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Saturday at the MDC
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Bobby Hussey – Nike Memorial Day Classic got underway Saturday, and DC Blue Devils' big man Mouptaou Tarou made a statement in his matchup against top ten prospect DeMarcus Cousins.
Although his depleted DC Blue Devils squad ended up on the short end against the Birmingham Storm, Tarou put up an impressive 22 points and 12 rebounds in a head-to-head match up with Cousins. Having only played basketball for three years and only being in the States for four months, Tarou has an impressive skill set to match his imposing build. Not only does the hard-working power forward take the ball up strong through contact around the basket and rebound in a crowd, he can also score the ball off face up drives to the basket.
After seeing him for the first time earlier this springs, Rivals.com placed Tarou at No. 43 in the Rivals150. After watching him again on Saturday, the five-star range might be a more appropriate place for Tarou.
His recruitment just began last month but already Memphis, Georgetown, Pittsburgh, Florida State and New Mexico State have extended offers according to Blue Devils coach Vaughn Jones.
DeMarcus Cousins- The UAB commitment had his moments as well. The guard oriented attack of the Birmingham Storm as well as Cousins spending a lot of time on the perimeter limited his touches inside. Cousins did, however, score ten points with most of those points coming on powerful right hand drives to the basket. The other aspect of his game that stood out is his amazing passing ability for a player his size.
Keith Gallon- Another skilled big man with the ability to find open teammates, Gallon looked nothing short than a future money maker at times during the Houston Hoops match up with Team STAT. Then at other times when fatigue was likely an issue, Gallon was more of a spectator than a factor in the game. Point being, if Gallon ever gets his body and his mind in the vicinity of the shape they need to be in, he will be one of the best big men in his class.
Austin Rivers- The son of Boston Celtics head coach Doc Rivers certainly looks like he belongs playing on the 17-under circuit. The 2011 prospect is a fluid combo guard with a top shelf feel for the game. In fact, you would be hard pressed to find a guard with a better skill set and knowledge of how to play this game than Rivers in this tournament.
Aaron Bright- This 2010 point guard for Friends of Hoop put on a show against Boo Williams. Scoring 17 points of his game high 28 points in the fourth quarter, Bright led his team back in the final quarter putting the game into overtime with a three-pointer. Friends of Hoop went on to win the game in the extra period.
At only 5-foot-10, but a stocky 175-pounds, Bright was a dominating force on the court. He nailed three-pointers off the catch and the dribble while also creating countless scoring opportunities for his teammates.
Looking every bit like a high major prospect on Saturday, Bright is currently hearing from California, Stanford and Washington.
Deshaun Thomas- The highly ranked 2010 prospect from Spiece Indy Heat struggled with his long range shot, but still scored 25 points in a tough loss against the Georgia Stars with explosive dribble moves to the basket from the perimeter and physical moves down low on the block. The Georgia Stars' thin big men Kenny Hall and Kammeon Holsey struggled with the physicality of Thomas and his teammate Robert Goff.
Adrian Coleman- Although he is not one of the premier names on the Georgia Stars roster, Coleman was big in their win over the Spiece Indy Heat. The physical 6-foot-5 wing knocked down some timely shots and made positive plays for his team throughout the game.
Xavier Henry- The No. 2 ranked prospect in the Rivals150 impressed Saturday morning with his relentless attacking of the basket off the dribble. His handle was tight and his impressive physique is tough to deal with when barreling to the basket.
Lakeem Jackson- The Charlotte Royals wing impressed with his physical play on Friday. The lefty loves to attack the basket with his right hand, and he also looked good scoring the ball in the midrange. Look for Jackson to be in the next Rivals150.
16-Under action
Shaquille Thomas- The Metro Hawks have an intriguing 2010 prospect in Thomas. The rangy 6-foot-6 wing went for 18 points in a win over Team Chandler. He had several athletic dunks and relentlessly attacked the glass as a rebounder. His skill game isn't that far behind his athleticism either. He handled well and knocked down some shots as well.
Under the radar at this point, Thomas is hearing from Xavier and Fordham. Kansas has just started showing some interest and expect more schools to follow suit.
Steven Adams- Wide bodied 6-foot-7 post player for Team Chandler, Adams showed off a plethora of highly skilled post moves against the Metro Hawks. He ended up with 20 points. And although he is a tad undersized at this point and not the most explosive athlete, Adams is a must see 2010 prospect for schools looking for a post player with a highly skilled game.
Ty Armstrong- Rivals.com will see more of Armstrong on Sunday, but what we saw on Saturday was quite impressive. The 2010 prospect looks to be a healthy 6-foot-8, has a good build and played with an impressive motor. He snatched some difficult rebounds in traffic and had an impressive scoring move while our eyes were on him.
Jake Kitchell- The SYF Players 2010 big man was a physical presence inside. He used his size and intelligence to control the action around the rim.
Muhammed Lee- An electric 2010 scoring guard for the New York Gauchos, Lee is cut out of the mold of current 17-under Gauchos standout Durand Scott
Derrick Wilson- With a body built for the gridiron as much as for the hardwood, Wilson exploded to the basket on numerous occasions for the New York Gauchos. The 2011 prospect also showed some craftiness off the pick and roll. Wilson has a chance to establish himself as one of the top guards in the 2011 class.
15-Under action
Aaron Ross- The 6-foot-7 Ross is going to be a good one at Arkansas. Playing for the Arkansas Wings, Ross led his team to win over the SYF Players with his slashing drives, strong post up play and overall energetic play.
Hunter Mickelson- Ross also got a lot of help from the 6-foot-9 Mickleson. Scoring numerous times in transition, Mickleson is a Euro-style face up big man with a lot of skill and a load of potential.
Kevin Ware- A point guard in the 6-foot-5 range, Ware has a stylistic and electric presence on the court. Tremendous with the ball in the open court as a handler and passer, Ware also showed the ability to hit unorthodox shots in the midrange. Put his name down as one of the top guard prospects in the class of 2011. He scored 14 points for the Georgia Stars against Wisconsin Playground Elite to go along with his strong overall play.
Cinmeon Bowers- The 6-foot-6 power forward stood out for the Wisconsin Playground Elite. He was active and physical around the basket and was comfortable with the ball on the perimeter. Bowers, who is not an over the rim athlete, scored 16 points with several of those points coming off midrange jumpers.
Lester Wilson- The 6-foot-4 shooting guard for the Tennessee Travelers impressed with his athleticism and ability to rise up and hit shots off his high release jumper.
Julien Lewis- The 6-foot-3 power guard exploded into the midrange and sank a handful of shots in a first half viewing against the Tennessee Travelers.
Everrett Pleasant- A 6-foot-6 combo forward, Pleasant bullied his way into scoring position and finished a couple of difficult shots, one of which was with his off hand.
Wanaah Bail- Only a 2012 prospect, Bail runs extremely well at 6-foot-8 and appears to have good hands. And right before we moved to a different court, he knocked down a three-pointer.
More recruiting news
Athletic 2010 wing James Bell of Team STAT says he is close to a commitment to Villanova.
"I love Coach Wright," said Bell. "He's a down to earth guy and is a players' coach. The program has a family atmosphere, and I also have a lot of family in the area."
Bell is also considering Miami (offer), Florida and Clemson (offer).
Four-star prospect Rodney Williams of Howard Pulley doesn't have a school list, but he did list Minnesota, Iowa, Iowa State and Purdue as schools who have offered. He also expects offers from Kansas and Wisconsin before the summer is over.


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Signing and authenticating REST requests
- Using temporary security credentials
- The authentication header
- Request canonicalization for signing
- Constructing the CanonicalizedResource element
- Constructing the CanonicalizedAmzHeaders element
- Positional versus named HTTP header StringToSign elements
- Time stamp requirement
- Authentication examples
- REST request signing problems
- Query string request authentication alternative
This topic explains authenticating requests using Signature Version 2. Amazon S3 now supports the latest Signature Version 4. This latest signature version is supported in all regions and any new regions after January 30, 2014 will support only Signature Version 4. For more information, go to Authenticating Requests (Amazon Signature Version 4) in the Amazon Simple Storage Service API Reference.
