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Like a wealthy scrap merchant seeking a coat of arms, director Michael Bay hired Anthony Hopkins' integrity to fluff up the class of Transformers: The Last Knight. As "Sir Edmund Burton," an earl with historical connections to the medieval roots of this Transformers business, Hopkins keeps a level voice intoning lines like "without sacrifice, there can be no victory … without leaders, chaos reigns."
The speediest way down the path to madness is to try to synopsize a Michael Bay movie. It begins in King Arthur's day with a drunken Merlin (Stanley Tucci) muttering dialogue that could be improved by any Renaissance faire busker. The magus unleashes a three-headed mega-Ghidrah to save Arthur's skin.
The Arthurian scenes look more lavish and exciting than the recent King Arthur movie by Guy Ritchie, but then it's off to our near future. It's a dark time—we know this because we're told it's a dark time. The Transformer robots are in hiding and being besieged by soldiers, and Optimus Prime has floated off to find his home world.
Above the clashes, we almost hear something topical about immigrants ("One day, we'll wake up and they'll be in charge," says a character of the 'bots). In the colossus-battered slums of Chicago, the plucky little girl Izabelle (Isabela Moner)—who will give the movie's climactic fist pump and shout of "Yes!"—looks like she's going to be the movie's heroine. But she's off to a junkyard in the Dakotas where Mark Wahlberg is waiting—his Cade Yeager is protecting an odd lot of bots, including a burly soldier voiced by John Goodman.
Ever restless, Bay heads for Oxford, where the hottie history professor Vivian Wembley (Laura Haddock) is insulting the memory of King Arthur because of long-standing father issues. Sad things happen in this movie, but maybe the saddest is when Yeagar accuses this skinny, Olivia Wilde-like Oxford don of wearing a stripper dress, and she replies, "I could take it off if it would make you more comfortable."
Locations, locations: Stonehenge, Havana, Namibia. At one point John Turturro is on the phone claiming that Dublin's Book of Kells is printed on "goat scrotum" (parchment). Why go after the Book of Kells? And what was this movie's script printed on?
I've heard the vulgar-auteur arguments about how Bay's ability to blow stuff up mitigates the really terrible dialogue that occurs again and again in his work. And there are certain sequences that justify the gigantism of it all, such as a robot in pieces pulling himself together in mid-air while simultaneously clobbering a group of soldiers. It may be that movies that have quite good demolition sequences don't require defending—the first Avengers movie, for instance, where the Manhattan skyscrapers seemed to be fulfilling their architectural function by exploding into fountains of glass, or the low angle car chase in Rome in Spectre, particularly exciting in IMAX. Since the critical loathing for the Transformers saga is so high, you'll hear that we're missing something—an angle on the maligned genius of Bay.
There is craft here. It's a pity the movie is bewilderingly bad, with Bay's reliably smelly sexual politics perfuming the joint. Giant robots are impressive when they punch their mammoth heads out of a 3D IMAX screen; in closeup, these mega-goliaths look like the work of Boris Artzybasheff, who did for gears and bolts what the artist Arcimboldo did for zucchinis. But watching Bay, you never know where you are, you never know who's shouting, you never know why every entity in the universe has to bump its chest or bitchslap something's face.
TRANSFORMERS With Mark Wahlberg, Laura Haddock, Stanley Tucci and Anthony Hopkins. Written by Art Markum, Matt Holloway and Ken Nolan. Directed by Michael Bay. PG-13; 150 minutes.


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The Complete Mowgli Stories, Duly Annotated
Paperback: 270 pages
Rudyard Kipling, GMW Wemyss, Markham Shaw Pyle
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 2 edition (December 4, 2012)
Kindle: 2311 KB
Publisher: Bapton Books; 2 revised edition (November 21, 2011)
Available on Amazonand on Smashwords.
Understanding Kipling
I don't think I would have thought to pick this up except that we are reading this in our goodreads group. Why would I want to read the Mowgli Stories, with footnotes? It turns out it is rather fascinating. The editors are two historians, one a Brit, the other a Texan, and they each have a preface. Mr. Wemyss talks about the historical context that Kipling wrote in "Kipling and the Kaiser" and Mr. Pyle talks about dryland farming and the physical setting in which the stories are set.
The footnotes themselves are a mix of historical and humorous bordering on acerbic. Excerpt:
This talk went in at one ear and out at the other, for a boy who spends his life eating and sleeping does not worry about anything till it actually stares him in the face.78And the next footnote is an informational one about the Indian tropical monsoons. Finding those asides were funny.
78 - Of course we don't know anyone like that, do we.
Reading this book is a bit like watching a dvd with the Director's Commentary turned on - you get a running commentary that gives you a lot more insight into both what's on the page and what was behind Kipling's writing. Quite absorbing for anyone who has even a slight interest in history.
I can see it being a cool gift for a younger person too - although it isn't illustrated, they can read it straight through, ignoring footnotes the first time around, and on re-reads explore the notes. Specially with the new Jungle Book movie in theaters now, Mowgli related gifts might be more popular than ever.
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"Dad" in a Sentence (with Audio)
Examples of how to use the word "dad" in a sentence. How to connect "dad" with other words to make correct English sentences.
dad (n): a father
Use "dad" in a sentence
My mom is two years younger than my dad.
That's the building where my dad works.
You don't know my dad, do you?
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text: Looking forward to good things 26 May 2017 Bible Verses, Psalms Christians have so much to look forward to! We have eternal life, and in our lives on earth, we know that we often will have heavenly rewards. We will enjoy the good things of the Lord. However, we may have to wait for a time before we get some rewards and gifts. Waiting takes courage! Click on the picture to open the pdf file. Learn to type and to say out loud Psalm 27:13, 14!


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Diamondbacks starter Robbie Ray exited Wednesday afternoon's start against the Rockies during his warm-up pitches before the bottom of the third inning. It is unclear at the moment exactly what went wrong.
Matt Andriese entered the game in relief of Ray. Ray yielded a run on one hit and two walks with two strikeouts in his two innings of work.
Ray, 27, entered Wednesday's start with a 3.99 ERA, 185 strikeouts, and 61 walks across 140 innings of work this season. The 61-59 D-Backs are very much in the thick of the NL Wild Card race, so a potential absence of Ray could be quite impactful. The club should have an update on Ray's status later today.
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There are some 8 million Americans who follow a vegetarian or vegan diet, but many others are still eating a record amount of meat and poultry, reports the Seattle Times. For those who do eat meat, here's what nutritionists and doctors really think about it—and how you could do so healthily.
What nutrients are in meat?
Meat is a good source of various nutrients. Beef, pork, and lamb, contain vitamins A, B, D, and K, as well as copper, chromium, folic acid, iron, magnesium, potassium, selenium, and zinc, says Nieca Goldberg, MD, the medical director of the Joan H. Tisch Center for Women's Health at the NYU Langone Medical Center. In addition to these nutrients, meat is a good source of protein and vitamin B12, adds Samantha Nazareth, MD, a double board-certified internal medicine doctor and gastroenterologist. And red meat is nutrient-dense, too with the addition of riboflavin, phosphorus choline, and niacin, notes Kris Sollid, RD, the senior director of nutrition communications for the International Food Information Council. That's part of the reason why it's one of the best types of meat you could eat.
