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Citrix CTO and longtime Xen proponent Simon Crosby said he is unfazed by Red Hat's decision to drop the Xen hypervisor from its enterprise Linux software and focus its virtualization efforts around the KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) hypervisor. Crosby claims the move won't harm Xen's standing in the virtualization market.
"To be perfectly honest it's a relief," said Crosby, who was CTO at XenSource before the virtualization vendor was purchased by Citrix. "Look, KVM is a simple way for a distro to pick up virtualization. It's just a driver in the kernel. So it's natural for a Linux distributor to put it in, it's straightforward."
Xen doesn't need special standing within Linux distributions because it goes well beyond what Crosby calls the simple virtualization capabilities of the KVM hypervisor, which has been included in Linux since 2007. Xen is more technology-agnostic than KVM, Crosby said during an interview this week at the Interop Las Vegas tech conference.
"The key is, we're not fighting an operating system's battle," Crosby said. "We're not trying to say Linux is better than Windows or vice versa. The choice of what operating system you want to use is up to you and your app. I don't have a stake in that battle. My job is to provide a wafer-thin layer that virtualizes compute, storage and networking, and gives you granular control, multi-tenancy and does a fabulous job in performance. Beyond that, I don't care."
Citrix is fighting VMware for customers in the emerging virtualization market with XenServer, based on the Xen open source hypervisor.
KVM is a relative newcomer in the open source portion of the virtualization market, but has had a few notable successes. IBM and The Planet have each built cloud computing services using KVM, with Planet officials arguing that KVM is simpler to use than Xen and will ultimately surpass Xen in popularity.
More recently, Red Hat dropped the Xen hypervisor from Red Hat Enterprise Linux, going solely with KVM. Red Hat's use of KVM had been increasing over the past two years, and the company said it was duplicating efforts by maintaining two hypervisors.
Crosby says Xen was never intended to be part of the Linux kernel, so it's natural for a Linux distributor to switch to a virtualization technology that is embedded in the kernel.
But Crosby doubted customers will leave Xen for KVM en masse, saying that XenServer will be used on 250,000 servers this year alone. Xen's virtualization management tools are superior to KVM's, he argued.
"KVM is just an ability to virtualize the CPU and memory," Crosby said. "It doesn't do networking or storage. It's the rest of the infrastructure that you build around it that turns it into something more useful."
Red Hat's implementation of KVM is still weak compared to virtualization infrastructure platforms from Citrix, VMware and even other vendors such as Oracle, Crosby said.
"I don't have any issues with KVM as a technology," he said. "It's fine. It's maturing, but it's going to take time to get there, like everything else does."


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In February 2012, long after his business was shut down and civil forfeiture proceedings against him had began, Chris Williams was indicted by a grand jury and charged for his involvement in Montana Cannabis, one of the most visible medical marijuana operations in the state. The indictment came a month after Williams took matters into his own hands and filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the federal government's campaign against marijuana. His constitutional challenge was initially dismissed; it is pending now before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Chris Williams was the only defendant among the four co-founders of Montana Cannabis to refuse all plea bargains and take his case to trial. Williams claims to have operated his Helena, MT greenhouse openly and honestly, with oversight from state and local law enforcement, in clear and unambiguous compliance with state law. In total transparency, local law enforcement and state legislators toured the nursery of Montana Cannabis, as did the documentary film crew for Code of the West. The DEA destroyed close to 950 plants in the March 2011 raids, which was less than half the number Williams believed he was entitled to grow under Montana's medical marijuana law. The U.S. Department of Justice seized $38,000 in cash from Montana Cannabis, a 2008 Ford pickup, a 2006 Chevy Trailblazer, and six guns taken from a shooting range behind the greenhouse at the Helena dispensary.
At trial, U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen ruled that possession, cultivation and distribution of marijuana remains a federal crime; Montana laws were not pertinent to the defense and were not permitted to be mentioned before the jury. Williams testified at his four-day trial about farming for Montana Cannabis at their old State Nursery site west of Helena. His partners Thomas Daubert and Chris Lindsey, who took plea bargains earlier in September, testified at the trial both for the defense and prosecution. Williams was tried on four felonies related to marijuana cultivation, distribution, and conspiracy, as well as four related charges for possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking offense. Williams was found guilty on all eight felony charges by a jury in federal court on September 27, 2012, after six hours of deliberation.
By law, sentences for the four firearms charges had to run consecutively, rendering a minimum mandatory sentence of between 85 and 92 years for the eight felony convictions. On December 12, 2012, after tens of thousands of White House petition signatures asking to pardon Chris Williams were registered, federal prosecutors agreed to drop six of eight convictions for Chris Williams in exchange for his agreeing to waive his right to appeal. In addition, the government agreed to ask the court to dismiss the $1,728,000 criminal forfeiture awarded to the government by a jury. As of January 2013, the petition to pardon Chris Williams was closed by the White House with over 29,500 signatures.
Prior to his sentencing, Williams explained his decision to make a post-conviction deal to supporters. Williams revealed that as he navigated the complex federal penal system, it became clear that punishment was the only thing that was guaranteed. "With the rest of my life literally hanging in the balance, I simply could not withstand the pressure any longer," Williams said. "If Judge Christensen shows mercy and limits my sentence to the five year mandatory minimum, I could be present at my 16-year-old son's college graduation. This would most likely be impossible had I rejected the latest compromise."
Entering his February 1, 2013 sentencing, Chris Williams faced a maximum sentence of five years for the distribution of marijuana and a mandatory minimum sentence of five years to a maximum of life for the firearms offense. U.S. District Court Judge Dana Christensen sentenced Williams to time served on the marijuana charge, and the mandatory minimum of five years in prison on the charge of possession of a firearm during a drug-trafficking offense. Williams received concurrent supervised probation of four years and five years on the two charges, respectively, as well as a $100 federal assessment on each of the two charges.
Last updated February 3, 2013 by Lex Libreman for WEED WARS: United States v. Marijuana.
Byron, Eve. "Jury Finds Chris Williams Guilty on All Eight Counts in Medical Marijuana Case." HelenaIR.com. Helena Independent Record, 27 Sept. 2012. Web. 04 Feb. 2013. <http://helenair.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/jury-finds-chris-williams-guilty-on-all-eight-counts-in/article_caca1caa-08f8-11e2-a41e-0019bb2963f4.html>.
Byron, Eve. "Most of Chris Williams' Marijuana Convictions to Be Dropped in Exchange for Him Waiving Right to Appeal." HelenaIR.com. Helena Independent Record, 19 Dec. 2012. Web. 04 Feb. 2013. <http://helenair.com/news/local/some-of-chris-williams-marijuana-convictions-to-be-dropped/article_3534834a-49aa-11e2-8645-001a4bcf887a.html>.
Code of the West. Dir. Rebecca Richman Cohen. Racing Horse Productions, 2012. Film. Code of the West - A Film by Rebecca Richman Cohen. Web. 04 Feb. 2013. <http://www.codeofthewestfilm.com/>.
Mayrer, Jessica. "Theirs for the Taking: Montanans Confront a Dubious Weapon in the War on Drugs." Missoulanews.Bigskypress.com. Missoula Independent, 8 Sept. 2011. Web. 04 Feb. 2013. <http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/theirs-for-the-taking/Content?oid=1498399>.
"Grant a Full Pardon to Chris Williams, a Man Facing 80 Years in Prison for Legally Growing Medical Marijuana." We the People: Your Voice in Our Government. The White House, n.d. Web. 04 Feb. 2013. <https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/grant-full-pardon-chris-williams-man-facing-80-years-prison-legally-growing-medical-marijuana/PgtWfvFg>.
Richman Cohen, Rebecca. "The Fight Over Medical Marijuana." NYTimes.com. The New York Times, 7 Nov. 2012. Web. 3 Feb. 2013. <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/opinion/the-fight-over-medical-marijuana.html?_r=0>.
