individual was perceived as powerful. Of course, some people are far better actors than others, making the emotional assessment difficult.
Issue oriented
Research also reveals that anger works better when it's directed at an issue, rather than at those arguing an issue. Inevitably, when focusing on the person, it's motives that are front and center. Motives, however, are internal and incapable of accurate assessment. So it's wise to focus on the tangible, measurable, quantitative facts of the matter, not on motives.
Significantly, anger can sometimes clarify boundaries, needs, and concerns, thus benefiting all. One of my rules is that you only get angry at people who are significant to you. We simply don't waste energy on insignificant people. That's why we get angry at family members, or the neighbor next door, but not the neighbor down the street. Even in those situations, focus on the issues, not the person. You'll find that anger can become leverage for more effective negotiation, clarifying and resolving boundaries and issues. Anger can drive people to work out mutually satisfying resolutions.
Not merely loss of control
Finally, anger tends to be associated with the loss of control. That's not always true. The truth, instead, is that anger has clear applications and obeys rules like those listed above. It may be blunt and messy, but understanding its usefulness in business and life can result in better deals, galvanize people, and improve all our lives.


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This property represents our first in the famed Pike County of west-central Illinois, an area noted nationwide for its premier whitetail deer hunting. This property is approximately 1.1 acres in size and is conveniently located at the intersection of a highway and a gravel county road. There are a host of potential uses for this property: hunting, camping, and firewood. The property is part of a large ravine, which makes it unsuitable to drive on. Therefore, if you wanted this property for camping purposes, you would need to park an RV or camper along the north edge of this property, adjacent to the gravel county road. One advantage to this property is that it is loaded with hardwood timber--in particular, Black Locust, which is excellent for wood stoves and fireplaces. You could probably make back a good chunk of your investment in this property just from selling firewood from it!
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Though small, this property definitely could be used for hunting. Pike County is the most popular and successful county in the entire state for deer hunting and this property is located in an extremely good area of Pike County, in the southern portion of the county just a couple miles from the Illinois River! And contrary to popular belief, there are NO regulations restricting your ability to hunt next to a public roadway. Just read the passage below from page 44 of the 2012-13 Illinois Digest of Hunting and Trapping Regulations:
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picture edition….
Apologies to any vegetarians out there… (naw, not really...)
IN THE BEGINNING, there was bacon…
There is an interesting poll in the Montréal Gazette this morning:
On this day… Canadian football and American football parted ways…
1912 – In the U.S., professional football set some new rules. The field was shortened to 100 yards, touchdowns were to be worth six points instead of five, four downs would be allowed instead of three, and the kickoff was moved from midfield to the 40-yard line.
But then, so were Jason Kenney, Pierre Polievre, Vic Toews, Tony Clement and John Baird… Gee, I don't feel so smart any more…
But then, as someone pointed out to me on Facebook:
Think of it this way. They were the fastest in 'their own races'. In their case its like saying you were the fastest and won Monty Python's silly olympics or upper class twit of the year… there are degrees in victory..
Well put, Patrick!
Catholic schools just cannot fathom the idea of Gay and Lesbian clubs within their walls…
And some of us cannot fathom the idea of a publically-funded Catholic school system!
A good comment was written on this article:
Correction of Ontario's problem of discriminatory school funding is hindered by 3 misconceptions:
1. That only Catholics pay for Catholic schools (as is deceivingly implied by our property tax forms)
2. That it is "political suicide" for any politician to even speak of the matter
3. That no money would be saved by reducing the number of overlapping Boards
Re: #1, All tax dollars go into a common pot and are doled out to the various Boards on a per-student basis. Tax dollars are not tagged as "Catholic" or "Hindu" and then steered accordingly. Too many Ontarians still don't realize this, making this the single biggest obstacle to righting this wrong.
Re: #2, We can be sure this is not the case. No political party has EVER dared to say that public monies should be used only for public schools, so how can we say that the electorate would reject such a proposal? In fact, the most conservative estimates of public opinion indicate that well over half (and as much as 80%) of Ontarians support one unified public school system, free of religious discrimination.
Re: #3, Modest estimates put the savings in duplication costs at something over 1 billion dollars PER YEAR. How many new hospitals is that? EVERY YEAR. That's One thousand million dollars a year spent on building a wall to separate Catholic kids from non-Catholic kids.
