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Have you ever sat at a bar, waiting for the band you came to hear, while some natalie merchant wannabe ruins your night? I have. I am.
Have you ever sat at a bar, waiting for the band you came to hear, while some natalie merchant wannabe ruins your night? I have. I am.
Just added some light writing photos to the blog. Check it out! turnupmysymphony.tumblr.com
So, a very viable option for some people in this current economic climate is to buy an existing business. If a man or woman has savings, and entrepreneurial spirit, and a desire to begin a career in something that he or she will love, then he or she should buy a business at a low price. I would, personally, love to have the cash to buy a somewhat well-reputed bar/restaurant and inject some youth and enthusiasm into it. I know that starting something from scratch might be putting more of my own "heart and soul" into the actual business, but that does not really matter to me. I don't care what a business started out like, yes, I would like to preserve some history, but what matters is what I make it into. Right now, I am going to keep my eye open for failing businesses that look to have potential, and when I get my money, you can come in for a drink or some delicious treat that Nick invented.
How do you feel AIG bonuses? What do you think about contract rights as well? How do you balance the responsibility?
finally was able to settle on a name we all liked, and with a domain name that matched! Check out our biz twitter @co_lab
Arborio Rice-1.5 lbs
Chicken Stock-3 Cans
Onion-1 whole diced
Garlic-2 cloves finely chopped
Butter-4 tbl. spoons
Olive Oil-4 tbl. spoons
Mushroom-2 cups chopped
Salt and Pepper- to taste, we usually add a bit during the sweating of onions/garlic, parmesan cheese adds a lot of saltiness, so be careful.
Parmesan cheese-2 cups
Saffron-roughly .020 oz
In butter and oil, throw in onions and garlic and sweat for about 8 minutes, add mushrooms in at the end of the 8 min. Add some white wine if you like, then add all of the rice and let it absorb flavor for about 4 minutes. During the onion and garlic cooking, heat stock on a different burner and keep at low heat. For the next 40-50 minutes, slowly add stock and let rice absorb it. Keep stirring the entire time and adding small amounts of stock after rice absorbs it. Towards the end, add saffron by dissolving it in a small amount of stock and then adding to the risotto, also, add half of the parmesan cheese and stir in until it is dispersed evenly.
Take off heat and it is ready to serve, the remaining parmesan is for putting on the risotto as you please.
how does it feel? how does it feel? to be without a loan, with no payment for your home, a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.
how many jobs must a man work at before you can call him a man?
For having the cheapest tickets, Virgin America has awesome amenities.
How many sq. ft. per person in an average coworking office?
I sometimes(often) feel that groups and people who advocate organic meats and vegetables are doing more to prove Thomas Malthus than anyone else. We have the technology today that can support every person on earth with food, so why advocate organic food that costs so much more to grow and buy and is so much lower-yielding with its crops. Sure, it is great and all for the rich who can afford it, but to push your beliefs using fraudulent data to under-educated people is unacceptable. About 5 years ago, Green Peace advised a poor African nation to not accept millions of dollars worth of food because it was not certified organic and would cause damage to those who ate, guess what, those people didn't eat at all, they perished. Do not get me or any of my roomates started on the horrible group that is Green Peace.
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Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
-I have heard it as, "keep all of your eggs in one basket, and keep a very close watch on that basket.""—
Andrew Carnegie
Posted by Jared
Today, I finally got something to do that is a little bit interesting. We here at Washington Shoe Company have a problem in A/P, and i got to do a little bit of work to solve the problem. I had to look through our system, find what discrepencies existed and do some research on why they would occur. A neat little project considering the biggest project i worked on before this was me boxing up some kid's clothing and sending it to a lead/pthalate testing lab and then harrassing them on the phone to get it done. Anyway, after i finish it, i get an email from my boss, the president of the small company, who i sit down and talk to every day, and the email says: Jason Are all of the Agreements completed? Update your progress Rob That is it. This is in regards to an agreement that i had to scan and email to 4 artists, i did this about 4 business days ago, and we are waiting on the return of 2 artists agreements, so it is not a matter of utter importance. Jason though, Jerry would be fine, but Jason. -posted by JARED-not JASON, not JERRY, not WILL, not NICK
question: how can i set up tumblr so that people can comment on our posts?
got a call from an insurance agent, what is an average amount to pay in business insurance on an office?
Found a few spaces in Ballard for rent. Anyone interested in coworking in Fremont/Ballard/Queen Anne area?
Deckers filing suit against 15 copywrite infringers.they own Uggs. What do you think about patenting in general? necessary monopoly?
cut myself shaving today, after 45 minutes, it has started to stop bleeding
Study shows men get arousal from smell of rotten eggs.of course, every guy loves the smell of their own farts. http://tinyurl.com/d3nrq6
If you don't know, Sudanese prez was charged with crimes against humanity, and war crimes for the over 5 million victimes in Darfur.
Although I'd never attribute it solely to invisible children I think its amazing how groups of educated young people can change the world.
found a great space with 1450sq.ft. that has conference room and tons of open room. big plus, it is in our apartment building next to Peets
Listening to NPR. should consumer safety be the responsibilty of the private sector or, in the case of pharmaceuticals, the FDA?
Listening to ipod on shuffle. went from Beatles-Blackbird to Tom Jones What's New Pussycat, Rad!
So excited for all the big stuff coming out of @thesenumbers !
Just took my first sip of Via from Starbucks, tastes like an americano. i haven't had any other instant coffee before.Via is decent
How many famous libertarians are there? i know Penn and Teller are, who else though?
With Atlas Shrugged sales extemely high, how many of you have read the book? other rand books?
How much further will real estate prices fall? anyone have a good idea about what it will be nationally and in Seattle?
who is going to be the first to write a coworking manifesto?
What type of school produces the best entrepreneurs? I did liberal arts and i feel pretty good about it.
Working on coworking with @jaredmark tonight. Btw the Sudanese president arrested for war crimes/crimes against humanity. Thx @thesenumbers
we got some work done last night, office space in ballard is quite sporadically priced. 95 sq. ft for $595 in one spot. NOPE
how annoying are chairs that pull the back of your shirt untucked? another day first to work, hopefully some coffee will be ready soon.
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Documentation Center
Hggroup properties
Use hggroup to create hggroup objects.
You can set and query graphics object properties using the set and get commands.
To change the default values of properties, see Setting Default Property Values.
See Group Objects for general information on this type of object.
This section provides a description of properties. Curly braces { } enclose default values.
hg.Annotation object (read-only)
Control the display of hggroup objects in legends. Specifies whether this hggroup object is represented in a figure legend.
Querying the Annotation property returns the handle of an hg.Annotation object. The hg.Annotation object has a property called LegendInformation, which contains an hg.LegendEntry object.
Once you have obtained the hg.LegendEntry object, you can set its IconDisplayStyle property to control whether the hggroup object is displayed in a figure legend.
|IconDisplayStyle Value
|Include the hggroup object in a legend as one entry, but not its children objects
|Do not include the hggroup or its children in a legend (default)
|Include only the children of the hggroup as separate entries in the legend
Setting the IconDisplayStyle Property
These commands set the IconDisplayStyle of a graphics object with handle hobj to children, which causes each child object to have an entry in the legend:
hAnnotation = get(hobj,'Annotation'); hLegendEntry = get(hAnnotation,'LegendInformation'); set(hLegendEntry,'IconDisplayStyle','children')
Using the IconDisplayStyle Property
See Control Legend Content for more information and examples.
on | {off} (read-only)
This object is being deleted. Mechanism to determine if objects are in the process of being deleted. MATLAB® sets the BeingDeleted property to on when the object's delete function callback is called (see the DeleteFcn property). It remains set to on while the delete function executes, after which the object no longer exists.