Sullum, Jacob. "Plead Guilty or Go to Prison for Life: The Medical Marijuana Grower's Stark Choice." Townhall.com. Townhall Magazine, 2 Jan. 2013. Web. 04 Feb. 2013. <http://townhall.com/columnists/jacobsullum/2013/01/02/jacob-sullum-n1476876/page/full/>.
Volz, Matt. "18 Months Later, Grim Times for Ex-Marijuana Providers." Flathead Beacon. Flathead Beacon (Kalispell, MT), 10 Sept. 2012. Web. 04 Feb. 2013. <http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/18_months_later_grim_times_for_ex_marijuana_providers/29605>.
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[Diller] had great respect for the Folk Art Museum, calling it a "bespoke" design tailored to the needs of the museum. She went through several scenarios on how to integrate the museum in the expanded footprint. [...]
Adapting the Folk Art Museum building, however, would basically compromise the building's interior beyond recognition. [...]
The architects would have had to destroy the Folk Art Museum building in order to save it. — Architect Magazing
In what looks like the kiss of death for the #folkMoMA movement, Diller Scofidio + Renfro's design for MoMA's expansion will necessitate the destruction of the neighboring American Folk Art Museum, as proposed today in a MoMA press conference. The initial threat to the Folk Museum was made last spring when MoMA announced its redevelopment plans, provoking a widespread preservationist movement among architects, rallying under #folkMoMA.
To catch-up on #folkMoMA's history, see #8 in Archinect's coverage for the Top 13 Issues of 2013.
Here are some concept sketches for the new MoMA, via Architect Magazine (image credit: Diller Scofidio + Renfro).
This is the worst news on the architecture world in decades. What a debacle. What a shame.
the woman in the yellow dress is tweeting about how much better the rendering of the Folk Art Museum was than the rendering she finds herself in now.
But vado it's got a big rotating garage door! No one has *ever* seen anything like that before!
i like michael kimmelman's tweet:
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If MoMA had treated Folk as architecturally worthy, like objects in its collection, the question of demolition couldn't have arisen.
Excellent tweet. Like I said when this issue first arose, MOMA has shown that they don't take their role as keeper of material culture seriously. If I were an artist with something in their collection I'd be worried for its safety.
Is this really where we're at now: Versailles Hall of Mirrors 2.0 ?
Perhaps whatever Apple does is good enough for all. It's beside the point; the point is the destruction of a landmark. Put the rescued facade in the Garden ? Make it the rear wall of a space facing 53rd St ?
Reusing the tombasil panels in some other location is like displaying the skulls of your slaughtered enemies on pikes. Would MOMA slice a Matisse into strips and hang them outside like banners? Gross.
I designed SHOPPING MALLS that looked better then that. Its really too bad they are getting rid the Folk Art Museum
Jerry Saltz's take on it is good. Sad, but good.
I've spent a lot of time, on Archinect and other places, defending against this notion that ALL architects care about is their own big egos. In this situation it's hard to not consider the possibility that DSR's own ego couldn't stand to have to operate in the same field as TWBTA's (clearly superior) building. At LIncoln Center DSR managed to build something so quiet that it improves the overall function and feel of the place yet in no way detracts from the original architecture. It's masterful. But for some reason at FAM they come in like the rabid gorilla in the china shop and destroy something of amazing beauty.
DSR really has no say in this. They are simply following the orders of the eltite hiding beehind the institutional facade of Moma. Is it really any wonder that these globalitst assholes would destroy a folk art museusm, especially an American fok art msuem?
What a shame. The folk museum could have been one of those long standing icons for hundreds of years to come. In the year 2500 arch historians will regard the new building as a symbol of the throw away culture of late 20th early 21st century. It will always have negative connotations. I still find it hard to believe that the an art institution is the force behind this destruction.
There's something ironic in the offense taken by Billie Tsien and Todd Williams after their involvement with the dislocation of the Barnes collection.... something about the shoe being on the other foot.
As for the Folk Art Museum - it was cramped and cloying, overly sentimental and specialized. Yes, the new addition is boring but its by DS+R so there will be some LED lights or video screens or transgressive performance space or single surfaces or bad formalism or some other techy knick knacks tacked on - don't worry, it will all be ok and nothing more.
I officially think New York sucks now, neo-liberal vortex that produces mediocre architecture and terribly overrated, first that crappy freedom tower and this MOMA crap. Happy I never moved there. If DSR had any integrity they would just simply not do that project.
London, Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona, Sao-Paulo, even Miami are far more interesting cities.
The more I look at that project the more depressed I get. I promise I do not want to go to New York and if I do I will not go to the MOMA. Rather spend my money elsewhere.
I'm glad I moved out of NY when I did. It lost its soul around the late 90s. I miss the old drug infested shit hole ny of my youth. You can't even tell someone to go fuck themselves anymore without offending the yuppy hipster assholes. That used to be a common phrase like "thank you".
A few questions:
1) How much did DS+R get paid extra for deflecting attention? And where are those renderings of their "attempts" at saving the Folk Art Museum?
2) Has computer rendering sucked all life out of architecture?
3) Is MoMA trying to be the Apple Store? (Actually, the Apple Store is Beaux Arts compared with this)?
4) Whatever happened to buildings? Now its all talk about "openness" and "transparency". What happens when everything is open and you have nothing else to look at? Are we actually just feeding off of the classic architecture from the heyday (1890-1940?).
5) Whatever happened to the robust, material modernism of Williams and Tsien, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Aalto, etc. etc.
6) I'm surprised that DS+R wasn't able to pulls something off, like they did at Lincoln Center. This may add $ to their bank but will tarnish their reputation among architects.
7) So much for the power of social media #folkart.
The grime was NY. It was its character. The folk art building had some of that brutalness that was fitting. The dsr project is sterile.
Generally speaking, Ny is a sad sterile shell of what it once was. Its a plastic surgery victim that removed her charming idiosyncratic features to achieve some phony image of perfection and ended up losing her unique beauty and looking like all the other plastic people.
All good questions, Darkman. All of DSR's previous work is tarnished by this.
Whatever happened to the robust, material modernism of Williams and Tsien, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Aalto, etc. etc.- They're in the permanent collection with models and drawings and curatorial blurbs on the importance of their art. Well, except Tod and Billie.
9) Why are there so many asians in the renderings?
MoMA has become "middlebrow, megachurch, infotainment" just like TED.
So long gone are the revolutionary beginnings of Philip Johnson.
These anti-MoMA/anti-NYC/anti-DSR comments too far over the top to be taken seriously.
The MoMA should reuse or relocate the FM building, but the ridiculous hyperbole being thrown around is really not helping to make a case for it.
You cannot possibly critique the destruction of this building without critiquing the context that allows it. Hyperbole my ass. NY is a gentrified sterile place compared to the old NY I loved.
This all further proves my position true that architecture should be treated as an art. So long as we treat it as a professional service we will be used as cogs that create structures to serve the agenda of the elite. Our voices will be nullified. The essence of these places will be viewed as an inconvenient after affect. Architecture is not purely utilitarian.
handsumcash is right. DSR was merely a cog. They were hired to give credibility to a decision that was made by a Board. It happens all the time. I don't agree with the decision, but to blame DSR is misguided.
It is fascinating to hear Liz Diller become the voice of the MoMA. DSR is not a cog, they are a well-payed henchmen/women.
This isn't hyperbole. The reason the building is significant is architectural--its specific context/experience in the middle of midtown. What made the building's context was that little approach/park behind the CBS building, and its location next to the MoMA, the contrast between the two. It's a symbol of how hallow brand names without any texture are expanding, whether its MoMA, or Home Depot. The Folk Art Museum represents a more textural modernism than the flat sensory deprivation chambers of MoMA.
This is especially interesting given the other controversy last year was women in architecture. Now a woman is playing a decisively negative role here.
The anit-nyc might be a bit of hyperbole but, make no mistake, the anti-moma & anti diller-scodifo sentiments are real.
