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Thanks to Bob Fredric and Mister 007 for the photos. : ]
This one looks very cool...not sure what to think about the back though.
Not bad. A little Johnny Thunder - ish. Except Johnny Thunder was based off of Indiana Jones :p
Cheap, good, generic $7.99 set. I dunno. Nothing special, although it looks like some nice new-color motorcycles.
The biggest, and probably best or second best of the series. But what is up with that biplane?
Thanks to Vidgamer838 and
Bob Fredric for these photos.
This thing is...butt ugly. Pretty much. However, the Rebel minifigs are to die for. Honestly this is a lot better than the Clone or Droid battle packs...new, exclusive minifigs, plus a mediocre vehicle. I don't consider the older battlepacks' extras as vehicles.
Speaking of bad...this is clearly the worst set in the lineup. Wow. Remember that set we speculated was an imperial dropship, but was just Larry Lars with an amazing immitation? Well, it blows this out of the water. Obviously. No contest. This is the worst I've seen Lego do...it's really just sad. I hope this one isn't official, or it comes with some armor that falls of that they didn't show, any kind of excuse....
A bit farther down the line of goodness (it will continue, don't let that last one dissapoint you), we have Anakin's Starfighter. Really...it isn't as bad as the above. But Lego did much better when the released Obi-Wan's Delta 7 in 2002. It's been 5 years, and clearly things have gone down.
However, there's a new part - that 4x4 circular piece near the front. Not a total loss.
I really...really, really like this. It's absolutely perfect...like the Geonosian Starfighter set except more kid-oriented, plenty of figures, and it's practically a battlepack. A whole bunch of these would make a sick army.
Which brings us to our next set. Wow...I have to say, this looks close to some fan AT-AP models. Lego did a very nice job here. 2 minifigs is enough. This looks like one to buy.
Finally, we have this lopsided beast. It's the spawn of Lego's fairly new contract with Lucasarts to use stuff not in movies. This particular one is from the "Force Unleashed" video game. It has 3 figures - see below.
The battle-damaged Darth Vader is really, really, a ripoff of fellow FOL minifig MOCs with the Aquaraiders visor upsidedown. Pathetic, Lego. However, the minifigs themselves (besides Juno's face) look pretty nice. No chrome hilts in this one.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Moar Schtar Wass
Johnsocal brings us more crappy, useless pictures of new and upcoming 2008 sets. We have a Rebel Battle Pack and a few figures that will be released from the new game "The Force Unleashed". Each shot will even take you to a page you can't see!!
Rebel Battle Pack
Or, if the extra large, extra pixelated version tickles your fancy:
Rebel Battle Pack
Or, if the extra large, extra pixelated version tickles your fancy:
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Saturday, September 15, 2007
I were buildy
Yay self promotion!
I've been pretty busy but today I felt sick so I stayed in my room and built. I think it's gonna have chicken walker legs (I don't have adequite parts to make normal legs). Um so yeah. I just wasted 30 seconds of your time.
I've been pretty busy but today I felt sick so I stayed in my room and built. I think it's gonna have chicken walker legs (I don't have adequite parts to make normal legs). Um so yeah. I just wasted 30 seconds of your time.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Great mecha gathering in Japan
I just wanted to point out a huge gallery of mecha that recently came up. The user's name is LMO-JAPAN. Check some of these out - and remember the gallery is two pages.
And more!
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Friday, September 7, 2007
New Star Wars Dropship planned for 2008
As one of the more avid Star Wars fans in the Lego Space universe, my role in the community has been destined to simply notifying the community about new sets. For all eternity. When I first saw this I really wasn't sure it was real...in fact it looked too good to be a set, to be honest. It feels more Space than Star Wars, but I ventured over to FBTB.net, and waddya know - there's a big topic all about it. I haven't checked but the chances are good that even if this is some leaked info (which I doubt) this set is coming sometime in the near future.
Thanks to Hugobax of Brickshelf for the picture (probably not the first to get it, but that's where I found it).
Apparently this might be a fake. And I agree...it certainly does look higher than TLC standards. Let's just hope.
Okay, this thing is downright hawt. Ever since I got the big $19.99 Lego book when I was a wee chil' (:p) I loved looking at the boats. Jindroush did not make this but is providing pictures. The planning of the hull is something that only one of the best builders could pull of. Each brick is planned ahead of time in layers....the complexity of these boats is mind-blowing. Not to mention this one has an interior and a stern that opens up to show it as well. Not only is it one of the best-shaped boats I've ever seen, but it also has a nice interior...by boat standards at least. Wow. I can't stop staring at it.
Porchecm2 whipps out a nifty little saucer. The way the top is constructed just makes you cry. piece after piece...it creates an awesome effect on the eyes and can be considered completely "kosher" because none of the pieces are bending or breaking...we hope. Very cool MOC. If only it could have some more slope downwards...but that's pretty impossible. We'll save that for tomorrow.
And finally, Matt H uploads pictures of a train. Big whoop.
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One more thing...
...If you're reading this. So yes we have Nick and Chuck as bloggers and we didn't restart this because of little activity, but because I have been busy and no time.
I will start posting soon, but some more stuff to do here so ya.
you guys can start posting whenever you wish.
that is all
I will start posting soon, but some more stuff to do here so ya.
you guys can start posting whenever you wish.
that is all
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New Bloggers
OK, we've restarted the blog because it was getting no activity. Same place, just with less posts. We're pleased to announce Kcaster (Nick Dean) and Lego2000 (Chuck Citrin...he doesn't use Lego2000, M2K, or whatever, I just wanted to type that) as new bloggers. Thanks for looking!
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Traffic No Cost Methods
100 Lessons About How to Earn Extra Money Online
Part VI. Traffic Supply
Lesson: 34
Traffic No Cost Methods
1. No Cost Traffic Strategies
In this lesson, we will discuss and introduce the no cost traffic strategies.
We are going to go a little more in depth with the more popular methods to get free traffic. They are all methods you can use even after you scale up and invest in paid traffic. They are all proven ways for you to get traffic at no cost. We will also be showing you demonstrations on the screen to implement each of them in a separate lesson.
This lesson is intended to be an overview of each introduced method. We hope you will take notes and take to heart what is being covered so that you can start generating these no cost traffic strategies. Eventually, you can grow it to where you can use all of the methods as time allows so you can really maximize your traffic potential.
Without traffic, you can't generate any results online. Keep in mind, just because you built it doesn't mean they will view it. Just because you have a video on YouTube doesn't mean people will instantly find it. Just because you create a website doesn't mean people will instantly find it. Just because you have an opt in form doesn't mean people will fill it out. It does help if you have a video out there and a properly built website.
If you really want to see all of this work, you really have to work at getting traffic. Without that effort, no traffic is going to happen. You need to promote it. You will learn our favorite no cost traffic strategies in this lesson. These terrific methods work both with startup businesses and large companies.
Again, once you start making money then we suggest you scale all of this up. You are going to find that you can still generate a very good solid income with these simple traffic methods. You will get a quick overview of each method in this lesson. After that, we will demonstrate on the screen each one of the traffic methods. You will understand how to implement every single one of these strategies.
Check out the individual lessons with step by step instructions if you need help to do these methods. You will get an explanation and example of each method in this lesson. If you need more information to implement the strategy, we have you covered with step by step guides. The key is to be consistent with your traffic efforts.
Traffic strategy #1 is – Video Marketing
It is by far one of the most popular ways you can generate free targeted traffic on the internet. You create informational videos that help you to build your audience. For example, you take them with your digital camera or your phone. You take a few notes and then you talk and create a short 1 to 3 minute video.
You can also do videos similar to this which is a PowerPoint video. You can use free software called OpenOffice Impress. You can do bullet points, information type of videos with a free screen capture software such as Screen-O-Matic.com which allows you to capture what is on your screen.
Create videos with answers to top questions in your niche. You can go to Q&A websites and find people in need of solutions. Find what they need help with and create short informative videos. A good example of this is YouTube.com. It is the most popular video site online. Type in your niche market there and see how people are using the video site to generate traffic.
Traffic strategy #2 is – Using Web 2.0 Hubs
This involves creating content rich pages of content on popular websites. These sites already have lots of traffic coming to them. They have lots of interested and exposure behind them. The two that we use here are www.squidoo.com and www.hubpages.com.
You can do reviews on Squidoo.com. They want unique quality content and you can add videos and pictures. You can add polls and more to get high traffic that the search engines link. They also have lots of backlinks on them. You can get your unique content to send people to your website. You can get that type of exposure with these sites.
Traffic strategy #3 is – Using Free Blogs and Websites.
This is a very good strategy for you to use. Reach a new set of target audience with this option. They already carry weight in the search engines too. If you already have a blog on www.blogger.com you can use that. You can also use www.livejournal.com. It is completely up to you how you would like to implement this.
Traffic strategy #4 is – Article Marketing.
This is free advertising, viral marketing, and it boosts your personal brand. These sites are full of daily traffic. There are millions of unique visitors that come to these sites looking for answers. They are seeking information and they are looking for solutions to their problems. They want more information on what they are interested in.
That is the beauty of article marketing, there is such a huge source of traffic with it. The resource box is where you put in your information with a link back to your website. They bring you traffic and you get exposure in front of your targeted audience. The key part of writing quality articles is to put the keywords in your title. That is a really good tip. The two sites we suggest for this are www.ezinearticles.com and www.articlebase.com.
Traffic strategy #5 is – Using Facebook
It is one of the most visited sites online. It is definitely something you want to use as part of your marketing arsenal. There are so many people, even the elderly. All ages and all walks of life so you can reach your niche market on Facebook. Your audience uses Facebook – plain and simple.
One idea is to create a page and then join groups related to your niche market. Every once in a while, post about your page. New people will join when you do so. Your Facebook page will grow as you post your articles and videos. People will share what you put out there with others too. You can even use videos and articles that are created by others.
If you already have a Facebook account, create your page from that. You can get into trouble if you have more than one. They don't want people to have more than one account. The nice thing is you can create as many fan pages as you want within Facebook. You aren't limited to niche specific pages. You don't need to target only certain sectors of the market. It is a phenomenal way to tap into traffic.
Traffic strategy #6 is – Using Twitter
This is also a great social media place to get your content noticed. It is a simple way to start getting a targeted following of people. It is very easy to do so within your niche market. You can go to www.twitter.com, and type in the leaders in your niche market. They are well known in that industry.
Go to their Twitter profile, and see their followers. The list of all of them can be brought up. Under your Twitter account, start following those people. They are interested in your niche market and they will be interested in what you have to share. Many of them are going to start following you back and your Twitter traffic will grow.
You don't want to go too crazy. Try to add 25 or 50 people a day. You can do it while you are watching TV or something. You can send tweets out with new content such as a new video or a new article. It is also a great way to get all of that information indexed.
Traffic strategy #7 is – Using Pinterest
Pinterest is where you can create niche pin boards that you can add pictures to. It is a popular social media site that is continuing to grow. A niche pin board should be related to your niche market. When you post people, you start to get a following. It also allows them to post pictures. An active Pinterest board draws traffic for you.
Link images from other places to send the traffic back to you. Post the images on your site, post them on Pinterest. You can sign up for this social media at www.pinterest.com.
Traffic strategy #8 is – Using Google Plus
This is growing in popularity. You can join circles of related people in your niche market. You can go to a certain page and see how many people follow it. You can also find out how many people are interested and then create a similar page of your own. Post new videos, articles, and more on your Google Plus profile. We suggest you post them all on your Facebook and Twitter too.
It doesn't matter if you have a huge audience right away either. It is all about getting started and then seeing it grow. You have to start somewhere, and you aren't going to automatically have 5,000 people following you. It may only be 50 you have but it will grow. Google will also reward you for bringing in traffic through them. To get started to go http://plus.google.com. You just need a Google account to get started.
These no cost traffic methods are effective, use them to get more visitors to your websites and blogs and to earn more money online.
2. Resources for You
a) Recommended Tools for Traffic Driving
These tools are of a good quality and may be very useful to facilitate your traffic driving efforts:
b) Recommended Websites
To improve your knowledge and skills on how to find quality offers to promote we recommend the following websites:
Eric Holmlund – www.EricsTips.com
Paul Counts – www.PaulCounts.com
Jeff Wellman – www.IMSuccessTips.com

