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NBA Finals Pre-Game Meal and Cocktails At Prime One Twelve
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We headed down to Miami to support our friend Jason Kidd in hopes that the Dallas Mavericks would close out the series in game 6 against the Miami Heat. And they did it! Congrats to the Dallas Mavericks! The game was great. We were on the edge of our seats until the Mavs pulled away towards the end of the 4th quarter.
We started the night off with pre-game cocktails and dinner at Prime One Twelve. This South Beach hot spot consistently delivers great food, tasty cocktails and a cool crowd (with a few celebrity sightings). The chic space with exposed brick and outdoor seating creates an airy and hipster feel- a true departure from your average steakhouse.
This is one steakhouse that strikes a great balance- you can order an item other than steak and be satisfied. The menu is broad and delicious with hearty portions.
Bacon @ the Bar – These are my kind of bar snacks. The bacon was perfect.
Arugula Salad with Roasted Beets and Goat Cheese Croutons – Standard.
Crab Cocktail- Light and fresh….a great way to start the meal.
Kobe Beef Sliders- These bite-size treats hit the spot!
Crab Legs- Succulent.
Sea Bass- Well cooked and seasoned nicely with asian influences.
Crab Crusted Grouper- Nicely done! The horseradish butter was an excellent compliment to the fish.
Chicken- Moist and flavorful….both the chicken and mashed potatoes.
Mac & Cheese- Mouth-watering yumminess. We had one with truffles and the other was packed with chunks of lobster.
Bone-In Rib Eye- Superb…charcoal crisp on the outside and juicy and tender on the inside.
Moscow Mule – This seems to be one of my go-to summer cocktails. It's so light and refreshing!
After the game, we headed over to LIV for the big celebration! And I can't remember the rest. LOL
Prime One Twelve- 112 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, Florida / 305-532-8112
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I went on a great meandering walk yesterday with two of my awesomest friends. It was really nice to get out there, have a good talk (ok when I wasn't all out of breath from walking up hills!) and I just love getting exercise out there with other people. Also, I really love where I live. It's so pretty!
Here is how I did yesterday:
Burned 2727 calories
Consumed 1480 calories
Deficit of 1247 calories
So yesterday's blog post is something I felt super strongly about, because I hate when people think my confidence is undeserved, that I should hide in a corner just because I'm fat. I may be shy but when you get to know me I am...well I'm really pleased with myself! But the comments on the post were so great, they put just a HUGE smile on my face all day - what an awesome feeling :) you guys are great, so thank you so much for reading and thank you for commenting!!
Today though I am thinking about dinner - I woke up thinking about dinner. In a good way, I promise! Long, long ago, when Husbandcake was Boyfriendcake and we lived out in San Francisco - we got bored with our food. I found myself making the same few dishes week after week and never changing it up. So we came up with an awesome idea - New Recipe Monday. Every Monday a brand new recipe, something totally different. And on lazy Mondays...well we still tried something, even if it was as simple as a new and different premade pasta sauce. But like all awesome ideas (even my very favorite, which I will call "Give KyokoCake $100 Spending Money For Every Pound Lost") it just died out as time went on.
Well I'm planning on making those Monday walks a regular thing (whether or not my friends like it) so Mondays are out. It wasn't a super long walk but I was exhausted yesterday, and definitely not up for cooking. So I've decided that I am going to make it New Recipe Tuesday - with a twist! I'm going to try new and only healthy recipes. Every Tuesday, something different, something really good for me.
What should I do today? I had this plan to make what sounds like delicious banana ice cream - but I was thinking that I am feeling really ambitious today and I want to make super healthy dinner beforehand. Any ideas? There are so many recipes out there I don't even know where to start, except that it's easy to cut a ton of them out because I don't eat spicy food, nor do I eat anything that has black pepper in it. Other than that though, no clues!!
Last random subject change in that I'm really trying to reach my weekly goal and I want to ask anyone else out there - is it worth it to spend money on a good bike? I don't think I would ever go on trail rides - so it would mostly be to go to the grocery store (2.5 miles each way) or maybe a little farther to run errands. I do live in a hilly area, on a hill, and my options are:
I don't mind spending the money I am just wondering if anyone else thinks it's worth it?

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Left to right, here's Professor Stuart Sumida, Red Stick Director Stacey Simmons, Dougie Pincott, myself, and Pete "Pedro Diablo" Draper. This was on my first night getting over to Baton Rouge last week for the festival, and it was lovely to spend some quality time with a bunch of old friends. Stuart digs up dinosaur bones for a living, as well as consulting on numerous motion pictures re: anthropology, paleantology, anatomy and physical motion. He has the best job in the world. Official. But you just try bringing up Jurassic Park with him, saying "Could happen..." and watch the fur fly!
Genuinely, I hadn't really been drinking. I'd got off the plane after an extremely long flight. The same, however, can not be said for Dougie...
Graham and Badger in addition on this one - these chaps are the drivers from the Animex Festival, and such is the friendly, familiar nature of both festivals, the two were invited out by Stacey this year. Top blokes.
And the last roll call here - Cliff Cohen from Animaction, Tom Martinek from Industrial Light & Magic, the rest of us as before and on the far right a lovely lady who by all accounts appeared to be a preschool nazi. By her own admission, I might add.
I held a talk on how we brought Frankenstein's Cat to life (so to speak) at the festival, where I got to show loads of clips and early footage, topped and tailed by the finished thing. I followed this up with a character design workshop the next day which was really well attended and I hope proved useful to the participants - it's always tricky with a workshop not knowing the spread of ability within the group, but I was hugely impressed by some of the guys present. Eric and Mike and the other chaps - a pleasure to meet y'all!
And huge thankyous to Stacey and Steve Beck for getting me over once more - I missed Red Stick last year through moving home, but if they'll have me back next year we'll be sure to bring the little ones.
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Wary: SMPlayer 0.6.9
September 20, 2010 — BarryKSMPlayer is a GUI frontend for mplayer, using the Qt4 library.
I have compiled it statically with Qt4, so it doesn't need the Qt4 package(s). It does however make the SMPlayer PET package somewhat large -- 4165KB.
This package will be available for installation when Wary 0.5.2 is released.
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Username: Iguleder
"Barry, at the moment I'm working on a project that shares some ideas with Woof: a .deb package downloader - you give it a distro, its version, repos to support and this tool downloads the .debs with all their dependencies. At first, I wrote it with pure ash syntax: it took about an hour to process all the packages. Yesterday I rewrote it, this time I "converted" the part does all processing and string stuff into Pascal: it's compiled statically with FPC. Then, I saw the dependencies are cut - Pascal has a limit of 255-length strings, so I did a trick: I made the Pascal processing code write the dependencies to a file before any processing. Then, a Perl (a language for messing with files and strings, hehe) script does all the processing. Now, I can process about 32,000 packages in about 10 seconds. So ... have you ever considered using static executables in Woof or woof-skeleton? It could speed up PPM and Woof.
Output of time
Username: Iguleder
"Forgot something important: here's the output of time on the whole deal (downloading the package list, decompressing them and processing them): real 0m52.595s user 0m4.447s sys 0m1.097s This includes downloading the packages, which is rather slow: the "main" Packages.bz2 took about 30 seconds to download. A PPM that resolves dependencies and downloads Ubuntu repo lists immediately ... yummy.
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Username: BarryK
"There was another project awhile back, that rewrote my '0setup' Woof script that converts the Ubuntu/Debian package databases into Puppy Standard Format -- written in C. It was blazingly fast. Hmmm, it was reported on the Puppy Forum but I can't find it. I don't know what happened there, but it's development stopped. Aah, found it... forum member Wosh created 'ppkg': http://bkhome.org/archive/blog2/200910/woof-making-0setup-faster.html http://bkhome.org/archive/blog2/200910/debian-to-puppy-database-converter.html http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=47763 ...that is good stuff, it slipped off my radar.
Username: Iguleder
"Barry, I rewrote my whole package downloader project once more, this time in Perl, so I can work on it from both my desktop computer and my netbook. Also, it's more flexible, I can edit the code and execute it without any compilation without a big impact on performance. I can't say it's fast as the Pascal experiment, but it's definitely close. It's very very fast and portable. The database processing and a script that fetches various fields from it work perfectly. At the moment I'm working on my "1download" equivalent. Once I get this thing in a good shape, would you like me to write something similar for use with Woof? I can make it write the database in PPM format ... could be useful with both Woof and PPM: it's like libjpeg and libjpeg-turbo, both are 100% compatbile, but the latter is way faster. Also, you could make PPM use multiple "engines" or "backends", just like Amarok and Mplayer - if you have enough memory, you can use the Perl backend to make it go faster. Otherwise, you can use the good ol' Bash. (if you wonder why I do this: I'm not trying to make another Woof, I'm just trying to make a script that receives an Ubuntu/Debian version, a list of repos, a list of packages and downloads all the packages plus their dependencies, can be used with another script of mine that turns a bunch of DEBs into a SFS)
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the site works and not aware of any issues connecting. Check your firewall settings.
Have been connected to their EUREX, CME and CBOT feeds for over six hours now without any problems. You may be having an internet/ connectivity issue.
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Wade McGilberry is living the dream. The 24-year-old from Alabama just won a $1 million promotional prize that came with being the first player to pitch a perfect game in "MLB 2K10." And it took him less than a day.
McGilberry [not pictured] took the perfect game to seventh, to the eighth and closed out the ninth. It had taken him less than an hour and a half to do it, he said.
"I called my wife, who was a work, and said, 'Honey, I'm done. I don't need to play anymore," McGilberry said.
McGilberry nervously submitted his tape to the folks at 2K Sports. His wife Katy thought it came so easy that some college student who didn't have to work surely did it before her husband.
2K Sports kept the contest open for two months and couldn't believe what they saw when they reviewed the time code on McGilberry's perfect game. Was it really possible that a gamer threw a perfect game in the first 24 hours the game had come out? –Darren Rovell/CNBC.
Nice going, 2K. This reminds me of that stripper scavenger hunt that Howard Stern had when the "finish line" was at the only strip club he'd ever been to in his life. Oh, and that $1 million prize was uninsured, so that's coming right out of 2K Sports' pocket. Great work, promotional department. Why don't you set aside 500 grand for the next guy to look at porn on the internet. I'm sure that won't be happening anytime soon.


