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I ran him a couple of quirky Christmas shows he'd downloaded from archive.org: a 1949 kinescoped live version of A Christmas Carol (for some reason retitled The Christmas Carol even though Charles Dickens himself, as well as all his other adapters that I know of, used the indefinite article) and a 1955 (though misidentified on the archive.org site as also from 1949) hour-long TV version of Miracle on 34th Street. The Christmas Carol was produced by Mike Stokey and Bernard Ebert (which makes it sound like a film-review show from Chicago) and written and directed by Arthur Pierson. It begins with a narrator, Vincent Price, reading from a large picture-storybook edition of the classic Dickens tale, and periodically (where the original commercial breaks were spotted) the scene returns to Price in his armchair with his book giving us the next tidbit of exposition needed to follow the story.
It's a good adaptation even though it's hamstrung by the limited time available — it was squeezed into a half-hour time slot and, less commercials, they only had about 25 minutes to tell their story. Pierson did a good job of condensing the Dickens story into the limited time available — though other people (including whoever wrote the script for Ronald Colman's performance on Decca records) have done it better — and there's one pretty astonishing special effect for live TV: Marley's ghost enters the scene by walking through a closed door (actually a piece of paper with the image of the door superimposed over it) and into the set representing Scrooge's room. Charles was annoyed by the identification of the central character as "Ebeneezer" (he lamented the fact that it had five "e"'s and I pointed out that that was only one more than Dickens had used) but otherwise it was quite good for the limited budget, facilities and running time, getting the basics of the story in even though it wasn't a great adaptation: Taylor Holmes' Scrooge didn't have the authority of the truly great portrayals (including Alastair Sim and Jim Backus, who voiced the character superbly on Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol) and the ghosts were appealing (and George James as Christmas Present was clean-shaven and considerably hunkier than what we usually get!), while the Cratchits included the child Jill St. John (under her real name, Jill Oppenheim) as Missie and a refreshingly un-milked Bobby Hyatt as Tiny Tim.
Miracle on 34th Street (1955) was considerably better, partly because it was shot on film — when we saw the principals observing the real Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade it was clearly a process shot rather than some stopgap cooked up in a live TV studio — and partly because it was the work of a major studio: 20th Century-Fox, which had produced the original 1947 film (written and directed by George Seaton based on a story by Valentine Davies), hired writer John Monks, Jr. to boil down the story to a 46-minute time slot, not counting commercials (less than half the 96-minute running time of the movie) and threw some great people into the project on both ends of the camera: MacDonald Carey in the John Payne role, Teresa Wright in the Maureen O'Hara role, Thomas Mitchell stepping into Edmund Gwenn's red suit as Santa Claus and the marvelous Hans Conried playing Shellhammer, Doris Walker's (Wright) direct supervisor at Macy's (who in the 1947 film was played by a nondescript character actor named Philip Tonge) and some of the usual Fox people in the technical jobs: Lyle Wheeler as co-art director, Ben Nye and Stanley Orr doing makeup and Charles Le Maire as one of the costumers.
The director was Robert Stevenson, no doubt warming up for his later assignments at Disney (including Mary Poppins) but still an excellent director and easily in Seaton's league in terms of getting this story told and evoking the tears without going all-out in jerking them. MacDonald Carey doesn't have the romantic panache John Payne brought to the role of Gaily (which sounds really weird on the soundtrack!), the attorney who successfully defends Kris Kringle (Mitchell) from a charge of insanity because he believes himself to be Santa Claus, and Sandy Descher as the daughter is good and shows welcome restraint but doesn't quite grab the part the way Natalie Wood did in the film. Still, this is a quite appealing movie and, despite the condensation, tells basically the same story as the original and makes all the same points — and both Wright and Mitchell are every bit as good as their 1947 counterparts, O'Hara and Gwenn. This was a quite nice production, and I wonder how many other interesting TV remakes of their film hits are moldering in the 20th Century-Fox vaults!


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THE KOREA FOUNDATION (2013). Hanbok: Timeless Fashion Tradition, Seoul: Korea Foundation, Korea Essentials no. 16. ISBN: 978=89-97639-41-0 04080; soft back, 107 pp., full colour, list of relevant museums in Korea, no bibliography, no index. Price: US$18.00 (also available as a digital version).
Hanbok is the Korean term for its country's traditional dress, whether worn by men, women or children. It is the clothing now worn on important holidays and special occasions (weddings, birthdays, religious events, etc). It is regarded as an important part of Korean cultural identity. There are many different forms of hanbok, depending on the wearer's gender, economic, social and religious status, as well as the nature of the event (theatre, opera, mourning, etc). The booklet looks at the range of hanbok worn mainly in South Korea and gives information about the origins, names, uses, etc., as well as how hanbok has been used and perceived in the 20th century when Western influences were becoming more and more dominant. There is also a chapter on Korean fashion designers who use hanbok as part of their presentations.
Recommendation: A useful book for anyone interested in Korean and Asian cultural heritage. It places hanbok within Korean life and leaves the reader wanting to know more (and have examples to actually see and feel). This book will be of interest and use to a wide readership.
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Now, I have to be honest, before reading the description, this would not have been a tea I was interested in trying. While I do enjoy grapes, I am not a fan of grape-flavored foods, drinks and candy. But since learning that this also has cranberry and raspberry flavors in it, I decided to give it a fair shake.
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Zomato is the Apple of the food world.
Zo-who? For those who don't know, Zomato is the go-to place for discovering restaurants in 119 cities across 13 countries. (and counting…) In this post, I aim to give them what they asked for – a constructively critical feedback so that they can improve their product and provide a better overall user experience. So, let's get to the point.
Improvements & Suggestions
I will mainly critique Zomato's website since that's what I am good at.
- Two Log in buttons are redundant. Use a single "Log in/Sign up" button.
- Make your website fully responsive (About, Culture, Team, Careers and Contact pages are not responsive).
- Add About & Contact buttons to the website header for a better central site navigation.
- Implement a map form of the Nearby feature – show a map on, let's say zomato.com/nearby, which allows the user to set his/her current location and highlights (like a pin in Google Maps) nearby places to eat in the map itself and when the user clicks on the pin, it will show a small card about the restaurant containing things like contact info, type of cuisines offered, link to the Menu, directions from current location etc… (still in the map) and a button that says "More Details" that would open that place's Zomato listing page.
- Give option to view the Menu images in Grid form.
- Make menus searchable, if possible. I have often wished to be able to search for a particular item in a restaurant's menu. Though, that would require a lot of data entry for converting all menus from image to text OR categorize menu images into sections like starters, main course, beverages etc… to make it easier and faster for users to navigate the menu.