I blogged earlier about Sun "News", Jason Keeney and the moronic idea of having some staffers stand in for new Canadians at a fake citizenship ceremony.
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As writers we all know the power of words. However, some words get certain connotations and we make presumptions. For example, odorous. I hear that and I hold my breath, because I assume that the odorous house smells nasty. However, the actual definition of the word is "having or giving off a smell." So roses or freshly baked cookies are odorous.
When I started writing, I had certain preconceived notions about some words. For example, routine meant the same as rut. Rut means "a habit or pattern of behavior that has become dull and unproductive but is hard to change." Ruts aren't very good for writing. However, routine means "a sequence of actions regularly followed." There's nothing wrong with that, is there?
I unintentionally started developing writing routines even when I tried shunning them. I'd always come to the computer with a beverage. I'd play music or make sure everything was quiet (depended on my mood). I opened my writing program. These were (in fact, they still are) the signals that let my writer brain know, "It's time to shine!"
But this is not a rut! Things change. It isn't always the same drink (time of year and what's in the house colors my choice). My music (or even "silence") preference depends on the task and my attention span for the day. Sometimes I will the writing program and then go get my drink. And some days none of that happens at all.
Routine isn't rigid like rut. Unlike rut, routine is good for my writing. Heck, routine, I've come to find, is quite comforting.
Routine wasn't the only word I got wrong. I used to be a pantser because "plotting made everything boring." Plotting means "devise the sequence of events in (a play, novel, movie, or similar work)." It doesn't mean know every word and minute detail involved.
It's like knowing you'll drive down the highway, but there are no promises. There could be an accident that slows you down. Maybe you get hungry and stop to buy some nachos. Just because you know the path it doesn't mean you know the entire journey.
So, I invite you to look at some words you've shunned or feared. Do they mean what you thought they meant? Could you look at them another way? Could they help you?


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Imagen Television preps to launch
A new television network in Mexico, Imagen, will launch Oct. 17 from a state of the art facility equipped with the latest broadcast gear and lighting.
With sets designed by Flint Skallen, integration by Teletec and lighting gear from Fluotec, the channel is the first over the air television network launched in Mexico in more than 20 years.
With an eye toward younger audiences, the network set out to create vibrant studio spaces for its wide variety of programming,
Converting the space to a broadcast facility required custom designed and manufactured lighting grids, power and control feeds, motorized power grids and sound proof walls and doors, all of which were engineered and installed by Teletec.
The studios also boast a myriad of DMX controlled LED lighting fixtures, including both flat panel style and fresnels, from Fluotec. Among the selected fixtures are the VegaLux 300, StudioLED Panels and Cinelight panel.


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Cards being collected for Rigby boy critically burned in lawnmower explosion
Nate Eaton, EastIdahoNews.com
RIGBY – Braxton Bigelow will turn 13-years-old on Monday and even though he won't be awake for his birthday, family and friends want it to be extra special.
Braxton was fixing a lawnmower with his father, Josiah Bigelow, at their Rigby home last Monday when it suddenly blew up and caught Braxton on fire.
"A big fireball came out, and it ignited my nephew," the boy's aunt, Jorelle McClellan, said. "The gas came out from somewhere, like an explosion."
Josiah ripped off his shirt, wrapped it around Braxton and took him to the ground to smoother the flames, McClellan told the newspaper. He then grabbed a fire extinguisher to put out the lawnmower fire and rushed his son to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center.
Braxton had severe burns on about 45 percent of his body and Josiah suffered severe hand and arm burns, according to the Blessings for Braxton Facebook page. Both were flown by air ambulance to the University of Utah Burn Center in Salt Lake City where Braxton remains in a drug induced coma.
"He is still in critical condition and each day (his family) has new worries and fears as he is fighting for his life," a message on the a YouCaring page reads.
As the Bigelows prepare for Braxton's 13th birthday, his family is collecting cards, posters and gifts for the boy.
"I'm hoping we can make him feel extra special by making his first teen birthday absolutely amazing!!!" Braxton's aunt, Jessica Goldman, wrote on Facebook. "If you'd like to contribute, send Braxton something Alaska themed like a homemade card, a postcard, or poster. Alaska is a special place for our family because my dad loved it up there so much and it holds some of the fondest memories the grandkids have of going up there to fish with grandpa!"
