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Byblos – DiverCity
9th edition
230 design students
40 different countries
15 projects
Byblos, Lebanon
27July till 11 August 2018
What is MEDS workshop
MEDS workshop "Meetings of Design Students" is an international workshop that takes part each summer in a different country, focusing on various issues, themes, topics and settings that will help any designer expand their expertise. It is a chance to get in touch with diverse approaches to design, different building techniques, traditions and skills. MEDS workshop is both practical and educational because it focuses not only on creative theoretical designs, but actually compels participants to execute these designs during the 2-week span of the workshop. You can apply to MEDS as a tutor or as a participant.
A 21st century approach in a historical urban tissue
Byblos, the city of a thousand faces, holds within its fortifications, not only a great deal of history but also a great deal of diversity in all its aspects.
The urban entity translates the true definition of variety, combining within the same space, different types of people -from more than one social, cultural or economic group- each having ideas and opinions of their own, all in a very embracing atmosphere, celebrating the multidimensional aspects of a community. Therefore this natural social interaction is a manifestation of the concept of DIVERCITY -with a C- which simply joins cities and their raison-d'être.
Particularly found in public spaces, the concept chosen for Meds 2018, in Byblos – Jbeil, will try to help the global and local community find solutions for their common problematic. In fact, everyone is going to merge their know-how to find how to create urban public spaces in this ancient city. They will also lay the criteria of a 21st century approach in a historical urban tissue. With minimal resources, low-cost solutions, lots of experimentation and interdisciplinary approaches, the oriented projects will have a direct impact on the city, through a number of various projects.
BYBLOS – One of the World's most Ancient Inhabited Cities
Byblos is one of the most ancient cities in the world. It is considered touristic because of its significant landmarks. The role of MEDS workshop this year is to enhance Byblos's public spaces and make them more appropriate for everyday use.
The accommodation is located in Amchit, an area 2 minutes away from Byblos by car.
A tutor at MEDS
Tutors are the backbone of MEDS Workshops, they are at the origins of all visionary creations executed at MEDS. 1 or 2 Tutors can apply with a project inspired from the theme of the workshop. They can select from our list of sites & categories, or propose a free entry. Their project must be realistic, creative, and above all executable in 2 weeks. On the first day of the workshop, tutors recruit 5 to 15 participants, to form a team that will help them develop and execute these projects. In the end, this project will be transported on site to be permanently exhibited.
Because we value your ideas as a tutor, and for the first time in MEDS you will get the chance to participate in the workshop WITHOUT ANY REGISTRATION FEES.
The selected projects will be announced on February 10
The competition this year is tough, so download our tutor pack and give us your best ideas.
The Tutor Pack
The Tutor Guide-Book: explains everything you need to know about being a tutor
The Theme Document: gives an overview on the city, its inhabitants, and a deepened study on the theme DiverCity. It is an indispensable source of inspiration.
The Tutor Call: The full list of intervention sites and categories of application in addition to the design and selection criteria.
The Application Pack: contains all the documents you need to fill and present for you to apply.
A Participant at MEDS
Participants are also a very important part of the MEDS workshop. They come from different design fields, and from different countries. What links them together is their passion for creation and their love for learning. Participants get to select which project they want to help execute and develop. During the 2 weeks workshop, each team along with his tutor has to build the design, document the work, and create an exhibition panel to be displayed in the central forum
Registration Fees: 250 US $ to be paid after receiving the acceptance email
Participant Call: January 21, 2018 – March 20, 2018
List of documents in the participant pack
The Participant Guide Book: explains everything you need to know about being a participant and the MEDS experience in general
The Theme Document: gives you a local point of view on the city and the lifestyle of its inhabitants. It also provides a deepened scientific study on the theme DiverCity.
The Selected Projects: The full list of intervention sites and categories of application in addition to the design and selection criteria (to be uploaded on February 10, 2018)
The Participant Application Pack: Fill in the google form and upload a picture of you.
Present a small project you prepared to answer the question: How would you envision "diversity" (photography, small video, graphical production, model, text, or any free entry of your choice". this entry is an important factor that will help the management team to determine if you are fit for Byblos '18
Selected Projects
This Workshop Was executed in August 2018 During the ninth edition of the international design workshop MEDS. The workshop took place Under the theme of DiverCity, with the aim of inspiring a better use of public spaces in Lebanon. Thanks to Local NGO, Urban Network, the city of Byblos won the hosting the 9th edition of MEDS, with 250 participants from 35 different countries executing 16 different projects all around Byblos
Inner Diva
Inner Diva is a textile design project that combined design methodology with dancing to stimulate creative expression. Through the project, participants learned primarily about design process from a scratch to a final product. End products are personal interpretations of Byblos created with different textile techniques. Materials used are various textiles and scraps of old clothes that were donated to the project. Project also received donation of 6000 black straws from a club The Grand Factory that banned usage of straws. The straws were cut in tiny pieces and used in most of the products for details and played a big role in concept development.
Tutors: Francielly Kaucz (Brazil), Marta Badurina (Croatia)
Team: Katarina Krebsova (Czech Republic), Mina Jakovljević (Serbia), Guillermo Rafales Sancho (Spain), Ece Duran (Turkey), Ivana Koretić (Croatia), Diellza Zogaj (Kosovo)
Alphabet Pavilion
The structure is designed to convey the importance of the role the Phoenicians played in human history in terms of allowing text to be written easily, thus knowledge to be expanded. Figuratively the Phoenician alphabet (represented by the inner structure) spread around the globe (the outer structure) and evolved. By walking around the pavilion, you see the beauty and diversity of different letters from Phoenician, Greek, Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Glagolitic, Armenian, Georgian, Devanagari, Brahmic, Hangul, Braille. The enclosed structure is there, however, to remind us that these examples all come from the same source and belong to the same world.