- Members would love to be notified about what's changing at their favourite places – allow users to be notified via email and on-site notifications when certain information about their favourite place changes – menu, timings, location etc…
- Allow users to format their review text – bold, italics, lists etc… to grab the reader's attention to the key points.
- Add review categories (food, ambience, service, cost) to make reviews more helpful.
- If the user is viewing an outlet of a restaurant, display a short detail of all other outlets also on that page itself instead of redirecting the user to a separate page that lists all the outlets.
- The sitemap navigation is a mess. It needs a better structure.
- Sort cities in ascending order on the main sitemap page.
- Pages like these need to be simplified.
- It takes some time to update the following list after integrating with Facebook. It took mine almost a day to update. This should be looked into.
This happens on the Android app too. (check screenshots)
- Once Facebook integration is done perfectly, introduce a similar Twitter integration as well. Properly integrating with the top 3 social media sites will certainly help in getting new users and keeping the current ones engaged.
A short note about Zomato's Android app: Make the app accessible to everyone, even if they are not registered. This is the only thing that irked me a bit about the mobile app. Rest everything seems good for an occasional user like me.
Kudos for:
- Design: Zomato is the Apple of the food world. (Except that it's free!)
- Truly out-of-the-box and captivating social media content.
- Feature packed: introduction of Collections (who wants to search?), ability to create your own personal food diary, making wishlists, adding places to speed dial, the "been here" feature, giving and reading popular reviews.
- The ease with which they maintain an extensive database of places from 119 cities across the world.
- Individual restaurant listing pages allow the users to get a quick glance of the place in just a few seconds by providing all the relevant and necessary information (highlights – I find this very handy especially, cuisines, timings, location) in a simple and elegant manner and it's easy to perform any desired action on the page because of a very well thought-out structure of the listing.
- An awesome, ever-growing community of active, helpful and opinionated reviewers. (Because Zomato made sharing your passion for food on social media cool.)
- Simplified search engine. Almost as if Larry Page and Sergey Brin helped them.
- When I search for a place on Google, the top results are almost always Zomato's. It gives me useful information (review rating, price for two) before I even go to their site. It's these little things that give Zomato the X factor.
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If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925), British Conservative politician, prime minister. Quoted in: Daily Telegraph (London, 25 Oct. 1989), referring to the 1989 Commonwealth Conference.
That quote from Margaret Thatcher accurately sums up my reasons for putting out the book, The Symposium of Justice back in 2004. Recently at the Annie Oakley Wild West Showcase in Greenville, Ohio many of my friends from there had been talking about my 2004 book and how prophetic it now seemed in 2011, and it took me on a journey down memory lane about the content of that artistic work. As I ate Chinese food from a fairground vender my wife and I had a discussion about just how crazy many of the things I wrote about in The Symposium were at the time of its publication, and ironically how true many of those things had become in a world that is clearly headed in the direction of events written about in The Symposium of Justice.
My publisher back then was against the entire book. There were many arguments about content, which resulted in a rushed publication date. The editor who was working from an office in Paris quit altogether leaving the entire editing process to my wife, who can read and edit basically, but she wasn't a professional editor but she stepped in to meet our deadlines. The conflict basically went like this, "Mr. Hoffman, what are you thinking? You open the book with the attempted rape of a young girl by a disgusting pedophile. You have old women who are terribly rude dissected by some future race of aliens thousands of years in the future. You go off on some tangent where there is a dragon slayer hunting dragons! Then you have a group of rebels launching an attack on Washington D.C. with flying cars! ARE YOU CRAZY! You'll get no positive reviews within the United States. No paper will provide an endorsement. No TV station will touch this material. I mean you're main plot point is that you have this vigilante running around in the night like some kind of Batman character using bullwhips to punish criminals, and trying to free society from a mind control device that is emitted in radio waves which affect the brain and make people do things they wouldn't otherwise do! Mr. Hoffman, we advise you to rewrite this material, to stick with the primary storyline of the vigilante and expand on that character arch. You need to make this novel much more contemporary (progressive). As it is now, it belongs in a dime store saloon in Nevada, 1890. This type of pulp literature won't even resonate with young people in the comic book market! The main character, this CLIFFHANGER/Fletcher Finnegan has absolutely no weaknesses. He seems to be a superman able to fight off thousands of enemies all by himself! Where is the conflict in that? What is he afraid of? Even Superman had Kryptonite which gave him human appeal. Your character is the perfect man, and there are no perfect men, so how can the audience relate?"
I remember that conversation so well because I was standing on the phone in the middle of Comp USA at the time buying a new computer and the French editor, exasperated with me put her boss on the line, another French guy who spoke good English, but definitely had a French accent as he spoke, every word had a kind of accentuated thrust at the beginning of each sentence. My publisher at the time was a Canadian company. Being my first book, I couldn't get the big New York publishers interested, so I turned to Victoria, Canada, capital of British Columbia to a publisher who would carry the title if I put up the upfront cost of publishing, which I did. My editor and company contact however was in the Paris, France office which is why they even took the time to speak to me, because I was paying them upfront. That company was purchased by an American firm a few years ago and they are now located outside of Indianapolis, Indiana, and they still carry the title only under different ownership. But even under those conditions, the publisher of my book had serious concerns. They hadn't seen anything like it and weren't sure what to do about bringing it to the market place.
In duress prior to a rewrite my wife and I took a trip to Niagara Falls and stayed at the Marriott Fallsview Hotel and Spa to get away from our normal environment for the weekend and talk about what to do about the book. We went to Canada because the publisher was in Canada and I wanted to put my mind in a unique setting so I could think clearly on the issue, and Clifton Hill like Gatlinburg and International Street in Orlando, Florida is a hotbed of commercialism, audaciousness, and imagination. Walking around the commercial districts targeting an international audience which seemed appropriate since The Symposium of Justice was an international publishing effort my wife told me, "It's your book, your vision. I think it's great. It's our story, it's about our struggles. It's your autobiography, your heart, your soul. If you want to change it to match the publisher recommendations it's your call. It's also your writing career."
I remember looking at the Ripley's Believe It or Not exhibit as she said this and thinking what a monstrosity of commercialism it was. "If I stick with it, my writing career may be a short one."
She looked at me, the blinking neon lights of Clifton Hill glittering in the slight chill of an October, Canadian evening and said, "it was you who ran around in the night with your whips trying to catch that rapist and protect your family, it was your family the police targeted because you wanted to expose that drug trade they were covering up, it was you who worked that second job as a cook to make up the financial difference of what we needed as a family, so you could spy on the local teenagers and find out who the dealers were, it was you who have spent nearly two decades reading mythology and philosophy in your "spare" time. If you want to listen to some French chick that's about five years older than your own kids, just so you can sell more copies of the book, then do it. It's your writing career. But think about what you admire, the artists you've enjoyed who society sometimes takes a century or even more to appreciate because the writer is so far out ahead of the rest of the world. The ideas you stick by in this book will follow you all your life and then some."
