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Blogshine Sunday: Freedom of information, online
Gavin Baker writes "On March 13, news organizations across the United States will participate in "Sunshine Sunday" by running stories and editorials in support of public access to government information. Simultaneously, bloggers throughout the U.S. and beyond will spotlight their own experiences with obtaining access to government documents. This "Blogshine Sunday" has been organized by FreeCulture.org, an international group of student activists, to ensure that government remains accessible to tomorrow's journalists. See the announcement on the Free Culture blog, press release, or coverage at Sunshine Week."
Librarians. ALA. Freedom of Information practices.
Librarians fail to observe the best Freedom of Information practices at our cities' public libraries throughout North America. American Library Association professional guidelines fail to demonstrate the balance between public records and records privacy. You cannot observe either without understanding the balance between what is exempt from public view and what is public information. One should be able to expect our city public libraries' reference desk departments to respond within the Library Bill of Rights when asked for public documentation on their department itself even though that might be considered recursive, internal information. If it is public information, grey literature it should be made available without delay. Regrettably, Boston Public Library is a model of a bad example in that regard. For instance, try asking as has the BPL professional union has tried asking, for the Reorganization Plan. BPL board claims they will make it available. But BPL Assistant Director R. Kowal and President Bernie Margolis do not follow through. The Real Sheet newsletter available via [email protected]mailto> senger at bpl.org documents this in the past 12 issues.


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This Presentation date is April 14, 2016 at 09:00-10:00 local time.
Presenters: Peter Jones
NBASE-T and 802.3bz Update with Peter Jones
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Peter Jones, Chair of the NBASE-T Alliance, gives an update on the progress of 802.3bz and NBASE-T to the delegates of the Mobility Field Day Symposium. He discussed the need for moving to 2.5 and 5 Gig connectivity as well as the advantages of using this technology in a modern network
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Taking taxpayer-funded donations a conflict
City of Chico employees are represented by bargaining units, of which the two largest are the police union and the fire union. Over 60 percent of Chico's general fund is spent compensating the members of these two unions. The city withholds union dues from the employee paychecks and gives it directly to the union. The Union bosses then contribute to the campaigns of city councilors.
This is an obvious conflict of interest. It is a conservative ethics problem (for Councilor Sean Morgan) and a liberal ethics problem (for Councilor Ann Schwab). We ask that the seven Chicoans now running for City Council refuse any campaign contributions from the unions. They should be running to represent us, not the other side of the bargaining table.
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.. Acta Est fabula ! Ciao Moreno
Italie, au secours !
Posted by Québec de Droite in Italie on samedi 26 novembre 2011
Vraiment, ça ne va pas bien pour l'Italie, 8 % pour des bonds de 3 ans, on s'approche drôlement de l'insolvabilité avec de tels taux d'intérêt.
Cause principale : l'État providence.
Facile de promette n'importe quoi, en empruntant constamment, un jour la dure vérité nous revient, en passant, eux aussi des régimes de prestations déterminées, il y a une petite différence, ils les ont accordés aussi bien au privé qu'au public, pour avoir une équité de distribution de richesse.
Alors, on obtient:
Insolvabilité (public) + Insolvabilité (privé) = INSOLVABILITÉ (en plus gros)
Extrait de: Italian bond yields rise above 8%, By Richard Milne, FT, November 25, 2011
Bond yields on short-term Italian debt rose above 8 per cent on Friday as Rome was forced to pay euro-era high interest rates in what analysts called an "awful" auction.
A peak of 8.13 per cent was reached on three-year bonds, according to Reuters data, as Italian debt traded deeper into territory associated with bail-outs of Greece, Portugal and Ireland in the past 18 months.
Bunds get caught in stampede for the exit
Italy raised its targeted €10bn in an auction of two-year bonds and six-month bills but at sharply higher yields.
"Rates have skyrocketed. It's simply not sustainable in the long run," said Marc Ostwald, strategist at Monument Securities in London.
Investors demanded a yield of 7.81 per cent for the two-year bond, up from 4.63 per cent last month. The six-month bills saw yields of 6.50 per cent, up from 3.54 per cent. That was significantly higher than Greece paid for six-month money earlier this month when it issued bills at 4.89 per cent.
That means both Rome and Madrid have paid more than Athens for short-term debt this week.
Padhraic Garvey, interest rate strategist at ING in Amsterdam, said: "It's not great, to be honest, not in good shape at all ... The pricing is awful."
So-called "real money" managers – including pension funds and insurers – as well as banks have already begun offloading their holdings of "peripheral" European debt. There are fears that the contagion could spread to "core" European countries such as France and even Germany.
In what has been another terrible week in eurozone bond markets, Belgium saw its benchmark 10-year yields rise by more than a percentage point. They ended on Friday at 5.85 per cent, up from 4.79 per cent on Monday, as markets fret about the continued lack of a government in the country.
German 10-year yields rose again following Wednesday's poor auction that saw fears Berlin was being sucked into the crisis. But German yields, which briefly exceeded those of UK Gilts on Thursday, are lower again than those of the UK after 10-year Gilts shot up by 14 basis points to 2.32 per cent on Friday.
The European Central Bank again bought Italian and Spanish debt on Friday but analysts have complained that its purchases are no longer sufficient to stem a wave of selling. Yields on the two to five-year range for Italy were 7.67-7.77 per cent in late Friday trading.
Olli Rehn, European Union economic and monetary affairs commissioner, on Friday told a hearing of the Italian parliament that contagion in the eurozone sovereign debt crisis appeared to be spreading from the periphery to core countries. He also said it was clear that electorates in Germany and elsewhere were not in favour of issuing eurobonds.
"If I put it nicely, I would say there is a variety of views and there is quite some opposition as regards eurobonds," said Mr Rehn.
"It will take quite some effort before the German public and the public in some other member states will be convinced of the merits of eurobonds.
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Franz Schubert's song cycle Die schöne Müllerin makes enormous demands not only on the performers but also on its audience, a factor that shaped the early performance history of the work. In this article, the pioneering complete performances of Die schöne Müllerin by the baritone Julius Stockhausen (1826–1906) will be explored, as well as the responses of his audiences, collaborators, and critics. The circumstances surrounding the first complete performance in Vienna's Musikverein on 4 May 1856, more than three decades after the cycle was composed in 1823, will be traced. A survey of subsequent performances reveal two things: within Stockhausen's concert career at least, it was no foregone conclusion that the complete cycle should always be performed; and a performance of the "complete cycle" meant many different things in his day. Stockhausen's artistic idealism jostled against the practical forces that necessarily influenced his approach to recital programming, leading to a multifaceted, untidy performance history for this cycle.
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Perhaps because we are blessed with excellent premises, our buildings are well used. However, we always welcome clubs, societies and other bodies who wish to hire rooms or the church building. Note that rooms are not normally available for hire on Sundays.
For enquiries about cost and availability or to make a booking for:
the School Halls, the Church sanctuary or Bunyan Room
please contact Janet Ireson at the Church Office, on 01462 456765,
Wednesday between 09:30 and 13:30, and Thursday and Friday between 09:30 and 12:30.
Hirers must read out Letting Conditions as well as our Health and Safety Policy (each opens in a new window)
The Church has its own off-street car park. The car park is fully surfaced with tarmac and is lit from dusk until 23:00 daily.