For example, an object's delete function calls other functions that act on a number of different objects. If a function does not need to perform an action on an about-be-deleted object, it can check the object's BeingDeleted property before acting.
cancel | {queue}
Callback queuing
Determines how MATLAB handles the execution of interrupting callbacks.
A running callback is the currently executing callback. The interrupting callback is the callback that tries to interrupt the running callback. The BusyAction property of the interrupting callback determines how MATLAB handles its execution. When the BusyAction property is set to:
'queue' — Puts the interrupting callback in a queue to be processed after the running callback finishes execution.
'cancel' — Discards the interrupting callback as MATLAB finishes execution.
For information about how the Interruptible property of the callback controls whether other callbacks can interrupt the running callback, see the Interruptible property description.
function handle | cell array containing function handle and additional arguments | string (not recommended)
Button press callback function. Executes whenever you press a mouse button while the pointer is over the children of the hggroup object. Define the ButtonDownFcn as a function handle. The function must define at least two input arguments (handle of figure associated with the mouse button press and an empty event structure).
For information on the syntax of callback functions, see Function Handle Callbacks.
array of graphics object handles
Children of the hggroup object. An array containing the handles of all objects parented to the hggroup object (whether visible or not).
Note that if a child object's HandleVisibility property is callback or off, its handle does not appear in the hggroup Children property unless you set the Root ShowHiddenHandles property to on:
{on} | off
Clipping mode. MATLAB clips stairs plots to the axes plot box by default. If you set Clipping to off, lines might be displayed outside the axes plot box.
function handle | cell array containing function handle and additional arguments | string (not recommended)
Callback executed during object creation. Executes when MATLAB creates an hggroup object. You must define this property as a default value for hggroup objects or in a call to the hggroup function to create a new hggroup object. For example, the statement:
defines a default value on the root level that applies to every hggroup object created in that MATLAB session. Whenever you create an hggroup object, the function associated with the function handle @myCreateFcn executes.
MATLAB executes the callback after setting all the hggroup object's properties. Setting the CreateFcn property on an existing hggroup object has no effect.
The handle of the object whose CreateFcn is being executed is passed by MATLAB as the first argument to the callback function and is also accessible through the root CallbackObject property, which you can query using gcbo.
See Function Handle Callbacks for information on how to use function handles to define the callback function.
function handle | cell array containing function handle and additional arguments | string (not recommended)
Callback executed during object deletion. Executes when the hggroup object is deleted (for example, this might happen when you issue a delete command on the hggroup object, its parent axes, or the figure containing it). MATLAB executes the callback before destroying the object's properties so the callback routine can query these values.
The handle of the object whose DeleteFcn is being executed is passed by MATLAB as the first argument to the callback function and is accessible through the root CallbackObject property, which you can query using gcbo.
See Function Handle Callbacks for information on how to use function handles to define the callback function.
See the BeingDeleted property for related information.
String used by legend. The legend function uses the DisplayName property to label the hggroup object in the legend. The default is an empty string.
If you specify string arguments with the legend function, MATLAB set DisplayName to the corresponding string and uses that string for the legend.
If DisplayName is empty, legend creates a string of the form, ['data' n], where n is the number assigned to the object based on its location in the list of legend entries. However, legend does not set DisplayName to this string.
If you edit the string directly in an existing legend, MATLAB set DisplayName to the edited string.
If you specify a string for the DisplayName property and create the legend using the figure toolbar, then MATLAB uses the string defined by DisplayName.
To add a legend programmatically that uses the DisplayName string, call legend with the toggle or show option.
See Control Legend Content for more information and examples.
{normal} | none | xor | background
Erase mode. This property controls the technique MATLAB uses to draw and erase hggroup child objects. Alternative erase modes are useful for creating animated sequences, where control of the way individual objects are redrawn is necessary to improve performance and obtain the desired effect.
normal — Redraw the affected region of the display, performing the three-dimensional analysis necessary to ensure that all objects are rendered correctly. This mode produces the most accurate picture, but is the slowest. The other modes are faster, but do not perform a complete redraw and are therefore less accurate.
none — Do not erase objects when they are moved or destroyed. While the objects are still visible on the screen after erasing with EraseMode none, you cannot print these objects because MATLAB stores no information about their former locations.
xor — Draw and erase the object by performing an exclusive OR (XOR) with each pixel index of the screen behind it. Erasing the object does not damage the color of the objects behind it. However, the color of the erased object depends on the color of the screen behind it and it is correctly colored only when it is over the axes background color (or the figure background color if the axes Color property is none). That is, it isn't erased correctly if there are objects behind it.
background — Erase the graphics objects by redrawing them in the axes background color, (or the figure background color if the axes Color property is none). This damages other graphics objects that are behind the erased object, but the erased object is always properly colored.
Set the axes background color with the axes Color property. Set the figure background color with the figure Color property.
Printing with Nonnormal Erase Modes
MATLAB always prints figures as if the EraseMode of all objects is normal. This means graphics objects created with EraseMode set to none, xor, or background can look different on screen than on paper. On screen, MATLAB mathematically combines layers of colors (for example, performing an XOR on a pixel color with that of the pixel behind it) and ignore three-dimensional sorting to obtain greater rendering speed. However, these techniques are not applied to the printed output.
You can use the getframe command or other screen capture applications to create an image of a figure containing nonnormal mode objects.
{on} | callback | off
Control access to object's handle. Determines when an object's handle is visible in its parent's list of children. HandleVisibility is useful for preventing command-line users from accidentally accessing the hggroup object.
on — Handles are always visible.
callback — Handles are visible from within callback routines or functions invoked by callback routines, but not from within functions invoked from the command line. This provides a means to protect GUIs from command-line users, while allowing callback routines to have access to object handles.
off — Handles are invisible at all times. Use this option when a callback invokes a function that could damage the GUI (such as evaluating a user-typed string). This option temporarily hides its own handles during the execution of that function.
Functions Affected by Handle Visibility
When a handle is not visible in its parent's list of children, it cannot be returned by functions that obtain handles by searching the object hierarchy or querying handle properties. This includes get, findobj, gca, gcf, gco, newplot, cla, clf, and close.
Properties Affected by Handle Visibility
When a handle's visibility is restricted using callback or off, the object's handle does not appear in its parent's Children property, figures do not appear in the root's CurrentFigure property, objects do not appear in the root's CallbackObject property or in the figure's CurrentObject property, and axes do not appear in their parent's CurrentAxes property.
Overriding Handle Visibility
You can set the root ShowHiddenHandles property to on to make all handles visible regardless of their HandleVisibility settings (this does not affect the values of the HandleVisibility properties). See also findall.
Handle Validity
Handles that are hidden are still valid. If you know an object's handle, you can set and get its properties, and pass it to any function that operates on handles.
{on} | off
Selectable by mouse click. HitTest determines whether the hggroup object can become the current object (as returned by the gco command and the figure CurrentObject property) as a result of a mouse click on the hggroup child objects. Note that to pick the hggroup object, its children must have their HitTest property set to off.
If the hggroup object's HitTest is off, clicking it picks the object behind it.
off | {on}
Callback routine interruption
Controls whether MATLAB can interrupt an object's callback function when subsequent callbacks attempt to interrupt it.
For Graphics objects, the Interruptible property affects only the callbacks for theButtonDownFcn property. A running callback is the currently executing callback. The interrupting callback is the callback that tries to interrupt the running callback. MATLAB handles both the callbacks based on the Interruptible property of the object of the running callback.