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At certain points along the Scioto River, Daniel Hopper says, the view opens up and he could swear he's a thousand miles away from the Greenlawn Avenue bridge. "It looks like you're at the Mississippi Gulf," he said. "The way it widens - you don't even know you're in Columbus."
At certain points along the Scioto River, Daniel Hopper says, the view opens up and he could swear he�s a thousand miles away from the Greenlawn Avenue bridge.
�It looks like you�re at the Mississippi Gulf,� he said. �The way it widens � you don�t even know you�re in Columbus.�
As he says this, Hopper is sitting in the midst of his makeshift South Side campground, readying a fishing line. His girlfriend keeps an eye on her two sons, ages 10 months and 4.
There�s a tent, blankets, a dog named Loki, bags stuffed with food and a shopping cart that Hopper has deemed the �family car.�
�I can see why people think we�re homeless,� Jamie Albright, Hopper�s girlfriend, said. �But we do have an apartment.�
Hopper can barely stand to live in it.
�I�ve been out for years,� he said. �Since the �70s, really. I can�t be inside during warm weather. It�s impossible.�
Albright often feels otherwise. The couple were packing up to return to their stuffy apartment recently when outreach workers stopped to check on the situation, Ken Andrews said.
Andrews, an advocate for the homeless for Mount Carmel Outreach, described Hopper as �the mountain man of Columbus.�
�He�s a very strong guy,� Andrews said. �I�ve seen him in situations where he had to be. But if he wants a family? That�s a different deal.�
Hopper, 55, is one of many chronically homeless men whom Andrews and other advocates have helped move to housing. The adjustment isn�t always easy.
Deborah Rambo, coordinator for the Maryhaven Outreach Collaborative, tells of a formerly homeless man who was reluctant to stay inside his South Side apartment.
�At night, he�d go and sleep in his tent in the woods nearby,� she said. �So we finally moved the tent inside the apartment, and he did that for a while until he could adjust.�
Rambo and Andrews don�t often see children camping with their parents in the city. Outreach workers generally urge � demand, really � that families move to homeless shelters or return to their homes for the safety of the kids.
Andrews said he came across two instances last week in which children were seen in homeless camps. In one case, a mom had taken the kids for visitation with their dad, from whom she is separated.
�We maybe need to find a more-conducive place� for visits, Andrews told them.
Albright, 34, has been homeless before, too. She and Hopper, the father of her younger son, met at a soup kitchen.
After paying rent and utilities, they have $200 and food stamps to last the whole month, they said, and their apartment doesn�t have a fan or air conditioner.
�We struggle,� Albright said. �We don�t even have a cellphone.�
Outside, their poverty feels diminished. They can fish, walk along the river and sit under the stars.
Albright said they don�t like to stay near homeless campers, but when they encounter people in need, �We tell them where they need to go. We get some things from the churches, and we help. We give back.�
Hopper said he would happily take his family to a campground. But you need a car to get there and money to pay for a site.
�This,� he said, looking up from his chair along the river, �is our vacation home.�


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Digi Week: Realestate.com.au Secret Sauce: Getting from go to woah! for gre...
Realestate.com.au -
The Arena, NAB, 700 Bourke Street, Docklands, VIC, 3008
Eloise Wall, Executive Manager Financial Experiences, REA Group Jeremy Burton, Engineering Manager, REA Group
Agile is changing the way companies work and operates, allowing them to keep up with the rapid pace of change and digital advancements. Real Estate Australia focuses heavily on bringing together product and technology in a cross functional agile fashion to create amazing customer experiences.
Jeremy Burton and Eloise Wall have lots of interesting insights to share and will discuss the latest happenings at Real Estate Australia.
Jeremy is a Senior Technical Leat at REA, and is a passionate and outcome focussed leader with over 20 years of experience across all aspects of technology. Having moved seamlessly between the digital and finance worlds throughout his career, he has established a track record of delivering on large scale programmes of work in both small and large organisations.
Starting his career during the dot com boom and witnessing the first online revolution, Jeremy then moved to the world of finance, working across numerous large global financial organisations delivering key pieces of digital enablement across fund management, investment and retail banking.
Moving back to the digital world, Jeremy made his way to REA in January 2014 via a stint in start-up land. With plenty of lessons learned along the way, he understands the relationship between product, technology and the customer stands out as a key element to successful digital delivery.
Eloise is part of the senior leadership team at REA and has worked in digital for almost 20 years, with roles ranging from consultant, producer, and product manager to strategic advisor, project, account and program director. Her career has led her to work in small and large businesses, manage large cross functional teams and participate in senior leadership, contributing to organisational strategy and operations.
Eloise joined realestate.com.au in July 2013 and as an Executive Manager of Financial Experiences, she is leading a team that is defining and developing the consumer journey for the new realestate.com.au financial services offering.
Eloise has an Honours degree in Biochemistry from University of Adelaide and a Master of Business Information Technology (eBusiness) from RMIT.