Believe it or not, theer was a time when moma felt daring and even anti-establishment. yeah, yeah, it's always been rich people financing but it used to feel more like a passion project. philip johnson (he of the ultimate insider yet outsider status) really personified this. And even as recent as just before the big renovation in 2002? there were still hints of its modest origins. But post-renovation there should be no mistake. Moma is an instituion with a capitol I. Just another mass tourist destination. Granted it plays applebees to Disney's mcodonalds, but it is still the same corporate bullshit.
Cog or henchmen, same difference. Diller scofidyo are sellouts at this point.
ps. for the record, I've only set foot in the Moma once since the renovation 10 years ago (despite being a somewhat regular visitor before that). I won't be back.
DSR is too sophisticated a firm to be a cog. If they came to the confusion that MOMA's program couldn't be accomplished while saving the FAM they could have walked away from the project. They chose not to.
I suspect that DSR and Glenn Lowry disagree with people like Donna Sink about the merit of what TWBTA created with the Folk Art Museum. In that context, they are neither cogs nor sell-outs. They're only asserting their view of what is the appropriate move forward.
Its so interesting that TWBTA was in a similar position with the Barnes Foundation project.
Nice reminder why I started doing painting, no beauty left there. No wish for innovation either, this is Lego thinking at it's vorse. No wonder the visions are lost but on the other hand, this is what you liked better.
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which part of the barnes did twbta help tear down?
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The Barnes isn't the FAM. The Barnes is destroyed already, the FAM isn't.
In other words, davvid, try to keep the focus on the battle at hand. Do YOU think the FAM is disposable building of no merit? Do you think any building is worth saving ever?
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Christopher Hawthorne nails it on every level. I wanted to quote from the article but every single sentence was quote-worthy.
I hate to butt into what seems like a family squabble, but I have to agree with davvid. Many architects have been in this position where they get what would be a great commission where it not for the loss of a beloved landmark. I wonder what architects thought when they tore down Penn Station, a truly loved public building. Or when Robert Moses ripped the heart out of the Bronx with the cross Bronx expressway destroying whole communities in the process. I suspect not much.
Here they are tearing down a jewel box that most of the public wouldn't notice if they'd run into its hammered copper facade. As Donna said in the other post,
"But now it hurts even more because it feels like betrayal by one of our own"
Who is "one of our own" and what's the entry fee to get into the club? (rhetorical) All the hate on DSR seems like bullshit since they are doing a job that any architect would love to have. It's the museum that made the decision to demo the Folk Museum, not DSR. That being said, I do feel sorry for those who will miss this building. As a lover of traditional buildings, looking over the urban renewal decades is like looking at a tragedy that wouldn't end. Even if this is a building that only the establishment could love, it's love none the less and knowing what this heartbreak feels like, I'm sorry to see it. For better or for worse, NYC has always been a money first city, so what money giveith, money can takeith away. My condolences.
But Thayer, MOMA brought in DSR after the initial backlash as a way to specifically reconsider whether the FAM could be saved. DSR decided it could not: it was their decision, or their lack of design ability, that led to the now-current plan to demolish it.
As Alexandra Lange (who's been awesome on this topic) says here, TWBTA could have said no to the Barnes commission too - but they took the commission after the decision had been made to move the collection. A new building was going to be built no matter what architect was selected.
I'm an architect. So is TWBTA. So is DSR. So this feels like a betrayal by one of our own, yes.
Donna, I think its more complicated than you are making it seem. The FAM building is an incredibly flawed building with some lovely features that are worth saving or relocating. The facade related nicely to folk art although it severely limited the possibility of reuse. The location was a terrible idea. Obviously there are many buildings worth saving but its up to the architects and the clients to plan well for the future - at least for 15 years into the future.
And sorry, but it's also one more example, ever more common, of something small, personal, hand-crafted, and idiosyncratic being mowed over and destroyed by something huge, soulless, greedy, and bland. Like what happened to Doug Johnson and every other small designer ripped off by Anthropologie and their ilk. Like what happened to Times Square.
Oh god 15 years big fucking whoop. If I'm designing for a 15-year life span then I'm a shitty fucking architect (unless I'm doing buildings out of paper or something intended to gracefully decompose). In most cases buildings should be something we'd be proud for our grandkids to see.
MOMA is looking to the next two fiscal quarters gate receipts, that's it. FAM is only flawed as a place to look at art by a population whose deepest understanding of art is that is it should be something colorful on a big white wall, preferably matching the couch.
It sounds like you're looking for an outlet for your (justifiable) anger, but picking on this firm seems like a scapegoat. Are you sure that the decision wasn't pre-ordained? In other words, the program Moma gave them to assess might have been a size 12 foot for a size 9 shoe. I'm not going to hate on the MOMA either because they are as corporate as any other except for their smartly tailored suit and fine manners.
You could be right about DSR though, I have no idea. Maybe inter-firm jealousy, competitiveness, or simple self interest, nothing we haven't seen before. Moma wants the money form a condo tower but get push back from "their own" (modernist elites), so they get DSR for a fig leaf. New York's world famous skyline has been propelled by money since the Dutch landed, but at this point more glass boxes are in fact sterilizing its unique character as well as many other cities around the world. That's not an issue with our capitalist culture but ironically with the architectural culture that Moma did more to promote than almost any other institution. Out with the old and in with the new, and fuck culture. I hope you guys win.
Two twitter conversations on the topic that Donna and Thayer are debating that may be helpful:
with Hawthorne himself: https://twitter.com/abernheimer/status/421457149886070784
and among some old school 'necters: https://twitter.com/sevensixfive/status/421134395341549568
"If I'm designing for a 15-year life span then I'm a shitty fucking architect"
Donna, did FAM (client + architect) plan for 15 years into the future?
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Grubhub spotlights gender inequality at restaurants
CHICAGO (CBS) — The popular delivery service Grubhub wants to tackle the issue of gender inequality.
Their plan is to give users the option of ordering from women-led restaurants across the United States. The company's hope is the "RestaurantHER" initiative will raise awareness about the significant long-term gender gap in the industry.
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While the billboards in this postcard of 1930s Žilina give the impression of a bustling city, we can tell the people in the street are actually villagers by the clothes they are wearing.
Why is the city full of villagers? The explanation is simple: the photo was taken before cities were surrounded by urban sprawl. Back then the countryside began where the city ended, and one could reach a city's border in a 20-minute walk from the centre.
The villagers in the postcard probably came into town to buy or sell products at the market. The woman in the middle of the street with a headscarf and a basket looks like she is going to market. On the right one can see a horse-drawn wagon hauling wood slats. An inconspicuous petrol station on the left shows that cars were appearing in the city, too.
Many Slovak cities and towns boast that they were built at crossroads of trade routes, and this is certainly true of Žilina. The city was built on the confluence of the Váh, Kysuca and Rajčianka rivers, which have been used for transport for centuries.
One trade route connected Žilina with the Turiec region and the eastern part of the Hungarian Kingdom. Another route headed through the Váh valley to Bratislava. A third led north to Silesia along the Kysuca River and connected to Žilina via a bridge across the Váh. The bridge, which used to be wooden, was frequently destroyed by the river and had to be replaced numerous times. Financing its reconstruction became a bone of contention between the city and the Szunyog family who owned the land on the opposite bank. The bridge occupied six different sites over the years, and the route had to be altered accordingly.
It is interesting to note that these ancient routes can still be seen today in Žilina's street plan.
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These Hip-Hop Tracks Sung As Broadway Songs Are SO Catchy!
9 June 2015, 10:50 | Updated: 4 December 2017, 11:10
Never did we think the likes of '99 Problems' and 'Anaconda' needed reworking to become West-End smashes but now that it's happened, we cannot get ENOUGH!
It's the video that's going viral in a big way and it's all thanks to YouTuber's Mitch Grassi and Scott Hoying aka, 'Superfruit' who have turned the likes of Rihanna's 'B*ch Better Have My Money' and Drake's 'Just Hold On We're Going Home' into down and out, sing-along CLASSICS.
No matter what your music taste is, it's quite hard to shy away from how catchy and happy Broadway can make you feel, isn't it? We mean come on; IT'S BROADWAY BABY!
