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Starting January 1, California drivers will be banned from sending, writing or reading messages on electronic devices. Darn Blackberry! Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation Wednesday that imposes a $20 fine for a first offense of texting while driving and a $50 fine for any subsequent violation. Schwarzenegger said he was "happy to sign" the prohibition against text messaging, which surveys show is a common problem. "Banning electronic text messaging while driving will keep drivers' hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road, making our roadways a safer place for all Californians," he said.


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Playing with Google Chart API and PyGoogleChart this afternoon after reading the announcement last week.
A couple things to think about when using the API:
- You will want to use a wrapper - Take one look at the link that generated the above graphic, and you'll quickly see that this is not meant for humans. Maybe write your own wrapper around the bits that you are using. Maybe use one like PyGoogleChart.
- It's not just for web apps - Charts can be cached for later use using curl or equivilent. NB: IANAL so review the Terms of Service and usage policy and make your own decision.
- You will have to normalize your data - The chart api docs talk quite a bit about reducing number of elements in your datasets. Another important thing to think about is the range. For instance if I wanted to chart the last few days closing values for the CAC 40 Index which varies from 5,547.21 to 5,750.92. I would have to first normalize the values to something under 4096 for Extended Encoding, under 100 for Text encoding and less than 62 for Simple Encoding. Then the y-axis labels would have to be adjusted to reflect the normalization. Example
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Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
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- Calories: 977
- Fat: 40g
- Saturated fat: 24g
- Protein: 12g
- Carbohydrate: 145g
- Fiber: 1g
- Cholesterol: 221mg
- Sodium: 620mg
- Cake:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon allspice
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 16 tablespoons (2 sticks) unsalted butter
- 2 cups packed light brown sugar
- 4 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup whole milk, at room temperature
- 1 cup sour cream, at room temperature
- Frosting:
- 16 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 5 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1. Preheat oven to 350ºF. Grease 3 9-inch round cake pans, line bottoms with parchment paper and grease parchment.
- 2. Make cake: Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer on medium speed, cream butter and brown sugar until fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time. Stir together milk and sour cream. Beat half of flour mixture into butter mixture until just combined, then stir in sour cream mixture. Stir in remaining flour mixture until just combined; do not overmix. Divide batter among pans and bake until a toothpick inserted in center of a cake comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Cool pans on wire racks for 10 minutes, then turn cakes out and cool completely.
- 3. Make frosting: Beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Slowly add confectioners' sugar, beating until well combined and smooth. Beat in vanilla. If frosting is too soft, set it in refrigerator for 15 to 20 minutes to firm up, then beat it again before icing cake.
- 4. Assemble cake: Place 1 cake layer on a serving platter and spread with frosting. Add second layer and spread with more frosting. Top with third cake layer. Frost top and sides of cake. Chill approximately 2 hours before serving.
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Hoppop Bato Baby Bathtub
We've seen the last of our baby bathtub and we're glad of it. It did it's job but it wasn't pretty to look at. We only wish this was around when we needed it.
The Hoppop Bato is one stylish baby tub. From what we understand, the actual tub insert is removable from the colored outside shell (available in blue, lime green and fuchsia). The air between the tub insert and the outside shell acts as an insulator keeping bath water warmer longer. You can now buy it here in the U.S. here and elsewhere.
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$50 seems a bit steep. What happened to using the kitchen sink?
But it *is* a super cute tub and I guess the outer shell could be used for toy storage or something once the tub is outgrown.
I totally would have bought that if it would have been available before my daughter was born. I, like you, am so so happy to get rid of the baby tub.
cute looking, but too pricey for a baby tub. even in smaller homes and most apartments the baby tub isn't something one leaves out on display anyway.
I vote: go with a cheaper baby tub (or kitchen sink) for bathing.
Don't think I've ever had a problem with the bath water not staying warm enough for the duration of my baby's bath???
its too cold to bathe our infant in the kitchen. we use the bathroom heater to warm the room first. so kitchen sink isnt an option for us. i love this idea as it could be used as water play or swim time durring the summer. then toss the toys in once they out grow it. unfortunatly its a little large for any counter space in our house...perhaps i could put it into the existing tub??!?!?
bath hammock... like 7 bucks at walmart and so slim its easy to store.
Looks great, but we're getting by so far with the sink and the big tub/shower. She just has to coordinate with mommy!
It is gorgeous but I agree with most of the other comments about the steep price. Our 8 month old has been enjoying the inflatable Duck tub from Munchkin for the past 3 months. Great buy from Target. I've since bought two others for baby shower presents!
Aw, I love that. FIfty dollars is a bit pricey, but my almost-four-month-old *loves* his bath and will happily stay in the water as long as we let him, so we give him one every night, followed by a last bottle and bed. We've been using the standard blue plastic baby tub placed into the adult tub (he's a kicker). We can't bathe him in the kitchen sink because our house is large and drafty and it's just too cold. But I don't think that tub would fit in our bathroom and I like the idea of placing a baby tub in the larger tub; both parents and my stepson can help out. We're going to buy the Munchkin duck tub soon.
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But Parker, dressed in a prim brown cardigan and a thin patterned dress for her part as a dean of students, seemed unfazed by the temperature as she filmed a scene outside one of the stately brick buildings.
"Relative to what I wore for all those years, this is like a snowsuit," she joked, referring to the skimpy ensembles she used to don to prance through the streets of Manhattan as "Sex and the City's" Carrie Bradshaw.
Besides, even if she weren't accustomed to the frosty climate, Parker is ready to endure a little discomfort. After taking a year off in the wake of the HBO show's six-season run, the 40-year-old has returned to a full schedule of acting projects — and this time, she's seeking out parts that are decidedly different from the irrepressible romance-seeking columnist with whom she is most closely identified.
"It's kind of a running theme of mine, but I prefer terror to what is comfortable and often more lucrative," Parker said, seated in a small student lounge during a break between shots.
In the last 12 months, she undertook an eclectic trio of roles: Along with Sarah Daniels, the guilt-ridden dean wrestling with her own prejudices in the yet-to-be-released "Spinning Into Butter," she has played an uptight fiancée in the holiday season release "The Family Stone" and a pragmatic girlfriend-for-hire in "Failure to Launch," a romantic comedy costarring Matthew McConaughey that opens in theaters March 10.