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The Library's Research Data Services is offering a 1-credit short course series in collaboration with the Data Science Institute. The graduate-level short courses meet for 5 weeks, and are designed to provide some focused, hands-on training on different topics and tools; researchers from any discipline are welcome to join in the fun.
To register search for Subject "DS" and Course Number "6559" in SIS. Full-time employees of UVA can use their Education Benefit and register through the Community Scholar Program.
DS 6559-001 Data Wrangling in Python (1 credit, meets the first five weeks of the semester)
Pete Alonzi
T,R 2:00-3:15 from 8/23/2016-9/22/2016
Mechanical Engineering Building 214
This course covers data cleaning and data manipulation in Python, including reading and writing data, the Pandas library for cleaning, transforming, merging, reshaping, and data aggregation, and the Matplotlib library for plotting.
DS 6559-002 Text as Data (1 credit, meets the second five weeks of the semester)
Michele Claibourn
T,R 2:00-3:15 from 9/27/2016-11/01/2016
Mechanical Engineering Building 214
This course will cover text mining techniques using R. In particular, we'll focus on processing text in R, exploratory methods, sentiment analysis, and topic models, including structural topic models for the inclusion of covariates. Some basic familiarity with R will be helpful, but not required. Examples will be drawn primarily from the social sciences.


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The Penn Yan Mustang girl's lacrosse team hosted Webster Schroeder in a non-league contest Wednesday in Penn Yan. The Rochester area guests jumped out to an 8-2 lead after the first half and hung on for a 16-7 win over the Orange and Blue.
Sydney Bloom led the Mustang attack with 3 goals. Hannah Keech added 2 goals. Cassidy Prather and Brenna Voigt collected he other 2 Penn Yan tallies. Voigt also dished out 2 assists. Elissa Callaway also added a helper. Alexandra Cox had 5 saves in goal for Penn Yan. Hanna Brodman recorded 1 save.
Penn Yan falls to 2-3 with the loss. They will host Ithaca Saturday at Mustang Field.


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We got back from Wuyishan this morning around 8:30. The trip was really wonderful – we had beautiful scenery, wonderful new friends, and some unforgettable moments. We spoke a lot of Chinese and only saw 2 Westerners on the entire trip – getting on the train that we had just gotten off of.
I know that everyone who lives someplace cold wants to vacation in a warm climate, but for a few days I got to experience the opposite. Let me tell you, it's quite nice – knowing that your days in the cold are very limited and soon you will be returning to your pleasantly warm home. The whole weekend as I wore leggings under my jeans and all the tops I had brought under my coat, I was looking forward to wearing skirts and short sleeves again in Xiamen.
Unfortunately, Xiamen didn't get this memo . . . the high today was 15°C (60°F). I wore a dress anyway (albeit with leggings underneath and a sweater, scarf, and jacket on top) out of pure stubbornness. All day, I felt like a little girl who insisted on dressing herself but buttoned the shirt wrong or something.
I just got back, but for a lot of people, it's actually time to leave Xiamen. Some are just going home for the holidays – Liz left for 3 weeks in Belgium on Wednesday – but some are leaving for good! "The Americans" (the group from UNC) left last weekend and Eva left today, which means I have basically no American friends left here. The Dutch group leaves very early tomorrow morning as well. This is all very sad, but as they're all going to other countries, we'll be able to 联系 (connect) on facebook.
Also, it just happens to be a very fortunate time to lose one's cell phone (as I just did). A Dutch friend gave me his cell before he left, which meant all I had to do was get a replacement SIM card. It took two trips because the only thing they would accept as proof that the number was mine was 5 numbers I've dialed in the past month (my original account paperwork and passport were unacceptable as proof), but I really shouldn't complain. Entire cost of new cell phone with the same number as before = 15 kuai, or $2.
I went to Mass this evening. As I entered and when I left the church, I was asked by several people if I had found my cell phone. I was confused, as I had only called one man to ask if I had left it on the bus. Finally, I realized what must have happened and asked if they had all gone to look for it. "Yes", they replied.
As I thought about it, this relatively-small act of kindness moved me to tears. I guess the weekend was a little emotionally draining because, when we weren't being treated like long-lost best friends, we felt basically like animals in a zoo. People would point at us and take pictures of us without permission, acting like we were another of Wuyishan's famous sites to be pictured. They would assume we didn't speak Chinese and talk loudly about the 外国人 (and then bark out "会说中国话!" (You can speak Chinese!) in surprise if we so much as said 你好).
Anyway, I think I've figured out something about Chinese people. (This is a generalization and there are certainly exceptions, but this is an idea based on my observations over these past few months.) There are a lot of them – 1.3 billion and counting – and it's simply too much to be caring towards all of them. So they don't really try. There's much less "common courtesy" here than I remember in America: less door-holding, more pushing and shoving. But families and friends are very important to Chinese people, and these people are treated with respect, deference, and love. Outside the circle, you almost don't exist to them, but inside the circle your happiness and well-being is of utmost concern. It's not that Chinese people are rude to foreigners; it's that they're rude to strangers.
Somehow, my church friends (and my dancing friends and some others) have accepted me into their circle. The way they care for me is so humbling because I don't think I'm as charitable as they are. It gives me something to work towards.
The good thing about the cold weather is that it really is starting to feel like Christmas. I listened to Christmas songs as I walked between my evening activities, and found the words to one particularly interesting:
It's the most wonderful time of the year
With the kids jingle belling
And everyone telling you "Be of good cheer"
It's the most wonderful time of the year
It's the hap-happiest season of all
With those holiday greetings and gay happy meetings
When friends come to call
It's the hap-happiest season of all
There'll be parties for hosting
Marshmallows for toasting
And caroling out in the snow
There'll be scary ghost stories
And tales of the glories of
Christmases long, long ago
It's the most wonderful time of the year
There'll be much mistletoe-ing
And hearts will be glowing
When love ones are near
It's the most wonderful time of the year
Only the last few lines are actually true for me this year – no Salvation Army bells, no carolers or concerts, no marshmallows or mistletoe, and no snow. But 3 out of 19 ain't bad, especially when they're those three.


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Deepak Tandon
'Where perception from wherever, is correct in itself. Where the horizon spreads in all directions. Where merger defies the theories of opposite forces. Where separation is reduced to just an illusion. Where the abstract force breaks all barriers of disputed views.' An extract from Soaring by Deepak Tandon.
Whether working in his chosen medium of painting, photography or film, the underlying concept of Deepak Tandon's abstract art is to take the eye away from the superficially familiar linear ideas of 'progress and development', allowing people to see afresh and 'unite with the subtle & inherent truth'.
The ongoing concept in Deepak's work is Monistic theism, or one-ness. Mostly working with opposites (from the fluidity of water and the rigidity of rock, to the sky and the earth), he constantly attempts to merge them together into one entity where each flows from and into the other, accentuating their co-dependency and union.
'The effort is to merge elements and experiment with oneness, re-installing our ability to see organically… much relevant in this over-trained, manicured and concrete world that surrounds us,' says Deepak.
In doing so, Deepak's works have a mesmerising effect, dancing between different perceptions and perspectives. In his photography series Sediment–ONE Rock(shown here), the eye can dive from an eagle's perspective of nature's various elements to their microscopic view. A concave can appear in moments to be convex and vice-versa. The animate changes place with the inanimate and back again. Each work creates an almost 3-dimensional experience – the many layers seeming to elevate themselves beyond the paper surface.
'My works attempt to weave within them the micro lines of our Nano age, the waviness and hues of nature and the abstractness of the unchangeable force that binds all. I want to provoke people to indulge in the mindlessness and the fullness of a storyless, formless essence,' explains Deepak.
Deepak's work has been shown in Europe, the USA, Singapore and across India. He recently completed a residency in Copenhagen on the invitation of the Danish government, and his works are housed in many institutional and private collections.
The Sediment-One Rock Series
The conceptual photographs in this series originate from a single rock in a Himalayan stream on which Deepak found himself instinctively sitting each day for hours, his own perspectives beginning to shift. Starting with an original (usually close-up) abstract photograph he builds his work in layers, repeating and mirroring elements to create the transformative effects he seeks. While transforming the appearance of solid to liquid and the other way round, he combines it with a subtle but striking palette of blue and brown, deliberately evoking a sense of the sky and the earth, leaving the viewer to dive into the visual metaphor of 'one-ness' and merger.
'While sitting on that same rock each day and looking around, I realised how I had taken so many resting points in my life for granted - a comfortable shoe, a chair, a relationship etc. I realised I was resting on the rock which contained within it all the beauty I sought externally by looking around - it contained the universe, my comfortable shoe contained in it too,' says Deepak.