We returned from that trip and I had decided to throw all the dice out there and keep the book pretty much the way I had written it.
Chapter 1: Scarface the Rapist: A convict is released from jail and encouraged by law enforcement to harass the pubic with fear by raping a young girl, so the public would support more law enforcement. The rape is interrupted by a vigilante named Cliffhanger who beats the rapist to near death with two bullwhips leaving the community split on how they feel about it. Cliffhanger gives the young girl a manifesto called "The Symposium of Justice" to be published in the local newspaper which includes Cliffhanger's Ten Rules for living, and numerous stories written by Cliffhanger to make the argument publicly on the merits of the vigilante versus the rule of law.
Chapter 2: Stereotypical Reality: is the story published in the town paper of two vain women who are contemplating why they should live forever. One of the women is extremely wealthy and is considering a new technology called cryogenics, to freeze her body upon death to be awaked at some future time when technology can revive her. This woman realizing that she is virtually immortal becomes audaciously arrogant and rude to other people as the natural wisdom of age is interfered with the illusion that death is not on her horizon, so she reverts to a teenage mindset. When the public has had too much of her rudeness she is killed and revived in the distant future to find an alien race has found her body and is using it to perform genetic engineering to build slaves for themselves.
Chapter 3: The Veil Master: The mayor of the town hires an assassin to kill Cliffhanger for interfering with his plans with the rapist. The assassin is an arm of "The System" a progressive global group of which the mayor is attempting to climb in political power. The mayor reveals that the entire town is under a scientific experiment he is developing for "The System" which emits a radio wave that directly affects the pituitary gland in the human brain and makes citizens behave impulsively in ways they can control. The mayor explains to the assassin that if the results of his town are positive, then "The System" will be able to employee the same "mind controlling" methods all over the world.
Chapter 4: The Perilous Bed: Another story published in the town paper which Cliffhanger introduces his Ten Rules for Living to the community, hoping to fight off the mind control methods of "The System." It's about a young knight who wants to marry the daughter of a much respected noble. He thinks that by cutting off the head of a dragon, it will earn him the right to ask the noble for permission. The noble turns the dragon head offering down, but invites the kid to attempt to stay on a magical bed, in a magical room that will hurl three perilous tests at the young man. If the kid survives, he earns the right to ask the nobles daughter to marry him. (This was a story intended for my son-in-law which he understood)
Chapter 5: The Overman: A grill cook, the fastest man around who is mysteriously wealthy and married to the much respected town council woman Misty Finnegan, works with the local teenagers at a popular restaurant in town. Fletcher Finnegan has frequent duels with the local teenagers who respect the older man very much, but consider his thoughts "out dated" for the times. Fletcher seems to be particularly interested in a young girl who works at the restaurant as a cashier, who is the older sister to the little girl who suffered the rape attempt. The cashier is currently dating a kid who also works at the popular restaurant called, Republics. That kid is a known drug dealer and argues often with Fletcher Finnegan about morality.
Chapter 6: Return of the Flying Tigers: Another story published in the local paper to justify the vigilantism of Cliffhanger. America is in a civil war. The coastal regions have turned against the interior of the nation. A group of video game freedom fighters are recruited by an old man to lead a rag-tag offensive against the nations forces stationed over Washington D.C. Using M400 Skycars, the old man hopes to have a tactical advantage over the best defense the military has in scoring a psychological battle for the resistance by bombing the air craft carriers stationed at Annapolis Military Academy.
Chapter 7: Fran Calls: A follow-up story in the newspaper is about Hurricane Fran when it hit Chapel Hill, North Carolina and a group of tree trimmers head to the region to help with the clean-up and get rich over the insurance claims. As the work dries up, fights break out among the workers that could lead to death as everyone fights for the remaining money left as civilization returns to the region in the wake of the disaster.
Chapter 8: The Veil of Knowledge: The town mayor takes the assassin and the assassin's personal army of specialized killers to the location of the mind control device, which is hidden in a water tower just outside of town. They are all given medallions which absorb the invisible radio waves leaving them immune to the effects of the powerful impulses. A plan is set to capture and kill Cliffhanger brutally by setting a trap.
Chapter 9: Tabernacles of Joyless Lust: A newspaper story about a real-estate agent trying to repair a deal gone bad. The agent is in an affair with her boss who is using the relationship against the woman plunging her into a law suit against her clients whom she is particularly fond of.
Chapter 10: River Dual: The mayor and his assassins raid the riverside home of a local gunsmith for two reasons. They want to make an example of the man for his support of firearms, and they hope to lure Cliffhanger out into the light of day for an epic battle which is exactly what happens. The mayor and all his assassins, except for the primary one, are killed in the battle. The primary barely escapes with his life.
Chapter 11: The Other Side of the Fence: The last newspaper story to be seen by the public, a young divorcee has found herself in the arms of a very abusive man. The man appeared to be everything a young woman dreams of until she leaves her husband and lets the new man move in. Once the man is in her home she finds he's not what he advertised, and is now in fear of the man not only for herself but her young child.
Chapter 12: Salad Bar Goddess: The assassin is sent to an upscale restaurant near the town where his career took a nose dive. This "hit" given to him by "The System" is a chance at redemption for his failure at the river. His target is the outspoken Fletcher Finnegan who has been all over the newspapers and television recently speaking out against the policies of "The System." The assassin's job is to locate the man, kill him in a highly public place in front of his family, and send the subtle message to the town that resistance is futile. At the restaurant where Finnegan is reported to be at, the assassin sees the most beautiful woman he's ever seen at the salad bar. He recognizes the woman as Misty Finnegan, whom he remembered the slain mayor had been trying to get into his bed, and was denied much to his frustration. The assassin is then shocked to find that the woman is strangely unconcerned about his presence as she returns to her table where her small children are eating with her husband, making eye contact with the assassin several times with pity on her face. Then the assassin makes eye contact with her husband and discovers it is he who is the target of his assassination. It is Fletcher Finnegan himself, and he is aware of the assassin's presence also, as he stares him down from across the room. The assassin looking into the eyes of Finnegan is startled to see absolutely no fear there, which is an emotion he is not prepared for. He had never met a man without any fear behind his eyes of any kind. It was at that moment that the assassin had seen that same look in the eyes of Cliffhanger, and that the two men were one in the same.
The assassin is filled with envy, at the direction of his sad and pathetic life. He suddenly realizes that his entire life has been nothing more than slavery to "The System." He is jealous of Finnegan for being enough of a man to be able to have a woman like Misty Finnegan, because such a woman could have her pick of any man. And she didn't pick Finnegan because of money, prestige, or any level of power. She picked him because he was good. And no woman of any worth would ever want the assassin for anything other than being a thug, a brute, a mere puppet to his masters.