The video is basically three minutes and forty-eight seconds of none-stop lols and we kind of lost it when the music dropped for 'I'm In Love With The Coco.' We'd be quite keen to hear the album actually - it'd make for a great Mother's Day present.


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For KCRW, I'm Nick Madigan of The Baltimore Sun with Minding the Media.
To many people, it doesn't much matter who owns the newspaper they're reading or the TV network they're watching.
So yesterday's announcement that the parent company of the Los Angeles Times and KTLA-TV was being sold to a real-estate tycoon with no grounding in journalism was probably irrelevant to anyone who's not in the business.
But the deal is another sign that, these days, what matters is profit, and profit only, regardless of the noble intentions of dedicated reporters and editors. Ultimately, that makes a difference to what you're reading and watching. It's already obvious on TV, where cheaply made reality and game shows and contests form the bulk of prime-time fare.
In newspapers, fewer reporters, smaller pages and shrinking budgets mean that you, dear reader, have less to read. If you care.
In today's L.A. Times, James Rainey and Tom Mulligan wrote that Sam Zell's plan to buy the Tribune Company would "put one of the nation's largest public media companies into the hands of a maverick investor with little experience in the business but a belief that there's still money to be made in newspapers and television."
The $8.2-billion deal would give Zell virtual control not only of the L.A. Times and the Chicago Tribune but of cable's Superstation WGN, the Baltimore Sun, the Orlando Sentinel, a handful of other newspapers and more than 20 other TV stations.
"In Los Angeles, many civic activists expressed disappointment that a local buyer had not prevailed to take control of The Times and KTLA," Rainey and Mulligan wrote.
The L.A. Times's "marriage with Tribune has been a troubled one," they went on.
"Over a recent two-year period, the paper lost two publishers and two editors, largely because of their complaints that the parent company was cutting the editorial staff excessively. At its peak, the paper employed about 1,200 journalists. Its staff has dropped to about 940... About 50 more newsroom employees are expected to lose their jobs in upcoming reductions."
So the Times will continue to be run from Chicago, although two L.A. investors, Ron Burkle and Eli Broad, did make a last-ditch effort to buy the company for themselves.
And David Geffen yesterday reaffirmed his interest in acquiring the L.A. Times, according to Sharon Waxman and Laura Holson in today's New York Times.
Ever since Tribune bought the Times Mirror Company in 2000, and, with it, the L.A. Times, "there has been a culture clash between the Chicago-based owners at Tribune and its marquee California newspaper."
Holson and Waxman wrote that the tension "has been particularly pronounced throughout the deal-making process," which pitted Zell, who lives in Chicago, against the West coast's Burkle and Broad.
L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez was disappointed that the "local boys" had been beaten. He wrote that Zell had "at least one thing in common" with Broad and Geffen: "They all have beach houses in Malibu."
In today's Chicago Tribune, Michael Oneal wrote that the deal "will place a motorcycle riding, epithet- slinging multibillionaire" atop one of the "most conservative, buttoned-down companies in America."
In normal times, Zell's takeover of a media company would be odd, Oneal wrote.
"But these aren't normal times. The Tribune saga provides the most dramatic evidence yet that the newspaper industry is caught in a set of crosscurrents that are likely to change the way news and information are delivered."
Jeff Jarvis, who teaches interactive journalism at City University of New York and was an editor at The Chicago Tribune, said newspapers "will have to go through titanic and wrenching change to make it to the other side."
"It's sad but telling that the only bidders for Tribune are moguls with missions," Jarvis said. "The fact that newspaper and media companies don't want to buy these properties is all too telling: They know better."
This is Nick Madigan of The Baltimore Sun, Minding the Media on KCRW.


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Kanban or a kanban system is a type of a signaling system used in a pull production processand/or EOQ system to manage wip and/or inventory between processes or tasks, the signaling system can be cards, containers or squares to identify where materials are stored. Where the containers or squares are empty, the cards or the container itself can be used as the indication for the operators to produce more products.
The number of kanban cards can be determined by using this formula :
Demand*Lead time*(1+Safety Stock)
No of kanban cards= -------------------------------------------------
The number of units produced
To understand it further, consider the example below:
Gorge Pty Ltd, a company that makes different types of steel dies, is going to change its manufacturing system to a kanban pull system. One of the parts required to produce a product 001 is part A and part As are made in batches of 20 units. The manufacturing cell which makes part A can respond to an order for a batch of part A in 2 hours. The assembly cell which assembles product 001 has an assembly rate of 10 per hour. The production manager has decided to have 10% buffer in case there is a change in the number of demand for part A. Now it is necessary to determine the number of kanban card needed.
The demand for part A is 10 units / hour
The number of unit produced is 20 units
The lead time to replenish part A is 2 hours
The buffer /safety stock is 10% of the expected demand
No of kanban card=------------------ = 3
Thus, we need three kanban card sets.
Note: in all cases, if the number of kanban card is not a whole number, that number has to be always rounded up as we need to work with full containers of parts.
There are a number of Kanban systems commonly used in manufacturing and production plants, some of these are:
-Kanban Squares
-Kanban Markers
-Kanban Containers
-Electronic Kanban signals
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Baker gives you detailed instructions on the fundamental and advanced techniques of French wire beaded flowers. Only after this very complete tutorial does she present a gallery section and then projects. If you want to learn this wonderful art form, this is the book to get you started, and leave you hooked!
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Kelly again gives you all the basics, in beautiful drawings, and then patterns for 38 blossoms, leaves, insects, and Christmas decorations. The beautiful photographs will really inspire you to try them all!
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It's a bit of a blur, but I finally got my shot of the hummingbird hawk moth.
It was quite a cool morning and we only had weak sun so I was a bit surprised when Julia shouted from the front garden to tell me it was in the garden.
Luckily, as we were packing the car at the time, I had my camera to hand. It would have been better if we'd had the Canon to hand but you can't have everything.
Does anyone know if they fly in cooler weather? I've seen four this year – two of the other three sightings were in the evening as things were cooling down. The fourth was in the polytunnel, where it kept flying at my head – I'm thinking this probably isn't typical behaviour.
The length of the tongue is amazing, and makes you marvel at the accuracy as they flit around feeding from small flowers.


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I had a universal meltdown. I mean literally, a Universal meltdown.
Two weeks ago we spent spring break in Florida, with our first three days of the trip dedicated to visiting the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios in Orlando. I'll tell you straight-up, theme parks are not in my wheelhouse. The crowds, the lines, the $29 hamburgers, the fact that despite my vat of hand sanitizer, chances are still good that I will succumb to the 21st-century version of Black Death as a result of the barrage of germs. And to say nothing of the expense! As I mentioned to my husband when we clicked "Purchase" for the three-day park pass: "We could sponsor two and a half more Compassion kids for a year for this!" Not to put a big fat damper on the fun or anything.
That said, I was pretty psyched about the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. My boys LOVE Harry Potter. We've read all the books, and watched all the movies ad nauseum, and plus, I'd heard really good things about the theme park (red flag: sky-high expectations).
Which is why, on our first morning there, when Rowan announced, "I don't think I'm going to ride any of the rides. I think I just want to walk around," things began to fall apart. Not at first, mind you. Initially I tried, really I did, to be The Rational and Empathetic Parent. We talked about his fears. I suggested we scale back to the tamer amusement ride options and ease into the more dramatic experiences later. We rationalized and hypothesized and psychologized and psychoanalyzed. But no, Rowan would have none of it. In fact, he was quite specific about which rides he would not partake in: "the ones with the conveyor belts."
In other words, pretty much every single amusement park ride ever known to mankind.
We had basically remortgaged our house and our favorite neighbor's house in order to purchase tickets to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios, and my youngest child decided he preferred to "walk around" and "look at stuff," and "maybe have some popcorn."
People, can I just say, this is like visiting the Swiss Alps in order to drink hot chocolate in the chalet.
This is like flying from the United Emirates to the Mall of America to "window shop."
This is like holding front-row Adele concert tickets in your hand and then deciding, "Eh, I'll just watch one of her music videos on YouTube instead."
