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Editor's note: Chuck St. Arnaud is our newest business columnist. He is chairman and CEO of an award-winning Internet development and design company located in Savannah. He also is a retired Army general and has a master's degree in commerce from the University of Richmond, Va. St. Arnaud is an adjunct professor of marketing at Savannah State University and sits on the College of Business Administration board of advisers. Look for his column, "Ask the Webmaster," every other Thursday in the Exchange section.
I am frequently asked, "Why do I need to get on the Internet?" I often answer, "Because you should, and you are already too late."
I gave a three-part seminar on "Doing Business on the Internet," and one of my slides gave 10 reasons why it's important. I have updated each reason for this column, because the Internet has changed and continues to evolve.
Let people know your name, who you are, where you are and what you do. The information superhighway has no geographical limit. It is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If you are not there, potential customers may not know you exist.
Acquiring a domain name is very important, and it is a must for anyone contemplating doing business on the Internet. There are a number of reputable companies offering inexpensive domain-name registration.
Product, service info
Exposure is the key, and information is a powerful marketing tool. Educate the public with detailed information about why and how they can benefit from using your products and services. Fill the need, and they will buy.
Search directories
Internet surfers often use search directories to access information by locations, topics or keywords.
How can you get listed in the directories if you don't have a Web page?
You need to have a "link" or a listing on another Web site to drive business your way. Just having an address on someone's Web site will not get visitors to your site, unless the visitor goes to the hosting company's address and searches the site for a product or service that might be yours.
Broader customer base
Your Internet presence exposes you to greater numbers of potential customers, whether you want it to be local, regional, nationwide or worldwide. The Web offers new markets and opportunities.
Point of contact
Use your Web site as a storefront where potential customers can enter and find answers. You can provide names, numbers, addresses and directions to help people to get in touch with you. Make sure you put all of the point-of-contact information on every page.
Valuable input
Your Web site can allow quick feedback from customers. Comments and suggestions are valuable input to improve your business and customer relations. New Web designs offer easy-to-install auto-reply forms and "Thank You for visiting" replies.
Greater image
Improve your professional image with your domain name (www.yourname.com) printed on your business cards, stationery and advertising material. The traditional methods of advertising are still very important, and I have learned the Internet cannot be used by itself and be successful.
Flexible tool
Use your site creatively as a flexible marketing tool. The only limit is your imagination. New Web tools allow you to make changes and eliminate the cost of having another person do it for you. If your host company won't let you make changes yourself, consider moving your site to one that will.
Low-cost investment
Your site is truly low-cost advertising. It is a marketing tool you can use again and again. Compare the contents and the cost of your site with advertisements on newspapers and magazines monthly, quarterly and yearly.
Web sites do not have to be expensive. I tell people, "Grow your Web site" as you learn what is happening on the site and the questions you are getting. The only other cost is the monthly hosting fee.
Why not?
Web site addresses are everywhere on all kinds of media. In fact, it's very noticeable for your business not to have a Web site, even if you only display one page: name of company, address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address and a short description of your product or service.
For those who do not own a Web site, don't wait. Act now!
Chuck St. Arnaud is the chairman and CEO of an award-winning Internet company, an adjunct professor at Savannah State University and a frequent speaker on the Internet. Contact him at email@example.com or call him at 356-9920.


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Rich colors, gorgeous fabrics and a hot climate — it's hard not to take inspiration from Marrakech, where we shot this sultry fashion story for our February/March issue. All of the dresses had gorgeous texture and statement-making details, along with an element of airiness, thanks to the heat.
As for hair and makeup? We let the dresses take center stage and opted for a natural, sun-kissed look paired with low, wispy buns and soft blowouts — adding the perfect amount of polish for your wedding day.

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Friday, April 12, 2013
A lot changes, a lot stays the same.
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Good luck on your move, and best wishes! :)ReplyDelete
Your babies are adorable! I wish you lots of peace, rest and happiness.ReplyDelete
Congrats on your move! And, don't be hard on yourself-- these are a lot of changes, a lot happened in the old house, and you have a right to feel the way you do... I can't think of anyone who wouldn't feel stressed, so don't feel alone!ReplyDelete
Your babes are beautiful :).
wish I could come watch the kiddos for you for a while while you settle in, in body and spirit. I hope that this move is the beginning of a good chapter for you ... and in the meantime, I'm abiding with you as you stand on the precipice between loss and discovery.ReplyDelete
Wishing you the best of everything.ReplyDelete
Your children are so adorable and precious. Wishing you happiness in your move. ((HUGS))ReplyDelete
"That house will always be the place that Peyton never came home to."ReplyDelete
That really resonates with me, as when we moved, two years ago this July, I had mixed feelings about leaving there.
Thank you for checking in. Sending peace, love, light, thoughts and prayers your way and hoping you find yourself/more time for yourself again soon. Your snowflakes are adorable!
Let me just give you some advice. No matter what life may bring, don't be too harsh on yourself. After all, we are not given obstacles that are impossible for us to surpass. Troubles are actually challenges that we need to get through for us to grow and become mature. I wish you more hope in life with your lovely children.ReplyDelete


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Why Do I Always Feel Hungry? (Cont'd)
Have one cup of oatmeal with ? cup of low-fat milk with a sliced banana. Also have a full glass of freshly squeezed orange juice.
Morning Grazing
Try an apple or mango with a handful of unsalted mixed nuts.
Make yourself a mixed green salad and add a small tin of tuna or slices of ham Always include tomatoes, some low-fat cheese, cucumbers or avocado. The avocado is in season right now and is delicious.
Afternoon Grazing
If you are at work, then eat some more fruit but if you have access to a kitchen, make a whole-wheat sandwich with peanut butter.
Either have grilled swordfish with stir-fry vegies or a chicken stir-fry with loads of vegetables such as spinach, Bok Choy, beans and broccoli with a half cup of brown rice.
Have low fat yoghurt with fresh strawberries and berries. Frozen berries are just as good if you can't find any fresh ones.


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Hundreds of pupils were due to be sent home today after their head teacher said his school could not afford to hire temporary teaching staff.
The 1,150-pupil Edenham High School in Croydon, south London, was sending 720 pupils in years seven, eight and nine home after lunch today.
Headteacher Jonathan Parker said the school, for 11 to 16-year-olds, had been forced to ask staff teachers at the school to cover for a medium-term absence since April because they had no money to pay for a supply replacement.
But under an agreement the teachers on the staff were now catching up on marking and preparation time.
Mr Parker said the parents at a meeting last week had given the school their support.
He said: "They are appalled but incredibly supportive. They recognise that it is not the school's fault and they are horrified by what is happening.
"We had a meeting of parents last week and they were united in their support for myself and the governors."
He added: "I am horrified. This is my eighth year as headteacher here and I can see everything that I have tried to achieve disappearing rapidly.
Mr Parker said he would make sure that pupils in the middle of their GCSE exams - the 15 and 16 year olds - were not affected.
He feared he might have to repeat the move once a month, depending on staff sickness.
Mr Parker told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he had been left with no option.
"We looked at it very closely and we have to try and reduce down the deficit and one of the only ways we could do it was cutting down on supply teachers," he said.
Liberal Democrat education spokesman Phil Willis put the blame on education secretary Charles Clarke, saying he "refused to take his head out of the sand".