The assassin realizes that if he wanted to do one good thing in his life, he'd let Fletcher and his family live, because he was on the wrong side, clearly. He nods to Fletcher and proceeds to leave the restaurant where he throws himself in front of a truck on a highway to commit suicide. The assassin knows that "The System" will hunt him for not completing the contract so he'll be killed eventually anyway. At least this way, he can do it on his terms.
I remember when the Pulse Journal came to my house to do an interview about my book when it came out in the spring of 2004. He wanted to talk about my whips but wasn't sure how to make such depressing topics appealing in a newspaper article to the general population. I had the same trouble at book stores and other media events, where the focus of the story was on my use of bullwhips, but nobody wanted to touch the content of the story, rape, murder, civil war, mind control, drug trafficking, spies, global conspiracies, it was just too much for the general public to accept, and the media was lost in how to cover it.
The book was obviously extremely anti-progressive, which was well before anybody was talking about what a progressive was. It sold to my friends in the Western Arts community who bought it because the hero had a whip and it reminded them of Zorro, but they were uneasy with the heavy political overtones and scientific basis behind the mind control plot, as were many people who weren't prepared to deal with such things.
I reminded them that the old Republic serial called Zorro's Fighting Legion had a similar story line. It was over the top stuff and fun, but it also taught kids valuable lessons about fighting for what they believed in. But as many of them told me then, society has "outgrown that kind of entertainment."
It took me a while to get over some of the self-criticism I had about the book because every aspect of it was uphill. But as my wife had told me, "why are you writing this? Is it to become wealthy, is it to have a career as a writer, or is it to create a work of art that will stand the test of time?" I picked the later.
It has been only recently where people who have bought it have made excited comparisons to Atlas Shrugged and other kinds of art work that has direct appeal to those in the Tea Party movement. Well, I didn't even know about Atlas Shrugged when I wrote Symposium. I wrote Symposium based on observations I had been making about the direction of the world, and I wanted to put those observations into a format of "pulp fiction" that people understood and could relate with to articulate that message.
A cowboy friend of mine approached me at The Annie Oakley Festival last weekend and told me, "I thought you were a little off the deep end when I read that book 7 years ago, but you know what, it don't seem so crazy now."
I smiled at the guy. "Who would have ever thought?" He was there when I did book signings of that book all those years ago and the public bought it because they saw me performing and wanted something of mine to take home to their friends with my signature in it. Most people didn't understand the book at all, and told me as much the following year. But the people who did were people many would consider "conspiracy theorists." I had people travel the length of the country to meet me the following year just to shake my hand because my book, "spoke to them." But in talking with these people, it was obvious they were the social extremists out there and while I appreciated their support, I was frustrated that the general population just didn't get it.
At a film festival a few years ago Gery Deer laughed at the small line of people who seemed to follow me everywhere I went, he'd call them "Hoffman's radical groupies." He knew the obsessive type; they were similar to those who frequent Star Trek Conventions, and Star Wars events. Only these were "conspiracy theory nerds" and they would line up to have their picture taken with me.
"I feel like an idiot posing for pictures with these guys," I'd say to Gery.
"Hey, they're fans. Be happy you have them. Some artists work their whole life to get one fan that will drive across the country to have their picture taken with them." He'd pat me on the back. "You have a nice little handful."
My wife would sit back and smile, knowing that those types of activities were something I didn't enjoy doing. "I didn't want to appeal to just the radical fringe," I'd say to her.
At the hotel in Cleveland, at a film festival where I won a screenwriting award for a different project, but had been receiving a lot of comments about The Symposium she said to me at the pool while I was swimming, "Do you remember the homeless guy in the movie Always, who Richard Dreyfuss as a ghost was talking through. The homeless guy was one of those guys who just saw too much, and was close to the edge of death, so close that he could see beyond his surroundings. You're like that only you have learned to function in the world like a normal human being. Many of these people haven't learned to do that. They see TOO much, so they seem crazy to the rest of the world that is really just half asleep. That is the pain of being too awake, is that you run the risk of having your brain fried."
She was right, and this comment went back to the one that started it all back in Niagara Falls, that time and perception would catch up if I let it. The important thing was to put it down on paper and let the art speak for itself.
This is fresh on my mind now, because more and more people are thanking me for writing The Symposium of Justice and even though I have put that book on the shelf and am moving on to new projects, it gives me great pleasure to know that it is touching people's lives. So to those of you who wanted to know the story of how that book came to be, and why I don't talk about it much, it's because for one, I think it's cheesy when involved in high-profile cases like I am, to always be pimping a book. That book for me is something that has meaning beyond these current years, so it's not important to me to have my ego massaged with a boost in sales. It's more important to deal with the issues of the day, which currently is protecting S.B.5 and fighting school levies which are obvious crimes against the tax payers. But the creative side of me does enjoy knowing that people are touched by something that was extremely difficult, and controversial to create, that fell short of my quality standards because of the circumstances under which it was produced, but the heart of the project remained uniquely in place because I had angered everyone involved in publishing and marketing to bring to being something that was WAY out in front of the political curb.
And for that I'm very proud. When you take on an endeavor where you are outnumbered by a lot, and you stick to your guns because you know in your heart that you are right, it feels wonderful to have that weight lifted off your shoulders as the times prove that the numbers against you were wrong, as usual.
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Among the panellists who conducted the interviews in the recent re-run process to fill the post of Arts Council England's London representative and regional chair was a woman called Victoria Sharp. The press release issued by Boris Johnson's office announcing that his erstwhile media ally, the former Evening Standard editor Veronica Wadley, had been given the job at the second attempt, did not reveal this fact or indeed the identities of any of the other panellists. City Hall did release the information to some people though. The Standard listed most of the panellists including Sharp, describing her as "a philanthropist."
This is perfectly true. Sharp is the chairman, chief executive and founder with her husband Richard Sharp of a charity called London Music Masters which, in its own words:
aims to address the challenges facing talented young violinists and to remove barriers for potential musicians from diverse backgrounds.
The Sharps are well-connected in London society. They were included in the Standard's 2009 list of the capital's 1000 most influential people. Intriguingly, the list was published in October 2008, when Wadley was still the Standard's editor (she left the then declining title in February 2009). The entry about the Sharps informed us that:
Richard is a former Goldman Sachs star who retired two years ago with a fortune of about £500m.
He is also a director of the Thatcherite Centre for Policy Studies.