Catch my drift?
Commence Universal Meltdown.
I'm making this sound funny, but believe me, it was not funny. Not Funny, in capital letters and boldface type. As Brad later described it, "We ride-shamed our kid." There was whisper-yelling (mine). Threatening (mine). Bribing (mine). Guilting (mine). Sighing (mine). Eye-rolling (mine). Bitter retorts (mine). Shaming (mine). Pouting (mine). The Ice-Cold Shut-Down (mine). And crying (mine and Rowan's).
In fact, at one point, as I sat on a stone wall next to Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls water ride and cried behind my sunglasses, I actually thought to myself, "There are 15,638 mothers in this park right now, and I am the only one who is crying."
Ultimately we salvaged the vacation. Life dramatically improved when we left Orlando and headed for the beach. And we did actually have a few good moments at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter (I captured all two of them and posted them to Instagram and Facebook, because, you know, even if we're not having the time of our lives, it's important that we at least look like we're having the time of our lives, right?).
I apologized to Rowan. We made up. And as is always the case with Rowan, he was quick to forgive me and move on.
But here's the clincher: I couldn't forgive myself. I couldn't move on.
A week after we'd returned from Florida, I was still inwardly berrating myself for my atrocious behavior. I prayed the exact same confession five nights in a row. "Please forgive me, Lord, for shaming my child and for being a terrible mother." By the third night, I'm sure God was thinking, "Have we not sufficiently covered this yet?"
The thing is, God may have forgiven me the first time I confessed, but I didn't believe it. I simply couldn't believe my terrible-parent behavior was forgivable. I refused to trust the fact of grace.
I suspect I'm not the only one neck-deep in this struggle. I suspect I'm not the only one who has sinned and repented and yet still struggles to accept the real truth of God's grace. In moments like these, grace simply seems too good to be true. In moments like these, grace seems possible for everyone else but ourselves.
Friends, let me remind you of what I've had to remind myself this past week (and Holy Week is a very good time for this reminder): Jesus Christ died for this very reason.
Think about that for a moment. A real person, a human being who is at the same time God, died a painful, humiliating, lonely death on a cross 2,000 years ago for this very reason: so that we would not have to continue to carry around our failures and our faults forever.
Jesus Christ died so that we could be free from the very weight I have insisted on clutching and carrying ever since we returned from Florida. He died so that we could be free.
Refusing to accept God's grace, a grace that comes to us at the highest cost, defeats the whole point of Jesus' ultimate sacrifice. Holding on to our guilt and our shame and our inability to forgive ourselves not only hurts ourselves, it also hurts God. Because Jesus died for this moment – this moment right here, the ugliest moment that feels impossibly broken, the moment that feels definitively unfixable.
When we insist on holding as tightly as we can to our guilt and shame, when we refuse to relinquish our sin and accept God's grace, we deny the ultimate sacrifice God made for us. We deny his life. We deny his sacrifice. We deny his resurrection. We deny him.
I'm not going to lie. A big part of our spring break stunk like giant smelly deviled eggs, and it was almost entirely due to my own bad behavior. It hasn't been easy to let that go, to forgive myself and hand every last bit of my guilt, shame and regret over to God. But that's exactly what I am doing. I am handing it all over to him. I am allowing God to take it. And I am stepping fully and completely into his grace.


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We're only four days away from St. Patrick's Day, so break out the bottles of Guinness and put on your green coloured clothes.
Of course you're going to need some delicious food to help you celebrate. Here are five recipes to choose from.
Cottage Pie: Often, and incorrectly, called Shepherd's pie by many, this meat pie is a classic Irish, Scottish, and English dish. It is super easy to prepare and tastes even more delicious the next day. You can prepare it day before and it also freezes well. I like baking it in a baking dish, but for a fun twist I love using individual (or one serving) sized dishes.
Spiced Up Cottage Pie: This versions of cottage pie has gotten a spicy and Mexican makeover. If you like a little bit of heat in your food you'll really enjoy this Irish-Mexican fusion.
Bangers and Mash With Onion Gravy: A delicious traditional British dish of sausage (bangers) and mashed potatoes (mash). It is iconic of British working-class dishes and it is ubiquitous to British and Irish pubs around the world.
New England Boil Dinner or Boiled Smoked Pork Shoulder Dinner: This is not only a family favourite on St. Patrick's Day but also an Irish-American meal enjoyed on this holiday.
Corn Beef Hash: If you are brave enough, or have simply forgotten to plan for St. Patrick's Day and have no other options, then give this recipe a try. Or don't. You'll have to read the post to see why I'm not trying to sell you on this recipe.
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Benefits of Specifying NABA
As an Architect, specification writer, consultant or building owner, you want assurance that the job will be done right. In the case of the air barrier system, you are, in most cases, dealing with a non-maintainable building component.
As time progresses, architects, engineers, specification writers and consultants are becoming more and more liable for the buildings they design. In the case of the air barrier system, it is estimated the cost of retrofit and repair of an improper system is 50 - 60 times that of doing it right the first time.
The entire Quality Assurance Program is administered, in all aspects, by third party organizations that specialize in QAP administration for the construction industry. This ensures all contractors and installers must meet the same high standards.
Some of the benefits of including NABA in your contractor specifications are:
- Reduction of liability by making the contractor and installer more accountable. Without NABA, the architect takes on the responsibility for proper installation
- Un-certified installers may mean that they have no prior experience in installing air barriers
- NABA installers are mandated to check all aspects of the installation from substrate conditions to post installation deficiencies so the mind set of the installers is different. Various test methods are used by the installer to confirm his workmanship.
- NABA installers keep mandatory daily work sheets and provide a paper trail of the entire Air / Vapour Barrier Installation. These are kept on file at the NABA office, and the design professional may request copies
- Using the NABA installation specification means that the architect has a confidence level that the installation will be done correctly
- NABA installations will be subject to random field installer audits.
- NABA will provide advice and recommendations for various installation details
- NABA will provide leadership in new and better installation practices and design.
- Architects have limited resources to check past performance or credentials of installers
- Architects have no authority over the installers, they can only recommend non-payment to the contractor if the installation is deficient. NABA has authority over both the installer and the contractor
- Contractors and installers have signed legal agreements with NABA to do the job properly.
- NABA fosters the sharing of expertise amongst the members so that all learn from the experiences of others.
- Architects are limited with time and resources to follow up on the quality of the installation
- NABA acts as a mediator between the contractor and the owner or architect in cases were installation problems arise.


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Bacon Pemmican – The Ultimate Paleo Travel Food
Pemmican has never tasted this good!
Bacon really does make anything better and this Bacon Pemmican recipe will change the way you travel.
Pemmican is the original travel food of our ancestors. Developed by the Native Americans, it quickly spread to the European fur trappers and ended up being one of the main food sources for Arctic and Antarctic explorers.
Traditionally, pemmican was made with a 1:1 protein to fat ratio. In those days, it was created with large game meats like elk, buffalo and deer that were dried, ground down, and mixed with the animal fat. At times wild berries were mixed in, as well.
This was a time without domesticated animals, so the groups of people who had access to larger game would make pemmican and use it to trade for things their land didn't have. Nowadays, most pemmican is made from beef; the best being US Wellness Meats' Pemmican. It has a unique meaty taste. The kind that takes a little time to grow on you. Always looking to improve ideas… I started experimenting with pemmican.
Bacon Pemmican – The Luxury Travel Food
I'm never fully satisfied with my SCD travel foods. Each year Jordan and I are traveling more, so travel foods are becoming a bigger part of my lifestyle. I'm picky. I want food that makes me feel good and tastes good, too. And while I've cooked pounds of bacon and carried them on a plane, I'm always looking to class it up a little.
In case you didn't know you can take frozen food through TSA checkpoints, which makes this recipe even more appealing as it is frozen and no TSA agent has batted an eyelash about it so far. Not only that, but I cut it into bars, wrapped it in tinfoil and then stuffed it into a plastic bag. It stayed in my backpack cold and frozen for over 14hrs! No cooler needed.