This long list of nutrients has specific health benefits. Vitamin B12 is critical for metabolism, heart, nerve, and muscle health, according to Sollid. And iron, found in both plant and animal foods, is key for metabolism and heart health as well. Plus, people better absorb iron from animal foods—and absorbing iron from plant sources is easier if you eat meat, too, says Sollid. Some research also shows there are other benefits of high-protein diets that include meat, such as an increase in metabolism, strong bones, and muscle mass maintenance.
There are many opinions on the healthiness of eating meat—but health professionals do agree on a few specifics
Meat consumption, particularly red meat, is lately a hot-topic of scrutiny because some studies show a correlation between meat consumption and medical conditions including diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and obesity, says Mir Ali, MD, a general and bariatric surgeon at MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center in Fountain Valley. The main reasons for this seem to be the high saturated fat and cholesterol content, carcinogenic compounds found in meat that form by high-temperature cooking, and the L-carnitine in red meat that promotes plaque buildup in arteries, per Dr. Ali. More research is still necessary as all of this is still not 100 percent understood.
There is a link between processed meat and health issues
Processed meat is transformed with salting, curing, fermentation, smoking, or other processes that enhance flavor or improve preservation. This gross ingredient is hiding in your processed meat, too. Bacon, sausage, hot dogs, and deli meat, are just a few examples. Both dietitians and doctors agree that the high amount of salt and saturated fat make processed meat one of the worst types you can eat. Salt and saturated fats raise cholesterol and high blood pressure, increasing the risk of heart disease and stroke, according to Dr. Goldberg.
Plus, back in 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified processed meats as group 1 carcinogens. This classification means there is enough evidence linking processed meat to colorectal cancer, says Dr. Nazareth. Red meat, in general—such as beef, pork, and lamb—are in group 2A. So there is probably an association between red meat consumption and colorectal cancer as well.
You can have a healthy diet without meat
No matter your reason for not eating meat, it's possible to be healthy and get many of the same nutrients, without the saturated fat, from a plant-based diet, says Dr. Goldberg and Sollid. "There is room for red meat in a healthy diet just as healthy diets can be meatless," says Sollid. Try adding these vegetarian-friendly high-iron foods to the mix.
Here's how to eat meat, healthily
If you do want to include meat in your diet, you can do so healthily if you follow a few tips from doctors and dietitians. The cut of meat, cooking method, portion size, and how often you eat meat, are all things to keep in mind. Look for lean cuts of meat that include the terms round, chuck, or loin, Hillary Cecere, RD, a dietitian for EatCleanBro suggests. Skip the marbled and processed meats. You can lower the saturated fat content by using low-fat meat cooking techniques such as baking, stewing, steaming, or boiling, also creating fewer carcinogens, too, according to Dr. Ali. Avoid charring or cooking meat at a high temperature, but do try these tricks to get cheap meat to taste expensive.
Keep the portion size to between three and four ounces per meal, or 12 to 18 ounces total per week, Dr. Ali suggests. And always pair your meat with whole grains, fruits, and vegetables, recommends Sollid. "Like most things, too much of a good thing can lead to serious health issues," says Dr. Ali. Overall, doctors and dietitians suggest eating meat in limited quantities and being mindful of it in your diet. If you notice these 11 things, it could be a sign you are eating too much meat.
Bottom line: Eating meat is a personal choice
Eating meat is your decision. Although, health professionals agree it's best only to eat red meat occasionally and processed meats very rarely, if at all. If you do eat meat, focus on your overall eating habits—not isolated occasions. "Enjoy a BBQ here and there in the summertime," Dr. Nazareth says. "But if your typical day looks like a piece of bacon or sausage for breakfast, deli meat in a sandwich for lunch, and a steak or hamburger for dinner, it is best to cut back on the meat consumption." You'll also want to limit these 50 other foods dietitians don't eat.


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Hey folks. Welcome to what in my head I'm calling NCPL Blog, Part 2: Electric Boogaloo. I've been with the library since last March, and now that I've got my legs more or less under me, I thought I'd devote some time to this blog and chatting with all of you about various stuff. "What kind of stuff?" you wonder. Well, I'll talk about the programming that we have coming up, as well as various resources we have, from books to ebooks to magazines, DVDs, and pretty soon, neat equipment like record players. And since I've started teaching tech classes here, some library focused (like the Libby app for reading library ebooks), some stuff people just want to know about (Windows 10), I'll probably ramble occasionally about tech stuff, too.
For my first installment, I want to let you know about a new feature from the Ohio Digital Library, as well as provide some inside baseball about how it works. The feature is recommending ebooks and e-audiobooks for purchase with just two mouse clicks. ODL rolled it out late last year, so you may have already noticed it, but even if you have, let me tell you a little more about it.
The North Canton Public Library gets many of its ebooks and e-audio items from the Ohio Digital Library, a large group of Ohio libraries who pool their money to buy electronic materials from a company called OverDrive. Now, OverDrive offers far more books for sale than all of the libraries could possibly buy. Before, the average library patron had no idea what OverDrive had available for purchase, but now when you search the Ohio Digital Library catalog, you will see books available to purchase ODL doesn't already own at the bottom of your search results.
If you see a book you think the library should buy, just select RECOMMEND here and then RECOMMEND again in the popup box.
Note in that picture, it says the library may not buy what you recommend, and this is where the inside baseball happens. See, even though patrons can only recommend one book a month, in the first two months of the service, NCPL received over 150 requests. As much as we would love to buy all of those for our patrons, the library can't afford to do that. So, as the person who does a lot of the ordering, how do I decide which to get and which to take a pass on? There are lots of factors: price, timeliness, reviews, if it's a book we get to own forever or only a limited amount of time, if we already own other books in the series, if the author is popular, is the audio only available abridged….
You get the idea.
Another big factor is if the item is available from hoopla. "What's hoopla?" I hear you asking. Well, it's another service for ebooks and e-audio, as well as streaming TV and movies, music, and comics. In fact, when I look at the recommendation list from ODL, my first stop is hoopla. And look! Here is the audiobook I just recommended over at ODL.
I guess that means I can skip buying this book for ODL and use my limited budget to buy a different recommendation that isn't available any other way.
So, recommend away at the Ohio Digital Library site! We love buying what our patrons want. And don't forget to check out hoopla, as well. And as long as we're talking about recommendations, feel free to leave a comment about blog topics you're interested in. I'd love to use this space answering the questions you have about programs, books and other items, and random tech.
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Guide to the Lustron Corporation Collection 1949-2001 MG 1677
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The New Jersey Historical Society
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Newark, New Jersey 07102
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At the end of World War II, America faced a severe housing shortage due to the large number of troops returning from Europe
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"Lustron house." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 17 Jul 2006, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 21 Sep 2006. <hhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lustron_house=64219139>
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Friday, October 16, 2009
linux administration - tips, notes and projects
For users that are behind a firewall it might be required that you enable passive ftp in the customer's ftp server and client. While enabling passive ftp in your ftp client is simple, doing so in your ftp server configuration files might be a bit tricky if you don't know what you are doing.
This tutorial will cover Pure-FTPd, the default ftp server that we run. Here are the steps that you will have to follow so that you enable passive FTP.
nano /etc/pure-ftpd.conf
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Bay Area interior design firm Geremia Design turned the charming Benvenue Avenue Residence into a home suitable for a young family with dogs. Situated on a quiet street in Berkeley, the wood-shingled house got a modern update that would work for entertaining, as well as for their children.
The homeowners wanted to start collecting art, so Lauren Geremia, who's also an art consultant, helped them curate pieces of contemporary photography.