Tutor: Martin Shopski (Bulgaria)
Team: Clara Viñuales (Spain), Dmitriy Ilin (Russia), Elena Comeras (Spain), Mar Fernández (Spain), Olga Stefanova (Bulgaria), Sophie Hobbs (UK), Vanessa Chamlian (Lebanon), Vivek Bassi (India)
The Forgotten Script
The Byblos syllabary is an ancient script discovered in the coastal city of Byblos, Lebanon, in the early 20th century. The un-deciphered writing system is thought to be composed of a 100 signs. The script exists in time at an intermediate stage between the pseudo-hieroglyphs and the later Phoenician alphabet. "The Forgotten Script" project recreates 100 signs using steel wires. They float within a cube, like a cloud. Once hidden, buried and forgotten, the mystery of these symbols become vulnerable, naked, exposed to modern day curiosity.
Tutor: Henri Asmar (Lebanon)
Team: Stepan Pozhidaev (Bellarus), Nathan De Feyter (Belgium), Martina Kavrakova (Bulgaria), Neva Marija Zidić (Croatia), Vanesa Orana (Kosovo), Agnieszka Ejsymont (Poland), Kamila Haja (Poland), Vanessa Chamlian (Lebanon), Alex Curtis (Ireland), Lama Marakshi (Lebanon)
Running Loops
The workshop "running loops" has created a series of urban interventions at Amchit Boulevard which consists of two parts:
1) design and construction and
2) communication and visualization of it. Ten volunteer students from around the world have developed interactive constructions according to the wishes and needs of you spending time at Amchit Boulevard. The logo as well as the signage communicate these ideas visually. Apart from local pine wood, surrounding waste materials such as tires and ropes were reused and upcycled. Enjoy the challenging and relaxing moments of these interventions and don't forget to keep on running!
Tutors: Jennifer Beitel (Germany) – Felix Wernli (Switzerland)
Team: Ana Čajić (Croatia) , Nadia Corsetti (Canada), Victorine Lefebvre (France), Dimitri Leimgrübler (Switzerland) , Lizaveta Rebkavets (Belarus), Georgia Ryan (Ireland), Farid Taher (Germany), Oliwia Tatara (Poland), Florian Van De Voorde (Belgium)
In Byblos, the city of a thousand faces, H/I/Stories team created a space where people can share stories, experience and be part of the diversity, a human library. Our project is based on the fact that you can find history in the smallest things: an object, an experience, a phrase or even a piece of fabric. Photos and messages in various languages are hanging from the ropes inside the pavilion as a testimony of a moment of unity between passers-by. You are welcome to go inside and leave your own trace, a sign of our coexistence!
Tutors: Anastasia Kassiani Florou(Greece), Matrona Milosi (Greece)
Team: Anja Krummenacher (Switzerland), Hana Sloukova (Czech Republic) , Kate Tierney (Ireland), Mariam Elshabrawy (Egypt), Mark Breidy (Lebanon), Mohamed Abdelabry (Egypt), Nadia Ayoub (Germany), Steven Alejandro Whitehouse (England)
Lebanon is currently facing the issue of the over privatisation of land, which has resulted in a lack of public space. This intervention seeks to address this need by situating itself in the neutral territory of the Mediterranean. The pavilion is meant to be a recreational amenity that is accessible to everyone. Cubetto's frame is constructed from renewable and recycled materials to inspire local architecture that is both socially and environmentally sustainable. Within this frame is a parabolic form that is constructed from hung strips of fabric. The transparent quality of the fabric creates a complex layering of space, while its lightness allows Cubetto to become animated by surrounding winds and attract interest of passers-by.
Tutors: Eugenio Chironna (Italy), Alex Marguerie (France)
Team: Andrew Byrne (Ireland), Eduardo Crespo (Spain), Zineddine Djouama (Algeria), Karen Gebara (Lebanon), Theresa Jaspers, Zeki Eneshan Kavakli (Turkey), Elif Cansu Kayikci (Turkey), Uli Kneisl (Germany), Paula López (Spain), Stevo Marović (Serbia), Begüm Saral (Turkey), Robby Stubbs (USA).
Autoprogettazione + Geodesic Dome = Autodome. Here stands a Geodesic structure pavilion inspired by the revolutionary ideas of Buckminister Fuller, made up of a total 99 triangle units that are fixed together to create one dome. A new public space for the people of Jbeil, MEDSByblos welcomes you to take a seat on some of the Enzo Mari furniture pieces within and use it as your own type of public living room. A place to meet, relax and chat with friends or simply think what does Lebanese urban street life & its culture mean to you? #Autodome #DIVERCity
Tutor: Conor de Búrca (Ireland)
Team: Nicola Guida (Italy), Tessa Krämer (Germany), Bill Walsh (Ireland), Jack Prendergast (Ireland), Georgia Momparak (Greece), Vlerim Sojeva (Kosovo), Nickolas Naimeh (Lebanon), Quendresë Tërmkolli (Kosovo), Joe Murphy (Ireland)
Hillslide Chapel
The Sliding Chapel is a non-denominational space for reflection. The exterior is charred black, as if the energy of it's apparent slide down the rugged Lebanese hillside has made it catch fire Internally, the slope of the ceiling encourages visitors to take a seat by creating a sense of compression in section as they approach. Upon sitting down, visitors are rewarded with a stunning sea-view. The concept of apparent movement and the associated energy informs the materiality of the heavily charred exterior skin. This was charred using the traditional Japanese shou-sugi-ban technique. All of the wood used in the chapel is re-cycled. Most of it was originally in the form of shipping containers.
Tutor: Kieran Donnellan (Ireland)
Team: Alberto Ibáñez Puértolas (Spain), Amber Goveas (Canada), Cynthia Antablian (Lebanon), Faustas Lasys (Lithuania), Gregorio Tomasillo (Italy), Hadir Hanna Mahmoud (Germany), Hasan Debes (Turkey), Ioanna Maria Vemou (Greece), Magdalena Storozenko (Poland), Matthias Brenner (Germany), Rabia Hant (Turkey), Roisin Leavey (Ireland), Shpat Ademaj (Kosovo), Shqiprron Jusufi (Kosovo).
Praxis; the process of learning through action. This project seeks to focus on the collaborative process of architecture and to celebrate the event of making. PRAXIS proposes to reanimate the neglected coastal site on Amchit Boulevard through the re-decoration of the pre-existing concrete pier using over 1100 unique handmade concrete tiles. Through the process of testing and making we have explored the aesthetic qualities of concrete, experimenting with multiple techniques, finishes, colours and patterns, ultimately providing a new public space along the coastal boulevard for the local community.