Authentication is the process of proving your identity to the system. Identity is an important factor in Amazon S3 access control decisions. Requests are allowed or denied in part based on the identity of the requester. For example, the right to create buckets is reserved for registered developers and (by default) the right to create objects in a bucket is reserved for the owner of the bucket in question. As a developer, you'll be making requests that invoke these privileges, so you'll need to prove your identity to the system by authenticating your requests. This section shows you how.
The content in this section does not apply to HTTP POST. For more information, see Browser-based uploads using POST (Amazon signature version 2).
The Amazon S3 REST API uses a custom HTTP scheme based on a keyed-HMAC (Hash Message Authentication Code) for authentication. To authenticate a request, you first concatenate selected elements of the request to form a string. You then use your Amazon secret access key to calculate the HMAC of that string. Informally, we call this process "signing the request," and we call the output of the HMAC algorithm the signature, because it simulates the security properties of a real signature. Finally, you add this signature as a parameter of the request by using the syntax described in this section.
When the system receives an authenticated request, it fetches the Amazon secret access key that you claim to have and uses it in the same way to compute a signature for the message it received. It then compares the signature it calculated against the signature presented by the requester. If the two signatures match, the system concludes that the requester must have access to the Amazon secret access key and therefore acts with the authority of the principal to whom the key was issued. If the two signatures do not match, the request is dropped and the system responds with an error message.
Example Authenticated Amazon S3 REST request
GET /photos/puppy.jpg HTTP/1.1 Host: awsexamplebucket1.us-west-1.s3.amazonaws.com Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:36:42 +0000
Authorization: AWS AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE: qgk2+6Sv9/oM7G3qLEjTH1a1l1g=
Using temporary security credentials
If you are signing your request using temporary security credentials (see Making requests), you must include the
corresponding security token in your request by adding the
x-amz-security-token header.
When you obtain temporary security credentials using the Amazon Security Token Service
API, the response includes temporary security credentials and a session token. You
provide the session token value in the
x-amz-security-token header when you
send requests to Amazon S3. For information about the Amazon Security Token Service API
provided by IAM, go to Action in the Amazon Security Token Service API Reference Guide .
The authentication header
The Amazon S3 REST API uses the standard HTTP
Authorization header to pass
authentication information. (The name of the standard header is unfortunate because it
carries authentication information, not authorization.) Under the Amazon S3 authentication
scheme, the Authorization header has the following form:
Authorization: AWS
Developers are issued an Amazon access key ID and Amazon secret access key when they
register. For request authentication, the
AWSAccessKeyId element
identifies the access key ID that was used to compute the signature and, indirectly, the
developer making the request.
Signature element is the RFC 2104 HMAC-SHA1 of selected
elements from the request, and so the
Signature part of the
Authorization header will vary from request to request. If the request signature
calculated by the system matches the
Signature included with the
request, the requester will have demonstrated possession of the Amazon secret access key.
The request will then be processed under the identity, and with the authority, of the
developer to whom the key was issued.
Following is pseudogrammar that illustrates the construction of the
Authorization request header. (In the example,
\n means the
Unicode code point
U+000A, commonly called newline).
Authorization = "AWS" + " " + AWSAccessKeyId + ":" + Signature; Signature = Base64( HMAC-SHA1( UTF-8-Encoding-Of(YourSecretAccessKey), UTF-8-Encoding-Of( StringToSign ) ) ); StringToSign = HTTP-Verb + "\n" + Content-MD5 + "\n" + Content-Type + "\n" + Date + "\n" + CanonicalizedAmzHeaders + CanonicalizedResource; CanonicalizedResource = [ "/" + Bucket ] + <HTTP-Request-URI, from the protocol name up to the query string> + [ subresource, if present. For example "?acl", "?location", or "?logging"]; CanonicalizedAmzHeaders = <described below>
HMAC-SHA1 is an algorithm defined by RFC 2104 -
Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication
YourSecretAccessKey) as the key, and the UTF-8
encoding of the
StringToSign as the message. The output of
HMAC-SHA1 is also a byte string, called the digest. The
request parameter is constructed by Base64 encoding this digest.
Request canonicalization for signing
Recall that when the system receives an authenticated request, it compares the
computed request signature with the signature provided in the request in
StringToSign. For that reason, you must compute the signature by using the
same method used by Amazon S3. We call the process of putting a request in an
agreed-upon form for signing canonicalization.
Constructing the CanonicalizedResource element
CanonicalizedResource represents the Amazon S3 resource targeted by
the request. Construct it for a REST request as follows:
Start with an empty string (
If the request specifies a bucket using the HTTP Host header
(virtual hosted-style), append the bucket name preceded by a
For a virtual hosted-style request
"https://awsexamplebucket1.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/photos/puppy.jpg", the
For the path-style request,
"https://s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/awsexamplebucket1/photos/puppy.jpg", the
Append the path part of the un-decoded HTTP Request-URI, up-to but not including the query string.
For a virtual hosted-style request
"https://awsexamplebucket1.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/photos/puppy.jpg", the
For a path-style request,
"https://s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/awsexamplebucket1/photos/puppy.jpg", the
For a request that does not address a bucket, such as GET Service, append "/".
If the request addresses a subresource, such as
The subresources that must be included when constructing the CanonicalizedResource Element are acl, lifecycle, location, logging, notification, partNumber, policy, requestPayment, uploadId, uploads, versionId, versioning, versions, and website.
If the request specifies query string parameters overriding the
response header values (see Get Object), append the query string parameters and
their values. When signing, you do not encode these values; however,
when making the request, you must encode these parameter values. The
query string parameters in a GET request include
Elements of the CanonicalizedResource that come from the HTTP Request-URI should be signed literally as they appear in the HTTP request, including URL-Encoding meta characters.
CanonicalizedResource might be different than the HTTP
Request-URI. In particular, if your request uses the HTTP
Host header to
specify a bucket, the bucket does not appear in the HTTP Request-URI. However, the
CanonicalizedResource continues to include the bucket. Query
string parameters might also appear in the Request-URI but are not included in
CanonicalizedResource. For more information, see Virtual hosting of buckets.
Constructing the CanonicalizedAmzHeaders element
To construct the CanonicalizedAmzHeaders part of
select all HTTP request headers that start with 'x-amz-' (using a case-insensitive
comparison), and use the following process.
|Convert each HTTP header name to lowercase. For example,
X-Amz-Date' becomes '
|Sort the collection of headers lexicographically by header name.
|Combine header fields with the same name into one
"header-name:comma-separated-value-list" pair as prescribed by RFC 2616,
section 4.2, without any spaces between values. For example, the
two metadata headers '
x-amz-meta-username: fred' and
x-amz-meta-username: barney' would be combined into
the single header '
|"Unfold" long headers that span multiple lines (as allowed by RFC 2616, section 4.2) by replacing the folding spaces (including new-line) by a single space.
|Trim any spaces around the colon in the header. For example, the
header '
x-amz-meta-username: fred,barney' would become
| Finally, append a newline character (
U+000A) to each
canonicalized header in the resulting list. Construct the
CanonicalizedResource element by concatenating all headers in this list
into a single string.
Positional versus named HTTP header StringToSign elements
The first few header elements of
StringToSign (Content-Type,
Date, and Content-MD5) are positional in nature.
does not include the names of these headers, only their values from the request. In
contrast, the '
x-amz-' elements are named. Both the header names and the
header values appear in
If a positional header called for in the definition of
StringToSign is not present in your request (for example,
Content-MD5 are optional for PUT requests and meaningless
for GET requests), substitute the empty string ("") for that position.
Time stamp requirement
A valid time stamp (using either the HTTP
Date header or an
x-amz-date alternative) is mandatory for authenticated requests.