Modern furniture and accessories were chosen with fun, unique details in mind, helping to modernize the house which has a number of traditional details.
Timeless classics are thoughtfully placed throughout blending with the newer pieces.
A custom media unit was designed especially for the living room.
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Why this Barclays MD quit banking to go back to the charity he worked for straight out of college
Kanna Kunchala spent over 17 years in investment banking, as a managing director at both Goldman Sachs and Barclays investment bank across London and New York, but this was never part of the plan.
Kunchala started out at Goldman at the age of 30 after completing an MBA at Kellogg School of Management in 2001. While all his classmates were rushing to tech start-ups, he decided to accept an offer at Goldman Sachs. The dot-com bubble burst shortly after.
"It was rough, and not just for those who chose tech," he says. "There were 105 associates in my class at Goldman Sachs. Within four years, I'd say there were 10 people left."
For Kunchala, investment banking was supposed to be a means to an end. Up until his MBA, he'd worked as a speechwriter for the City of Boston, and spent three years straight out of college at a charity called City Year.
"I'd always intended to spend three years in the corporate sector, and then return to community service. But Goldman got me, and then offered a move to London. After a few years, Barclays hired me. There was always something new on the horizon, and we had kids. My stay in finance was elongated."
Kunchala worked at Goldman Sachs for over 10 years, in emerging markets and European equity derivative sales before moving across to Barclays in 2012, where he spent the best part of six years. In August, he finally got around to quitting banking.
Call it full circle, but last month Kunchala quit Barclays, left London and returned to Boston to work for City Year. Now, he's a senior vice president at the charity, which intervenes for children in high poverty areas who have gone off track with their schoolwork – typically around the ages of 9-11 - and uses a network of volunteers to get them back on the straight and narrow to high school graduation.
Kunchala says that his new role involves fund-raising for City Year from individuals, rather than sponsorship from organisations. Not surprisingly, he's been calling former colleagues and clients, hoping to convince them to donate. "I wish it was as easy to get them to accept my calls when I was selling equity derivatives," he says.
City Year started out in the U.S, and has outposts in 28 cities across the country. It also started out in the UK in 2010, and now has offices in London, Birmingham and Manchester. It has also been backed by funding from financial services organisations like Bain Capital, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse to scale up over the next three years.
Kunchala says that he retained close links to City Year throughout his time in investment banking, and also convinced Jonathan Beebe, Barclays' former head of equities for EMEA, to sign up as a trustee. Beebe has since tutored six students from Tower Hamlets himself.
"Both Goldman and Barclays gave me the latitude to do volunteer work. If this hadn't been on the table, I'd have left banking a lot earlier," he says. "The reality is, though, that it was the pull of volunteer work that led me to leave, not being pushed out of banking."
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To Join 4-H in Sauk County:
4-H enrollment is open between September 1st – December 1st. Please call the UW Madison Division of Extension Sauk County office at 608-355-3250 if you are a new member wanting to enroll outside of these dates.
All 4-H member and 4-H Volunteer enrollment will now be done online at:
(See the New Family Enrollment Guide for help enrolling online)
Look through the Sauk County 4-H club information and find a club that meets at a time, location, and day of the month that is convenient for your family. If you are having trouble deciding between a couple of clubs, contact the club leader to see if their club participates in projects and activities that would be of interest to your child.
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Sunday, September 20, 2015
Healing Elements
What was top on my list? Schedule a massage. My friend Phyllis had been going to a local massage therapist at Healing Elements for some time and raved about how skilled Jennika Brewer was. At the time, I was seeing an acupuncturist monthly, so I decided to alternate each month between acupuncture and massage. I found my body seemed to respond in a more positive way when I had massage. I had been doing acupuncture for a number of years and had felt I wasn't getting the same benefits I had initially. After a few months of alternating between the two, I dropped the acupuncture and have been going to massage appointments at 4-6 week intervals ever since.
Prior to Dennis' comment, I thought of massage as a luxury, not as something clinical like acupuncture. I was wrong. They both deal with well-being. Just what is well-being? Simply put, a state of being, in that it embraces a state of being happy, a state of being comfortable, and the all encompassing state of wellness - all healing elements.
While I haven't ruled out heading back to acupuncture if I feel the need in the future, having a massage on a regular basis has become one of my priorities. It doesn't matter whether I have an issue I am dealing with or I just want the peace and relaxation that comes with a massage. It is truly a healing element as are my other priorities: meditation, working out, and eating well - which altogether helps me embrace happy. When my well-being is in balance, I feel my best and can be my best for whatever comes my way. No extravagance there!
Smile photo courtesy of Fergus MacDonald
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Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Patience, Gratitude, and Blackberry Jammy
When I was running in-between rainstorms yesterday, it smelled as if I was running on a trail through the woods. When in fact I was running on a paved road near my home. After the storm, the considerable debris from the cedar and maple trees lining the road made for a different type of run for me. As I dodged left and right, around and over debris, I was creating a strong woodsy scent along my way. By the time I finished my run, I was in a wonderfully happy mood. When I run, I generally feel happy, but I can honestly say I felt as if I didn't have a care in the world. Even though I was longing to take a hot shower, but without electricity, a cold and let's just say invigorating shower was what was on tap for me.
Prior to the recent storm, I have been enjoying my runs filled with the heady scent of blackberry jam from the large clusters of shiny, juicy berries aging on the vines in my neck of the woods. I am keenly aware of the scents around me from season to season, but now I'm thinking there has been an intense amount of aromatherapy going on around me as I run. When I researched aromatherapy and the scent of cedar, I found it to be a stress reliever. Well hallelujah, just what I need right now. I also found the scent of blackberry to be strengthening and exhilarating, as well as a mood balancer. Wow! Combine that with the cedar and no wonder I was feeling so great after my run yesterday.
While one never knows what disruptions the day may hold, I will strive to hold onto my patience whether the power is up and running or not. And hey, I can always hit the road and enjoy an aromatherapy-inducing run if I find my patience waning. Through all this, I will continue to be grateful for many things. Even though I have found myself to be less than comfortable these last few days, I can grin and bear it when taking a cold, invigorating shower knowing the storm has slowed the fires burning out of control in eastern Washington. On a personal note, I will be grateful for a hot shower when the water heater warms up once again. And lastly, in the next few weeks I will be grateful for and celebrate running as those jammy berries age a bit more to the blissful aroma of blackberry wine in the mood-balancing last weeks of summer.
Just in case you were wondering - yes, I have eaten handfuls of those beautiful berries. And if that doesn't fill one with gratitude, I don't know what will.
Blackberry photo courtesy of Colin
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Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.
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Actors: Alexander Voulgaris, Angeliki Papoulia, Anna Kalaitzidou, Christos Stergioglou, Hristos Passalis, Mary Tsoni, Michele Valley, Sissy Petropoulou, Steve Krikris
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Duration: 98
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The following is an excerpt from Livability's 2018 10 Best College Towns List.
No. 2 – Ames, IA, population 62,815
Why It's a Great Place to Go to College: Ames is home to Iowa State University, a beautiful 1,900-acre campus that serves more than 36,000 students. In 1862, the university became the nation's first land-grant institution, a new federal initiative that sought to make higher education easily accessible, practical and open to everyone. You'll find that same spirit remains at Iowa State University today, where students and faculty lead in science, technology, agriculture and veterinary medicine.
