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Enterprise Communication Meets the World of WarcraftApril 10, 2008 at 8:36 am | Posted in communication, Gaming, presence, usability, User experience, virtual worlds | 2 Comments
I'm working on my Enterprise Virtual Worlds presentation and was filling in some detail on communication in game-oriented virtual worlds that I would like to share here as well.
Enterprises are wise to look to gaming from time to time due to trends in:
- Outside-in technology: how consumer technologies such as blogs and wikis increasingly find their way into enterprises
- Emergent gameplay: the use of gaming technology in ways the original designer hadn't intended
- User experience lessons: UE improvements tend to filter from the competitive gaming market to generalized applications. Gaming is an optional activity, so UE has to be at a high level when you want the users to pay you to use their systems rather than the other way around.
Communication is interesting to explore since the number of communication channels that enterprises use (and every information worker must now attend to) has increased a great deal over the past five years to include instant messaging, presence, websites, and blogs. Getting enterprises used to the idea of "channels" and how to manage and select between them has taken some time and some pain.
I was quite impressed when all the methods of communication in World of Warcraft (which was released in November of 2003) are laid out. WoW communication is strikingly similar (and maybe more efficient) than enterprise communication technology in many areas.
It includes:
- Channels: Players can subscribe to communication channels such as /trade to receive ongoing chat on the channel, or unsubscribe. Another example is in EVE Online, which has a "newbie" channel that can put new players in touch with others taking their first steps, but can be turned off once the player is more confident.
- Chat modes (IM): The variety of built-in IM modes goes beyond most enterprise IM implementations which rely on groups. They are: /say (vacinity), /party (your group only), /guild (your broader community), /yell (all in larger region), /whisper (one person)
- Presence: Friends can be selected and you are made aware when they come online/offline, and location is displayed (a feature still on the cutting edge in the enterprise)
- Mail: Consists of normal mail, packages, and COD packages. The inbox is visited at WoW Postal Service facilities, which has the pleasant effect of isolating the player trying to accomplish objectives from the stream of email since they only check it periodically when they visit town. Also, since email costs money to send (a few copper pieces), there is practically no spam
- Emotes: There are over 100 emotes such as /wave, /thank, /cheer, /dance, etc. It is amazing how fluid the use of emotes gets in the real game, such that they do not feel like a conscious effort to be funny, but rather a natural way of expressing oneself in group situations.
Who Benefits Most from Presence – The Highly Scheduled or Chaos Lovers?April 5, 2007 at 3:20 pm | Posted in Attention Management, interruption science, presence | Leave a comment
Ken Camp published an interesting thought piece on "The Personality of Presence" that, among other topics, raises the question "What type of person (interrupt style) benefits most from presence?". That's a good and useful question, but I found it interesting that he came to the opposite conclusion I would:
To embrace presence, you must embrace the chaos that is interruption management. If you are not immersed in the flow for a myriad of diverse inputs (interruptions), if your day is based on planning aforethought and structure, presence is not likely a good thing. It removes personal control and places it in the hands of the interrupt.
For those of us who live by interruption and rarely adhere to a strict schedule, the idea of presences adds value, whereas for the structured world, presence is an anathema to order.
So he says interrupt-based workers would like presence more. My first instinct was the opposite.
I think people who are more scheduled and systematic would benefit more from presence because they wouldn't want interruptions, would like an attention shield inserted into communication channels that tells message senders when they are busy, and they generally embrace rules and order. And the opposite type of people, those who embrace chaos and like to feel part of the flow or like a spider sensing movement anywhere in its web are more able to handle being interrupted and multi-tasking.
His view is not wrong – I think it shows a difference in how presence is viewed. A glance at my Enterprise Attention Management conceptual architecture shows we're talking about different pieces. From a UC point of view presence is about intelligent routing ("Routing and channel switching" in the Attention Response Engine on the conceptual architecture diagram). From a desktop point of view presence is about attention shielding ("Rules and Scoring").
The good news for presence is that I think the answer to this question is that both types of people can benefit. People that love being part of the flow of information (or riding the surf of it depending on how much you get) will like the location abilities of presence (time, place, and device on the conceptual architecture) to make sure they don't miss a minute. People that are most effective when focusing on one task at a time and want to push synchronous attempts to contact them back to asynchronous methods when they can be handled at leisure will like the abilities of presence to block messages, push them to async mechanisms, or politely make others aware they are busy. Everyone wins!
Presence: More than just a green dotJanuary 26, 2007 at 9:00 am | Posted in Attention Management, presence | Leave a comment
I just got back from vacation and was pleasantly surprised that the email backlog waiting for me was less than I expected. Still, I'm only halfway through it, but I thought it would be worse. When I look at the email pattern, it seems there was a flurry of emails the day after I left, and then it died down from there. And today the email spigot has been turned back on and I'm getting quite a few.
Could be chance. But I think this is a pretty typical pattern, although I'll leave it to this blog's readers to tell me if I'm wrong. It demonstrates the broad definition of one's presence indicators and the difficulty of creating a unified presence indicator. When I think of presence indicators, the first thing that jumps to mind is the green or red circle on my IM tool.
My IM presence indicator certainly let people know I was out, but that's not the only way they knew. There is also my Outlook out of office message, my out of office voicemail message, my response rate to emails or phone calls (in case the out of office slipped the sender's notice), my calendar blocking for vacation, and word of mouth (like telling client services I would be out for a week and to forward messages to my research director). If I was in an office my physical presence (or lack thereof) would come into play as well.
I see four kinds of presence at play:
- Explicit presence: Presence indicators in a system called "presence" (e.g., IM)
- Implicit presence: Indicators of your presence in non-presence systems (e.g., out of office e-mail and voicemail)
- Behavioral presence: Actions (or lack thereof) that indicate your presence (e.g., quickly responding to or not responding at all to voicemails)
- Physical presence: Seeing or hearing one's presence in the real world (I'll lump hanging a "gone fishin'" tag in the window here too since it's physical)
So what does this mean for unified presence and its role in attention management?
First, it shows why making one's availability known is difficult and requires several efforts across explicit and implicit presence indicators.
Second, it shows why a true unified presence system is unlikely. Unifying explicit presence is easiest, implicit presence a bit harder, behavioral presence starts becoming more art than science, and physical presence gets into audio/video sensors that won't be used in business settings. Presence can be more unified than it is today, but won't reach the extreme of a single unified presence system.
Third, it's interesting to note the degree that non-technical factors – behavioral and physical presence – begin to feed into overall attention indicators. People have natural, organic attention management systems that supplement or fill in when the electronic ones are not enough.
Alec Saunders on "New Presence"December 22, 2006 at 10:14 am | Posted in Attention Management, presence | 2 Comments
Alec Saunders (CEO of iotum) posted out a wonderful visionary piece on presence called "New Presence" and the Voice 2.0 Manifesto. It does a good job of pointing out the potential of presence, the set of data and sensors it needs to have to function, and the need to somehow break up what he calls the "walled gardens" that independent presence systems have today.
I'd like elaborate on some of the comments I posted to his blog entry and to relate his vision of presence to the Rich Presence model I introduced in my telebriefing "Stop Interrupting Me! Effects of Communication on Info-stress and Attention Fatigue" (conceptual model posted up here). Incidentally, I still like my term "rich presence" better as it implied more functional rather than just 'new and different".