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OOOHHHHHH I cant even tell you how much I LOVED working with the Ladies and Gents line from Websters Pages, I recently took the girls for a vintage themed photo shoot with a very telented local lady Linda Graves, I am totally wow'd by her attention to detail so I wanted the picture to be the main focus.
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Major bookstore withdraws controversial book on SBY
Major bookstore identified as TBG has reportedly withdrawn the distribution of Membongkar Gurita Cikeas: Di Balik Skandal Bank Century (picture, courtesy of Kompas.com), a book written by George Junus Aditjondro, upon instruction from "boss". The book, basically about foundations surrounding President SBY, has reportedly been discussed seriously by SBY's inner circle in SBY's private residence in Cikeas, West Java.
Kompas.com reported that TBG, most likely linked to Kompas Gramedia Group, withdrew the distribution of the book today, just few hours after the bookstore network received the delivery from its publisher (Galang Press).
The publisher, Julius Felicianus, claimed TBG owner got "hate calls" from unidentified person who asked the withdrawal.
Tempointeraktif.com quoted Julius saying Gramedia bookstore in Yogyakarta had withdrawn the book after "security officers" paid a visit.
George launched the book in Yogyakarta on Wednesday, Dec 23 and immediately became a best seller. "The President is very concerned with the book release, because what disclosed in the book is not the fact," Julian Aldrin Pasha, the president's spokesperson said.
What's in the book? Well, actually nothing really new. George wrote about foundations like Puri Cikeas, Mutu Manikam, Kesetiakawanan, SBY Nurussalam, etc. George pointed relationships between First Lady Ani Yudhoyono and Artalyta Suryani (jailed in bribery case of prosecutor Urip Tri Gunawan) in Mutu Manikam Foundation where Artalyta was the treasurer, while the First Lady is the patron leader.
George also wrote about Kesetiakawanan Foundation which linked Djoko Suyanto (coordinating minister for politic, security, law & human rights) and Djoko Tjandra (for a US$1 million donation through PT Mulia Graha Tatalestari), etc.
The book is controversial for the link between SBY and the ongoing investigation on Century. Demokrat faction chairman Anas Urbaningrum expects the book is not part of a negative propaganda saying "SBY is not involved in the Century issue."
But the publisher dismissed such allegation arguing George submitted the manuscript in June 2009 before the Century case emerged in political arena.
Andi Arief, one of SBY-Boediono's team member in the presidential campaign, considered George's new book a "defamation". He pointed to page 30 and 31 of the book, where, according to Andi, George mentioned about transfer of money from state-owned news agency LKBN Antara of Rp40.6 billion to Bravo Media Center, one of SBY-Boediono's key organizations.
George rebuffed Andi saying "the amount is not an issue. The most important thing is whether there were money transfer from Antara. Do they deny this? Because I have internal sources at Antara who could verify that."
The bottom line, George reminded, is the importance of auditing on foundations related to people in power and campaign teams. We can't agree more!
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Cody came home and declared that because of the 65 degree weather he wanted a Mai Tai.
|Quinn liked it, too.
Then we used a Groupon to get a pizza.
I was about ready to settle into my PJs on the couch but Cody suggested we check out a newly re-opened restaurant and cocktail bar, The Commodore. So I reluctantly got ready and we met my sister and her boyfriend.
I'm so glad he convinced me because it was so cute! The decor was straight out of the 1920's and the cocktails were all delicious.
The weather continued to be amazing so we went on a long walk to get brunch at the Longfellow Grill.
We spent an inordinate amount of time at Target and then went to our friends' house to grill and have a fire.
I threw a bridal shower for my amazing friend Melissa. It was a high tea at a hotel nearby and it was so cute we could hardly stand it. I plan to do a full post about it tomorrow.


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Matters of Taste
Right around the time I was writing last week's post I felt a suspicious itch in my nose that meant I was maybe getting sick. Then I got sick. I was pleased at how accurate my nasal observations had been, but overall I would have been fine with being wrong.
We can skip over the next few days. They were mostly very tedious and tiring. Afterwards, though, there were a couple of days where my sense of smell was recovered and I could think properly, but my sinuses were still packed with residual mucus, so 80% of what I smelled at each moment was the rancid remnants of the cold. Things which were once delicious stopped tasting good: Coffee became flavorless and bitter, and when I ate grilled vegetables I could only taste the grill. This was interesting, because other than that I felt fine. If I hadn't recently been sick and didn't understand this to be an effect of that cause, I would just think this was what these things tasted like. If my head just always smelled of disease, everything except for the simplest sweetest foods would seem unappealing.
It's always so strange when the physical world affects the things we think of as being entirely psychological and intrinsic to our identity. We argue about matters of taste, justify why the things we like are good and the things we dislike are bad, without even considering whether we're discussing the same thing, without accounting for how the tastes we cherish are shaped by our personal topography.
Games, and particularly computer games, externalize this issue. Every player's experience of the game is mediated through their own gaming setup, so a transcendental experience for one player can be a framey mess for one who has different video card drivers. Then, another layer down, a fun-filled romp for one player may be a humiliating frustration for a player coping with disability. And now, as I reflect on it, another layer down, a game that tells a story of great import and meaning to one player may just be retelling the same boring demeaning claptrap another player has had to wade through for their entire life. If you go down enough layers, these external factors stop being external, start being part of who we fundamentally are, the shape of our skull, the networks of our neurons, the smell of our snot. It becomes impossible to separate the things which color our experience from the experience itself.
When I see so many people who seem to care nothing for art, who seem to care nothing for anything at all, who seem to exist only to take and accumulate and crave, I have to wonder how they are calibrated. Can they see at all what I see, feel at all what I feel? Maybe what makes them so hungry is they never learned to taste the things that they really needed to survive, so they just consume, like I kept drinking coffee that tasted like ashes, in the hopes that later it might help me to wake up.


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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
NYC Day 1 ( well half of it anyway...)
It was a bright and early 5:40 am EST. I don't think I fell asleep until we were somewhere over Chicago, so this 5:40 am that is really 2:40 am PST, lets just say it was WAY to early ....
We gathered and headed out to meet our luggage, and then wait.... and wait.... and wait...for the shuttle vans to come. Eventually we found them, or they found us... because we were standing still. Our drive in to the city was pretty quick, considering it was rush hour, and the klunk that happened every time our van shifted into or out of first gear....
We arrived at our hotel, descended upon it might be a better description. The lobby was about the size of my kitchen and half of my living room.... and in walks a sleep deprived hoard of 13 people with 26 bags, looking to make it all fit onto one of those hotel carts.... We were taking things in and out of bags... making sure we had what we would need for the day. The Bell-man needs an award or something, he just smiled, and joked with us all. He was incredibly patient with us.
We were starving, so from there we moved on to the breakfast of champions.... Mc Donald's.
The only thing that made up for the food.... was the view....
Our next mission, was to walk the Brooklyn Bridge. Good plan actually, since my legs were still in knots from the plane. We walked down to the nearest subway station, and ventured in.... If we were going to lose people on this trip, the subway would be the spot. We had decided to get a 7 day pass so we would only have to get tickets once.... So we descended on the ticket machines.... ALL of them.... and then our cards weren't working.... so we were standing there longer.... and there were all these people impatiently staring at us as we hogged all the ticket machines and all they wanted to do was get to work on time.... I felt like such a bad subway rider. Incapable of even getting a ticket! After about 20 minutes, we all had our tickets, and we went in to wait for the train. It was then we realized Auntie Maymee ( tour guide Barbie) had been so busy helping us, that she didn't buy her own ticket. The 12 of us on the other side of the iron bars watched nervously as our leader bought her ticket, hoping she wouldn't realize she could now escape and be free...
I think I heard 12 sighs of relief when we saw her come through the turnstile.... we were not abandoned!!
I loved the architecture of the Bridge, even the tiles in the subway, harken to an era of craftsmanship when things were built to last.
The emotions that were evoked as I walked that Bridge with my loved ones, were many.
Our next stop, was Coney Island. Why? Because when your last name is Coney, you just gotta go there!
We lost our first family members trying to get there. Big Daddy, my Mom and Hunter, weren't quite quick enough getting on the train, and the doors closed leaving them on the platform.... we figured they would catch up to us eventually, and they did.
Lunch was a Nathan's hot dog. It was pretty tasty, but I think I like a Casper's dog better.
After the beach we were off to see the Rockettes Christmas Spectacular........and that my friends is a post all its own!
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It was Taylers ticket that I forgot to buy... She was left with big daddy on the other side. I had to throw her my credit card or some cash so sweet TayTay could join us. Look at those photo's Tay took!!! She rocks!!ReplyDelete
I can't wait for the next post!!!
I am so glad you remembered that subway thing correctly.... I am getting old. LOL...ReplyDelete
pst.... these photos are mine... I haven't even uploaded hers yet.. I am going to have her do a photo essay post. She has such an amazing eye with photography.
I think I mentioned on one of your other posts how I have always wanted to go to New York. This is supposed to be our next big trip ( a few years ago it was Williamsburg/Jamestown, and Washington DC).ReplyDelete
Your photos are beautiful!
oh thanks Denise! I recommend you all get more sleep than we did..LOL I hope to have the rest of the posts about our trip up this weekend. I only have about 3000 pictures to pic through! ACK! WHen I was 18 I went on a tour that took me to williamsburg, DC and NYC. I would like to go back to the first two with the kids soon.ReplyDelete