The school hall building was built by public subscription as a memorial to the fallen of the Great War and opened in 1925. An extension was added in 1980 to provide modern toilet facilities. At the same time the entrance to the main hall was moved and a permanent stage with curtains built at the street end.
The building has two entrances: one faces the street; and the other opens into the car park. Both are double width and ramped for wheelchair access. The building has complete wheelchair access to all the ground floor area. All rooms are heated by gas central heating.
Toilets are available with a separate toilet for the disabled, which also has a nappy changing table.
The kitchen is equipped with a large domestic cooker with double oven and hob. There are two double drainer sinks and a separate hand washing basin. An industrial dishwasher is also fitted.
Hall laid out for a Church lunch
The Main Hall
is 10m by 16m and has a number of stackable plastic chairs. It can seat about 140 people . A public address system is installed with an inductive loop for the hard of hearing. The stage at the North end is 4m deep has full width curtains across the 6m proscenium. A mains distribution board is available to connect stage lighting. There is also a grand piano.
GoPak® tables can be made available. There are eight 1830mm x 760mm (6ft x 2ft 6in) and five 1220mm x 760mm (4ft x 2ft 6in).
Roller blinds at the windows provide a lowered light level which is adequate for projection. The floor is marked for a badminton court.
The Front Room
is on the ground floor and faces the street. It is 4m by 8m and has an upright piano. Chairs can be brought in from elsewhere in the halls. The blinds provide sufficient blackout for projection purposes.
There are a number of GoPak® tables of the 4ft size and one 6ft available in the adjacent lobby together with 11 chairs with armrests.
The Pre-School Room is on the ground floor at the rear of the building. It is 6.5m by 10m. Chairs can be brought in from elsewhere in the halls.
The First Floor Room
has windows on both sides, facing both the street and the graveyard. It is 9m by 10m with a dais approx 2m x 3m at one end. There are 24 stacking wooden seat chairs in the room and on the adjacent landing. Others can be brought in from elsewhere. There is an upright piano. Curtains at the windows provide a reasonable blackout for projection.
For enquiries about cost and availability for the School Halls or to make a booking, see above
The main Church worship area, the sanctuary, and the vestibule were refurbished in 2009/ 2010. There are three double width doors facing North into the car park. At the rear there is a single width door at each side. The East side door has ramped access, whereas the West side door has step, but a folding ramp is available. There is level access throughout the ground floor area. The building has underfloor central heating supplemented by radiators providing a pleasant 20°C throughout the cold season.
The sanctuary cleared for a children's event
The sanctuary
is 14m wide by 16m long with a dais approx 5.5m x 6m at the front incorporating a pulpit. It is ideal for concerts and medium sized meetings.
There is seating for about 120 on the ground floor in comfortable chairs which are linked for safety. There is room for about a further 140 in pews in the gallery.
The vestibule used as reception area
The area is served by a sound reinforcement system with inductive loop for the hard of hearing. A data projector and screen can be made available.
Available by arrangement are a grand piano, pipe organ and drum kit on site making it a good venue for music performances and rehearsal.
The vestibule
is a space about 4.5m by 14m separated from the sanctuary by a glazed screen. It can be used for more intimate meetings or coffee mornings.
At the rear of the building is the Bunyan Room, a small meeting area seating about 30 people with a small kitchen where hot drinks can be prepared.
Bunyan Room
We have prepared a flyer showing the facilities available in our Church building.
Click Here to download it. (Adobe Acrobat PDF Format)
For enquiries about cost and availability for the Church sanctuary or Bunyan Room or to make a booking, see above


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From posh Lady to poor waitress.
Lily James is a 29-year-old English actress who is better known for her roles as Disney's Cinderella and the rebellious Lady Rose in the British TV series "Downton Abbey.
Here are a few facts you might want to know about her:
Lily's name
Lily's real surname is Thomson but she changed it to James as a homage to her father's name, the actor and musician James Thomson, when he passed away from cancer in 2008. This is also why, she says, it was so difficult for her to film soon after, the sad father-and-daughter scenes for Cinderella and why these scenes are so touching and believable.
From Posh English to American accent
After studying acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, Lily James appeared in several TV shows and only one year after graduating, she was already in the hugely successful "Downton Abbey" playing the posh, aristocratic and rebellious British Lady Rose and then, in the critically acclaimed and box office success "Baby Driver", playing an American waitress, for which she had to learn to speak with an American accent. She said that during the whole shooting of the film she avoided talking to the director, who is British because she wanted to stay in character and keep speaking only with the American accent.
She has also worked in several theatre-plays in England and her performances have been acclaimed by critics and theatregoers.
She played Juliet in Kenneth Branagh's "Romeo and Juliet". The critics loved her, saying she had saved the day, while they weren't exactly kind when talking about Richard Madden's rather poor performance playing Romeo.
She's in fact so incredibly talented that her success has already paid off; she is said to be worth $15 million.
The beautiful English Rose is almost royalty as, since 2014, she's been dating Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Alright, alright, that's not exactly accurate, she's actually dating Matt Smith, the super charming British actor who portrayed Prince Philip in the TV series "The Crown". The two met while shooting the horror/comedy "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies". There are rumours that the couple got recently engaged because Lily attended the BAFTA Awards wearing a big diamond ring on her finger. She later dismissed the rumour, saying she had only worn a ring. Let's pretend we believe her!
Lily James became the face of Burberry's and later, starred with Siena Miller among others, the company's Christmas campaign, the film "The Tale of Thomas Burberry", written by Academy Award-nominated Matt Charman and directed by Academy Award-winning Asif Kapadia. The 3-minute film tells the story of the company's founder Thomas Burberry, who created the iconic trench coat, and has Lily James as the pilot Betty Dawson, a fictionalized character.
This summer, Lily James will be in the sequel of the musical "Mamma Mia: Here we go again!", playing the younger version of the wonderful actress Meryl Streep's character. We already know she has a gorgeous singing voice because of her singing "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" in Disney's Cinderella, so we can't wait to see what she will be able to do with ABBA's songs!
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What We Do
Mary Wilson of Pitter Patter Puppets provides an enriching puppetry performance for young children. The performance will consist of 45 minutes of developmentally appropriate interactive puppet play activities specifically designed to stimulate language, literacy, sensory awareness, problem solving, self-expression, phonemic awareness, and story creation. Silly songs, storytelling, and rhymes are all part of the show!
This program is best for children 2 to 7 years of age but is enjoyed by children and adults of all ages. Great for preschool enrichment, birthday parties, library programs, family engagement events, children's theatrical performances. Pricing available upon request.
Puppetry Workshop
Mary Wilson has been providing workshops for Early Educators, Librarians and Camp Counselors for over 20 years through professional development opportunities all over Massachusetts and at the NAEYC National Conference in Washington, D.C. Workshops can be either a 2-hour program for contact hours or a .5 CEU offering. Pricing available upon request.
About Me
Mary Wilson is an Early Childhood Educator who provides hands-on, interactive and developmentally appropriate puppetry performances, enrichment programs, and professional development opportunities. She has worked in the field of Early Education for over 30 years and has a contagious passion for puppets as a tool for teaching.