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Brainstorms Are Too Slow. Here's a Better Approach.
The execution of product development is incredibly difficult. Most companies, including design firms, fail miserably.
To have a moment of honesty here, M3 Design's Strategy, Concept, Development process is shockingly similar to any product development process: every development firm, program, or division uses these same basic steps, or something very close, to create products. I used to work at Insight Product Development, and they use Research, Create, Scale (I'm paraphrasing). The famed Stanford Biodesign Program uses Identify, Invent, Implement (I love the alliteration).
Truth be told, all these processes are theoretically identical. Which begs the question: What makes some design firms (like the ones I specifically mentioned above) so much more successful than others? At M3 Design, we believe that it is specifically dependent on execution.
I think the main issue with product development firms/consultancies today is their regurgitation of a few execution strategies. A decade ago, this flaw in management consultancies was brought to light in a damning book called House of Lies. Showtime even based a television show, starring Don Cheadle, on the book. From the Publishers Weekly review:
…with an appendix of terms like "brain dump," "pulse check" and "swag" (an acronym for "smart wild-assed guess"), [this memoir] skewers a segment of the economy that nearly every white-collar worker has learned to fear and loathe: consultancies.
It is easy to see this phenomenon poke its head into product development consultancies. Since I was a bright-eyed college freshman, the brainstorm (followed by the above mentioned "brain dump") has been taught as the defacto strategy to propel product development. The studies behind why brainstorms lead to social loafing, convergent thinking, and (unfortunately) the soapbox of the senior staff have recently begun to remove the shiny veneer of this old process.
There are certain techniques to minimize these negative aspects, but that's for another blog post. The fact is, as we move into a younger and faster product development environment (just look at the emergence of hackathons and 3D printing), the brainstorm begins to be much too slow.
Ultimately, the collection and evaluation of brainstormed ideas takes a couple days, with the outcome often subjective. Complex problems require a strategy that depends on fast iteration, which is what's needed to determine the core technology or mechanism to build a product.
A couple years ago, M3 developed a new strategy to evolve our process utilizing the new tools and skill sets of modern product development. Since then, we've found that certain projects greatly benefit from such an alternative strategy, which we refer to fondly as competitive collaboration.
Adapted from the strategy used in MIT's 2.009 Product Design Process Capstone, competitive collaboration allows our staff to quickly take ideas further than any brainstorm. Part hackathon and part R&D, this process throws our staff into design teams that collaboratively create multiple mockups/prototypes that are evaluated in a competition format.
This process forces the project teams to utilize functional decomposition in order to down select concepts using quantitative methods. The outcome is an evaluation of multiple physical mockups demonstrating ideas—much more effective than some brainstorm sketches. Design teams are forced to concentrate on the quality of ideas, as opposed to the quantity (as in a traditional brainstorm).
Here's the setup:
Determine an objective.
Your output is only as good as your input. Most competent design consultancies will suggest some sort of research phase to determine product requirements.
In this competitive collaboration setup, this step also allows you to create the challenge's scoring method.
Build a challenge.
The purpose here is to create a playing field to evaluate each idea based on the scoring rubric.
Medical device? Build an analogous structure. Consumer device? Build a simulation. An equal playing field allows for fair evaluation of each idea.
Build a scoring equation.
At M3 Design, we feel like this is the 21st century version of the brainstorm's Pugh Chart. It serves 2 purposes.
We can stress the importance of certain design requirements by weighing them heavily in our equation. This also gives the inventors a way to prioritize their design efforts. Functional decomposition plays a key role in this stage of the design process. What are the most important/critical design challenges? Make those worth the most "points".
Secondly, it's a competition! In order to crown a winner, there must be an objective way to determine the effectiveness of the mockup. If everyone knows the scoring methods upfront, there is a clear numeric ranking at the end of the exercise.
Examples of what might go into an equation: How many points should be awarded for how fast they can accomplish the task? Can they do the competition with limited visibility (fog or blindfold) for "bonus points"?
Make multiple teams.
Best results are accomplished by having cross-functional teams or combining people who don't work together often.
We often choose to make as many teams as possible, so we like to make at least 3 teams of 2 people each. We also like to include a small prize (such as a subscription to a design magazine) or trophy to add a little incentive and recognition for the winners.
Let them loose.
After explaining the challenge and giving them a budget, let them solve the solution in any way they choose. We usually like to give them about 16 – 24 work hours to make their mockup.
This requires trusting your staff, which can be incredibly hard for certain types of managers. Shockingly, here at M3 Design, we have never had a manager or senior engineer/designer win.
This step is somewhat self-explanatory. But we've found it is much more effective to evaluate an idea based on a mockup, as opposed to a brainstorm sketch.
But wait, there's more! My favorite part is, there is always an unexpected twist.
In the most recent version of this strategy, we held a second round where all the teams could either iterate or "steal" another team's concept. Other variants include having a second run with another team operating your mockup/prototype or forcing the prototype to work in an alternative environment.
So why does this work?
First, it narrows ideas down to simple, executable concepts.
Second, there is immediate feedback on the efficacy of your idea.
Last, people like to win.
The outcome is a few ideas that have been down selected via proof-of-concept mockups that are much more advanced than a few sketches from a typical brainstorm.


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The other night the Wife and I were talking about this year's Yankees. I told her about some of the new players and when I got to Eduardo Nunez's replacement, Yangervis Solarte she said, "Wait–who? Port Jervis?"
And so a new nickname was born in our home.
Solarte had 3 hits and a couple of RBI last night, Ivan Nova lucked-out getting 4 double plays, David Robertson earned the save and the Yanks left Houston with a win.
Final Score: Yanks 4, Astros 2.
We will take it.
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DOE Announces Major Funding For Offshore Wind Projects
Government officials today announced major steps forward in support of offshore wind energy in the United States, including new funding opportunities for companies interested in offshore wind energy deployment.
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu released a joint statement that announed the availability of up to $50.5 million for projects that support offshore wind energy deployment.
Salazar also identified several high priority wind energy areas in the mid-Atlantic that will spur rapid, responsible development of this abundant renewable resource.
Offshore wind development became much more attractive during the BP Gulf Oil Spill crisis, with many advocates boasting "there's no such thing as an offshore wind spill." Since then, many states have been pushing the federal government to say yes to offshore wind farms.
In April 2010, the government approved America's first offshore wind farm on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound. When completed, Cape Wind will provide three quarters of the Cape and Islands electricity needs in average winds.
Secretary Chu announced that the money will be dispensed over the next five years to companies and individuals that develop breakthrough offshore wind energy technology and find ways to reduce market barriers to its deployment.
Under the National Offshore Wind Strategy (PDF), the Department of Energy is pursuing a scenario that includes deployment of deploying 10 gigawatts of offshore wind generating capacity by 2020 and 54 gigawatts by 2030.
This includes development in both federal and state offshore areas, including along Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts as well as in Great Lakes and Hawaiian waters. Those levels of development would produce enough energy to power 2.8 million and 15.2 million average American homes, respectively.
Click here for a fact sheet on the National Offshore Wind Strategy.
Related Reading:
TVA Adds More Renewable Wind Power To The Grid
UK Abandons Plans For Wave Energy Project
Cape Wind Will Harness Energy, But Are Giant Gravel Batteries The Secret To Storing It?
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Sabertron One is Shipping!
We have shipped a small number of Sabertron One pilot build swords, to experience the entire fulfillment process as a practice run. It's been said...
Foam swords. Electronic scoring.
Sabertron has wireless sensors that tracks blocks and hits to figure out who wins and who loses, with any number of players.
An elegant device that magically detects your presence when you grab hold. Quick, swing away and go crazy!
It's like laser tag, but with swords.
Pick up your sword and it will spring to life, then swing like crazy against your opponents. Hits to the body will cause a loss of health to the player, while hits against a sword will not lose health. The last person left standing with health is the winner.
When your sword has lost all health, you have to stand still and point your sword straight up for 8 seconds until your sword respawns. Or, put the sword down for 5 minutes. The respawn can be cancelled if another player hits you, so that you can't rejoin the battle until it is agreed by the other players.
Sabertron is a proximity detection device, that is better described as "hacking physics." It utilizes sensors commonly found in a smart phone like accelerometers.
We worked really hard to make Sabertron stand up to the abuse that you will undoubtedly unleash on your enemies, er, friends. It has a nearly indestructible polycarbonate tube at it's core that we haven't been able to break, with a metallic fiber-reinforced foam. All that with a weight of just 9 ounces for safety.
The built-in lithium ion battery should easily go all day without needing a charge. The included micro USB charging cable will give it a great charge in just 30 minutes.
The number of players in a multiplayer battle is unlimited. But, be careful not to bunch up too close to one another or you could lose health points from a nearby strike. Keep at least sword's length away from other players engaged in battle.
We have shipped a small number of Sabertron One pilot build swords, to experience the entire fulfillment process as a practice run. It's been said...
The grip redesign for Sabertron One is a success! Below is a prototype picture of the new grip design, which uses conductive threads for the...