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Following Richard Thaler's speech here last week about his book Nudge I have had several calls from journalists. As is often the case with policy fads there is now something of a backlash as commentators realise that 'nudging' is really no more than a set of clever techniques and not quite the new paradigm implied in some quarters.
Following Richard Thaler's speech here last week about his book Nudge I have had several calls from journalists. As is often the case with policy fads there is now something of a backlash as commentators realise that 'nudging' is really no more than a set of clever techniques and not quite the new paradigm implied in some quarters.
The most widely touted example of a nudge proposal was George Osborne's advocacy of a recycling reward scheme modelled on Recycle Bank a highly successful US initiative.
Recycle Bank is an impressive scheme overseen by an NGO which works in partnership with local councils to pick up recyclable rubbish and then hand out reward vouchers redeemable in local stores to those who recycle. From what I can ascertain the scheme starts from the assumption that there is no existing municipal scheme so that any recycling that takes place is a direct consequence of the scheme.
This is important because were there to be any existing scheme – as there is in the vast majority of UK local authorities – then this example of 'nudge' comes up against a classic problem with policy based on financial incentives; the dead weight. Osborne asserts that the policy is redistributive because:
'While the poorest households were previously the least likely to recycle, as soon as they start receiving a financial incentive for recycling, they typically become amongst the most likely households to recycle'
This may be true once the policy is in place but at the point of implementation the scheme would involve rewarding those who are already recycling.
If, as Osborne tells us, the current recyclers tend to be better off the first effect of implementing the scheme is to give middle class families a reward for something they were already doing for free. The dead weight problem doesn't necessarily kill a policy. The Government's Educational Maintenance Allowance to disadvantaged 16-18 year old who stay on at school has been seen as a success despite a huge dead weight cost.
Recycle Bank has the feel of a neighbourhood NGO initiative (albeit one that is taking place in hundreds of places), so arguably it's not the kind of scheme people might be inclined to fiddle. But given how many people are hostile to any type of government, a local authority scheme would have to address another classic policy conundrum.
How do you get the incentive right; just big enough to change behaviour but not so big to encourage cheating (people nicking each other's recycling or putting bricks at the bottom of their bin). If this sounds cynical, remember the ill-fated Individual Learning Accounts (ILAs) which foundered when rogue training companies were set up to farm people's ILAs splitting the proceeds between the bogus trainers and bogus trainees.
I remain a fan of nudging but policy making is complex and policies that look clever on paper and work with college students can founder when they are taken up by citizens and those on the lookout for a quick buck.
In an echo of the strange world of quantum mechanics the moment a policy is implemented it changes the context for which the policy was devised and is therefore bound to produce unexpected and sometimes perverse outcomes.
To end with another issue with incentives; if everyone takes up the scheme they quickly come to see the 'reward' as an entitlement. And if they then are refused the reward because they fail to recycle they see this as a punishment. In other words, if the policy of rewarding is too successful is comes to feel like the policy of fining it was supposed to replace!
It is this complexity plus the importance of underpinning schemes like these with a high level of public buy-in that leads me to conclude that such ideas work much better at the local level. That's why the Conservatives are arguing for their policy to be a council initiative. However English Council areas are so big that to many residents the town hall is as distant and oppressive as Whitehall.
Changing behaviour is hard. Nudging is a useful technique but it doesn't abolish the classic dilemmas of policy making.


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Where are the women in open source?
It gets tiresome when every time someone publishes an article about this issue, a stream of misogynistic trolls start babbling and complaining. You fucking assholes are just proving the point entirely. The real problem is that these people aren't just scaring off women, but also men who perhaps don't have time in their lives for such equivocating bullshit. Obsessing over belief in their own inflated intelligence and the inferiority of women and 'normal' people, these pathetic little men have absolutely no understanding of gender and sexuality if the general level incoherent nonsense in such comments is anything to go by. Creative, social, positive, integrative people are intensely repelled by the odorous and obnoxious cloud that seems to surround the Linux community, whose social problems are actually much worse than many are willing to accept.
I've written previously about issues surrounding the decline of women in computer science, but the open source community is another world altogether. With such a culture as it has grown from in the past 15 years, I don't think that there's too much hope for change in the Linux community. For starters, the sooner we stop thinking about Linux as the be-all and end-all of open source, the better. Don't read me wrong - I love Linux, but I feel that from the perspective of those of us who want the ideals of free software to succeed, the culture has too many deep rooted complexes that do nothing but reinforce the negative gender stereotypes that we would all be better off without. Stallman can rant about the importance of differentiating between 'free software' and 'open source' all he wants, but this is no more than ineffectual nonsense if his followers continue to drive away users and potential contributors with their misogynistic intellectual masturbation and pissing contests.
If you want your software to succeed long term, you have to make it work for todays children and teenagers first and foremost. You have to make it matter to the girls and boys, who have grown up surrounded by computers and technology, and don't have any of the 'sci-fi geek' hangups that defined the generation of kids who were exposed to the computer culture during the 80's and 90's. These younger people see the world in a completely different way. Companies like Apple and Microsoft understand this intimately and they are further ahead in terms of software usability than most people immersed in the open source world comprehend. It is inexcusable to underrate the chicken vs egg like importance of interface design, but clearly, many developers just don't grasp this at all, and the crappy software that they produce is testament to their ignorance of people using their tools and inability to prioritise their needs. Success is designed. It's really as simple as that.