Mary Wilson provides enrichment programs for young children through library programs, elementary schools, camp programs and youth groups. There are typically 3 parts to the enrichment series: Part 1: puppet manipulation/voices, Part 2: story creation/set design/choreography, and Part 3: final review/performance. Part 1 and Part 2 can be combined into 1 part if the desired outcome does not include a group performance. This program is best for children 6 to 10 years of age, but also enjoyed by older children. Pricing available upon request.
Where We've Been
• The Cape Reperatory Theater, Brewster (11 Summer Seasons)
• The Chatham Arts Festival (3 years)
• The Provincetown Theater
• Libraries all over Cape Cod and Massachusetts (performances, workshops and enrichment programs)
• Numerous Birthday Parties
• Intergenerational Programs at Senior Centers and Nursing Homes
• Many Preschools, Elementary Schools, and Integrated Preschool Classrooms across Massachusetts
• Workshops across Massachusetts, for the MAEYC conference and for the National Association for the Education of Young Children Conference, Washington, DC (2009), Bunker Hill Community College, Southeast Massachusetts Library System
• References available upon request


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|Barneys Coop Blazer (old but like this and this) // Niu Niu York Tee // 7 for all Mankind The Skinny Jeans // Rag & Bone Booties // Coach Legacy Leather Duffle Handbag // C Wonder Bamboo Stacked Rings (sold out, earrings here) // Nars Night Breed Nail Polish
Mar 26, 2013
Niu Niu York
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Congratulations to the CraftStylish members who were randomly selected in our current giveaway. Vintagegypsy and wendyfire will each receive a copy of Puppet Play (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2011) by Diana Schoenbrun. This book features 20 different puppet projects made from recycled socks, mittens, and more with easy-to-follow instructions and full-color photos. Kids will love to create their own puppet characters.
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Thank You
I want to first of all thank the fire fighters, paramedics, and police officers that were there helping save my son Seth, I can not express how grateful I am that you all never gave up on him and did everything you could for Seth. You are all our Hero's and we are glad to have been able to have you see Seth and see that he is okay because of you.
I also want to thank the doctors and nurses that helped Seth get stable and never gave up on him. Thank you for being there for us as well and helping us learn how to take care of him. To all Seth's doctors, specialists, employees and therapists who have helped with his progress that have helped keep him healthy over the years. Thank you to Tarzana Hospital PICU staff for the amazing care and love you have shown us every time Seth has had to be in the hospital. To all the nurses over the years that have worked for us and been so loving and kind to Seth thank you and I am grateful for the time you were with us.
I want to thank family and friends who were there everyday giving us love, donations and support. I want to thank those who come to our fundraisers and donate money to help Seth get everything he needs. You show such love time and time again coming to every one of our dinners and golf tournaments it means so much to us. I want to thank the companies and people who donate things for our raffles that helps us raise money. I want to thank those who help with the fundraisers especially Kelly Mako who has helped organize our fundraiser and has helped us with so many of them, you are an angel here on earth. Thank you to Jimmy Katranis who painted a beautiful mural for Seth. You all are amazing people who have been there for us and showed us love and support through the years, you will never know how your kindness is such a blessing and so appreciated. We love you all!!
I also want to thank Dawn, a mom who tragically had a son Collin who also had a non fatal drowning accident and survived with severe brain injury, a year before Seth. Dawn found the courage and strength with all she was going through to create a parents of near drown group on the internet. My family found her group and contacted her, she then contacted me while Seth and I were in the hospital. Dawn gave me so much information on the therapies that had helped her son and let me know how her son was recovering. Dawn gave me hope and that at the time was more then any doctor was giving me for Seth. Dawn has become one of my dearest friends over the years and has helped so many other families as well.


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If your voice came with an Owners Manual
The Voice Club Academy
would be it
You know that feeling when you've spent money to sing better….. but in the end, you're not really sure what.….or maybe IF you learned anything?
So, you start to think,
"Maybe it's just me."
Maybe I just didn't listen hard enough.
Maybe I did it wrong.
Maybe……I'm just not...talented enough.
What if it had nothing to do with you?
What if it didn't work because of THEM?
That's the question we don't dare to ask.
I'm Kim Snyder. And I've been there too.
I started traveling in a family group at 4, singing jingles at 15, fronting bands by 16 and signed to an indie label five years later. I've spent most of my life getting paid to sing and do voice work
But I had a secret.
I hated my voice.
I knew just how many layers of 'faking it' I had to add just to get by. I knew how hard it was for me to reach notes other singers seemed to breeze through. I hated how much work it took to attempt to keep my voice on track....to hide the wobbly parts, the weak notes and the strained notes that were even painful for me to hear.
And as my opportunities grew, so did my fear that if I didn't get it figured out, eventually I was going to be exposed for the fake I really was.
That's probably the only reason I was so driven to find 'the answer'.....you know...that special 'how to' training the big singers must know about (but I couldn't find)....the answer to understanding what I was doing wrong and the tools to fix it before anyone caught on.
And I really tried! I invested in learning every vocal technique I could find. I even spent thousands and became a certified vocal instructor just because I was told that only THEY knew how to understand it.
What I discovered after over more than a decade studying every technique I could find ...was this:
Most singing teachers are wonderful, well-meaning people who simply haven't been taught to ask, question or understand why or how things work.
And the very few who do know, charge a ton, primarily serve small circles of artists and managers and STILL don't explain a thing to anyone.
Soooo.....who's there to help the rest of us?
When I started testing my method with other singers who kept asking how I'd gotten so much better, I wasn't completely sure it would work for every voice.
My teaching associates said it was a fluke that it even worked for me (Of course they also said singers couldn't be trusted to have this kind of control over their voices. )
That kind of ticked off the singer in me.
So I kept testing it on singer after singer to see if they were right. I was totally prepared to be wrong. I just wanted to know where it stopped working so I never over promised anyone.
It was really making a big difference in my own voice. So I knew it had the potential to do the same for other voices too.
I love testing theories, so I went to town. I tested it on every voice that found me; old and young, beginner to pro.
Well, it worked.
In fact, every voice I tested it on had the same kind of amazing results.
And I would've just gone on, studying and testing....knowing me, forever.
A bruised eardrum from a gig led to a diagnosis that silent reflux was about to burn up my happy little vocal cords.
I let them do a surgery on my stomach to stop it.
But I got septic and wasn't expected to survive.
After a long December in the hospital, suffering major organ damage and surviving pancreatitis, I finally went home.
It was almost a year before I was able to start making a "mmmm" sound again.
MURPHY'S LAW: Whatever can go wrong.......will
During terribly long recovery filled with many follow-up surgeries,
my right vocal cord and muscle were deeply cut
by a carelessly placed intubation tube.
The result was a complete collapse of my right vocal cord.
Yup. That happened.
Who has exam rooms filled with platinum albums from almost every famous singer...ever?
Dr. Shawn Nassari in Bevery Hills.That's who.
Vocal surgeons from 3 renown hospitals told me I'd never talk or sing again
Even the top singers vocal surgeon in the US agreed. But he also knew about what I taught.
He said my best chance would be to try to find a way to retrain my own voice. (not kidding).
He said If I worked really hard I might eventually regain enough of a gravely tone that my family might be able to identify my voice.
It's way too long a story to go into, but I did it. Partly for obvious reasons. But mainly because my students thought I could do it and had refused to go any other vocal coach.
So I create my own vocal therapy program. I regained my voice (even added an extra half octave).
But I also regained my silent reflux. And it came back with a vengeance.