When the Interruptible property is set to:
'off', MATLAB finishes execution of the running callback without any interruptions
'on', these conditions apply:
If there is a drawnow, figure, getframe, waitfor, or pause command in the running callback, then MATLAB executes the interrupting callbacks which are already in the queue and returns to finish execution of the current callback.
If one of the above functions is not in the running callback, then MATLAB finishes execution of the current callback without any interruption.
BusyAction property of the object of interrupting callback determines whether the callback should be ignored or should be put in the queue.
Setting Interruptible property to on (default), allows a callback from other graphics objects to interrupt callback functions originating from this object.
Note: MATLAB does not save the state of properties or the display when an interruption occurs. For example, the handle returned by the gca or gcf command may be changed as another callback is executed.
After the function that interrupts a callback completes, the callback resumes execution where it halted when interrupted. For more information, see Control Callback Execution and Interruption.
axes handle
Parent of hggroup object. This property contains the handle of the hggroup object's parent object. The parent of an hggroup object is the axes, hggroup, or hgtransform object that contains it.
on | {off}
Is object selected? When you set this property to on, MATLAB displays selection handles at the corners and midpoints of hggroup child objects if the SelectionHighlight property is also on (the default).
{on} | off
Objects are highlighted when selected. When the Selected property is on, MATLAB indicates the selected state by drawing selection handles on the hggroup child objects. When SelectionHighlight is off, MATLAB does not draw the handles.
User-specified object label. Provides a means to identify graphics objects with a user-specified label. The default is an empty string.
Use the Tag property and the findobj function to manipulate specific objects within a plotting hierarchy.
For example, create an hggroup object and set the Tag property:
t = hggroup('Tag','group1')
When you want to access the object, use findobj to find its handle. For example:
h = findobj('Tag','group1');
string (read-only)
Type of graphics object. String that identifies the class of the graphics object. Use this property to find all objects of a given type within a plotting hierarchy. For hggroup objects, Type is 'hggroup'. The following statement finds all the hggroup objects in the current axes.
t = findobj(gca,'Type','hggroup');
handle of uicontextmenu object
Associate a context menu with the hggroup object. Assign this property the handle of a uicontextmenu object created in the hggroup object's figure. Use the uicontextmenu function to create the context menu. MATLAB displays the context menu whenever you right-click the hggroup object.
User-specified data. Data you want to associate with the hggroup object (including cell arrays and structures). The default value is an empty array. MATLAB does not use this data, but you can access it using the set and get commands.
{on} | off
Visibility of hggroup object and its children. By default, hggroup object visibility is on. This means all children of the hggroup are visible unless the child object's Visible property is off. Setting an hggroup object's Visible property to off also makes its children invisible.


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One of my favorite portrait projects from the last few years is mentioned today on the NYTimes Blog. It's Richard Renaldi's "Touching Strangers." He shoots portraits on the streets of New York with an 8x10 film camera and is able to convince strangers to embrace, hold hands, even kiss. It's beautifully executed and very much a study in contrasts.
I'm sure the big view camera helps convince people of his seriousness, but still, Richard must be a very smooth operator. Link here:


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Starch Blocker: Low-Carb Diet Help?
You've been on a low-carb diet for a few weeks now and, sure, the pounds are melting off. The problem? You really miss pancakes, muffins, bagels, and pasta!
If that's the case, maybe you can have your cake and eat it too by taking starch blockers before you eat your favorite carbohydrate-laden food.
"It's a high-protein diet made doable," says Steven Rosenblatt, MD, PhD, a family practitioner in Los Angeles and co-author of The Starch Blocker Diet.
The increasing popularity of low-carb diets such as Atkins, South Beach, Protein Power, and Sugar Buster's seems to have boosted sales of starch blockers. The Washington Post recently reported that Spins, a San Francisco-based marketing company, saw sales of starch blockers jump 900% since September 2002.
Some diet experts, however, caution consumers who are overeager for a magic bullet that this isn't it.
'High-Protein Diet Made Doable'
"The starch blocker diet grew out of my medical practice where I was seeing patients who were 20, 30, 40, and 50 pounds overweight and really had to bring their blood pressure down and I would say 'eat less and exercise more' but that wasn't good enough," he tells WebMD.
Using supplements available at most drug- and health-food stores, "the new diet blocks the conversion of starch into sugar so you can incorporate starch into the diet," he says. "It's a tool that people can use with high-protein diets and include starches," he says.
"The actual starch blocker is an enzyme taken from white kidney beans that, when taken before consuming carbohydrates, inhibit the body's production of the starch-digesting enzyme, alpha-amylase," he says.
With lessened amounts of alpha-amylase, the body is less able to break down starches (carbohydrates) into sugar (glucose) for further digestion and absorption, Rosenblatt tells WebMD. "This gives people a change to widen their diet."
Cautioning "it's not a miracle pill," Rosenblatt says most patients lose one and a half to two pounds a week over a six- to eight-month period. "So over few months, you can lose 40 or 50 pounds," he says. "It's a slow, steady, and effective weight loss and you can keep it off."
Basically, you take the pills 15-20 minutes before eating. "I plan on two with each meal, which means that you take somewhere around four to six starch blockers per day," he says.
"This is a tool to help you, but not a license to overeat because if you abuse them, they won't be as effective as they should be," he says.
'Starch-Blocking Is Useless'
Others in the nutrition community have their doubts about starch-blocking. Ruth Kava, PhD, RD, director of nutrition at the American Council on Science and Health in New York City, says any product that inhibits the enzymes that break down starch will place excess starch in the gastrointestinal tract, and if it's not absorbed, it can cause problems.


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Ark (Final Fantasy XIII)Talk0
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Arks (アークス, Aakusu?) are Gran Pulse armories in Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII-2. Only two Arks are seen throughout the two games: the Fifth Ark, which was hidden underneath Eden by Barthandelus, and the Thirteenth Ark that floats above Academia four centuries after the events of the first game.
- See also: Datalog/Analects
They say the fal'Cie made the Arks in preparation for battle against the menace that lurks beyond. Where is this "beyond" of which they speak? Do they mean Cocoon, and the demons that dwells within? If so, they are mistaken. The legends of the Arks date far before that sphere was even crafted; whispers even hint at Arks displaced around the time of Cocoon's creation, spirited away to be hidden in its shell.
What, then, is the "menace"? What distant threat confronts us, and to what purpose? The gods vanished from this place. Are they now residents of the "beyond"?
- —On the Nature of Fal'Cie
According to legend, Arks are Gran Pulse's floating armories that hold living weapons in stasis in preparation for war with outside forces. Arks are hidden all around the world and most of their locations are unknown. Arks were built by the fal'Cie thousands of years ago, and even though their purpose is a mystery to humankind, they are used for training l'Cie to become strong enough to fulfill their Focus. Each Ark possesses an item known as a Graviton Core that enables it to float in midair.
Even though the purpose of Arks is not revealed during Final Fantasy XIII, the official mythology on Fabula Nova Crystallis sheds some light to this issue: according to the mythology the god Bhunivelze created the world of Final Fantasy XIII in preparation to fight the goddess Mwynn.
After tasking the god Pulse to find a way to the dimension where Mwynn resided, Bhunivelze turned himself into a crystal to sleep until time would be ripe. It can be thus gathered that the Arks were, in fact, intended to be used in Bhunivelze's battle against Mwynn.
- A location called the Seventh Ark was once considered to be downloadable, if DLC was to make an appearance in Final Fantasy XIII. There, Lightning and her companions would fight powerful enemies.[1]
- There being Thirteen Arks is an allusion to the number 13, a recurring theme in both Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII-2.


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I read that he's still used as a mascot for a track and field event at Mount SAC but that's out in the Walnut/Diamond Bar area, about 100 miles from the Grapevine. Nice to see he lives on elsewhere too!