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WASHINGTON February 15, 2011 - On Monday, the Telecommunications Subcommittee of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners gathered a diverse group of experts to discuss the Proposed Rulemaking on Universal Service Fund Reform the Federal Communications Commission recently issued.
The panel brought together a wide range of experts, including Joel Lubin from AT&T, James Cawley from the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, and Parul Desai from Consumers Union. The group represented a range of opinions but they all agreed that the NPRM was an essential update to the Universal Service Fund.
"It was good to see that broadband was finally included in universal service and the goal of 4Mbps down is promising," said Desai.
Cawley was also supportive of the speed goal calling it "reasonable and measured".
Mike Balhoff, from the consulting firm Balhoff & Williams, described how the group felt about the NPRM, saying, "the gun is to our heads and now necessary reform will have to occur."
Eric Einhorn from rural broadband provider Windstream, indicated that his firm was particularly pleased that the FCC choose to be technologically neutral in their plan to modify high cost support to a single entity. Einhorn hoped this would allow for true competition between wireline and wireless.
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Gregg echoed this statement, saying, "the USF is finally like other government programs with a set budget".
The only problem that the group had with the NPRM is that it failed to address contribution reform. Balhoff, Cawley and Gregg each underscored that while contribution reform was not included in the NPRM it is likely that the issue will be addressed soon. Lubin predicted that it would happen in the late spring.


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Volume 16 Issue 51 | May 14 - 20, 2004
Eating disorders: a scary phenomenon
By Dr. Amy Glaser
Anorexia nervosa and bulimia seem to arise out of nowhere. Typically observed in girls, these are psychiatric disorders that are often mystifying to family and friends as obsession about food intake and avoiding food begins to overtake a previously normal life.
Both eating disorders are on the rise. The current incidence of anorexia nervosa in adolescent girls is estimated to be about 0.5%, while 1% to 5% of adolescent girls develop bulimia. Although these percentages may seem modest, they actually reveal that these serious conditions are hardly unusual.
The causes of anorexia nervosa or bulimia are unclear, but both involve a distorted self-perception. When a teenager with anorexia nervosa looks in the mirror, she sees something different than what anyone else sees. Rather than a young, healthy woman, she perceives an unacceptably fat girl that needs to lose weight urgently. In an attempt to shed that fat, she reduces her diet to almost nothing, obsessing even about the few calories she does ingest. Indeed, it is common for the girl with anorexia nervosa to count the calories of everything she eats, weigh the food, and then exercise compulsively to burn the energy she consumes. And although she might loose her hair, miss her period become sensitive to cold, slow her heart, feel fatigued, dizzy and constipated, she still does not feel thin enough.
Bulimia is somewhat different. Instead of dieting obsessively, bulimics often eat a huge amount of food and then become guilty or depressed, seeking to rid the calories by inducing vomiting or taking laxatives. Unlike girls with anorexia nervosa, who are always thin, bulimics may or may not have substantial weight loss, but they often suffer from electrolyte disturbances, gastrointestinal bleeding, muscle weakness, and dehydration. They are also often depressed.
Eating disorders are thought to be particularly common in teenagers because of the changes in body type that take place at this time. Between the ages of 11 and 14 hormonal changes erupt, creating new shapes and unleashing feelings over which teens have little control. It is believed that those predisposed to eating disorders attempt to control their body fat as a surrogate for mastering the rapid and confusing changes in their lives. With the characteristic desire for privacy experienced by many adolescents, many teens try and often succeed in hiding this disorder from their family for months or years. Characteristically, they are unable to admit even to themselves that they have a problem.
Although eating disorders are often based on advertising and other mediators of modern culture that equate thinness with desirability, studies show that these tend to be familial. No social strata or ethnic group is insulated. However, certain familial patterns of behavior, such as using food to reward or punish or sending strong signals of approval for thinness, appear to be contributory. Those at highest risk appear to be those with low self-esteem, depression, obsessive behaviors, desire for perfection, or history of abuse. It has also been shown that the incidence of eating disorders is higher in teenagers who participate in activities that emphasize a thin physique such as dance, gymnastics, skating or diving.
With comprehensive treatment most teenagers can be relieved of the symptoms of eating disorders. Generally, a team approach is employed that includes the primary care physician, a nutritionist and a psychiatrist or psychologist. The role of the psychiatrist or psychologist may be critical in the large proportion of teens with eating disorders who suffer from concomitant issues of depression, anxiety, and substance abuse.
Parents often ask how to identify symptoms of eating disorders, which is a highly relevant question given research that shows early detection and treatment leads to more favorable outcomes. The danger signs are excessive weight loss, social withdrawal, preoccupation with being fat, and the loss of menses. Although family environment is not always a contributing factor to the development of an eating disorder, the comprehensive, long-term treatment plan may involve participation of the whole family. It is important to recognize that a restoration to normal eating behavior may involve long-term treatment, but the good news is that comprehensive care and a supportive family can be effective.
Amy Glaser MD, a mother of two teenage boys, has a private adolescent practice at 430 West Broadway, 212-941-1520. She can also be reached at email@example.com
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — UCLA hasn't fired Ben Howland as basketball coach, although his time in Westwood appears to be running out. A school spokesman said late Saturday night that contrary to multiple media reports UCLA had not fired Howland.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — UCLA hasn't fired Ben Howland as basketball coach, although his time in Westwood appears to be running out.
A school spokesman said late Saturday night that contrary to multiple media reports UCLA had not fired Howland.
Howland told the Los Angeles Times that he had not yet spoken to athletic director Dan Guerrero, who typically evaluates Howland and the program after every season. Yahoo Sports reported that Howland had already been notified that he was out.
The Bruins' season ended Friday with an 83-63 loss to Minnesota in the NCAA tournament.
Howland has a 233-107 record in 10 seasons at UCLA. He took the Bruins to three Final Fours and won four Pac-12 championships, including this season. He has two years left on his contract that includes a $2.3 million buyout.
Howland had a series of ups and downs this season that included center Joshua Smith quitting the team for personal reasons and guard Tyler Lamb leaving over a lack of playing time in the same week in November that the Bruins were upset by Cal Poly and dropped out of the Top 25.
The season opened with star recruits Shabazz Muhammad and Kyle Anderson under investigation by the NCAA.
Muhammad missed the first three games and had to repay $1,600 in impermissible benefits after the NCAA and UCLA found that he had accepted travel and lodging during three unofficial visits to Duke and North Carolina.
Anderson was cleared to play after being investigated for potential recruiting violations.
A year ago, UCLA's season ended in turmoil after the Bruins went 19-14 and missed the NCAA tournament for the second time in three years. Howland kicked standout Reeves Nelson off the team and an unflattering Sports Illustrated article suggested that the coach had lost control of the team.
But Howland bought himself more time with his best recruiting class since the program made those three straight Final Four appearances ending in 2008.
Muhammad, Anderson and Jordan Adams had standout seasons as freshmen this year, although Adams broke his foot in the Pac-12 tournament and his absence hurt the Bruins in their loss to Minnesota.
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This one took me the longest....I wanted a project that my students could get into. I found The Marvelous M&M Survey. Students would receive a package of M&Ms and they would have to predict the colors in the bag before actually tallying the colors. We could skype, edmodo with other classrooms across the school and/or district their predictionas and record the actual colors of each class in a chart that we could share through Google Docs. Students could also make videos and post them on a class blog! Students would be in chart in updating as we get results from other classrooms. I think the students would love this!
Objective: Students will use predictions to see how many of each color are in an M&M bag. They will also apply their graphing skills to create a bar graphs. They will also use their number skills to find percentages and probability of each color in each classroom.
This could be implemented in the graphing section in the curriculum, percents and/or probability.
Edmodo, skype, blogs, Google docs, chart creators would be used for this project.
Students will have to make predictions of how many M&Ms in each bag. Then they would have to find the actual numbers, percentages and probability of each color. All students would do this project with other classrooms and they would be able to compare their results with other classrooms throughout the school and/or district.