As you can see from the calorie breakdown below, it packs a big punch for being very small. (It's almost enough calories to sustain a person for 2 days.) Add in some other easy travel foods and you'll be good to go. Did I mention it's SCD legal and what I might call a traditional Paleo food?
How to Make Bacon Pemmican
It's actually really easy to make this and the variations to try are endless. I did try 1/2 raisins and 1/2 cranberries once and did not like it as much as the variation below. I hope as you experiment you'll return and post the tweaks you've made in the comments.
Equipment needed:
- Large Skillet Pan
- Blender
- Square, Glass Baking Dish
Ingredients needed:
- 12-16 Ounces of Bacon
- 1/2 Cup of Coconut Oil (melted)
- 1 Cup of Dried Cranberries
Begin by cooking the bacon in a skillet; the key is cooking it long and slow. You really don't want to crisp it up too much, it should be soft and flimsy still but the fat should be mostly cooked down. At this point turn the heat off and let it cool.
After it cools down (but before the fat begins to solidify), add everything to the blender. Get as much of that tasty bacon fat as possible into the blender. Then begin blending it down. Chop it as finely as you can. At this point add 1 cup of cranberries and make sure they get chopped into very fine pieces, as well. The last step is to add the coconut oil and blend till it's good and mixed up.
Next, get the glass dish out and pour the mixture into it. Try to make it an even depth in the dish, then cover and freeze. It will take an hour or so to solidify. At this point you can cut it into bars or whatever size pieces your heart desires.
How Much Rocket Fuel is in this Recipe?
I wondered that, too. My best guesstimate is below:
- 16 Ounces of Bacon (cooked) = 2450 Calories – 68% Fat, 31% Protein, 1% Carbohydrate
- 1/2 Cup of Coconut Oil = 940 Calories – 100% Fat
- 1 Cup of Dried Cranberries = 339 Calories – 4% Fat, 0% Protein, 96% Carbohydrate
Totals = 3729 Calories = 70% Fat (2620 cal), 20% Protein (759 cal), 10% Carbohydrate (350 cal)
The biggest unknown is the bacon numbers. I can't seem to tell whether or not the 16 oz. of cooked bacon is including the rendered bacon fat or not… I'm guessing not, so these numbers could be even higher. Maybe someone in the comments can figure this out and help us all.
I've shared this with a few non-SCD, non-Paleo types and they loved it. And I think you will too (it has bacon in it – duh).
P.S. – I will caution against getting freaky and eating like half of it at once. It's very high in fat (a good thing), but it can be tough on the digestive system for those who aren't used to munching a 100 grams of fat at once.
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Benjamin Franklin
"Lost time is never found again."
Psalms 89:47
"Remember how short my time is…"
Author Unknown
"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday"
William Shakespeare
"Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends."
Susan Taylor
"We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here."
William Shakespeare
"Time is the justice that examines all offenders."
Martin Luther King
"The time is always right to do what is right."
Alice Bloch
"We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves."
Benjamin Franklin
You may delay, but time will not."
Author Unknown
"Better late than never, but never late is better"
Leonardo da Vinci
"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it."
Bertrand Russell
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
Margaret Bonnano
"Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time"
Richard Bach
"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself."
John F. Kennedy
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
James Taylor
"The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time."
Anthony Rapp
"There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself."
Mason Cooley
"Regret for wasted time is more wasted time."
Scottish Proverb
"What may be done at any time will be done at no time."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."
Baltasar Gracian
"Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else."
"This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past."
Author Unknown
"For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned."
Zig Ziglar
"Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever."
William Penn
"Time is what we want most, but what alas! we use worst."
"The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect time."
Author Unknown
"Don't count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count."
John Archibald Wheeler
"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once."
Henry David Thoreau
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
Dion Boucicault
"Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them."
Ambrose Bierce
"Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent."
Louis Hector Berlioz
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
John Wooden
"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"
Dario Fo
"Know how to live the time that is given you."
Roger Babson
"Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."
Benjamin Franklin
"Lost time is never found again."
Abraham Lincoln
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
Willaim Penn
"Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst."
Elbert Hubbard
"If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time."
Thomas J. Watson
"Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use."
Adam Hochschild
"Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short."
Baltasar Gracian
"All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that."
Bonnie Friedman
"An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth."
John F. Kennedy
"We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch."
Malcolm Forbes
"There is never enough time, unless you're serving it."
Maria Edgeworth
"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."
Josh Billings
"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."
John Randolph
"Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong."
Leonard Bernstein
"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time."
Andy Warhol
"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself"
Charles F. Kettering
"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."
Peter F. Drucker
"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."
Jim Rohn
"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."
Author Unknown
"You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future"
Benjamin Franklin
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
Roger Wilcox
"Each of us is given a pocketful of time to spend however we may. We use what we will. We waste what we will. But we can never get back a day."
Randal Wright
"We live in very busy times. All of us have much to do. However, we should ask ourselves often what is it that we are so busy doing?"
Spencer W. Kimball
"Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves."
Thomas Edison
"Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose."
"Lost wealth may be regained by industry and economy, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance and medicine, but lost time is gone forever."
"Today is a day which we shall never have again. It rose from the great ocean of eternity, and again sinks into its unfathomable depths."
Romans 13:11
"And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed."
Doug Larson
"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
J.K. Rowling
"It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up."
Napoleon I
"There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."
C.S. Lewis
"The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
Mignon McLaughlin
"There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi."
Alan Lakein
"Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life."
M. Scott Peck
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."
Michael LeBoeuf
"Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life."
Mark Twain
"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."
Kay Lyons
"Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you."
Author Unknown
"Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely"
A. A. Milne
"Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly."
Maya Angelou
"Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence--neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish--it is an imponderably valuable gift."
Thomas Sowell
"People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do"
Leigh Richmond
"There is a time to be born, and a time to die, says Solomon, and it is the memento of a truly wise man; but there is an interval between these two times of infinite importance."
Lord Chesterfield
"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination;--never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
Carl Sandburg
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
Benjamin Franklin
"Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you will be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrow's; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
"Guard your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their
value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
Richard L. Evans
"Time is the essence of all our opportunities. It is the dimension in which we live. We can't speed it up, and ~e can't sly it down. We can't save it and we can't hoard it. It is in a sense, like manna from heaven."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
Earl Nightingale
"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."
Martin Amis
"Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving."
Benjamin Franklin
"If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Let us then be up and doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity."
Arthur Brisbane
"Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. While the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful."
Denis Waitely
"Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow."
Steve Jobs
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
"Robert Hardy had a dream, and in that dream he thought he was to live only seven days. If you had only seven days to live, how would you live them? How did Robert Hardy begin? He began to study. He began to get ready. Did all in his power each day. He came to the seventh day; and he came near the end of the day. But all at once it was made known to him that he wasn't to die. He looked around and was glad, but he said, "Some seven days will be my last seven," and he lived every day as though they were his last. You will be in your last seven days soon, and may be even there now."


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ASSI Delhi conducts and participates in issue based seminar and consultation for the Urban youth. Our intent with such forum is to sensitize the stakeholders for collaborative participation for the greater good that aid and develop our social and economic growth.
ASSI has Women Empowerment Programs at Mayapuri for 10 years now which is Skill based learning such as Sewing, Beautician, soft skill educational and entrepreneurial short-term courses which cover uneducated/less educated section of society.


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Top 5 Best Local Airlines In Nigeria
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In Nigeria a lot of people still prefare to fly instead of using the road.
This is mainly because of the poor state of some of the roads in Nigeria.
This article contains the top 5 best local airlines in Nigeria.
If you are planning to visit Nigeria,here are the list of the top 5 best airlines you should consider flying with. This compilation was made based on customer satisfaction ratings.
Top 5 Best Local Airlines In Nigeria
1. Air Peace
Air Peace is no doubt the best Airline in Nigeria this year. Air peace as founded in 2013 and currently delivers to major Nigerian cities such as Abuja, Akure, Calabar, Enugu etc.