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The Regional Sales Director will be responsible for identifying and closing new business opportunities with funeral homes within a specific territory. As a member of the Tributes.com sales team, you will develop solid relationships with your funeral home partners and ensure that they are regularly publishing their obituaries on the Tributes.com platform, educating their families about the benefits of the Tributes.com offerings and selling multi-media tributes products.
You will be expected to develop new business and follow lead generation campaigns.
Role / Responsibilities:
- Identify and prospect independent funeral homes, consolidators and corporately owned funeral homes, as well as potential cemeteries.
- Develop, maintain and grow relationships with funeral homes by building and managing a sales territory.
- Develop sales and marketing strategies for use within the territory and that can be used for a national rollout.
Skills/Experience Requirements:
- 3-5 years proven success in Channel Development and Management including recruiting, managing, and training Channel Partners.
- Strong understanding of and/or belief in the Internet.
- Funeral Service knowledge and experience required.
- Ability to work in a start-up, entrepreneurial fast-paced environment preferred.
- Candidate should be proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and customer relationship management software.
- Strong presentation skills, including the ability to present to large groups.
- Must be able to travel up to 50% of the time.
Send your resume along with cover letter and salary history to firstname.lastname@example.com and please indicate the position title in the subject line. Candidates with Funeral Profession experience preferred – no agencies please.
Tributes.com provides an opportunity
to be part of the team during the most exciting and pivotal time in the
company's history. We offer an excellent
compensation and bonus plan along with a full umbrella of benefits, including,
medical, dental, disability, life, 401(k), paid time off and more.


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Monday, May 23, 2011
4 Anti-Fungal Ingredients Your Pooch's Ears Can't Live Without
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I haven't seen this particular remedy before. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Thanks, I've been looking for something we can provide for Mack's ears. We'll give it a try for sure.ReplyDelete
Drools and licks,
Minnie and Mack
Interesting option. I had not heard of it before.ReplyDelete
Don't give mom any ideas!ReplyDelete
Benny & Lily
Wow, that's good to know! Thanks!ReplyDelete
I think some Curly could use this... thanks for the heads up :)ReplyDelete
Awesome post! Momma uses a secret basset ear cleaner formula on our ears that is pretty similar to your recipe. Instead of white vinegar/rubbing alcohol our recipe uses wintergreen alcohol, which leaves our ears smelling minty fresh!ReplyDelete
The CheeseHounds
Interesting! My spotted sister Faith often has ear infections. She's had it SO many times already my hoomies are thinking of removing her ears (not really) because it's so irritating. Faith is basically causing it herself. She has this very very bad habit of licking all her paws everyday till raw & then when she uses her back feet to scratch her ears, her dirty saliva goes into her ears & that's how infection starts! She has extremely sensitive ears so I don't know if it'll be a good idea to apply this solution in them especially with the vingar. What do you think?ReplyDelete
Thanks for that, only we won't tell the human, she's forever cleaning our ears out, we even have to have the hairs plucked from ours or we get infections! xxReplyDelete
Seriously, you do knows my mum can and will blow things up withs dis recipe...and her was a chemistry major...bwhahahahaha!ReplyDelete
Awww lovely Daisy!!! That's some amazing mix - but if it works, it works! Yay! take careReplyDelete
This is so nice of you to tell us how to take care of our beloved dogs ears!! Thank you!!!ReplyDelete
We do clean her hears once a month but have never used vinegar before.
xx, Bambi & Fern
Great post, Mom is going to save this recipe. We rarely have ear issues, but TD has had trouble once or twice. Thanks for sharing well, (thanks from Mom at least).ReplyDelete
Woos ~ Phantom, Thunder, and Ciara
Thanks, we've been looking for something for ears.ReplyDelete
XXXOOO Daisy, Kendra & Bella
Thanks for the tip!ReplyDelete
Maddy and Owen
Thanks for sharing the recipe!ReplyDelete
Its been a long time since I had an ear infection (thankfully) but sure is nice to know a remedy for it!
Kisses and hugs
April, no vets have told me to give her the Devils Claw. I take it for my lower back and it has helped me a lot so I thought I would try it on her and there was deffenitlly difference for her as well. I have not seen any bad but I probably wouldn't see anything until it is too late. But I thought well she is almost 14 years old now so I thought it was worth the cahance. It seems to do nothing but good for both of us.ReplyDelete
I told Tom about your vinegar and he said we have never had a fungal problem with Bambi's ears so we didn't need to use the vinegar. April we work very hard trying to take good care of ourselves and our animals. Happy is somewhere between 18 to 20 years old. We have old animals!!
Thanks for you visit!!
xx, Bambi & Fern
Thanks for the info!ReplyDelete
Great info! Thanks for the tips!ReplyDelete
Your pal, Pip
Ewww, sounds yucky. But I guess if ya want clean ears...ReplyDelete
Happy and safe Memorial Day woofs & hugs!


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haven't done an awful lot to be honest!
i need to concentrate and organise my dissertation!
i've missed out on so much over the past 2 years :(
they just don't shut the fuck up and they ask the most annoying and stupid questions!
I've decided i don't care if my contracts over lap by a month because it's a pretty good deal i didn't want to miss out!
As i'll finally have internet on my phone i'm determined to get my head around Twitter.
this sucks but in a way i am quite excited to go back.
i just wish my student loan was sorted, hmph!
everytime Read All About It comes on the radio at work i die a little inside.
ahhh well, i'll have to go see him in Sheffield in a couple of months!
preferably a girl.
i've seen one that looks pretty sweet but mine doesn't run out for a month! but i'm worried that in a months time this deal won't be available anymore so i'm thinking about getting it now and just overlapping for a month!
someone help me?!
tell me if this is good?!
it suuuuuuuuuucks!
i'm timetabled for every day :(
It is scary man!
i have totally forgot my password as i haven't used it for 5 months.
i want to see if my timetable is online :(
i hope we get some Air Force 1s, Air Max 1s or Air Max 90s in!
we got a right sexy black pair of Air Force 1s in last time but they were only in size 6 which i was gutted about!
i love looking at things i've posted from months ago!
ahhhh memories!
i might have just broke the garage door and i don't see that going down too well.
it looks gorgeous + i get sweet discount ;)
someone come to London with me and spend all day in NikeTown.


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African Inspired peplum shirt.
DIY Heart Cross Stitched Shrit Tutorial from Uber Chic for Cheap here. Thank you Studio DIY for introducing me to this new-to-me blog (check out Studio DIY's 5 things to cross stitch post here). There are three different heart shapes to choose from. I always read the comments before I post a DIY and Uber Chic for Cheap wrote:I doubled the embroidery floss on my needle. If you look at it closely, you can see two strands. I also specifically selected a embroidery floss that looked thick at the store.
DIY Recycled Tie Covered Buttons Shirt Restyle Tutorial from Small Good Things here. Love this for men or women's shirts. You do need a button maker for this - but they are really cheap at craft or fabric stores. Tomorrow is Salvation Army Day where I go to buy last minute tall skinny vases for paper white bulb kits (pebbles, bulbs and vases). I also look for silk ties, coffee table books with thick paper (and I do the smell test), and sterling silver and pewter bowls. Another tie post I really love is the recycled tie ornament I just posted here.
Recycle an Old T-Shirt into a Rosette Throw Pillow. Beautiful and elegant. This would make a nice ring pillow as well. via copycatcrafts
DIY Easy Embroidered Cat Shirt Tutorial from Kittenhood here. Really easy tutorial.