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Archive: June 6, 2010 - June 12, 2010
Two weeks ago, I saw a review on our Weddings page of a book called "Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality" (HarperCollins). Without much thought, I blurted out in a tweet that it sounded pretty stupid to me. But that started a surprising e-mail conversation with one...
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Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 61 / Number 2T / February 2012 / Pages 413-420
Status of Fusion / Proceedings of the Tenth Carolus Magnus Summer School on Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics / dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A13528
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The total amount of heating power coupled to the plasma Ptot and the energy confinement time are determining parameters for realizing the plasma conditions suitable for the reactor. We recall that the ignition condition can be expressed by the following condition on the triple fusion product:
nT = Ptot2/3Vol = 3n2T2Vol/Ptot > (nT)ignition (1)
where = E/Ptot is the energy confinement time, E = 3nT Vol for an isothermal plasma with Ti = Te = T and a plasma volume Vol; n is the plasma density. The value T = 15 keV corresponds to the minimum value of (nT)ignition as a function T (see Fig. 1). In the present discussion for the sake of simplicity, we neglect density and temperature profile factors. The heating power in most of the present experiments is given by Ptot = POH + Padd where POH is the ohmic power and Padd is the additional heating due to neutral beam injection or radiofrequency heating. At ignition, the additional heating power must come completely from the energetic α-particles produced by the fusion reactions and we must have Ptot = P if we neglect the residual POH and the plasma losses by Bremsstrahlung (PBr [is proportional to] n2[square root]T).


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Where the Core Pupil journey begins!
Where the core pupil journey begins!
S4 is the year it all starts. When it all kicks off!! But don't worry you might chance again in S5 if you change your mind later on.
Selected pupils are nominated by their schools to become fully signed up LIFT OFF core pupils (hurray!)
Core pupils get the opportunity to take part in lots of different LIFT OFF events and activities during their time at school (check out the rest of our website for all of the details).
Those who decide to go for it will fill out an application form and pass it to the contact teacher. They have loads of experience so if they think a pupil and LIFT OFF are a match made in heaven then they are probably right :)
All Core Pupils S4 - S6
All of our core pupils have the opportunity (recommended!) to meet individually with someone from the LIFT OFF team. This ensures that we know what their interests are (and if they've changed) and what help they might need. Whether it's exploring course options or institution, working out a 'Plan B' or just knowing where to start, we're there to help. Provided the pupils give us permission (most do) we can also share this information with teachers.
More information about our programme can be found by clicking on our booklet below, you can ask your guidance teacher or give us a shout here at LIFT OFF!


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A truly great name in British restaurant brands.
Founded in London in 1979, Garfunkel's is proud to be the original British café restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner all day every day. Garfunkel's London restaurants offer guests a place to relax, and they have a loyal following: local residents and workers who have been eating at Garfunkel's for years.


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Saturday 21st October
Saints dropped to sixth place in the Ladbrokes Premiership following today's 1-0 loss to Hearts at BT Murrayfield.
It was a scrappy match as both teams struggled to create opportunities in front of goal. The only goal of the game came on 74 minutes as Kyle Lafferty intercepted a Harry Cochrane strike, and turned to fire a shot at goal which took a deflection off Joe Shaughnessy to deceive Alan Mannus.
Saints will now look to bounce back against Ross County when they welcome The Staggies to McDiarmid Park on Tuesday evening.
It was a unique occasion this afternoon as Saints took on Hearts at BT Murrayfield as The Jambos Main Stand at Tynecastle is still under construction. Going into the match Tommy Wright made three changes to the side that started the 3-0 loss last week as Michael O'Halloran, Liam Craig and Liam Gordon came in for Murray Davidson, Graham Cummins and the suspended Steven Anderson. Whilst Hearts manager Craig Levein also made three changes to his starting line-up following last Saturday's 2-1 win at Ross County as David Milinkovic, Ross Callachan and Jamie Brendon came in for Don Cowie, Euan Henderson and the suspended Connor Randall.
Saints got the match underway and they were awarded a free kick on the edge of the area on 6 minutes after Stefan Scougall had been fouled by Prince Buaben, who was shown a yellow card for the challenge. Scougall took the free kick himself but his delivery into the box was cleared by the Hearts defence. Then 2 minutes later Scougall was involved in the thick of the action again this time crossing a great ball into the box which was knocked behind for a corner by Christophe Berra which was easily dealt with by the home defence.
On 17 minutes Hearts won a corner which was taken by John Souttar and he whipped the ball into the box which found the head of Kyle Lafferty who headed inches wide of Mannus' right-hand post.
It was a tight first half although Saints were looking dangerous going forward but they struggled to take advantage of these opportunities in the final third. On 33 minutes Liam Craig, did well to win the ball from Buaben in midfield before advancing forward but the Saints midfielder was crowded out by the retreating Jambos defence as they cleared the danger.
On 38 minutes Esmael Goncalves broke down the right before cutting inside and setting up Ross Callachan who played in Jamie Walker and the midfielder tried to squeeze a tight angled shot in at the near post but Joe Shaughnessy did well to turn the effort behind for a corner. The corner was taken by Souttar and his ball into the box found Berra whose header was brilliantly palmed over for another corner by Mannus. Again, the corner was taken by Souttar but this time his cross into the box was cleared by Steven MacLean.
Before the second half got underway Hearts made a change as Harry Cochrane came on for Buaben.
Hearts started the second half more brightly as on 48 minutes Michael Smith's long throw was headed out to Callachan, who knocked it down to Walker and he attempted a first-time volley from about 20 yards that went over the bar. Then 3 minutes later David Milinkovic setup Smith whose cross into the box was cut out by Shaughnessy for a corner which came to nothing. Hearts were on top and on 53 minutes Walker won the ball on the halfway line before braking at pace and he then slipped the ball to Goncalves but his shot was straight at Mannus.
Saints made their first change of the match on 67 minutes as Graham Cummins came on for Steven MacLean.
Hearts took the lead on 74 minutes as Cochrane's effort from distance was intercepted by Lafferty and the Northern Ireland internationalist had time to spin and fire off a shot which took a deflection off Shaughnessy to wrong foot Mannus as the ball landed in the bottom corner of the net.
As the match entered the closing stages Saints pressed forward as they looked to get an equaliser but they couldn't create anything of significance that would trouble Jon McLaughlin in the home goal.
Then deep into added on time Hearts hit Saints on the break as Walker broke forward before slipping the ball to Harry Cochrane who unleashed a shot at goal which rattled off Mannus' right-hand post.
Hearts: McLaughlin, Smith, Souttar, Berra, Walker, Buaben (Cochrane 45), Lafferty, Milinkovic (Stockton 81), Callachan, Brandon, Goncalves (Henderson 69)
Unused Substitutes: Hamilton (GK), Nowak, Grzelak, Moore
Booked: Buaben, Cochrane, Lafferty, Callachan
Scorer: Lafferty (74)
Saints: Mannus, Shaughnessy, Millar (Johnstone 81), MacLean (Cummins 67), Wotherspoon (Alston 77), O'Halloran, Comrie, Scougall, Gordon, Easton, Craig
Unused Substitutes: Clark (GK), Tanser, Paton, Gilchrist
Booked: Scougall, Millar, Craig
Referee: Nick Walsh
Attendance: 18,534
Match Report by Daryl Scott
Picture: Aaron Comrie tackles Kyle Lafferty
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Creative Typography Artworks
Typography is becoming more popular. Designers think to be more creative with typography and used the ideas cleverly. Many of them succeeded. And those who can not get the maximum results got a experience for future. Failing is a part of learning. Especially in Design. So do not Worry.
Today Grafixyard want to share the artwork of BMD Design studio. The France based studio did a lot of work. Especially their artwork comprises of typography most either is digital or handmade. Some of the typographic artwork projects are given below.
1. Cafe Racer
Handmade Artwork
2. Section Rugby
About Mohsin Nazir
Founder of Grafixyard. Blogging and Designing is my passion. Based in Islamabad, Student of Design. You can follow my social Networks. Twitter | Facebook | Flickr | Google+ and visit my Portfolio


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Design WorkshopWednesday, July 26th, 2006 by Jim Spadaccini
As part of the ExhibitFiles design process, we conducted a workshop at the Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, California, June 13-14, 2006. Most of the workshop participants were exhibit developers, the primary users of the website.
We focused on potential features of the ExhibitFiles site. Card sorting, free-listing, and a lot of discussion over the two days really helped move our thinking along.
We've captured some of the results from this meeting in a Design Workshop Document (880K PDF). As always, your comments and questions are welcomed.