Why It's a Great Place to Live (Even If You're Not a Student): Ames is not only ridiculously charming; it has a little something for everyone. There's the Octagon Center for the Arts, a downtown community art center that hosts classes, workshops, exhibits and events. There are 55 miles of bike trails, 36 parks and tons of athletic facilities and local sports groups, including tennis, golf, swimming and running. For music-lovers, there's the Central Iowa Symphony and for plant-lovers, there's the Iowa Arboretum. Plus, Ames' downtown is listed on the National Register of Historical Places and has tons of cute, locally owned shops and restaurants, earning it a spot on our 2018 Top 100 Best Places to Live list.
What Sets It Apart From Other College Towns: Located in central Iowa — literally the heart of America — Ames feels like a quintessential Midwestern town with a super high quality of life. Its population of roughly 65,000 people makes it a family-friendly, mid-sized city that's easy to navigate and has a true sense of community.
Iconic Pizza Place: The Great Plains Sauce & Dough Company
Brunch Spot: The Cafe
Tailgating Must-Have: Apart from the classic Cyclone themed cornhole boards, cardinal and gold bib overalls let fans cheer on the Cyclones in style.
Shopping Street: Main Street
Best Local Hangover Cure: A spicy bloody mary (or three) at Cafe Beaudelaire.
Best Place to Grab a Cheap Beer: Welch Ave Station
Local Dream Job: Butterfly curator at the university's Reiman Gardens, where more than 800 butterflies flutter around the garden's dedicated, 2,500-square-foot butterfly wing.
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As this year also happens to mark the 10th death anniversary of the legendary dancer-choreographer Chandralekha, Gati on 13 October decided to host an evening of remembrance at the Odd Bird Theatre, reminiscing her ten major choreographic explorations that had taken place in a period of over 20 years. Revitalising her understanding of body and movement by interlacing it with principles from other native physical disciplines like Kalarippayattu and Yoga and rejecting the narrative mainstream, Chandralekha had created an entirely new concern for abstract ideas of space, time, sexuality and erotica in Bharatanatyam. Her productions like Angika, Lilavati, Prana, Sri, Yantra, Mahakal, Raga, Shloka and Sharira are distinguished by their conceptual complexity, path-breaking choreography and a stunning visual sensibility. Her collective body of work is today considered the yardstick by which Indian contemporary dance is measured.
The present tribute, hosted by Gati, comprised photographs by her close associates, the late artist/designer/photographer Dashrath Patel and writer/photographer Sadanand Menon. It also included representative photos from Raghu Rai, Peggy Jarrell-Kaplan, Bernd Merzenich and Abul Kalam Azad.
Sadanand Menon, one of the trustees of the Gati Dance Forum and a longtime friend and collaborator of Chandralekha put a context to the event, saying, that she represented the coming of age of the contemporary dance movement in India. He added that the current phase of Indian contemporary dance could be traced to the bursting on to the scene of choreographers like Chandralekha and Kumudini Lakhia in 1984 at the East-West Dance Encounter.
"Today modern Indian dance has reached a point where questions that were raised by CVhandralekha ages ago need to be asked. Gati is creating that space where self enquiry and self contestation can happen again," said Menon.
He added: "Most of the photographs that you will see in this exhibition, curated by me were taken while Chandralekha's performance was on. But you must know that whenever it came to photographing her works, she would say, 'don't interfere with this horrible, mechanical two dimensional instrument. What I do with my body can never be captured by a camera.' The still and the video camera were an anathema for her."
One of the earliest pictures displayed here was taken in 1984, which is the era when Chandralekha comes back to dance after a long gap, almost after a 24-year-old long gap. Her 1971 performance called 'Navagraha' with Kamadev, one of India's finest and greatest male dancers where they perform a duet was a homage to the nine planets. It was also part of her quest for trying some non-methodological, non-narrative kind of theme and content. After that there was a 12 year gap and in 1984, she was invited in Bombay by the East-West Dance Encounter, probably the beginning of the contemporary phase of modern Indian dance," Menon further said.
Sadanand Menon, one of the trustees of the Gati Dance Forum and a longtime friend and collaborator of Chandralekha put a context to the event, saying that she represented the coming of age of the contemporary dance movement in India.
He went on to describe how innovations have been taking place in the domain of Bharatnatyam by the likes of Rukmini Devi Arundale and Kalakshetra in late 1930s, then by Uday Shankar and his Almora school of dance and the making of the film "Kalpana", but it was the East-West Encounter which broke all conventions. "The East-West Dance Encounter brought together 20 Indian dancers and 20 International dancers and did an eight-day exploration of all kinds of challenges and compositions and performances at the Tata Theatre, NCPA, Mumbai. From then on and for the first time, various dancers (students, Chandralekha did not like to call them 'students') who worked with Chandralekha began to break away from the conventions, searching for other meanings, searching for abstraction and very importantly, searching for political connect. Can the body be isolated from the politics all around? Can you be just purely cosmetic, or purely historical (in the anthropological sense)? Is it possible to connect with the society around?" said Menon.
It was with this enlightening talk on the legacy of Chandralekha and ideas of critical engagement with contemporary dance traditions in India that Gati Dance academy took the opportunity to initiate the launch of the book, Tilt Pause Shift: New Ecologies of Dance in India. Considering the elusive nature of the 'contemporary' in dance, where it is neither a temporal moment nor a static form or style of movement, the book addresses points of evolution in the creation and practice of dance in India today – highlighting new channels of thought and enquiry, shifts in form, and changes in modes of movement and expression. Menon, too, has contributed in this book, besides contemporary choreographers Padmini Chettur and Navtej Johar.
The evening would have been incomplete without the screening of Tana Bana, a 15-minute feature on Chandralekha filmed in 1992, in Chennai, commissioned by PTI-Television , the text/commentary of which was originally written in English by Menon (who was those days the Arts Editor for Delhi's The Economic Times). Arts Curator Menon mentioned that when PTI-TV had wound up in 1994 and all their tapes and recordings had vanished without trace, the present version that was being screened was originally a direct-from-TV VHS recording. Around 1999, the fungus-affected tape was cleaned and copied on to a DVD by Krissy Biernacki, an American dance student who had spent almost a year in Chennai and had helped Chandra convert some of the other tapes to DVD. As the sole surviving copy of the original, it happened to be an important piece in archival history for researchers, curators, enthusiasts on Chandralekha and Indian dance traditions.


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You may remember Macaulay Culkin as the cute kid who played Kevin McAllister in Home Alone, but it's been three decades since Kevin first starting assaulting burglars trying to break into his home, and Culkin is all grown up. Kind of.
It turns out Macaulay Culkin is a huge fan of the ToeJam & Earl series, so much so that he is an executive producer on the upcoming sequel ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove, being funded on Kickstarter. Yes, Macaulay Culkin is officially a videogame producer.
The first ToeJam & Earl game launched on the Sega Genesis in 1991, proving a cult hit despite low initial sales. While sequels came again to the Genesis and later the first Xbox console, it's been nearly two decades since the last title in the series.
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How did that happen? Well, Culkin has been pretty open about his love of the ToeJam & Earl series. During a Reddit AMA he revealed that ToeJam & Earl is his favorite series ever (he plays the 1991 Sega Genesis ToeJam & Earl daily apparently), he included the duo in a parody March Madness Mega Bracket as a favorite to win, and even tweeted that he'd rather play it than watch the 2018 Oscars (see below).
All this fanboying eventually caught the attention of HumaNature, the studio developing ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove, who invited Culkin to its headquarters to check out an early build of the game. It seems Culkin enjoyed it, as he is now an executive producer on the upcoming sequel.