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Part of Volkswagen' s global 21st Century Beetle campaign, this site will be the landing page for all communications during the next few years of international product rollout and the digital platform for the VW Beetle brand.
Set on a HTML5 framework, and including a WebSocket connection and a multiple device responsive design that includes the sales platform, the entire site is based on a scrolling concept that offers direct access to content, orients users and offers up a narrative for moving through the content vertically and horizontally.
• Users can connect an iPhone and scroll through the Beetle story in lean back couch mode.
• Since the site is a responsive scrolling environment and loads a huge amount of animated objects, positioned relatively and semi-relatively inside the viewport, with dimensions that vary between devices and user controls that change the speed and direction of animations, the development team created the "pin factor" concept to keeps the code object oriented and flexible. It defines the distance of an object entering and leaving the viewport with three states: entering, pinned and exiting.
• After trying smart lazy loading mechanisms to load content when scrolled to a certain proximity, and always ending up creating a nearly uncontrollable half-loaded user experience, the team decided to load all image assets upfront so the scenery always appears as intended. To minimize requests and load times, an initial preloader grabs only the assets necessary to guarantee a liquid UX at the beginning; afterward each module loads only on demand and is unloaded as soon as it's out of the viewport.
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John Giblin
Curator, Head of Africa
+44 (0)20 7323 8055
External profiles
John has responsibility for the curation, presentation, development and research of the Africa collections at the British Museum. He has carried out fieldwork in Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Botswana.
Before taking up his current position, John was a Lecturer in Heritage Studies at the School of Social Sciences and Psychology, and a member of the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
John completed his PhD, Reconstructing the Past in Post-Genocide Rwanda: An Archaeological Contribution, at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, following which he undertook a post-doctoral fellowship concerning Post-Conflict Heritage in Western Great Lakes Africa at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.
John's current research interests include the post-conflict use of heritage and practice of archaeology in post-colonial contexts.
Current projects
Archaeologies of Displacement in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda
External fellowships / honorary positions / membership of professional bodies
Honorary Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, University of Western Sydney
Steering Committee Member, Association of Critical Heritage Studies
Member, World Archaeological Congress
Recent Publications
Giblin, J. D. (Forthcoming) 'Toward an Archaeology of Recent Violent Conflict in Western Great Lakes Africa', Journal of Conflict Archaeology.
Giblin, J. D. (Forthcoming) The Role of Heritage in Post-Conflict Development. New York: Routledge. (To be published in December 2014).
Giblin, J. D. (Forthcoming) 'Can, Door, Heritage: A Conflict to Post-Conflict Object Narrative', In: Clarke, A., Brown, S., and Frederick, U. (eds.) Object Stories: artefacts and archaeologists. Left Coast Press.
Giblin, J. D. (Forthcoming) 'Critical Approaches to Post-colonial (Post-conflict) Heritage: Reappropriation, Recycling and Renewal', In: Waterton, E. and Watson, S. (eds.) A Companion to Critical Heritage Studies Research. Oxford. Palgrave.
Giblin, J. D. (Forthcoming) 'Possibilities and Politics Regarding the Archaeological Identification of Pre-Colonial Twa, Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda', In: Richard, F. and MacDonald, K. C. (eds.) Ethnic Ambiguities in African Archaeology: Materiality, History and the Shaping of Cultural Identities. Walnut Creek, Left Coast Press.
Key Publications
Giblin, J. D. (2014) 'Toward a Political Ethic in African Archaeology', Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. Special Edition: Ethics in African Archaeology DOI:10.1080/0067270X.2014.906186
Giblin, J. D. (2014) 'Post-Conflict Heritage: Symbolic Healing and Cultural Renewal'. International Journal of Heritage Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13527258-2013-772912
Giblin, J. D. (2013) 'A Reconsideration of Rwandan Archaeological Ceramics and their Political Significance in a Post-Genocide Era'. African Archaeological Review, 30: 501-529.
Giblin, J. D. (2013) 'Decolonial Challenges and Post-Genocide Archaeological Politics in Rwanda'. Public Archaeology, 11 (3): 123-143.
Giblin, J. D. (2013) 'Politics, Ideology and Indigenous Perspectives' In: Mitchell, P. and Lane P. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology. Oxford, Oxford University Press.


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Roy Nelson Right Hand KOs 'Minotauro' Nogueira in UFC Fight Night 40 Headliner
Roy Nelson lamped Minotauro at UFC Fight Night. | Photo: Warren Little/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images
Roy Nelson's atomic right hand connected on Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira's chin, and the results were predictable.
Nelson (20-9, 7-5 UFC) highlighted the Ultimate Fighting Championship's return to the Middle East by knocking out "Minotauro" with a wicked overhand right in the UFC Fight Night 40 headliner on Friday at du Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. An unconscious and stiff Nogueira (34-9-1, 5-5 UFC) collapsed to the canvas 3:37 into round one, as the beloved Brazilian suffered consecutive defeats for the first time in his long and illustrious career.
"Any time you beat 'Big Nog'... he's a legend," Nelson said. "If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't be fighting in MMA. He's the heavyweight."
"Minotauro" was in trouble from the start. Nelson tagged him with a right uppercut and followed with an overhand right less than 60 seconds into the match, driving him to the canvas in retreat. Later, "Big Country" set the former Pride Fighting Championships titleholder on wobbly legs again, patiently pursued him and delivered the fight-finishing blow with Nogueira in a slow backpedal.
"I kept on throwing the left hand," Nelson said. "He's got a hard head, so I knew I had to throw the right. My goal was to get a takedown per round and go five rounds and push the pace a little bit. It just so happened that my right hand landed first."
The victory put a stop to Nelson's two-fight losing streak.
"I always want to fight for the belt," he said. "I don't really care. Let me start right there. I'll work my way backward."
Guida Outduels 'Crusher' Kawajiri
In the co-main event, Jackson-Wink MMA featherweight Clay Guida outstruck and out-scrambled former Shooto champion Tatsuya Kawajiri to a unanimous decision. Guida (31-14, 11-8 UFC) swept the scorecards by identical 30-27 marks, winning for the second time in his last three outings.
Guida leveled the "Crusher" with an overhand right inside the first 45 seconds before dodging an armbar from the savvy Japanese veteran. The 32-year-old spent much of the match controlling Kawajiri (33-8-2, 1-1 UFC) in the clinch and from top position, avoiding repeated kimura attempts and attacking with short punches when the opportunities presented themselves.
The loss was Kawajiri's first since he downshifted to 145 pounds.
"I feel great," Guida said. "I hope the Abu Dhabi fans liked that grappling match. Kawajiri is super skilled. We trained a lot on our feet. I thought [after] being in the Octagon [for] eight years, I was going to get my first real knockout; maybe next time."
Undefeated LaFlare Downs Howard
Former Ring of Combat champion Ryan LaFlare kept his perfect professional record intact with a unanimous decision over John Howard in a featured battle at 170 pounds. All three judges ruled in favor of LaFlare (11-0, 4-0 UFC), though scores were not announced.
LaFlare corralled "Doomsday" with takedowns and scrambles. He also benefitted from an accidental groin strike in the second round that brought the match to a halt for five minutes. Though clearly compromised, Howard (22-9, 6-4 UFC) pressed forward in pain. He rattled LaFlare more than once with his hands -- he sat down the Blackzilians representative with a left hook-right uppercut combination in round two -- but too often found himself stuck on the bottom.
The defeat snapped Howard's four-fight winning streak.
Nijem Hands Dariush First Loss
"The Ultimate Fighter" Season 13 finalist Ramsey Nijem blasted through the previously unbeaten Beniel Dariush with first-round punches in a lightweight showcase. Nijem (9-4, 5-3 UFC) finished it 4:20 into round one, as he recorded his second straight victory.
A counter left hook marked the beginning of the end for Dariush (7-1, 1-1 UFC). The 24-year-old Kings MMA representative retreated to the fence, where Nijem swarmed him with punches and threatened him with a guillotine choke. Dariush fought valiantly to remain a factor in the bout, but his adversary gave him no refuge. Nijem kept firing punches, moved to mount and ultimately settled in a kneeling position, unleashing one last barrage that forced the stoppage.
"I came in with this energy," Nijem said. "Being a Palestinian, it meant a lot to come out here and fight in front of you guys. He took a lot of damage and kept on fighting. I have a lot of respect for him. I got in his face yesterday, but I'm just here to fight. I'm here for one thing: I'm going to step up and win that title for the Middle East."
Rosholt Controls, Dominates Omielanczuk
Jared Rosholt leaned on takedowns, ground-and-pound and a stifling top game, as he captured a unanimous verdict over Daniel Omielanczuk in a preliminary heavyweight encounter. All three cageside judges scored it for Rosholt (10-1, 2-0 UFC), though scores were not announced.
Omielanczuk (16-4-1, 1-1 UFC), who entered the Octagon on a 12-fight winning streak, never posed much of a threat. Rosholt grounded the Pole inside the first minute of all three rounds and went to work, pairing knees and punches to the body with punches and elbows to the head.
A three-time NCAA All-American wrestler at Oklahoma State University, Team Takedown's Rosholt has won six fights in a row.
Leites Wins Sixth Straight
Nova Uniao's Thales Leites needed less than a minute to dispatch Strikeforce veteran Trevor Smith with first-round punches in an undercard duel at 185 pounds. Smith (11-5, 1-2 UFC) succumbed to the blows 45 seconds into round one, as he lost for the fourth time in six appearances.
Leites (23-4, 8-3 UFC) backed up "Hot Sauce" with a pair of right hands, floored him with a short right hook to the chin and finished it with a volley of unanswered punches on the ground. The rejuvenated 32-year-old Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt has rattled off six consecutive victories.
Alers Edges Fellow Debutant Omer
Takedowns and ground-and-pound carried onetime Cage Warriors Fighting Championship titleholder Jim Alers to a split decision over Alan Omer in a preliminary featherweight clash. All three cageside judges scored it 29-28, two of them siding with Alers (13-1, 1-0 UFC).
Omer (18-4, 0-1 UFC) landed in combination throughout, a ringing right uppercut his most trusted and effective weapon. However, the Germany-based Iraq native had issues achieving and maintaining advantageous positions on the ground. Alers seemed to turn the tide in the second round, where he forced the former British Association of Mixed Martial Arts champion to retreat to his back with a counter right hand. Punches and elbows flew next.
With the outcome still very much in doubt, Alers struck for multiple takedowns in round three, opening a cut near his counterpart's left eye with a series of elbow and shoulder strikes. The 27-year-old Alers has won his last nine fights.
Bedford-Yahya Ruled No-Contest
An inadvertent first-round clash of heads resulted in a no-contest between "The Ultimate Fighter" Season 14 semifinalist Johnny Bedford and 2007 Abu Dhabi Combat Club Submission Wrestling World Championships gold medalist Rani Yahya in an undercard scrap at 135 pounds. The end came just 39 seconds into round one.
The incident left Yahya dazed and unfit to continue, while Bedford exited the cage with a nasty gash on the left side of his forehead.