As well as London Music Masters, what other good works has Richard Sharp been giving his time to since completing his brilliant banking career? According to the Telegraph - whose relationship with Boris could, of course, hardly be friendlier - he made an early commitment to assisting a Johnson mayoralty. On 21 April 2008, just a few days before the mayoral election of that year, the paper reported that Sir Trevor Chinn would be joining an advisory panel to Boris's proposed Mayor's Fund to assist disadvantaged children (Sir Trevor is now chairman of the Fund's trustees) and added:
The Daily Telegraph can disclose that Mr Johnson has also managed to persuade other leading figures from business and charity to help run the fund. Sir Trevor, the former chairman of the RAC, will be joined by Richard Sharp, a retired Goldman Sachs banker...
This help appears to have materialised. The first annual report of the Mayor's Fund for London, which was published only last Tuesday, thanks a list of people for their support. It includes the name of Richard Sharp (download the report from here and see page 25).
And what of Victoria Sharp? In March Boris launched a new fund for supporting music education in the capital as part of his wider music education programme. The press release issued at the time tells us that the programme "is steered by a board comprising representatives and experts from different parts of the music education sector," and that this board includes Victoria Sharp. (See notes to editors no. 1).
She was one of three panellists the Mayor's office describes as "independent". While I have no grounds for believing that Victoria Sharp conducted her duties as a panellist with anything other than complete integrity, might there be a perception problem here? It's one thing to be called "independent", but it's important to be seen to be so in the eyes of Londoners and, most particularly, the London arts community. Given the extraordinary controversy surrounding Veronica Wadley's appointment, such considerations become still more important.
The interviews, by the way, were held on Wednesday 2 June. The London Music Masters website tells us that five days later Boris Johnson visited a primary school in Lambeth. The occasion, it seemed, had been long-awaited:
Well, the big day we have all been working towards finally arrived and the children from Jessop [school]...finally got the chance to perform for the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. This visit, which took place on Monday 7 June, was hugely significant for the pupils and their teachers. It gave the Bridge Project an enormous publicity boost.
The Bridge Project is the one of the good works of London Music Masters. What a remarkably small world.


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This site is about yoga classes, yoga retreats, and yogis changing the world we live in.
Yoga became my passion after I discovered it as a way to heal my health issues.
I began teaching in 2008 in a traditional hatha yoga lineage and later branched out into other styles: yoga nidra, hormone yoga, kids' yoga, pre- and postnatal yoga, yoga for women's health (with Birthlight).
I also teach Vinyasa and Yin, which complement each other really well. I have lived and taught in France, Spain and Italy (hence my suggestions on the yoga holidays page) before recently moving to London. My aim is to show students how to use the simple, profoundly effective yogic tools of safe movement, breath, relaxation and meditation in their everyday lives, so they can heal and thrive. To find out what my students say about me, you can visit my yogatrail profile. If you understand French, you can also register (for free) on Yogaconnect and sample 20 hours worth of my classes online, wherever you may be! To find out more about all the brave and optimistic people who are following the yogic principles to make our world a better place, click on the "Yoga for a better world" link, where I present projects, films, books and people I feel passionate about.
I teach in English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian.
Currently most of my classes are corporate. You can also find me at the West London Buddhist Centre, Notting Hill on Fridays for RESTORATIVE @5.30pm, or join my monthly workshops at YOGACREATION,Canary Wharf.
I hope to see you soon.
Namaste, Susanne.
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Sri Lanka's seven week tour of India got off to a stumbling start on Wednesday (November 8) as the team's batting coach Thilan Samaraweera didn't get his visa on time to fly with the team.
The Sri Lankan team arrived in Kolkata on Wednesday morning but Samaraweera had to stay back home to wait for his visa.
Samaraweera was confirmed as Sri Lanka's batting coach on November 4 and the former middle order batsman, who lives in Melbourne, arrived in Colombo on Monday.
With the team scheduled to leave on Wednesday, Samaraweera wasn't able to conduct any training sessions but was expected to catch up as there were eight days prior to the first Test at the Eden Gardens. A spokesman for SLC told Cricbuzz that he was hopeful that Samaraweera would get his visa by Friday.
The first Test will get underway at the Eden Gardens on the November 16. Prior to that, Sri Lanka will play a two day warm-up game against a BCCI XI on the 11th and 12th of November.
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Election of Ohio GOP Chair Pits Trump Versus Kasich
The proxy battle between Ohio Gov. John Kasich and President-elect Donald Trump over the Ohio Republican chairman's job took a new twist Wednesday with a missive from 38 county GOP chairmen that backs Trump's favorite.
By Darrel Rowland
The proxy battle between Ohio Gov. John Kasich and President-elect Donald Trump over the Ohio Republican chairman's job took a new twist Wednesday with a missive from 38 county GOP chairmen that backs Trump's favorite.
Jane Timken, GOP vice-chairwoman for Stark County, received the support over current state Chairman Matt Borges, who is backed by Kasich.
Both sides are ardently lobbying the 66 members of the state Republican Central Committee, which will choose the party's leader on Friday.
"I've made calls to the people who are on the state committee and told them (what) I think Matt has done," Kasich said.
"We kind of won everything, right? The (Ohio Supreme) Court, all the statewide offices. We've got more numbers in the House than we've ever had. The Senate.
"Matt's a good guy. He's a friend of mine, so I'm helping him out by doing that."
But the joint email from the county chairmen said: "We not only believe that the views and sentiments of county Republican chairmen ought to be considered by the committee on such important matters as the election of a state chairman but that the committee and most certainly the state chairman ought to be absolutely unwavering in their support of all Republican nominees, at every level.
"Clearly, though, this was NOT the case in the instance of our 2016 Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump. Consequently, we are now in jeopardy of having the state party be completely at odds with the new Trump administration, as well as with the (Republican National Committee) itself. This is, quite obviously, an untenable if not wholly unacceptable situation which only you, the voting members of the state committee, have the power to resolve."
Both Borges and Timken say they have the needed votes.
"I don't think vote counting is as easy as it sounds," said Borges' top assistant, Katie Eagan. " There's a difference between a nice conversation and a confirmed vote."
Franklin County GOP Chairman Doug Preisse, a Borges backer who has toted votes in many party contests, said in an email to the state party panel, "It is obvious in talking with members of the committee that Matt has the support of a large majority."
Dispatch Reporter Randy Ludlow contributed to this story.
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LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, South-east Asia's foremost creative arts training institution, seeks suitable candidates for academic positions in Media Arts. The College is looking for dynamic and enterprising media arts practitioners with demonstrated expertise in new media art, technology and education. As a faculty member, you will be encouraged to continue your professional practice and research with staff benefits including professional practice leave.