I didn't know how long I'd have my voice. I still don't.
But I knew it wasn't going to be long enough
to help the steady stream of singers that still keep coming.
That's why I created The Voice Club Academy
Say GOOD BYE
to everything you've ever thought
about singing lessons
Forget hours of repetitious scales
Trying to figure out if you're just not talented enough to learn
or if you're just not bright enough to really 'get it'
You're about to get access to a
proven, revolutionary vocal mastery system
that's simple to understand,
fun to watch
and guaranteed to give you results FAST!
(Did we mention it's customized for starving artists and people who think bunny slippers are appropriate attire for class?)
IT'S JUST MAGIC!!! Seriously…MAGIC!
Not only do I understand what's going on in my own voice but I can actually HEAR what's going on in other singers voices too!
I wish I could tell them "hey, did you know if you did THIS you could do THAT?"
The Voice Club Method is plain MAGIC!
If you want IMMEDIATE training to learn exactly WHY your voice won't do what you want….
If you want to FEEL what 'natural born singers' feel and HEAR how crazy-great your voice can actually get….
If you want to know how EASY it can feel to sing notes that caused you pain or wouldn't even show up before….
The Voice Club Academy is definitely YOUR kind of place
Who KNEW I could sing THIS GOOD?
I've studied a lot of different methods but this is the FIRST time I've ever learned so MUCH.
What I love about The Voice Club Method is that I actually sing better AND faster, just like they say!
The Core Training Course: Vocal Mastery
The Voice Club Method
Vocal Mastery Core Course
First I'll show you how to get the most out of the Academy.
Then watch 5 solid training videos to uncover exactly where voices go wrong and what's holding them back.
Then take a special quiz to find out where your voice is right now and which Vocal Balance Workout you can start working on!
Get a BONUS VIDEO on how the voice actually works. Find out what most singing teachers don't even know.
Get challenged about what your voice is really capable of, start to understand why you have the issues you do, and get prepared to learn things previously reserved for big names with big budgets!
Watch over 38 minutes of solid video training demystifying the two things that will determine how good you'll ever get.
Download 2 training guides to use to correct your voice on the go.
PLUS, view almost 30 minutes of BONUS 'watch & learn' videos:
Watch 3 videos where I walk you through exactly what went wrong in the pitch & mix of 3 singers.
Sit in on sessions as I walk my own students through exactly how to fix mix and pitch in their own voices.
And hear what Britney Spears REALLY sounds like behind all those bells and whistles (you're about to feel really good about yourself)
Vocal Mastery Core Course
The Keys to unlocking your best voice
Vocal Mastery Core Course
..where it all goes wrong
Watch over 40 minutes of solid video training to show how you're making notes harder to sing without knowing it.
Learn why some notes are so hard to sing & why you sing them great one day and rotten the next.
Then discover the biggest thing that's making some notes harder than they have to be and how to fix it NOW!
Download 2 training guides to fix the middle on the go, no matter what you sing!
PLUS, view almost 30 minutes of BONUS 'watch & learn' videos:
Watch 2 videos where I walk you through exactly what went wrong as 2 singers attempt the same Christina Aguilera song.
Sit in on sessions as I walk my own students through exactly how to fix the middle in their own voices.
Then it's my step-by-step analysis of exactly what went wrong and right in 3 videos featuring Christina Aguilera (that same song the other singers tried), Freddie Mercury from Queen and Carrie Underwood!
Watch over 30 minutes of solid video training on the tools that great singers use to make singing everything easier while sounding completely complex!
Learn 5 steps to nailing that HIGH note every time (plus 4 ways to ruin it for sure!)
Then learn advanced professional level tools including how to stabilize a wiggly note, mastering control of dynamics and more.
Download 2 training guides with more choices to add to your arsenal of pro tips to engage to sound better every time.
PLUS: view almost 25 minutes of BONUS 'watch & learn' videos:
Watch 2 videos where I walk you through exactly what went right & wrong as 2 singers take on a Celine Dion and a Broadway song.
Sit in on sessions as I walk my own students through exactly how to release to their highest notes (including Charlotte from The Command Sisters)
Then it's my step-by-step analysis in 3 stars videos including the worst performance ever from Kings of Leon, Katy Perry and the most amazing thing you've got to see to believe from 60's rockers Focus!
Vocal Mastery Core Course
Vocal Mastery Core Course
….and when to break them
Watch over 27 minutes of rare training on the core concepts that will completely change how you view 'ad libbing' forever.
Download your training guide so you can maximize your styling for any song – keep this in your gig bag!
PLUS, view over 20 minutes of BONUS 'watch & learn' videos:
Watch 2 videos where I walk you through a great example of simple styling; what they did and why it worked, PLUS styling in an acapella group (without making a mess)
Sit in on sessions as I walk my own students through exactly how to add or modify styling to best fit the song and their own vocal strengths.
Then I'll walk you through vocal styling examples from One Direction's Lead Singer and the ever melismatic Mariah Carey!
Watch over 30 minutes of solid video training on how sing with STYLE even if you have no idea where to start...with concepts that will challenge even you pro's!
Download a training guide to walk you through setting up your vocal styling toolkit AND a special bonus guide charting seven of the top styling tools pros use, when to use them and what to watch out for.
PLUS: view over 24 minutes of BONUS 'watch & learn' videos:
Watch 3 videos where I walk you through exactly which styling tools are being used by 3 singers who got it right.
Sit in on 3 sessions as I walk my own students through exactly how to get instant vibrato and use styling without compromising your vocal strength.
Then I'll walk you through how Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera and Contemporary Jazz great Diana Krall use the tools you just learned!
Vocal Mastery Core Course
….and why pro's choose them
Vocal Mastery Core Course
….and how to make any cover sound like you wrote it
Watch nearly 30 minutes of solid video training on how to creatively craft a sound that is uniquely you and bring it to every song you sing, regardless of the style.
Uncover the mystery of how to add styling to make ANY COVER SONG sound like you're the original!
Download your training guides to use as you work through any song AND a special bonus guide so you know how to stay unique in any style.
Then it's my step-by-step analysis of exactly how PRO's wield style like a magic wand; including the voice of many Disney Princesses and Jazz Legend Carmen McRae.
PLUS watch two popular bands take on 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia" and make it sound like the original! It's like a masterclass in what 'unique' really means!
PLUS, Vocal Workout Courses with up to 7 MONTHS of training EACH!
…and a private 'Members Only' Facebook Group
for getting input, answers and accountability from your coach and other singers just like you!
…AND every future course we add to The Voice Club Academy absolutely FREE!
How will I learn all of this and not feel overwhelmed?
That's a good question. And that's kind of how I felt trying to whittle my way through every other technique I studied.
Every course in The Voice Club Academy is designed so you can go at your own pace. Just walk through simple step-by step training. Heck, we'll even show you your progress and anything you may have missed, so let us worry about that.
Every section contains your video training, any downloads and other files you need so you can start seeing results right away. Plus, you can always go back and refresh or deepen your understanding. It's super easy to find your way around. You can access your training anytime, day or night on your computer, ipad or cellphone so you can train at 3am, on your lunch break and even just before you walk on stage. We gotcha covered.
By the time you finish the very first course in The Voice Club Academy, you'll be able to:
Identify WHAT goes wrong in your voice
Understand WHY it happens
Know what to DO about it
And realize that the problem wasn't you
Does that seem impossible?