DIY Four Way Draped Tee Shirt Vest Restyle Tutorial from Wobisobi here. You need two tee shirts/different sizes and you can do a long or short sleeve version. Really easy tutorial if you have a sewing machine.
Angela Simmons wearing a handpainted silk shirt from Nigerian label Nkili.
Needed to get out of the house after a few days of being trapped courtesy of Hurricane Sandy, so my biffle and I decided today was the day to try our hand at THRIFTINGGG! Of course I didn't even know where to begin, so we ended up in a Goodwill on the upper west side. We were in and out in 10 minutes. Turns out us and Goodwill don't mesh so well. Nevertheless, we found a shop a few blocks away called Unique Boutique and it was a completely different experience!
We both got stuck in the men's section looking at button downs. He found a few that he really liked, and I found this amazing soft black snap-down (is that a word?) shirt. It fits me like a dress, stopping just above my knees! I tried it on at home with thick gray tights and my trusty boots and fell even more in love with it!
Will be taking pics in it as soon as I wear it..yay!
P.S. Can't wait to explore more thrift stores (:
sweet shirt!
What Would Khaleesi Wear?
DIY t-shirt dress, a tribute to her simple yet elegant style
On a 100% stroke of luck I happened upon this hamburger printed shirt at Walmart. Normally I would never search through the clothing section there (besides for sale jean shorts, of course), but after dinner one night my mom wanted to go there for a pair of work shoes.
My dad pointed out some printed shirts in the men's section, and we found this gem of a shirt hiding behind some boring surfer images. And it was only $7! The downside was that there were only XL and larger sizes left.
But I got it anyway, along with the wolf moon design, with the intention of using them as fabric to make new shirts. :]
Ever since I got my new tattoo I've wanted as much as my wardrobe as possible to have cutouts. ;p This seemed like the perfect opportunity to try out this criss-cross design.
What I ended up doing to the shirt:
- I took it in on the sides and made new, smaller sleeves for it
- Shortened the shirt
- Cut and sewed 16 individual strands to make the criss-cross pattern
The only problem I came across was using my machine to sew the shirt.. I've sewn fabric very similar to this, but for some reason none of my needles worked (I tried both knit needles and small size regular needles) with it and the tension was a little off. Anyone have any advice on sewing medium weight, 100% polyester?
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FORT MYERS, Fl It's Wednesday and that means it's time to fire up the WINK kitchen.
Here today showing us how to make a dressing that not only great for the perfect salad but for almost everything is Greg Stamper from Lee Roy Selmon's.
Asian Vinagrette dressing
1/2 cup rice vinegar
1oz ground ginger
¼ cup soy sauce
½ lb hoisin sauce
1 tsp black pepper
1 tbl Dijon mustard
1 tbl worsteshire
½ tbl Mae ploy
½ lb plum sauce
¼ cup sesame oil
3 cups vegetable oil
1 place all ingredients except oils into mixer and
mix for 3 minutes at medium speed
2 scrape sides of mixer down and mix for 2
more minutes at medium speed
3 turn mixer up in speed and slowly drizzle both
oils into the dressing till emulsified. ( this step
must be done slowly or your dressing will break
and be unusable)
4 place in a container, this dressing will be good
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The original price on it was $248, and there is no logo and no mark of any kind. I did my fair share of Googling "retro-vintage-square-
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The fact that the price is printed 3 times on one sticker throws a big red flag for me.
If you purchased it because you like it, enjoy it. Perhaps the truth about its value is better left a mystery.
aren't there iPhone apps out there that let you "scan" barcodes to find deals on same items? Maybe that might work to find at least a manufacturer.
The text above the bar code also says "aqua" and that lamp is more of an orange color. Maybe the tags got mixed up.
Someone told me that those discount places sometimes inflate the original price and then "reduce" it, all on the same tag, just so someone thinks he or she got a good deal.
I don't see that lamp as vintage or particularly valuable although it is decorative.
Even if the original price in the store was 99$--you got a good deal on it at 20$ so enjoy it!
Yes, but those bar codes only work on manufacturer packaging where the same product gets the same code across the country. This code was applied by Tuesday Morning, and wouldn't give you the manufacturer information unless Tuesday Morning had this lamp online.
Evocative of this:
(search terms: geometric tall lamp)
and this:
(search terms: funky orange lamp)
I think the "orange" aspect of your search may be unnecessarily limiting. Good luck!
Twenty dollars would have been a stretch for me, but I'm happy that you're happy with your new lamp.


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Texas Gov. Rick Perry visited Illinois this week to try to persuade local businesses to move to Texas, one of his selling points was his state's weak worker safety protections.
In a state-by-state comparison sheet on his "Texas Wide Open For Business" website, Perry bragged that Texas's unionization rate is only 5.7 percent, compared to Illinois's 14.6 percent. Texas businesses pay 39 cents per $100 in covered wages for workers' comp insurance. It's $1.10 in Illinois.


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Tattva-vicara: Dear Maharajas, Prabhus and Matajis,
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.
Hari. Hari.
The New Book by TVP.
Trnad api Sunichena.
Re-print, re-edited with 5 new lectures, making a total of 12 divine lectures by His Holiness Gour Govinda Swami.
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40 Valentine's Day gift ideas
Opt for an evergreen statement
Flowers wilt. Why not give your admirer a potted plant or a sapling? Its roots will continue to grow – just like your feelings for each other.
Video: How to surprise her with a Valentine's Day idea
-- By Heidi Suke
Pick up the paintbrush, Picasso
Taking the time to draw or paint your sweetheart a picture shows patience, commitment and playfulness.
Bing: Homemade Valentine's Day gifts
You don't need to be a Renoir to draw something that displays your sentiments.
Craft your own little coupon booklet
How much would you love to get a coupon book from your flame, offering foot rubs, back massages, trips to Starbucks or an hour of hanky panky?
Video: How to have a happy Valentine's Day on a budget
Just be sure that whatever you commit to, you are willing to redeem.
Add a little adventure
Create a scavenger hunt by offering clever clues that lead your babe from one destination to another.
Bing: Scavenger hunt ideas for adults
For example, write a riddle hinting at the restaurant where you'll be dining. Making them guess how the evening will unfold adds an element of intrigue and fun.
Get thee to the grocery store – then put your apron on
Cooking a romantic dinner for two is a meaningful way to share your desire to nourish the mind, body and spirit of your Valentine. It doesn't need to be extravagant – it's the sentiment that counts.
Video: How to make basic recipes perfect for Valentine's Day
Add flourish with flowers, candles and a bottle of bubbly. Bonus points for concocting your beloved's favorite dish.
Bake up a storm, Betty Crocker
Valentine's Day is all about chocolates and sweet treats. Kick that theme up a notch by crafting your pumpkin's favorite cookies or cakes.
Get out of town!
Conspire with your paramour's pals so that she or he thinks they're just going out with their cohorts. But in reality, the friends will deliver them to the airport, where you'll be waiting with tickets to Vegas, Miami, Cancun or, if you have the means, Paris.
Spend an evening at the symphony
Perhaps your pookie has a penchant for the refined. Surprise them with tickets to the opera, symphony or ballet.
Give 'em a whole lotta rub
By which we mean you should treat your sweetheart to a couple's massage. They're sensual, soothing and fun.


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I have never attempted to tank because it all seemed to difficult for lack of a better word, however with the what seems to be lack of tanks I was thinking of trying it so heres some info on me.
My latency goes from 80s to around 700 and usually settles in the 1-200 range is this okay for a tank? Also Im a clicker Ive tried but I just never seemed to get the hang of using keyboard to attack except for my healer I do it with minimal mouse clicking, how much will this affect me? I was always afraid to try healing until I bit the bullet and tried it now I love it albeit I havent done any cata dungeons yet but is tanking as hard and stressful as it seems? Finally if I do decide to do it what are some good sites that go into more detail that are class specific so I know before hand what spells to use and such?