"I'm honored to be producing the new ToeJam & Earl because it is literally my favorite video game of all time," Culkin said in a press release. "Plus, Greg Johnson is the tits!"
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Barack's gone and done it again. The 9th Circuit did the right thing and ended Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Josh Gerstein reports for POLITICO:
The Obama administration asked a federal appeals court Thursday to lift an order it recently issued re-imposing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy banning openly gay servicemembers. However, the administration is assuring those who favor dismantling the policy that the next major step towards its final demise is likely to come within a few weeks.
Instead of seeking relief from the Supreme Court, the Justice Department is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals to reconsider its July 6 order which found that changes in the legal landscape weighed in favor of reimposing the ban issued by a federal district court in California last year. The appeals judges cited the Obama administration's conclusion earlier this year that federal actions based on sexual orientation should get heightened scrutiy in court and the fact that the administration was not arguing that the 1993 law imposing "don't ask, don't tell" was constitutional.
At best the little bitch wants to repeal it on his own. At worse this is more bulls**t from the man who's made out of it. I am so damn sick of Barack. The courts have ruled, he needs to sit his fat ass down.
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By Catalin Cimpanu for Zero Day
Google has made an important change to the way the Chrome browser works, a move the company did not advertise to its users in any way, and which has serious privacy repercussions.
According to several reports, starting with Chrome 69, whenever a Chrome user would access a Google-owned site, the browser would take that user's Google identity and log the user into the Chrome in-browser account system –also known as Sync.
This system, Sync, allows users to log in with their Google accounts inside Chrome and optionally upload and synchronize local browser data (history, passwords, bookmarks, and other) to Google's servers.
Sync has been present in Chrome for years, but until now, the system worked independently from the logged-in state of Google accounts. This allowed users to surf the web while logged into a Google account but not upload any Chrome browsing data to Google's servers, data that may be tied to their accounts.
Now, with the revelations of this new auto-login mechanism, a large number of users are angry that this sneaky modification would allow Google to link that person's traffic to a specific browser and device with a higher degree of accuracy.
That criticism proved to be wrong, as Google engineers have clarified on Twitter that this auto-login operation does not start the process of synchronizing local data to Google's servers, which will require a user click.
When one or more users would be using the same Chrome browser, data from one or more users would accidentally be sent to another person's Google account.
But despite this clearly logical decision behind this move, users are still angry. First and foremost, they are angry because they don't have this ability to decide when they log into their browser, and second, they are angry because Google had failed to tell them about this new move.
Google Chrome 69 was released on September 5, more than two weeks ago, and if you haven't been probing the depths of Twitter, Mastodon, or Hacker News, you wouldn't have known of this change in Chrome's behavior.
Almost all users who never used Chrome's Sync feature before might find it surprising that they are logged into Chrome right now, as they read this article, if they've also logged into a Google account somewhere on Gmail, YouTube, or any other service.
But the criticism doesn't stop here. Matthew Green, a well-known cryptography expert and professor at Johns Hopkins University, pointed out in a blog post today that Google has also redesigned the Sync account interface in a way that it is not clear anymore to users when they are logged in or what button they should push to start syncing.
He calls this change a "dark pattern," a term used to describe user interfaces that have been intentionally designed to be misleading.
In its current form, the Sync interface is indeed misleading, and a user might be one wrong click away from giving all their browser data to Google by accident.
But some also suggested that Google's move might have been planned well in advance. Chrome 69 was a major release for Google, coming with many new features, including a new user interface. Some claim that Google hid this new change in the Chrome 69 release, hoping that nobody would spot it among all the goodies the company added to its browser, hence, the reason why it did take over two weeks for Google aficionados to spot the update.
Green's social media clout, along with some heated Twitter conversations, did manage to push things at Google's HQ, and Chrome engineers have told Green that Google will clarify Chrome's Privacy Policy to reflect Chrome's new mode of operation.
Though this policy update may satisfy some lawyers in Google's cozy offices, this does not address the issue that Google has modified a Chrome feature without telling users, and that modification might lead to serious privacy breaches.
Microsoft has suffered a major reputational blow due to its initially hidden Windows 10 telemetry practices, and so has Facebook in the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal. Twitter is also known to be flooded with bots, fake news, and political influence campaigns, and Reddit is a home for communities dedicated to abuse, harassment, and physical threats.
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God said, Let Newton be! � and all was light.
Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 - 20 March 1726 Julian calendar, 4 January 1643 - 31 March 1727 Gregorian calendar) was a revolutionary British scientist best remembered for his Accidental Discovery of gravity, which we all know can be a harsh mistress. Contemporary portraits suggest he looked like Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin and Brian May after he turned greynote .
To elaborate, Isaac Newton is the originator of the Three Laws of Motion and the classical theory of universal gravitation (in popular imagery, after seeing an apple fall from a tree/after an apple fell on his head).note Born on December 25, 1642 (i.e. Christmas day, not very long after Galileo Galilei died), the physicist was a Renaissance Man and dabbled in astronomy, mathematics, alchemy and theology. His work on gravity would lend further credence to heliocentrism (the belief that the Sun, and not the Earth, is the centre of the Solar System). To derive the equations for motion in his Principia Mathematica, he had to invent integral calculus out of whole cloth. He was one of the trope codifiers for the concept of Equivalent Exchange ("for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction") and the idea of a rational, regular universe—the idea that there are certain laws of nature that are always true, everywhere. This idea has become so entrenched in popular thought that, when further work by Albert Einstein on the extreme scales of the universe proved that his conclusions aren't applicable everywhere, the larger body of scientific research since then—including that by Einstein—has revolved around the idea of reconciling the two and restoring (our understanding of) the physical universe to a single, overarching theory.
Ironically, in his lifetime he was better known for being Warden and then Master of the Royal Mint—jobs which, doubly ironically, were meant to be sinecures to give him extra income to support his scientific career. Instead, he took his coinage jobs seriously, and during his tenure at the Mint he introduced the practice of milling coins — putting a decorative border on them so it would be obvious if pieces had been clipped off. This was important because of a practice at the time where criminals would clip the edges off coins, keep the bits of precious metal to melt down, and pass off the clipped coin as its full value, weakening the currency (and thus causing inflation). This is remembered in the edge inscription of the modern British pound, DECUS ET TUTAMEN ("an ornament and a safeguard").note Newton is also commemorated in the edge description of the two pound coin (whose tail side bears a representation of scientific and technological progressnote ) with his relevant quote STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS. (On being praised for his scientific insight: "If I have seen further than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants."note ) He also became possibly the most badass inflation-fighter in history, personally going undercover to taverns and so on to catch counterfeiters and clippers and collect evidence to prosecute them at trial — which he would then go on to do, as he was a justice of the peace (at the time more of an investigatory and prosecutorial position rather than a judicial one) in every county. Newton successfully prosecuted 28 counterfeiters while in office, most prominently William Chaloner, who was more or less his archnemesis during this period.note He also inadvertently switched Great Britain from a bimetallic system to the gold standard by setting the ratio of the value of the gold guinea (and other gold coins) to the value of the silver penny in a way that heavily favoured gold (due in part to the Spanish discovering huge gold deposits in Brazil and the subsequent recalculations to the price of gold and silver), leading to a mass exodus of silver from the country.note His tomb in Westminster Abbey references this financial career rather than his scientific one.
He is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space. Also the inventor of the cat flap. Or so the legend claims.