Her friends joked that it was her "trilogy year," but for Parker it was more than a chance to sample different personas. After three decades of acting, she finds herself at a crucial juncture in her career. She's better known than ever (the TBS reruns of "Sex and the City" alone make her an ever-present figure on the small screen), but also ready to move beyond the show that helped secure her place in pop culture.
"I had been really happily cloistered for so long on the set of 'Sex and the City,' which was one of the reasons I felt it was necessary for me to leave — I could have stayed there forever," she said. "It became very clear to me that that was probably the right time to maybe not be so comfortable."
After leaving the series, Parker faced a problem shared by many successful television actors: that many in the public now view her as intricately bound up with the character she played for so long. Colleagues say she has dealt with that quandary in a particularly thoughtful manner.
"A lot of people coming off of television shows are either still cashing in on that character or desperately determined to prove they can violate that persona," said Michael London, who produced "The Family Stone" and is now working with Parker on a film adaptation of the novel "Love Walked In."
"She knows that Carrie Bradshaw is always going to be part of her, but she is very conscious of finding ways to move on and do different things without feeling like she's reacting against Carrie Bradshaw," London said. "That's a really wonderful gift."
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IN person, Parker is warm, unfailingly polite — she greeted each startled student in the lounge with a handshake, asking, "Hi, how do you do?" — and remarkably willing to poke fun at her own idiosyncrasies.
She stills carts around her "Sex and the City" set coat, the hip-length, puffy white down parka she wore between takes during long days of shooting in New York. In the pocket, she keeps her lines from the last episode, along with cough drops she squirreled away when she was in Paris filming the final scenes.
Last year she took the parka with her to every new film — even to New Orleans, where she shot "Failure to Launch" during the hot and humid summer months.
"I have certain crazy rituals in my life that I just cling to because, foolishly, I think they're going to protect me from any sadness, disappointment," she said, grinning at her melodramatic tone. "It just makes me feel some sort of comfort and safety like if all else fails, this was a moment where someone cared and someone loved me and I felt all right about my work."
It was Parker herself — who not only starred in but co-executive-produced the HBO show — who made the decision with executive producer Michael Patrick King to end the series, feeling that the characters' stories were coming to a natural conclusion. But it took some time to move on.
The backyard of the West Village brownstone she shares with her husband, Matthew Broderick, and their 3-year-old, James Wilkie, actually abuts the backyard of the building that figured in the show as Carrie's Upper East Side apartment.


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Step by Step: Simple Ways to Start Creating Your Own Happiness at Home
There's nothing better after a hard day than coming home to a place where you can begin to wash off some of the day's struggles. It's one of the only places we have in our lives that we get to make work specifically for us. You may not live in your perfect dream home now, but there are always ways to create happiness no matter where you live.
Keep It Clean: Coming home to a clean house is key. If you walk in the door to a giant mess, it just creates more stress. Try to get into a routine of tidying up ten minutes a day to keep things looking good for sanity's sake. Here are some tips and tricks to get you on your way:
- Start 2012 Off Clean: Best Cleaning Tips for a New Year
- How To Clean Your House in 20 Minutes a Day for 30 Days
Stay Organized: Knowing you can find something when you need it without wasting time is another way to create a sense of calm and peace in your home.
- Master Organizing Tips from Justin Klosky
- How to Be Your Own Professional Organizer: 10 Top Tips from the Pros
Add Living Things: Make sure you have plants and flowers around your house. They make your house cozier, healthier and happier. That sounds like a win-win to me.
Give Yourself A Break: With all the info and images of new ideas and beautiful spaces we are bombarded with, it's so easy to get down on what you have. Try not to let everyone else's world get in the way and make you feel overwhelmed. There's nothing wrong with learning, striving and improving, just do it on your terms and with a sense of calm and a positive outlook on change.
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Can I tell that it is always a great pleasure to read AT? It is quite like a bible, telling me what to do, what to think and then... Waow! I can be the happiest person in my house. OK, I exagerate a little, but I now nead to start at the bottom: cleaning my house. If you say the rest follows, I believe you!
Where can I get one those "hello" signs? Does anyone know?
I think the gratitude list is the most important thing on your list.
Alicia, google says here: http://ohdier.bigcartel.com/category/wooden-sign
What a beautiful post. Thank you.
Beautiful! Nothing like a clean place and mindfulness to keep ya' happy.
I have a different take on adding living things: pets! Nothing makes me happier than coming home to my two kitties.
JMooney - agreed. I have a bearded dragon who lives in a spotless terrarium. For her health, I must keep it clean and orderly (and I do). It's a reminder that my "terrarium" needs to be just as clean and orderly for my (physical and mental) health too. Every evening, I walk in my door, park my keys on the key rack where they belong and head into my bedroom to say hello to her before I do anything else. This reminds me to put stuff away, wipe counters and keep clutter to a minimum. She never has to say a word (being that she can't speak, this is a good thing). Pets are the best at making a home happy and at reminding us to keep our space clean.
Wonderful. But, you had me at the flamingo..
JMooney, totally agree. I do miss pets. Can't have 'em in this rental.
This post is spot on about coming home to a clean house being a good feeling!! On the weekends, before we go out for errands, I always pop in some laundry, do up the morning dishes, and empty the garbage. We come in through the kitchen...overflowing trashcan and dishes are a definite downer coming through the door.
Just seeing that hello sign in the living room above makes me feel happy! Good post and oh so true....
Love this post! So helpful! And it puts my mind on a positive path. I am looking forward to reading through all the links and incorporating some new ideas! A Huge THANK YOU goes to AT & Alysha for pulling all this info together.
Thank you Miika!!!
I've been bad about comparing our townhouse to the luscious photos here on Apartment Therapy and elsewhere.
During one grumble session, my husband pointed out that any third world person would consider our 3 bedroom, 3 bath place with attached garage and functioning dishwasher a mansion.
He was right and since then I've been looking at ways to make our "mansion" a more comfy home.
Hi alicia, I got it on Etsy a few years ago.
You can find similar less expensive ones on Etsy too :)
Blissous's husband makes a fair point. So much of the world is not just poor, but wretchedly poor. Someone living in a room with just a cot and a micro or hotplate has it far better than many. Appreciate what you have and still want to make it even better.