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I have noticed a trend over the last decade of patrol officers failing to carry the police shotgun either in their squads or on calls on a regular basis. I am not talking about officers whose departments do not issue such weapons or officers who have access to rifles. I refer to a change in mindset of the officers themselves about the shotgun.
Having FTO'd on an off since the eighties, I have noticed a gradual shift in attitude away from the shotgun. In urban policing, it was not common for a police officer to be armed with a rifle or sub-gun until after LAPD's North Hollywood shootout in 1997. The primary long gun seen before that was the shotgun.
The shotgun is a devastating combat weapon. In its modern form, it has served the military and police departments well since World War I. The manual of arms is fairly straightforward. A properly trained officer with a shotgun, spare ammunition, a sling, and a mounted light will absolutely rule the day in close quarters battle.
In the first few years I worked Midnight Shift, officers would race to a "man with a gun" call. Everyone would exit their cars and there would be a cacophony of clackity-clacks as the Remington 870's were charged.
Fast forward to last year, where I went on an armed subject call and saw just one out of the five arriving officers with a shotgun. The remainder of the officers went pistol-only. Fortunately, three of us arrived with SWAT weapons.
Starting out at the beginning of shift, an FTO has the rookie check out his car for damage and drivability. A search is done of the prisoner's caged area for contraband and weapons. The shotgun is unloaded, checked for function, reloaded in a cruiser-safe mode, and placed in a rack or trunk.
It is disturbing to me that my last few recruits had no competence in handling the shotgun while checking it. I don't think their initial academy training was technically deficient, but it was sorely lacking in repetition, by which one becomes familiar and proficient with the shotgun.
I have been on incidents with our troops and surrounding agencies, and have witnessed officers and deputies employing their general issue shotguns without carrying any spare shotgun shells. Boom, boom, boom, boom. And you're done.
Because of the shotgun's limited ammo capacity, an officer needs a handy way to access more shells, like side-saddles, buttstock holders, or pouches. If you are firing a shotgun, whether pump or semi-auto, you need to be constantly stoking the tube magazine to keep the gun topped off.
Nowadays, the shotgun is usually an entry-level weapon for newer officers. With time and training, many agencies will graduate them to a rifle. While some departments will trust a rookie with an AR-15, mastery of the shotgun is de rigueur for all officers.
If you do not feel comfortable with the shotgun, practice with dummy rounds for loading and unloading. Find range time with an instructor to hone your skills. The shotgun should not be treated as a "scattergun," but like a precision rifle.
Twelve gauge 00 buckshot spreads, with current police ammunition, hover around one inch per three feet of distance to target. This will vary with the ammunition, barrel length of the gun, and choke size (cylinder-bore in a police gun). Test your shotgun and ammo at various target distances to see how your gun patterns.
To paraphrase master trainer Clint Smith of Thunder Ranch, a handgun is for fighting your way back to your long gun. Not everyone has a police rifle. We cannot take a shotgun with us on every call. But because it greatly increases our lethality quotient in an armed confrontation, a shotgun should be carried when it is tactically appropriate for the situation and need is apparent.
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The Career Advisor Training Course (CATC) was brought into Qatar and the GCC region by the Qatar Career Development Center (QCDC) and is the first customized training course for career advisors in Qatar. The course is certified by Kuder, Inc., a world leader in career planning services.
The Career Advisor Training Course aims to equip individuals with the basic skills and essential knowledge of career advising and planning, and provide them with tools and activities so that they can assist our youth to embark on ultimate career journeys.
The course will run from 7-11 May 2017, from 8:00am to 2:00pm, at the Education City Recreation Center, for five days. This batch of the course will be for Arabic speakers only.
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Objectives and Outputs
Course Content
There are 9 specific competencies to be achieved throughout the training:
Proficient in the career facilitating process while including productive interpersonal relationships
Understand career development theories, models, and techniques as they apply to lifelong development, gender, age, and ethnic background.
Comprehend and use (under supervision) both formal and informal career development assessments with emphasis on relating appropriate ones to the population served.
Describe the career planning process and suggest approaches and criteria that will assist in making career choices.
Follow the relevant code of ethics and know current legislative regulations.
Promote the career development program as it relates to assessment interpretation and job-seeking materials.
Comprehend and use career development technology based applications.
Know job search strategies and placement techniques, especially in working with specific groups.
Understand career development programs and their implementation, and work as a liaison in collaborative relationships.
Day 1: Introduction and the Process of Career Planning
Day 2: Theory and Assessments as Valuable Tools in Career Planning
Day 3: Information as a Valuable Tool in Career Planning
Day 4: Facilitative Skills as a Critical Tool in Assisting Others with Career Planning
Day 5: Delivering Career Planning Services
An online interface for this course will be available via the portal during the course and 6 months after. This is a type of knowledge bank for trainees to use and rely on.
Dr. Tajalsir Kardaman has assumed the post of Career Counseling Consultantat Qatar Career Development Center since 2014.
He holds a doctorate from Lancaster University, UK, where he worked as a professor. He also lectured at the Universities of Khartoum and Al Jazira in Sudan in addition to working at the Qatar University from 1998 to 2013.
Dr. Tajalsir enjoys significant experience in the fields of education, research, training and professional development in addition to extensive expertise in overseeing and implementing training and development programs.
Before joining QCDC, Dr. Tajalsir served as the Director of Qatar University's Center of Continuity Education and Office of Faculty and Instructional Development.
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Since joining QCDC, he contributed to the development, implementation and assessment of career guidance programs targeting students, parents and career counselors.
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We will strive to offer a facility where the youth want to come back time after time, where young parents find child care/cost relief, and where all ages can use the facility to stay strong, fit, and healthy.
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Pictured (left to right): Chanchal Gill, Manager, Motor Parkway Sunoco; Tony Church, Highway Commissioner, Village of Islandia; Mary Brady, School Nurse, Andrew T. Morrow Elementary School; Betty Ceccarini, Principal, Andrew T. Morrow Elementary School; Chris Tartaglia, P.E., Principal, High Point Engineering, Inc.; Harry Singh, Chief Executive Officer, Bolla Oil; Rattan Singh, Mr. Singh's cousin; Mayor Allan M. Dorman; Michael Zaleski and Barbara Lacey, Trustees, Village of Islandia; Seif Abdraboh, Merchandising Specialist, Bolla Oil; and Kevin Kriz, Assistant Manager, Motor Parkway Sunoco.
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Islandia Village Celebrates Grand Reopening of Motor Parkway Sunoco and Bolla Market
Gas Station Donates $3,700 to Elementary School for New Playground Equipment
On May 14, Allan M. Dorman, Mayor, Village of Islandia, joined village board members and employees in celebrating the grand reopening of Motor Parkway Sunoco. The gas station underwent an expansion with the addition of the newly constructed convenience store, Bolla Market, and a new look with newly installed gas pumps and a paved blacktop. In celebration of the event, Motor Parkway Sunoco offered visitors and customers free hot dogs, sandwiches, drinks and ice cream.
Motor Parkway Sunoco is owned by Bolla Oil, which is based in Garden City. High Point Engineering, Inc. in Jericho was the architect for the project. Bolla Construction in Garden City built the new store and rebuilt the gas station.
In support of the local community, Harry Singh, Chief Executive Officer, Bolla Oil, presented a check to Betty Ceccarini, Principal, Andrew T. Morrow Elementary School, in the amount of $3,700 for the school to purchase new equipment for the school playground.