Goldman says gifts are being accepted for Braxton "so that when he wakes up, he can be surprised with a big birthday blow out!"
The boy is expected to be in treatment in Utah for another 45 days and in recovery for a year. Family members have set up a YouCaring account to help pay for medical bills. Nearly $5,000 toward a goal of $10,000 had been raised as of Saturday evening.
"It is going to be a very long journey to get Braxton through recovery…Prayers and fasting have helped and I know God is watching over him and his family and comforting us all," Goldman says.
If you'd like to send Braxton a card, poster or gift, the family asks that you use the following address:
University Guest House
Josiah Bigelow
110 South Fort Douglas Blvd
Salt Lake City, UT 84113


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Protecting Outside workers from Occupational Exposure to Zika Virus
OSHA recently released an Interim Guidance report for protecting workers from the Zika Virus. The virus, once contained to Central & South America, Mexico and parts of the Caribbean and US territories has now reached the U.S. mainland.
Below is a synopsis of the report:
Zika virus is primarily spread through the bites of infected mosquitoes. Mosquitoes can become infected when they bite an infected person therein is how the virus is rapidly spreading.
Current science-based evidence suggests that approximately 1 out of 5 infected people develop symptoms of Zika virus, usually beginning 2-7 days after the bite of an infected mosquito. Symptoms, usually mild and lasting 2-7 days include: fever, rash, joint pain and red or pink eyes. Other symptoms include muscle pain and headache. The symptoms are similar to dengue fever. Zika can be spread from a pregnant woman to her fetus resulting in serious birth defects.
Control and Prevention for Employees
Outdoor workers are at some of the highest risk for contracting Zika Virus – according to the OSHA report, employers should:
- Inform workers about their risks of exposure to Zika virus through mosquito bites and train them how to protect themselves. Check the CDC Zika website to find Zika-affected areas.
- Provide insect repellents and encourage their use according to the EPA guidelines
- Provide workers with, and encourage them to wear, clothing that covers their hands, arms, legs, and other exposed skin. Consider providing workers with hats with mosquito netting to protect the face and neck.
- In warm weather, encourage workers to wear lightweight, loose-fitting clothing. This type of clothing protects workers against the sun's harmful rays and provides a barrier to mosquitoes. Always provide workers with adequate water, rest and shade, and monitor workers for signs and symptoms of heat illness.
- Get rid of sources of standing water (e.g., tires, buckets, cans, bottles, barrels) whenever possible to reduce or eliminate mosquito breeding areas. Train workers about the importance of eliminating areas where mosquitos can breed at the worksite.
- If requested by a worker, consider reassigning anyone who indicates she is or may become pregnant, or who is male and has a sexual partner who is or may become pregnant, to indoor tasks to reduce their risk of mosquito bites.
For more information about Zika Virus please visit the CDC's page on the virus. Please note these are just broad informational guidelines and are not to be construed as medical advice or guidance. We encourage you to stay abreast of current updates on the Zika Virus via the CDC and OSHA.
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Sara Ahmed Holman leads Innovation Endeavors' Farm2050 and Deep Life ecosystems for the Growth & Partnerships Team. She is particularly passionate about helping startups strategically grow and partner with corporates to bring new technologies to evolving industries. Sara has deep expertise in startup operations. Previously, she was Associate General Counsel at Lookout and Corporate Counsel for Weebly (acquired by Square). After attending UCLA's School of Law where she provided research for the first Food Law treatise which covered the policy and regulatory landscape of food production and labeling, (Food Law in the United States), her legal career started at Bryan Cave where she represented some of the world's largest financial institutions and co-founded the firm's Food & Beverage Team. Sara has served as a legal expert on food labeling issues for the media, litigated and authored amicus briefs for food cases in Ninth Circuit, and counseled all sized food and agriculture companies. Before becoming a lawyer, Sara was awarded the Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs where she focused on creating joint ventures between the private and public sectors, including specific projects with the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and the City of NY.


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In Mediterranean Seafood, first, there is the fully illustrated catalogue of fish and shellfish (not counting the sea slug and sea anemone), complete with identifications of species in more than a dozen languages; then there follow more than 240 recipes drawn from the author's own experience and observation, from the advice of friends and family, and from the cookery literature of more than a dozen countries with a shoreline on the Mediterranean as well as on the Black Sea its neighbour.