Tutors: Jason Ladrigan (Ireland), Sean Conlan-Smith (Ireland)
Team: Aliaksandra Sudnikovich (Bellarus), Maryia Karaliova (Bellarus), Mirna Aržić (Croatia), Aiden Liam Bell (Ireland), Jennifer Frangieh (Lebanon), Simonas Caikauskas (Lithuania), Jelena Jelacic (Serbia), Sofija Masovic (Serbia), Luca Pfeiffer (Switzerland), Dragana Dekic (Slovenia), Alena Semiusova (Russia), Orla McKeever (Ireland)
Connecting Landscapes
Parallel tracks are crossing Lebanon for more than 200km: an abandoned path looking always the same or the symbol of a resilient country? The unused railway can become a place-making device allowing the invention of new public spaces for Byblos. We conceived a series of elements that speak with the hidden personality and quality of each surviving fragment of the tracks, through different shapes and construction details. The interventions suggest new uses or enhance what is already there. Take a walk along the old rails: you can now find a stop, a path, an oasis and a domestic garden.
Tutors: Lorenza Manfredi (Italy) – Greta Colombo (Italy)
Team: Thomas Andersen (Denmark), Valerio Martinelli (Italy), Jose Manuel de Los Rios Zarzosa Molina (Spain), Rebecca Edin (Sweden), Hiba Jabbour (Lebanon), Ioulia Metzidaki (Greece), Rami Lazakani (Lebanon)
Grow'In Byblos
Grow'In Byblos is a city artistic, playable green installation compiled with one recycled modular element. Integrated in the Roman path, grow'in Byblos aims to animate/transform the public space usage and reintroduce greenery into the city inhabitant daily lives by focusing on three main topics; (i) Arts, (ii) education & (iii) experimentation / playable. To reach such goal, the workshop was divided into three main phases; (i) incubation (3 days), (ii) design adaptation (2 days), (iii) execution & implementation (7 days). As an outcome, the roman path was transformed into a museum without walls, animated by minimalistic interventions allowing the people to react, learn & experiment.
Tutors: Perla Mansour (Lebanon), Cecile Karam (Lebanon), Elyesh Sahyoun (Lebanon)
Team: Elke De Neve (Belgium), Lara Atallah (Lebanon), Mailys Tham (France), Martina Dahm (Finland), Martine Zaarour (Lebanon), Maxine Dutli (Switzerland), Valon Ismaili (Kosovo)
Open Occurrence
Southern Beach in Byblos, located between the privatized beach resorts is considered as one of the last remaining free gates to the sea, allowing an undisturbed connection with infinite landscape. The main objective of this project was to, face up Oskar Hansen's concept of Open Form in the matter of rethinking existing spatial conditions of Southern Beach entrance. Research and observations carried out in the first days set a choice to convert a wall splitting spaces into multifunctional bench with hangers, mirror, taps and shower, as well as redesign main gate and wardens' booth located next to it.
Tutors: Edyta Skiba (Poland), Karolina Turos-Wolny (Poland)
Team: Dina Bartolic (Croatia), Hana Gjikolli (Kosovo), Aurelija Grubliauskaitè (Lithuania), Youssef Ossama (Egypt), Agni Pettemeridi (Cyprus), Pablo Magdalena Visús (Spain), Mike Chaiban (Lebanon), Eline Sleiman (Lebanon)
Recipe By Design
Using time-old techniques, this outdoor kitchen invites you to cook your favourite dishes with old friends!
The construction uses upcycled wood, plastic, and cloth- all supporting a hardy concrete worktop. Be inspired to upcycle your own food into new meals or nutritious compost!
1- Store any waste food for later in your clay fridge- keep the sand wet and your food cool!
2- Wash in your cast concrete sink- please use water sparingly!
3- Cut your food. For zero waste, put any leftovers into the composting bin!
4- Cook away! Light the fire and ensure enough oxygen reaches the flames!
Tutors: Maja Jandrić (Croatia), Alastair Brook (England)
Team: Adnan Ilbay (Turkey) Aswin Kumar (India), Lara Wschiansky (Switzerland), Lejla Odeh (Serbia), Olivia Christodoulides (Cyprus), Pauline Gondek (Germany), Stephanie Steriotis (Canada), Stijn De Kegel (Belgium), Tracy E. Hanna (Lebanon)
Motions in Byblos
Motions in Byblos is an interactive media space to experiment the animated memories of the city. Place is known through the eyes, mind and experience. This place gives you a chance to step into the memories from the dreams of the city. All the features like tulle, animation, ancient columns and the interacting people of the city is an element of the place that helps experimentation to happen in conscious level with high rate of feelings. Animation created with the motions captured from the city and blend together with the designed stage in trans-disciplinary understanding. Follow #motionsinbyblos for more.
Tutors: Ali Alperen Şahin & Fahri Volkan Karaatlı (Turkey)
Team: Pil Anna Tesdorpf (Denmark), Mykyta Lytvynenko (Ukraine), Melissa Bitar (Lebanon), Aaron Verlooy (Belgium), Laura Sabau Tatar (Romania), Jovana Đukić (Slovenia), Valeriia Stavitskaia (Russia), Tjaša Ćordaš (Croatia), Yusuf Bulut (Turkey)
A family of two hundred international people, living together in tents and working in an abandoned beer factory in Lebanon for two weeks is not an everyday occurrence. The fifteen other projects, the cultural contexts of Lebanon and the people themselves naturally created stories and plenty of opportunities for some gawking and stalking. This is exactly what the GawkerStalkers did for the course of the two weeks. In order to tangibly frame our observations and interpretations, many different mediums were used, both analogue and digital. The GawkerStalkers explored their surroundings, engaged with locals, went on adventures and generated this content by working together in teams, brainstorming, learning from each other, asking for help and advice from the people around them.