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DAFVM Spotlight Employee: Charlie Bush
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When Charlie Bush heads out of the Simpson County Extension Office, you won't catch him listening to the latest popular music.
"I like listening to the old country singers and songwriters, like Townes Van Zandt, John Prine and Hank Williams Sr.," Bush said. "I haven't listened to the radio in years."
Bush spends a lot of time on the road, meeting with clients in his job as a county Extension agent. He's been with MSU's Extension Service since January 2010, after he got his master's degree in agricultural business management at MSU.
"My favorite part of this job is getting out and being with people -- not necessarily handling things over the phone," he said. "I worked as a county agent in Bolivar County for two years, until the position in my home county opened up. I've been in Simpson County since February 2012. I enjoy meeting different people and sometimes being able to help them with their problems."
Bush enjoys the smaller scale of agriculture in Simpson County.
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When he's not meeting with clients or working with 4-H clubs, Bush writes for his weekly county newspaper, The Magee Courier.
"People who know of Extension have a pretty good overall sense of what we do. The problem is that too many people don't know about Extension," Bush said. "So I try to write an article twice a month about what I see going on in yards and gardens around the county. I list our county contact information at the end of each article so they're able to use us as a resource. My goal is to reach people who don't know about the Extension Service so they will consider calling us when they have a question or need some help."
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Femoro-acetabular impingement and labral tear.(Articular causes)
Femoroacetabular impingement is a condition of too much friction in the hip joint creating damage to the articular cartilage or the labrum or both. Ganz et al. and Lavigne et al. have identified femoroacetabularimpingement as the predominant cause of labral tears in the non dysplastic hip. Abnormal hip morphology can limit motionand result in repetitive impact of the proximal portion of the femoral neck against the acetabular labrum and its adjacentcartilage.
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Pain is usually around hip area which might get worse with movements, especially standing, sitting and perhaps changing direction while walking or jogging. The greatest clue to the diagnosis is in the history because athletes can usually describe the motion that reproduces the pain.
It is important to differentiate between intra-articular and extra-articular hip disorders so that the treatment strategiescan be accurately focused.
Other causes of referred hip pain,such as conditions of the lumbar spine, sacroiliac joint, or intra pelvic structures.
Diagnosing hip pain in an athlete can be complicated further by the presence of concomitant injuries to the surrounding soft tissues.
The history should focus on the exact location of pain, the qualitative nature of the discomfort (such as catching, clicking,instability, stiffness, weakness, or decreased performance), the timing of the onset of symptoms, and the precipitating causeof the symptoms. Patients with labral tears typically point to the groin as the area of pain.
A complete examination of the surrounding structures is necessary to fully evaluate patients presenting with hip pain.
The general examination shouldcarefully assess gait, the abdomen (with an emphasis on pubicpain), lumbar spine abnormalities (including a neurologic evaluation), the sacroiliac joint, the knee, and lower-limb lengths.
Although thereis no universally accepted "correct" comprehensive hip examination,a positionally based examination, as described by Martin etal., helps to limit missed diagnoses. With this method,the patient is examined in five different positions, includingstanding, seated, supine, lateral, and prone. Within each position, fives pecific tests are administered.
Traumatic Instability
The spectrum of traumatic hip instability ranges from gross instability associated with a high-energy dislocation to a moresubtle hip subluxation. While hip dislocations most commonly result from motor-vehicle crashes, they have also been reported in athletic competition, secondary to a forward fall on the knee while the hip is flexed or to a blow from behind whilethe player is down on all four limbs.
The immediate managementof a hip dislocation involves rapid reduction in order to minimize long-term complications, such as osteonecrosis of the femoralhead. The secondary phase of treatment focuses on the definitivecare of injured structures. Due to the low-energy mechanism,most hip dislocations sustained during athletic competitionare a pure dislocation without any associated acetabular rim fractures. Thus,open reduction and internal fixation is often not warranted,and active and passive range of motion can begin as soon as tolerated by the patient.
Posterior subluxation of the hip is more subtle in presentationbecause it involves less energy and may be misdiagnosed as asimple hip sprain or strain. Thus, even following minor trauma,the physician should have a high index of suspicion for an intra-articularinjury. The mechanism of subluxation is often similar to thatof hip dislocation: a fall on a flexed knee and hip with a posteriorly directed force.


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Jewish World Review April 25, 2012/ 3 Iyar, 5772
A night in the Great Hall
By Paul Greenberg
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Old friends are here and there in the crowd, new friends about to be made. Everything seems suspended in that moment before the first note. We need only find the right key, and all else will follow. Chord after chord. Beauty awaits. We know it.
Silver-haired ladies, lovers of music all, can be seen scattered like sentinels on guard. So long as they're here, there is still continuity, there is still civilization.
This is the last concert of the season. Is it my always pessimistic imagination, or aren't there as many grandes dames as usual in attendance? What will happen when they are gone? A brief shiver runs through me.
The sun is blinding at this time of day through all the glass, a whole wall of it, in the Great Hall, but it will soon set and the music will go on. Sight is a nice complement to sound, just as this chamber is to chamber music. But the visual isn't essential, as comforting and familiar as the sight of
Music, like style, isn't something that's just applied later, an Extra Added Attraction. It is central. It permeates. It transforms. It changes everything.
They said, "You have a blue guitar,
You do not play things as they are."
The man replied,
"Things as they are
Are changed upon the blue guitar."
Tonight's first piece, according to the program, is "Corner in
As happens with embarrassing regularity, I am mistaken. The first movement, "
There's a rhythmic theme to the whole piece, like the Mozartian accompaniment to all those stagecoach rides in
The impulse behind the music may be derivative, a term now used dismissively. But there is derivative and there is derivative. The difference depends on what a work of art is derived from, and how well. Derive a work from something fine, and it, too, may be fine, even a new and elegant edition of fine. Originality is much overrated in art as in politics, continuation underestimated. As this piece reminds.
Darius Milhaud is next, a composer who wasn't afraid of melody, or even of being popular. He deserves to be. Tonight it's his "Suite for Violin, Clarinet and Piano. Op. 157b," which isn't anywhere as formidable as its title. Like its overture, it's vif et gai, lively and gay. The way
What a pity nothing can be described as gay any more without a momentary pause, a hesitant moment of self-consciousness. It was a useful, even irreplaceable word, gay. Now it's not the same. The new definition of the word has overwhelmed, distorted, obscured the old. I hate it when that happens; the language has been impoverished, a gap created where there was charm.
Dangerous practice, pinning words on music. But this music remains ... gay. In the original, much-missed sense. Street scenes in
Somewhere an accordion is playing and
Now it's time for what most of us came for. Schubert's "String Quartet in C Major," which is not just a musical but a spiritual masterpiece. Written just before his death, it would wait long afterward to win a just admiration. Now it has come into its towering own.
Words just get in the way now. Things are no longer as they were. On the cellist's features there is written every impulse of this powerful, profound music. The cellist, transported, transports us. Schubert lives. In the music, in us. Nothing great is ever lost.
Thank you, Quapaw Quartet. Well played. We go home exhilarated. Maybe a little exhausted, too, but elevated. The after-concert coffee is sweet, foamy, rich, delicious. But it cannot match the music. Nothing could.
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It took a day to sink in, but the comprehensive nature of the Republican victories in Minnesota on Tuesday recalls 1978's "Minnesota massacre." In Minnesota, Republicans won the statewide races for senator, governor, secretary of state, and state auditor (suburban mayor Pat Awada, a budding star). In Minnesota's congressional delegation, Republicans picked up one seat as a result of our friend John Kline's sweet, sweet victory over Bill Luther in Minnesota's redistricted second district. Minnesota's eight-member congressional delegation is now evenly divided.
In the state legislature, Republicans added to their previously narrow majority in the state house of representatives. My personal favorite, Rep. Eric Lipman of Lake Elmo, is not only one of the smartest guys in state politics, he was the number one target of the Democrats' interest groups while running for re-election in a slightly less Republican redistricted district. Eric survived the onslaught. Republicans picked up five seats in the state senate, where they have been a perpetual minority. At 31-36 (I think), they are at an all-time high-water mark and now within hailing distance of the Democrats. Dane Smith provides a good recap in "Minnesota GOP savors role in national sweep." He even quotes our friend David Strom of the Taxpayers League–after the Republican party, the Star Tribune's least favorite organization.
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Housekeeping sucks and I suck at housekeeping. Like a George Clooney movie, this makes for the perfect storm.
Laundry needs to be washed. What doesn't need to go into the machine, is either piled in a basket or on the coffee table. Shoes, books, magazines and mail litter surfaces throughout the house and the dishwasher either needs to be unloaded or turned on.
When the housekeeper, Ms. Brenda, comes on Wednesdays, my house is nice and orderly but it's Thursday through Tuesday that drive me crazy. The thing is, the list of chores that I never seem to get done aren't reflective of my preference. I'm not okay with a strewn house. I have enough chaos in my head. I don't want to live in it too.
This weekend I came across an article in the WSJ that profiled a family who runs their home like a business. 'Agile Development' is a blueprint many companies in Silicone Valley use to much success. The concept is simple: organize workers into small teams that are responsible on specific areas and nothing more. Translated to how the idea could be adopted for your home: laundry, food, maintenance,etc.
Brief meetings, lasting no longer than 20 minutes, are held each week and the family discusses their goals for the upcoming week, what went well the week before and what they can do better the next week. The children have input into the penalties enforced if their duties aren't performed.
Research has shown that adolescents perform better when self-analysis is apart of accountability. Research could show that fairies fly out of Unicorn's butt's when you say 'Beetlejuice' three times and, if it results in my home being less chaotic, I'm all about it.
We had our meeting, and our departments were divided up. Our next meeting is Sunday afternoon. Cross your fingers and say a prayer.
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When Austin Rivers heard he was coming to the Clippers, the first thing he did was call his mother, Kristen.
"She was a wreck the first night," he said.
She eventually gave her blessing to her husband, Clippers Coach Doc Rivers, and son, but the coach added that he knows he will hear about it from Kristen if there is any contentiousness between the two.
"I'm never prepared for that, I can tell you that straight up," Doc Rivers said with a smile.
Kristen Rivers wasn't the only one who had reservations about the second father-son coach-player combination in NBA history, which came to fruition Thursday in a three-team trade that involved the Boston Celtics and the Phoenix Suns.
When Austin Rivers takes the court, he'll be the first to play for his father in a game. Coby Karl was a member of the Denver Nuggets for a short time under his father, coach George Karl, but never played a minute.
Austin Rivers, 22, acknowledged that in the past he had preferred to play against his father. But he said when the opportunity to play for the Clippers arose, it was just too good for his career to pass up.
"I had to take a day to myself and be like, could this work?" Austin Rivers said. "It does, just because the relationship I have with him is already basketball-oriented."
A few things will have to change, of course.
"I think the biggest difference is now that I'm his coach, he has to actually listen to me," Doc Rivers said. "On his part, he's probably thinking any kid will listen to their parents if they pay them."
Austin Rivers, who averaged 6.8 points, 2.5 assists and 1.9 rebounds in 22 minutes a game for the New Orleans Pelicans this season, said that he knows his role on the team and is not worried about his father showing him favoritism.
"My dad would never, ever play me over somebody because I'm his son," Austin Rivers said. "If I'm not playing well, I'm sitting on the bench. It is what it is. He wants to win. My dad is the type of guy when I was 5 years old when we played checkers he would not let me win."
When asked if he could have a conflict of interest when he hears teammates complain about their coach, Austin Rivers said he's going to respect locker-room code above anything else.
"I'm not going to be like, 'Oh, he's talking about my dad,'" he said. "I've felt that way too at times about people. That's sports. You're not always going to be the happiest at your coach, and I understand that. They're not nervous about saying something around me either. They know that I'm not going to say anything, it's just not the right thing to do. That would be the wrong way to go about this. I'm just in there like anybody else."
Austin Rivers was selected by the Pelicans as the 10th overall pick in the 2012 NBA draft. He's shown potential as a guard who pushes the pace, an element the Clippers have lacked in their reserve unit.
Doc Rivers said he had a small opportunity to acquire his son over the summer, but he chose not to pursue it. He said he reconsidered after watching the Clippers' reserves languish in both pace and productivity, partly because guard Darren Collison went to the Sacramento Kings as a free agent last summer.
"At the end of the day my job is to do what I think is the best for my team," Doc Rivers said. "Not to do what's best for me, or what's comfortalbe for me. And we felt like this was."
When asked who has more pressure on him now, Austin Rivers or Doc Rivers, the player didn't hesitate in his response.
"This isn't pressure for me," Austin Rivers said." There's one ball, two baskets, and it's five on five."