Thank you so much for this post. it's I think inspirational, and brings a smile to my face by reading all the positive comments. I'm grateful for my small condo I feel blessed to own it and I love what I've done with it as small as it is. AT has helped me learn how to furnish and decorate it. I feel happy to come home #1 my kitties are waiting for me and because its so cozy my apartment,but you are right
I'm happier when I walk in and find there are no dirty dishes on the sink.
Alicia, they have those signs at Ross and Marshalls for about $9.00
they have different ones like hello,smile etc.
Thank you so much for this post
I just bought one on etsy last week. See the link below. It was very inexpensive ($7) and came unfinished, so i just used spray primer and craft paint. It came out perfect for my son's room, and to hang it on the wall, I just used command strips:) I hope this helps!
I think it's also really important to keep in mind that it isn't just third world residents who might think of it as a mansion! There are many people in the US who are homeless or living with 5-6 people in a 1 bedroom place and one missed paycheck away from homelessness. There are families with five kids in one bedroom and the parents and grandparents in the next in every single city and rural area in the US. I think we sometimes assume most people in the US live like us or better, but that really isn't the case.
These are great tips. I, like other commenters, would add be grateful, and make sure that your home is filled on a regular basis with people that you love!
Whoops, I just saw the very last link in the OP which does in fact mention gratitude. So plus one for that. :)
I wish I could keep my house clean with just 10mins a day. =/
Yes to the living things! I just added an adorable little ruffled African violet to my office window and it always makes my day. It adds life to my little closet of an office.
And also the clean. I've been trying to be more disciplined about putting things away and cleaning up after myself and not procrastinating. It's not perfect yet, but I'm trying. ;)
What a great reminder! I'm the messy one in our family. I know this sounds very wifey, but it finally dawned on me that nothing makes my husband (who loves cleanliness and loves to clean) happier than to come home to a clean home. So I always send a text asking for his ETA and then the kids and I do our round up of cleaning. It gets the kids do a chore and gets me too!
Great post! For me a clean home makes all the difference. I feel so much more peaceful and at ease when my house is clean and orderly. An orderly house motivates me to bring order to other areas of my life as well.
There is some great information in this article! I do think that being organized helps keep things clean because everything has a place to call home. I think giving ourselves a break is important too! There is a lot to be said about home being where the heart is - if you make your space into a place you can relax, even if it's not where you always thought you'd be, then you're learning to adapt so that when you get to where you want to be you'll already have great ideas about how you want it set up!
I recently redecorated several rooms in my home throwing out a lot of unused and unnecessary junk. Clearing out all that clutter and keeping the space free of "stuff" not only makes the room look more updated but clears your mind as well
Thank you so much for including our little hello sign in your post! All the best from Oh Dier


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Members-Only Hours for The 1968 Exhibit
Saturdays, October 4 and 11, 9:00–9:30 a.m.
Sundays, October 5 and 12, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
The Museum invites members to exclusive viewings of The 1968 Exhibit, a state-of-the-art, multimedia exhibition that looks at how the experiences of that year fueled a sense of identity for the people who were there. During the first two weekends of the exhibition's run, we'll open the gallery early, giving you special access to this engaging and compelling story.
Cost: No reservations needed. Coffee and tea service included.
Access to the Museum parking lot will be limited in the morning on Sunday, October 12, due to the Chicago Marathon.
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Museum open to the public at 6:00 p.m.
Stories begin at 8:00 p.m.
Join us on the 143rd anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire for a heated Moth StorySLAM hosted by Amy Dickinson, syndicated advice columnist and Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! panelist.
Moth StorySLAMs are open-mic storytelling competitions that are open to anyone with a five-minute story to share. Hailed as "brilliant, and quietly addictive" by theGuardian, don't miss what theVillage Voice deems "the most memorable and hilarious narratives… and exuberant moveable feast."
Members can purchase exclusive early bird tickets starting September 24 (limited seating).
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Medium Cool Film Screening
Tuesday, October 21, 6:00 p.m. refreshments, 6:30 p.m. screening
Medium Cool plunges viewers into the social upheaval of 1968, including the riots surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The film—the debut feature of Chicago's famed cinematographer Haskell Wexler—combines fictional and nonfictional content that reflects the conflicted nature of a country divided by issues of race, gender, poverty, crime, and war. Following the film, Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips and Museum curator Joy Bivins will discuss Medium Cool and how it helped cement in the public eye the image of Chicago during that time. Please note: This film is rated R.
Cost: $10, reservations required. Cash bar available.
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Thursday, November 13
Reception at 5:30 p.m., program at 6:00 p.m.
All members are invited to join Museum president Gary T. Johnson for an evening of thoughtful discussion. The event includes refreshments and a presentation that highlights upcoming Museum activities. Guest speaker Patrick T. McBriarty, author and bridge historian, will discuss the importance of bridges in the development of the Windy City as chronicled in his photographic guidebook Chicago River Bridges. From the first wooden footbridge to moveable bridge technology and stories of bridge jumps, hear what made Chicago the drawbridge capital of the world.
Cost: Free, but reservations requested.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May. 3 (UPI) -- Brazil is turning down more than $40 million in aid from the United States to combat AIDS and HIV because it will not oppose the commercial sex industry.
O Globo reports Brazil turned down the U.S. money because it comes with the caveat that it must denounce the sex trade to receive the funds.
In all, Brazil was to receive $48 million from the United States starting in 2003 and ending in 2008. However, Brazilian Health Ministry officials said they would refuse to accept funding for the last three years of the agreement.
Brazil is considered one of the leading nations in the fight against HIV/AIDS and has been praised internationally for its federally funded treatment programs.
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As the sun set, I looked at Suzen. "Walk more?" I asked. I got the answer I hoped for.
"Good God, no. Back to the room." She shivered in the cold. We were exploring Lake Placid last week, expecting to find mountains of snow. Like most of the Northeast, the weather had been warm and there was very little snow. Until our afternoon arrival.
A frigid front came down as we drove up. With the wind, the chill factor was over -20⁰F, that's below zero.
"Thank God it doesn't get this cold in New York City," I said.
"Oh, yeah," Suzen said reassuringly.
We are back in New York City. The chill factor is a balmy 14⁰F. That's a 34⁰ shift but I'll tell you: it's just plain cold.
On a day like this, you need reinforcement. I know that picture above might seem distorted, but the fact is this recipe gives you the thickest, strongest hot chocolate I've ever tasted. It's part beverage, part mousse. I added some whipped cream, of course, on top just to mellow the very deep and intense flavor.