Furthermore, the client timestamp included with an authenticated request must be within
15 minutes of the Amazon S3 system time when the request is received. If not, the request
will fail with the
RequestTimeTooSkewed error code. The
intention of these restrictions is to limit the possibility that intercepted requests
could be replayed by an adversary. For stronger protection against eavesdropping, use
the HTTPS transport for authenticated requests.
The validation constraint on request date applies only to authenticated requests that do not use query string authentication. For more information, see Query string request authentication alternative.
Some HTTP client libraries do not expose the ability to set the
header for a request. If you have trouble including the value of the 'Date' header in
the canonicalized headers, you can set the timestamp for the request by using an
x-amz-date' header instead. The value of the
header must be in one of the RFC 2616 formats (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
x-amz-date header is present in a request, the system will ignore any
Date header when computing the request signature. Therefore, if you
include the
x-amz-date header, use the empty string for the
Date when constructing the
StringToSign. See the
next section for an example.
Authentication examples
The examples in this section use the (non-working) credentials in the following table.
In the example
StringToSigns, formatting is not significant, and
\n means the Unicode code point
U+000A, commonly called
newline. Also, the examples use "+0000" to designate the time zone. You can use "GMT" to
designate timezone instead, but the signatures shown in the examples will be
Object GET
This example gets an object from the awsexamplebucket1 bucket.
Note that the CanonicalizedResource includes the bucket name, but the HTTP Request-URI does not. (The bucket is specified by the Host header.)
The following Python script calculates the preceding signature, using the provided parameters. You can use this script to construct your own signatures, replacing the keys and StringToSign as appropriate.
import base64 import hmac from hashlib import sha1 access_key = '
AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE'.encode("UTF-8") secret_key = '
wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY'.encode("UTF-8") string_to_sign = '
GET\n\n\nTue, 27 Mar 2007 19:36:42 +0000\n/awsexamplebucket1/photos/puppy.jpg'.encode("UTF-8") signature = base64.encodestring( hmac.new( secret_key, string_to_sign, sha1 ).digest() ).strip() print(f"AWS {access_key.decode()}:{signature.decode()}")
Object PUT
This example puts an object into the awsexamplebucket1 bucket.
Note the Content-Type header in the request and in the StringToSign. Also note that the Content-MD5 is left blank in the StringToSign, because it is not present in the request.
This example lists the content of the awsexamplebucket1 bucket.
Note the trailing slash on the CanonicalizedResource and the absence of query string parameters.
This example fetches the access control policy subresource for the 'awsexamplebucket1' bucket.
Notice how the subresource query string parameter is included in the CanonicalizedResource.
This example deletes an object from the 'awsexamplebucket1' bucket using the path-style and Date alternative.
Note how we used the alternate 'x-amz-date' method of specifying the date
(because our client library prevented us from setting the date, say). In this case,
x-amz-date takes precedence over the
Date header.
Therefore, date entry in the signature must contain the value of the
x-amz-date header.
This example uploads an object to a CNAME style virtual hosted bucket with metadata.
Notice how the 'x-amz-' headers are sorted, trimmed of extra spaces, and converted to lowercase. Note also that multiple headers with the same name have been joined using commas to separate values.
Note how only the
Content-Type and
Content-MD5 HTTP
entity headers appear in the
StringToSign. The other
Content-* entity headers do not.
Again, note that the
CanonicalizedResource includes the
bucket name, but the HTTP Request-URI does not. (The bucket is specified by the Host
List all my buckets
Unicode keys
The elements in
StringToSign that were derived from the
Request-URI are taken literally, including URL-Encoding and capitalization.
REST request signing problems
When REST request authentication fails, the system responds to the request with an
XML error document. The information contained in this error document is meant to help
developers diagnose the problem. In particular, the
element of the
SignatureDoesNotMatch error document tells you
exactly what request canonicalization the system is using.
Some toolkits silently insert headers that you do not know about beforehand, such as
adding the header
Content-Type during a PUT. In most of these cases, the
value of the inserted header remains constant, allowing you to discover the missing
headers by using tools such as Ethereal or tcpmon.
Query string request authentication alternative
You can authenticate certain types of requests by passing the required information as
query-string parameters instead of using the
Authorization HTTP header.
This is useful for enabling direct third-party browser access to your private Amazon S3 data
without proxying the request. The idea is to construct a "presigned" request and encode
it as a URL that an end-user's browser can retrieve. Additionally, you can limit a
presigned request by specifying an expiration time.
For more information on using query parameters to authenticate requests , see Authenticating Requests: Using Query Parameters (Amazon Signature Version 4)
Creating a signature
Following is an example query string authenticated Amazon S3 REST request.
GET /photos/puppy.jpg ?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE&Expires=1141889120&Signature=vjbyPxybdZaNmGa%2ByT272YEAiv4%3D HTTP/1.1 Host: awsexamplebucket1.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:37:58 +0000
The query string request authentication method doesn't require any special HTTP headers. Instead, the required authentication elements are specified as query string parameters:
|Query string parameter name
|Example value
|Your Amazon access key ID. Specifies the Amazon secret access key used to sign the request and, indirectly, the identity of the developer making the request.
|The time when the signature expires, specified as the number of seconds since the epoch (00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970). A request received after this time (according to the server) will be rejected.
|The URL encoding of the Base64 encoding of the HMAC-SHA1 of StringToSign.
The query string request authentication method differs slightly from the ordinary
method but only in the format of the
Signature request
parameter and the
StringToSign element. Following is
pseudo-grammar that illustrates the query string request authentication method.
Signature = URL-Encode( Base64( HMAC-SHA1( YourSecretAccessKey, UTF-8-Encoding-Of( StringToSign ) ) ) ); StringToSign = HTTP-VERB + "\n" + Content-MD5 + "\n" + Content-Type + "\n" + Expires + "\n" + CanonicalizedAmzHeaders + CanonicalizedResource;
YourSecretAccessKey is the Amazon secret access key ID that
Amazon assigns to you when you sign up to be an Amazon Web Service developer. Notice
how the
Signature is URL-Encoded to make it suitable for
placement in the query string. Note also that in
StringToSign, the HTTP
Date positional element
has been replaced with
Expires. The
CanonicalizedAmzHeaders and
CanonicalizedResource are the same.
In the query string authentication method, you do not use the
Date or the
x-amz-date request header when
calculating the string to sign.
Query string request authentication
We assume that when a browser makes the GET request, it won't provide a
Content-MD5 or a Content-Type header, nor will it set any x-amz- headers, so
those parts of the
StringToSign are left blank.
Using Base64 encoding
HMAC request signatures must be Base64 encoded. Base64 encoding converts the signature into a simple ASCII string that can be attached to the request. Characters that could appear in the signature string like plus (+), forward slash (/), and equals (=) must be encoded if used in a URI. For example, if the authentication code includes a plus (+) sign, encode it as %2B in the request. Encode a forward slash as %2F and equals as %3D.
For examples of Base64 encoding, refer to the Amazon S3 Authentication examples.

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Last week, I had the pleasure, the very wonderful pleasure, of taking my youngest son Sammy to our local indie theater for a viewing of Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey. The film follows the rise of Kevin Clash, puppeteer and voice of every child's favorite furry, red Sesame Street character, Elmo. With a lot of documentaries, I expect to be amazed at the amount of turmoil or struggle that the subject had to endure to make it where they are today. Not so with Clash; it was refreshing to see that he had very supportive parents, who instead of making excuses when others ridiculed his hobby of making puppets, they encouraged him and found ways to to help him achieve his dreams, and Kevin Clash was a big dreamer.
The film makers did an excellent job of telling Clash's story, narrated briefly in part by Whoopi Goldberg. At the young age of nine, Clash had already started making his own puppets, in large quantities no less, giving them names, distinct personalities, and using them to hone his craft. He hoped to someday work with The Muppets or on Sesame Street, and as the years flew by, he moved up to local children's shows, eventually landing a puppetry and acting gig on then popular and now classic Captain Kangaroo. Through the love and support of his family, not to mention an opportunity to meet famous Muppets creator Kermit Love (thanks in no small part to his mother), Clash eventually attained that life-long goal of working with all things Jim Henson.