Tutors: Jan von der Heyde (Germany), Jack Lehane (Ireland), Vlad Georgiev (Macedonia)
Team: Petrine Prien Christensen (Denmark), Johanna Fehrle (Germany), Bhumit Shah (India), Andrea Dagher (Lebanon), Sinem Görücü (Turkey), Tamara Brocic (Serbia), DiellzÎ Bucliu (Kosovo), Deniz Can (Turkey), Jaidev Venkata (India), Arbnore Feks (Kosovo)
The Cube
The Cube is an illustration of a neuron, representation of the basic existence of our psychological and intellectual inner mechanisms. The aim is to create a space where people are gathered, get in touch and therefore ideas can be exchanged. The project intent is to provide an architecture that triggers various uses and accommodates multiple activities as a multipurpose pavilion suitable for the community and the square. Situated in an open public space, in the volume of a cube, a room that is not a room. The volume consists of a pure and humble form which does not defy the nearby objects.
Tutors: Klejni Feimi (Albania) – Paola Dalipi (Albania) – Elie Abou Jaoude (Lebanon)
Participants: Lydia Rose Morgan (Ireland), Deimis Bakunas(Ireland), Elira Beqaj (Kosovo), Çlirimtare Syla (Kosovo), Vera bouez (Lebanon), Jure Korošec (Slovenia), Ilke Senturk (Turkey), Marisa Borabo (Begium), Kate Hunter Hanley (Ireland), Adrián Alfonso Laborda (Spain).
MEDS Beach Resort
Camping Amchit is located in Amchit seaside area, a 2-minute drive from Byblos.
The site is offering small bangalos for tutors, and the organizing team is preparing tents enough to accommodate all the participants.
There will be a small market in the accommodation space, where you can buy drinks, snacks or whatever daily stuff you might need.
The chill-area and food court are next to each other, offering a relaxing space for a time out.
Breakfast and dinner will be served either from sponsored neighboring restaurants, or homemade dishes from our local cooks.
Everyday activities are organized to whoever is interested.
The traditional national night will offer its exotic variety ranging of food, music and entertainment.
Party like a local during the Lebanese night where you will get the chance to be a true Lebanese for the day.
A day off will offer a trip to one of Lebanon's most important touristic sites.


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The Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde aircraft was a supersonic passenger airliner or supersonic transport (SST). It was a product of an Anglo-French government treaty, combining the manufacturing efforts of Aérospatiale and British Aircraft Corporation. With only 20 aircraft ultimately built, the costly development phase represented a substantial economic loss. Additionally, Air France and British Airways were subsidised by their governments to buy the aircraft. Concorde was the more successful of the only two supersonic airliners to have ever operated commercially, the Tupolev Tu-144 being the other. The Tu-144 had a higher maximum speed, but required more fuel and had less range than Concorde.

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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Can a company sell the division you work in and take away your unvested options? According to Forbes, Qualcomm QCOM, -1.57% is alleged to have done that. What about "change of control" provisions where typically your options vest immediately? It's unclear whether that kicks in in this case, where a division is sold rather than the whole company changing hands. Legal issues aside, what's the moral obligation here? Former employees have sued, and a $9 million settlement has been offered, but so far has not been accepted.
Meanwhile, Forbes reports that Irwin Jacobs, Qualcomm's chairman, treated employees in a subsequent divestiture differently ? in a way that allowed them to keep vesting their options. See full story.
It's prime time for Web-based corporate training. Upside Today reports that Cisco CSCO, -1.05% uses it for employee and customer training, and Motorola mot projects that by 2002, half of its training will be delivered via the Web. IBM IBM, +0.31% has a $1billion education budget -- and will save $175 million by using the Web, according to the report.
But that's not all: the market for "e-learning" is exploding. International Data Corp sees the corporate portion expanding almost seven-fold, to $7.1 billion in 2002, from $1.1 billion last year, according to the Upside article. See full story.
More money for diversity programs
Duane Ackerman, CEO of BellSouth BLS, -0.65% and Eastman Kodak's ek chairman, George Fisher will lead a group of 25 large companies who pledge $250 million over the next ten years to corporate programs that encourage diversity, according to The AP. The money is earmarked by each company for education, internships and scholarships for disabled people, women and minorities. It's all part of President Bill Clinton's "One America" program. Religious leaders and lawyers have also pledged their time and energy to the program. See full story.
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Former Bank of America executive Chris Callero has joined Wink Communications WINK, +0.00% as COO. See news release.
AT&T T, -1.13% executive Dale Bennett joins Classic Communications clsc as COO. Bennett was vice president of AT&T Broadband and Internet Service's Texas Metro Region. See news release.
Rhythms NetConnections rthm named Scott C. Chandler senior vice president of Global Business Development, and John Braukman CFO. Until now, Chandler had been acting in both capacities. Braukman was senior vice president of Global Finance at GE GE, +0.88% Capital IT Solutions. See news release.
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Subchondral cyst (geode) of the femoral head
Right hip pain on weight bearing.
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Gender: Female
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Large cyst in the pressure zone of the femoral head. Signs of osteoarthritis.
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Depression of the subchondral lamina covering the cysts. More small subchondral cysts in the acetabulum.
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Subchondral cysts in the superior outer and middle third of the femoral head (pressure zone) may arise from bone contusion and synovial intrusion or osteoclastic resorption of necrotic trabeculae following avascular necrosis 1.
- 1. Resnick D, Niwayama G, Coutts RD. Subchondral cysts (geodes) in arthritic disorders: pathologic and radiographic appearance of the hip joint. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 1977;128 (5): 799-806. AJR Am J Roentgenol (citation) - Pubmed citation


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Sen. John McCain: 'It's Time To Wake Up, We Have To Fight Trump And His…'
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) shot another disgusting statement against President Donald Trump and his supporters, assaulting everything from "crackpot conspiracy theories" to the suggested wall divider with Mexico.
"It's a great opportunity to wake up," McCain stated to midshipmen at the Naval Academy this Monday night.
"I believe in America. We're capable of better. I've seen it. We're hopeful, compassionate people."
McCain then lamented the loss of "compromise and principled cooperation."
As per The Hill, here's what McCain has stated:
"We are asleep to the necessity of our leadership, and to the opportunities and real dangers of this world."
"We are asleep in our echo chambers, where our views are always affirmed and information that contradicts them is always fake."
The six-term congressperson didn't say the president by name, yet he tended to both Trump's arrangements and talk:
"We have to fight against propaganda and crackpot conspiracy theories. We have to fight isolationism, protectionism and nativism. We have to defeat those who would worsen our divisions. We have to remind our sons and daughters that we became the most powerful nation on earth by tearing down walls, not building them."