This recipe is from Hot Chocolate by Fred Thompson. It's a wonderful book, filled with recipes from around the world. You'll find a recipe for just about every climate and weather condition. If you have to think about the day's chill factor, then this Espresso idea is as good as any coat you possess. [As long as you stay indoors!]
Espresso Hot Chocolate
Yield: serves 4
- ½ cup heavy cram
- ½ cup whole milk
- 3 ounces bittersweet chocolate, at least 70% cocoa, chopped
Bring the cream and milk to a simmer in a small heavy saucepan over medium-high heat. Remove from the heat and quickly add the chocolate, stirring until melted and very smooth. Return to medium-low heat and warm until a bubble or two forms on the surface, about 3 minutes.
Pour the hot chocolate into 4 demitasse cups and serve immediately.
Source: Hot Chocolate by Fred Thompson
Hot Chocolate from Bouchon Bakery
Hot chocolate. I am an addict. For me, an appropriate 12-step program would be how to combine 12 types of chocolate while making my hot chocolate. There are other ingredients, of course, like sugar. You cannot make hot chocolate without sugar. It's not possible.
Actually, it is. From the website delish.com, here is a recipe for hot chocolate from Bouchon Bakery. Located in New York City in the Time Warner Center on the food floor, Bouchon Bakery is a sort of heaven. If you were a bank robber, and could just saunter into an open vault filled with money — nice, new crisp bills — well, you'd be thrilled. Stand in line at Bouchon and look at the perfectly executed pastries and cookies, and the thrill is there. Every item is flawless. It's Paris at Columbus Circle.
And then there's this hot chocolate recipe. No sugar. Instead, crushed and toasted coriander seeds along with a cinnamon stick. I must say, I looked at this recipe, pondered these ingredients and the technique, and just had to wonder: how could this taste like hot chocolate.
Well, it does, deliciously. You don't miss the sugar at all! The coriander flavor is muted. There are cinnamon overtones that just give you an aromatic quality without conflicting with the chocolate. This is a very different style of hot chocolate but one you should try. You are sure to enjoy it.
Okay, in the interest of full disclosure, I did serve it with whipped cream that had sugar but that's just Step 7 of my current program. If I didn't do it, my sponsor would have been all over me.
Bouchon Bakery Hot Chocolate
Serves: 1
- 8 ½ ounces whole milk
- 1 ounce heavy cream
- ½ teaspoon coriander seeds
- 1 cinnamon stick
- ½ vanilla bean
- 1 tablespoon cocoa
- 1 ½ ounces milk chocolate, finely chopped
- 1 ½ ounces dark chocolate, finely chopped
Place the chopped chocolates into a metal bowl with room to eventually add the milk and to be able to stir.
Place the milk and cream in a saucepan over medium-high heat and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to a simmer.
Smash the coriander seeds and toast with the cinnamon stick in a hot pan until fragrant. Add these spices to the hot milk and allow to steep for 2 minutes.
Scrape the vanilla bean and add to the milk mixture. Stir in the cocoa powder and whisk to combine.
Strain the milk mixture over the chopped chocolate. Whisk well until the chocolate is melted. Strain one more time and serve.
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Brighter view on jobs and pay lifts US confidenceBy CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
The Associated Press | May 01,2013AP Photo
A worker helps frame a new home under construction in Matthews, N.C.WASHINGTON Americans are more optimistic the job market is healing and will deliver higher pay later this year. That brighter outlook, along with rising home prices, cheaper gasoline and a surging stock market, could offset some of the drag from the recent tax increases and government spending cuts.
A gauge of consumer confidence rose in April, reversing a decline in March, the Conference Board, a private research group, said Tuesday. The board attributed the gain to optimism about hiring and pay increases. Economists also cited higher home values and record stock prices.
Despite the rise in the index, to 68.1 from 61.9 in March, confidence remains well below its historic average of 92. Still, the increase signaled that consumers, whose spending drives about 70 percent of the economy, see better times ahead.
A separate report Tuesday showed that home prices nationwide rose in February by the most in nearly seven years. The Standard & Poors/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index jumped 9.3 percent in February from a year earlier. Prices in all 20 cities rose on an annual basis for a second straight month.
Phoenix led all cities with a year-over-year price gain of 23 percent. Floyd Scott, owner-broker at Century 21 Arizona Foothills in Phoenix, said demand is particularly strong for homes priced below $300,000.
Because of a tight supply, homes for sale are routinely receiving multiple offers, he said. Thats driving prices up.
Now the job market is starting to improve, so younger adults are moving out and either getting an apartment or a house, he said.
The reports were released the same day the Federal Reserves policymaking committee began a two-day meeting. Analysts expect the Fed to announce Wednesday that it will maintain its low interest rate policies, which include an $85-billion-a-month bond-buying program. The Feds bond purchases are intended to keep interest rates low to spur borrowing, spending and investing. Its policies have helped keep loan rates at record lows.
Big changes in government policy have caused sharp swings in consumer sentiment in recent months. Social Security taxes rose 2 percentage points Jan. 1. That lowered incomes for a typical household earning $50,000 by about $1,000 this year. A household with two highly paid workers has up to $4,500 less.
And the across-the-board government spending cuts that began taking effect March 1 forced many federal agencies to furlough workers, which reduced their incomes. Government contractors are also likely to reduce jobs in response to the government cuts.
Yet consumers have shown resilience. Economists note that on top of higher home values, record stock prices have boosted household wealth. On Monday, the Standard & Poors 500 stock index closed at its highest level ever. Consumers who feel wealthier tend to be more confident and more willing to spend.
And employers have added an average of 188,000 jobs a month in the past six months, up from 130,000 in the previous six. Job gains slowed in March to only 88,000. But most economists expect at least a modest rebound in coming months, including a gain of 160,000 for April.
Layoffs also sank to a record low in January. Fewer layoffs tend to make people feel more secure in their jobs and more willing to spend.
In addition, average gas prices nationwide have dropped 28 cents from their peak this year to $3.51 a gallon, according to AAA. AAA said gas could drop as low as $3.20 a gallon by midsummer. The low point in 2012 was $3.33.
Economists caution that confidence typically fluctuates. Measures of consumer sentiment have yet to show consistent month-to-month increases.
While expectations appear to have bounced back, it is too soon to tell if confidence is actually on the mend, said Lynn Franco, the Conference Boards director of economic indicators.