The Airline also visit other African cities like Accra, Freetown, Banjul Dakar and Monrovia. The airline is headquartered in Lagos Nigeria.
Air Peace offers offers Economy Class, Premium Economy and Business Class.
2. Arik Air
Arik Air is rated as the 2nd best local airline in Nigeria. Arik Air is headquartered in Ikeja lagos and operates from two hubs,one at Murtala Muhammad International Airport in Lagos and the other at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.
--Arik took over the former Nigeria Airways facilities back in 2006.
Arik Air currently operates services to African cities such as Luanda,Douala,Libreville,Banjul,Accra,Abidjan,Monrovia,Nigerian cities include Abuja,Asaba,Benin City,Calabar,Enugu,Gombe,Ibadan,Ilorin,Jos etc.
3. Med View Air
Med-View Airline was founded in 2007,the airline is ranked among the best local airline in Nigeria.
Med view is headquartered in Ikeja, Lagos.
Currently the airline operates in Nigerian cities such as Abuja, Port Harcourt, Yola, Enugu and Maiduguri. International destinations include Accra Ghana and London-Gatwick Airport in the United Kingdom.
Recommended: How To Book Cheap Local & International Flights From Nigeria
4. Azman Air
Azman Air is an airline that operates mainly in the Northern part of Nigeria.
The airline currently operates services to Kano,Abuja, Lagos, Kaduna,Yola,Kebbi and Port Harcourt.
--Azman Air is headquartered in Kano state.
5. Aero Contractors
Aero Contractors is one of the best Airline in Nigeria. However in recent times the airline halt it's operations due to the economic crisis in the country.
Aero contractors is one of the oldest airline in Nigeria,it was was established in 1959. The airline is headquartered in Ikeja Lagos.
Aero currently operates scheduled services,air charter and third-party aircraft operations.


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You may be familiar with our annual Teddy Bear Drive during the holiday season when our shop window displays are overrun by teddy bears donated by our generous customers, dealers and friends.
The Teddy Bear Drive was created in 2006 by our shop owner's daughter, Melissa Carboni, in loving memory of her sister, Jill Carboni, who lost her life in a car accident on November 27, 2005. Jill was always striving to make a difference and her contagious kindness, compassion and love inspired Melissa to begin the Teddy Bear Drive to honor children who have faced loss and illness. With the goal of helping to make the world brighter for children in need of the comfort of a teddy bear, over the years thousands of stuffed animals have been provided to organizations including Childrens Hospital Boston, The Jimmy Fund Clinic, Toys for Tots and many more.
Holliston Antiques is proud to support this on-going fundraising effort in Jill's honor.


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The British sloop, Kite was a popular vessel sailing between the islands of Tortola and St. Thomas during the 1890s.
Like so many island boats, it was only a matter of time before she succumbed to Mother Nature in a sudden squall or hurricane.
Despite those ominous probabilities, owning a vessel or having access to one was important for a family's survival.
A Sudden Storm
The Kite's captain was Adolph O'Neal, most likely a BVIslander by birth, but he had strong ties to Sanchez in the Samana province of the Dominican Republic.
On a dark, rainy morning in July, as he and his crew members were still sleeping, an ominous storm was closing in that would turn an ordinary day into a tragic one.
The four were fishing for turtles in an area known as the fishing grounds in British waters.
On board were three brothers, Adolph, Nathaniel and Hubert O' Neal and their friend, John Donovan.
The brothers were cousins of Mr. Maurice O'Neal, a grocer.
The Accident
At three o'clock in the morning when it was pitch dark, the rainy weather suddenly became violent with what seemed like hurricane force winds.
So rough were the waves that they "picked up the boat and turned it bottom-up"!
Traumatized and confused, they made for the nearby shore swimming as fast as they could.
Three of the men climbed the jagged rocks to safety.
Nathaniel, one of the brothers, perished.
The following day, the newspapers reported the recovery of Nathaniel's body, "half eaten by sharks."
Turtle Fishing
The group had been out fishing for two months and onboard was a valuable collection of turtle shells which they planned to sell.
Sadly, everything was gone; their loved one, their fishing gear, their boat and their livelihood from the proceeds of the shell collection.
As the sloop, Fame was returning to the Dominican Republic, she spotted by the survivors and stopped to rescue them.
The Fame was one of a handful of boats that transported passengers and freight directly between Road Town and S.P Macoris.
At the time, she was under the guidance of Captain J. Vanterpool with Henry O. Creque as her registered agent.
Lost Vessels of the British Virgin Islands
For years, no-one knew how many boats were lost, what their names were, or what happened to them.
With the digitization of old newspapers, it's now possible to search for the missing.
We can finally learn the fates of those long forgotten vessels and their passengers.
Here are a few British boats that were recently re-discovered:
- The Kite ~ lost in a squall ~ 1901
- The Excell and Syria ~ both sunk in sudden squalls ~ 1907 and 1912
- The Come Back ~ disappeared without a trace ~ 1916
- The Spider and the Fancy Me ~ lost in hurricanes, 1916 and 1928
- The Lady Constance ~ driven onto the rocky shoreline ~ 1922
Stories Keep Maritime History Alive
Although the little fishing sloop, Kite, and other BVI vessels have long since disappeared, rediscovering their stories has given them new life.
They can finally tell their tales of tragedy and survival to new generations curious about their island's maritime history. ⚓
Kite Passengers
Sept 9, 1895 Mrs. Sanberg & child, Angelina Daniel, Octavia Pursar, Sarah Williams
Jan 11, 1896 Maria Vanterpool and child
April 13, 1898 Henry O. Creque, our 2x great-grandfather and his sister, Evangeline Creque
May 20, 1898 Frederica Throne, Joseph Small, John Lucas
April 7, 1899 Regina Hodge, J. Jacobs
July 16, 1898 Sarah Ann Williams
Mar 28, 1899 E. Harrigan and Lorencine Rymer
April 8, 1899 Regina Hodge, J. Jacobs
Oct 26, 1899 J. A. Gonzalez and Mrs. Gonzalez
Nov 1, 1900 Mrs. Emilia Wells
Nov 17, 1900 Sarah Nibbs, Mrs. Herucles, and daughter
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Panasonic DMP-BDT330 review - Features Review
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- Page 2 Features Review
- Page 3 Operation, Performance and Verdict Review
If you're one of the two people to own a 4K TV or projector, you may be pleased to know that the DMP-BDT330 offers 4K upscaling, boosting Blu-ray discs up to 3840 x 2160 resolution.
Everyone else will be more impressed by the deck's range of network features, including newly-added support for Miracast. This replicates the picture from an Android smartphone or tablet on your TV, and because it works via Wi-Fi Direct you don't have to go through a home network. It's a really useful feature for those who want to play games or watch movies on a bigger screen.
And when hooked up to the internet you can also access the Viera Connect portal. This uses the same layout as last year's models, and sadly not a version of the improved smart menus found on Panasonic's latest TVs.
There's a decent amount of content, including BBC iPlayer, YouTube, Netflix, Dailymotion, AUPEO!, SHOUTcast and Skype, but we still think it's blighted by the lack of ITV Player, 4OD and Demand 5, all of which are found on Samsung's latest players.
The DMP-BDT330 can also be used as a DLNA client, streaming music, video and photos from other DLNA-certified devices on the same network. You can stream MP3, WMA, FLAC, WAV, AAC, JPEG, MPO, AVCHD, XviD and WMV, but not MKV or DivX. You can also play files from USB storage devices and external HDDs, including MKV.
There's a built-in web browser too, which might come in handy if you want to look something up quickly without the laptop to hand, but like most browsers in AV products it's too slow and cumbersome to use for lengthy periods. The cursor crawls around the screen and entering text with the virtual keyboard is laborious.
Elsewhere the deck plays 3D discs, converts 2D material to 3D (including web-streamed video) and upscales DVDs to 1080p using Panasonic's PHL image processor. Dolby True HD and DTS HD Master Audio can be decoded into PCM or output as a bitstream.