McCain, who moved on from the academy in 1958, turned plainly passionate amid the discourse, expressing gratitude toward the midshipmen for the sacrifices they will be approached to make for those "who won't be approached to make sacrifices for you."
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Do I believe Everton should have been awarded a penalty when striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin went down under a challenge from Liverpool's Dejan Lovren on Sunday?
No, I don't.
Calvert-Lewin took a step to the right to bump off the Croatian and that legitimised the fall.
So I can understand why Jurgen Klopp was frustrated.
But what he should have said in his post-match interview after the 1-1 draw was, 'That wasn't a penalty, we tried to play the game in an open and honest way.'
Instead, he lost face by having a go at Sky Sports' Patrick Davidson and telling him he "only wanted to talk to people who have a little bit of understanding about football" after the reporter had given his opinion that it was a "soft penalty".
What Klopp didn't realise was that the pundits back in the studio, with something like 600 caps and five Champions Leagues titles between them, had agreed with their colleague.
It was cowardice on Klopp's part and he should not have done it.
When managers vent at like that they are basically taking their frustrations about an official, their players, opposition players or managers out on a convenient target.
And in this instance there was an element of the mask dropping and the side of Klopp we rarely see behind that big laugh and smile revealing itself.
He came across as spiteful and completely unprofessional, and perhaps he'd have been better served explaining properly why he'd left out Philippe Coutinho and Roberto Firmino than getting caught up in a debate about the penalty.
It's bizarre that a player can score a hat-trick in midweek — having played brilliantly the previous Saturday — and then find himself on the bench for the derby, as Coutinho did.
And I don't care which manager made that call — Klopp, Pep Guardiola, Jose Mourinho, Arsene Wenger or Mauricio Pochettino — it struck me as someone trying to reinvent the wheel.
If I'd been in Coutinho's position, then my manager would have seriously upset me if he told me I was out of the clash with our local rivals. And he'd have needed a wagon and horses to drag me away from the stadium.
Anyway, I digress, because Klopp wasn't the only manager misbehaving at the weekend, with Mourinho having a pop at Michael Oliver after the Manchester derby.
The Portuguese was just fudging the issue completely rather than being honest and saying, 'We lost to the better team on the day'.
You'd have had a lot more respect for that.
It isn't just those two guilty of excuse-making, because you can guarantee Sam Allardyce would have said the same as Klopp had the foul been on a Liverpool striker by an Everton defender.
All bar one of them will say, 'That was a foul' one week and, 'Never!' the next.
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Burnley's Sean Dyche is the only manager who'll say, 'Yep, we were awful today', or 'Actually, we were great' — and how refreshing that is.
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Alicia Bauer also known as Alley Cat is a 20 year veteran of the music business. Starting out as a drum'n'bass DJ, Alicia relocated to London from San Francisco and built her career from the bottom up. She has had extensive years as a full time gigging DJ which kept her busy all over Europe, and as far afield as Tel Aviv, South Africa, Iceland, and Hawaii. In addition to touring, she has several mix-CDs and releases under her belt. Alicia managed the label Skunkrock Productions and in recent years ran her own label : Kokeshi. The label is known for its deep emotive releases, Klub nights, and ((pod)) Kasts.
Alicia started working for ESP agency in 2004. Now a director the company, Alicia works with artists such as Calibre, DJ Marky, Black Sun Empire, Dub Phizix & Strategy, Icicle, LSB, dBridge, and many more. Her extensive experience touring gives Alicia a special point of view when liasing with both promoters and artists. The boutique agency has an eclectic roster and Alicia's role encompasses everything from travel management, to visa arrangements, accounting, and the day to day running of the business.


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Sherre Hirsch
For over twenty years, Rabbi Sherre Hirsch has been sharing her intimate counsel and wisdom with people in all kinds of "pulpits," ranging from her congregation at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles to the audience of the Today show to small Southern Baptist churches. She serves as the spiritual life consultant for Canyon Ranch Properties and is a highly sought-after inspirational speaker and teacher who routinely addresses congregations, corporations, women's groups, leadership organizations, and countless other audiences throughout the United States. Visit her at SherreHirsch.com or follow her on Twitter.


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Andrea TamasZurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
I believe in the beauty of diversity
Andrea Tamas works as the Head of International Relations at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Health Professions in Switzerland. She is responsible for the school's international office as well as for strategic developments within the school's nine study programmes. Since she started her current position six years ago, Andrea has developed the school's network, increased student and staff mobility and is currently focusing the internationalisation strategy towards educating more culturally sensitive and competent students. She has experience in teaching intercultural communication, advising, curriculum development and implementing internationalisation at home activities. Andrea has a PhD in Health and Environmental Psychology from University of Zurich and has wide experience of working in international projects all over the world. She is a Steering group member in the EAIE Expert Community Health and Welfare Education.


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Summary received from a recent happy tour guest/
Although we live within 20 minutes drive we had not heard of Blackdown Ridge. The journey there was without problems due to the directions given by Lucinda into the wilds of West Sussex.
The day of our visit was the day that the storm was supposed to go through the south of England but it did not affect our enjoyment. We were met by Marius who showed us around the areas of vines. The view from the top of the hill is to "die for". Marius was full of knowledge but more importantly enthusiasm. Marius showed us the impressive new winery building. He explained that the first vines were planted in 2010 and the various varieties and their significance was very interesting. So Blackdown Ridge is a very new but developing winery.
We were then shown into the main building into a lovely living room where there was set out a variety of glasses and nibbles. Marius gently guided us through the various samples (white, rose, red, sparkling and even still cider); again his knowledge and love of wine shone through. Everyone has a different taste but we were very impressed with the wines. The white was not so different from a New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, the rose had character and the red, although it was young had a depth and breadth that really surprised me. They also produce a sparkling white which was comparable with other winery offerings and a limited amount of still cider, which again had a good taste. This demonstrates the winery versatility and wide skills sets.