The dynamic nature of media arts offers exciting opportunities for artists who make art using new technologies. The media arts programme is an interdisciplinary studio-based programme that emphasizes the development of creative, practical and conceptual skills, supported by related theoretical and historical studies. It is particularly focused on the exploring the relationship between art and technology with a fine art perspective. The programme seeks not only to remain relevant to industries and contemporary art practices but also to lead them into new directions by providing creative insights through its research initiatives.
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text: A stunning photographic record of The Smiths' formative years.For many The Smiths were the definitive alternative rock band of the '80s. A bracing antidote to Thatcher's Britain for the youth of the day, Manchester-based Morrissey, Marr & Co. even approached something like mainstream success towards the end.But at the start they were scruffy, uncompromising rebels. This was the period in which Paul Slattery took a series of band photos of great intimacy and power.Slattery was particularly close to The Smiths in those early days, and his images - many of them seen for the first time here - were an insider's work: informal, brash, exciting and revealing. Seen together these photos form an exciting visual narrative on the work of an influential band that, for a few turbulent years, cornered the market in lyrical gloom laced with mordant wit.


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Sawyer Library 3rd Floor
Located on the third floor of the Sawyer Library, the periodicals collection includes approximately 1,100 publications in various formats. This guide will help you learn to read a catalog record for periodicals, find and use microforms, and get acquainted with the journals, magazines, and newspapers.
Periodicals, also known as serials, journals, and magazines, are publications that are issued on an ongoing basis. Typically, each individual issue of a periodical title has a volume number (abbreviated with v.), an issue number (n. or no.), and a date (for example, in June 2009 the Journal of Accounting Research published v.47 n.3). Most periodicals are published for an indefinite period of time, but they often change titles or cease publication.
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Saturday, October 13, 2012
German gets diploma - 40 years after enrolling
After 63 semesters spanning nearly 40 years of studying, German engineer Werner Kahmann finally managed to get his university diploma. In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung he explained why it took him so long.
When Kahmann, from North Rhine-Westphalia, started his degree at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences it was 1973, Willy Brandt was still the chancellor, Watergate was setting the international media alight - and he was a full four decades younger.
While most students - especially in Germany - take a few years to complete a degree, life got in the way for Kahmann, who told the paper that he "de-matriculated and re-matriculated three times between then and now."
Kahmann's student ID number was six figures long when he got his first card in 1973 - new students now have an eight-figure number.
"It was nice to have finally managed to get it done," he added. Relief indeed, after sitting a grand total of 68 exams over his academic career.
"If I had moved to Cologne I would have just got my studying done," but instead the 61-year-old father decided to commute in from the nearby town of Siegburg, where his girlfriend, football club and bowling team all kept him rooted at home.
The first time Kahmann put his diploma on hold, he broke his leg playing football. The second time, it was 1984 and his daughter was born so he took time out to help raise her. "Then in 2004 when student fees were introduced, I de-matriculated again."
In 2011, the fee system changed and Kahmann found himself with his nose in a book one again. But this time, it was for real – he earned his diploma a year later, even though the university did not even run the course anymore.
There would be downsides to being a graduate though, he said. "Paying for public transport and not getting reduced tickets for the zoo," being two of Kahmann's complaints.
Despite taking so long, Kahmann has been working since 1978 as a freelance engineer and draftsman.
"My daughter told me recently that she, aged 27 and with a brilliant job, wants to go and study," he said. "I just told her that she should see it through to the end."
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What are the alternatives?
Limitations of Excel
Spreadsheets have limitations. Have you noticed? Even utilising OneDrive or Google Docs do not give them the power of a bespoke database system.
Frustration with off-the-shelf software
It never quite does exactly what you want and users have to invent their own work-arounds.
It also involves researching the market, deciding what features you do need, might need, won't need. Learning terminology. Learning the software. Fitting it in with your way of working. Adapting your way of working to the software. Developing work-arounds. Training staff. Maintaining systems. Keeping an eye on upgrades…
It's never cheap, right? Here's an interesting comment about SalesFore for example. It would be better to invest all of that in your own system that is designed with your ways of doing things in mind.
With off-the-shelf software that's not quite right, you'd probably have to invest in even more software packages and try to integrate everything.
Off-the-shelf software, because of its complexities, takes staff much longer to learn. Why? They have to learn things twice!
- Learn the way your biz's internal processes work
- Learn the quite different way the software thinks
- Learn the ways to adapt the rigid systems of the software (2) to the way your organisation works (1)
You'd benefit from tailor-made solutions for exactly the same reasons as the blue chip companies. Why buy a general, all-singing solution? 90% of the features on offer won't be utilised, 30% of them complicate what you do want to do and 50% of the features you really wanted just aren't available to start with.
You're better off with software that's written just for you.
Office 365, OneDrive, Google Docs
All great stuff but, like spreadsheets, when it comes to data handling they do not give you the power of a bespoke database system
Bespoke software for companies and not-for-profits
A bespoke system that's designed exclusively around the way you work demands far less of your company's time, resources and staff. It will involve less stress, and fewer hassles & costly problems. You only need a bespoke software system created once, so why do that in-house?
A bespoke software system will:
- Automate how you want to work
- Speed up your processes
- Give you full control
- Give you access to all your information
- Make you more efficient and profitable
A bespoke system will work out more cost effective. It will:
- Allow you to continue to work the way that you have always done (minimising disruption)
- Come with full person-to-person staff training to get you up and running
- Be maintained by the person who wrote it. And he'll already know your needs and the way you work and think. So it will be easier and cheaper to update and extend
So why use us, a local small firm, rather than a global enterprise with the experience and proven reliability of the world's leading software?
Well, there's only one phone number with no switchboard. You talk directly with the person who actually built your bespoke system. We're always happy to help. And we'll be on hand to train new staff, add new features and troubleshoot as and when your need arises.


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Map Type: Time Trial
Time on the Clock: 3 minutes
Our Goal: Eliminate 200 Fieldrunners before the timer reaches zero
Remember! It's essential to play the map in fast forward for the whole duration and, where possible, not pause. This speeds up the enemy waves, but not the timer!
Towers Used:
Gatling/Machine Gun
Spark Tower
1 - 2 Minutes
– Place your first Gun Tower two squares south of the top Laser Tower. Now, in a diagonal direction downwards, place another three so it leaves a gap leading straight into the southern Laser Tower.
– Mimic this tower arrangement at the entrance to the map, except once you reach as high as you can go, expand your maze to the right by a further three Gun Towers.
– This'll force the units to run into both sets of lasers (and each Gun Tower will be chipping away at their health).
2 - 3 Minutes
– Once you've chalked up enough cash, buy a Spark Tower and place it as seen in the screenshot above. Upgrade it and then when you have sufficient money, buy a second Spark Tower and place it north-east of the last Spark Tower.