So much information, yet told in so beguiling a fashion: Alan Davidson's touch is of the lightest, always sweetening the pill of hard fact by a personal memory or a tale drawn from the byways of history or scholarship.
The book was first published in 1972, when it won the prestigious Glenfiddich award for the best food book of the year. It has since been translated into five languages. This is a third revision, brought up to date for this edition.
Prospect Books is also to publish the same author's North Atlantic Seafood and Seafood of South-East Asia.


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Registers the AudioInput plugin automatically. This file should be included once in a .CPP (not a .h, really). The simple inclusion of this file and the linking of the library is enough to use the plugin. WARNING: Include this file only if you wish to link statically with the plugins. Dynamic Libaries (DLL, so, etc) are automatically detected and do not need this include file.
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General Hospital: Perkie's Observations
Michael puts his jacket on Dante, grabs his phone to call, then wipes the blood on his shirt. Carly's upset when she walks in, but he assures her and Abby that it isn't his blood and they notice Dante on the ground. Abby says she'll call an ambulance, but Michael doesn't want her to. It will alert the police and assures them they can get Dante to GH themselves. Abby is shocked Michael is more concerned about covering for Sonny than his brother bleeding to death. Carly tells her to make the call.
Michael swears Sonny didn't do this, but Carly points out they have no idea what happened. Michael continues to defend his father. He says Sonny wouldn't shoot Dante again and certainly not where Michael was shot. He figures one of the other families took advantage of the distraction of the JaSam wedding. Michael thinks something is off about the warehouse and calls Max for help.
Maxie complains to Spinelli that the universe is against her. She doesn't understand how everything could have gone wrong. Spin points out that it doesn't matter, since JaSam got married anyway. However, Maxie is determined to track down the problem, in order to redeem herself in Kate's eyes.
Kate remembers the gunshot. Sonny asks if it's hard for her to be here. Kate says they need to move past it. Kate commends Sonny for the way he was with Kristina, but feels the kinder, gentler Sonny won't stick. Alexis shows up to talk to Sonny and tells him Ethan drove Kristina back to the hospital. Alexis wonders why Kate would encourage Kris to go into fashion, but Kate wonders if Alexis has asked Kristina what she wants.
Alexis says Kris is intellectually gifted and wanted her to raise women's consciences and not their hem lines. Kate says the fashion industry is very cutthroat. Kris will figure that out and not resent Alexis interference. Alexis snaps at her, saying she isn't Kris' mother and doesn't even have children, so she wouldn't understand. Kate runs off into the bathroom, upset. Maxie tries to talk to her there, but Kate shuts her down.
Alexis complains about the heat and tells Sonny she doesn't want Kate to encourage Kristina. Sonny points out that it was positive reinforcement, but Alexis isn't interested. Alexis has a proposition for Sonny and tells him what that is. He doesn't agree right away to whatever it is, but says he doesn't want Kris to know. Alexis swears she won't say anything. Sonny says if he'll do this, Alexis will owe him. Alexis agrees to those terms and asks him to apologize to Kate for snapping at her.
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Maxie feels that Kate thinks she's so incompetent she can't put a wedding together. She wants the list of people that need to be held accountable. Spinelli admits that it's his fault, his cyber skills are gone.
Ethan finds Lucky, lying on the ground, looking at the two pills. Ethan wants to get rid of them, but Lucky feels he needs to face his demons. Talk turns to Lulu. Ethan mentions the proposal and how he helped Lulu set things up. Talk turns to Laura. Lucky says he told his mother about Jake's death, but not Luke's involvement, the intervention or house fire. Lucky was worried about a setback. He never wants to see his mother catatonic again. Lucky feels Lulu is like their mother and is afraid she'll end up like Laura. Ethan wonders if they're really that similar. Lucky mentions a painting of Laura at Lulu's age, it is the spitting image.
Lucky says he needs to fight this battle on his own. Ethan wonders if he's strong enough. After Ethan leaves, Lucky gives up looking at the pills, leaves a message for Dante, then gets a call and heads out. Someone's at Windermere, getting upset over Laura's portrait.
Olivia tries to get Steven to talk about Memphis, but he changes the subject by kissing her. She tells him she doesn't like game playing and wonders what happened in Memphis. He makes small talk about music and playing dives. Steve gets paged and leaves.