When the Voice 2.0 Manifesto was written, it identified presence as the enabler of conversation, allowing parties to easily determine each others willingness to engage, and by which technology.
Lord knows I have way too many conversations and would have way more if my spam filter wasn't working and I didn't have caller ID.It's the quality of the conversations that is the issue. I want presence to enable higher quality conversations that are more relevant and important to me. In essence, presence is one of the key enablers of attention management.
Alec posts up a good diagram of all the profile, context, and relationship data involved in his future vision of presence, similar to the "data" and "sensors" on my conceptual architecture but his has some great additional detail.But from his description I am wondering where the brains are in his model.Where does the information get crunched for a particular message coming in? In my conceptual model of an attention management system I define an "attention response engine" with Rich Presence, Rules & Scoring, and Channel Switching & Routing components. Deciding where presence stops and the decision making kicks in has been a matter of debate between myself and Mike Gotta.
Alec has a good listing of new applications that rich presence would enable, but I believe presence must be valuable to end users, not the vendors. If the end users don't get enough out of it, the vendors will be left high and dry. Per my pushing/pulling definition of "attentional technologies and capabilities", the issue for end users is: does this quiet my life, pushing back noise and pulling the messages most important to me in my current state forward?
…the simple confusion around protocol standards. Ironically, this ought to be the simplest piece to solve. Standards are simply codified ways to describe information. The tussle between SIP / SIMPLE, and XMPP must be resolved before New Presence can effectively move forward.
I think there are a lot more standards needed than simply resolving SIP/SIMPLE and XMPP. Standards on how roles and relationships are defined, interests, rules and scoring, preferences must all be defined. XMPP is extensible, but that doesn't mean it defines these extensions.
These are not criticisms, just adjustments to a visionary piece. I think we are both thinking in the same direction. My hope is that a solid enough vision of presence can be created to encourage vendors to actually move forward with something easy to use and, while not perfect, a lot better than we have today.
Presence: Potential and QuestionsNovember 28, 2006 at 12:50 pm | Posted in Attention Management, presence | Leave a comment
I am a big fan of the potential of presence. Not the available/busy + idle time indicator you see in your instant messaging tool today, but rich presence that:
- utilizes more data and sensors to make decisions
- offers more granularity about what you are available to accept (my concept of "matrixed presence" which is internally represented by a grid of presence states on one axis and groups on the other)
- breaks open the "black box" of a message to allow content and sender-aware decisions about how to disposition the message
- is part of the information worker's operating system and leveraged and extended when needed (not just from within IM)
- has a more usable interface for setting of rules and state
I see presence as the key enabling technology for attention management. By "enabling" I mean that it is infrastructure that can sit beneath many other technologies that affect the number of messages and amount of information that is fired at us such as e-mail, collaborative workspaces, IM, SMS, RSS, and a host of other acronyms. Presence is part of what I define as an "attention response engine" consisting of rich presence, a rules and scoring component, and a routing and switching component.
But at this point, it seems the potential of presence simply raises more questions:
- How practical is this? Can technology do this well enough to be, on the whole, beneficial? Will people ever take any effort to manage their presence?
- Isn't the human side of the equation more of an issue (e-etiquette, bypassing technology channels, gaming the system) which means this will never succeed? Isn't the problem within ourselves, not our technology?
- Is this still presence we're talking about or some space age AI system?
- Will vendors ever provide this if they can't directly make money off it?
- Are real people actually asking for this?
- Doesn't this invade my privacy? What is the role of separate identities?
- Will I ever trust a computer to make decisions for me on who/what to allow in and who/what to reject?
In researching my overview of attention management (tentatively titled "Techniques to Address Attention Fatigue and Info-Stress in the Too-Much-Information Age" and scheduled for release in January) I've examined these issues and think I have come to some, well, enlightenment if not answers. I'll post up some of my thoughts as I go and appreciate any feedback on what you'd like me to address.
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It's been pointed out to me that I wasn't terribly clear in the post below, Scum. It was written fairly soon after the disturbing events, and I was quite anxious and frustrated at the time. I want to be perfectly clear, though, so I'm going to make a few additional points and clarifications. Primarily, I want to define the term scum as I intend it to mean here, but that requires a few preambles. And so:
1. Humans, and all organisms for that matter, are opportunists. This is not positive or negative, it just is.
2. What accounts for the everyday difference in behavior between myself and someone like the Scum Boss? The short answer is culture and values. The long answer is that I grew up in a culture that values the social contract and he didn't. Therefore, I'm extremely reluctant to engage in behavior that is bad for society (i.e., stealing). He is not.
3. I'm perfectly aware that there are many Arab immigrants in Italy who do not behave as the Scum Boss does. Italy's economy, much like America's, would halt if all its Arab immigrants suddenly stopped working. There are many, many, honest and hardworking Arab families living in Italy. Demographically speaking, the problem generally lies with large groups of young single men. I'd wager that young immigrant men who have women in their lives–whether they've brought their mothers, sisters, and especially wives with them from the old country–generally engage in less antisocial behavior. Whereas large populations of young single men, in any society, tend to instigate a disproportionate amount of societal angst.
So. All that being said, my definition of scum: A person who believes that the best way to get ahead is by taking from others.
When I first started trying to define the term scum, I started with "someone who is motivated primarily by self-interest". But that is not quite right, because the social contract that you and I were raised to respect really is in our self interest. I want to live in a society that upholds 'the good, the true, the beautiful', therefore I (try to) uphold those things. It's in my self interest. If instead I use 'taking from others' as the defining characteristic of scum, the meaning comes into clearer focus. In the social contract, my self interest is also yours. In the scum's universe, my self interest is contrary to yours. And that's why its called scum.


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Wow, what a few days we're having! (Thanks to Volvo Ocean Race for the vids)
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Commemorative ride for Kevin Ash
What are you up to on 9th August? Fancy a date with me and a gang of motorsport fans at Silverstone? We are getting together in memory of my wonderful friend and revered journo, Kevin Ash. He is very much missed and this will be a perfect opportunity to raise some money for the Kevin Ash Fund, to help his family. I, for one can't wait to see everyone. There will be a ride-in and a commemorative lap (Donate well and I will be your pillion!) and afterwards I will be hosting an auction full of money can't buy items. So please shout about it to your mates, get together and pop down, it would be great to see you. Kev would have loved it.
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Beautiful Jewellery for Promise Dreams
The supremely talented Alyssa Smith is a 26 year old international British jewellery designer who has a great love for the simple things in life like, family, friends, her pets, chocolate brownies, anything sparkly and of course designing and making gorgeous jewellery. Alyssa has talked for a long time about making a range of jewellery for the children's charity – Promise Dreams for whom I am a patron and eventually came up with a delightful collection including race tracks and chequered flags.
The aim is to raise as much money as possible for Promise Dreams from this special collection and 100% of the profits will go directly to the charity. Every piece you buy from this collection will be helping a fantastic cause in more ways than you could imagine.
Alyssa's aim to keep this collection as interactive as possible is to show how much money has been raised throughout the year so please check out her website and see what a difference your support is already making!
What could be better for us all than having beautiful and unusual jewellery AND helping put smiles on the faces of seriously and terminally ill youngsters. Believe me, that smile gives you an unbelievable feeling.