It's just the beginning!
Now ImagineTHIS:
Starting a song without feeling like it's already falling apart
Having more range (without that weak spot in the middle)
Singing without it feeling tense, unstable or painful
Knowing when a note is about to go pitchy so you can fix it before anyone hears it
And actually understanding how you did it so you can do it again next time
What if I Have Questions?
Honestly? You SHOULD.
Pretty much everything you're going to learn is going to challenge the way you used to do things in a major way. That's why we've got a couple ways you can get the answers you need.
You can:
- Pop into the private Members Only Facebook Group and ask anytime, 24/7 (best option for questions on what you're learning)
- Or email me directly with the contact info you'll get inside The Voice Club Academy (best option for tech questions or site stuff)
Even though I've been singing in bands I never really considered myself a singer.
But in just a short time with The Voice Club Method
I found myself going "Huh! I might just be a singer!"
I can't believe what I can do now!
How do I know if it's right for me?
Here's how you can tell….
Have you ever had a feeling your voice could do more but you don't feel you've found the answer yet?
Are you new to vocal training, want to skip the trial and error of studying 'this' and 'that' and get straight to the results?
Have you invested in singing lessons before, maybe even got a degree in voice, and still feel like your progress has been way too slow?
Do you really want to know what it's like to be 3 notes away from that 'giant, impossible, oh-crap-here-it-comes…' note and, instead, think…
"I've got this! Now let's show 'em what this voice can really do!"
If you found yourself nodding along to any of these, you are exactly who I've built this online training system for.
Still not sure? I want you to be. Shoot me an email at kim (at) thevoiceclub.com and I'll help you find out
What about refunds?
If you've gotten this far, I've got to believe there's something in you that is really ready to rock this out and experience it for yourself. And that's the kind of singer I can help best.
But if you're not at that point yet… if you're still dabbling in several different teaching methods and trying out a handful of singing tips you got online to see which one sticks, this program honestly isn't right for you.
That's why The Voice Club Academy is backed by a no-refunds policy: no refunds are ever made, no exceptions..
I know that if you spend even one day going through the training I've designed, you'll already be able to take advantage of quick-action solutions I built after all that work.
- It won't work if you do. (because everything else you're trying will pull you the opposite direction)
- I didn't go through all this 'death-defying struggle for answers' with the hope that someday I might be able to throw a thought or two onto the pile of 'maybe try this' singing tips that browsing singers take a glance at while they walk by. I did this for desperate, sincerely searching singers that are just as committed as I was to finding the truth and doing the work.
You understand that, right?
I want you to be sure you're ready. Because this is not going to work if you mix it in with something else you're learning. You have to be ready to jump in with both feet.
But for those of you who are…….you're about to be introduced to a whole new level of singing!
Why does it matter if I join today?
Well….when's the last time you put off a new years resolution….and ever came back for it? (me too)
It's easier to invest in others than to justify an investment in ourselves (As a mom of four, I've been trapped by that one before).
Or maybe we're afraid it might not work for us (we can usually blame past experiences for that one)
But if you're tired of wondering IF your voice really could be better….. Why it seems so easy for some singers and so hard for you….
If you've ever wondered what you would DO if you just had a better voice…. If you're ready to see some real results and be able to prove it to your worst critic (yourself)…
If you want to be able to stop the things that bug you for good….. If you're tired of being held back because of fear or lack of confidence….
If you're tired of scouring the internet for singing tips but never finding the success you hoped for…..
It's time.
It's time you did this for yourself.
It's time to get off the sidelines and do this.
You know that if you put it off you're just going to slip right back into that cycle of searching and giving up….hoping and feeling let down.
That's how you know TODAY is the day.
It's not about 'filling slots' here. In almost ten years of teaching The Voice Club Method I've never looked for students but they always keep coming. I know that as long as singers like you are seeing results like these, they'll keep coming.
I didn't create all of this to sell things. I created it because there's a void in what you're being told.
And I know how much you have to gain. That's how I know….
Now IS the time.
You value theoretical conversations on vocal pedagogy over actual singing (it's ok, but that's not what I built this for)
If you believe your voice is pretty perfect and have no interest in finding out what else it can do (I've been there too…usually when I'd up finding help)
You're a 'safe singer': someone who enjoys dabbling in every kind of instruction to increase awareness but without any interest in doing the work to grow (again, no judgements, but this won't be effective if you're in that place right now)
(**THIS ONE IS SUPER IMPORTANT**) You're a singing teacher looking for new ways to add value to what you're already teaching. (We LOVE helping the singing teachers that come for help with their own voices but there are serious reasons why you cannot share what you learn:)
**The consistent results our singers experience are completely dependent on a 'whole-other-level' of 'why's and how's' available only to our certified vocal coaches. Borrowing any concepts or training from The Voice Club Academy will not only add confusion to your students, it is also a big (like huge) violation of our copyright, patents and trademarks. We do check. It is very hard not to pass on what you learn when it works. If you know that will be tempting for you, please don't join. I really don't want to buy my attorney another car.
"With chops and confidence that belie their years, the Command Sisters are ones to watch." – Guitar World
We cannot tell you enough how The Voice Club Method changed our sound and the way we sang. We have such better control, technique and power, and still use the vocal and performing techniques we learned in every gig.
It's really has been instrumental in helping us find our voices and has given us the confidence and ability to stand in front of an audience and just OWN it.
When people compliment our singing, we say, 'You can thank our amazing vocal coach at The Voice Club!'"
Who KNEW I could sing THIS GOOD?
I've studied a lot of different methods but this is the FIRST time I've ever learned so MUCH.
What I love about The Voice Club Method is that I actually sing better AND faster, just like they say!
The Voice Club Method is amazing! I noticed significant improvement right away.
Not only that, I get the tools to fix it myself. It's awesome!
I was listening to one of Michael Jackson's old vocal training sessions online.
It was so crazy! I could actually HEAR places he sang with tension and even crazier, I knew WHY.
Pretty humbling. So grateful for The Voice Club Method. I don't take it for granted one bit.
I've been singing since I was two, but had no idea how to use my voice fully.
Since I discovered The Voice Club Method the transformation of my voice has been astonishing!
My range has increased to over three and a half octaves! I know what I learned was priceless.
Watch this video to see how EASY it is to train inside The Voice Club Academy
Results-driven professional vocal coaching with a growing library of courses to unleash your potential.
Online 24/7 so you can fit the maximum training into your busy life with no problem.
All for less than a THIRD of what just one vocal session a week would cost.
The ULTIMATE VOCAL COACHING RESOURCE for UNDER $100 a month!
Financial emergency? Cancel anytime – Come back as soon as you can. No guilt – only support. No filler – only proven training that gets real results.


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Release Date: January 8, 2019
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Kincaid Strange, not your average voodoo practitioner, is back in the freshly imagined and hugely entertaining second installment of Kristi Charish's urban fantasy series. Kincaid Strange cannot catch a break. After dealing with a spate of paranormal murders, there's barely time to recuperate—let alone sleep in—before there's a new problem in Kincaid's world of paranormal activity. When her roommate, Nathan Cade—the ghost of a grunge-rocker with a pathological lack of self-control—comes home bound to a dead body, it's up to Kincaid to figure out how to free him. Ideally before her new mentor, Gideon, a powerful sorcerer's ghost, discovers that Nate is trapped in the body he'd coveted for himself.