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GO ahead. Ask Antoinette Balzano. Ask her why Totonno's, the pizzeria in Coney Island, matters.
"Here's what we mean to the city," she said the other day, her voice rising with emotion. Ms. Balzano, one of the heirs to the pizzeria, pointed at a black-and-white photograph, leaning on a tabletop, showing a blunt-faced, apron-clad man who looked like a retired boxer. It was a portrait of her grandfather Anthony (Totonno) Pero, who hatched the Brooklyn landmark in 1924 after years making pies at the legendary Lombardi's on Spring Street.
"He left Naples," she said. "He came here on a boat, left everybody behind. This man. This man. He brought pizza to this country, my grandfather did."
Ms. Balzano was cold, angry and fed up. It was an overcast Monday in November, a full three weeks after Hurricane Sandy had blasted into Brooklyn, and she was waiting for an engineer to show up to survey the damage.
As she paced, swaddled in a puffy coat inside the pizzeria, where particles in the air made her cough and chairs were stacked up after having been tossed around like toys from a Barbie tea party, she got on the phone with an insurance company to express her displeasure.
"Is this a joke?" she said. "You guys run some operation, let me tell you."
No matter whom she spoke with, it seemed as if each person failed to comprehend what Totonno's signified. To Brooklyn. To New York. To America.Continue reading the main story
"Nobody knows that this is insane," she said.
Hurricane Sandy shredded the Atlantic Seaboard, flattening entire neighborhoods in New York and New Jersey, and it will take a long time to tally the full measure of that devastation. In a symbolic way, though, the storm's assault on restaurants like Totonno's tore at the very heart of the New York experience.
Totonno's is just one of scores of beloved haunts, old and new, that have been struggling in and around the city, in areas like Brighton Beach and Howard Beach, Red Hook and Hoboken. These are the restaurants where toasts are raised to newlyweds, where candles are blown out on birthday cakes, where locals unload their troubles at the bar, and where street food is occasionally elevated to art — or at least a rowdy, pugnacious history lesson.
For many New Yorkers, they are the places that left the first emotional imprint of what dining ought to feel like. Ask someone from Nebraska — or France, Brazil or Japan — to free-associate a bunch of dishes that come to mind when hearing the phrase "New York food," and there is a high probability that pizza and hot dogs will top that list. And when one longs for pizza and hot dogs, yearnings naturally turn to Coney Island, where two places that helped popularize them, Totonno's and Nathan's, were so ravaged by the storm that they have temporarily shut down.
If you're a Brooklynite, your mental list of food memories probably encompasses the marinara sauce at Randazzo's Clam Bar and the freshly made sandwiches at Jimmy's Famous Heros, both fixtures in Sheepshead Bay, or the lobster fra diavolo served in the buzzing banquet halls of Gargiulo's, which has been the special-occasion Windsor Castle of Coney Island since 1907.
Long before Brooklyn became an internationally recognized gastronomic brand, such places taught the borough how to eat. "These are the stalwarts of Brooklyn dining, as far as I'm concerned," said Michael Lomonaco, the Bensonhurst-bred executive chef at Porter House New York, who knows about loss, having headed the team at Windows on the World, atop the World Trade Center, on Sept. 11, 2001. "These restaurants are very close to me."
All were savaged by Sandy.
If you want to know why these establishments matter, ask Darren Aronofsky, the director behind movies like "Requiem for a Dream," "The Wrestler" and "Black Swan." Mr. Aronofsky grew up in Manhattan Beach. He remembers dropping into Jimmy's to get supplies before heading off to Mets games. He remembers watching the folks behind the counter squirting on the oil and vinegar, laying on the sliced onions, wrapping each sandwich in wax paper.
"That place is a classic," he said. "Whenever you went on a trip anywhere, you'd always get Jimmy's heroes."
Mr. Aronofsky can't help but rhapsodize about Totonno's, too — how, even when there is a long line of drooling customers, the conjuring of dough always comes to a halt when the fresh ingredients run out. The pies always had "that burnt taste, which was just so remarkable," he said. "It changed my perception of what pizza could be."
(Though there is bound to be squabbling, many experts confirm the pivotal role of Ms. Balzano's grandfather in turning pizza into an American staple; more strikingly, they say that the sliver of a Coney Island storefront that bears his nickname never lost his fresh-mozzarella alchemy at the oven.)
James Oseland, the editor in chief of Saveur magazine, credits Totonno's with supplying "the quintessential New York City flavor profile in my mind" and describes the train ride out from Manhattan as something of an urban pilgrimage. "I adore the place," he said. "I think it has the best pies in New York City. That margherita pie there, it is an astonishment. It is truly one of the best pies I've had anywhere on earth."
Mr. Oseland hails from California, but he made his first journey to Coney Island when he was a teenager visiting the East Coast in the 1970s. "I was dragged out there by an ex, one incredibly frigid January afternoon," he recalled. The scene beneath the boardwalk felt "magnificently squalid and otherworldly," he said. The Nathan's hot dog with mustard and sauerkraut, with a side of greasy, crinkly fries, "was the absolute meal of the gods."
"It truly felt like the essence of New York at that moment," he said.
Along the boardwalk, the love for Nathan's ran so deep that a clipped, choked-up cadence took hold in people's voices when they spoke of it. "Of course they're coming back," said Harry Delgado, 60, a local resident and former bartender. "Nathan's is not leaving here anytime soon. They were here before I was born, and they're going to be here after I drop dead. Nathan's is Coney Island."
So is Gargiulo's. It is no small thing to become the banquet hall that Italian-American families flock to even when their nonnas can cook Sunday gravy at home. Gargiulo's has long represented the exception — somewhere "acceptable for family celebrations," Mr. Lomonaco said. "It had better be really good if it was going to beat Grandma's cooking."
But just days ago, workers were hauling chunks of debris into a Dumpster. Inside one of the vast rooms, purple streamers and pumpkin balloons from Halloween still dangled from chandeliers; party chairs and punch bowls and a baby grand piano were crammed together amid the cleanup.
The sight would have stunned Mario Carbone, a chef who, with his kitchen comrade Rich Torrisi, has been credited with refining and exalting the "red sauce" language of Italian-American cuisine at Torrisi Italian Specialties and Parm in NoLIta.
"I went to Gargiulo's as a kid from time to time because it was in the family rotation of special-occasion restaurants," Mr. Carbone said. "I remember seeing things for the first time there, like live lobsters presented tableside for the inspection and approval of the guest before invariably becoming fra diavolo."
For years, the highlight of the meal has been a game in which servers ask someone at your table to predict the number on a chip pulled from a bowl. "If you guess the number right, dinner is on the house," he said. "I've never seen anyone successfully do this, but every time you lose, they'll tell you about the guy that sat in that exact seat last week and won dinner for six."
Over decades, places like Gargiulo's, Totonno's and Randazzo's evolved into much more than mere dining establishments. "They're community centers," said Mr. Lomonaco, adding, "They have anchored the community for decades."
On the same day that Ms. Balzano stewed, Amos Wengler wandered along the boardwalk in a green army jacket and a yellow cap, chatting with friends. Think of Mr. Wengler as the Woody Guthrie of wienerdom: the "Coney Island troubadour," as he calls himself, has an array of songs about the most famous menu item at Nathan's Famous, and he is called in each year to serenade the audience at the hot-dog-eating contest held at the original location.
"I'll sing a few lines for you," he announced. " 'Hot dogs, hot dogs, watch them eat 'em up! Hot dogs, hot dogs, taste great with soda pop!' "
Mr. Wengler, 65, also has a song called "Save Coney Island," and it seemed clear from talking with him — or anyone with a deep connection to these classic spots — that saving them is about rescuing a part of New York's identity.
Which is why anything other than a comeback seems inconceivable. Of course, Totonno's stubbornly returned from a fire in 2009. "I just pray that I have the strength to do what I need to do," Ms. Balzano said. "I can't let Grandpa go down this way."Continue reading the main story