The Conference Board reported that Americans confidence in their future income has rebounded strongly after falling in January, when the higher Social Security taxes kicked in.
The number of Americans who expect their income to rise within six months is higher slightly than the number who think it will fall, the first time thats been true since October.
That may be because wages have increased a bit recently. But it could also be because lower inflation has enabled Americans to stretch their paychecks further.
Pay picked up a bit in the first three months of the year, according to a third report Tuesday. The Labor Department said wages rose 0.5 percent from January through March. Thats better than the 0.3 percent gain in the preceding three months.
Over the past year, pay gains have been modest. Wages and salaries have risen only 1.6 percent in that time.
But inflation has been even weaker. The Feds preferred inflation measure rose only 1 percent in the 12 months that ended in March. That was down from 1.3 percent year-over-year inflation for both January and February.
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Got an adult foxglove. I'd tried to grow them from seed too. Then last week I stopped at the grocery store which had a surprising variety of flowers and they were so handsome and skadlhfakjsdh. I got one with 2 spires of flowers fuck yeah.
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Still need to set up a better bird attracting feeder, replace the suet that's been there forever….
The broad leaves belong to the only vegetable that's thrived from my seed endeavor - ZUCCHINIIII (don't remember what kind). It's got giant orange blossoms on it right now. The container-growing variety is so weird in how it grows to stay compact, they normally vine across the ground. Looove it <3
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Remember our love for Nigella's clementine cake? Well, this new little product from Market Hall Foods could put one of those easy cakes over the top this fall.
These whole candied clementines are new at Market Hall Foods, one of our favorite sources for splurges and special food treats. Reading their catalog is a guilty pleasure - full of sultry olive oils, exotic fruits and grains, and all manner of sweets.
The candied clementines are all natural and made without preservatives. As they say, the ingredient list is short and sweet: orange peel, sugar and glucose. The clementines are just poached in sugar syrup, and then the sweet, pretty things could be used to decorate a cake, line a dessert platter, or dress up anything else needing a pop of orange this season.
We like their bright orange color (like mini pumpkins) and we think they might be a good little splurge for Halloween. Small touches like these or Market Hall's candied flowers can be good places to splurge a little. You can dress up an otherwise inexpensive meal with just the right touch.
Or you could try making these yourself; have you ever poached a clementine?
• Candied Whole Clementines, $9.50 for six pieces at Market Hall Food
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Mmm, I made candied clementine slices to top white chocolate cupcakes. They were incredible. The recipe said to discard the syrup, but mixed with sparkling water and vodka...it didn't go to waste.
I love Nigella's clementine cake! That recipe is amazing and heavily requested from my inner circle. These look delish too.


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For more information, read the list mail announcement and check out the details in the changelog.
A few pointers to stuff that happened around and after the release:
- InfoWorld article: Databases primed for social networks
- MyNoSQL blog: Get a Taste of Graph Databases: InfoGrid and Neo4j
- A Neo4j plugin for Griffon has been created, with a sample application as well
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The vet was concerned about Enzo being taken away from his mother and litter mates 2 weeks prematurely. The concern is not only from a nutritional stand point but from a social stand point as well. Enzo being so young wasn't able to receive any shots. Firstly he still carries his mothers antibodies from her milk so any vaccines given wouldn't take. Secondly, puppies go into some shock when removed from the mother and litter mates. The vet recommended a 10 day waiting period before any vaccines can be given. This time will give him time to acclimate to his new environment and any symptoms of illness to surface. Since during this time his mothers antibodies slowly leave his body he can show signs of illness such as diarrhea, cough, sniffles, even loss of appetite. Once this acclimation period passes the vet can begin to build Enzo's immune system from the ground up.
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Eduardo Saverin, co-founder of Facebook, has renounced his U.S. citizenship ahead of the company's highly anticipated initial public offering. Saverin has taken this step to avoid paying capital gains taxes on the billions he expects to make when Facebook makes its debut on the stock market.
Most news outlets have been surprisingly tame about Saverin's shameless move, but a few have spoken out with clarity and feeling.
One of the best is Farhad Manjoo. He writes about how Saverin's family escaped to the United States from Brazil when they learned that they were on a kidnapping list of Brazilian gangs. As to Saverin's renounciation of his US citizenship to avoid taxes, Manjoo says:
Is this fair? No. It's worse than that, though. It's ungrateful and it's indecent. Saverin's decision to decamp the U.S. suggests he's got no idea how much America has helped him out.
The article is entitled What Eduardo Saverin Owes America (Hint: Nearly Everything) and is a great read.
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on the connection between the future of life and a common bird
Outside of Ithaca New York, in the town of Auburn, there is a roost of tens of thousands of crows. It is an ephemeral creation of as many birds as one might find humans in a small city. During the day, the crows fan out over the landscape pecking what can be had from roads, forests, and fields. At night they funnel back in, one by one, two by two, three by three, dozen by dozen, each finding a branch suitable for rest and a neighbor or two suitable for leaning on. Such a mass of crows consumes tons of food a day and contrary to their human neighbors wishes, shits a similar quantity. The bathroom habits and "squawking" of the crows has led to, among other things, an annual crow shoot. The idea of the shoot, like thousands before it, is to shoot as many crows as one can in twenty-four hours. There are no other rules. Just go and shoot crows. Shoot them as they fly. Shoot them as they perch. Shoot them as they eat, or mate, shoot them walking, or diving. Just shoot them. The crows fall in abundance, like tiny meteorites, like hailstones, or like what they are, thousands of shot-clipped birds. There are similar shoots in Canada and elsewhere in the U.S. Crow shoots are popular.
In part, crow shooting contests, and the like, really do seem triggered by the "nuisance" created by the birds. Newspapers and newsreels are replete with quotes from the tired and soiled townspeople. Lance Gummerson, one organizer of the shoot pleads, "You don't live in this town. You don't know the problem with the crows." "Our downtown is disgraced. The crows need to go." However, as often as not, such large-scale killing contests seem to have as much to do with the eager hunters as with the disgraced townspeople. One has only to do a quick web search to find men like Kenny King, the self proclaimed "Iowa Crow King" who can guide you on a tour to kill more than fifty crows in a few hours. Kenny, it is advertised, "has guided the shooting of over 33,000 crows in the last 20 years." If Kenny is shooting crows because they "disgraced" him or his town, they must have really got him good.