When Aaron, a Seattle cop on the afterlife beat—and Kincaid's ex—calls her in to help out with a cold case, she takes the chance to mend fences with the police department. The problem: they want to interview Nate's ghost, which she can't produce. Then people from Nate's past start showing up dead, and what's killing them doesn't seem to be human. And the way it's killing them is especially brutal.
Nate's hiding something, but he's Kincaid's friend and she wants to help him. But she also wants to stay alive....
You Get What You Pay For. Kincaid Strange and Nathan Cade seek help from queen of zombies, Lee Ling, at her bar in the Underground City, Damaged Goods
Mork placed both his hands on the thick wood table and leaned in to get a closer look. "How did you get him in there?" he demanded.
Now it was my turn to be indignant—and do some damage control. Mork was deplorable, but he was the only reliable source of human brains in Seattle, maybe Washington state. I couldn't afford to torch that bridge. "Easy, I didn't. As far as I can tell, it was a complete accident. I'm trying to figure that detail out, so if you would be so kind as to go get Lee—"
"Kincaid, feel free to take this the wrong way, but I don't want anything to do with your current shit show," Mork said, and once again pointed at Nate. "And that is a shit show."
"That's why I didn't ask you, Mork. Now just tell me where Lee is—"
He shook his head and started to walk away.
I glared at Nate. "I thought I told you to keep a low profile?"
"It's Mork."
"It took him less than a minute to figure out you weren't Cameron. What if he tells someone and it gets back to Gideon?"
Nate frowned at me. "I repeat. It's Mork. No one listens to Mork."
I swore. "Stay," I told Nate, and scrambled out of the booth. If I was fast, maybe I could catch Mork before he disappeared into the back cooler or somewhere else I wouldn't be able to yell at him.
"Mork, all I want is to talk to Lee."
He didn't respond as he walked behind the bar. He did, however, open the cooler door and shout something in Chinese.
I don't recognize many words in Chinese, but the ones I do aren't complimentary, and there were definitely a few of those mixed in there.…
"Kincaid Strange." Lee's low, throaty voice carried through the bar. Too rough a texture to be feminine, but refined with a touch of a British accent. The kind I'd imagine hearing in a 1920s speakeasy. And tonight she did not sound happy.
I threw one last glare at Nate, still huddled in the booth, and turned to face Lee as she stepped out of the cooler.
Lee usually wore her hair up, but tonight it was tied in a long braid that hung down her back. She was dressed in a dark grey Chinese-style silk dress covered in red, pink and white flowers. An off-white apron was draped over the front and she held a blender containing a grey, frothy mixture out to the side. Lee usually wore colours that flattered and contrasted her pale skin and dark hair, but the dark grey was an odd choice. Where she often dressed to draw attention away from the scars that ran across her face like cracks in porcelain, the colour of this dress made the grey rivulets stand out. It did bring out her pale green-blue eyes, however, ones that had been bought and paid for. Dearly.
"What are you doing in my bar with him?" Lee said as she strode over.
"It's not what it looks like—" I started.
She stopped in front of me and crossed her arms, staring me down. "When things are not what they seem, they almost always end up being much worse. Bad luck has been following you around like a stray kitten lately, Kincaid. You know how I feel about bad luck."
Yeah, I certainly did. Bad luck had been the story of Lee's life.…
Lee Ling Xhao had died during the summer of 1889, the year the great fire destroyed most of Seattle courtesy of a dry summer, a city built on wooden stilts, and a carpentry shop full of turpentine.
Lee didn't die in the fire, though. She had been murdered three weeks before the carpenter ever had the bright idea of downing a bottle of whisky and striking a match.
At the tender age of fifteen, Lee had had a flourishing career as a high-end courtesan in Shanghai. Known for her gold-coloured eyes, a coveted symbol of freedom from worldly cares, she expected to have a long and illustrious career … until her twin brother, Lou, was exposed as a practitioner of the dark arts. Perfectly acceptable in China at the time, but not so much so with her predominantly foreign and very Christian clientele. The two fled to the west coast, once again setting up shop, Lou selling his talents and Lee selling hers.
To hear her tell it, Lee had quite the distinguished clientele, all of whom she and her brother planned to extort and blackmail into comfortable retirement. Until the wife of one of Lee's more ardent customers got wise to where her husband's money was going.
Stories of Whitechapel's infamous Jack the Ripper murders had reached the Northwest by then, and had inspired Seattle's own copycat, a ghoul as I had recently discovered, who'd preyed on crib girls, the indentured Chinese prostitutes who were kept by the Seattle docks. Which is where the merchant's wife, Isabella, got her inspiration.
Drugged with chloroform in a dark alley, her single scream muffled by the evening crowds, the very last thing Lee saw was the paring knife as Isabella sliced into her beautiful porcelain face. Lee's brother did his best to stitch her up before raising her as a zombie, but the grey china cracks running over her beautiful face were daily reminders of her violent death.
I asked her once why she hadn't replaced her stolen eyes with another golden pair.
"I like green," she'd said. "It is a good reminder that I am not free from worldly cares. And Isabella had such beautiful green ones."
So yeah, Lee had a tempestuous relationship with luck.…
"Lee, wait, let me explain—"
Without a word, she gracefully manoeuvred around me as she headed for Nate. I swore and followed before she could lay into him in front of the entire bar.
She didn't, though. Instead, she stopped just short of the booth where Nate was watching us in fear—his usual reaction to Lee's often intimidating presence. She crossed her arms and regarded him shrewdly.
Her face didn't soften exactly, but it did lose its hard edge, and her scars seemed to still their angry dance, though that may have been a trick of the light. She uncrossed her arms and nodded towards her office. "Bring him into my office, Kincaid. We need to talk."
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Importance of Empowerment Training Course
You wil benefit in many ways when you manage to undergo the training course.When you manage to through the training you will be accountable most of the time.Through it you will manage to be always attentive to what you do.The empowerment training course will make recognized by many people in the society.It is also the best way upon which you will have all your problems solved at a faster rate.Besides that, you will gain some good experience that you can use to do other things in life based on your profession.By managing to undergo the empowerment training course you will benefit in the following ways.
It is one way in which will be very responsible.It is important to get such knowledge that you will be using in doing other things.It is one of the way in which you can do many issues alone.You will learn how to handle different types of people at the end of the day.It is the best way in which you will learn to be responsible.Given the opportunity ensure that you undergo the training.
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WHAT: Pigs in the Park: BBQ, BEER, BLUES & Redfish Tournament
* Down-home, slow-cooked BBQ
* Smokin' blues by Sarasota Slim, The Bottomfeeders, Gypsy Hyway and the Top Shelf Blues Band
* Fishing tourney, including prizes
* Children's fitness area
* Jumbo the Clown
WHEN: Friday, April 1, 6-10 p.m.; Saturday, April 2, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
WHERE: E.G. Simmons Park, 2401 19th Ave N.W., Ruskin
COST: $2 per carload park entry fee; free admission and parking
INFO: Call (813) 645-3808.
Earl shared one of his favorite barbecue sauce recipes:
40 ounces ketchup
32 ounces mustard
12 ounces Louisiana hot sauce
32 ounces honey
Mix the first three ingredients together and simmer on the stove for 20 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes, and then add honey. Mix well. Pour or brush sauce over cooked meat for best taste.