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Gannets Galore Bonaventure Island Photo Workshop Update
Northern Gannet SEAWEED IN YOUR FACE (Morus Bassanus, Fou de Bassan, NOGA) Parc national de l'Île-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Percé, Bonaventure Island, Quebec Image Copyright ©Christopher Dodds www.chrisdoddsphoto.com All Rights Reserved. Canon EOS 1DX, 200-400mm F4 L IS USM XT, (@274mm). ISO 1,000, F4.5 @ 1/4,000s Manual. Click HERE to order a print or license image for publication.
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A spectacle not to be missed! This is, by far, the very best workshop to master your birds in flight technique. I have invested well over a year of my life at this site, so I know the birds and I know the site intimately, and I know the best way to maximize the photographic opportunities in any wind or weather. I know, and work with, the people at the park & in the village, so from having our gear hauled to the colony in an ATV, to getting special access, I have all of the bases covered. I have hosted over one thousand photographers for this adventure and it truly is my favourite and most productive workshop.
Join Canon's Northern Explorer of Light Christopher Dodds at the largest Northern Gannet colony in the world. Bonaventure Island, off the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec, is home to more than 55,000 nesting pairs of Northern Gannets and it is such a beautiful place that National Geographic Traveler Magazine ranks Gaspé number three tourism destination in the world (Nov./Dec. 2009). You haven't really seen a Gannet until you see the activity at a breeding colony. Bonaventure Island is perhaps one of the world's best places to teach avian flight technique. Other photographic opportunities will include all aspects of breeding behavior; courtship display, bowing (territorial display), sky pointing, fencing (two mates clashing their bills together while pointing skyward), mutual preening and copulation. Most of the nests will be occupied and will contain babies at various stages of development. In June, we'll be feet away from hatching eggs and adults feeding their young on their nests. The workshop is timed to coincide with the annual Caplin run in June, so we should have plenty of opportunities to photograph these magnificent birds diving; sometimes forming huge diving funnels containing thousands of birds. Other photographic possibilities include thousands of nesting Black-legged Kittiwakes, Common Murres, Black Guillemots, Rozorbills, Gulls, Grey Seals and various Whales. Highlights will include a daily four hour adventure on a 24 foot Zodiac Hurricane (weather permitting). We should have ample opportunities to photograph Gannets diving and feeding in large funnels.
More information and sign-up for Gannets Galore Bonaventure Island Photography Workshop HERE
Gannets Galore: A recent trip to the gannet colony on the Gaspe's Ile Bonaventure with Chris Dodds proved to be all that I could have hoped for. The colony is large, active and readily accessible, Chris' familiarity with the birds and how they would react to the frequent changes in weather and wind direction gave us access to some pretty unique shooting opportunities, and his knowledge of the area and personal connections within the local community allowed us to get to the island when construction on the town's only pier could easily have prevented us from getting there. This, combined with Chris' almost unique ability to teach the principles of photography at the simplest and most complex levels, made this a trip that should not be missed.
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30 Efectos De Texto En Photoshop Tremendos
Hoy en Estilo 404 les traemos unos excelentes tutoriales photoshop donde podrán aprender a hacer estos excelentes efectos de texto photoshop increíbles, esperemos que les sean de utilidad.
Use the Pen Tool and a lot of patience to create this excellent grass effect.
2. Create a Layered Glowing Text Effect
This beginner-level tutorial allows you to create text that glows.
3. Using Light and Shade to Bring Text to Life
Learn about the concepts behind lighting and shading to make your text stand out.
4. Transparent Glass Lettering
This is PSDTUT's rendition of the popular glass text effect.
5. How To Create A Gold Text Effect
A classic text effect that rarely turns out classy (instead of gaudy and cheesy).
6. Icey Styles
Uses some basic Layer Styles like Bevel and Emboss to create a cold text effect.
7. Dramatic Text on Fire Effect
Set your text on fire with the Smudge Tool and some layer masking.
8. Wood Inlay Text
Using wood textures and some layer masks, you can create this "wooden inlay" effect.
9. Watercolor Text
Learn about the Brushes Palette to achieve a water-color painting effect.
10. The Sugar Bag Effect
Find out how to create this "Sugar Bag" effect using basic Layer Styles and selections.
11. Text In Stitches
This tutorial shows you how to create an stiched effect using a custom brush set.
12. Text Ticker
Mimic the text that you commonly see in "news tickers".
13. Cartoon/Comic-Style Text Effect
This is PhotoshopStar's rendition of this popular pop-culture text effect.
14. 'Bee Movie' Text Effect
Use a load of Layer Styles to create this text effect seen in the film "Bee Movie".
15. Simple, Sleek and Stylish Text Effect
Create a quick and sleek "Web 2.0" feel with this easy Photoshop tutorial.
16. Smooth Glass Type
Learn how to create a translucent text effect.
17. Moon Shine Text Effect
Quickly create this "dreamy" text effect using some basic Layer Styles.
18. Colorful Glowing Text Effect
Create this layered, glowing effect by separating the text in
individual layers and a white to transparent gradient layer to get this
cool, colorful glowing text effect.
19. Bubble Text
This is another quick tutorial on how to make this text effect using layer styles.
20. Killer Halftone Effect
This tutorial shows a way to apply the halftone effect to the background of your text.
21. Text on Turf
This tutorial uses the Noise Filter to create the grass-like texture.
22. Spray Paint Text
Create your own digital grafitti by following this excellent tutorial from PSD Learning.
23. Scanline Text
This is PSD Learning's beautiful take on the relatively "old-school" scan line technique.
24. Retro Text
This tutorial uses both Photoshop and Illustrator to create a retro look.
25. Grunge Text Effect
This tutorial from psdfan shows you how you can apply this popular effect on text.
26. Pimp your text
Can't afford real bling-bling? Make some digital ones with this quick tutorial.
27. Paint Effect
UBL Designes shows us how to accent text as though you splattered paint on it.
28. Spectacular Style Text Effect
Create a 3D text effect by duplicating layers and offsetting each layer.
29. Shining Neon Text Effect
Create a colorful neon text effect by using a Gradient Overlay and a few Layer Styles.
30. Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography
Uses vector files to accent your text to achieve a similar look as the sample.