Christmas Gift Guide
The other night I took part in a debate about Christmas; the expense, the expectation and whether or not Santa exists. To me the last part was obvious, but hey. I guess some folks are just cynics. I bumped into him once on the landing when I was 9, I was slightly confused because firstly it was a little before midnight and secondly he did kind of resemble my mum, but with a beard, I digress.
Anyway, the overriding factor was that technology is adored, flaunted and desired but can wind up making for a super expensive shopping cart. So, I've been looking at beloved gadgets for under £100-ish…
I have been a huge fan of the G-form 'Reactive Protection Technology' since I was encouraged to drop a bowling ball on my iPad to test out the shock proof case. For the record, my device was unharmed in this experiment. Now, using their 3 layer technique they make cases for iPhones, hopefully for other brands soon, because these little babies are the cats whiskery bits. 90% of impact is absorbed into the shell and just as important, they also look cool. If you're looking for something more businesslike the Proporter Leather case might tickle your fancy, it has an aluminium lining to add a little ruggedness to its slinky appearance,
I have a penchant for headphones, especially in-ear types (I'm aware that makes me sound odd 😉 So I think they make a top gift. Sneaking into my assigned price bracket are the achingly stylish Atomic Floyd 'PowerJax'. They offer heart-pumping bass and a gorgeous crisp sound quality, silicone ear-tip seals to block out any irritating ambient noise and…(I love this) they have a Kevlar anti tangle chord! Yes, it works too, no more fiddling with endless knots.
For something a little more quirky, have a look at Quarkie.com. I love the cats eyes, yes they are a tad blingy but I have embraced the festive spirit, and the bass sounds great and there is minimal distortion. If you're more rock and roll than me, there is also a vipers head, honestly!
I'm relieved that Amazon have introduced the Kindle Paperwhite because my fella drives me mad with his extra light he clips onto his regular kindle, its like someone is shining a maglite (the new ML100 is pretty good btw, but the belt loop attachment is way too nerdy, even for me!) into my eyes when we're reading in bed. The Paperwhite also boasts more pixels for an enhanced reading experience and can store 1100 books.
Sporty? Check out Scosche Rhythm. Its an arm band that monitors your pulse and lets you know how many calories have been ousted, how fast and how far you've run. It connects to your phone/tablet via Bluetooth and gives you real time feedback. I also like the Fitbit Zip. It tracks your activity via an accelerometer and if you're brave you can share the info with your friends.
This is the tip of the iceberg, trust me… happy Christmas shopping!
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FOOTIE, can't shake it…
As our extended Spring nears its end, bypassing Summer and going straight to Autumn the world of geeks (probably having not noticed the missed season) rub their texting thumbs with glee in anticipation of new gadget launches. We will be seeing the new Google Nexus Tablet, the world's first 7" quad-core tablet with Android 4.1 Jellybean … Sony will showcase its 4K UltraHD Projector and of course Apple will have folk clapping and whooping as the iPhone 5 finally hits the streets. 4G has also been a hot topic and will launch for Orange and T-mobile users in September. For the majority of the UK though, it's called the Football season. Our national sport is back and whether you love or hate our national game it's hard to get away from it.
I'm a footie lover, a Wolves fan, it's in my DNA. I'm loyal, passionate and always watch with an optimistic eye. The other eye is always looking for a way to escape this inbuilt addiction, I'm well aware that I'm sometimes watching a bunch of overpaid Wendy's with ego's matching the likes of Piers Morgan, Simon Cowell etc So…is it possible to avoid sports grubby petulant little cousin?
I'm kind of hoping that cycling will continue to grow after the enormous success of the golden boys and girls of the 2012 velodrome and the future BBC Sports Personality of the Year Wiggo for his incredible accolade a la France. With that in mind I was wondering if this is the ultimate two wheeled dream-machine, the One-77 cycle?
It features an ultra-lightweight carbon fibre frame, a super Shimano 20 shift electric gear system and an on board touch screen computer to record cadence and speeds. It's British too, made by Aston Martin. The only downside is that I would need to be a footballers wife to afford hefty the £25,000 price tag.
Well, it turns out that isn't a dream-machine, but just a dream.
I've been playing FluidFootball. It's a free tactical footie app and a modern day subbuteo. I dare you to download it and not become hooked ! You learn to move the players, cross, pass and strike the ball with help from commentators Richard Keys and Andy Gray (there wasn't one comment about me being a girl btw 😉 You win coins to open new games, then progress to different cups which cost real cash. Angry what ?
I didn't do very well getting away from football did I?
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Extreme Olympics anyone?
Some sports are mesmerising, no, not for tiny tight panted beach volleyball reasons (though obviously horseguards parade has never been so popular as a venue). I mean the kind of sports that we could never imagine doing ourselves, like base jumping, sky diving and extreme fast-rope abseiling. Recently I was invited to partake in a 'fast-rope abseil' off a very tall building, the Shard. Yes, the Shard, the 310m tallest building in Western Europe. To be absolutely honest, at this moment I'm not sure that my new filming schedule will allow it, but that hasn't stopped me browsing a few sites for possible tech. I mean, imagine that I can do it, it would have to be documented as I would Never EVER do anything like it again!
The Shard – and incidentally the view from the TR office – would you want to abseil down that?!
For many years I have utilised the wonderful little Go Pro Hero hd cameras, small enough to mount anywhere, offering broadcast quality hd pictures. We use them a lot for filming because they are reliable and built to withstand the general bumps and bashes equipment receives when being put through its paces. So when my attention was drawn to live streaming their shots, my eyebrow did its best Roger Moore impression. I couldn't help but imagine how useful this tool would be to preening adrenaline junkies across the globe wanting to share their great feats.
The GoPro WiFi BacPac is a wireless device that attaches to the back of a GoPro HDHero or HDHero2 camera, and connects to the Remote control via a wireless signal created from the BacPac – you don't need an internet connection to use the remote control.
After a Firmware Upgrade on the camera, the product should be working, then it requires the app, which I'm assured will be available very soon. This will enable the smart device to become the view finder for the camera and the full controller. So, shots can be streamed live to the device, or better still, the internet as a live feed! I also love the fact that one remote could control up to 50 cameras.
While we are on this subject, I find base jumping utterly beguiling. I'm not sure that crazy antics get any cooler than jumping off stuff and actually flying with the help of just a technical 'Batman' style suit. Have a peek at this 'Vampire4 wing suit' and imagine yourself in it. A wing suit! How cool is that? I will never, ever skydive, but I must say that I was in total awe of these suits giving 'superior glide, precise control and high forward speed' but it raises the question; how much forward speed can one person genuinely need? You have just jumped off a building for goodness sake!
So that takes me back to my jump, can I or can't I? …that is the question.
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It's The Socialympics – Are You Ready For The Social Onslaught?
Currently, if you're not discussing sport you're not in the ball park. You are the person who turns up to a Trekkie convention dressed as Avon from Blakes 7… you get the drift. When it comes to top tier events, this is it. Wimbledon, Tour de France, Champions League and recently the Euros – where Twitter was bombarded with more than 15,000 messages per second as the final goal rocked the back of the net – sport is now more social and more connected than ever before. Next up, the Olympics, and I for one can't wait.