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In the first installment of this season's Player of the Block awards I have changed it slightly since last year. I've included a Batter & Pitcher of the block for each league. With that, below are the highlights for block 1.
BARRY BONDS (SF) -- AL Batter of the Block
Barry leads the AL in OBP, SLG, OPS, HRs, RS, and RBI. His OPS for the block was an impressive 1.676 (an MSL record for a block). It's still early, but with his 15 home runs, he is on pace to hit 106 this season!! Barry's line: .386 BA, .547 OBP, 15 HR, 25 RBI
ERIC CHAVEZ (PIT) -- NL Batter of the Block
Eric led the NL in Home Runs and SLG. The 3B also used his gold glove to help Pittsburgh off to a quick start. Eric's line: .329 BA, .380 OBP, 9 HR, 17 RBI, 2 SB.
JAMIE MOYER (SEA) -- AL Pitcher of the Block
Jamie went 4-0 on the block, with 3 complete game shutouts! His ERA for the block a mere 0.91. Jamie's line: 4-0, 0.91 ERA, 0.76 WHIP, 39.2 IP, 32 K.
ANDY PETTITTE (NY) -- NL Pitcher of the Block
Andy led the Yankees with a 4-0 record on the block. Andy's line: 4-0, 2.61 ERA, 31 IP, 23 K.
Honorable Mentions...
Alex Rodriguez (AL) .373 BA, 8 HR, 24 RBI
Manny Ramirez (AL) 10 HR, 15 RBI
Jason Giambi (NL) .511 OBP, .361 BA, 7 HR, 15 RBI
Paul Konerko (NL) .338 BA, 20 RBI
Freddy Garcia (AL) 4-0, 1.77 ERA
Barry Zito (NL) 3-0, 1.42 ERA
Todd Ritchie (NL) 3-0 2.90 ERA


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I've seen many directions for installing aircrack-ng on Ubuntu 12.04, and for the mose part they are all just cut-n-paste of each other involving editing text and such.. A bit of searching and I found a PPA run by a user named PHI-RHO making it muck easier.
If you are using Ubuntu 12.04 just copy the following two lines and add them to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pi-rho/security/ubuntu precise main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/pi-rho/security/ubuntu precise main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/pi-rho/security/ubuntu precise main
Drop to a terminal:
In Unity
In Gnome Classic
In Kubuntu
In Xubuntu
In Lubuntu
Thanks to http://www.psychocats.net for the above images... BTW: Check them out for lots of cool info!
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
hit PGDN until you are at the end of the file
Hit CTL-W to save the file
hit CTL-X to exit
Hit CTL-W to save the file
hit CTL-X to exit
Now copy the following line and paste it into the terminal you opened or just open another
sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install aircrack-ng
With any luck that should be it, you can test to make sure it is installed by typing airmon-ng at the terminal prompt. It won't run because we didn't tell it what to do, but if you see a help screen, your install worked.
Now for installing Reaver. Go back to a terminal and cut and paste hit enter and let it go.
sudo apt-get -y install libpcap-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev libpcap0.8-dev ; cd ~; wget http://reaver-wps.googlecode.com/files/reaver-1.4.tar.gz ; tar -xzvf ~/reaver-1.4.tar.gz; cd ~/reaver-1.4/src ; ./configure; make; sudo make install; cd ~ && rm -rf ~/reaver-1.4 ; rm reaver-1.4.tar.gz
Now test to make sure it installed by typing reaver at the the command line and hit enter, it should give you a help screen since you didn't tell it to do anything.
Now to test reaver on your AP (or one you have permission to test on)
If you know the name of your wireless interface just skip this part
type ifconfig at the command line and look wor something like wlan0 wlan1 ath0.. anything that starts with eth is a wired connection
Put the interface into monitor mode. This will give you another interface usually mon0, but your case might be different.
sudo airmon-ng start wlan0 #or whatever your interface name is
Find the mac address of your target AP
sudo airodump-ng mon0
wait until you see your AP name show up, hit CRL-C to exit airodump-ng
Now run reaver and susbstitute the mac address of your AP for xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
sudo reaver -a -i mon0 -b xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx -vv
Now just go about your work and check in about 10 hours.
Hopefully everything works well for you!


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The Supremes have decided that local government can condemn land and give it to developers who will develop the land for an increased tax to the government.
Nothing to see here, folks. Go on back to your homes and families. It was just the Supreme Court doing their job.
Now, a mere few days after the decision it turns out that Justice Souter, who voted in favor of the condemnation for incresed tax revenue, may soon be homeless, if a real estate developer gets his way and causes the judge's property to be condemned.
Oh, please. Please let it be so. We really need this one. We need to know there is a cosmic sense of humor and proportion that strikes once in a while.
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Condemnation of Land and What Goes Around . . .
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- Secretus said...
finally someone esle writing about this! I hope everyone else is pissed off about the eminent domain thing too... I mean come on! Every American just lost some of their prioperty rights. WTF!
-Just thinking aloud-
There is an expectation of my and other folks' retirement, in xx years, somewhere whithin boundaries of "Sandy Paper" designated area.
On the bright side, I should become a developer, generate tax revenue, and the government, in return, will increase human well-being.
Problem is, I have nothing to develop other than my vegetable garden. And, I have not heard about altruists in the government.
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Its officially here, Kate Moss for Topshop and what a party it became. Nothing prepared us for yesterdays launch at the flagship shop at Oxford Circus, a stampede of fans and shopaholics covered every square inch of Oxford Street hopping to get a glimpse of Kate and a chance to shop the collection.
Not only was there a party inside the store, but Honest Burger, FRAE frozen yogurt and Lola's Cupcakes made queueing fun be offering mini burgers, delicious frozen yogurt and sweet tasty cupcakes.
The collection hasn't even been live for a day and already pieces of Kate Moss Topshop Collection is sold out online. You can shop the collection at Topshop.com, Net-a-Porter.com and depending what country your in Canada has it online at TheBay.com and if you shopping from USA Nordstorm.com. But hurry net-a-porter is sold out of over half their items already!
Check out the madness the launch created on Oxford Street.
And lets not forget Kate has the coolest besties supporting her big launch!
All dressed in Kate Moss for Topshop, Kate's VIP after party!
Suki, Cara, Sienna, Naomi and Kate