So in conclusion, Blackdown Ridge is an up and definitely coming winery that is already producing very decent wines which come from good selection of appropriate grapes (all grown on site) and the skill involved in the wine production. We left the winery with 24 bottles of various types which we look forward to supping. Blackdown Ridge is a winery that obviously is passionate about producing the best possible wines from their grapes and deserve to succeed. Certainly one to keep and eye on and support.


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Our planet is precious. No matter where we go, we want to be conscious of the impact we have on the incredible natural landscapes we have the privilege of experiencing from the rider's seat. One of our goals at Babes Ride Out 5 is to be more respectful of the ecosystems we enjoy. After all, we want future Babes to be able to ride around these desert lands for generations to come.
We have partnered with the Mojave Desert Land Trust to help reduce our footprint on the desert and everywhere we roam on two wheels or four. That is why we are excited to launch the official Babes Ride Out mugs and water bottles with clip on carabiners for easy moto and belt loop toting. We all need a caffeine boost for those early morning rides, and it is important to hydrate while exploring (especially in the desert), but plastic water bottles and cups take up to 1,000 years to degrade! With our reusable bottles, we can stay hydrated (in style!) while also caring for the lands we love. 50% of proceeds will be donated to the Mojave Desert Land Trust to help them keep securing and protecting this beautiful place we call home.
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Recently my large transfers are moving from a simple layering of the image multiple times to layering different images over one another creating a previously unimagined composition. Creating what I have so lovingly dubbed "Photo mash-ups" I work from original 35mm, medium format images and combined them for a desired layered depth.
I have endless drafts on scraps of paper, fabric and cardboard that clutter everything. With the help of endless prodding from my husband I have decided to find some way to provide them for purchase.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Reasons 2012 Will Rock - Part 3
1 - There are some FREAKTASTICALLY-AWESOME new books coming out. So many that I'm bound to miss a ton, so I'll just name the first three that pop up in my head: Everneath by Brodi Ashton, The Breakaway by Michelle Davidson Argyle, Shadow & Bone by Leigh Bardugo. -- and so, SO many more. Dude. Good books in 2012!!
2 - My good friend, Renee Collins, posted this week about the dreaded scary scenario of what happens if you get an agent, it doesn't work out, and you have to start over. It technically happened at the end of 2011...but I'm sure her happy ending will carry right through next year, so we'll count it. Stop by and congratulate Renee on her new agent! I couldn't be more ecstatic for you, girl! :-D
3 - Very early in 2012, I'll be finishing my current WIP. It's deliciously dark and totally fitting for a year in which the end of the world has been predicted. I'll post an excerpt at some point. This book keeps me awake at night. For real.
So, any new reasons this week to be excited for next year? Add to my fun, will you?
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Aw, thank you, Jenn! You're awesome. Trust me when I say I couldn't have done it without you! :)ReplyDelete
Also, there are FOUR books I'm looking forward to this year. The three you talk about in #1, plus a certain "deliciously dark" book you mention at the end of your post. :) Gimmiegimmiegimmie!
I agree with Renee. Deliciously dark? Yes please! :DReplyDelete
Thanks for the mention! I cannot believe that book will actually be out soon! Ack! And I can't wait to read Brodi's book. I've heard so much about it! Havne't heard about Shadow & Bone yet. And congrats to Ren! SO excited for her. :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 16, 2011 at 11:31 AM
Thanks, Jenn! Very excited about 2012 and your WIP!ReplyDelete
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Cover of Everything's Archie 1 (May 1969) Art by Dan DeCarlo & Rudy Lapick.
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Everything's Archie was a comic book published by Archie Comics from 1969 to 1991. The title served as a vehicle for showcasing the newly created Archie band The Archies, which was featured in the Archie TV cartoon series of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The series follows the exploits of the Archie band, as they meet record execs, play gigs, etc. Like Betty and Veronica Summer Fun and World of Archie, it was part of the Archie Giant Series. Everything's Archie was cancelled because the Archies were fading at the character's 50th anniversary. The company was also readying up for series such as Betty, Veronica, Jughead's Time Police, Archie 3000, and the Archie Americana Series.
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easy homemade valentines day gifts for boyfriend
Easy Homemade Valentines for School, a fun and quick non candy Valentine This easy homemade applesauce recipe is an easy way to use apples the kids will love here are some of our favorite valentine's day candy. It can easily be frozen if you get an abundance of apples all at once courtney from crafts by courtney made these adorable, easy-to-create chalkboard frames. Homemade Christmas Gift Ideas Welcome to our collection of easy homemade Christmas gift ideas for men, women and kids, all with step-by-step photo tutorials with the right photo, they make the perfect gift. Send something unique with these easy DIY Valentine s Day projects materials: wooden heart. From pretty and romantic puds to passion-boosting oysters, try these Valentine s Day recipes for two skip the store-bought candy this valentine s day and make homemade sweets straight from the heart. Homemade valentines are so much fun for the kids! Here s a super cute one that s also candy-free- Butterfly Pencil Valentine Card! 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Pat Shurmur has started the same five players on his offensive line all preseason, but based on merit, that soon may have to change.
The line of Nate Solder, Will Hernandez, Jon Halapio, Patrick Omameh and Ereck Flowers, from left to right, has not gotten anywhere close to a sufficient push in the run game through two preseason games.
And if they can't do that this season — well, Shurmur said it best on Monday:
"We're gonna go as far as that line will block for us," the head coach said after a full-pad practice in which the first-string defensive line obliterated Big Blue's front five.
This is happening even though GM Dave Gettleman rightly made it his offseason priority to improve the O-line and running game, drafting stud back Saquon Barkley and Hernandez in rounds one and two, and paying Solder and Omameh big money to start right away.
Eli Manning needs a successful running game to have the type of bounce-back year that the organization believes he can produce at 37 years old. The preseason has been a limited sample size, but so far, in both practices and games, the first-string offensive line has not delivered what it must come Week 1.
Since Saquon Barkley's exceptional 39-yard run on his first carry against the Cleveland Browns, the Giants have rushed 14 times for 21 total yards behind their first-team offensive line through two games.
That's 1.5 yards per carry. Jonathan Stewart has gained two yards on seven carries. Wayne Gallman has gained 15 on four rushes. And Barkley's three other runs in the first game went for a total of four yards. Many of Stewart's runs were blown up by defenders running free before the back even had a chance.