Tanks generally use a combination of clicking and keybinds to tank. You should probably have your taunts and such keybound, at the very least, because you're going to have to click on the mob that's attacking your healer, and then you have to move it down to your action bar and click your Taunt. That's a lot of time that the mob can be whacking on your healer, no matter how fast you are at clicking. Aside from that, you can probably get away with clicking for most other things, although keybindings are much faster.


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As a Director you'll share completely in the success of your studio, and have full authority to run it as your own business unit—with unlimited potential. At the same time, you'll have access to all of the resources Sourcebits provides as a global company backed by Sequoia Capital and IDG Ventures. Sourcebits gives an unprecedented level of support and trust to Studio Directors, and Directors return that trust by delivering spectacular service and results for their clients.
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The UI Design Behind Apple's Latest Releases
Closely following the rumors and reports, this Tuesday Apple released a new revision of the iPhone, as well as branching into a completely new product category: the Apple Watch. There are many interesting aspects related to these devices, however in this blog post I'd like to focus on characteristics relevant to UI designers and technology in general.
iPhone 6
The New, Cheeky Retina
The new iPhones come with displays bigger than the current generation: 4.7 and 5.5 inches respectively. iPhone 6 has a resolution of 750 x 1334 at 326 dpi, and iPhone 6 Plus comes with full 1080p frame resolution of 1920 x 1080 at an 401 ppi density. And as it turns out, the iPhone 6 Plus screen is actually hardware downsampled from internally rendered resolution of 1242 x 2208. What does it mean to us, fellow designers? Put simply, the desire to throw Photoshop out of the window should grow even stronger. These two new screens force new and different UI element sizes, different proportions, different layout compositions, and in the case of iPhone 6 Plus — the new @3x asset size together. On top of that, hardware resampling means we will never see 1px wide lines, ever again. As designers, we need to be able to project our work on the screen it is destined to live at, and as of today there is very little hardware and software capable of helping us with that.
With the advent of the Auto-Layout concept in iOS7, further strengthened by the flexible nature of the new iPhone displays, Adobe Photoshop is quickly becoming more obsolete than ever. It's going to be hard to work with these new resolutions, and very difficult to imagine how your designs should work on the device, even if you project them live using tools such as Skala Preview, XScope or LiveView. On top of that, computer hardware requirements to process multi-layered designs at such high resolutions are increasing. We saw it for the first time with retina iPad resolution: 1536 x 2048 has been difficult to swallow by our computers.
Auto Layouts and Auto Design
The concept of a flexible, dynamically adjusting and resolution-independent UI layout was introduced with iOS7. Apple's Interface Builder has been available for many years before that, and provided similar functionality, but never before has Apple put so much pressure on encouraging developers to exclusively use Auto Layouts.
The beautiful thing about Auto Layouts is that it takes away all the frustration that comes from working with classical design apps: the constraints of raster graphics, the amount of time wasted on re-adjusting things to faulty pixel grids, the nightmare of defining typography rules, performance inefficiencies, workflow fundamentally inappropriate to app UI design…the list goes on. Auto Layouts takes all of that away by a) providing an extremely strong foundation of iOS design language, applied to UI building process in real time and b) letting developers specify additional strong, logical rules to which the interface will adhere.
With iPhone 6 Plus and iOS 8, we need to start thinking about split views in landscape orientation, a paradigm that was once available only on the iPad and now makes it way to the iPhone. A smaller and more dense screen, different usage contexts and different UI element sizes essentially constitute a completely new design challenge. How to use the split view effectively? What are the creative ways of splitting information into two panes on a phone? How to hierarchize the content, so we stay within the constraints of Fitt's Law? Auto Layouts help resolve the majority of such problems, or at least provide viable potential solutions.
Let's be clear though: it's not the ultimate design tool yet. Usefulness of Auto Layout is limited to a specific area, one which luckily for us happens to be where classical design apps fail pretty miserably. However, as designers, we still need to have the additional creative power of Photoshop, Sketch or Fireworks, just to be able to experiment and go beyond what iOS design language provides. There are two additional techniques I can recommend in order to get a better feel for your work:
- Attain a mindset where singular pixels, pixel-perfect accuracy and microscopic details don't matter anymore. Your canvas is much larger and more dense, and your users don't see your pixels anymore. Pay more attention to typography and interesting layouts; spend more time creating behaviors and responses to user actions; obsess over speed and transformation curves.
- Prototype the hell out of it. Grab Keynote, make your interactions, rotate the file with this sweet script (warning: OS X Yosemite only!), shove it onto your brand new iPhone 6 and experience your design right away, without the necessary overhead and complexity of engineering. Use Quartz Composer, Framer.js, or whatever floats your boat, as long as you understand that design is realized in motion, not amongst static pixels.
One of the most interesting features of the new iPhones is a proof that Apple hit the wall of usability, and conceded to a slightly shady compromise. Both iPhone 6 models clearly fail to adhere to Fitt's Law and Reachability attempts to fix that. Double-tap the home button and the screen contents either shrinks or moves down within the reach of user's thumb. It doesn't sound very elegant in theory, but realistically, what else can be done with such a big screen, and the functional "one-finger-operation" requirement?
Having such large screens, which constitutes a new usage context, should provoke innovative design solutions. iOS has been sticking to the paradigm of keeping linear navigational elements at the top of the screens since version one. With iPhone 6, that doesn't make any sense anymore. That paradigm forced the introduction of Reachability, which feels like a stop-gap solution Apple shouldn't be proud of. What else can be done then? Be creative, consider your thumb and figure out what are the other ways of navigating through apps. Apple introduced "swipe-to-go-back" in iOS7 purely due to anticipated usability problems with iPhone 6. And even third-party developers are exploring new solutions — I suggest you check out how Pocket resolves navigating out of an article.
Apple Watch
Apple Watch is an interesting little device. It feels a bit like a digital parasite: heteronomous, dependent on tethering data, content and even sensor readings from its parent iPhone. It's definitely a genius business tactic, where Apple can tighten the ecosystem loop and lock users down to solutions dependent on each other in more ways. Along with that, coupling with the power of the parent iPhone makes this tiny device much smarter and more powerful. But the Apple Watch is no slouch, it does have its own sensors and cool capabilities too.
As of today, we know that Apple Watch comes with Bluetooth 4.0 LE, NFC and a heart rate sensor. Judging from Apple's past practices with Bluetooth, its support for third party developers will be severely limited. Basically developers will be able to use it to send notifications and/or data to WatchKit apps. We shouldn't have high hopes for extensive pairing and independent data exchange capabilities.
An interesting tidbit about Bluetooth: it seems that Apple is working on a wireless BT headset, focused on fitness applications. We can read on the Apple Watch pages:
Music. Control the music on your iPhone without taking it out of your pocket. And when you leave iPhone at home to go for a jog, listen to music directly on Apple Watch.
There is no headphone port on the watch, so we'll look forward to seeing how Apple sorts that out.
Moving along, we have the long-awaited Near Field Communications module. Originally designed to support the Apple Pay platform, NFC can be used in a myriad of other, amazing ways. It enables short-range communication and data exchange between watches, supported phones, sensors and anything else that conforms to the NFC standard. According to the internet rumor mill, there will be an API available for third party developers on day one!
Activity Sensors
Data from the heart rate sensor and accelerometer will be made available through the HealthKit platform. Apple showed us how heartbeat data can be used to initiate a very intimate kind of communication — users can simply send their heartbeat animation to another user. It sounds very simple, but I want to believe that its effect on how people communicate will be substantial, by leading us to invent even more new ways of personal, deep information and emotional exchange.