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Today is Sunday January 25, 2009. I was released from the Hospital on Friday afternoon after it was determined that my spike in temperature was not due to an infection but probably due to the engraftment process or possibly a reaction to the Neulasta shot I received on Monday. In any case it was all good news and Lynn and I were allowed to return home on Friday night. Just coming home made me feel like I was half way to recovery.
On Saturday morning we were back at the Huntsman for lab work and a follow up visit. When the PA showed up with my lab results the first words out of her mouth were "You are the rock-star of transplants". I am almost positive that this is the first time in my life that my name and the word rock-star have ever appeared in the same sentence. She then went through all the test results which showed that I was fully engrafted and no longer neutropenic. We were extremely happy with the results, but the truth is, all I really heard was that someone had called me a rock-star.
The rock-star comment, along with being called a gangster, are two of the nicest compliments I have received during this process. The gangster comment came from the church Christmas party (which I was unable to attend due to being restricted to the house at the time). The Ward made a large card for me and it was signed by the members with various greetings and words of encouragement. Of particular note was one young man who wrote "You are a gangster for going through this. Hope you get well. Prayers and thoughts are with you". Who would have thought that being called a rock-star and a gangster would lift the spirits of an old man going through cancer treatment, but they have.
Anyway, the bottom line is that all is going well. They said I could expect another week of lingering side-effects from the transplant and then I should feel pretty good for a few weeks while my body heals and gets ready for transplant #2.
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The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution.
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Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. First edition 8vo. 274 pp. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped and worn. Light rubbing to covers. Otherwise book is fresh and clean. Near Fine in Near Fine dj Cloth 0877225362 (Item ID: 59837)
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The 5th Human - April Seifert of Minneapolis, Minnesota - Data Analyst, Podcast Host
|Image: Photography from Eileen
What I know for sure is that she and I had formed a jump rope club, which met at recess on the playground. It would have probably involved kickball as well, and April was the club's president.
Now here she is speaking with me from her work space at home in Minnesota. She's wearing a T-shirt, her brown hair is tucked behind her ear on one side, and there's that same smile.
Midwest, Not Exactly by Choice
April was born in 1980 and grew up in the small town of Mandan, North Dakota. It was one of those towns, she says, "where everybody knows each other and everybody sort of knows each other's business." Mandan was "very white, very Christian, and it felt—I don't know what the right word is to describe it," she explains, "but it felt like that is where everybody stayed; even when they left ... they just naturally gravitated back to that place."
She left Mandan after high school and moved to Fargo for university, where she lived for four years. She would come back to Mandan only during the summers and holidays. "I tried so hard to get out of the Midwest," April laughs, but she received a full scholarship to attend the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, so that's where she stayed for the duration of her graduate education.
April now lives on the western side of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area, which she describes as being more diverse than her hometown. And though she lives in a quiet area on a couple of acres, where she can look out her window at a pond and at deer roaming in the yard, her home is only a 15-minute drive from downtown. "It's just a neat balance, but there's a lot more options here."
Other places she and her husband might consider moving to one day include Australia and the Pacific Northwest.
The Joy: An Inspiring Woman Inspiring Women
In 2016, April left her 9 to 5 "normal, corporate job" and branched out on her own, launching her own data science company. Though this self-employment venture has been a success that has defied her expectations, April's most recent pride and joy is her Women Inspired! podcast, featuring weekly interviews with inspiring women from around the globe.
"I'm really, really passionate about [the podcast]," she says. What drives her is her commitment and strong drive "to help people show up really well every day, and live really great lives." We don't have all that many days on Earth, April explains, so she wants people "to live them in the most optimal way they can."
When I ask her what other profession she might like to attempt, she responds, "Now that I've started interviewing people for the podcast, and I'm a serial networker—I just love it, I would do it all day long for my job—I think it would be fun to be a journalist." She loves meeting people and getting to know their stories.
Knowledge Leads to Growth and Change
Though April was raised Catholic, she began to identify as atheist midway through graduate school. "There were always pieces of the religion that didn't quite jibe with me, but it's just kinda like where I grew up and what everybody did, and it didn't really occur to me that it was a decision I could make," she says.
When I ask her what the main turning point was in her change from Christian to atheist, she says that she was becoming increasingly concerned about aspects of the Catholic faith that were huge turn-offs, such as "the child molestation and the cover-up of it," along with "the views toward women within Catholicism—some of the views toward really any outgroup ... gays, the LGBT community, it was just so unaccepting."
"I went to graduate school to study stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination," April continues, "And it was so hard for me to see how a religion that would say that they were accepting and about this figure named Jesus who was this accepting, wonderful person, could have those sides of it as well." That, she says, was the crack in the foundation that led her to start thinking and reading more about the topic of faith and belief.
Due to her love of science-driven nonfiction, she was drawn to books such as Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne, which "widened the crack." April then read Sam Harris's Letter to a Christian Nation, to which her response was, "Oh my god, I can't argue with any of this! What does that mean?!" This new information, she says, was difficult for her to reconcile in her mind at first, but had a kind of "trickle effect." She reached a point where she could no longer call herself a Christian.
The Sorrow: Healthcare and Civic Responsibilities
April works primarily with healthcare companies in her job as a data analyst, so she is particularly concerned about the effects that the Trump administration might have on healthcare. "The way I try to talk to my mom and other people about it," she explains, is that healthcare legislation "has so much less to do with who the person is who inhabits a particular office; it's more about what legislation are they putting forward and how will it impact people." Healthcare, April continues, is "so fundamental, and so important to people and to their lives."
Near the end of our 54-minute interview, we discuss the recent US election. "What was one of the toughest things about the election to me is the number of people who didn't participate," April says. "How many countries," she continues, "are people not given the option to participate, and a lot of people in our country just decided not to."
She understands that maybe people's ideal candidate wasn't running this time around, but that's the time "to buck up and be a grown up, and make the best decision given the hand you're dealt." We all have to make decisions about what is important to us and to our families, she concludes, but "you can't do that by sitting on the couch."
|Image: Photography from Eileen
April, Word for Word
Q: Tell me about the little things in life that give you the most joy.
A: "I love, love, love mornings. I like how quiet they are. And I do everything I can to not be rushed and frazzled in the morning, if that means that I get up at 4:45—for whatever reason, so be it. I like being out in trees on a trail, so if you can get me out among trees, I love that. I like living in a place where there's seasons. I like watching the seasons change each year. It's funny, because I tell people that I'm—yeah atheist, but sort of a spiritual atheist, and I think a lot of people use that term, but for me what it means is that I'm really impressed by this one shot at this place that we've been given. As much as possible—it's really hard on a day to day basis—but try not to take it for granted, and I think life hands you little lessons if you're willing to recognize them, and sometimes they come with very strong negative emotions. And if you're willing to sit with those and process them and feel them without pushing them away, you can learn a lot."
Q: Would you consider yourself to be more introverted or extroverted?
A: "I definitely do need time away from people, and it's a marker of an introvert where you get tired sometimes by a lot of social interaction. I find that that's less the case now, though, that I'm self-employed, so I do get time, that part of me is fed. And now that my daughter—she's only a year—so there's no conversation there, so my alone time is filled, like that tank is full. So I think these days I operate much more like an extrovert, like I said—love networking, love meeting people, love getting to know them … I would do that for my job if I could, all day, every day."
Q: What do you perceive as your top virtue and vice?
A: "Kindness for sure on the virtue side, because I like how [the chart you sent me] was talking about friendship for its own sake, without prejudice and without resentment, so that definitely describes me. … Maybe [my top vice] is envy, I guess. … It's been sort of a personal transition to move beyond, to be able to really, authentically support somebody else when they are doing something great, and to not actually feel that little bit of envy for that person. I feel like I'm way, way further now, but it was something that has been a journey, realizing that someone else's success is not a zero-sum game. Them being successful has nothing to do with my level of success."
Q: Do you have a favourite TV show or film?
A: "I hate movies. I don't watch them. I really do. I can't do it. I don't dissociate from like—most people in a movie theatre, my husband will make me go once in a while, and everybody else that's there is immersed in the movie and watching, and I'm still in the room. I can't dissociate from the room, and I'm like, 'God, we've been here a long time.' So I don't watch any movies hardly at all. TV, it's either the news and things like that, or it's like way at the other end of the spectrum, The Real Housewives. ... I think I go, go, go, go, go at just as much capacity as I possibly can, until I just can't anymore, so at some point at the end of the day, I'm like click ... and that's when The Real Housewives come on. (laughs)"