Johnny's tired of cleaning up his father's messes, but Anthony claims no one will care if one of Sonny's foot soldiers was hurt. Johnny says he was running things fine while his father was in prison, but now there's chaos. Anthony reminds him again, that someone was going to kill him. Johnny wonders why he cares. Anthony almost shot him as a child, killing his mother. Anthony tells him to leave the past. Johnny gets a call and informs his father that he shot Dante.
Michael's surprised when Shawn shows up at the warehouse. Shawn explains that Jason hired him. Michael explains about finding Dante and wonders why there was no security detail at the warehouse. Shawn says they were pulled off since there was no reason to anticipate a problem. Michael points out that Dante clearly thought something was off. Michael says he feels like something is off in the warehouse, but doesn't trust Shawn. Shawn reminds him that Jason does and that's all that matters.
Ronnie's getting information from Carly and Abby, who both insist that Michael wasn't there, until Michael shows up, bloody shirt and all. Ronnie asks them to rethink their statements.
Olivia's saying goodbye to Steven when Dante gets brought in and she shrieks at him to fix her baby. Olivia calls Sonny to let him know. Sonny and Kate head over to the hospital. Sonny insists on seeing Dante. Olivia calls Lulu and tells her.


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I used to be one of the visual designers who thought I could design a website in a few days. For an experienced designer, it's not too difficult to put a few concepts together and build a website that looks good. But is 'look good' good enough?
In the past few months I've been working for a major car dealer in London, helping them to define and deliver their new digital presence. It's been a challenging but really rewarding process.
From the definition of their new branding guidelines and taking the senior stakeholders to the journey of digital strategy I was able to quickly understand the value of user insight when designing and re-designing applications.
Is re-skinning worth it?
When I started with them, they had already made the decision of modernising the site. The management of this company decided to hire an agency that could deliver a new website, with a more engaging look-and-feel that will make them look good.
They spent quite a few pounds getting the PSDs done, as well as the index page (HTML and CSS style sheets). When I saw the deliverables, I thought they looked really good. They had new imagery, colours, uncluttered layout… pretty good, right?
Then I started thinking. Is it worth re-launching exactly the same experience, but with a different UI design? Are our end-users actually using the site in the right way? We have a lot of traffic, but are we providing the experience that they're expecting?
User testing feedback makes you feel 'naked'
So I challenged the team and suggested to use usertesting.com with a number of users to user test the current experience of the site. In our naïve minds we were hoping to validate that our users were happy with what they were getting and we only needed a 'refresh'.
The results were more than valuable. They made us feel 'naked'. We could easily see all the imperfection of our current solution and even though we felt proud of the things that they liked about us we could clearly see that just re-skinning the site wasn't good enough.
Now it's time to persuade your stakeholders
It was clear to me that we needed a fundamental change to the way the site was structured and designed. But was it clear for my stakeholders? You can have many proven reasons why you should make changes and deliver a better experience for your users – but time and budget constraints always leave UX outside the landscape for delivery.
It's our role as UX designers to keep 'fighting' for what we think is right. As the UX Lead for this project I'm trying to prioritise the requirements that I know will really resonate with what our users are expecting.
However, I don't know if we're going to get it 100% right. But at least I can say now that I've learnt the lesson and we can't just keep 'designing sites' – we need to design experiences that will attract and retain users.
Images courtesy Terence J sullivan, Ian Burt, DeSales University


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Yanks beat Orioles, close in on wild card
NEW YORK — CC Sabathia's cutter was back, and the big left-hander returned to the win column for just the second time since the All-Star break.
Didi Gregorius and Aaron Hicks hit two-run homers to help the Yankees build a six-run lead and take another step toward their second straight AL wild card with a 10-8 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Friday night.
Aaron Judge drove in a run for the first time since he returned from the disabled list on Sept. 14, and New York overcame a series of bullpen stumbles to lower its magic number to two over Tampa Bay for ensuring a wild-card game on Oct. 3. The Yankees likely will play Oakland and began the night 1½ games ahead of the Athletics for home-field advantage.
"I think we're whole again," Sabathia said in a reference to the return of Judge and closer Aroldis Chapman.
Backed by a 6-0 lead, Sabathia (8-7) allowed two runs in six innings and improved to 20-11 against Baltimore. He had been 1-4 in his prior 11 starts this season.