He had a lonely, unhappy childhood, which may have been because he was much, much smarter than anyone else around him. Even after he became a professor at Cambridge he frequently lectured to an empty classroom. Contemporary accounts peg him as an Insufferable Genius; he was given the nickname "The Autocrat of Science" by Frank E. Manuel. He never married and was strongly suspected to have died a virgin, but this piece of trivia can never be completely verified; the possibility also exists that he was gay. It was only when he began corresponding with Christopher Wren and the other members of the Royal Society in London that he began to blossom as England's leading scientist.
Works featuring Isaac Newton:
Anime and Manga
- It turns out that Newton himself is the Big Bad Emperor in The Vision of Escaflowne.
- In Nobunagun, he's reincarnated in the present day as a woman named Jess Beckman who has Gravity Master powers.
- William Blake created a colour copper entitled "Isaac Newton" in 1795. It's intended as a hostile caricature of Newton as doomed materialist, but is widely misinterpreted as heroic.
- He is the main character — sort of — of Gotlib's Rubrique-à-Brac, in what could be the longest Running Gag ever (something landing on his head, leading to his discovering the universal law of gravitation).
- He appeared at the end of a Pitheco story Centuries after Pitheco failed to pitch the famous discovery.
- S.H.I.E.L.D. (2010) revealed that Newton was a member of what'd become S.H.I.E.L.D. — and is immortal.
- Mentioned very briefly in Apollo 13. When Jim Lovell powers down the LEM's reaction-control thrusters to save battery power, he remarks, "And that's it. We just put Sir Isaac Newton in the driver's seat."
- Harpo Marx played him in "The Story of Mankind".
- Alexander Pope wrote an epitaph for Newton.
- He is an important character in Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle, where he took the job at the mint and moved England to the gold standard because he was trying find Solomonic gold (a raw material for the making of the Philosopher's Stone), which was accidentally put into general circulation as currency because of a quirk of fate involving a few vagabonds. He put England onto the Gold Standard and regiggled the exchange rate so that all the gold in the world will circulate through England at some point, allowing him to test them at his leisure. After all, historians did refer to Newton as the last alchemist.
- Robert Langdon visits his tomb in The Da Vinci Code.
- Is the codifier of all (European) Magic in the Rivers of London books, and the reason all spells are in Gratuitous Latin.
- Missed meeting wizards from the Unseen University in The Science of Discworld II: The Globe having just stepped out for some fresh air when they pop in. It was probably for the best. A footnote in the science text says that if anyone on Roundworld was going to discover laws of magic it would be him. This inspired his role in Rivers of London.
- Major character in the Age of Unreason series, not surprising when the first book is called Newton's Cannon. The book opens with Newton successfully making alchemy work, and goes from there.
Live-Action TV
- Star Trek: Newton turns up twice.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation: Newton appears as a hologram, playing cards against Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and (non-holographic) Data.
- Star Trek: Voyager: Newton is briefly transported onto the Voyager by a Q, who mentions that, if he never had gotten the inspiration to put forth the notion of gravity, he would have died penniless in debtor's prison... and a suspect in several prostitute murders.
- One Hundred Greatest Britons: Newton is voted to #6 by British viewers in the election of the 2002 season.
- Kamen Rider Ghost: Newton is one of fifteen main Eyecons, based on fifteen different historical people. In this form, Takeru as Ghost armed with orb-shaped gloves that allows him to attract or repel his enemies. He also can use the gloves as makeshift boxing gloves to deliver powerful punches.
Tabletop Games
- Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization: He's an Age II leader.
Video Games
- As mentioned in the intro, the First Law is referenced in Mass Effect 2 as the reason one does not "eyeball" the firing of a kinetic kill munition that travels at significant fractions of lightspeed. Space may be virtually infinite, but there is always a chance you'll hit something, whether it's in 10 seconds or 10,000 years.
- Plays the Only Sane Man in Frederick the Great, where he is literal math wizard. Notably, he once held a symposium to discover the secret of time travel- a symposium where every member was an alternate version of himself.
- In Irregular Webcomic!, Newton is a time-travelling historical badass.
Web Original
- He battles Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson in Epic Rap Battles of History.
Western Animation
- Featured in the animated segments of 2014's Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, being an incredibly important figure in the history of science and physics.
- The Simpsons: In "The Last Temptation of Homer" Homer's guardian angel appears to him in the guise of Newton, assuming that Homer would recognize him. Homer does not, so he transforms himself to Colonel Klink from Hogan's Heroes.
- He was featured in an episode of Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum.


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I spend a lot of time cooking, so much that it's not unusual for my friends to know that when they invite me over for a meal, it will probably result in me cooking for them! A common thing I hear from my friends is "I miss [Melba] cooking in my kitchen!" especially when I haven't been around for a while. So really "Melba's Kitchen," is a metaphor and not necessarily always a physical location.
For the video please click here: Shepherd's Pie: Melba's Kitchen
Due to many circumstances in my life I have learned to complete tasks very efficiently. All my meals usually only take as long as the item that needs the longest to cook. People always say cooking is a science, and I definitely agree. I also know it's about timing and using all your senses so that everything can come together at the perfect time to create the perfect meal. For me… that's the "love" people taste when they eat my meals.
I think people are always blown away by my meals mostly because they don't expect something so delicious and rich can be made in such a short time. THAT is the love. THAT is the magic of my cooking.
The love is the timing and preparation of my meals so that any one of my friends and family can have a gourmet meal in the time it would take most people to get in their cars drive to the fast food chain and order and receive their fast food meal.
Meal Time: ( As long as it takes for the potatoes to finish) approx 30 min.
1/4 Can of Beer
4 Quartered Med Potatoes (I leave mine unpeeled because there's lots of nutrients in the skin and gives the mash a nice texture.
1lb of Ground Beef
1 Carrot diced
1 Can of Peaches and Cream corn
1 Small Onion Diced
1/4 container of Herb and Garlic Cream Cheese
2 Stems Chopped Green Onions
1/2 tsp Cinnamon
2 Bay Leaves
1 tbsp Olive Oil
1tbsp Corn Starch
1tsp Salt
1tsp Pepper
- I always start with the potatoes because they take the longest. Place them in a medium pot and boil them until a fork inserts easily. (Approx 25- 30min)
- While the potatoes are cooking, place the diced carrots in a small pot with enough water to cover them and boil them until they are slightly tender. (That way the carrots will be soft by the time the beef is ready.)
- While the potatoes and carrots are cooking, brown the diced onions in the olive oil in a large frying pan. (5-7min)
- While the onions are browning, mix the salt, pepper, and cornstarch to the ground beef in a medium mixing bowl.
- Once the onions are nicely browned, add the ground beef mix to the large frying pan and brown the beef.
- While the beef is browning with the onions, strain the diced carrots, and open the can of Peaches and Cream Corn. (Keep the can.)
- Check the potatoes. Still not quite soft enough yet? Leave them. If they are already soft strain them and set aside in a medium pot.
- The beef should be nicely browned now, add the strained carrots, corn, cinnamon, bay, leaves, beer. Let this simmer. (Should reduce to the consistency of thick, thick stew)
- Potatoes? They should be ready now! Strain the potatoes and start mashing! Add the cream cheese and mix it well into the mash.
- Time to plate it! Take your corn can, rinse it and grease it with some olive oil, or line the inside with wax paper.
- Sprinkle the bottom of the can with green onions. Add a layer of mash potatoes and finish with a layer of the beef mix.