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Miami Critical Mass: A trip down where-the-hell-am-I? laneBy Jordan Melnick | August 28th, 2010 | 1 Comment
This evening I took part in Miami Critical Mass, an 11.9 mile bike ride starting at Government Center downtown and wending through Allapatah, Wynwood, Little Haiti, and Midtown. I'm not a hard-core cyclist — I borrowed an ungainly Globe hybrid — and I haven't biked around Miami since my days of terrorizing North Miami Beach with an empty milk carton wedged alongside my BMX's front wheel.
It was a trip cruising the streets with a hundred-odd fellow riders, passing through neighborhoods I've only driven through or, in some cases, never seen (can't tell you the last time I was alongside the Miami River). For the most part we overrode the rules of traffic, blocking intersections and running red lights as a single, ostensibly indestructible column of whirling legs. The good will of onlookers, conveyed in smiles and waves and cheers and shouted inquiries about what we were up to, felt strange in a city not known for brotherly love. We rode down some gritty streets, the kind of ruinous drags that your average middle-classer encounters only when lost, and yet an innocent warmth prevailed between the riders (a mixed bag) and the spectators (ditto).
For me, having grown up in a very different part of Miami, the inescapable question was: "Where am I?" My childhood landmarks were supermarkets, mega malls, 24-theatre cinemas, indoor basketball courts. But here was the other-side-of-the-tracks cliché substantiated: crowded barber shops, rusty junk heaps, corner groceries, cafeterias with red, white, and blue non-American flags on their signage, storefront churches, gleaming chrome hubcaps hung four across the facades of loud-colored buildings like the international clocks in the lobbies of expensive hotels. It was a Miami I've always known to exist but with which I've had little meaningful contact.
I'm not naive enough to believe this evening's bike ride changed that. I was literally rolling through, moving quickly and safely in numbers through places which, for the most part, did not feel like home. For one thing, there were the colors. Red stores, purple houses, orange apartment buildings. There were the people on the street. Not homeless, just hanging out in front of their homes rather than barricaded inside of them. There were the businesses, housed in grungy buildings and representing a single person's or a single family's stake against hardship. And there was the motif of violence: the Pitbull billboard with the slogan, "One bullet kills the party." The bright-yellow pawnshop with the two rows of automatic weaponry stenciled in thick black paint out front.
No high-rises, no ads for plastic surgery, no hospital billboards boasting ER wait times of under ten minutes, no Don Shula. None of the hallmarks of my neck of the woods.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not talking about "authenticity." These neighborhoods are just different (to differing degrees) than where I grew up. Nations unto themselves. And yet all lie within the official outline of a place called Miami I call home.
Miami Critical Mass takes place the last Friday of every month. This was my first time, but Robby's done it once before and says the route this time was different. Of course, the demands of physical exertion require him to shut down other faculties, like memory, so for all I know it might have been the same route turn for turn. I plan to do it again next month, if only to try out the $3 burgers at BAR (formerly PS14), the last stop on the route before its return to Government Center.
Until then, here are a few more photos Robby took on the trek.


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Wates Developments has confirmed it plans to exhibit proposals for Tupper's Field, near Hilton Avisford Park Hotel, 'shortly'.
A spokesman confirmed the company entered into an agreement with the landowners last July 'to act as the promoter of the site' which is 'a typical approach to considering the potential of land for development'.
They added: "There is an acknowledged housing requirement within the district, particularly in the short term and for more immediate sites, which are to be delivered through the emerging Local Plan and planning applications.
"The Tye Lane site offers an excellent opportunity to create a high quality and sustainable development within the area," they said.
"Wates is at the initial stages of this process and has spent a number of months assessing the scheme for which it will shortly invite the local community to an exhibition where proposals can be discussed."
The announcement comes as the company was approached for comment on a recent petition led by Walberton parish council to protect the site as green space.
The landowners have been invited to comment on the plans, concerns and resident's petition, for the full report see Thursday's Bognor Regis Observer.
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Preparation of sorbent pellets with high integrity for sorption of CO.sub.2 from gas streams
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|Method for the production of a CO.sub.2 sorbent prepared by integrating a clay substrate, basic alkali salt, amine liquid, hydraulic binder, and a liquid binder. The basic alkali salt is present relative to the clay substrate in a weight ratio of from about 1 part to about 50 parts per 100 parts of the clay substrate. The amine liquid is present relative to a clay-alkali combination in a weight ratio of from about 1 part to about 10 parts per 10 parts of the clay-alkali combination. The clay substrate and basic alkali salt may be combined in a solid-solid heterogeneous mixture and followed by introduction of the amine liquid. Alternatively, an alkaline solution may be blended with the amine solution prior to contacting the clay substrate. The clay-alkali-amine CO.sub.2 sorbent is particularly advantageous for low temperature CO.sub.2 removal cycles in a gas stream having a CO.sub.2 concentration less than around 2000 ppm and an oxygen concentration around 21%, such as air.
|Siriwardane; Ranjani V. (Morgantown, WV)
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|GOVERNMENT INTERESTS The United States Government has rights in this invention pursuant to the employer-employee relationship of the Government to the inventors as U.S. Department of Energy employees and site-support contractors at the National Energy Technology Laboratory, and pursuant to Contract Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) No. AGMT-0255.