Third party developers get access to Apple Watch's screen in three ways: Glimpses, WatchKit apps and interactive notifications.
A Glimpse is a widget-like panel, which users access by swiping up on the screen, from anywhere in the UI, a bit like Dashboard on OS X. A Glimpse is designed to provide an essential piece of functionality: think closing garage doors, turning off lights or adjusting thermostat. The level of accessibility this setup provides is very exciting: just think how much more you will be able to do in your e-connected home using a tiny bit of hardware strapped to your wrist.
Apps are the miniature versions of mobile apps, built using the WatchKit SDK. We saw a pretty good representation of those during Keynote: remember the Twitter app? Users can access the timeline, read tweets, retweet, favorite, and more. It is up to designers and developers to decide how much functionality they find appropriate to fit onto the watch. To a designer especially, this is a brand new challenge: how to fit a useful and actionable amount of data on such a small screen, with such a limited interaction model? I for one am very excited about the perspective of exercising an enormous amount of self-discipline and creativity in order to design short, sensible and meaningful pieces of software on the Apple Watch.
Interactive Notifications
Interactive notifications arrive onto the Apple Watch straight from iOS8. Think of regular banner notifications, sliding down from the top of the screen, and add a piece of interactivity to them: 2-3 buttons providing actions which are the most appropriate in the specific moment of perceiving a notification. Less technological and more of a design innovation, this feature still results in a massive convenience increase. Users will be able to deal with messages, emails, calendar invitations, Facebook notifications, in a meaningful, and most importantly, much faster and convenient way. I think designers will have a lot of fun work to do in figuring out which actions are the most important, asking questions like, out of ten possible responses to this piece of content, which is the one used or desired the most? I'm looking forward to an increased focus on user testing to gain such knowledge, as well as heated feature brainstorming sessions.
Aside from technical aspects of the new product, I think it's worth noting how the Apple Watch is presented to the public, and what kind of effort went into creating it. Let's focus on tiny details.
Did you notice how many videos of the watch Apple made? Did you notice how each shot of the watch is the definition of absolute perfection of form, texture, play of light and shadow? Did you synchronize your desire to learn more with the deliberately slow pacing of the shots, macro close-ups showing just the juiciest, most beautiful details? These videos are so perfect that they are almost unnatural. Formally, these videos are nothing like we have ever seen before. Even the most luxurious car brands, known for immense advertising budgets, don't come close to the visual perfection of Apple's Watch videos. Apple knew this would just be a teaser and they poured a lot of sweat into creating pieces that would leave the audience excited and clamoring for more, for months until the release. For designers, it's a huge piece of inspiration in how to use visuals to sell the product, through the right combination of motion progression, shot composition, pacing, contrasts and color palettes.
Speaking of design effort, I'd like to focus on one aspect: typography. The typeface used on the Apple Watch is not Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Chicago, Lucinda Grande, and definitely not Myriad. What's going on? Has Apple just added a new typeface to their catalog? Looks like it! According to The Verge, Apple designed a completely new typeface exclusively for the Apple Watch, with the overarching goal of maximizing legibility.
To me, the typeface that Apple designed is yet another homage to the Swiss school of design. As the watch itself inspires itself with years of development of Swiss horology, I see this typeface as a descendant of the ideals of typefaces such as Akzidenz and Univers, and maybe a trace of DIN 1451 too. I think Apple succeeded in paying respects and drawing the best qualities from the pillars of Swiss and German typography, while gaining the desired level of legibility at the same time. I would like to think that Jonathan Ive reached to the revered roots of typography instead of blatantly copying from Google's Roboto font, according to some sources.
Final Words
Even though the relentless rumor machine spoiled the surprise, I still think what Apple released on Tuesday is very significant. Apple is entering new venues: mobile payments, wearables, fitness and health. Apart from that, they are shifting focus in their existing lines of business: not many noticed, but those who did mourned the disappearance of the iPod Classic from the Apple Store. This is significant, because iPod Classic was the last device using Apple's iconic click wheel interface. Apple is not afraid to abandon previously proven solutions to advance into new product lines. As a designer, I welcome the opportunity to work with new platforms, new hardware capabilities, and finally the new restrictions imposed by technology as well as newly generated user expectations.
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The SMAC Future: Social, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud
Just a quick glance around our tablet-and-smartphone immersed world will confirm the ubiquity of mobile technology. The statistics below show how integral mobile has become to daily life, as well as a driving force in our economy.
- By 2017, the mobile app market is expected to generate revenues of $77 billion
- Worldwide, there were 1.2 billion smartphone shipments in 2014
- Smartphones make up 63.1% of the global mobile market
Businesses are taking note, and making major investments in the future of technology. The four most impactful, emerging trends are Social, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud, or SMAC. Spurred on by powerful evidence and an always-increasing user base, it's no wonder adopting and improving SMAC has become a top priority for businesses. This Forbes article expands upon the definitions and uses of the individual components of SMAC. In summary:
Social: Known for being "...the easiest to understand and perhaps the hardest to manage and control," social media is changing the way businesses market and present their brands and brand messaging, and how consumers interact with that messaging.
Mobile: Mobile means more "...than a smartphone connected to the web. It involves data mobility and the idea of safe and secure data transfer any time, any place, on any device."
Analytics: "This torrent of new data offers an opportunity to gain unprecedented insight and to quickly test new ideas...it also provides the power to fundamentally change business operations."
Cloud: With so many different kinds of cloud computing, such as public, private and hybrid, delivering platform, infrastructure and SaaS, to name a few, cloud is generally the least understood of the four.
Collectively, SMAC is estimated to generate revenue from between $70 - $200 billion over the next three years. Clearly, SMAC is taking the future by storm, and Sourcebits is ready to help your business build its social, mobile, analytics and cloud solutions. Have questions on how your business can more effectively implement SMAC?
Mobile App Development: Exploring Costs & Finding the Right Team For You
You've got a brilliant app idea, but you might be clueless where to go from there. When it's time to get your mobile application built, companies have two choices:
Recruit and hire an internal team.
Find a mobile development company.
While building your own team may appeal to you (since your app is your baby, after all, and you want it to be perfect) there are several issues with creating an internal team. For example, when you're searching for the right candidate, recruiting can take a long time, weeks or sometimes even months. And don't forget hiring costs, such as a recruiter's fees or relocation expenses, which all together can quickly add up. Even when you do finally find that someone who seems perfect for the role, you may discover they may not be the right long-term fit. For more specific numbers and an in-depth analysis of building your own team versus hiring a mobile development firm, check out our slideshow.
If after reviewing the pros and cons list, you've decided going with an outside company is what's right for you, congratulations! Your app is one step closer to success! This is an especially good decision if you meet any of the criteria below:
A) You don't know how to bring your app idea into reality
B) You've created a minimum viable product but now it's time to put the "big app pants" on
C) You need a lot of help and you need it fast
D) You can't or don't want to hire internal employees
But with so many factors to consider and options to choose from when it comes to an external development company, where do you even start? You know you don't want to sacrifice quality to make some cookie-cutter app.
In the second part of the slideshow, we'll enlighten you on the six steps to finding the right development team from start to finish, such as setting a ballpark budget, determining logistics, and hiring "ninjas". Scroll through for more details.