- Invert the can onto a plate and give it a few good taps. Hopefully it comes out in a nice cylindrical shape! You may need to use a spatula to reshape, but I feel if i had wax paper it would have turned out fine.
That's the fun part of cooking in Melba's Kitchen, sometimes you don't always have the tools you need so you have to get creative! Have fun and I hope you enjoyed my recipe. Please let me know your thoughts!
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Gone is the age when a business or craft is passed from parent to child. And with that—we hope—gone are the days when parents forced, or strongly encouraged their children into set career paths.
The world is changing and now, we have the opportunity to create our own jobs and fix the problems, rather than have a defined career progression (if that's what we want).
This year for Father's Day, we thought it'd be nice to speak to startup founders and business owners for their take on entrepreneurship and if they would let their children join the world they move in. Some are already fathers or are fathers-to-be and some might be fathers in the future.
Here's what they had to say.
1. "Entrepreneurship is not for the faint-hearted and while I don't think my son has one, I would rather have him decide for himself what he wants to do." – Sam Shafie, WatchTower & Friends and pitchIN
Sam doesn't see himself actively encouraging his son into entrepreneurship, but he doesn't deny that his son has had a fair bit of exposure to it.
Sam's son currently wants to start his career as either a Deputy Public Prosecutor or a criminal lawyer. He follows his father's footsteps; Sam was a Deputy Public Prosecutor and spent 16 years in the public sector before starting a business on his own.
What if his son ever wants to go into entrepreneurship?
"It's the same principle whether you're opening a café or starting a tech company. Validating. Knowing your numbers. But most importantly, I'd like for him to realise that there's no substitute for working smart and to stay focused. To treat customers and colleagues with respect. It's a marathon. Not a sprint," said Sam.
2. "I don't think being an entrepreneur is some sort of ultimate goal of all human achievement, they are just one possible route in making an impact." – Derek Toh, WOBB
Derek is a brand new father, and he told us that he would hope to bring up his daughter in the ways of entrepreneurship.
"I believe the entrepreneurial mindset and personality is useful in whatever she chooses to do in future. It doesn't mean she should be an entrepreneur though."
He explained, "There is great talent in science, arts, and social causes and many other areas where she can excel at and live a life of meaning. So I would expose her, but not necessarily encourage her. I'll let her decide for herself when the time comes."
His advice for her if she does choose to pursue it?
3. "Not everyone was born to be an entrepreneur. My parents let me decide my path, so I believe that's the best a parent can do." – Curry Khoo, Second Startup
"I come from a broken family. My parents divorced when I was in college. And my mom supported me on whatever path I chose. She told me, it's fine as long as I know what I'm doing and I'm ethical."
Curry believes in bringing up his children the same way—offering them the freedom and support to do what they want, whether it is running their own business or working for others.
4. "Not everyone needs to or wants to run their own business but everyone wants to hire someone accountable that does things with passion and accountability as if they were owners themselves." – Bikesh Lakhmichand, 1337 Ventures
Bikesh's first words if any of his children in the future want to go into entrepreneurship?
"Pitch me."
He counts himself as lucky that his own parents allowed him to plot his own course of action. "From picking what I wanted to study, dropping out of it, where I'd work and then quitting and eventually being crazy enough to start my own company—they've been truly supportive in all my endeavours."
5. "Entrepreneurship is about encouraging yourself to step out from your comfort zone, pushing boundaries, taking risks and being ready for the best or worst outcome!" – Jerry Hang, GetDoc
Jerry's future children who want to join the entrepreneurial ecosystem might be in for a surprise if they approach him for help.
"Go ahead but don't ask me for money!"
Of course, the statement above is just a "dad joke" from Jerry. He actually has three points of advice for them:
1. Understand who are you serving, what is your plan in reaching out to them and most importantly why you are doing what you are doing.
2. Get a like-minded team that shares the same vision as you yet different from you in terms of characteristics, so that everyone can chip in their ideas from different aspects.
3. Stay lean, stay focused; never be afraid of trying and failing!
6. "I don't think entrepreneurship is for everyone. Some people prefer a stable corporate work life." – Tang Tung Ai, StrongByte Studio
Tung Ai echoed most of the other founders, agreeing that entrepreneurial skills are life skills that he would hope to impart to his child.
"However I wouldn't actively encourage them to start their own business. I try not to let my kid think that running his own business is the only way to be success in life."
Of course, he does want to support his children in their future endeavours, if they are really committed to what they're doing.
"I think I will say go ahead as long as they show me that they are taking calculated risks and not pure risk-tasking in starting their venture," he said.
7. "Entrepreneurship teaches you how to better manage your time, your tasks, how to better communicate and so much more. If done well, it really can bring out the best in you." – Adham Fayumi, Auto Craver
Adham takes encouraging entrepreneurship in children seriously.
"I even thought of setting up 'internship' periods with other entrepreneurs' companies during my kids' holiday season for them to learn as much as they can, and be more exposed," he said.
He is also definitely very open to the idea of his children starting their own businesses in the future. "I would give my full support for them, including some small startup capital."
8. "My parents let me make my own decisions. They offered me counsel. But they would never actively encourage or discourage unless they foresaw considerable harm." – Warren Chan, ParkEasy
Warren believes that his upbringing has trained him to make decisions that now extend beyond himself and affect others. "I hope that I may treat my children this way too," he said.
Introducing his children to entrepreneurship is something that he would like to do, but only if they want to.
"I don't want to be the parent that forces their children to take up piano because they did. Actions like such would probably backfire by creating spite towards the forced activity. In exposing them, my purpose would simply be to let them try various career flavours to help them figure out which is their favourite."
Even if his future children are enthusiastic, he won't be too quick to agree.
"I would drill them hard to find out their 'why'. It must be good."
As it turns out, though these men clearly enjoy what they do, many of them acknowledge that it isn't something they'd deliberately bring their own children into.
These founders may not necessarily want to see their children taking the same path, but all agree: entrepreneurial skills are beneficial and useful, whatever field you're in.
Many spoke of their own parents encouraging them and we're reminded once again, how parents' love and support allows their children to truly soar out into the world. It's good to take some time to appreciate them and thank them for all they've done.
Here's wishing all the fathers out there, Happy Father's Day!


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When they (whomever "they" is) determine the cost of raising a child, do they include miscellaneous costs like a $3,000 implant from the oral surgeon that you might need after your 17 month old headbutts you at church and breaks your front tooth?
Let's back up. When I was 16, I was in a gnarly car wreck. After breaking 5 ribs, compressing 6 vertebrae, having both of my lungs collapse, and being airlifted to spend time in the ICU to recover, I was super lucky to be alive. I had a hairline fracture on my front tooth (#9), probably from hitting the steering wheel or something, but it never seemed to cause any issues and I could only see it under intense direct light, so that particular "injury" was pretty much ignored.
Fast forward 15 years, and when I was 31, I asked the dentist about my tooth starting to discolor a bit, and after doing some x-rays, they determined that tooth was suffering from internal resorption, which basically means the tooth was decaying from the inside out. This usually happens as a result of trauma, aka the blunt force trauma when I was 16.
I had a root canal done to try to save the tooth, and it seemed to work. Two years have passed, and my tooth was hanging in there fine and hadn't had any further discoloration issues. The dentist warned me at the time that he gave it a "fair chance of lasting 5 years" – but I had gone that route because the ballpark estimate for a dental implant instead was $5.000 so I wanted time to save up for it, plus I was hoping it would last much longer than the 5 year estimate.