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New DVD release
Turandot by Giacomo Puccini performed at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa on December 2012 has just been released by Dynamic label.
Daniela Dessì performed the title role for the first time, receiving unanimous critical acclaim.
Beside her, in the famous setting designed by Giuliano Montaldo, Mario Malagnini performed Calaf, Roberta Canzian (Liù) and Ramaz Chikviladze (Timur); M° Donato Renzetti conducted Orchestra of Teatro Carlo Felice.
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This wiki space contains archival documentation of Project Bamboo, April 2008 - March 2013.
PDF of full text plus comments (as of 10 AM CDT, 6/12/09)
This is an outline for Phase 1 (24 months) of a Bamboo Implementation Proposal.
The purpose of this document is to provide information to institutions and organizations participating in the Bamboo Planning Process so that they can help determine (1) the long term future of Bamboo and (2) define what activities Bamboo will carry out in its first implementation phase. The intent of this document is to solicit community input toward the ongoing development and revision of the implementation proposal. As this is an early draft, it is not yet a commitment to carry out all or any of this work.
Please note that we are updating this document frequently based on wide ranging input from the Bamboo community. These updates will occur periodically and will be indicated as ".1", ".2", ".3", etc updates. In addition, we will occasionally make major document revisions. These are noted as "1.X", "2.X", and so forth. Between major document revisions there may be some inconsistencies in language used between the sections of the document.


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Cyril Chauquet
From reel screaming shark in New York to explosive snapper in Western Africa and hard hitting yellowfin in Costa Rica, Wild Catch is a fast-paced sport-fishing and travel series that follows the rugged, off-the-beaten-path adventures of the enthusiastic Cyril Chauquet.
In each episode, Cyril's passion for fishing will bring you on a relentless pursuit to catch different species from across the world and meet other fishermen that share the same obsession. No matter if it's in salt or fresh water, he'll go anywhere to catch fish.
So grab your rod and reel and hit the water with the Wild Catch!
Learn more about what makes Wild Catch host, Cyril Chauquet so passionate about fishing…
What interests you the most about sport fishing?
Adventure! It's about being able to outwit an animal's behaviour, which can be very difficult to predict. I also enjoy the mystery, because you never know what's going on under water. I love that aspect! When starting a lure on the water, one must watch for the moment when a fish will attack. The spontaneity of the attack is very exciting!
What is your most memorable fishing moment?
I would say the time I caught my first big pike in the Alps in France. I was about 15 and I went fishing in the pond, not far from my home. That day I caught a pike that measured about a meter, and managed to get it out of the water on my own, but with great difficulty. I was really proud. It remains in my memory because it is the first big fish I caught in my life. I have also enjoyed fishing tiger fish, who's mouth is full of teeth, deep in Tanzania.
How do you choose the destinations?
The decision is based on several factors. First I consider the location's reputation for fishing and species. My priority is typically to fish for species that I have ever caught before or that I want to catch again. Then I research the surroundings of the area in which I want to fish. For example, in the Amazon, the region is somewhat legendary for me; it's located at the end of the world and you can still find places where you can get completely lost.
Follow Cyril Chauquet's adventures every Monday at 10 p.m. on Cottage Life.


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What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is a training of becoming consistently aware of how one responds towards one's own mind and body processes and thereby learning to understand how they affect our experiences of life. The awareness is done non-judgementally, in a relaxed wide-view observation by the mind, so that one can wise up to the causes and effects of happenings around us, and our long-term behaviour changes naturally for the better.
Mindfulness is now being examined scientifically and has been found to be a key element in happiness – especially in the area of contentment, acceptance and inner joy.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder and former director of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, helped to bring the practice of mindfulness meditation into mainstream medicine and demonstrated that practicing mindfulness can bring improvements in both physical and psychological symptoms as well as positive changes in health attitudes and behaviors. He developed the Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program.
Here is a short video clip with Oprah Winfrey interviewing Jon Kabat-Zinn on the topic of mindfulness.
Who practises mindfulness?
Awareness of the benefits of mindfulness practise is gaining ground all over the world. Mindfulness can be cultivated through mindfulness meditation, a systematic method of training our mental awareness and here are some famous people who are mindfulness meditation practitioners:
Bill and Melinda Gates (co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropist)
Steve Jobs (co-founder of Apple Inc.)
Arianna Huffington (co-founder of The Huffington Post)
Mark Bertolini (the CEO of Aetna, a Fortune 50 company)
Anderson Cooper (journalist, television personality)
Oprah Winfrey (talk show host, philanthropist)
Lee Kuan Yew (former Prime Minister of Singapore)
Richard Gere (actor, activist)
Al Gore (former Vice President of USA, Nobel Peace Prize recipient)
Jet Li (actor, martial artist, film producer)
Yuval Noah Harari (author of best-selling books, Sapiens and Homo Deus)
How is Mindfulness beneficial?
What is mindfulness and how can mindfulness help me?
The Mental Health Foundation of UK and its Be Mindful website has more on this. Evidence of and research on the benefits of mindfulness are detailed here as well as testimonials by others.
What is mindfulness? How does mindfulness help mental well being?
The National Health Services (NHS) of the UK answers this question.
"Mindfulness is recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as a way to prevent depression in people who have had three or more bouts of depression in the past."
Mindfulness improves well-being:
Increasing your capacity for mindfulness supports many attitudes that contribute to a satisfied life.
Being mindful makes it easier to savour the pleasures in life as they occur, helps you become fully engaged in activities, and creates a greater capacity to deal with adverse events.
Mindfulness improves physical health:
help relieve stress
treat heart disease
lower blood pressure
improve sleep
Mindfulness improves mental health:
fend off depression
curb substance abuse
reduce eating disorders
mitigate anxiety disorders
Benefits of mindfulness in schools:
Mindfulness in Schools: When Meditation Replaces Detention
Can mindfulness improve pupils' concentration? - BBC News
What Changes When a School Embraces Mindfulness?
Benefits of mindfulness at work:
6 Scientifically Proven Benefits Of Mindfulness And Meditation – Forbes Magazine
Why we need mindfulness in the workplace
Mindfulness At Work: How It Benefits Employers And Employees
Other readings
The Japanese skill copied by the world
What You Practice Grows Stronger
How it is relevant to the Malaysian community?
The dangers of mental stress and mental illness
Closer to home, recent media reports in Malaysia have highlighted that mental stress is one of the leading cause of mental illnesses, and is now growing at an alarming rate. Mental stress will only inevitably increase in our ever more competitive world which will then lead to more cases of mental illness and even suicide. It is for this reason that mindfulness practice should be promoted as a preventive holistic approach to equip society (especially the young) with better skills to manage their mental stress Example of the reports;
You, Too, Can Reduce Stress by Being Mindful
– The Star – 12 October 2014.
More Malaysian Expected to Suffer from Mental Illness by 2020
– The Star – 1 July 2016.
Mental Health Of Malaysian Student Cause Worries
– New Straits Times – 12 September 2016.
One in Three Malaysian Adults Struggling With Mental Health Issues
– New Straits Times – 26 September 2016.
Depression and the power of positive thinking.
–The Star – 24 April 2017
Here is a short quote from "Depression and the power of positive thinking":
"Depression can affect anyone. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts depression will be the second leading cause of morbidity in the world by 2020. The World Bank predicts that 340 million people will suffer from depression by 2020. WHO estimates that depression alone costs more than a trillion dollars' worth of economic loss yearly.
Data from the National Health Morbidity Survey in 2011 showed the prevalence of lifetime depression is 2.4% and prevalence of current depression is 1.8% in Malaysia. A recent article in The Star quoted an expert saying that 40% of Malaysians will suffer from mental health issues in their lifetime.
In short, depression is a serious matter."


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