The story of how the character of Elmo emerged in the midst of it all is one to only be seen in the film. One thing I will note is that the actual name and puppet of Elmo was in use for awhile on Sesame Street before Clash made him who he is today. The character was so unlikable that the puppeteer that brought him to life couldn't stand having to do so when the time came. Now anyone who has children, and even a lot who don't, can tell you what Elmo represents, because of those three little words that he says that define his personality: "Elmo Loves You." Clash certainly embodies the love that the character of Elmo represents, by using his talent to allow children to have private visitations with him and Elmo, courtesy of the Make a Wish Foundation, which gives children with a terminal illness a chance to live out their biggest hopes and dreams. This was the point in the film where tears started to flow freely from my eyes, and I looked over to my son and saw that same expression of sadness and joy combined on his face, reflected in the glow of the projection on the screen.
The film runs only a little over an hour, and when the credits began to roll, I exclaimed out loud, "No, don't be over yet!" There were only a few of us in the audience, but my son and I started to clap and the rest of the theater joined in our applause. It might have been the clapping of only a few hands that night, but it was richly deserved. I would recommend that if you have any chance of seeing this movie in a theater, that you don't miss the chance to do so.
I was compensated two tickets by the Robinson Film Center in Shreveport, LA for the viewing of this film for the purpose of this review.


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|2 – 3
|4 – 6
|7 – 10
Also know as Coca-cola Route. It is the most popular route and the only with mountain huts. Hiking is along the most direct path to the summit and it has stunning scenery of forests, alpine meadows, over rocky ravines and lunar landscapes to the summit.
After breakfast at your hotel, we drive you to Marangu Gate. Your full climb staff will be present when you arrive at the gate. After completing gate registration, begin your Kilimanjaro trek. Walk along a narrow trail through the rainforest of Kilimanjaro for most of the hike. Eat a picnic lunch at Kisambioni, the halfway point of today's trek. After lunch, you continue walking through the rainforest until reaching Mandara Hut. Relax for the rest of the day or take a short walk to Maundi Crater. The views to the east over Taveta and to the northwest to Mawenzi Peak are stunning on a clear day, making the short hike well worth the effort.
The A-frame Mandara Huts can accommodate up to seventy people and consist of several sleeping huts and a dining area. All of Marangu's huts have beds with mattresses.
After breakfast, leave Mandara Hut and Kilimanjaro's forests for Horombo Hut. Most of the day's hike will be through Kilimanjaro's moorland, a rocky landscape with desert-like plants. Eat a picnic lunch at Kambi ya Taabu before continuing to Horombo Hut. If the weather is clear, enjoy beautiful views of Mawenzi and Kibo peaks. Arrive at Horombo Hut at mid-afternoon and spend the rest of the day relaxing.
Although extremely busy, the Horombo Huts are considered to be the nicest on Kilimanjaro. The small, A-frame buildings can accommodate up to eight people each and provide lodging for hikers ascending, descending, and acclimatizing. Horombo can accommodate up to one hundred hikers and many more porters, cooks, and guides.
Day three is an acclimatization day. We suggest hiking all the way to Mawenzi Hut to allow for maximum acclimatization. The hike will increase your chances of reaching Uhuru Peak, and also reward you with magnificent views of Kibo. Return to Horombo for a late lunch. Spend the afternoon and evening relaxing at Horombo.
Leave Horombo Hut after breakfast to hike through the moorland and alpine desert of Kilimanjaro's upper altitudes. After hiking for about an hour arrive at Maua River, a small mountain stream. After Maua, the terrain becomes flatter and the vegetation begins to disappear. Break for lunch at Middle Red Hill. After lunch, continue on a steady incline for another two hours through Kilimanjaro's Saddle. Although the environment on the way to Kibo is a bleak desert with little vegetation, you will see many stunning views of Kibo and Mawenzi peaks. Reach Kibo Hut mid-afternoon to rest and prepare for your midnight climb.
Around midnight, awake for the final ascent to Uhuru Peak, the roof of Africa. The hike begins with a demanding five hour hike to Gillman's Point on the crater rim. Although this is considered to be the easiest of the three crater ascent paths, it is still extremely difficult. The first major rest stop, William's Point, lies at 5000 meters and is approximately a two hour hike Kibo Hut. Continue on for thirty minutes before beginning the rocky switchbacks that will continue to Gillman's Point (5,681 meters).
The hike from Gilman's to Uhuru Peak is a gradual climb and as far as hikes go, not very difficult. The altitude, however, makes the hike long and tiring. The crater rim hike takes approximately two hours. Upon reaching Uhuru, take photos of your guide and group at the peak before beginning the descent to Horombo Hut.
On the way down from the summit, you will see all of the magnificent views you could not see on the way up. Stop for a short break and snacks at Kibo Hut before continuing on to Horombo Hut. Reach Horombo Hut in the afternoon and enjoy your last night on the mountain.
After breakfast, finish the trek with a descent to Marangu Gate. Your last hike on Kilimanjaro is a beautiful one, passing through Kilimanjaro's cloud forest. Watch your step during the descent, as the trail can be slippery. Our vehicles will be waiting at Marangu Gate to take you back to your hotel in Moshi. Your hotel is included in the climb package for this night (B&B plan).


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HONG KONG – Shark fin traders in Hong Kong have laid out thousands of fins on rooftops in what appears to be a move to escape public scrutiny of their industry.
Thousands of the freshly cut fins were seen blanketing the roof of an industrial building in Hong Kong this week.
Environmental campaigner Gary Stokes, who took the first photos of the drying on Jan. 1, said Friday that the traders usually dried their fins on the sidewalks. He suspected that the traders went upstairs to avoid pressure from concerned passers-by.
Hong Kong is the world center of the shark fin industry, accounting for about half of global trade. Environmental campaigners, citing government statistics, say more than 10,200 metric tons of shark fin were imported into Hong Kong in 2011.
Shark fins are popular in Asia where delicacies such shark's fin soup, which is mostly tasteless, are served at special occasions such as wedding banquets. However, environmentalists say overfishing is threatening shark species.
Stokes said a video he released in March showing thousands of dried shark fins laid out on the side of road drew attention to the practice. He added that he had heard the tourism board "was not too wild about it" because tourists had complained after coming across drying fins.
But Ho Siu-chai, president of the Hong Kong Sharks Fin Trade Merchants Association, denied there was pressure, saying the traders were using the roof because they probably didn't have enough space and wanted to take advantage of the cool, clear weather.
Stokes said many of the shark fins coming into Hong Kong were being shipped to mainland China.
"With the middle class becoming more affluent, the demand is definitely growing" in mainland China, Stokes said. "But in Hong Kong it's actually decreasing. I think that in Hong Kong people are starting to realize that it's not that cool."
The growing environmental concerns have prompted some five-star hotels in Hong Kong to stop offering shark's fin soup at banquets and the city's biggest airline, Cathay Pacific Airways, to stop carrying it in air cargo.
The Chinese government also said last year it was banning shark's fin soup from official banquets in an attempt to curb corruption.
Some 75 million sharks are killed for their fins only each year, according to the European Union. The sharks are typically thrown back into the sea to die after their fans are harvested, a practice that the EU banned last year. Fins can sell for as much as $700 a pound.
Shark fin trading is not regulated in Hong Kong except for three species that require permits from the countries from which they were exported.


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Glendale, AZ – Patrik Berglund scored a pair of goals and the St. Louis Blues took down the Phoenix Coyotes, 6-3, on Thursday.
Chris Stewart added a goal and two assists for the Blues, who snapped a two- game skid. Alex Pietrangelo had a goal and an assist, while Scott Nichol and Vladimir Sobotka each scored once.
With goaltending a concern, the Blues recalled rookie Jake Allen from Peoria of the American Hockey League following Tuesday's 6-4 loss to the Kings. Allen made 23 saves on Thursday.
Shane Doan, David Moss and Keith Yandle lit the lamp for the Coyotes, who have dropped two straight. Mike Smith stopped 23-of-29 shots.