There's a range of picture presets too (Normal, Soft, Fine and User, the latter offering contrast, brightness, sharpness and colour adjustments) and you can also set the perceived distance of 3D images.


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Believe it or not craft supplies are now a $1.14 billion dollar market, according to market research firm The NPD Group, which attributed the growth to art and craft paper, paint and painting supplies. It's now a good business for craft makers as one of the largest online handmade goods marketplace Etsy reported a 19.4 percent year-over-year increase in active sellers since 2015.
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— China-based suppliers are often known to have large ranges of stock and low prices. A quick google search or a visit to Aliexpress can find you plenty of suppliers to choose from.
Unfortunately, most chinese suppliers don't speak the best english. If you have a significant communication barrier dealing with these suppliers, find some help or you may have to look else where.
— You can check out trade magazines such as Craft business and Craft focus. These publications will contain vetted lists of wholesalers for what you need.
This is one of the cheaper options and you can get quite a few suppliers info. However, you do need to spend some time to research your product properly.
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WEST MICHIGAN- It's snowed almost every day for the last few days and that trend is likely to continue in some fashion through the mid week.
As temperatures slowly increase throughout Monday evening, we'll see an increase in moisture ahead of our next frontal system. This will transition our powdery snow we've been seeing the last few days to a wet, heavy, compactable snow.
By Tuesday morning, warmer air slowly creeps in from the south. This will move that snowfall to liquid precipitation by late morning, but not before several inches of snow has fallen in most of the area.
The further north you go, the more likely you are to see closer to 5 or 6 inches of snow by the end Tuesday morning. Lighter totals are further south because temperatures are going to be warm enough to switch it to rain earlier, thus diminishing our snow totals.
By Tuesday afternoon, much of the snow that fell in the morning will already be melted as our temperatures climb into the 40s. In addition, a steady rainfall will fall for a good majority of the day before the storm exits Tuesday night.
Most of the area should move completely to rain by noon on Tuesday, but your morning commute on Tuesday could run into some problems as that heavy wet snow falls.
After Tuesday's storm exits, we'll turn our focus to Wednesday night. With temperatures hovering around the freezing mark once again, we'll start our with just rain. Overnight, we'll see enough cold air moving in that I believe a period of freezing rain looks likely at this point.
If we've got enough cold air that works its way into the surface, it's likely we'll see that icy glaze on roadways and trees which could cause some travel problems Thursday morning. We'll keep you posted with any changes in the forecast via the FOX 17 Weather App.


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The above listed countries require all aircraft entering and/or departing their Countries to file an Advanced Passenger Information System Report (APIS)
If an APIS is not filed and a notice of receipt has not been received by the pilot 60 minutes prior to departure, the pilot may be subject to major fines and/or penalties.
Mexico requires that any aircraft entering Mexico have proof of liability insurance. Some US insurance policies include this insurance and some do not. If you do not have the correct insurance, your aircraft will be grounded until you can provide proof that your insurance is valid or until you purchase the required insurance.
Click here if you need to purchase insurance
Mexico also requires that your aircraft registration have a current registration. Check your registration certificate to confirm that there is an expiration date on it and that you are current. If you are not current, Mexico will ground your aircraft until you obtain a current one.
As a service to our current Members, we are providing United States and Mexican APIS service at no charge.
All fields (other than the ones that are optional) must be filled out. Your name on the Manifest is exactly the same as on your Passport. If it is not, you must edit it. In the program you have the ability to edit your name prior to continuing.
To use this form, the quick and easy rules are as follows:
1) That the pilot in command must be a current BBP member. The cost is US$49 dollars a year, to join or renew your membership, Click here
2) That only one submittal is required per departure
3) That submittal is instant and you should get both departure/arrival notices within several minutes of submitting. (you do not have to submit -24 hours in advance and again 60 minutes prior to departure)
4) That you must wait at least 60 minutes after receiving departure notice before departing.
5) That you cannot cancel, change, etc a manifest once submitted. If you add a PAX or change a date, you must resubmit a new manifest (which can be edited on our website)
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Jumping Jupiter! Rumors About Windows 8 Start Circulating Prior to Ballmer's Keynote at CES 2011
Right on schedule. Just hours before Steve Ballmer takes the stage at CES 2011 for the big keynote speech that most are expecting to contain some teases about Windows 8 (or whatever the next version will be dubbed) rumors are starting to bounce around the Interwebs.
First up is Mosh, code name for a tile-based UI that is presumably aimed at those who want to see Windows be more iPhone like in what is hoped is a touch based mobile future. Paul Thurrott is tossing this rumor on to the pile, as just that a rumor at the moment.
He's also adding another code name to the mix and that's Jupiter. Supposedly this is for Microsoft's new App Store-like model that contains "Silverlight based apps that will be deployed as AppX packages."
Well, we all know that everyone has to have a App Store like place to sell wares these days, so that' no real surprise. But as for Mosh, I'll just repeat what I've said too many times to count. If you are overlaying anything on top of Windows (or any other OS, for that matter), to work with a mobile device and not integrating software and hardware specifically, you're starting out the race the wrong way. But again, this is all rumor so who really knows.
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Cristiano Ronaldo is the favourite to win the Ballon d'Or for the second year in succession at Monday's gala ceremony in Zurich ahead of Manuel Neuer and Lionel Messi.
Messi has finished in the top two in each of the last seven years but, despite another prolific year in 2014, appears this time to be lagging behind his two rivals.
A disappointing World Cup, in which he was eliminated at the group stage with Portugal, has not prevented Ronaldo from staking a strong claim to win the prize for the third time overall.
The 29-year-old Real Madrid superstar scored a remarkable 61 goals in the calendar year as he helped his club win the Champions League, Copa del Rey and UEFA Super Cup before ending 2014 by securing the Club World Cup.
Ronaldo scored a record 17 goals in last season's Champions League and has already netted a phenomenal 26 goals in 16 La Liga games this season.
Unsurprisingly, he has received fierce support from his club, who feel that Ronaldo would be the only worthy winner of the prize and felt compelled to publicly criticise UEFA president Michel Platini for his suggestions that Neuer should take the award.
Platini said in November that a German should win the award following their World Cup triumph, telling press: "I already said it four years ago. A Spaniard should have won it then because Spain had won the World Cup (in 2010). This year it is Germany."
In response, Madrid expressed "surprise at (Platini's) repeated remarks regarding his personal preferences for who should win the Ballon d'Or", and added that Ronaldo was "deserving more than ever of winning the Ballon d'Or."
However, Neuer - the only one of six German World Cup winners on the initial shortlist to make the final three - makes a good case to become the first goalkeeper to take the prize since Lev Yashin of the Soviet Union in 1963, and the first German since Lothar Matthaeus in 1990, the year West Germany lifted the World Cup in Italy.
After helping Pep Guardiola's Bayern win a domestic double in Germany, Neuer, 28, was outstanding in his country's run to World Cup glory, as they beat Argentina 1-0 after extra time in the final at the Maracana.
Diego Maradona and 2004 winner Andriy Shevchenko have given Neuer their backing, while Germany coach Joachim Loew told Bild: "Any other choice than Neuer will disappoint me."
However, Neuer himself is remaining cautious after seeing his widely-tipped club colleague Franck Ribery come away disappointed at last year's ceremony.
"I'm certainly not favourite," Neuer told German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung. "The other two are international brands, they've clearly got an advantage."
Despite his fame, and the fact that he scored 58 goals in 66 games for club and country in 2014, Messi's candidature is not helped by the fact that he failed to win a trophy with Barcelona.
And while he captained Argentina to the World Cup final, the 27-year-old failed to perform to his usual sky-high standards in the knockout stage in Brazil, even if he came away with the Golden Ball award for the tournament's best player.
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text: Ever since playing this song on Mad at Dad the other day, I've had Billy Squier's "Whadda You Want From Me" in my head. It's been 48 hours with no sign of slowing down, so why not share it with everyone? I hadn't heard this song in easily 15 years, maybe more like 25. I had forgotten 1) how good it is and 2) it is totally an Aerosmith song that Joe Perry didn't write.