"I thought he commanded his slider and his change and his cutter just a little bit better," manager Aaron Boone said. "He was generating that weak contact that we're used to seeing from him."
Sabathia struck out five and raised his total to 2,981. The 38-year-old wasn't sure earlier this season whether he would return in 2019 for a 19th season but has made up his mind.
"I'm going to play next year," he said.
Luke Voit added a two-run single to give him 24 RBIs in 31 games with the Yankees, and Hicks scored four runs. After the Orioles closed to 9-8 in the eighth, Judge doubled in a run.
Baltimore dropped to a major league-worst 44-109, overtaking the 1937 St. Louis Browns for second-most losses in franchise history behind the 111 of the 1939 Browns. The Orioles are 60½ games out of first place.
"A lot of young players did some good things, but it's just the pitching is not quite — I don't know if you want to say mature enough," manager Buck Showalter said.
Gregorius hit his 27th homer in the first and Hicks added his 25th in a four-run fourth off rookie Yefry Ramirez (1-7), who is 0-4 in 10 starts since beating Boston on July 24. Pitching with a cut on his right thumb, Ramirez gave up six runs, six hits and three walks in 3 2/3 innings and fell to 0-3 against New York.
Baltimore closed to 6-4 on Adam Jones' two-run single in the fifth, Austin Wynn's homer against Jonathan Loaisiga and Jonathan Villar's RBI single against former Oriole Zach Britton later in the seventh.
Voit singled off Cody Carroll in a three-run bottom half that put New York ahead 9-4, but Renato Nunez had a two-run homer against A.J. Cole in the eighth and DJ Stewart hit a two-run homer on David Robertson's first pitch as Baltimore closed within a run. Dellin Betances pitched the ninth for his fourth save.
"We're playing as good as we can," Sabathia said. "The more we play together as a whole unit, I think we'll just start to get better and better."
Asked whether he'd want a couple work weeks before the playoffs, Sabathia smiled.
"No. The season's way too long," he said, including a profanity for emphasis.
New York hasn't said whether Luis Severino, Masahiro Tanaka or J.A. Happ would start the wild-card game.
Severino got just one out in last year's wild-card game against Minnesota, and New York overcame a three-run deficit to win 8-4. An All-Star for the second straight year, he was 14-2 at the All-Star break but lost six of his next nine decisions before beating Boston this week.
"Sevy got out of the gate extremely hot and like our team has struggled for an extended period of time here in the second half," general manager Brian Cashman said, "but I feel like he's getting back on line, just like I feel we might be getting back on line, too. And if we can do that at the perfect timing, then we are capable of a lot and we will be a more formidable opponent than we've been the last two months and more representative of what we were earlier in the year."
Hicks became the fifth Yankee with 25 or more homers, joining Giancarlo Stanton (35), Gregorius, Judge (26) and Miguel Andujar (25).
Gleyber Torres has 23, and New York could match the mark of six set by the 2003 Boston Red Sox.
Baltimore's Chris Davis struck out four times for the fifth time this year and is batting .170.
New York announced a Yankees-Stonewall Scholars Initiative in which five $10,000 scholarships will be awarded to public school seniors — one from each borough — to commemorate next June's 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. The scholarships will go to students who demonstrate academic achievement along with commitment to equality and support for the LGBTQ community. The Yankees had been the only MLB team not to launch an LGBTQ initiative. Team president Randy Levine said this initially was a one-time commitment but could be extended.
Orioles: RHP Alex Cobb, who has not pitched since Sept. 11 because of a blister on his pitching hand, is scheduled to start Sunday's series finale. ... RHP Luis Ortiz won't pitch again this year. He made his debut in relief Sept. 7 and left his first start seven days later because of an injured left hamstring. ... LHP Josh Rogers was sent home after three late-season appearances with the Orioles. Rogers pitched 150 1/3 innings this year and reached his limit, according to Showalter.
RHP Lance Lynn (2-2, 4.47) starts Saturday for the Yankees and RHP David Hess (3-10, 5.22) for the Orioles.


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Musing on a Mid-Winter Day – Clearing My Head Outdoors
mus*ing: a period of reflection or thought. I've been musing a lot lately, even more than normal for these quiet winter times.