Q: What is your favourite book?
A: "Oh man, that is really, really, really hard. This is gonna sound so cheesy, and maybe it's just because it has a special place in my heart, and it got me through a really rough time period in graduate school, and maybe it's because I'm excited to read it to my daughter. Super cheesy, not like me, the Harry Potter series. I just loved those books. I love that since they've been out, there's been a lot of research showing that kids who read them are more accepting of other people and of diversity. I love that, and I'm really excited for my daughter to be of an age where I can read them to her. And I love J. K. Rowling's story of just going from nothing to this titan that she is now, and the way she's handled herself when she's gotten there."
Q: [With the exception of the Harry Potter series] it seems like you don't really like fiction. Was this always the case, or was there a moment when you decided you weren't doing that anymore?
A: "I think I have always really loved to learn, and I've always loved the mental challenge of learning. I mean I'm never not taking a class, even now. I'm a Coursera junky. I'm completely addicted to that type of thing, and so I like nonfiction because it does that for me. ... I joke that if I ever retired now, I would have 10 PhD's by the time I was dead, because I would just go to school, like I wouldn't stop."
Q: If you had one message for the world, what would it be?
A: "Life is short and take this experience that you have here—take it seriously. And by that I mean show up every day and make the most of it, as much as you possibly can. You can take risks with it, you can try new things with it, like go out and get some experiences, because your time here is just so short. I would encourage everybody to use it to its fullest, and take it seriously that your time here is not guaranteed and it's not long. … Most of the time the risks that you are contemplating taking, usually the worst case scenario isn't actually that bad, and usually the worst case scenario is not likely to happen. More so, you are likely to miss out on an amazing experience by being afraid of taking a risk. That ability to move forward in the face of fear, to take the risk even though you're nervous—'cause everyone's scared, everyone's nervous, but some people act even though they are—it's a muscle, and you can elevate your threshold and your ability to handle fear responses. And your risk tolerance, you can push that level up if you work on it, and it's so worth it. I think about where I was when I was living in my small hometown, when I moved to undergrad, just the fears that I had, the anxieties that I had, how that felt and how I feel now, having diligently worked on my risk tolerance and the way that I react when I'm afraid. I'm so grateful for every experience that I've had, because literally if I died tomorrow, I'd be like, 'Damn, that was fun. Yeah, I got a big list of stuff I still wanna do, but damn, that was fun.' And I really want that for everyone, to be able to feel that, that they didn't avoid doing everything because they were so afraid of it."
Q: What are you most afraid of?
A: "Like legit, things that scare me, I'm afraid of fish. I scuba dive and I'm afraid of fish, like a lot afraid of fish. I have these weird little phobias, like I'm afraid of—these all sort of package together—I'm afraid of balloons popping, I'm afraid of pulling chopsticks apart, I'm afraid of opening champagne bottles, anything where I'm like, 'Oh my god, when's it gonna happen?!' I can't handle the anticipation. I can't do it. So like stupid things day to day. Broader, and this is getting sort of deep a little bit, but I'm afraid of losing people that I love. I lost my dad growing up when I was very young. I lost my stepdad more recently, and I think when you go through those experiences, especially given the non-religious leanings that I have, you realize how precious it is when we're here."
Q: When you're not working, what are some of your hobbies?
A: "Well, I am sort of an experience junky. These days I spend a tonne of time chasing after a one-year-old. She started walking at 10 months, so I chase after her, but in general I really like adventure sports, so I have my skydive licence. I haven't jumped since I had the baby. … My husband and I are both scuba-certified, so we love that kind of stuff. I love to cook. I love really complicated new recipes, and I like reading nonfiction related stuff. I fill up every minute of the day. I'm not a very good person to sit still. I don't allow myself to have any margin."
Q: What's your most prized possession?
A: "I'm sort of a believer in tangible things that help remind me of people. So I have my grandmother's recipe book from when she was married to my grandpa, who I never met. He passed away when my dad was 16. This was her recipe book that she cut out recipes from the newspaper decades ago. She only went to school through I think the fifth grade, so she can't spell very well, and she would write these notes in this recipe book about which recipes were really good and who was there when she served them. And it's funny because growing up German, we ate a lot of German food, and it was a lot of her food, but the recipes are like indecipherable. 'Step 1: make a good dough.' There's no ingredients, you should just know how to do this. So it's always fun to take on the challenge of making one of her recipes, because it takes me like nine times before it starts to look like food, (laughing) because I can't figure out what is in it, and how much."
Random April Facts
If she could pack up right now and live in another country for six months she would choose Vienna, Austria, where one of her great friends lives; Tanzania, where she and her husband went for their honeymoon; or to Iceland, which she says looks so beautiful and the hiking looks amazing.
April is currently reading Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss, about the things he has learned from all the amazing people he's interviewed; and The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women by Valerie Young, "all about thriving, even when you have sort of the impostor syndrome."
She believed that she would never get married, and remembers thinking, "I will never ever, ever be able to say 'yes' to somebody, I'll never be able to be certain enough about somebody that I would say 'yes' to them if they asked me to marry them." But then when her husband proposed, April says that saying yes "was the easiest thing" she's ever done.
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My personal story of Survival to thrival
Ismail Abdi, Arizona, North America.
Ismail Abdi, Arizona, North America.
The serene, tranquil environment was suddenly pierced by the deafening sound of gunfire. Mortar shelling rent the air as hell broke loose in the sleepy village of Seyla on the outskirts of the city of Badade in south western Somalia. A heavy grenade exploded a few yards away from our house sending a cloud of thick, black smoke into the sky. Fire caught our neighbor's house and as I took shelter under my bed, I saw people fleeing in all directions. I heard the screams of kids and the wailing of mothers as the militia ran a mock.
The flames were still burning the following day when the few remnants of the once populous village gathered at my father's barn to figure out how to make it to the Kenyan border. After two weeks of pure hell where we played mouse and cat with the militia, we made it to the Kenyan border where the UN refugee agency {UNHCR} welcomed us with a hot meal and clean water. The image of UN workers and volunteers dressed in blue overalls working long hours to save the lives of the elderly, the injured and the sick and the kids suffering from malnutrition left a mark on me.
Few days after the UNHCR settled us in the middle of the Kenyan desert, dad enrolled me in a school. It was a far cry from the beautiful school I attended while in Somalia. Unlike my previous school, I sat on the dusty floor and had no book to write on. I drew the English letters on the floor and read to the teacher who "corrected" my work with his long white cane. Twelve years later, I successfully graduated from the school and started doing voluntary work with the refugee youth committee. With the help of the community & operating agencies, we worked on creating
Awareness on the risks of female genital mutilation, early marriage and HIV/AIDS among others. One of our key goals was to improve female participation in decision-making and I achieved that by starting the female leadership program. The program was aimed at empowering girls to be more pro-active in the community.
More community-based voluntary work followed before my passion for kids lured me to take a position with Save the Children, UK. . On the day I got my first job as a community service, the memory of that hot day in 1991 lingered in my mind longer than any other thought or recollection. On the dusty and dangerous blocks of Dadaab, I became child protection worker. In a place where the law was vague and easily buyable, protecting unaccompanied minors was no mean feat.
When the US government decided to resettle long protracted refugees in Dadaab, I considered it for it presented an opportunity for growth; not just personal growth but also a growth in the goals and ambitions I long harbored.
Life in Chicago proved very hard. When it snowed, I called home and told dad that America is a land full of miracles. I moved to Colorado where friends from Dadaab lived but little did I know that they had worse winter. When it got too cold to bear, I asked dad for advice. The response, "son, do you really believe someone in Dadaab can give you advice on how to handle cold weather?" Oh that was foolish of me, wasn't it?
Relatives in Arizona called to say that if I moved there, it will be a chance for me to reunite with the desert. The desert was the bait and I swallowed it. A week later, I found myself buckling under the heat of Tucson.
I was into my early morning habit of fixing myself a cup of hot, sugary Somali tea when I was interrupted by a feeble knock on the door. When I opened it, I found myself staring at an old accomplice of mine from Dadaab. The long, exaggerated Somali hug and niceties followed and before I knew my kitchen was engulfed in light-blue smoke. Apparently my accomplice wanted help with his "papers" and since I spoke the "mouth" of the western people, I would be helpful or so he thought and led me to the International Rescue Committee office. He needed help with immigration stuff and I volunteered to translate for him. When I got into the IRC office, I felt at home. Two African-looking men spoke in a language I was familiar with while a lady who sat by my accomplice cursed her daughter in Amharic. Folks spoke the "humanitarian" language and the tone of their voice suggested I was in a very familiar place.
I spoke with some of the staff and before long; I got to accept the fact that there was no turning point and working for refugees was the best dream I could ever thought. This was the place and I had to get into the mix. The inevitable call came and I can't believe it's been years since then. If anything, I have grown in leaps and bounds. More educated, more enlightened, more experienced, and yes much taller.