"I don't think there's one area of our game that we can be too happy with," Doan said. "Everyone should be disappointed."
The Blues drew first blood at the 13:07 mark of the first period. Stewart put home a rebound off Pietrangelo's shot from the top of the right circle.
With 1:06 left in the opening frame, Moss snuck a shot past Allen on a breakaway. Moss' shorthanded goal made it 1-1.
Doan gave Phoenix the lead just 41 seconds into the middle frame. His slap shot from the slot got past Allen.
Berglund responded with a pair of goals to give St. Louis the lead back. First, Berglund put home a rebound at the 5:47 mark. Just over two minutes later, Berglund used a nice spin move before beating Smith with a backhander from the bottom of the right circle.
Nichol gave the Blues a 4-2 lead at the 10:23 mark of the second period. St. Louis forward Jaden Schwartz won a battle for the puck behind the net before passing to Nichol in front.
The Blues used some nice passing prior to scoring their fifth goal of the contest. Sobotka and Stewart passed the puck back-and-forth before the former lit the lamp at the 6:53 mark of the third stanza.
Pietrangelo knocked home a rebound at the 15:04 mark to make it 6-2. Yandle scored with 25 seconds left to account for the final margin.
"We were hungry for a win tonight and put in a 60-minute effort," Stewart said.
Game Notes
This was the first of three meetings this season. St. Louis took three of four from Phoenix last season ... David Perron had a career-high four assists for the Blues, who went 0-for-3 on the power play ... The Coyotes went 1-for-5 on the power play.


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slightly adapted from Yammie's Noshery
- 1/3 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/3 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup Hershey's Special Dark cocoa powder
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 2/3 cup Musselman's Natural unsweetened applesauce
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg, slightly beaten
- 1 cup finely shredded carrot (about two large carrots)
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- Line a muffin pan with paper liners and spray with canola oil. Set aside.
- In a bowl, stir the flours, cocoa powder, sugar, baking soda, and baking powder together.
- Add in the remaining ingredients and stir until just combined.
- Pour into the prepared muffin tin, filling a little more than 3/4 the way full.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.
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Peanut Butter Frosting
slightly adapted from Jackie Geilhart
- 1 (8 ounce) package of 1/3 less fat cream cheese, softened
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4-1 cup of creamy natural peanut butter (I use skippy)
- With your electric mixer, beat the cream cheese and butter together until creamy.
- Add in the powdered sugar and vanilla extract.
- Beat until blended completely.
- Carefully stir in the peanut butter until just mixed. Don't over mix.
- Pour into a pastry bag or use a knife to decorate the cupcakes!
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The Five Disengagement Triggers
The seduction is mesmerising and as part of its allure we of course tell you why we chose you with a thousand different sensual sentences. Some may seem over-the-top; others make sense to you but either way you are given the basis of understanding why we have been drawn to you. We do not tell you the real reasons why we chose you but we do provide you with some.
The devaluation is tortuous, horrific and unpleasant. You are unable to ascertain why we have suddenly knocked you from your pedestal. It is bewildering and confusing and only serves to add to your pain. You may have some reasons hurled at you but they will not make any sense to you and this is by design, to keep you confused and where we want you. Reasons are given, they just do not make sense.
Then comes the disengagement (discard) and more often than not you are left sprawled in the dust, exhausted, bereft and shattered with no explanation given as to why you have been thrown to one side as we stroll off into the sunset walking away nonchalantly. Why has it ended so suddenly? What did you do wrong? Why have we not told you why this has happened? The pain of being rejected is magnified by the failure to provide you with any explanation. Naturally, this refusal to explain is part of our design. We feel no need to explain because we can do as we want. We feel no need to give reasons because in our eyes you deserve no reasons because you have failed us. We offer no information for you to consider and process because certainly amongst the lesser of our kind they do not know themselves why is has ended, but it had to. This is the way it has to be. There are however reasons why you are disengaged from. These are those reasons.
- You Have Wised Up
You have worked out, usually as a consequence of some external assistance that we must provoke you and make you react in an emotional fashion. You may not entirely understand why this dynamic occurs, you may not realise why it is so important to us, but you know that we want to make you react and you have stopped doing so. You have learned to respond in a neutral fashion and thus deprive us of our fuel. We apply our machinations in a harsher fashion, increasing the pressure to cause you to react as we feed on our secondary sources in the meanwhile but your resistance is substantial. You have not walked away, perhaps you are unable for financial reasons, children or the inconvenience of seeking a new home, but you have turned off the tap and we realise that it is not going to be turned back on anytime soon. We do not want to be in this weakened state and we do not wish to apply the energy we need to finding or embedding a new primary source to be used up on trying to squeeze fuel from you. Thus you are dropped.
- The New Source Is in Place
We began our devaluation of you as we sought a replacement for you. This explains the repeated affairs and now we have settled on your replacement as a primary source of fuel. He or she has been seduced and embedded into our supply chain. We are confident that they are functioning well, pouring forth delicious positive fuel in significant quantities and in a reliable manner, far better than you ever did. We have been fuelled by your negative fuel but there is no longer any need to keep you in play now that we have our new bright and shiny plaything. On to the scrap heap you go. We will come back later for a hoover of course, but for now it is adios.
- You're Broken
Although it may seem during devaluation that we are trying to destroy you, that is actually not the case. Yes, we are driving you downwards through our repeated application of horrible manipulations but we do not want to finish you off. Just like somebody's head we are holding under water, we will let you surface spluttering and gasping for air, by way of a respite period before plunging you into the icy water once again and holding you under. In and out, up and down, push and pull. We will have you bouncing along the bottom but not destroyed. Sometimes we go too far and the avalanche of abuse takes its toll on you resulting in you becoming broken. You are left numb, barely functioning or even hospitalised as a consequence of a break down. You provide us with no reaction any longer. Unlike the first instance above, this is not by choice, but as a consequence of our behaviour breaking you. Knowing now that you will not provide us with any fuel, we show our callous nature by taking no interest in your broken state but instead we shift our focus to embedding the new prospect that we have been cultivating and drop you.
- Major Exposure
You may have us worked out but your shock and horror at this, along with your desire to actually try to help and change us, means you continue you to spill out fuel towards us. You have the knowledge but you are not using it effectively, so we see no reason to go elsewhere. You may be trying to tell other people about our terrible behaviours but we have got in first, launched the smear campaign and maintained the façade. It is business as usual. Occasionally however you might just outflank us and manage to tell other people what we are like before we can do anything about it. These people see some incontrovertible evidence that you have obtained (admittedly usually obtain when dealing with the lesser and mid-range of our kind) and take your side. News spreads and those people we thought we could rely on either turn their backs on us or worse take your side. The façade is crumbling. The fuel has stopped and the energy required to change people's minds (with no guarantee of success) is too great. We have been exposed in a major fashion. Rather than face the music and allow ourselves to be destroyed we drop you like a stone, saddle up and ride out of town in order to find a new place which hasn't heard about who we are.
- Wounding with Intent
You've brought your A game on this occasion. Not only do you know what we are, the revelations that you have been provided with have caused you to now understand how you can hurt us. You know to turn off the tap but you know how to obtain the ultimate revenge against us and your emotion-free criticisms are launched at us. These criticisms wound us repeatedly, burning and hurting us and with no way of getting fuel from you, we are being beaten. You have been well schooled by somebody and applying those learned lessons you are starting to attack the very pillars of our existence. We are under a serious attack and fighting back is not an option. We need to flee and quickly. We don't want you any longer, we know we cannot succeed at this moment in time and therefore we need to beat a retreat and promptly. You don't want to let us off the hook because you want answers and you want to punish us for what we have done to you. You are not going to end our connection. We are not going to hang around however and we will discard you as we beat that retreat so we can recover, replenish and then look to strike back at a later date when your guard may be down.
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HG do ALL narcissists leave their marriage/IPPS for a replacement? Even the Anchor appears to actually leave . My MMR would never have left his wife nor do I think he will ever leave his gf, and perhaps this is bc he doesn't have the ability to secure a "better" mainstay .