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Tissot Quickster Chronograph Quartz // San Antonio Spurs
Product Description
As the official timekeeper of the NBA, Tissot created the San Antonio Spurs Quickster watch with the Spurs logo on the case-back. It features a timeless design with style and Swiss reliability.
All Tissot watches in this event include the full 2-year MANUFACTURER's warranty.
Product Details
- OriginSwitzerland
— Model #: T0954171703707
— Movement: Quartz
— Case Diameter: 42mm
— Case Material: Stainless Steel
— Crystal Material: Sapphire
— Case Back: Solid
— Dial Color: Silver
— Dial Markers: Arabic Numerals, Indices
— Water Resistant: 100M
— Bracelet Material: Fabric
— Functions And Complications: Chronograph, Date
— Condition: New
— Documents: Booklet/Manual Only
— Box Type: Original
— Warranty: Manufacturer's 2 Years
Yes, other bands are available from Tissot to purchase and replace the band on this model.
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Hundreds of activists attended our GET ON THE BUS rally for human rights in Sudan, outside the Sudanese Permanent Mission to the United Nations on April 5th. Participants included Amnesty members as well as members of Sudan human rights groups and of the Sudanese community. We called on the government of Sudan to protect civilians and internally displaced persons in the conflict areas of Darfur, Abyei, Blue Nile and South Kordofan. We also collected more than 1,000 letters to President Bashir, signed by Amnesty members and other human rights activists. Earlier in the day, AIUSA Sudan country specialist Denise Bell spoke about human rights in Sudan at our speakers panel at New York City's Cooper Union. We'll post photos from the day's events as soon as they're available.
Amnesty International USA Group 133 members at GET ON THE BUS
Sudan vigil in Davis Square, Somerville, March 26, 2013


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The Heela typically has to work 1 weekend a month. Both days. In addition to working all week. From 7am to 7pm. And, no, he doesn't get paid anything extra for it. Raw deal, huh?
Just kidding. They're not THAT pesky.Just a little annoying with having to eat 3 meals a day plus 2 snacks and drinks. Greedy little boogers! AND they want to be kept busy for 12 hours straight. Geesh! Where was THAT in the manual??!! I'm not sure I recall signing up for that part of parenthood!
OK... I kid, I kid. They're fabulous! And I do a damn good job as Mommy, thank you very much. But I dare any of you to tell me it isn't hard work! ;)
[note: The cornstarch will settle a bit as time passes so just be sure to stir up the paint before you use it each time]
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I was published!! In a real printed magazine!!
Check out the August 2012 issue of Elegant Impressions Magazine!


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Custom web design and development can be a rather expensive proposition, but it can be worthwhile if you are looking to create a very sophisticated website.
In a lot of cases, it makes sense to opt for a simple WordPress website – these days, a turnkey installation of WordPress with a common theme and some quickly added content can still look quite sophisticated and will impress a lot of visitors, as well as be more than enough to do the job of bringing in footfall to your bricks and mortar store. Indeed, thanks to the power of WooCommerce, you can even run an e-commerce website via WordPress, even if you aren't a developer or a marketing wizard.
However, there are some times when it makes sense to pay for custom website design and development. For example, if you expect that your website will get a huge amount of traffic, then you will want to make sure that the website can cope with that. WordPress – while a brilliant platform, is one that can be a little resource demanding. Paying for a lightweight, highly customized and carefully crafted a website that contains "no bloat" is a good idea.
You may also want custom web development if you are putting together a more complex game site, a video streaming site, or a social network of some form – anything where the functionality you require goes beyond the norm.
If you are thinking of hiring a web designer, make sure that you understand exactly what you will be getting from them. With business websites, it is vital that you know you will be getting a site that will perform well, and that is secure. All too often, amateur programmers fail to sanitize inputs, encrypt passwords, verify data, trap exceptions, and take care of security. This may be fine for a casual project was done by a hobbyist, but if you are processing customer data, then you are putting your reputation, your livelihood, and your customer's personal and financial security at risk if your site is poorly coded.
Do not take chances with bad code. Make sure that the programmers you work with have a good reputation, and ask to see examples from their portfolio. The back-end code must be robust and secure (it's hard for you to check this, admittedly, if you aren't a developer yourself), and the front-end code should be valid and look good in most browsers (this is something that you can confirm using the W3C validation tool).
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I am a queer writer and visual artist. My work concerns lethargy, love, sexuality, anxiety, and a constant connection to, and awareness of nature and environment. The style may leave those who see or read it with the feeling that they have been dropped into an intimate scene that is feverish, dreamlike and, often, uncomfortable. I've exhibited at Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Queens Museum, and Woman Made Gallery, amongst others, and have been featured on Afropunk, Dazed Digital, After Ellen, GO Magazine, etc. My goal as an artist is to push as many boundaries between art and life as possible in my photography, my poetry and short stories, and films.
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ESSoS 2017 : Engineering Secure Software and Systems
Conference Series : Engineering Secure Software and Systems
|Link: https://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/events/essos/2017/
Call For Papers
Context and motivation
IT security is becoming an increasingly interdisciplinary subject. For example, it is insufficient to simply deploy new security measures but one must pay careful attention to correctly integrate the security measures into existing software. Such an approach involves redesigning and engineering of software to ensure that the built-in security policy is effective in practice.
Many security venues put little focus on topics related to software engineering, while many software-engineering venues lack appreciation for more complex topics in software security. ESSoS thus strives to be a venue that welcomes exactly such contributions that are at the border of IT security and software engineering. The program committee is particularly chosen to encompass a broad range of expertise, ranging from software security over software engineering to human subjects such as usable security.
Goal and setup
The goal of this symposium, which will be the ninth in the series, is to bring together researchers and practitioners to advance the state of the art and practice in secure software engineering. Being one of the few conference-level events dedicated to this topic, it explicitly aims to bridge the software engineering and security engineering communities, and promote cross-fertilization. The symposium will feature two days of technical program including two keynote presentations. In addition to academic papers, the symposium encourages submission of high-quality, informative industrial experience papers about successes and failures in secure software engineering and the lessons learned. Furthermore, the symposium also accepts short idea papers that crisply describe a promising direction, approach, or insight.
The Symposium seeks submissions on subjects related to its goals. This includes a diversity of topics including (but not limited to):
- Cloud security, virtualization for security
- Mobile devices security
- Automated techniques for vulnerability discovery and analysis
- Model checking for security
- Binary code analysis, reverse-engineering
- Programming paradigms, models, and domain-specific languages for security
- Operating system security
- Verification techniques for security properties
- Malware: detection, analysis, mitigation
- Security in critical infrastructures
- Security by design
- Static and dynamic code analysis for security
- Web applications security
- Program rewriting techniques for security
- Security measurements
- Empirical secure software engineering
- Security-oriented software reconfiguration and evolution
- Computer forensics
- Processes for the development of secure software and systems
- Security testing
- Embedded software security
- Usable security
Important dates
Paper submission: Friday, February 24, 2017 (firm)
Paper acceptance notification: Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Artifact evaluation submission: Friday, April 21, 2017
Poster submission: Friday, April 21, 2017
Poster acceptance notification: Friday, April 28, 2017
Camera-ready: Friday, May 12, 2017
Symposium: Monday to Wednesday, July 3-5, 2017
(DIMVA is held July 6-7, following ESSoS)
Submission and format
The proceedings of the symposium are published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs, pending approval). Submissions should follow the formatting instructions of Springer LNCS. Submitted papers must present original, unpublished work of high quality.