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Parallel play
Parallel play is a form of play in which children play adjacent to each other, but do not try to influence one another's behavior. Children usually play alone during parallel play but are interested in what other children are doing. This usually occurs after the first birthday.[1] It usually involves two or more children in the same room who are interested in the same toy, each seeing the toy as their own. The children do not play together, but alongside each other simply because they are in the same room. Parallel play is usually first observed in children aged 2–3.[2] An observer will notice that the children occasionally see what the others are doing and then modify their play accordingly. The older the children are, the less frequently they engage in this type of play. However, even older preschool children engage in parallel play, an enduring and frequent activity over the preschool years. Additionally, it is sometimes observed in older children when playing video games, particularly hand-held games, as well as while engaged in fine-motor play such as drawing and coloring.[citation needed] In education, parallel play also describes activities where students are divided into pairs or small groups and work on the same activity simultaneously. This gives all students equal opportunity for active involvement and reduces exposure – since all students are playing, none are watching.
Mildred Parten was one of the first to study peer sociability among 2 to 5-year-olds in 1932. Parten noticed a dramatic rise of interactive play with age and concluded that social development includes three stages.[3] Parallel play is the first of three stages of play observed in young children. The other two stages include simple social play (playing and sharing together), and finally cooperative play (different complementary roles; shared purpose). Research indicates that these forms of play emerge in the order suggested by Parten, but they do not form a developmental sequence in which later-appearing ones replace earlier ones. All types coexist during the preschool years.[4]
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Parallel play helps children begin language development and create social relationships. It can also assist with gross and fine motor skills, through the child's own individualized play. Parallel play can increase confidence because children are learning to play near others. Children can observe one another and learn to use new skills from playing alongside others. Eventually, it will lead to social development where the child will form relationships with others during play. Parallel play can be useful in encouraging expression of a child's feelings through their own individualized play. The child will increasingly learn to share and become aware of others emotions, as well as learn cause and effect through trial and error of adjusting and solving problems in play.
- ^ Kail, R.V., & Cavaunaugh, J.C. (2007) Human Development: A Life-Span View (5th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
- ^ Santrock, John (1999). Life-Span Development. New York: McGraw Hill, Inc. ISBN 0-697-36439-9.
- ^ Vasta, Ross (1998). Child Psychology:The Modern Science. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 978-0471192213.
- ^ Berk, Laura (2004). Development of the Life-Span. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. ISBN 0-205-39157-5.


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When they choose to reveal themselves, the spirits have always shown a marked preference for young women — Joan of Arc, Teresa of Ávila, Hildegard, Mirabai, Rabia al Basri. When they chose 17-year-old Barbara Ehrenreich, they could never have guessed at her violent dismay. For this scientist in the making, these mystical visions were an unbearable offense, an affront to her carefully ordered mind. She went up a mountain with a boy. He was looking for dynamite, but she got blasted apart.
She never spoke or wrote about what she saw that day, save for entries in a journal she kept from 1956 to 1966. In 2001, preparing to send her papers to a university library, she found the journal again and took up the questions her younger self couldn't answer: What did she see on the mountain? Could there be a rational explanation? She brings her journalistic experience and instincts to the investigation, treating the journal like a primary source.
"Living With a Wild God" makes for pleasantly prickly reading. Ehrenreich is intrigued by her questions, but also exasperated and more than a little embarrassed. After all, she's Barbara Ehrenreich, she'll have you know, an atheist and a journalist, the author of polemics against self-soothing delusions like positive thinking. She's our professional skeptic, our slayer of platitudes. Not the sort of woman who would embark on anything so self-indulgent as a memoir, let alone babble on about mystical experiences. "I had — and still have — no inclination to try to patch this all together into a single story. I will never write an autobiography, nor am I sure, after all these years, that there is even one coherent 'self' or 'voice' to serve as narrator," she writes in the foreword. And then, of course, she proceeds to do exactly that over the course of the next 200 pages. She strings together her visions on the mountain, the chaos of her childhood, her studies in science and her antiwar activism into a single story — a search for truth, she says — telling it in her "sternly objective reporter" voice, the voice she's cultivated, the voice we know.
Born out of a fundamental quarrel with oneself — What did I see that day? What can I believe? — the book is lively with inconsistencies, pledges broken, courses changed. The tangle of contradictions give it a humming, querulous energy. And Ehrenreich becomes an unreliable narrator par excellence, capable of sounding as sepulchral and unhinged as Poe. She explains her decision to go to college in Oregon instead of California with the mournful "Outbreaks of sunshine were unnatural and disturbing." For all her gestures at journalistic objectivity and the lovely science writing (she can describe a chain of hydrogen bonds so beautifully it glitters like jewelry), the story creeps into the gothic as Ehrenreich struggles to conceal her visions from the world. "Try inserting an account of a mystical experience into a conversation and you'll likely get the same response you would if you confided that you had been the victim of an alien abduction." She is her own madwoman in the attic.


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Finding Beretania
The people, businesses, landmarks, history and food that make this street such an integral part of Honolulu's cityscape.
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Asian Grocery
You've probably already enjoyed Asian Grocery's wares, even if you've never set foot in its crowded interior: shelves packed with cans and jars, boxes against the wall filled with unfamiliar goodies. "We supply most Thai and Vietnamese restaurants," says Ravi Winter, the store's manager. It's worth making the trip yourself, though. The store has been importing its products directly from Asia since 1976, guaranteeing that you are getting the real deal. "A lot of companies take a certain spice or sauce and adapt it for Western tastes," Winter says. "Our seasonings are authentic, just like they would taste in their home countries." 1319 S. Beretania St., 593-8440.
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Occidental Life Insurance Co.
What is that thing? An aircraft control tower? People have been wondering since 1967, when the Occidental Life Insurance Co. added a third story and the iconic cantilevered office to its building. The original Arizona sandstone-covered building, designed by Lemmon & Freeth, was built in 1951. And while the cantilevered section resembles something you'd see at the airport, it's just an office and boardroom for the insurance company; no need to worry about jets landing on Beretania. 1163 S. Beretania St.
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Mercado de la Raza
Sometimes, fast-food tacos just don't do it. When you want real Mexican flavors, Mercado de la Raza (The People's Market), Martha Sanchez' Latin American grocery store, is the place to go. She has been selling exotic spices and other unique products for 14 years. Her tamales, made only twice a month, are popular, as well as her Peruvian produce, which you can't find anywhere else. For a quick snack, pick up some salsa or guacamole, which she makes herself with fresh ingredients. "People just want authentic ingredients," Sanchez says. "Chefs like coming here because they know they're getting the real thing." 1315 S. Beretania St., 593-2226.
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Beretania Firsts:
1. The first traffic light in Honolulu was erected at the intersection of Nuuanu Avenue and Beretania Street on February 19, 1936.
2. Frozen food first arrived in Hawaii in 1938, when Rawley's Ice Cream on South Beretania Street received a shipment of Birdseye products.
3. Oahu's first major bridge was most likely the one that carries North Beretania Street across Nuuanu Stream. It cost $1,200 to build in 1840, which would be $21,915 today. The original bridge was destroyed by a flood seven years later.4. In 1847, Honolulu's first water supply pipe was built, linking a kalo field on Beretania to the wharf at Nuuanu Avenue.
5. Hawaii's first two-way escalator began transporting weary shoppers in June 1947, when Sears, Roebuck and Co. opened the second floor of its Beretania St. department store.
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While cats don't need pedicures, they do need their nails trimmed, and maybe an occasional bath. As any cat owner knows, both can be prickly tasks. Nick Kedl, a pet groomer at Groom & Go, has discovered the secret to washing a feline without the fury. "What you have to do is pick them up by the back of their necks. That relaxes them," he says. If you're going on a vacation, you can also check out Groom & Go's boarding service. And it's not just for cats and dogs. "Right now we have parakeets and rats," he says. 1351 S. Beretania St., 596-4575.