Abundance seems to trigger a desire to shoot, stone, thub, or otherwise remove from existence. We are wont to test our arms with a stone against the plenty. As much as I would like to think that is not true, it is true. Picking off a hundred crows is not about the guile of find, hunt, and chase. It is about the power of birdshot slung through air, and the thrill of watching gravity drop a stunned bird. Vandals often torch or dynamite bat roosts. Colonists killed millions of bison. Rattlesnakes are rounded up and killed with glee. Rocky Mountain Locusts were ground under, plowed, eaten, collected by hand and their egg masses set afire. Then there are the passenger pigeons. Passenger pigeons used to flock in the thousands around towns. People burned, shot, stoned, and otherwise pulverized millions of passenger pigeons. A fourteen-year-old boy, who shot the last individual, held it up like a good fair prize. This is not to say shooting crows in large numbers is the same as passenger pigeon shooting. For one, American crows have never been as abundant as passenger pigeons were. A flock of crows is called a murder (though biologists seem to like to avoid this term). Some crow murders are truly spectacular, but nothing compared to the flocks of passenger pigeons, flocks that despite the light color of the birds would darken the mid-western skies.
My purpose here is not to damn the crow hunters or the crow-plagued. Rather, my interest is to consider for a moment the value of abundant birds, like the common crow, and other less than loved winged things, the pigeons, starlings, and house sparrows of our modern world. As we literally hold a crow, or a hundred crows, in our collective hand, it seems worth examining what we have. For as much as we seem willing to drop crows by thousands, we also seem interested in watching them. Many writers, poets, painters, and children seem to have paid a great deal of attention to urban bird like crows. It is not just chance that there are more poems written about crows and other city birds than parrots and macaws. As poets and artists stare out windows and off porches for signs of life beyond their own palpating skin, they see crows. Crows are what we can watch and see in our daily lives. Issa, in the xth century B.C. stood on his literal porch and saw and wrote about thousands of crows. He empathized with them, writing, "Make love, crows while you can! Burning fields" and grew annoyed with them as one can see in poems like "you've wrecked my year's first dream! cawing crow," but mostly he just enjoyed watching them, observing their behavior, and recording a bit of it. Issa wrote, "Mocking the farmer plowing, the strutting crow," simple lines that convey enough meaning that we recognize the personality of the crow. What other animal would one describe as "mocking the farmer plowing" or "strutting?" We know before we get to the end of the poem that Issa means the crow.
Several thousand years after Issa last wrote, a professor in the art department at the University of Connecticut painted crows. He surely drew and painted a great many things in his life, but the first I saw of his work, was crows, all crows, hundreds of crows. In a memorial show, just after his death, there were crows in every conceivable position, pecking, fucking, strutting, balancing, fighting, bouncing from foot to foot and just hanging in the air. The paintings convey all of the emotions crows can muster, which leaves them short on regret, sadness, and pity. On the other hand, there is plenty of joy, whimsy, hunger and maybe even a little cuckolding.
I do not know why the crow painter painted crows, especially so many crows. Maybe it was something about the personality of crows or a childhood experience. Maybe it was a morbid appreciation for their ability to transform the rattiest of road kill to indigo feathers, bones, and crow calls. Maybe crows "disgraced his town." However, I bet the real reason was simply that in looking out across the campus, or looking out his window, the birds he saw were crows. He might also have painted pigeons, true, but crows seem to have more personality than pigeons. Let's assume I am right, that he painted crows because they were right in front of him, because with only a minimal journey, he could watch them behaving, wildly, teasing each other, mating, tending eggs, doing the things animals, including humans do. He could not watch eagles from his office window. He could not watch osprey, falcons, warblers, bluebirds, wrens, swallows, or even blue jays, chickadees, or nuthatches, the animals that live in the forests nearby. He watched what was before him; he loved the nature he was with.
If we relate most to nature through the creatures we see, it is worth considering what the future (or even present) landscape will look like, just what it is we will see. The vast majority of the landscape of the future is likely to contain crows and species like them and unlikely to contain, warblers, woodpeckers or for that matter, bears, wolves, elk, beavers, otters, or moose. In the U.S., people continue to move out of the flatlands, of the Midwest and into the coast-long cities of the East and the West. I do not know that such a study has been done, but if you sent each person in America out to their window to record the first animal they saw, most would see starlings, pigeons, crows or sparrows. Most people will never see many native forest birds. They will also never see a wild mammal larger than a rat. Out my own window, there is a hoard of greedy sparrows, punctuated every few days by the color of a cardinal, and the caw, caw, cor, cwa of the crows. We can expect, I suspect, more crow and sparrow poems, paintings and songs. Whitman could write about the "dalliance of the eagles," but Billy Collins took up sparrows, Mary Oliver, Ted Hughes, Doug Anderson, all watched crows, and Lisel Mueller follows pigeons, which she thinks, "used to be called doves." I could count all of the crow poems, enumerate whether there are really more crow and starling poems than there are, say kingfisher poems (of which there are several). As a biologist, I am wont to count things. However, that is not the point here. The point is that we are inspired by what is around us. It could be no other way. City kids play street ball. Country kids wallow in mud and those two extremes have an effect on the psyche, an effect on what we can write about, dream about think about, and paint. It is maybe not surprising that many of the most prominent ecologists that grew up in New York City, such as Larry Slobodkin, Doug Futuyma and others grew up near Central Park, where they could be inspired by even that simple wilderness to think about the machinery of nature.
If we are to produce future generations that care about living things, they must grow up with living things around them. In cities, a few species of abundant birds are the most tangible evidence that we are not alone in our quest to survive. There are crows, sparrows, and pigeons outside the window and damn it, if they are there, there might be other birds further on. Even as I write this essay, I am looking out the window at house sparrows. There are two dozen of them, all thin with winter, fighting at the bird feeder. One has taken up his or her territory on the lip of the feeder and the rest fight for what falls or what can be knocked down. With patience, I can see them breathing. I can see through their flapping wings when they fly. I can watch their tiny feet grip onto the rope of the feeder, the branches of the barberry bush beneath it and the porch railing. They are alive, a ridiculous message that is somehow still always epiphanal.