It is being deemed the 'Socialympics'. The stage is set, the technology is capable and we are poised. During the last Olympics Facebook boasted 100million users and Twitter, 6million. This summer the figures total more like 900million and 140million respectively. Globally we will be glued to our TVs, (worth buying a 3D TV for) watching live streaming on the net and apparently some even managed to get tickets to be trackside 😉
Wherever we are, we can share, capture and post our experience, our moment, our joy, expectation, our memory… because let's face it, Usain Bolt we ain't!
Why record a portion of an emotion when you can save the whole thing? I'm talking 360. There is a great new little device called 'Bubblescope' about to go to market. It's an imaging device that you attach to your phone which enables you, in one click, to shoot the entire 360 surrounding as a still or video. No stitching together or multiple shot faff – perfect for THOSE moments – and then using the 'Bubblepix' app you can upload your masterpiece and share it with the world. You can find more information at www.bubblepix.com.
It's the simplicity that I like, I don't want all my shots to be in surround, but the scope twists on and off easily and is small enough to carry in your pocket, something that I will actually do rather than just think is a good idea. Beware if you are ever standing behind me, you may end up in my bubble!
Here are a few apps that you may like to grab in time for the Olympics:
London Olympics Ultimate for Android. Schedules, medal tables, news etc.
2012 Olympic news. For Windows Phone 7
London 2012: Official join in. For iOS
and live streaming on BBC Sport facebook Apps and Eurosport Player.
Enjoy x
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Royal Ascot 2012
One of the most famous sporting and social showpieces in the world is in full swing again. Her Majesty and other members of the Royal family are in attendance each day and the atmosphere is absolutely wonderful in this, the Diamond Jubilee Year. Particularly for the ladies who love the fashion, I'm just adding a few pictures each day. Hope you like them x
A very big thank you to all the lovely dress designers and milliners that very kindly loaned me my Ascot wardrobe. If you want more information, we have listed the websites for you to take a look at
All pictures taken by Graeme McAlpine at www.McAlpine.tv
Free Radio Walk in the Black Country – Sunday 10th June 2012
Over 4,600 people arrived at Himley Park – Wolverhampton last Sunday in wonderful sunshine intent on not only having a fun time, but also attempting to raise as much money as possible for Promise Dreams. Last year, a fantastic £103,000 was raised by the 3,500 competitors. Would it be possible to improve on that figure…………………
Fresh and Emma hosted the event (Emma looking gorgeous as Minnie Mouse) and I joined my fellow patrons from Promise Dreams, namely Steve Bull, Beverley Knight, Jacqui Graham, and Matt Murray on stage for a pre walk warm up carried out by the girls from Wolverhampton Uni. We were delighted to have the lovely Nick Hancock join us on stage.
You can see the vid here to get an idea of how everybody enjoyed themselves and when Free Radio announced on air early on Monday morning that the money raised on the day was an unbelievable £117,000 I can only imagine just how happy all of those people would be to know that they had been part of something so wonderful.
£117,000 will make so many dreams come true for the youngsters that Promise Dreams work with. There will be so many happy, smiley children because of the wonderful people that gave up their Sunday to raise money and on behalf of the Promise Dreams team and their Patrons Beverley, Jacqui, Steve, Don, Matt, I would just like to say a very big thank you to all of you who took part and of course to Matt and the team at Free Radio who made it all possible.
Other News
I recently backed a very worthy Bennets Insurance campaign to try to get a compulsory motorbike question as part of the driving test. At the moment the questions are randomly chosen and the driver can pass without being reminded about bikes. I think this should be the bare minimum – I would of course rather everyone spend a day on a bike to become bike aware and generally a more observant license holder, but I'm aware that we must begin somewhere.
So if you agree please sign the petition here www.bikerpetition.co.uk
It's has been a busy few months. As well as the above I have also engaged in some filming for 5th Gear, The Wright Stuff, The Alan Titchmarsh show, Daybreak and Llve with Gabby. I enjoyed hosting the House of the Future at The Ideal Home Show this year. It was the centrepiece for the entire event.
I also had the honour of meeting Prince Charles who was quite lovely and very friendly and finally I had the opportunity to show off my well practiced curtesy! We enlisted some fun technology, my particular favourites were the new Renault Twizy electric car and the Transport Pod which I found to be the ultimate in relaxation gadgets. Lee Baldry was on hand to present all the daily shows and the show was a great success, hurrah!
So too was Gadget Show Live. It's always a huge pleasure to meet people who watched the show and of course to work live is the best experience…any old monkey can do take after take on a pre record but living on your wit, live, is where it's at! With 3 shows per day we pretty much lived in the Supertheatre all week, but I met some wonderful people and had a lot of fun, so lovely to meet you if you were there!


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Galería de la Raza is proud to continue with Studio 24 Presents, a series of window installations and displays by local artists to be featured at our new administrative offices. By effectively utilizing our corner space (the corner of 24th and Bryant Streets) and large windows, Studio 24 Presents will be an extension of our public art programming, which includes the Digital Mural Project billboard on Bryant Street. This program will provide an opportunity for artists to interact with the general public by inserting a bit of whimsy into the everyday, whether it be strolling down 24th Street or waiting for MUNI.
Studio 24 Presents also offers visual artists another point of entry into the organization, apart from Galería's institutional exhibition programs. This new program seeks to raise the visibility of artists and promote artwork sales, providing both the artists and the organization new opportunities for economic sustainability.
We are delighted to introduce the third artist for this program with artist Natalia Anciso.
Works for sale: price list >>
Public programs to be announced soon in association with the exhibition
Event on Facebook >>
Artist website >>
About her work:
"Growing up, I heard stories about the 'Rinches,' who often took the law into their own hands and lynched Tejanos along the Border. Having not learned this in my Texas History books through high school, I would later discover that the 'Rinches' were the Texas Rangers. In graduate school, I decided to do further research on lynchings of Mexicans and Tejanos. However, I found it very hard to find information or photos of these lynchings specific to Texas. It was as if these events were erased from Texas history, despite the fact that these events were indeed lived, and that knowledge of these events were passed on within the consciousness of Tejanos, generation by generation.
The Pinches Rinches series recontextualizes a history along the border that has been lost. Drawing from both historical references and stories of my own family, I give testimony and retell the forgotten history of my native borderlands, the Rio Grande Valley."
About the artist:
Natalia Anciso is a Chicana-Tejana visual artist and educator. Born in Weslaco and raised in Mercedes, hardscrabble towns in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Deep South Texas, she received her BA in Studio Art from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008. Anciso recently earned an MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Over the past few years, she has taught art to a diverse array of youth through non-profit organizations, ranging from the Oakland Leaf Foundation's Urban Arts Program in the Fruitvale District of East Oakland to the Summer Institute for the Gifted at the University of California, Berkeley. She worked most recently as the Art Director for the Mission Clubhouse of the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco. She currently lives in Oakland and works primarily out of the East Bay.
Artist statement:
Natalia Anciso creates art predicated on realities and legends of her upbringing. Her works are visual records of family, community, and border culture along her native Rio Grande. These Borderlands are currently ravaged by poverty, human trafficking, and the escalating Mexican Drug War. The Rio Grande cuts one land and people in two, like a wound, bleeding a legacy of pain, tears, and struggle that have beset the area for generations. Anciso's family has resided in this geographic territory for four generations.