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New partnership between GMG and Mimaki
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Tuebingen/Amsterdam – GMG, the world's leading color management solutions provider, and Mimaki Europe, a leading manufacturer of wide-format inkjet printers and cutting machines for the sign/graphics, textile/apparel and industrial markets are pleased to announce a new strategic partnership providing a highly innovative solution for high value packaging applications. The common solution, comprising of the Mimaki UJF-605 series of UV inkjet printers, GMG ColorServer 4.6 color management software for fully automatic color conversions and GMG SmartProfiler for printer calibration and profiling, allows for the first time to digitally produce consistent and accurate color results on virtually any material.
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The Culture and Tourism Ministry said it will expand exchanges for everything from Korean pop culture to traditional arts. Minister Kim Myung-gon has announced his ministry's to-do list for this year.
The ministry plans to step up this year its promotion of Korean pop culture and traditional brands. Minister Kim told reporters Thursday that one of his ministry's major goals for 2007 is to further support the spread of the Korean Wave or Hallyu and globally market traditional Korean brands under the new slogan "Han Style."
The slogan was developed last year to promote six symbols of Korea. The six are the Korean alphabet, food, traditional clothing, traditional home, rice paper and music. Minister Kim says the promotional campaign will be a two-way affair.
"We will proclaim 'Korea, Sparkling' as the country's new tourism brand to strengthen overseas marketing, and step up activities to promote stays at traditional Korean homes and other types of lodging," the minister said. "Our culture centers abroad will help expand bilateral cultural exchanges to develop cultural marketing."
By 2011, the ministry says it hopes to have 100 Korean language schools all over the world. On the domestic front, a grand cultural festival in October will celebrate a number of national holidays that occur around the month. The ministry is also striving for better long-term strategies for copyrights, new media and others by launching new teams this year.
The Culture and Tourism Ministry says 2007 will be a year of reform and improvement to prepare Korea for the future. It plans to focus on updating policies for digital and cultural contents, sports and tourism.
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NHL commissioner Bettman: League, NHLPA making progress on plans for World Cup of HockeyNHL.com @NHLdotcom
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The NHL and the players' union are deep in conversations about staging another World Cup of Hockey in two years.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says the league and the NHLPA have held "very substantive discussions" recently about the return of the tournament, which hasn't been held since 2004.
Bettman says the plans aren't "fully baked," but the hockey world has been talking for months about the return of the potentially lucrative summer tournament, likely in September 2016.
The 2004 World Cup of Hockey was staged in seven cities in North America and Europe, with the final in Toronto.
Bettman also says the NHL's continued participation in the Olympics hasn't been discussed. After consecutive Winter Olympics in hockey hotbeds Canada and Russia, the 2018 Games are in Pyeongchang, South Korea.


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This date signifies a couple of things. Today was supposed to be my last day of maternity leave but thankfully, it isn't. More importantly, this day last year, Mama (what we call my Grandmother since young) went home to be with the Lord so today is her 1 yr death anniversary. We had a simple memorial service for her yesterday, and back at home HJ commented that this was the first memorial service he has been too (make that both of us). He said that this just goes to show that my Grandmother really lived her life in a way that made people remember her very fondly. The Pastor yesterday recited once more something he wrote last year in a tribute to Mama and he summed up what he remembers most fondly about my Grandmother in 3 points.
- She had a very good command of English, with proper enunciation of her words.
- She was very thoughtful, always thinking of others (indeed) and he remembers her reminding my Grandfather to prepare some fruits whenever he visited because she knew he liked to eat healthy.
- She was faithful and trusted the Lord till the very end. Never once throughout her bout of sickness in 2014-2015 did she ever complain about her situation (this I definitely remember, her only lament was that she wished God could heal her so that she could walk through the gates of heaven, and I'm sure she did).
Lastly, he mentioned that while most Pastors are able to recite Psalm 23, my Grandmother's favorite verse, he knew that she truly knew the Lord from how she recited it by heart every time he visited her in the hospital.
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
– Psalm 23
Somedays, I tell HJ that it would have been nice if Nat arrived earlier, so at least she would be able to know she was going to be a Great Grandmother before she left this earth but we all know that could not be possible. Nonetheless, I will always have memories of how she selflessly looked after my sister and I so that both my parents could focus on their work.
Now that only Kong Kong, my Grandfather is left, what we can do is to not take it for granted so we let him interact with Nat as often as we can. This is made easier considering how he just lives 5 minutes away from our house.
Even if Mama isn't here, seeing Nat and Kong Kong interact is the next best thing and so very precious 🙂


text: X360A - Zombies. We've seen rather a lot of them in games lately, haven't we? And with next-gen but a few months away, the undead brain gobblers have no intentions of slowing down either. Dead Island developer Techland is no stranger to the zombie subgenre either, although Riptide left a lot to be desired. Perhaps the developer was sinking all of its time and resources into Dying Light rather than focusing on Dead Island: Riptide, because based upon this first demo, it's looking to be a far cry from the relative shoddiness of Techland's Dead Island games.


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The trading week on the foreign exchange market opened this morning with the shekel weaker against the main currencies. At the start of the session, the shekel-dollar rate rose 0.15%, compared with Friday's representative rate, to NIS 3.81/$, while the shekel-euro rate rose 0.3% to NIS 4.97/€. The question is whether this points to a change of trend, with the appreciation of the Israeli currency coming to an end, or a temporary correction.
On world markets, the US dollar is currently 0.15% weaker against the euro, but is strengthening against other major currencies.
The Bank of Jerusalem estimates that the shekel-dollar rate is close to the bottom, and that the shekel has exhausted its appreciation trend, with room perhaps for a further 1% fall in the rate against the US dollar. "The 3.77/78 threshold is a very strong support point, and we doubt whether it will be broken through under current conditions," the bank says in its currency market review.
Among local factors likely to bring about a change in the shekel trend, according to the bank, are macro figures such as exports and unemployment, and a rise in the fiscal deficit because of Operation Pillar of Cloud. "We want to believe that the appreciation of the shekel is based on technical factors only and is short term. Similarly, we believe that healthy logic will return to dominate the markets, and then we will see the dollar strengthen substantially. We see the trading range for this week as between NIS 3.7750/$ and NIS 3.8470/$," Bank of Jerusalem writes.
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Why did I get into this business? Day 3 Hubspot Blog Fitness Challenge
You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
You may find yourself in another part of the world
You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
You may find yourself in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife
You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
-Once in a lifetime, Talking Heads
I had been in the homebuilding and remodeling business for nearly 20 years prior to taking over Workshed. I had the wonderful opportunity to grow from a kid working as a laborer to the CEO (I use that term reluctantly) of a four million dollar a year business employing designers, project managers, carpenters and office staff. We were pretty successful- winning awards while building a portfolio full of really cool projects. We had a great reputation and a long list of happy clients.
Through this experience, I found that what I really loved was creating the processes that allowed my talented team to do what they do- design and build at a high level. Putting a solid structure in place helped them work together seamlessly which resulted in happier employees, happier clients and smoother projects.
Then, as we all know, the market cratered. There weren't enough projects to keep my team busy so we had to let them go. It sucked. It really sucked. All that hard work seemed to be for nothing.
I began to think about pursuing something new where I could apply my passion for process and working with creative folks.
Which brings us to Workshed.
Joe and I had wanted to work together for several years and were looking for the right fit. When we heard that Workshed was available we were immediately intrigued. Both of us believe passionately in building a strong local economy (which requires healthy local businesses) and love solving problems. We felt that we understood the needs of the small businesses that Workshed serves and that we could have a positive impact- so we took the plunge.
Some people may wonder what a "construction guy" is doing with a website company. Well, I'm not really a construction guy and Workshed isn't just a website company. My true passion is improving businesses and that is the mission of Workshed v2.0. We aim to build a great company that helps other folks build great companies. Building websites is one component of what we do to help businesses, but it's an outcome of the process of solving a problem, not an end in itself.
My goal is to apply my hard-earned knowledge and skills to help my clients solve problems. It's what drives me to work at expanding my capabilities into new territories (like how to build an effective website that generates a positive ROI). By working with the brave entrepreneurs who accept the risk of starting a business, I've found the perfect avenue for having a positive impact on my community and I'm helping to make the world a better place.
That's why I got into this business.