Shurmur is smart and experienced. He started at center for three years in college at Michigan State. He has been coaching in the NFL for a long time. He knows what he is watching.
He also knows, though, that Solder, Hernandez and Omameh are new to the team, and Halapio and Flowers are playing new positions. So patience is required to allow this new group time to develop chemistry and continuity.
That's also why the coach reorganized the locker room to have all the linemen sitting together.
"I think it's important that they're together in everything that they do," Shurmur said.
Says Hernandez: "He says we're going to go as far as our line takes us because he knows from experience."
(Hernandez, now nicknamed 'Max' because Omameh told him 'you look like a Max,' also joked that he can tell Shurmur is a former lineman because "I walked by one day and his plate was packed for lunch.")
Gaining yards is more important than continuity, though, so if something doesn't change early in Friday night's third preseason game against the Jets, there is no reason why Shurmur shouldn't give guys like Brett Jones, John Jerry and John Greco chances with the ones.
Barkley is a great player, but the recipe can't be to just ask him to make something out of nothing. And of course, Barkley now has been shelved for a full week with his left hamstring strain and is not yet back practicing with his teammates, either.
"I think collectively we're all doing a good job," Halapio said of the run blocking. "It's not gonna be perfect. But I feel like the more we get to play, that's when you can really see if we're doing (well) with the productivity. So this game coming up hopefully with the 1s get(ting) to play a little bit longer, we'll really see with the running game and keeping the pocket clean.
"It'll be a good test for us," the center added. "The Jets are really good up front."
Omameh, however, has been the most concerning so far — not only because the free agent signing from Jacksonville has struggled, but because teamed alongside the shaky Flowers, it could render the entire right side of the Giants' offensive line a liability.
Omameh is the only Giants starting lineman that Pro Football Focus graded below 55.0 in both preseason games against Cleveland (53.7) and Detroit (51.9). He was the lowest-graded run blocker of the five in Detroit (52.0) and second-lowest against the Browns (48.2) ahead of only Hernandez (46.2), though the rookie promisingly shot up to 71.8 against the Lions.
"We're gonna go as far as that line will block for us."
Omameh and Flowers also were culprits on the sack of Davis Webb in Detroit that luckily was overturned to an incomplete pass. Halapio also hasn't received a grade higher than 58.9 in either game, compared to the improved second outings of Solder (73.5) and Hernandez (77.5) and even to Flowers' 64.8 in Detroit.
"We are all aware of the job that's expected of us, and we're all ready to step up to the plate and take on that challenge," Omameh said Monday. "It's just a matter of us continuing to build and improve and be where we want to be when the season hits."
Solder and Hernandez made clear strides from preseason game one to two, though in both the Browns' and Lions' games, a free defender shot through a left-side gap unblocked with Hernandez seemingly engaged in a double team.
One lineman said this was not the product of a missed assignment; it was simply that the linemen doubling need to get off their first block quicker to take the linebacker before he shoots the gap.
And surely preseason is the time to make mistakes or for rookies to acclimate to NFL game speed. But the fall is drawing near and soon these games and errs will count and cost the Giants in a big way.
Shurmur on Monday was asked if he felt settled about his starting five. The coach balked at critiquing his first-string O-line but admitted he's "still a little unsettled" about "determining who that full unit and full group is," as far as depth is concerned.
"We're not done deciding who's gonna be our linemen on our 53, and we may keep one more lineman than usual, who knows?" Shurmur said. "You're always going through, 'OK, if we had to play tomorrow, who are the five starters, who's the inside swing guy, who's the outside swing guy? And maybe there's games we'd keep eight active."
Or maybe there will be a game when Shurmur gives another lineman a chance with the first group. And maybe that game will be Friday.


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Sunday, December 19, 2010
I Heart Hand Bells
What the hell is that? I am sure that if you are bothering to read this then you are asking yourself this question. Well I shall tell you...
Once upon a time I was in high school and at my little high school with a student body of 200 students we all had to take a "Fine Art" course in order to graduate. Well, since I don't sing and I don't play a band instrument and can't act to save my life (I was that kid who spent the entire Christmas pageant waving at her parents instead of pretending to be a watchful shepherd) when my senior year came around the doors to the chorale, band and drama club were all shut to me. Luckily, there was one last refuge, one last bastion of hope for talentless students. This last chance station was known as Bell Choir.
We met in the back room of the administration building during seventh period. And in a crowded little room we donned gloves and prepared to meet The Clinician. The Clinician is sort of like the Dude from the Big Lebowski, okay he's really nothing like the Dude...but that's what you call a director of a bell choir...a clinician. His name was Dr. Chip Spier. He was a renowned cardiothoracic surgeon with a fever...a fever that could only be cured with a prescription for hand bells. He left the hospital in the afternoons to come to coach us and he was all business.
Now for the uninitiated, the first thing that one does when joining a bell choir, besides donning silk/cotton blend gloves, is to get a hand bell assignment. After one look from the Clinician I was assigned the C4 and D4 bells. What are C4 and D4 bells you ask? In short...they are the obscenely large bells that could also hang in the cupolas of old Taco Bells (back when Taco Bells looked like replicas of the Alamo)...
|Photographic evidence of serving time in Hand Bell Choir with Patrick C.
Yes I have since learned that black turtlenecks on albino skin and a large chest are a bad bad idea...thank you.
Now prior to joining the Bell Choir I didn't know how to read music so I was already at a deficit. Not only could I not read music but I couldn't keep time...probably because I am a white person and its not in my DNA. Further, I don't work well under pressure...and there are few situations in life more intense than playing "Carol of the Bells" at the school Christmas pageant with the Clinician giving you the evil eye...that evil eye that communicates to you, You better not f#*k up my masterpiece! So with no musical training, no natural ability and no strength of character I was poised to become an utter failure in the field of hand bell ringing. But luckily the Lord gave me one secret weapon...one special gifts that made me superior to all other hand bell ringers of my day. What was this weapon, you ask?...a large rack.
Oh yes, you read correctly. My secret weapon in the war of hand bell ringing was a DDD cup size. Now why is this an advantage? Does cleavage distract from a performer's complete lack of musical ability? Well maybe it does for Britney Spears but for Whitny Braun it made me the best damn dampener in all of the San Gabriel Academy Hand Bell Choir.