Anciso researches vernacular arts like pano arte, handkerchief art believed to have emerged from Chicano prisoners in the 1940s, and the huipil, embroidered Mayan textiles worn by indigenous women in Southern and Central America. These art forms are reconfigured to tell contemporary stories of life along the Texas/Mexico border. Juxtaposing beautifully colored, watercolor-drawn images of flowers indigenous to Texas against stark, monochromatic media images, meticulously rendered in pen, Anciso offers the beauty of home against grisly depictions of the Mexican Drug War. Using these tools on domestic textiles such as handkerchiefs, pillowcases, and bed sheets, Anciso's work examines psycho-political struggles of life along La Frontera.


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After - almost finished, just needs some pictures and wall lights! Can't find ANY wall lights i like. Tried to get the sloping ceiling in shot...
tiny sneak peek
After - almost finished, just needs some pictures and wall lights! Can't find ANY wall lights i like. Tried to get the sloping ceiling in shot...
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- Kylie said...
- 5 August 2012 at 13:29
- Tanja Dögg said...
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- Jessica May said...
Wow I am very impressed! It looks lovely, have you had anyone round to dinner?!
- 15 August 2012 at 13:21
congratulations on your new home. Your dining room is utterly gorgeous. Love it. Melafrique xxx
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I love the simplicity of the decorations on the table! The green touch looks so nice in this room! I just got this home decor jar and I like it on its own! I love your new room!
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Name: Emily Nelson
Scholarship Recipient: 2007
League: Little Caesars AAA Hockey
In 2007, the Ilitch Charities College Scholarship Program was looking to solidify the merits it represented but was still considered to be in the early development stages. Regardless, the third year of the scholarship program saw a continued interest in higher education and high community involvement from the Little Caesars Hockey Club players. This fervor was especially evident in Emily Nelson, who as an outstanding candidate, proved that the Ilitch Charities College Scholarship Program was becoming significant within the hockey community.
Prior to becoming a scholarship recipient, Emily Nelson played for the Little Caesars AAA hockey program. During her time playing hockey, she took on an active role in her community and education. Emily participated in the annual AIDS walk and volunteered for the St. John Hospital. She recognized the importance of having a positive role model and became a mentor for girls in the WILLOW program. Through five years of hockey, Emily maintained a 4.0+ GPA and graduated from Grosse Pointe North High School. As a recipient of the $5,000 scholarship, Emily was planning to use this award to pursue a degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Michigan and play on the university's club hockey team. When Ilitch Charities first met Emily, it was clear that she was going to be a rewarding recipient to follow through her future endeavors and very fittingly, she decided to exceed those expectations.
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"Your problem is that you don't know the Scriptures, and you don't know the power of God....."What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is He? They replied, 'He is the Son of David.' " Matthew 22:29,42....."Nobody wants God in a box. Just in a book. Especially one bound in leather with gilt edges." Unknown....."This is the penalty we pay for making the Word of God conform to our experience instead of bringing our experience up to the Word of God." A.W. Tozer
Jesus was speaking to the Pharisees when He said the above, and if there was anyone among His listeners who would know the Scriptures, it would be them. Indeed, they could recite chapter and verse better than anyone. They knew what Scripture said, but they never seemed to know what the Father was saying. How like them might we be today?
Most every professing believer and their family have a Bible somewhere in their home. More than likely a number of them. Some even read them....a lot. We have all types of Scripture memorization programs and the like in the Church, and these are good things. There are many going about who are modern day Pharisees in that they are "experts" on doctrine, theology, and even the authority of Scripture. Yet the working of that Scripture, that Word of God in their everyday lives is so often minimal, even non-existent. When faced with the reality of life lived out in a fallen world, they seem no better equipped to overcome than those who make no profession at all. They resort to the natural as a means of coping, rather than the supernatural as a means of living the life that makes one "more than a conqueror." The Living Word was directly in front of the Pharisees, but they didn't see or recognize Him. He who is the Living Word is directly before us as well, but we so often do no better than the Pharisees in our recognition. The result is that we walk about in near or complete powerlessness. The Word of God is carried about in our Bibles and even in our memories, but it has yet to be unleashed in our lives. Has it been unleashed in yours and mine?
Throughout what we like to call "Third World Countries," believers who are mostly uneducated, unsophisticated, and living at a material level light years below most of us in the west, are experiencing regular visitations of the miraculous in their lives. The Word of God is alive among and in them. They do not seek to be doctrinal experts, or enter into long winded debates about what the Word says. They simply believe what it says. In childlike faith. We used to say here in the west that "God said, I believe it, that settles it for me." Now we're more likely to state, "Did God say that? Well let's debate it. It may settle it for you, but not necessarily for me." We need correct doctrine for sure. We need to have a Scriptural theology as well. But we seem to spend far more time discussing His Word than seeing it work in and with power in all of our life situations. As Tozer said decades ago, we are trying to make His Word conform to our experience, instead of allowing His Word to take us into the experience of life He has promised us. We confine His Word to His Book. It has never truly been unleashed in our lives.
In a world and culture where chaos gains more ground by the day, the need for a people who walk and live in the power of His Living Word grows greater by the moment. We need to do more than toss Scripture promises at people. We need to live out the fulfillment of those promises before them. His Word and Life need to be unleashed in their midst through His people who are also in their midst. I want to be one of them. Do you? Where and how is His Word and Power being unleashed in and through us? In and through you....and me?
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In Washington, D.C. 20 years ago, Chef José Andrés opened what was then one of the first restaurants in the U.S. to focus on serving tapas...that restaurant was, and still is, Jaleo. It sparked a revolution in dining here, and we know where that has led us to today - restaurants where the menu categories read like weather reports: sun, soil, water, earth, moon - and on and on. I mean, at some places it's actually difficult to cobble together what was once considered a meal: starter, main and dessert...because evidently, that's not the way we want to eat today. I guess that's why whenever we dine out, we have to hear the obligatory "how the menu works" spiel - as if we'd never ventured out of our caves to eat. Whatever.
Now chef owns/operates at least a dozen restaurants, not just spanning "the district" but across the U. S. as well. Some I've loved and some I haven't, but that's neither here nor there. This past weekend, we had the opportunity to revisit Jaleo, which is celebrating its 20th birthday, and which recently had a makeover.
The place looks good. And whatever they've done (lots of fabric, absorbent surfaces, etc.) it sounds good, too...the four of us could actually carry on a conversation without shouting. But what really blew us away was the food - we must've tried 15 or so items, and there wasn't a clunker in the bunch.
Take the Aceitunas, the liquid olives that are a tribute to José's mentor Ferrán Adrià...
A couple of desserts followed, including a fine gin & tonic sorbet with tonic espuma...