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text: This fantastic red Cotes du Rhone is imported by Michael Skurnick for Daniel Johnnes Selections. Daniel Johnnes is one of the top sommeliers in the U.S. and he has a great portfolio of wines. In addition, the '09 vintage appears to be a great one in southern France. I'm a big fan of these wines in general and this one (a private label project of Mr. Johnnes) exhibits all that I love about them. Cotes du Rhones are blends comprised of several varietals and for me, the best ones are based on the Grenache grape. The '09 Petit Chapeau gives me a good dose of Grenache pepperiness, wonderful fruit and a touch of earth. It retails at my local store for $9.99. Cheers.


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If we will not ban it then the countries would use them as their weapons. It releases harmful rays which if comes in contact with humans then the people would suffer from many diseases and would also die. Explosion of the reactors can make a whole city a barren island
If we don't ban testing people's cancer rate will rise. Plus most countries are not aloud to use nuclear weapons anyway. USA is telling other countries to destroy their weapons yet we have more than all the other countries. We need to destroy our weapons before we can tell other countries to destroy theirs
If we don't ban Nuclear Testing than the RATE of PEOPLE with CANCER WILL GO UP. We need to STOP testing for the sake of people in USA or any other Countries. Another reason why is because most Countries are not aloud to use the INCLUDING USA. USA is telling other countries to destroy their weapons yet we have more than them. We need to DESTROY our weapons before we can tell other Countries to destoy their's.
Nuclear weapons testing should be banned because it has deadly ramifications not just for individuals but for nations and for the natural world itself. Nuclear weapons testing is hard to regulate because each country that engages in it considers it integral to its defense and holds it secret [until the testing happens and when it becomes obvious to those who are vigilant.] It would be very hard to have global agreement on standards of such testing. Even if a large number of nations have a consensus, set guidelines, and began overseeing nuclear weapons tests amongst them, there will always be rouge nations out to develop their own weapons to defend against or to attack the others. Because of this all nuclear weapons testing should be banned form our world. Hopefully that would be a step toward doing away with the weapons themselves.
What if we need to ride in it to get to a new planet??????????????????? Thats what i thought we could ride it to mars or saturn or uranus hahahahaahhaha they shoul not be BANNEDDDD c'mon people we might just need nukes for something like that be realistic c'mon DO NOT BAN NUKES PLZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!
Many rogue nations continue to test nuclear weapons without approval of the international community. Legitimate nations should not be hindered in developing their own defensive nuclear weapons. Even if their are test ban treaties, nations will just find ways to test nuclear weapons secretly. There is no good way to enforce a test ban treaty.


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We are looking for 2-3 more caregivers for my my father. He is a kind 84 year old gentleman who lives with his wife in their home. He is mobile with a walker, but has some cognitive impairment problems with fine motor skills, but his great sense of humor prevails!. The main management issues for care are hepatic encephalopathy and diet controlled diabeties. We have 24 hour or shorter companion shifts available. Please respond with your letter of interest, resume, and availability (whether you would be able to fill 24 hr shifts or shorter shifts and for which days of the week)
Need to perform many tasks such as:
- assisting with medications,
- managing bowel - with his condition he must have 2 medium to large bowel movements/day
- monitoring glucose, bowel & urine output, blood pressure,
- companionship,
- prepare, cook and serving meals,
- assist with various activities of daily living and exercise,
- perform various light housekeeping/maintenance as needed and
- drive to run errands or help father/mother attend appointments in family car or your vehicle
Please email current resume, cover letter, and references. Upon a successful interview, to avoid any delays in hiring be ready to submit the following:
- drivers abstract,
- letter of claims history from insurer,
- copy of personal insurance with coverage to take clients in car
- Proof of Health Care Aide certificate including medication assist and dementia care,
- current (within the last 6 months) criminal record check (including vulnerable sector, adult & child abuse registry checks).


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Four years ago Felix Pivec found FireWire and what he believed was the best boards to blend pure surf style and kiting. After joining up with FireWire two years later, Felix and the FireWire team have continued to refine the construction and define models that create the perfect kitesurfing quiver.
Here's what Felix had to say about the Hellfire; "The latest shape to join the FireWire kite quiver, this board is amazing with deep double concave for drive and lift, light entry rocker and a sweet outline with diamond tail. The Hellfire's smaller size shines in lighter wind but will carve tight turns on the rail in the vert with minimal effort. The Hellfire comes in a 5/4/3 fin setup so you can dial it into a number of different surf conditions".
FireWire's lead shaper Nev Hyman brings nearly 40 years of experience to the brand and is recognized as one of the worlds best surfboard shaper's.
FST (Future Shapes Technology) relies primarily on the PARABOLIC Balsa Rail to control flex while the high density aerospace composite vacuumed to both top and bottom decks provides significant impact strength, and is stronger than the traditional PU surfboard. The 1lb interior core holds the shape and provides flotation, allowing the board to seamlessly follow the flex characteristics of the Parabolic rails coupled with the deck skins.
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Low GI Recipe: Sweet Springtime Escarole0
April 4, 2012 by Johanna Burani
Most Italians enjoy the bitter taste inherent in escarole. And because it has its own confident and distinctive flavor, it pairs nicely with other flavors. The classic winter soup, Escarole and Beans, comes to mind. This recipe takes escarole in another direction. The sweetness of the shallots and grape tomatoes blends perfectly with the escarole, delivering a pleasant taste to all palates.
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Wingman1 and I are having trouble sorting out how the Tiger Clan relates to the Thunderians. Thunderian seems to be the in-universe term for the Cat Species similar to how Monkian and Jackalman are the in-universe terms for the Monkey and Jackal Species. For this reason, counting the Tiger Clan as a separate Species is problematic as they are still Cats even though they are not citizens of Thundera.
So here is the question, should the term Thunderian refer to the Cat Species or should it refer to the citizens of Thundera?


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Us, root for USC?
We have a hard and fast rule: We root for whoever's playing Southern Cal. Even our disdain for the Ducks doesn't allow to us to root for the Trojans when those two teams meet. But this weekend we're being urged by our friend, colleague, and fellow USC-despiser Tung Yin to pull for Southern Cal (a 5.5-point underdog) against Notre Dame.
Now, we're no fan of Notre Dame, but we're not a hard-core foe, either. And so for us to be cheering on Southern Cal would require an extraordinary showing of good cause.
Here's how Tung explains it: If Southern Cal loses, they'll surely fire their coach, and he's so ineffective that his continued tenure would actually hurt the Trojans in the long run. So we want him to stay, and if USC beats the No. 1-ranked Fighting Irish, he might.
Besides, USC is going to finish the regular season either 8-4 or 7-5, and there isn't much meaningful difference between those two records. In addition, if USC beats Notre Dame, the Cardinal win over the Trojans will look better in the computer rankings. (But then again, so will the Ducks' win over S.C.)
These arguments bring us at least to neutral, but can we really cheer for Tommy Trojan and the boys? We've got until Saturday night to figure it out.
Meanwhile, there's drama for Stanford, and part of it depends on what happens in the Oregon "civil war" game on Saturday. It's a little complicated at this point, but here's how we think it goes: If the Ducks beat the Beavers in Corvallis on Saturday, Stanford will have to beat UCLA two weeks in a row -- first in L.A. Saturday and then in the conference title game, which would be held in Palo Alto -- to make it to the Rose Bowl.
If the Beavers win, Stanford can lose to UCLA down south this week but will have to beat the Bruins in L.A. next week to make it to the Rose Bowl. If Oregon wins and Stanford loses this weekend, the Ducks will play UCLA for the conference title and the Rose Bowl bid, next week in Eugene, and Stanford is headed for something like the Tostitos Bowl.
To recap:
Beavers win, Stanford wins: UCLA at Stanford for conference title
Ducks win, Stanford wins: UCLA at Stanford for conference title
Beavers win, UCLA wins: Stanford at UCLA for conference title
Ducks win, UCLA wins: UCLA at Ducks for conference title
Whew! Correct us if we got any of that wrong. Stanford at UCLA is at 3:30 our time Saturday; Stanford is a mere 2-point favorite. Ducks at Beavers is at noon; U of O is favored by 9.5 points. The conference title game will be in the evening, a week from tomorrow.
If you were UCLA, in the title game would you rather play the Ducks in Eugene, or Stanford in Palo Alto? If the answer is Stanford, and if the Ducks win the first game this Saturday, might UCLA be tempted to throw the second game?