– This is more than enough to complete the challenge, but for added security, feel free to upgrade the guns closest to the unit's spawn point. You should clear this with a few seconds to spare.


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And He said to them, " Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation." Mark 16:15
New Life supports more than 100 missionaries and missions projects. Missions is the heartbeat of New Life Church. We have a missionary for one Sunday of almost every month. Each January, New Life Church hosts a 9 day Missions Convention where we put missions first, establishing a family faith promise for the year to come. For 2017, our faith promise is upwards of $170,000.00.
Our missions theme this year is "Every Tribe|Every Nation." Click here for a media presentation and theme song.
Revelation 7:9 declares "After this I saw a vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing in front of the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes and held palm branches in their hands." (NLT)
It doesn't matter what your background is, what your culture is, where you come from, or the language you speak. Try to name a restriction, and you can't. The gospel is for everyone. Every tribe and every nation.


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Research Abroad
Jason Rosenblum
Departure Date:
Jun. 1 2014
Return Date:
Aug. 9 2014
Local Institution:
Oberlin College
Local Advisor:
Dan Stinebring
Foreign Institution:
Belefeld University
Foreign Advisor:
Joris Verbiest
Student Status:
Q. What country were you staying in? was staying in Germany.
Q. What university were you attending/doing research at? was doing research at Bielefeld University.
Q. How long were you there? was there for two months.
Q. What sort of research were you doing? was doing research on the interstellar medium.
Q. What's the coolest thing about being abroad? Definitely the coolest thing about being abroad was being around people with different perspectives and different opinions and different views on things.
Q. What's your favorite new phrase from the language? favorite new phrase is Oh mein Gott! It means "oh my god" and people say it with the same inflection as people in the States and I just found it funny to hear people say.
Q. What's the hardest thing about being abroad? Definitely the hardest thing was the language barrier, even though most people spoke english there was still some level of awkwardness associated with interactions.
Q. What did you do in your free time? hung out and went to bars and met up with people in my house in the kitchen in my free time.
Q. What's the weirdest thing you've seen or done while abroad? The weirdest thing I've seen while abroad is really just the level of efficiency they have in Germany. If there is any cool idea that would make life just a miniscule amount better, but you never see it enacted, it is definitely important in germany.
Q. What advice would you offer others going abroad? The advice I would offer would be to learn some of the language before going to the point where you can hold part of a conversation before switching to English.
Q. What skills have you learned abroad? have learned to better communicate what I am trying to say to people who don't have English as a first language. Which also helped me cut down and get to the heart of what I am trying to explain.
Q. Is there anything you'd do differently or anything you wish you'd have known? Not really it was fun going and an amazing experience and being my first time in Europe it was kind of nice not having any expectations and being surprised by everything I encountered.
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. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.


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Basel, Switzerland, and Indianapolis, IN (USA) 28 December 2012 – Lonza Group and Monument Chemical today announced the completion of the sale of Lonza Group's Performance Urethanes and Organics business located in Brandenburg, KY (USA).
The transaction was announced in November 2012. Financial terms are not being disclosed.
This sale enables Lonza to focus on more core activities and helps fulfill a strategic growth area for Monument Chemical.
As part of the Arch Chemicals Inc. acquisition in October, 2011 Lonza considered the divestiture of certain Arch business and assets. A formal divestiture process for Brandenburg was initiated in July of 2012. The Arch Performance Urethanes and Organics Business has been a leading supplier of specialty urethane and organic chemicals for over 40 years, developing and manufacturing products used in applications including products for coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers ("CASE"), flexible and rigid foams, coolants and solvents. The business also supplies polyols, glycols and glycol ethers for such industrial applications as coolants, solvents and food additives.


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Actor Mel Gibson and his longtime wife have reached a deal in their two-year-old divorce case, attorneys told a Los Angeles judge on Tuesday.
The divorce deal between the "Lethal Weapon" star, who was once estimated to be worth $900 million, and his wife, Robyn, includes a settlement of property they shared. Details of the settlement were not released.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge is expected to finalize the divorce in August, Robyn's attorney's Laura Wasser said during the hearing.
Robyn Gibson filed for divorce in 2009 after 28 years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences. The pair had separated days after Gibson's notorious 2006 arrest for drunk driving when he launched an anti-Semitic tirade.
Gibson, 55, was one of Hollywood's most bankable stars winning directing and best picture Oscars for the 1995 film"Braveheart".
He had seven children with his wife Robyn. Gibson also has a 20 month-old daughter from his former relationship with Russian-born musician Oksana Grigorieva.
In March, he pleaded no contest to a battery charge stemming from a 2010 altercation with Grigorieva, and was sentenced to three years probation as well as domestic violence and mental health counseling.
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When we started this tour I thought to myself that 7 days are so much time for a bus tour like that. The tour was great and I traveled with my husband. We started from Washington DC in a fine bus; we visited the finest places of New York, Washington DC and Boston on our 7 days of a trip. The hotels were not as good as I expected.
The tour wasn't good for me and my husband. 1-day trip was supposed to take us to Amish Farm and few destinations in New York as well as in Philadelphia. Due to frequent rain, the Amish Farm got all muddy and we had our feet dirty due to muddy village area at Amish Farm. Also, we delayed our departure.
I really wanted to take a tour to East Coast. As I was searching through internet, I found this great bestbustours.com site that offers very reasonable packages for the trips in America as well as in Canada. The bus took us to Thousand Islands, Toronto, Ottawa, Niagara Falls, Montreal, Quebec, and Boston. We explored the fascinating locations and stayed in good hotels.


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Easily Building A Website Using WordPress
You might wonder why we're talking about web development on an email marketing site. That is because email and web development go hand-in-hand. You'll want a website to embed your opt-in forms on. Depending on your business, you might also be using email marketing to direct traffic to the website where they can make the purchases.
Regardless of how interconnected your web-development and email marketing is, a website is still an insanely good idea. It makes your brand appear more established and allows you to tap into valuable search engine traffic.
WordPress Is A Leading CMS (Website Builder)
WordPress is a leading open-source "Content Management System" (CMS). Without getting too techy, that means once you install it onto a server, it's insanely simple to build and manage your website with knowing minimal (sometimes zero) HTML or other types of coding.
Installation might sound somewhat technical, but it's really quite simple. This guide will go over the installation process in great detail. If there's any confusion, feel free to contact us and we'd love to help you.
Registering A Domain (Website Name)
The first step is to register a domain name. This is your website name. If you can find 'yourbrandname.com', that is the website name you should go with. If not, try to do the best you can or consider purchasing that name off whoever has it registered.
You've got two options; you can either register the domain name through the web host, or a 3rd party registrar. Registering the domain directly through the web host will save you some time when setting the nameservers. Setting nameservers is by no means complicated, even though it sounds a little technical.