Such everyday epiphanies seem important. We need to empathize with nature to want to keep it around. The flipside of this story about trashy, city bird is thus that to the extent that we need some physical connection to nature to care about nature, crows and the like will have to be what connects people to nature. In fact, I will wager today, that the connection of our future generations to nature will hang not on lions and tigers, but instead largely on their connection to city birds. There are mammals in cities too, but rats will not save civilization. Opossums might do the trick, but they are seen more frequently dead than alive and a dead opossum inspires only parasitologists. Raccoons have a bad rap for rabies. Coyotes only sneak into the suburbs long enough to steal cats. Deer are nice, but standoffish. I'd love to pin my hopes on termites, roaches, mosquitoes, and ants, I am wise enough to know that even this sentence sounds ridiculous. For better or for worse, we need crows. We need seagulls. We even need house sparrows and starlings.
Though I am an ecologist, and even occasionally study birds, I admit to knowing relatively little about crows other than what I have observed first hand. For the sake of humanity, I gathered a few facts. The run of the mill, front porch crow is the American Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos (translates as short-beaked crow). There are also fish crows, Northwestern Crows, Tamaulipas crows, and so on, but in most of North America the odds are the one in your lawn stutter stepping over a dead possum is a good old-fashioned eat-the-dead American crow.
These days, crows grow best in cities, not as well in suburbs and poorly within forests. In non-drought years, they find nests all over town and flourish. In drought years, the worms that they depend on are harder to pull out of the ground and so their chicks are smaller. If we were to construct the simple food web of city crows, it would go plants to insects, bacteria, nematodes, and protists, decaying bacteria, plants, insects, nematodes, and protists to earthworms, earthworms to crows and occasionally crows to peregrine falcons (at least in East Coast cities). This is an ecosystem thriving on the energy gathered by plants from a smog-veiled sun. An ecosystem grows out of cracks in sidewalks and out of abandoned buildings.
A simple ecosystem can quickly accumulate in the cracks of wild earth left between miles of pavement. Dandelions break through anything and when they do, insects arrive to eat them or, alive or dead. Worms arrive too. Once earthworms arrive, crows do too. Cracks in the sidewalk, butterfly gardens and abandoned lots feed crows and so too the complicated lice that depend on their feathers, two mites that only live on crows, the gut flora of the crow and of course the bird-eating peregrine falcon. True, falcons eat more pigeons than crows, but they will snatch a crow if they can (and the pigeons feed on basically the same things as the crows, so are set similarly in the network of city ecosystems). Peregrines are thriving in some cities, like New York. They provide both a capstone to those ecosystems, and a reminder of the lifestyle of predators, of birds snatched from the feeder, carried to an "untimely" death. It is a nature scene "pulled from the headlines."
Crows are cagey enough that they often avoid peregrine falcons. They are also cagey enough to avoid biologists. They are cagey and intelligent in general. Crows can recognize individual humans. Feed a crow peanuts day after day and it will come to expect peanuts from you, not from people in general. Kevin McGowan tells the story that the crows he feeds recognize not only him, but also his car and come when they see him driving up. It took the crows a little while to adjust when McGowan bought a new car, but they learned. It is interesting that crows are smart enough to recognize individuals in the mob of humans, but we seem less able or willing to recognize individual crows, to sit in the tall or short grass of our lawn and just watch one specific bird.
So, let this be a call to arms. May we cherish crows, not just for their brilliance and uniqueness, but also for their success, their persistence, their ingenuity, and their shear abundance; characteristics that make them more like us than are chimpanzees or other apes. They are like us. They are also what we have and what we will have. Whether or not we save forests in Cameroon, or the Amazon, whether or not we keep our oceans clean may depend much on crows. If we cannot remember that we are alive, that we are one species among many and that most of what we do, work, eat, breath, have sex and goof around is not unique to us, but unique to the millions of different kinds of animals and even plants. The link I am making between the Amazon and crows is weak, I admit as much. However, it will be that weak link that connects us to nature in the future, that makes us care about it. The money for conservation and the impetus for large-scale conservation come largely from city-dwellers. As larger proportions of the populace move to cities, this trend will only increase. City dwellers need some connection to living animals and plants. We have been able to convince ourselves that it is natural to not have megafauna, like mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, giant sloths, and mastodons in North America (it is not, our ancestors in all likelihood killed them off). Born into the concrete futures, our descendents might just as easily convince themselves of the naturalness of cities without animals.
We do not need crow monuments (though surely some Midwestern town could rise to the occasion). We need observation. We need children left to watch the crows, to observe them, maybe even a crow day, when we all stand on our front lawns and streets, waving our arms, stutter-stepping, flipping things off the road, cawing, remember for a minute our wild thoughts and words. Crows have prospered in our habitats by their own ingenuity. House sparrows have prospered through fecundity, luck and time. Grackles have just prospered. Pigeons have flourished because they think building ledges are cliffs. They are all here, around, neither angels nor devils, just reminders. Moments of quiet observation of the living world are one of the most fundamental parts of our existence as humans. If we ever lose that entirely, we will have lost much, much more than a few common birds.
Even as I pause to contemplate the giant crow statue they might build in Iowa City (a guy can hope), I realize people will never all love crows. One need only look at the hundreds of photos on the web of contented men (they are mostly men) standing in front of their kills of crows, rows and rows of crows, arranged carefully, so to give a good appreciation of exactly how many individuals were killed. I have no bone with hunting in general, but this sort of slaughter seems beyond redemption. The "hunters" do not eat many of the crows; they just turn them from life to garbage. We look back in shock at the men standing over their piles of dead bison, and yet we seem unable to collectively muster the same horror for similar photos of crows, thousands of crows. And despite this seeming abundance crow numbers are but a paltry representation of what passenger pigeon numbers once were. I would like to think that if humans had not extinguished the passenger pigeon we would have grown to cherish it. That would probably not be the case, so long as the passenger pigeon was abundant. If the shit produced by a medium-sized crow colony bothers towns like Auburn, New York, they would have hated passenger pigeons. We like rare things. Diamonds are precious. Cubic Zirconium is a crappy gift. Shiny gold is worth its weight. Shiny steel is not. Fools gold is the prospectors' bane not because it is unattractive, but because there is so much of it. We can be convinced by abundance into thinking things are valueless, but pick up some fools gold, look at the grass in your lawn, watch an individual crow. We should not have to wait for these things to be rare to value them. We do not need to kill all but a few crows before we realize they are interesting, or poison all the pigeons before we realize they are the things that breath between buildings, that give the rush of humans between towers broader context.