So I made a boo boo and contacted him after 2 months (I was doing so well… duh!)
He engaged but when I made it relatively clear there wasn't going to be any sex if we met (I was trying to make a shit work situation better by reaching out), he blocked me on WhatsApp, then on his phone, but unblocked his phone again over night. Still blocked on WhatsApp today. The blocking came with no explanation. So another discard, but really before there was any commencement of anything. I'm a bit stunned. Fine, but stunned.
Why would he react in this way? Just to show me how pissed off he is? I don't get it…
is this about only primary source?
"… we need to finding or embedding a new primary source "
"…and now we have settled on your replacement as a primary source of fuel."
because i saw all of them as an ipss . especially 5 is very valid reason for me. i don't know why he waited for 2 years why he let it happen .
Very interesting. Please give us more information on how to beat the narcissist and/or how to manipulate the narcissist effectively.


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My dear, you're right, it's tea time. I admire your picture and prepare myself a good warming cuppa. Have a nice evening.ReplyDelete
Total love, Rosa! It makes me think of old black and white Renoir films, the Atmosphere is bliss!ReplyDelete
Wintry garden, it looks beautiful and peaceful!ReplyDelete
I always enjoy your Wednesdays :)ReplyDelete
It is beautiful, no doubt about it!ReplyDelete
Delightful indeed! :) elaReplyDelete
Stunning! Very serene and poetic. :)ReplyDelete
Fun pictures! I so enjoy your Black and White photos -- thanks.ReplyDelete
beautiful! beautiful! xxxReplyDelete
Pas pour rien que l'automne est ma saison préférée!ReplyDelete
C'est magnifique!
It's not easy to make a b&w garden photo beautiful nonetheless this was is gorgeous.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7:50 PM, February 19, 2014
très jolie photo. <3ReplyDelete
Looks like my fall!ReplyDelete
You've made Wednesday one of my favorite days of the week.ReplyDelete
I just LOVE this one.ReplyDelete
it seems like the sun is shining through a little bit--very lovely!ReplyDelete
I have a thing for teapots and spent flowers. So romantic!ReplyDelete
Winter garden display - lovely :)ReplyDelete
Lovely display.ReplyDelete
That is adorable. Very homey.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6:46 AM, February 20, 2014
Yes, tea, please! :-) Nice B&W photo!ReplyDelete
So pretty and nostalgic, Rosa!ReplyDelete
Love the vintage look! Beautiful!ReplyDelete
Beautiful composition and great picture, it's so poetic!ReplyDelete
Very romantic setting Rosa! We adore your B & W photos :)ReplyDelete
Tea time with four old tea-pots ? I know this from here: everyone drinks his own tea ;-)ReplyDelete
So beautiful photo... I love your work so much, especially those b&wReplyDelete
I am always amazed at how your photos not only inspire an emotion but through the light, shading and quality "texture?) we can feel the weather, the temperature, the coolness with the warmth of the sun hitting our shoulders. Just magical.ReplyDelete
Si beau... tu me rappelles que j'ai hâte que l'hiver soit fini!ReplyDelete
I just got transported into my childhood with my grandmother sitting on one side watching us and we kids playing in the garden. =)ReplyDelete
I love black and white photos, somehow they seem to capture so much more than color. I don't know what it is, but they are so moving to me. Beautiful, Rosa.ReplyDelete
Love the teapots in the background...very mysterious and beautiful!ReplyDelete
Vim fazer-lhe uma visita e adorei tudo o que vi. Fotos e textos de excelente qualidade e é sem dúvida um Blog muito bem concebido. Os meus parabéns.ReplyDelete
Deixo desde já o convite para uma visita ao meu cantinho de Receitas de Sedução. ;)
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Such cute tea pots! I happen to adore dead flowers and branches, my husband used to get so annoyed that every time he bought me roses I dried them to hang. Now days he will hand me a bundle and say "here are some beautiful flowers, I know you adore to murder them."ReplyDelete
Ca fait penser, a un jardin de grand-mere, un petit cote desuet :)ReplyDelete
Yes please :)ReplyDelete


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The original Inner Harmony Wellness Center is situated idyllically on the campus of the Regional Hospital of Scranton (formerly Mercy Hospital). The center has the reputation in the area as the place to go for those who want to receive lifestyle medicine in a holistic manner. The team is led by a seasoned physician trained with a reputation for excellent bedside manners. The entire staff is passionate about providing a multi-disciplinary team approach to health. Over the years, the team has designed protocols for people who want to receive holistic treatment. The protocols are rooted in mind, body, and spirit, and differ from allopathic medical models. For example, the physician might refer a patient suffering from infertility to the acupuncturist. Acupuncture has a high success rate in this area. Other modalities include colon hydrotherapy, chiropractic services, therapeutic massage, nurse-practitioner wellness, and preventive care visits.
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SAN JOSE (AP) — Jay Harrison scored with 41.2 seconds remaining in overtime and the Carolina Hurricanes won for the first time since the Olympic break, 3-2 over the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday night.
Jiri Tlusty and Elias Lindholm also scored for the Hurricanes, who lost the first four games since the Olympics before capping their five-game road trip with a win. Carolina also lost its final game before the break and has fallen to 13th place in the Eastern Conference — six points out of the final playoff spot.
Anton Khudobin made 35 saves to earn the win just hours after signing a two-year, $4.5 million contract extension.
Marty Havlat and Brent Burns scored for the Sharks, who lost in their first home game since Feb. 7. Alex Stalock made 32 saves in his first back-to-back starts of the season.
Both teams had chances early in overtime before the Hurricanes capitalized in the final minute on a scramble in front of Stalock. Lindholm took possession of a blocked shot and slid a backhand pass through the crease to Harrison, who knocked in the winner for Carolina's fourth straight victory in this series.
The Hurricanes tied the game early in the second period when Eric Staal found Lindholm alone in the slot with a pass from behind the net for a one-timer.
The Sharks kept the puck in Carolina's defensive zone for much of the second half of the period but couldn't generate many quality scoring chances, and the game remained tied heading into the third.
Carolina struck first when Tlusty took a pass from Alexander Semin, split defenseman Jason Demers and Scott Hannan and skated in alone on Stalock before beating him with a backhand shot.
Scoring first has been a good omen this season for the Hurricanes, who have won more than three-quarters of their games after getting the opening goal. But this lead was short-lived when Khudobin allowed a big rebound on a shot by Tyler Kennedy. Havlat knocked it in while falling to the ice for the equalizer.
The Sharks took advantage of another misplay from Khudobin to take the lead with 28 seconds left in the period. James Sheppard took the puck away from the goalie behind the net and sent a backhand pass in the slot to Raffi Torres, who teed up Burns for his first goal in 20 games to make it 2-1.
NOTES: Carolina D Andrej Sekera had two assists and has points in all five games since the Olympic break. ... The Hurricanes were without D Justin Faulk, who suffered an upper-body injury on Sunday in Anaheim. ... The Sharks honored their four Olympians with a video board tribute in the first period.
SAN JOSE (AP) — Jay Harrison scored with 41.2 seconds remaining in overtime and the Carolina Hurricanes won for the first time since the Olympic break, 3-2 over the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday night.


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You've been CEO of SpiderNet for the past two years and have embraced a very trusting culture among your team. For the most part, you and your team discuss future vision and the team goes off and executes against that vision. You've never needed to really manage objectives or goals, simply because the team has generally delivered on the stated direction.
However, as the company has gotten larger, you've noticed that some organizations are not delivering on tasks that you believe need to get done. You've chatted with members of your executive team and they believe that they are making great progress. They point to all the things they've accomplished over the past three months. When you look at the accomplishments, you wonder how they decided to prioritize certain items. In your opinion, many of the items they have accomplished have little to do with the ultimate success of the company or vision.