If you decide to go with a 3rd party registrar, GoDaddy is a popular pick. The registrar doesn't matter too much. The pricing may vary, but it's only around $10-$15 per year anyway, so it's not a very big investment to begin with.
Registering A Hosting Plan
Now it's time to register for a hosting plan. This is much more important than finding a registrar. You'll want a fast and reliable web host. I personally suggest A2 Hosting. It's what I use for all my projects and has a great reputation. If you don't go with A2, Siteground is another solid company.
For most businesses, a simple shared hosting plan is more than adaquate. For A2 Hosting, you can get started with a single domain website for under $4 per month. Very, very affordable and totally worth it.
(Optional) Setting The Nameservers
If you registered the domain name through a different company than your hosting provider, you'll need to set the nameservers. What this means; the nameservers tell the domain which hosting company the website is being hosted on. Each hosting company will assign their clients different nameservers.
To do this, you'll have to go to the DNS area (navigation is different for every registrar) and find the nameserver section. There's going to be some default values. Replace them with the nameservers provided by the hosting company when signing up. Hit save and the nameservers are set.
Keep in mind it takes time for the nameservers to "propagate". It might be instant with some internet service providers, might take up to 48 hours with others. If you register the domain directly through the hosting provider (opposed to a 3rd party registrar) you'll be able to avoid this entire process.
Downloading and Installing WordPress
Now it's time to download and install WordPress. The actual WordPress software is 100% free. Gotta love open-source. You can download WordPress here.
WordPress will come as a zip file. Inside that zip file are all the php files required for WordPress to run. Installation is covered in the next step.
Uploading WordPress To Web Host
Now it's time to upload WordPress to the web host. I usually do this directly through CPanel, as you'll have to get in there to setup a couple other things anyway. Within CPanel, you'll see "File Manager".
Once in file manager, you'll see the upload icon on the top navigation. Click on it and either drag-and-drop the WordPress zip, or select it using file explorer.
Once WordPress is uploaded, you'll need to unzip it. The video below goes over that:
To test and see if WordPress is installed, punch your website name into the browser and see if an installation screen pops up (see below photo). If it doesn't, the files are either in the wrong location or the nameservers haven't propagated yet.
Setting Up The Database
Now it's time to setup a database. Going back into CPanel, you'll be looking for the database wizard (see below)
Follow the steps to create a new database. Make sure to copy down the database name, username and password. At the last screen, give the users all permissions.
Now, remember that install screen you got when you punched in the website name in the browser? Notice there's a place to enter the database name, username and password? Do that and hit 'Submit'. WordPress can now finish installing itself. The platform will prompt you for login information, site name and other information. Once your past this screen, WordPress is officially installed and you can start configuring it.
Configuring Your WordPress Site
WordPress is a fairly intuitive platform. It's theme driven and there's tons of 3rd party plugins that can be used to add increased functionality to your site. There's tons of resources across the internet on how to properly configure your WordPress site.
I will write more resources on this in the future, and they'll be linked-to here. For the moment, I just wanted to write a quick and basic tutorial on installation. If you've got any questions about building in WordPress, shoot me an email and I'll gladly answer them.


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Charli, the BEST DOG EVER
We adopted Charli in 2001 and he was 10 months old. My kids grew up with him and he was so gentle and nice. We could not have had a better dog. At the end, he was deaf and he had problems with his legs. When he started to be in pain, we had to let him go. Thank you for introducing Charli into our lives. He was the best dog we could have had and we miss him very much. Actually, we haven't been able to remove his bowls yet...


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Want To Have Your Work Read By Thousands Of People Every Day?
We're always on the hunt for new guest writers to contribute blog articles and recipes to our site.
Our audience are typically males and females aged 25-50 . They are every day folks who perhaps workout a couple of times a week and try and watch what they eat. They're not hardcore gym junkies or research boffins, they want easy to digest (no pun intended) information that will help them in the kitchen and in the gym.
They appreciate myth busting, science and evidence but written in a light hearted, conversational tone, they don't want to be bored with science babble.
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Circuit of Barcelona – Circuit of Montmeló
Are you passionate about the motor world? Would you like to see one of the most prestigious Formula 1 or MotoGP races live? Would you love to drive a lamborgini at the Circuit of Montmeló? If you have said yes to any of the questions, you will be interested about the information below.
Circuit de Montmeló is a racetrack located in the towns of Montmeló (sectors 1 and 2) and Granollers (sector 3), province of Barcelona. The Grand Prize of Formula 1, the Great Prize Monster Energy of Catalonia of MotoGP and FIA World RX Catalunya are held in this racetrack.
The dates of the championships are the following:
FIA World RX Catalunya will take place on April 14th and 15th
Formula 1 Grand Prix of Spain 2018 will take place on May 11st and 12nd
The Monster Energy Grand Prix of Catalunya of MotoGP will take place on June 15th, 16th and 17th
And you will probably say, how can I then drive a Lamborgini in the Circuit if you only talk about the professional sporting events that take place in April, May and June? Because there is the possibility of going to enjoy different activities throughout the year:
Driving a high-end car
If you are a motor and speed enthusiast, you will be able to drive a luxury car of your choice, such as Ferrari, Porsche or Lamborghini at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
GT Driving Experience (All days of the year)
Gguided tour, lunch at the Paddock restaurant, GT Driving on the Grand Prix track of 4,727 meters …
Learn to drive in the RACC School:
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Racing tests
Training for competition vehicles. This activity is designed to accommodate competition vehicles on the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya under special conditions.
Driving your motorcycle or car in the circuit
Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya offers the possibility of holding private runs. The requirements are that the motorcycle has to have a minimum of 125cc, the driver is over 18 years old and wear approved helmet, in the case of the motorcycle. If you want to drive your car, you must have the homologation card and all participants have to use the seatbelt.
Winter timetable (from November to February): from 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Summer timetable (from March to October): from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
How to get to the Circuit of Montmeló from Sants Station:
Line R11 Barcelona Sants – Girona Portbou
There is a frequency of two trains per hour during the working days from Sants Station to the station of Granollers Center, one on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. Once in Granollers Center, take Line R2 or R8 to Montmeló. For more information visit the page of rodalíes. The Urban Suites is located less than five minutes walk from Sants Station, which makes it an ideal location to go from your aparthotel in Barcelona to the Circuit of Motnmeló – Catalunya.


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HIS 101 - Western Civilization II
Survey of Western Civilization from the Renaissance and Reformation to modern times. Topics include: The Age of Discovery, the French Revolution, the emergence of nationalism, the colonial and imperial eras, the wars of the 20th century, and the Cold War.
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