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Ranking The NFL Team Jerseys; Which Is Better, Classic Or Concept?October 15, 2010
Ranking The NFL Team Jerseys; Which Is Better, Classic Or Concept?
I had a few requests to rank the jerseys for NFL teams after I composed a slideshow of the logos, so here it is. Current jerseys are used; alternates are included, but not throwbacks.
I wanted to keep it simple while still allowing a little bit of freedom to choose the best jersey the team has to offer at the same time. However, I may throw a few honorable mentions in there from time to time as well.
32. Cleveland Browns
We all know there isn't much the Browns are good at, but they do have fans that would buy their jerseys...if they didn't look so putrid.
Nothing is brown anymore—not since 1980s station wagons went out of style.
The simplicity of the garb accentuates the simplicity of the team.
31. Indianapolis Colts
Peyton Manning can save his team on the field, but they get no such saving grace from their jerseys.
The stripes to nowhere have always looked outdated, just like the uniform itself. Very plain, without enough interesting colors or trends to consider it "classic." Just plain.
30. New York Giants
Hey look, it's the Colts' jerseys, in red. They moved the stripes down a bit to mold around the shoulders, but they still stop in the middle of nowhere.
The jerseys are plain again, with generic lettering and styling.
The blue alternate jerseys are worthy of being ranked lower than this, as the whole team looks like a bundle of blueberries on the field when they wear them.
29. New Orleans Saints
I actually like the black Saints jerseys more, but it seems they have abandoned them this year, and luckily for the fans, they abandoned those gold ones last season.
At least they attempt to add some color around the numbers and name, and the pants are decent, although they remind me of David Bowie's pants in Stardust. Thinking of that made me want to put them below the Browns just now.
28. Dallas Cowboys
Plain is an understatement in the Cowboys' uniforms. They're lower than normal because I personally liked the older jerseys with the big star on the shoulder that Dallas brings back from time to time.
Regular styling, sleeve stripes and a neutral blue ruin these jerseys.
27. Kansas City Chiefs
They look like giant fire trucks charging down the road, but the red has always been a great color.
The only drawback in the simplistic design is that they look like the Kansas City Ronald McDonalds.
26. New York Jets
Not even Sexy Rexy can save Gang Green in this battle. Being a person who likes the color green quite a bit, I just have to point out that these unis are pretty plain as well.
The contrasting colors on the sleeves and one shoulder stripe are a good reprieve from the normal stripes, but they can't pull these jerseys out of the bottom 10.
25. Philadelphia Eagles
The Eagles uniforms excite you from the head to the neck, sporting a great helmet (though I like the older ones better.) The jerseys throw some changes in, but again we just see plain colors and an out-of-place-looking logo on the sleeves.
24. Oakland Raiders
The Raiders won my contest for best logo, and they proudly sport it on their helmets. Their jerseys only made it this far because of the unique silver and black color scheme utilized.
This is a team that will probably never change their jerseys, and I don't see how they even would if they could—but would a silver side stripe kill anyone?
23. Minnesota Vikings
The Vikes have a great helmet and awesome color scheme. This jersey just looks too much like a women's roller derby team to me.
It is a valiant effort to space themselves from the regular-looking jerseys that Minnesota sported in the past, and they've worn them a lot this season so far as well.
I can't help but think this jersey might be better if they switched colors with the Jets; the purple is just too much.
22. Houston Texans
The red, white and blue colors are overused quite a bit in team color schemes, and the Texans are the worst of the bunch.
A very small shoulder stripe looks out of place, and I can't help but think they would be better matched with a gray base with red and blue accents.
21. Jacksonville Jaguars
I like the teal coloring and the number styling but can't understand the terrible piping on the jersey's front, sides and back (piping because it isn't large enough to be a stripe).
The class is getting better, but still far away from good. This jersey is another example of roller derby unis.
20. New England Patriots
The Patriots have that red/white/blue scheme but alter the colors a bit from their old unis, adopting a stronger red and more of a navy blue.
The silver adds some good accents, but the jersey itself is kind of plain.
I will point out that the logo on the sleeve doesn't look as out of place as the one on the Philly jersey.
19. Green Bay Packers
They make it this far on classic draw, because these uniforms have never been really innovative, nor is it an appealing color scheme, but if you have ever been to Wisconsin they make sense: yellow cheese and green grass.
18. Buffalo Bills
The lone red/white/blue scheme keeps it clean while using a good color set with vibrant attributes. They tie in great to the classic logo.
That is the ugliest buffalo I have ever seen though. It looks more like something from Where the Wild Things Are.
17. San Francisco 49ers
The red is simple, but the color is different and just flows nicely with the gold. Another classic that hasn't been altered too much, but the jersey I like the best from them are their black alternate ones they rarely ever wear, so infrequently so that I couldn't acquire a picture of them.
I will say they would have been higher if they had kept last season's styling, however.
I am not sure if I would like it or not, but maybe change the number style to the old-time-looking original "49" look, just to see if it works—it did for the Ohio State Nike Pro Combat uniforms.
16. Washington Redskins
I am a fan of the maroon, but the mustard yellow coloring is borderline nauseating. The uniforms have a classic feel although they have been altered a bit from the older rags, but the sleeves don't have too much on them, and they continue to look good on the field.
15. Arizona Cardinals
Nice color combination for one that is used often. Again, I prefer the black uniforms they wear.
The layering that is a bit difficult to see around the shoulders and arm sleeves really sets the uniform apart from others, and the pants have an interesting asymmetrical design as well.
14. St. Louis Rams
The Rams switched their colors from French's mustard yellow to gold after their Super Bowl victory in 2000 and also changed their flat blue for a deeper navy. The colors mesh well along with the helmet to create a visually appealing jersey.
The logos on the sleeve are down low enough and bordered by contrasting colors that help them pop.
13. Seattle Seahawks
The blue-ish, gray-ish pewter color the Seahawks use is a great original color, and I have always been a fan of the neon-colored accent on their logo that shines through in the piping and striping of the jerseys.
A side note: I love the Day-Glo green jerseys that are all neon green. People bash them, but they're just going along with the crowd. Those unis are awesome.
12. Chicago Bears
Bright orange and navy is an interesting scheme, but this jersey is a classic, and the "GSH" on the arm to pay homage to George Halas is a great touch.
The Bears didn't forget their roots when designing these jerseys, and while they may switch up the color a bit (see the all-orange alternates), this is one jersey I don't think will ever really change.
11. Miami Dolphins
They're teal and orange, and from Florida. What's not to like? Then, when you get tired of the teal, they break out the orange alternates. Boom goes the dynamite.
10. Atlanta Falcons
The Falcons have a sharp, modern design to go with their logos. The shoulder design reaches down the side, and the striping down the pants has an original look that bleeds to the socks. Bring back the red helmets.
9. Carolina Panthers
The Panthers exploit one of the greatest color combos you can get in football: black and blue. Throw the silver in there, and these jerseys look great streaking down the field.
The black alternates have a nice look to them as well, and the large crescent shoulder colors with the "tooth" pant design really set these outfits off.
8. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
I really like the bronze coloring the Bucs put to use, and they have an interesting red to go along with it. The old-school orange pays homage to their forgettable past, but at least that's the only thing they strive to recreate from their "Yucks" days.
7. Tennessee Titans
The off-setting blues work well with Nashville's finest, the number styling is unique and alternate logos on the sleeve are better than their normal ones.
The baby blue flushes well no matter what way it is styled, making these jerseys look just as good as the whites and the navy concepts.
6. Baltimore Ravens
Unique number styling, great throwback Baltimore shield on the sleeves and a vibrant purple make the Ravens' jerseys top-notch. The black ones also work well, as do the whites with nice colored accents.
Ray Lewis has made purple a feared man's color.
5. Detroit Lions
The Lions underwent a makeover with their logo and jerseys recently, and I dig the more aggressive look. They went from a neutral styling to one that still looks classic, but updated.
A lot of the plain teams can take a hint from the Lions, as they don't really add much, but a simple style change on the numbers and bolder stripes on the sleeves go a long way.
4. San Diego Chargers
I don't really like the small bolts on the shoulders that end nowhere, but it isn't enough to stop this jersey. The colors meld great with the yellow, and the base colors they manipulate all look great.
The number font is original, and if the Bolts just changed the logo size and placement a bit, they would be awesome unis.
3. Cincinnati Bengals
They're Bengals, and that's what they look like. The black jerseys look cool with the orange accents and striping, but the orange jerseys are where it's at in the Nati.
Thankfully, the Bengals didn't stripe the whole jersey, but you know someone in Cincinnati had that idea at one point in time.
2. Pittsburgh Steelers
The Steel City has great uniforms that are classic, but that's okay because back when the Steel Curtain ruled the gridiron, they were way before their time. Great number styling, bold and aggressive colors, and an overall sharp feel make these jerseys all-time awesome.
1. Denver Broncos
The Broncos originated the Orange Crush jerseys, and they still use them. The first is almost always the best, and that holds true to Denver in a time where orange alternates are being used by many teams.
The navy is an update from the old blue as many teams are doing, but the Broncos also originated the "tooth" design down the legs of the pants. The jerseys flow well, add innovative styling and mile-high salute their predecessors.


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