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PENTICTON – Just in time for Halloween, Alice Cooper will be playing the South Okanagan Events Centre giving fans a chance to experience a show with the architect of shock rock.
Cooper kicks off his 2016 tour in Biloxi, Mississippi later this month and will make a stop in Penticton on Sunday, Oct. 16.
His updated show Spend the Night with Alice Cooper promises to bring the dark and horror-themed theatrics he's best known for to the Events Centre.
Cooper will be playing his hits like "I'm Eighteen," "No More Mr. Nice Guy," School's Out," "Elected" and "Poison," along with a mix of newer songs, according to a media release.
Cooper and his band will also be covering songs from his "dead drunk friends" the Hollywood Vampires featuring Johnny Depp and Joe Perry.
Tickets, which start at $59, go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, April 22 at the Valley First Box Office in the South Okanagan Events Centre or at the Wine Country Visitor Centre, by phone at 1-877-SOEC-TIX (763-2849) or online at www.ValleyFirstTix.com.
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There's nothing worse than spending a bunch of money on something you NEED, like a phone or iPad, and having it break because it doesn't come with a buffer zone around it. But that's what Otterbox is for—an extra layer of protection in case that pricey tech you count on is dropped or abused accidentally. When I invested in an iPad 2 earlier this year, my kids immediately adopted it. My kids don't really get just how delicate these devices can be. And I don't really have the money to replace them when said kids drop them during an argument, or just walking around the house. It happens. I get it. Everyone makes a mistake (even I've dropped the phone while carrying too many other things). But with the Otterbox cover, my tech has a much better chance of surviving these trying times.
When Otterbox offered to send me the Defender Series cover to review a few months ago, I jumped on the chance. It was simple to install, although the screen protector is a bit tricky to get on just right. Once it's on, it does wonders protecting the screen from scratches. The actual cover is like a frame around the iPad, and adds a bit of weight to the device. I guess it's the price you pay for protection. It's well worth it in my household. I suppose I think of my Otterbox cover as a bit of insurance as sorts. And, since the device costs as much as some laptops, I need all the insurance I can get.
(Note: Otterbox did send a cover but did not pay for this review. The opinions mentioned are my own.)


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Unlike the speaker I've not made any claims of impartiality so nailing my colours immediately to the mast I'm in favour of staying in. My gut feeling is it will be better for the country and better for Europe though as my job is once again under threat of being outsourced, this time to Berlin, I've no idea whatsoever how it would affect me personally. The fact that a motley crew of some of the most unpleasant people in British politics at the moment Nigel Farage, George Galloway, IDS, and Bojo the nasty pretend clown have joined forces for the 'out' campaign has, of course, only swung me further towards saluting the Flag of Europe.
Would the talk make me change my mind? Would I find a seat was the most urgent concern as the place was rammed. Was it the clement spring weather? Or a particular interest in the subject? Probably a bit of both.
Clutching my pro-European pint of Amstel I stood in the corner and listened intently. I didn't expect to be almost swayed over to the 'out' camp. Some friends who hear me talk about Skeptics in the Pub but rarely, or never, attend imagine a preachy, holier-than-thou atmosphere. Normally it's far from that but unfortunately tonight's speaker was a bit that way. It was a disappointment to me. Not just because she made some rather boring observations about the 'dead tree' press and seemed to think the audience would be enlightened in some way to learn that that same UK press isn't entirely impartial.
Dr Lynette Nusbacher is a professional strategist. She's got a pretty impressive CV. She was Senior Lecturer at War Studies at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, first head of the Strategic Horizons Unit in the Cabinet Office, Senior Intelligence Advisor to the Joint Intelligence Committee, and has conducted futures work to underpin the UK National Security Strategy.
Despite all this, and some admittedly impressive comic timing in places, the delivery came across as occasionally patronising and, far more often, wildly inconsistent. Hypocritical you could say. She said she wouldn't take sides in the debate. She did (she's in the 'in' camp). She said she wouldn't use scare tactics. She did. She said she wouldn't appeal to people's biases or baser instincts. She did. When she quoted that hoary old chestnut about "lies, damned lies, and statistics" and then followed it with a list of statistics I sighed and considered leaving at half-time.
But I didn't. Partly because I knew I was going to write this blog about it - and I'm a very conscientious blogger I can tell you. Partly because I wanted to hear what questions people had for her. I'd say partly because I wanted another drink but it's not like Camden's short of options there!
I'm really glad I stayed though as Dr Nusbacher managed to turn it around a bit, quite a lot in fact, during the second half Q&A session. More in terms of delivery as she did come out as a Tory who was very certain that Nicky Morgan's current policy of trying to convert all schools into academies was a good thing. For which she was roundly jeered. She also made some cheap jokes about those perennial targets the Germans and Americans. They went down well, of course, but they're such cheap easy laughs I always feel a bit disappointed when speakers resort to them. Far more concerning to me was the suggestion that the migrant crisis had gone quiet of late (has it!?) because the Med was 'a bit cold' at the moment. They're not having a dip on a lilo off the coast of Crete, doc!
Where she was very good was in her response to the guy who asked her about some of the things I'd commented on earlier. Particularly when she explained that everyone was biased and it was impossible to expect even people employed for their relative impartiality to have no bias whatsoever.
Some other very good points were made. On Cameron's promise that if 'out' win Britain will be out of Europe in 2 years, she said this was highly unlikely. When Canada ceased a special trade agreement with Europe that took five and they, obviously, had a lot less to undo. Regarding EU directives it will take a very long time, and a huge amount of people and money, to decide which ones we keep and which ones we jettison. If the UK leaves the EU there'll almost definitely be attempts to build even closer business ties with dominant nations like China and the US. The UK will have to accept being the junior partner in any such deal rather than a key player as it is, to an extent, within the EU.
How will broadly pro-European Scotland react? Almost certainly calls for another referendum on Scottish independence will grow louder and the chances of that result being different a second time more likely. Dr Nusbacher thought Northern Ireland may follow suit although that would obviously bring a whole new load of internal problems and, to my mind, doesn't seem likely in the near future.
So, potentially the end of the Union? Or is that scaremongering? I don't know. A vote either way should bring further Tory infighting so there's a silver lining to every cloud. It may seem daft to revel in people fighting each other when they ought to be running the country but the more time they spend being cruel to each other the less they've got to pick on the disabled, single mothers, people in low paid jobs, or foreigners.
How would other European nations react should the UK decide to quit? Dr Nusbacher thinks that Brussels is certain the UK will jump ship. She also thought that if that happened Sweden and/or Denmark may follow. She even suggested Germany too though it's hard to imagine why they'd want to leave or an EU even existing without their involvement.
When pressed on how she thought the result would pan out. With the caveat that another large terrorist attack could throw things wide open she said she thought the 'in' vote would take the day with roughly a 55% vote - (for good measure she also said Hillary Clinton would beat Donald Trump to the US presidency). I'm broadly with her on that prediction and I'm broadly with her on the pros of staying in. So even though I can't imagine befriending a Tory with 'interesting' views on immigration we can find common ground on that at least.
I suppose what I learn from all this is that even when you're in with the 'in' crowd you're going to be amongst some people you don't see eye to eye with. Sure it's the same for the outies too. There's gonna be some uneasy bedfellows during the coming months. Guess we just need to try and get along whatever. Business as normal. Whatever normal is.