Well, last Sunday we went to church, and during the children's sermon Harvey was being a wild man, so I ended up sitting down up front with him and pulling him into my lap. He did the classic back arch and threw his head back in an attempt to escape from my lap, and the back of his head connected squarely with my damn #9 tooth.
I'm not kidding when I say that I instantly knew my tooth was done for. I had at least a half a dozen people come up to me afterwards and ask if he broke my tooth because they saw the expression on my face, and I told them I was pretty sure he had. You see, my tooth literally bent BACKWARDS in towards my throat a few millimeters when he hit, and I had used my thumb to push it back into place. You shouldn't be able to move your front tooth that far with your thumb, right?
[Side note, I have had nightmares about my teeth falling out ever since I was a kid. It's always some random tooth and I'm in the middle of hanging out with people and it just breaks and/or falls out and I push it back it and try to hold it in place with my tongue while I frantically try to hide the problem from those around me. Weird, right? My sister just told me she has the same dream, which I think is even weirder. Do any of you?!]
At any rate, my mother-in-law is a dental assistant, so first thing Monday morning I walked across the street to her office and she took a couple of x-rays and had the dentist take a quick look. Sure enough, you could see what looked like a hairline fracture across my tooth just above the gum line.
My tooth was super tender, I couldn't bite anything with it, and it still had a little movement, so my next step was to go back on my lunch break to have new molds made (and prayed we wouldn't accidentally extract my tooth while making them!) and call the oral surgeon in the town 30 miles north of here to see when I could get a consult for a possible implant.
Yesterday I took the afternoon off so I could go and see the oral surgeon, and they did a really rad 3d x-ray of my entire head. It was VERY cool! Once we got to the exam room, she zoomed in on my tooth so she could really see what she was looking at.
Basically, it was decently good news. Because she can see some sort of abnormality but no full fracture, she is hopeful that I *might* be able to keep my front tooth. We are going to give it one full month and reassess. She thinks that when my tooth bent backwards that the ENTIRE tooth moved – crown & root – so instead of snapping it just hurts like a bitch and will hopefully heal. If she's wrong and I'm still having pain and tenderness in a month, then she recommends I move forward with the implant because I have such a high smile line and thin gums already that she doesn't want to risk me losing more gum and having more discoloration if the tooth continues to have issues.
With an implant, I would go in for surgery and she would remove my tooth – hopefully with the root intact, all in one piece. If she can do that all at once, she would then place the implant (it sort of looks like a screw and goes in where the root used to be). That has to heal for 4 MONTHS, during which time I'd have a fake flipper tooth on a retainer. Upside – at least I'd have a tooth, downside – they're hard to eat with, so I basically wouldn't eat in public for 4 months because you're supposed to leave it out as much as possible for healing purposes which means I'd be walking around WITH NO FRONT TOOTH. Oh my goodness. I'm so praying I don't have to do this. Also, if she can't place the implant at the same time, add 3 months to that timeline while you heal BEFORE the initial implant is place. Gah! At any rate, after 4 months, I'd go back for the placement of the crown part of the implant, I'd write a check for $3-5k (she's thinking I'd be on the $3k end of the range), and then we'd hope it'd have a nice, long life and look normal like my other teeth.
So there ya go – I'm sure that's more than you ever wanted to know about my teeth, but that's what I've been dealing with this past week! I'm going to spend the next month babying that tooth, cutting all my food into small bites so I can chew on the right side only, and praying that the tooth heals and quits moving and doesn't need to be replaced.


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This is just great. From Frank Thomas shortly after today's Hall of Fame announcement:
Frank suggests his production might have led players to use PEDs.
— Doug Padilla (@ESPNChiSox) January 8, 2014
Actually, wouldn't shock me at all. By most accounts the PED thing -- at least at the top end of the talent pool -- was spurred on by great guys wanting to be even better because of ego and competitive spirits and things. Barry Bonds was famously reported in "Game of Shadows" to be inspired to take PEDs because he saw McGwire and Sosa getting all the glory in 1998 and was convinced he was better than them. And it wasn't a "hey, they take drugs so I will too!" It was "they hit bombs so I want to hit MORE BOMBS!"
Thomas hit bombs. Heck, he hit everything. There isn't a player in baseball during his prime that couldn't look at him and see a better hitter. Is this statement driven by ego? Maybe a little, but it's his day. And it's also driven by no small amount of truth, I imagine.


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Thanksgivings Most Important Recipe!
"The righteous will answer Him, "Lord when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?" Matt 23:37 (A Month of Mondays)
"The soul and the schedule don't follow the same rules!"
That was a quote from a recent podcast by my one of my very favorite authors and podcasters Emily P Freeman in a recent feature of "The Next Right Thing".
Her comment pierced my heart. I stopped my walk to record it into my phone messages. Such truth that resonated with my hungry heart.
Emily's quote came to my mind again as I was preparing to share this e-letter with you. I would add to her thoughts that neither are the soul and the schedule nourished by the same things!
Think about it.
We will surely "feed" our bodies in the coming weeks. Plenty. Right?!
Turkey. Stuffing. Pie. Oh My!
I hear my sweat pants calling just thinking about it!
Do you know what else is "calling"?
My soul…
My hungry soul cries out especially during the holiday season for me to stay true to the critical needs and longings of my spiritual life.
"Don't forget me" it shouts.
"Don't let me get lost in the hustle and the hurry".
"Don't miss the message you so need to remember". That thousands of years ago a baby quietly grew in his mother's womb as He prepared to change the world. YOUR WORLD!
"Don't miss the holy in the hustle!"
During the holiday season something deep inside of us longs not to be missed. Food won't fill the longing. Gifts won't fill the longing. Parties and lights won't fill the longing. In the hustle of the holiday a holy hush whispers for our attention. Our souls, our heart & mind long to be filled with the hope of the Holy and God's own light in our lives.
So how will we "feed" this longing in our soul?
The Bible tells us that man cannot survive on bread alone, and that we are BLESSED when we HUNGER for righteousness! (Matt 4:4; Matt 5:6)
A Woman's Quest to an Unstuck Christmas gathers a few women together and offers us a chance to nourish our spirit and soul this Christmas season with THE BREAD OF LIFE! (John 6:35)
Let's explore afresh the story of our King Jesus seasoned with a dash of fun, a sprinkle of color, and a dollop of fellowship.
1 – A Hungry Heart!
2 – 15 minutes a day for 33 days.
3 – Spiral Notebook; PDF or KINDLE version of A Woman's Quest To An Unstuck Christmas
4 – Some coloring pens would be awesome!
5 – Consider bringing your kiddos along or maybe a girlfriend or even your spouse! There is enough to share!
1 – Beginning on Thanksgiving Day, set apart at least 15 minutes each day to read the devotion of the day and join the prayer!
2 – Make a journal note about what today's verse means to you.
3 – Take note of the HARVEST idea for the day and think about how you or maybe you and your children, might make it happen!
4 – If you have a few extra minutes enjoy the coloring pages (or share with the kiddos) and the fun ideas for HOME. There is lots of family fun and extras for your to enjoy as you have time.
5 – Is scrolling through Facebook your bedtime routine or lazy time bonus? Visit The Unstuck Woman's Club on Facebook to say hello and see who is with us!
My soul cries out–
"Don't forget me" it shouts.
"Don't let me get lost in the hustle and the hurry".
"Don't miss the message we need to remember".
I hope you will join me! We begin in just 10 days!
In His grip and grace,
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