I seem to be at a loss for good words here right now. I write, think it's pretty good, and then delete. My winter writing was planned with a four-month long workshop and gathering of creative minds but that's been cancelled. It's disappointing but something good is coming. Hang with me until the end. I've been musing a lot lately, mostly about the state of the world. I'm grateful for a strong husband who takes care of us and many others, for daughters and sisters I love dearly, and to live where I do in spite of our current "leader." The work relationships I'm developing are fun and rewarding. Lots of things spinning around in this brain of mine.
Let's Go Outdoors
I took the dogs out for a walk to get some fresh air and clear my mind before I sat down to write. We started in the food plot. The deer have been gone for a few weeks. There are no tracks or droppings from anything, not even the over abundance of snowshoe hares. The pumpkins are still there, barely nibbled. There's another coyote, bigger than the last.
We got enough rain this month that combined with snow melt the pond's water level up three feet. If the trout survived the low water and early freezing that limits oxygen in the water, they now have a better chance at survival. If I weren't a klutz I'd be skating!
Ava, looking for a bunny trail. She didn't find one. Zoey did her zig zag search and also came up empty.
Red squirrels' winter stash. I saw apples stashed in trees all around me while we were out. Putting food up is a smart thing, especially these days.
I did a bit of collecting while we were out. Usnea, a lichen commonly know as Old Man's beard, drops from the trees in winter. Deer eat it as a last resort in winter but since the deer aren't here I felt free to gather quite a bit. I brought in another moss I don't know the name of and a handful of small spruce cones. The snow was littered with tiny seeds from the cones.
Where and how and with the amount of freedom I have isn't lost on me. Where and how and with the amount of hate, pain and suffering others live in also isn't lost on me. The beauty around me, even in the dead of winter when the evergreens are dull and hardwoods bare, and there's little for color other than the blue jays, isn't lost on me.
On Writing
Someone good has come my way. I've realized this week that I need help with this book I'm writing about this life I'm living in these woods I own. I've started working with Brenda, the energetic, creative, encouraging editor and writing coach behind Forest North Books. I'm looking forward to spending time with her this winter. Know that if I'm not here in the blog often it's because I'm writing "the book" and making real progress. Or I'm staring out the window at the birds in the feeding station. Writing. Yes, let's go with writing.
I'm starting a few herb and greens seeds today! What are you doing?


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Congrats to Larry, who won a signed copy of GRAND CENTRAL from Erica Robuck and Alyson Richman! From the 2014 Debs… Lori Rader-Day sends you all a postcard from New York City, from Thrillerfest, and from the other side of her launch date. This has been one crazy adventure, launching THE BLACK HOUR. Thanks to the Debs and to all of you for everything!
Susan Gloss is eyeball-deep in edits on her next novel. Pass the coffee. Or maybe the wine.
Natalia Sylvester had a great event at the Barnes & Noble in Round Rock, TX this weekend, where she got to meet lots of readers and sign copies of CHASING THE SUN!
Heather Webb has a top secret project in the works (beyond book three) and hopes she can announce it very soon.
Lisa Alber just found out that the signature cocktail for her novel KILMOON, the Kilmoon Sour, is a featured summer drink on the Perfect Drink app website (http://perfectdrinkapp.com)! And, they were kind enough to include a link to her Amazon book page! Check it out!
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Popup Season
Popup: Nest Together at Land Management
Neo bebop hand-forged jewelry from Faris and crafted crystal botanicals and shibori scarves from Chloe Touran are just the start.
When we Style Tagged Michele Andrews we mentioned the Nest Together holiday popup she was staging with style conspirator and expert maker Sanam Miremadi.
The time is upon us for crucial details. Here goes:
WHERE Land Management
WHAT Heavy on vintage and handmade, the collection is set to include the European sourced antique workwear of Ty Ziskis' Tatterdemalion, skivvies from Sloane and Tate ("the best underwear EVER," says Andrews), local jewelry from Faris du Graf, Portland's Boet jewelry, imagery from Megumi Arai, vintage clothing from Andrew's Daughters of Wands and New York's Where I Was From, and handmade realness from Miremandi's Chloe Touran.
WHEN Saturday, December 14 from 11 to 9 and Sunday, December 15 from 11 to 8. Yep, same weekend as Screen Style, so you're all set up for a perfect date: shopping and a stylish movie.
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