For many restaurants, 20 years is a lifetime. Often, they get stale and predictable. But even though we've had some of this food before, most of it tasted as fresh and as vibrant as it did back in '93. On that note - happy birthday, Jaleo...you're looking good.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
José's Jaleo - An Original at 20
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I read the book American Gods a while ago, and in tribute to Neil Gaiman I wrote this piece. In this book Neil Gaiman has two major characters, Wednesday and Shadow, who go on the classic American road trip, for reasons I'll leave you to discover should you read it.The characters visit tiny towns and roadside attractions throughout the States. Along the way Wednesday explains to Shadow how people recognize places of power. That they knew there was some focusing point in these places that made them special. As a result, in Europe, people would erect cathedrals, stones circles, etc. In the USA, people receive the call from the "transcendent void," as well, and respond to it by building random strange structures in out of the way places. The full quote can be found here (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1417397-so-what-is-this-place-asked-shadow-as-they-walked)
I go on a lot of road trips, so this work appealed to me for a lot of reasons. In particular, his words continually cross my mind whenever I visit any of these strange roadside attractions. I have been all over the world and have seen countless temples and cathedrals, but it is at American Shrines that I feel most at home. To be honest, you reach a point of diminishing returns looking at the endless reds and golds of the temples in Southeast Asia, with a half lidded Buddha smiling serenely. Or the stone slabbed cathedrals in Europe with stained glass windows and intricate tapestries. In comparison, the shrines in America are glorious in their tacky loud strangeness. A new place of worship for the modern man.
Recently I took off on a road trip to Tennessee for work. Along the way I stopped to worship at the Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo Texas, a shrine to the god of Cadillacs. Here you can find various hollowed out Cadillacs that were upended in a barren field along the side of the I-40. The Cadillacs are spray painted nonsensically with vibrant colors, with empty or half empty bottles of spray paint littered around. People come and take their pictures and half heartedly tag a part of these old relics in tribute to our American gods. Although the visitors were few, I heard accents from all over, including Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. It struck me as odd, here I was, a place I had never heard of until I googled "cool things to see on the I-40" and yet here were people from all over the world that had sought this place out the same that I had.
Another example is Salvation Mountain. An out of the way part of Slab City that you won't just stumble upon. Leonard Knight built the thing over the years by throwing endless cans of paint on bales of straw with the message "God is Love" plastered boldly on the top. I only heard of it while pouring over a plethora of road trip ideas in California. To reach it, you had to pass Mecca and the Salton Sea. In other words there was no chance of accidentally stumbling upon it. To reach this place you have to want to reach it, and you should want to reach it.
It's not any different from me going to Perfume Pagoda in Vietnam. A temple I had never heard of before I actually got to Hanoi. All my fellow western backpackers and I were gathered up and taken to this place deep in the mountains that you can't get to until you take a boat, climb a mountain, and take an air gondola. In other words it is the most traveled to, out of the way spot ever.
I suppose there is no real magic in these places, but they are fascinating and still hold a power on the imagination. I will forever continue seeking out these random weird places, and pay tribute to whatever spirit commissioned them, whether actually divine or simply the human spirit.


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Society News Archive
13 March 2015
2015 Call for Student Fellowships, Travel Grants, and Scholarships
Time is running out! The online links are now available for the 2015–2016 Health Physics Society Fellowships, the 2015 Travel Grants, and the 2015 Dade Moeller Scholarships. The deadline for all submittals (online or postmarked) is 20 March 2015. Notification will take place by mid-April 2015.
Students submit directly online for all fellowships and scholarships. Take a look at the links below to see eligibility and to apply. You will receive an email at the end of the process confirming your submission.
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Pattern Draping at Shisomiso/
My neighbours, Shisomiso, will be hosting an Introductory Pattern Draping course instructed by Angelika Werth (see dress above). Angelika Werth has worked in Fashion, Fibre and Wearable Art. She started her practice with a three year dress-making apprenticeship; worked for Yves Saint Laurent in Paris, France and received a degree as Master dress-maker-designer, she immigrated to Australia, then to Canada.
One full day will cover mannequin upholstery to change body proportions; followed by three full days of Pattern Draping. Two classes are available; May 28-31st and June 2-5th from 9am-4pm. You will need to provide your own mannequin. For more information about the course, please call Shisomiso at 403-266-4211.
Shisomiso is also hosting an exhibition of Calgary photography Amy Victoria Wakefield, so be sure to visit Shisomiso this First Thursday.


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Walking Holiday in Scotland on
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Route options from 65 to 92 miles
|The Speyside Way runs from the coast at Buckie,
through the Spey Valley and the heart of the malt whisky country, towards the foothills of the Cairngorm Mountains.
This is a conservation area and a haven for wildlife.
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Dava Way. We will be adding these routes soon.
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|Itinerary 1:
This 8 day itinerary 65 mile walk on the Speyside Way starts in the fishing port of Buckie on the Moray Firth. FromTugnet you walk in the Spey Valley via Fochabers, Craigellachie, Ballindalloch, Grantown on Spey to Aviemore. You could visit Speyside Cooperage Visitors Centre and Macallan, Aberlour, Knockando, Tamdhu, Cragganmore Distilleries.
|Upstream, north to south
|Itinerary 2:
This 10 day itinerary 80 mile walk on the Speyside Way includes, in addition to the itinerary above, the 15 mile spur to Tomintoul which enables you to visit Glenlevit Distillery.
This 9 day itinerary 77 mile walk on the Speyside Way includes, in addition to the first itinerary above, the Dufftown circuit. This is a circular walk of 12 miles from Craigellachie which enables you to visit the Glenfiddich Distillery.
This 11 day itinerary 92 mile walk on the Speyside Way includes all 3 of the above itineraries.
What's included
|Short walking breaks are also available, with 2 or 3 days walking. Just select the part of the path you want to walk. Why not combine this walk with a hiking tour in another part of the UK.
Optional Extras
|How to get there
|By Plane
to Edinburgh, Inverness or Aberdeen
By Car to the Buckie where parking is available
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Week 2 of 50 Shades of Sexy is upon us. You can find the inspiration list here: 50 Shades of Sexy.
This week Shiloh has given us our motivation with the simple words "Better Than Chocolate." I am excited to see what people are doing this week after the round of Cotton Candy was so adorable. I changed my mind several times on this and finally quite happily settled with that midnight calling of an amazing chocolate cake. And what is better than having that in some really cute lingerie?
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You are my . . . sasnin?
|By JEN BAKKEN
One day last week, my children were driving me crazy. If they weren't fighting, they were whining. If they weren't trashing the house, they were complaining.
I became fed up and sent them to their rooms. I'd simply had enough. I told them that if driving me crazy was their intention, they had completely succeeded.
I mentioned that if they were ever paid for the job of driving me crazy, they would be billionaires by now.
While I voiced my utter frustration, I told them I was tired of being a maid, taxi, laundromat, cook, tutor, counselor, and referee, while also working full time.
I must have laid the guilt on a little too thick, because my daughter slipped a note out from under her bedroom door.
The note was in her cute, 6-year-old handwriting, and she had used her first-grade spelling.
The note read;
you are my sasnin
my onele sasnin
you make me happy
wane skys are gray
you will never no dear
how mach I love you
pies dot take my sasnin away.
That note will be saved forever. It was quite possibly the cutest, sweetest, and most touching note this mom has ever received.
However, much to my daughter's dismay, it did not immediately excuse her from being sent to her room.
Tiny Tales is a column dedicated to children in our community, and the times when they create a wonderful story to tell. Whether you are a parent, grandparent, family member, caregiver, teacher or anyone with a child in your life . . . there's always a tiny tale to tell.
It may be cute or funny things a child has said or done. Any of those endearing moments you love to share with others, and people, like me, enjoy reading.
Here in Delano we are proud of our community, our schools and our children . . . why not have a column about our little 'tigers'?