Two types of papers will be accepted:
Full papers (max 14 pages without bibliography/appendices)
Such papers may describe original technical research with a solid foundation, such as formal analysis or experimental results, with acceptance determined mostly based on novelty and validation. Or they may describe case studies applying existing techniques or analysis methods in industrial settings, with acceptance determined mostly by the general applicability of techniques and the completeness of the technical presentation details.
Idea papers (max 8 pages with bibliography)
Such papers may crisply describe a novel idea that is both feasible and interesting, where the idea may range from a variant of an existing technique all the way to a vision for the future of security technology. Idea papers allow authors to introduce ideas to the field and get feedback, while allowing for later publication of complete, fully-developed results. Submissions will be judged primarily on novelty, excitement, and exposition, but feasibility is required, and acceptance will be unlikely without some basic, principled validation (e.g., extrapolation from limited experiments or simple formal analysis). In the proceedings, idea papers will clearly identified by means of the "Idea" tag in the title.
ESSoS will have a poster session to present ideas, discuss prototypes, and feature ongoing work. Authors of accepted papers and authors with evaluated artifacts are invited to submit a poster as well. Poster abstracts are limited to 1 page.
Approved Artifacts
Due to the secure software engineering focus, we expect the majority of papers to be based on an accompanying software artifact, data set, or similar. We strongly encourage the authors of accepted papers to submit such artifacts for evaluation. Artifact Evaluation will take place after accepted papers have been announced. Further information will be given closer to the paper-submission deadline. Submissions where the artifact evaluation committee can reproduce the software artifacts and evaluation will receive the "approved artifact" badge. Authors of approved artifacts are further given the opportunity to demo their artifact at the conference. In addition, the committee will select a best artifact to receive the Distinguished Artifact Award.
Steering committee
Jorge Cuellar (Siemens AG)
Wouter Joosen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) - chair
Fabio Massacci (Università di Trento)
Gary McGraw (Cigital)
Bashar Nuseibeh (The Open University)
Daniel Wallach (Rice University University)
Organizing committee
General chair: Michael Meier (University of Bonn, DE)
Program co-chairs: Mathias Payer (Purdue university, USA),Eric Bodden (Paderborn University, DE)
Doctoral Symposium: TBA
Publication chair: Elias Athanasopoulos (University of Cyprus, CY)
Publicity chair: TBA
Web chair: Ghita Saevels (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE)
Program committee
David Aspinall, University of Edinburgh
Domagoj Babic, Google Inc.
Alexandre Bartel, University of Luxembourg
Amel Bennaceur, The Open University
Stefan Brunthaler, Paderborn University
Will Enck, NC State University
Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine
Christian Hammer, University of Potsdam
Michael Hicks, University of Maryland
Trent Jaeger, The Pennsylvania State University
Vassilis P. Kemerlis, Brown University
Johannes Kinder, University of London
Byoungyoung Lee, Purdue University
Yang Liu, University of Oxford
Ben Livshits, Microsoft Research
Clémentine Maurice, Technical University Graz
Andy Meneely, Rochester Institute of Technology
Mira Mezini, Technical University Darmstadt
Alessandro Orso, Georgia Tech
Christina Pöpper, New York University Abu Dhabi
Awais Rashid, Lancaster University
Kaveh Razavi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Tamara Rezk, INRIA
Angela Sasse, University College London
Zhendong Su, University of California, Davis
Melanie Volkamer, Karlstad University
Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue University


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Guinness Chocolate Cake, cooked in a bundt pan and topped with blood orange frosting, is a rich and decadent dessert perfect for St. Patrick's Day.
This was the most moist, soft, decadent, and rich chocolate cake I have ever made. I had never cooked with Guinness before making this cake. Shame on me, I know! I didn't understand why there were so many Guinness stout beer recipes out there. I have figured out why… it is liquid magic! It brings out the flavors of chocolate, it makes baked goods fluffy with a fantastic texture, it tenderizes meat, it give sauces the perfect bitterness to complete your dish. PERFECT.
I decided to make this as a bundt cake and it ended up being the absolute perfect amount for the recipe. I buttered the pan heavily, but didn't want to flour it because it was such a dark cake. I do have to tell you that I was in a bit of a rush when I took it out of the pan so a little bit of the cake stuck to the sides. Now, that's not an issue in my house because I just reached in the pan and it gave me an excuse to eat those stranded pieces. But, if you want to keep your cake in tact for your guests, I recommend slowly pulling the cake away from the sides and maybe even using a knife for better separation.
You can see one of those little missing chunks that I put back on in the photo below. I debated not saying anything about it, but I mess up on a regular basis and want you to learn from my mistakes. Otherwise, the cake came out super easy and tasted oh so good.
The cake would have been wonderfully delicious on its own, but I had a bunch of leftover frosting from when I made my blood orange cupcakes. You see, I had intended to make a thick frosting that I could pipe onto the cupcake nice and tall, but again, I messed up. I think all of these mistakes had to do with the phase of the moon or something. Anyway, to make a thicker frosting I should have cooked down the orange juice into a strongly flavored syrup. Instead, I put it in straight which made the blood orange frosting something in between a frosting and a glaze. Good thing I had this rich chocolate cake that was just begging for it!
I cut myself a piece and refuse to tell you how fast it got eaten.
Before you run out and get all your ingredients together to make this beauty, I just want you to take a moment to gaze at how wonderfully moist and spongy this cake it. Sooooo good!
Guinness Chocolate Cake
- 1 cup Guinness Stout
- 16 tablespoons 2 sticks unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 vanilla bean (split)
- 2 cups flour (you can use cake or all-purpose)
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs (beaten)
- 3/4 cup sour cream
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Heavily grease bundt pan.
- In a medium side pot, melt butter with Guinness over medium heat. Once melted, turn off heat and whisk in cocoa powder, sugar, and vanilla bean. Allow to cool while you prepare the next steps.
- In the bowl of your stand mixer, combine flour, baking soda, and salt.
- Add eggs and sour cream to your chocolate mixture.
- Add 1/3 of the chocolate liquid mixture to flour mixture and beat on high until light and fluffy, about 1 minute. Add remaining wet ingredients and beat on low until well combined. Scrape sides and beat until fully combined.
- Bake in preheated oven in prepared pan until a toothpick comes out clean, about 45 minutes.
- Invert onto a plate. You may need to use a knife to loosen the cake from the sides of the pan before you invert. Enjoy alone or top with orange frosting (recipe below).
Blood Orange Frosting
- 6 ounces cream cheese (at room temperature)
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter (cut into pieces, at room temperature)
- 1/2 cup fresh orange juice (from about 2 oranges)
- 2 vanilla beans (scraped)
- 2 teaspoons finely grated orange zest
- 3 cups confectioners' sugar
- In the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attached, cream together cream cheese and butter until completely smooth.
- Add orange juice, vanilla bean, and orange zest. Blend until smooth.
- Add powdered sugar, one cup at a time, blending until smooth and creamy.
- Frosting will have a consistency between a thick buttercream and a glaze.


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