You are now concerned that many in the organization seem to think they are doing great things, despite your frustration with the output. Everyone claims to be working hard and you don't disagree with that. Given how you have managed in the past, how do you change to ensure everyone is on the same page? Do you leave things as they are and try to be clearer? Do you create objectives for people to follow? If you do the latter, don't you risk turning SpiderNet into a bureaucratic mess?
Peter Drucker, the famous management consultant, is noted for saying, "You can't manage what you can't measure." While I very often despise all management consulting advice and quotes, this is one that I happen to agree with. I have lived through and seen the sloppy execution mistakes made when a company does not have a framework of measureable objectives to guide their path. Furthermore, it is very possible to balance the flexibility and creativity of an entrepreneurial environment with a lightweight, highly-effective process for managing with key objectives.
One of my first pieces of advice to any entrepreneur (including many that come in for funding) is to articulate what they'd like the company to accomplish in the next 12 to 18 months, based on their strategic vision. This may be what a company wants to accomplish with a given funding round or what they want to accomplish over a given period of time. Pick a timeframe that is far enough out (two years max) and write down five measureable objectives that you believe will define success. Make the objectives measureable as opposed to qualitative. It is not as easy as you think. In fact, try it right now and make sure that the goal can be measured.
The important aspect of being able to measure the goal (i.e., have 50 paying customers) is that you will absolutely know whether you have achieved the objective. I have very often seen companies create a set of non-measurable goals (i.e., maximize adoption with paying customers) that are pretty useless. At the end of the time period, you and your team will often forget what you were trying to accomplish and what exactly the goal meant. This results in everyone thinking that the goal was mostly met.
Once you develop a small set of 12- to 18-month company objectives, share those with your team. Ask your functional leads (sales, marketing, engineering, G&A) to come up with their five goals, based on the higher level objectives that you've outlined for the company. You now have the start of a framework.
From there, you can start to manage on a quarterly basis, using the same framework. Start with the 12- to 18-month goals and back those down to what needs to be done in the next quarter. I often think about this process like climbing a mountain on an expedition: You have the grand objective to get to the summit, but have many daily objectives along the way (e.g., get to the next campsite, etc).
For quarterly objectives, I would use the same process as the longer-term thinking. As CEO, you should come up with the three to five items you need the company to accomplish in the next quarter. Ask your team to come up with their own three to five items. You now have a baseline from which to manage. Each week at your staff meeting, you can get a status update on where folks are relative to their quarterly goals. This becomes your status report and everyone knows where things stand. If something changes along the way and a quarterly goal is no longer important, the team can change it. However, changes only get made by proactive discussion and not by arbitrary omission.
At the end of each quarter, set aside time to do a complete goal review with your team and clearly specify the goals met and the ones missed. You will get a clear view of why something was not done and what needs to be done about it. At that meeting, you can create the next set of objectives for the following quarter.
If you really want to be transparent, I would recommend sharing all goals and all results with the entire company. This gets everyone on the same page and creates a framework in everyone's mind as to where the company is going and how each individual can help to achieve a given goal.
This process can be used all the way down into the organization and can be used upward for the board. Keeps things incredibly simple. One set of objectives and one set of status.
I would encourage SpiderNet to adopt a simple framework for managing to key objectives. As the company gets larger, there is the tendency for tasks to become less clear in employees' minds. Keep the key objectives front and center and have everyone work towards these goals. Celebrate success when goals are met and take action when they are not.


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For Immediate Release, September 1, 2009
EPA Takes Another Step Toward Implementing Clean Air Act to Address Global Warming Crisis
WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency has sent a draft rule to the White House Office of Management and Budget entitled "Prevention of Significant Deterioration/Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule," that will specify permitting procedures for stationary sources of greenhouse pollution under the Clean Air Act. A proposal to reduce pollution from automobiles under the Clean Air Act is expected shortly, with a final decision by March 2010.
"The Clean Air Act has protected the air we breathe for four decades and is our strongest existing tool for reducing greenhouse pollution. The Obama administration should move quickly to reduce greenhouse pollution with these successful existing programs, and Congress must ensure that new federal climate legislation retains the Clean Air Act's critical safety net," said Kassie Siegel, director of the Climate Law Institute at the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity.
According to the EPA, in 2010, the Clean Air Act's regulation of traditional air pollution will save 23,000 lives and prevent 1.7 million asthma attacks, 4.1 million lost work days, and more than 68,000 hospitalizations and emergency-room visits. And in its first two decades alone, the Act provided benefits 42 times greater than the estimated costs of regulation, including decreased health-care costs and reduced lost work time worth $22.2 trillion. Similar benefits can be expected if the Act is applied to greenhouse gas emissions, as the law requires.
Last week, a broad coalition of more than 300 faith, human-rights, social justice, indigenous, and environmental groups sent a letter to U.S. senators calling for energy and climate legislation that maintains existing Clean Air Act protections against global warming pollution. This week, community members are hand-delivering that letter to senate offices across the country as part of a grassroots mobilization demonstrating far-reaching support for bold leadership in the fight to solve the climate crisis.
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The Charlotte Bartlett quilt is finished
Those following the Charlotte Bartlett and her Mackintosh squares tale may be interested in how many people this quilt can comfortably seat. I think it can comfortably accommodate four people and a very laden picnic...or two people lying down with limbs thrown out at odd angles. So while no-one in my immediate family will be forced to sit martyred on damp grass, it's not quite as big as I'd hoped it might be, but I did use every single scrap of fabric up that I'd bought for it. It's so gratifying when that happens.
If you're interested in following in my dragging-my-heels-and-complaining-a-lot footsteps with this quilt (you'll have such fun), you can find a very similar quilt pattern in Kaffe Fassett's absolutely stunning V&A Quilts book - I think I may or may not have talked about it before, but it really is wonderful. Most of my fabrics came from overseas at Quilt Home due to their having an absolutely vast selection of Kaffe Fassett prints all in one place.
I've been thinking a lot about quilt making recently and how the need to make a particular quilt can suddenly burn through me. I think often it's not that I want to possess a fabric, more that I want to sew with it and that just the act of working with it relieves the hunger to have certain prints for myself. In every other area of sewing I'm a perfectionist, but there's something about quilt-making that, mostly, feels like sheer, unbridled delight, so consequently it feels right to allow it to remain untempered by perfect point-matching (my inner Monika requires that I clarify: I do make a huge effort to match points, I just don't torture myself over it if, despite my efforts, they steadfastly remain a millimetre or two off). I am also guilty of enjoying rather random quilt backings. I tend to hurriedly pull together all the remaining offcuts of fabric and sew them haphazardly into a backing. You can see a little bit of this jumble visible as my husband carried it across the lawn. The only time throughout the entire process when my perfectionist streak momentarily returns is when I stretch out the fabrics to make the quilt sandwich, ready to be quilted. Here I become obsessive about having everything perfectly smooth and flat, so that there are no unwanted lumps or bumps in the finished quilt. How do you make quilts? Are there areas of sewing where you'll permit mistakes? Or will you relentlessly wield a seam ripper until you have perfection?
Florence x
You are still most welcome to enter my foxy give-away, kindly provided by the wonderful Village Haberdashery. I'll be announcing a winner later tomorrow (Friday).


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Air France Flight 447 plunged into southern Atlantic Ocean killing all 228 people in 2009
Tests on instruments measuring air speed and pressure seen as one factor
Expert: Search for wreck "unprecedented in terms of depth and sub-sea terrain"
More than three years after Air France Flight 447 plunged into the southern Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people aboard, authorities are preparing to release their final report on the fatal crash.
France's Bureau of Investigation and Analysis (BEA) said the data indicated that the flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed because the aircraft's speed sensors gave invalid readings, but there are other theories on why the plane went down.
When did Flight 447 go down?
Flight 447 – which was en route to Paris from Rio de Janeiro – made its last contact with Brazil's Atlantic Control Center (ACC) at around 01:33 GMT on June 1, 2009, informing the center of the plane's position as it crossed the Atlantic.