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Re the Nov. 19 letter Synagogue murders: I would remind Sander Poritzky that it is the Arab leaders of the Palestinians who are responsible for the deaths and attacks that took place in that Jerusalem synagogue, not President Obama or any European Union leader.
Both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority call for the destruction of Israel in their charters, and the leaders of both groups refuse to take a vote to either keep or rescind those edicts.
It is Obama and his ambassador to the United Nations who have continued to veto any and all calls for the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state. Poritzky's accusations are surely pointed in the wrong direction.
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Can dogs eat bananas
Posted on | December 10, 2011 | 13 Comments
Alright so now you know the answer to, can dogs eat apples and I bet you're wondering to yourself, Can dogs eat bananas?" If you've given your dog bananas prior to reading this article, don't fret because answer is still yes. Once again that is the shorter version of the answer. If your dog loves bananas, it's fine to give your dog their favorite food, being bananas.
Now that you're done getting the information you wanted, it's probably a good idea to read on and not leave without getting the rest of your story straight. Dogs can eat bananas however, just like any other food, they should not be given to your dog in large amounts. Too many bananas given to your dog can cause multiple problems, such as but not limited to stool problems, fermentation in their stomach, and the growth of bad bacteria from poor digestion. The bad bacteria growth occurs when the undigested sugar of the fruit stays in the dog's digestive system. This usually only occurs if you feed your dog fruits and meats or veggies at the same time. If you want to feed your dog meats with fruits, just make sure you wait an hour or two before or after the fruit.
Now just remember, feeding bananas to your dog every hour of the day is certainly not a good idea. You should limit the amount of bananas, apples, or other fruits you feed to your dog. Why? Because remember, fruits are high in sugar concentration and anyone with half a brain should know too much sugar is, of course, bad. If you have a small dog or a puppy, it wouldn't be a great idea to give the dog a full banana, rather cut it up into slices and feed the dog a couple of those. Now if you have a larger dog, perhaps one that looks like a horse, you may want to give them more than just a few slices. I'd say half a banana would be enough to satisfy your dog without giving him or her, the runs.
Now that you're fully aware of why or why not to give your dog a banana, remember the golden rule for feeding your dog apples, bananas, or any other fruit. The golden rule is, yes, portion control. Just like humans, you don't want to give your pet too much or too little of anything because that can cause problems just like a person getting too fat from too much food or being too scrawny from too little food. Anyways, best of luck to you and your (new) pet. Remember, for answers to more of your questions such as Can dogs eat bananas, be sure to check out the rest of the site.Google+
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Terri Lund
March 10th, 2012 @ 7:18 pm
Thank you for your answer, how often can you give them some fruit? daily, 2 or 3 times a week?
March 10th, 2012 @ 7:21 pm
You're welcome! Some people feed their dog fruit every day but a little bit. It's usually up to you because you know your dog's habits the best!
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April 13th, 2012 @ 12:27 pm
Thanks for the informative post. I feed my dog chunks of apple all the time, but have never offered him a banana treat before.
August 4th, 2012 @ 4:12 pm
it's hot in Indiana. I have been peeling and freezing pc of bananas, for a cool treat. doggie loves them. guess what, i like frozen banana pops too. preferably before she gets them. bark,bark.
August 14th, 2012 @ 5:41 am
Thank you for the info! Very useful information in layman's terms! My pups will be happier knowing they can enjoy a nana with me!
September 14th, 2012 @ 8:04 pm
I don't know the science behind it, but I've spoken with many vets. As well, my friends dog began having seizures and grew a brain tumor and died as a result of grape consumption. Please pass the word!
September 26th, 2012 @ 11:35 pm
Thank you so much for this information. My puppy is wierd. She is enjoying bananas peppers onions and green peppers. LOL
October 7th, 2012 @ 2:59 pm
@Jessica, grapes of almost any portion cause liver and kidney failure in dogs. As of now, vets aren't sure of the exact portion that is needed so it's just safe to say that all grapes are bad. @Lucretia, I also think onions aren't good for dogs but I may be misinformed on that. I work at a veterinary clinic and we just recently had a dog come in that was on its last leg from getting into some grape vines. He somehow miraculously made it through but he was VERY lucky. My little puppy does love grapes and apples though. I give him half a slice of apple every few days and just one slice of banana on the occassion when I have one since he is just 3 pounds.
October 7th, 2012 @ 3:00 pm
CORRECTION. He loves bananas and apples*** I DO NOT feed my dog grapes! haha
March 28th, 2013 @ 9:19 am
Very useful information. Thank you so much. Some really great ideas in here.
I made my pup some "doggie cupcakes" the other day with 1 cup whole wheat flour, 1 cup of his own dry food (Nutro Max) ground up, 1/4 cup of Nutro Max berry treats ground up, 2 tbsp peanut butter, 1 cup skim milk, 2 eggs, and 1 banana – baked together at 350 for 20 minutes. He loves them!
He gets 1 instead of begging my husband and me for our food (in lieu of 1 cup of his own regular food). I froze them after baking them, so they take a little longer to eat.
March 28th, 2013 @ 9:27 am
I should also clarify that the peanut butter in my house is all-natural peanut butter. I only buy the real stuff that when you look at the label of ingredients it says "Ingredients: Peanuts". There is no sugar whatsoever in the peanut butter, so the only added sugar in those doggie cupcakes would be from his all-natural dog treats. I don't like the taste of Jif of Skippy or any of those other peanut butters that add sugar.
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2007.02.05 11:35 - Entertainment, Microcode, Television
- Final Fantasy XII: Completed a handful of hunts, but the big achievement was running through the last dungeon and beating the ever-loving tar out of the final boss. The strategy guide suggested a minimum level of 40, and recommended 45+. At level 56 across all six characters, I didn't have to significantly modify gambits or equipment, nor swap characters out. I didn't even need to issue very many commands manually, which was actually pretty cool. There's still several metric tons of side-quest to be completed, but I think I can say that FFXII is the best of the lot. Leaving FFXI aside, since I've never bothered, and Tactics (barely played), X-2 (haven't played, never will), and a handful of other side entries, I think FFXII is the best FF game made thus far. Given what I've seen of FFXIII, I think that's likely to remain true for a while. Yasumi Matsuno left Square part-way through this game's development; does anyone know anything about where he wound up, or what games he's working on? Recommended if you miss Final Fantasy.
- Guild Wars: Nothing much. Did a little faction farming, completed a couple missions over the past week and opened up another Hero for my main character. A little burned-out on GW at the moment, especially with the latest round of skill-balancing going through right now. It's cool that ArenaNet goes to such lengths to make the PvP end of the game interesting, but I don't play PvP any more than necessary (which is to say, hardly at all, and never against/with actual people). Since the latest round of changes doesn't do me any favors in PvE land, I'm not that interested. Looking forward to details on expansion 4, one of these days. (Nightfall's really excellent, though.)
- Myst Online: URU: Aside from a few uncomfortable moments of confused identity Saturday night, Uru's actually pretty cool. Since it's a non-competitive game (and a non-violent game), it's more fun, in some ways, than anything else I've played (I never played Myst back when it was new). It hasn't grabbed me quite as firmly as it seems to have taken some other people, though. More poking around the dusty remains of a dead(?) civilisation this evening.