To me, a country boy come to live in a small city (a city my wife, a city dweller refers to as the country) crows are a reminder not only of living things, but of particular living things, the other birds I miss, the voles and weasels, even summer mosquitoes blowing off the lake. I take it from my personal experiences that this is not a universal longing, though maybe it is common among hillbillies sent to town. Louren Eisley, a wonderful hillbilly if there ever were one, talks of a tree he planted as a child. It grew in his imagination for years and when he finally went back to Nebraska to see it, it was gone. Maybe it never took in the first place, who knows. There are dozens of forests in my imagination, planted not by me, but by ants, birds, and bats. They are forests left to grow when I last saw them. Many of those forests are no doubt no more alive than Eisley's tree. But they flourish in my mind and when the crows on main street call to me, they are calling from the darkest of those woods, "look at me", "I am a crow," I hear them and I remember the forest. And, I will admit, I caw. I call out to them, at them, with them, because they are the nature I see, the nature that that reminds me we are all alive.


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Here is a diagnosis of what's wrong with health care in America, straight from the horse's mouth: There's too much.
Long a cultural icon, the vending machine is fading from the American landscape.
Business Week: An anxious woman in her mid-40s showed up last winter at Atlas MD, a family doctor's office in Wichita.
They say there are markets for everything, but health care has historically been a tough one to navigate.
Texas doctor Raymond Solis who recently converted his 21-year-old traditional medical practice of 3,000 patients to a concierge-based practice serving just 400 patients.
Help Remedies is fast becoming a case study in the triumph of branding.
A pharmacy franchise.
Boccia said the general public is beginning to be aware of the prescription-drug-abuse problem, but he said MedSafe is working closely with DARE, Drug Free America Foundation and other anti-drug organizations.
After three surgeries, Judy Sherer still had chronic pain in her left shoulder.
A Short Course in Brain Surgery highlights the plight of an Ontario man with a cancerous brain tumor who crossed the border to the U.S.


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A private university outside Boston has decided not to award an honorary degree to a Somali-born women's rights activist who has branded Islam as violent and "a nihilistic cult of death."
Brandeis University said it had decided not to award an honorary degree to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a former Dutch parliamentarian who has been a prominent critic of the treatment of women in Islamic society.
Hirsi Ali said in a 2003 interview with a Dutch newspaper that by modern standards, the Muslim prophet Mohammed could be considered a pedophile, and in a 2007 interview with the London Evening Standard called Islam "a destructive, nihilistic cult of death."
"We cannot overlook certain of her past statements that are inconsistent with Brandeis University's core values," the university said in a statement late Tuesday. "We regret that we were not aware of these statements earlier."


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festivalslab is part of Festivals Edinburgh, the umbrella organisation which works on behalf of the twelve major Edinburgh festivals and represents their shared strategic interests. The twelve festivals we work with and for are:
- Bank of Scotland Imaginate Festival
- Edinburgh Art Festival
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- Edinburgh's Hogmanay & New Year's Party
- Edinburgh International Book Festival
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Edinburgh International Film Festival
- Edinburgh International Science Festival
- Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival
- Edinburgh Mela
- Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
- Scottish International Storytelling Festival
It is managed by the multi-skilled Festivals Edinburgh team, led by freelance innovation producer Rohan Gunatillake and supported by the inaugural geek-in-residence Ben Werdmuller.
Where did the idea for the Lab came from?
In late 2009, Festivals Edinburgh carried out an exercise where all of the festivals were interviewed about their ambitions for and their relationship to digital technology. A couple of important findings came out of that study:
- There were lots of good ideas within the festival teams
- Given the diversity, scale and profile of the festivals, Edinburgh represented an exciting space to test new ideas
- The festivals' day-jobs are to put on amazing cultural events and therefore they didn't always have the time, skills or awareness of digital trends to best take advantage of their potential
So festivalslab was initiated as an answer to these challenges.
Ok, so where are the white coats?
When we think about a lab, we often think about labcoats and test-tubes. But at the heart of any lab is new ideas, experimentation and reporting – and the same is true here. And while not a physical place, we like to summarise the lab as being made up five related elements:
- Projects – these are the most obvious outputs – prototype projects which use digital technology to create new value for audiences, for artists, for the festival business themselves, for partners and for Edinburgh.
- Processes – how are ideas identifies, what makes a good idea and how will they be delivered? These processes which will include events, challenges and calls for ideas will form the crucial skeleton of the Lab
- Network – because nowadays, you're only as good as your network. The festivals will not be able to realise their ambitions by themselves and so the Lab is inviting individuals, communities and companies to get involved
- People – it is important that this initiative has an impact on the people who spend their time making the festivals as great as they are
- Learning – the twelve festivals represent a microcosm of the cultural sector in Scotland and therefore there will be a lot of learning to share


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The 13 Most Popular BYOD Reads on JD Supra in 2013
Where are you right now as you read this? And, more importantly, whose device are you using to read it? Not such trivial questions, it turns out; especially if you've been paying attention to the steady rise of BYOD cautionary updates posted throughout the year by employment and technology writers on JD Supra.
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- Safeguards against Data Security Breaches (Part One)
- Personal Smartphones: A Ticking HIPAA/HITECH Time Bomb?
- Bring-Your-Own-Device: Are Employers Opening the Door to Security and Legal Risks?
- BYOD – Bring Your Own Device Policies
- Risky Business: "Bring-Your-Own-Device" And Your Company
- BYOD is Here to Stay
- Security Is Key To "BYOD" Policies
- Study Reveals Alarming Statistics On Theft and Employee Misuse of Company Data
- Five Data Governance Matters To Address In 2013
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Well said, Kass. Patty's influence has lifted the team, especially Rudy. He's been rejuvenated since Sergio's departure. Plus it has helped Nic get his mojo back as well. Just wish the Blazers could play the Suns every game the rest of the year>
Good post Kassandra! Yes, the PHX win was nice and hopefully we can take that positive result and keep the energy up in the 4th vs. ORL.Have fun with your bro and then a safe trip home.I'm back next week! Peace and love, Anees, from Prague
Nice post- I am also hoping that they can continue to play well and love the energy Patty brings! Enjoy your break from school!
Patti's enthusiasm, speed and willingness to share the ball gets everybody to cut and move on offense. Let's hope that the scouts don't find a way to quench his fire.
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