Soon after, Brazil's air control contacted Dakar's control center in North Africa and reported that AF 447 was entering an area on its route known for constant bands of severe turbulence, officials said.
There was no further contact with the plane.
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Do we know why Flight 447 crashed?
Last year's BEA report said the airplane climbed to 38,000 feet when "the stall warning was triggered and the airplane stalled." It then descended, crashing into the Atlantic. The descent lasted 3 minutes and 30 seconds and the engines remained operational, said the report.
Studies of the debris and bodies that were found soon after the crash led the BEA to conclude the plane hit the water belly first, essentially intact. Oxygen masks were not deployed, indicating that the cabin did not depressurize, the BEA said in a 2009 report.
Tests have already brought into question the performance of pitot tubes, which measure the pressure exerted on the plane as it flies through the air, and are part of a system used to determine air speed.
Before it crashed, Flight 447 sent out 24 automated error messages that suggested the plane may have been flying too fast or too slow through the thunderstorms, officials have said.
The European Aviation Safety Agency issued a directive in late August requiring airlines to replace pitot tubes manufactured by Thales Avionics on Airbus A330s and A340s. It said airlines should replace them with other Thales tubes and those manufactured by Goodrich.
The lack of speed, wind or direction information also prevented the Autopilot system from functioning, said air accident investigator Alain Bouillard said at the time of the crash. "This tells us that the plane has to be, in this case, directed by the pilot," he said.
Who's really flying the plane?
What about the weather?
Flight 447 was passing through an area prone to volatile and dangerous weather known as the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), when it went down. The ITCZ is a belt of low pressure that wraps around the planet. Clouds and storms form along it because it is literally where the winds of the world's hemispheres meet.
Here, air and water temperatures are typically in the mid-80s. The warm, moist air is heated further by the blazing tropical sun. Steamy air, coming off the ocean, rises until it hits cooler, drier air aloft, forming clouds and thunderstorms.
These gigantic storms contain volatile updrafts and downdrafts that can move at speeds of 100 mph. The height of these storms also can tower to more than 10 miles in the air. Even if you stacked two dozen of the world's tallest skyscrapers on top of each other, they still wouldn't reach the tops of the biggest thunderstorms of the ITCZ.
However Learmount pointed out that hundreds of airliners pass through the ITCZ every day without incident. "There was another Air France flight 30 minutes behind Flight 447 that night and it encountered no problems," he said.
153 bodies identified from 2009 Air France crash
Any other theories?
According to Learmount, many aviation experts have yet to rule out the human factor. "The crash happened at around 2:00 a.m. on a dark night when the error messages suddenly appeared and the autopilot tripped out." He said the crew, possibly at their deepest circadian low at this point, suddenly have this problem and they "fixate" on it.
"This is a syndrome," he said. "There have been lots of accidents where pilots have fixated on correcting a relatively minor problem and lose sight of the macro problem. Now we don't know that, but we do know the aircraft acted as if it was not being controlled purposefully.
"Whether it was out of control – and I doubt this – it was not being controlled. Imagine it is 2 am and two sleepy pilots encounter a problem. They don't have much to do so they decide to troubleshoot this problem. They fixate on it and forget the autopilot has tripped.
"The airplane meanwhile goes into a lazy spiral descent – the pilots don't notice as it is all very gentle. And when they look up they don't believe what their instruments tell them and they get disorientated and can't recover."
He highlighted a similar case in 2004 when pilot disorientation and loss of control caused a Flash Airlines Boeing 737-300 to crash in the Red Sea shortly after take off from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheikh. Though Egyptian authorities disputed the claim, aviation safety officials in France and the U.S. cited "spatial disorientation" as the likely cause based on evidence available, according to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
How long did it take to find the wreckage?
It took four searches over the course of nearly two years to locate the plane's flight recorder and the bulk of the wreckage, still containing many bodies, in a mountain range deep under the ocean.
The area where the Airbus A330 went down is in the mid-Atlantic – two to four days for ships to reach from the nearest ports in Brazil or Senegal in West Africa.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimates the ocean depth in the area at 3,000 meters (about 9,840 feet) to 7,500 meters (24,600 feet). Brazilian officials have said the sea depth in the area is around 2,000 to 3,000 meters (6,562 to 9,842 feet).
The search that turned up the bulk of the wreckage in 2011 covered a 46-mile (75-kilometer) radius around the last known position of Flight 447, investigators said, in an area rough with underwater mountains and valleys.
"It is a mountain range as big as the Alps," David Learmount of Flight International told CNN. "There was always the possibility that the wreckage from the aircraft disappeared down a crevasse. This is not a flat-bottom environment like the North Sea is."


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Yoga dance Therapy is an art based on the application of yoga principles to dance. This method combines a dynamic sequence of asanas (postural patterns and movements) inspired from different world dance traditions like Indian classical dance, ballet and contemporary dance, and approaches them through a practical and theoretical understanding of yoga.
Dance is a wonderful tool which uses the body language to express the emotions and cultures the right brain. The perfection in movements, synchronization to the rhythm and arithmetic involved in keeping to the rhythm are useful in developing the left brain and the expressions involved in communicating the emotions through the delicacy of movements of limbs, face and eyes require the right brain.
Yoga dance Therapy (YDT) is a teaching method based on the systematic application of yoga principles in the art of dance, combining a movement-oriented sequence of asanas and purification techniques. It is inspired by three world dance traditions – Indian classical dance, ballet and contemporary dance – and is an integrative art form based in the philosophy of Ayurveda.
Emotion culture and meditation which are essential components of yoga for total health, stress reduction and professional excellence can be incorporated into the dance training program. While you concentrate and learn the limb and trunk movements for perfect synchronization, observe your own mind. Check if you are getting stressed up (anxious), tired or lazy.
Yoga dance Therapy also includes the use of different therapies and holistic healing techniques from martial arts manipulations, massages, visualizations and choreography. It aims to create body-mind awareness and an understanding of patterns for therapeutic choreography, restoring balance and health through the concept of meditation in action.
The postural patterns are combined with dance to create body-mind awareness and craft movement patterns for therapeutic choreography. Yogadance Therapy is the ultimate body-mind therapy fitness training programme designed for dancers and athletes, and is open to all. The Yogadance Therapy training is particularly interesting for dancers, actors, dance teachers in any style, athletes, physiotherapists, dance therapists, fitness trainers and spa therapists who wish to gain first-hand knowledge about yoga and dance, and body mind therapies.
This basic workshop includes an introduction to the theory on yoga/dance/body-mind therapy, a class in yoga and dance technique (ballet/contemporary) followed by YDT choreographic yogadance sequences. Each session ends with purification practices (pranayama, kapalabhati and/or meditation) and a final deep restorative relaxation.
Thus yoga practices would not only help you to be a better professional but would make you a healthier human being through harmony between the right and left brain.
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The last time we moved, we took the opportunity to frame and hang some great artwork from colleague Joen Asmussen. After our second move, we felt it was time to further decorate the office by framing our very small collection of signed comic book art.
First up is a promotional poster for The Transformers: Windblade, featuring Windblade herself, and signed by author Mairghread Scott.
And last, but certainly not least (hey, I said it was a very small collection), the entire sixth issue of Star Wars: Crimson Empire, featuring Kir Kanos and Carnor Jax, and signed by author (and founder of Dark Horse Comics) Mike Richardson.
I'm glad to finally have these protected and hung as they should be. I'm not sure if they're worth any money, but they're worth plenty of nostalgia to me just hanging here on my walls.


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This top handle bag with a snap-fastening button flap is one of Longchamp's most iconic bags.
Longchamp drew its inspiration from origami when creating LE PLIAGE, a light, foldaway bag that has since become a cult object worldwide.The LE PLIAGE line comes in a multitude of shapes and sizes, and in a dozen or so colors each season. Ideal for everyday use, LE PLIAGE is light as a feather, folds away to the size of a paperback, and is durable enough to keep all your essentials close at hand.
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$115.00 Color : Bilberry Longchamp
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Closing : Zipped and snap closure
Compartment : 1
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