- Final Fantasy III: Couldn't help but be a come down from FFXII, but this is the last of the mainline FF games that I haven't played. So far, I loathe the magic system (seriously: it's the FF1 system, with some extra types of magic. I'll probably just have to keep my characters dedicated to specific lines of magic, which defeats the point of the job system), and the story is a bit less directed than I'd like, but I don't seem to have gotten really lost more than once. First impression: crummy, legacy magic system in an otherwise spectacular remake of an originally 8-bit game.
I hear there was a football game, but I didn't see much besides pretty mediocre commercials. Sorry, Matt, I think your team lost this year.
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2006.03.30 14:20 - Entertainment, Movies, Internet Stupidity, Television, Toys, Actual ToysI'm told that it's V-Day.
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2006.03.19 20:25 - Entertainment, Internet Stupidity, TelevisionTotally unrelated, but I'm too lazy to make separate entries.
Possible origin of the JATO rocket-powered Impala urban legend/Darwin Award Winner
[Update: Disregard re: Futurama. Url through /..]
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2006.03.15 01:03 - Entertainment, TelevisionIf you didn't already hear it, it seems that four Futurama movies are planned for release to DVD, with recording to start this fall. Keen.
Also, a TV pilot that never aired, directed by Ben Stiller, starring Jack Black and Owen Wilson. The pilot itself is unavailable, but the intro and scripts are up for all to see. Funny stuff, especially if you liked the crappy scifi shows of the 70s and 80s.
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2005.11.08 10:02 - Entertainment, TelevisionCartoon Network has started running an animated series based on Aaron McGruder's comic strip, 'The Boondocks'. I don't have an informed opinion on either the strip, which I don't read, or the new show, which I have no desire to watch. (Full disclosure: my few encounters with the former have been decidedly disappointing, and I found the ad campaign for the latter revolting.)
Brian Tiemann, though, actually endeavored to watch it last weekend. It appears that he wasn't impressed. In the meantime, one of his readers suggests that McGruder's strip is actually a parody of the sort of views it seems to spout, ala South Park. I don't find this to be a credible theory, but I'd love to hear some legitimate argument for/against it.
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David Archuleta joined motivational speaker and contributing author of "Chicken Soup for the Soul" Dan Clark on a tour throughout the Middle East from July 8-25.
Archuleta and Clark, along with celebrity impressionist Jason Hewlett, performed for American soldiers on bases throughout Afghanistan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Ethiopia and Djbouti, according to a press release.
The show the three entertainers put on was titled "An Evening of Music, Comedy and Motivational Theater" and was performed 18 times throughout the tour. During the show, Archuleta performed "Bridge Over Troubled Water," "Imagine" and "Crush."
A YouTube video was posted July 20 capturing Archuleta performing "Bring Him Home."
After returning to the United States, Archuleta wrote about his experience on his website.
"It's been unforgettable," Archuleta wrote.
"I am taking so many memories with me from these past few weeks. I just want to thank again these men and women in the military for serving and doing what they do," he said. "I am so grateful that they took us in and allowed us to experience a little bit of their experiences. It means so much to me, and to everyone on our tour. We appreciate you and your time you shared with us."
Archuleta also expressed appreciation for the opportunities he had to hold firesides for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints throughout the trip.
"At the end of the trip, we were able to go to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We did a faith-based meeting (also known as a fireside) with stories and music similar to what we were doing on the tour, only more faith-focused," Archuleta, who is an LDS Church member, wrote.
"I really loved getting to do these firesides throughout our trip when time permitted, and to feel the hearts and spirits of these strong-spirited youth in these parts of the world," he said.
After returning, Clark also blogged about his experience and how the soldiers responded to the messages he shared.
"In every show I had stated that if we can think, laugh and cry all in the same day, that is a heck of a day." Clark wrote. "And if we can think and laugh and cry in the same show, that is a heck of a show! In humility, I believe we delivered on this promise in every performance!
"There are a lot of superstars who can sing and many headlining comedians who can make us laugh. But with all due respect, our mix of music, laughter and the inspirational spoken word brought a special spirit to each performance that allowed the service men and women and contractors in attendance to connect with us in a deeper, more long-lasting, meaningful, memorable way!"
Clark continued to explain that while he had hoped to go on the trip to inspire the men and women that serve our country, he, in turn, had been inspired by them.
"In every audience, at every location there was at least one person who had missed a significant event in a family member's life," he wrote. "The sacrifices our troops are willing to make on our behalf are mind-boggling. Let us never forget the price of freedom!"
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In a city synonymous with beer, one would suspect that the regular drinking of it in local establishments would be a given. It is, actually. Not only are beer gardens a notable gathering place in Munich, but those who are into the club scene have the chance to hit up some popular spots around the city or just give in and settle for the biggest clubbing zone in all of Europe.
That "biggest club zone in Europe" line really caught your attention, didn't it? Munich's got the world's biggest fair in Oktoberfest AND this massive club zone located in the terminal buildings of the old Munich airport? We're pinching ourselves, too. Kultfabrik, formerly Kunstpark Ost, is home to 25-plus bars and clubs, as well as late-night eateries and other related establishments. The range here is excellent, from cheap, hole-in-the-wall bars to dance music meccas like Freudenhaus and Babylon 2. If you don't find something you like at Kultfabrik, then the nearby nightlife conglomerate known as Optimolwerke also has around a dozen places that might suit your interest, including the long-standing dance club, Harry Klein. Both of these can be found in the Haidhausen district just east of city center; if there's nothing that interests you here, then you may need to get back to your hotel and spend the evening knitting a sweater.
Back in city center are some of the greatest nightlife assets that Munich has, including a handful of historic breweries and beer gardens. Andechser Am Dom is known for quality beers brewed at the monastery south of Munich, Zum Augustiner has been making beer on-site since the 15th century, and the world's most famous brew pub, Hofbräuhaus, is a "tourist" institution (good luck finding many locals) which can't be missed. The club scene here is limited, but one of the city's best, P1, looks out over the English Garden.
North of city center, in the districts of Schwabing and Maxvorstadt, there are plenty more brew pubs and clubs. There's a selection of good nightlife spots near Munich Central Station, including the always packed Cafe Kosmos, the excellent Augustinerkeller beer garden, and the classy and elegant Park Café. Then again, if you want good beer during the summer, it'd be fun to head north to south through the English Garden by bike, stopping at Aumeister (a favorite for the locals), the famous Chinesischer Turm (7,500 capacity), and Seehaus (on the banks of one of the lakes) for a great little beer garden jaunt. There are also a number of great little pubs in this area, although they are a bit spread out.
Lastly, the Neuhausen-Nymphenburg district is a bit more laid back than its urban counterparts, but it's still home to the largest beer garden in Munich (Hirschgarten) and a few clubs worth seeking out for their own sake. The best place to catch music outside of a concert hall is Backstage on Wilhelm-Hale-Strasse, while the massive Klangwelt and Nachtgalerie nightclubs are a haven for booty-shaking.
During the summer, we suggest hitting up one of the many beer gardens or brew pubs, which have tons of outdoor seating and a convivial vibe that makes you want to waste the day away. Then again, any time of year is good for a high end club scene that, depending on where you go, can give you good music and crowds and won't break the bank. For more information, look through our dedicated activity pages.


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