You see in order to play the hand bells you have to pick them up and hold them to your chest, then thrust your arms out in a motion similar to walloping a punching bag. The mallet inside the bell strikes the side of the bell creating the rich smooth echoing sound of the C4 and D4 bells. Of course you don't want the bell to continue echoing on at infinitum. Thus you must dampen the bell. How does one do this? You do this by quickly cupping the bell to your chest in a manner similar to the chest beating motion Celine Dion makes on stage. When you are playing the D7 for example, which is a teeny tiny bell similar in size to the little bells you would ring to summon a servant with your tea, you can silence those in an instant by holding them against pretty much any relatively soft, relatively flat surface. But to dampen the D4...now that takes a majestic chest. And luckily for me...a majestic chest I do indeed have.
So back to the button or pin or whatever you want to call it that reads "I [Heart] Hand Bells" that inspired this post...do I in fact love hand bells? Well, I guess I do...but mostly I just like the sound of silencing them.
Maxwell the Magnificent
Friday, December 17, 2010
Learn the French language and all about stereotypes instantly!
Today I continue on my quest to go through all of the vinyl records in the crawlspace above my closet by sharing with all of you this classic French language instructional album which teaches the listener all about how to ask for directions to the library and how to recognize a French bellhop...instantly!
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Ling, Max & What Was My Clean Laundry
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Let's All Sing Christmas Carols in STEREOPHONIC!
Merry Christmas to me! I am just going to start calling my house Santa because it just keeps giving and giving! I mean what says Christmas more than this 1961 vinyl classic aptly titled "Let's All Sing Christmas Carols"?
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Now I am a little concerned about the children on this album cover though. My first concern is that they are really bad actors. I mean c'mon are they supposed to look surprised, fearful, joyous? Frankly my first thought when I saw this was that kids were looking down into a grave but then I thought, nah that doesn't make sense. So then I reasoned from the bricks they are shown leaning on that they must be looking down a chimney. So if they are looking down a chimney and one kid appears to have a look of fear on his face, while the little girl appears to be surprised and the boy on the right seems to about to laugh I can only surmise that they have stumbles across Santa delivering presents down their chimney in the nude. Clearly, its the only logical conclusion. Wouldn't you agree?
An Evening With Tupper Saussy
Who the hell is Tupper Saussy? Perhaps this is a question you have asked yourself. No? Okay, maybe it's just me. I found myself asking this question this week as I was cleaning out the crawl space above my closet and came across a pile of probably eighty vinyl albums and right on the top of the pile was this gem...
Okay, so who the hell is Tupper Saussy? My dear friend Ryan did a little research and the first thing he found was a quote from the UK newspaper The Guardian which said, "Tupper Saussy is not a man to be taken lightly." Well one can clearly tell just by looking at him that this is not a man to be taken lightly. This is a man who would throw a 20 year Scotch in your face and then dab off any backsplash that landed on him with that elegantly folded pocket square. He would probably challenge you to a dual...only instead of pistols at dawn it would probably be a bass viola-off and then he'd hand you your ass on a platter. He's sort of like the Dos Equis/Most Interesting Man in the World...you know, except that I don't think that anyone has the overwhelming urge to punch the Dos Equis man. (What? Is it just me?)
After spending an evening with Tupper Saussy I must say that this album has inspired me to change my use of idioms. In the future whenever anyone says something that would necessitate me saying, "That's what she said..." or "Your mom goes to college..." I will instead interject..."Said I to Shostakovich". I imagine it would go something like this:
Other Person: You forgot to buy orange juice at the grocery store?
Me: Yes. Sorry. It's really not that big of a deal.
Other Person: Argh! That's what you always say!
Me: [Snidely] SAID I TO SHOSTAKOVICH...
Other Person: Huh?
Okay, so maybe it won't make complete sense at first but give it time and you can condition the other person so that they understand and respond appropriately. Patience and persistence are virtues people.
Well, I suppose that is all I have to say for tonight. There is a turntable in the other room with some Tupper Saussy waiting to be played. Ciao people...I have a date with Tupper Saussy and he is not a man to be taken lightly or kept waiting.
|Tupper Saussy: "Said I To Shostakovitch"
After spending an evening with Tupper Saussy I must say that this album has inspired me to change my use of idioms. In the future whenever anyone says something that would necessitate me saying, "That's what she said..." or "Your mom goes to college..." I will instead interject..."Said I to Shostakovich". I imagine it would go something like this:
Other Person: You forgot to buy orange juice at the grocery store?
Me: Yes. Sorry. It's really not that big of a deal.
Other Person: Argh! That's what you always say!
Me: [Snidely] SAID I TO SHOSTAKOVICH...
Other Person: Huh?
Okay, so maybe it won't make complete sense at first but give it time and you can condition the other person so that they understand and respond appropriately. Patience and persistence are virtues people.
Well, I suppose that is all I have to say for tonight. There is a turntable in the other room with some Tupper Saussy waiting to be played. Ciao people...I have a date with Tupper Saussy and he is not a man to be taken lightly or kept waiting.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Brief Encounters with Nancy Brophy
For today's post I thought I should post a conversation I had with a guest staying at the B&B...I had committed the conversation to paper several months ago and came across it as I was cleaning up my hard drive this afternoon.
When I am not in grad school, doing research in Spain, teaching courses in bioethics to thoroughly bored nursing and medical students or searching for lost cats stuck in trees I work at my family's bed and breakfast near Yosemite National Park. This last summer I had a series of conversations with a guest. Her name was Nancy Brophy (of course this is not actually her name as names have been changed to protect the innocent.) Anyway, It's guests like Nancy Brophy that make me really wonder if I am cut out for the service industry. If I wasn't so gosh darn skilled at getting the lime scale off of shower doors and removing bodily fluid staining from sheets I think I would throw in the towel and tell my parent's they are on their own up in Coulterville. But alas, since I am really and truly gifted at scrubbing toilets I keep on keeping on and enjoying the company of true originals like one Nancy Brophy. Now as for this guest Nancy Brophy...think of my encounters with her as a play told in three acts...I call it "Brief Encounters with Nancy Brophy".
The First Encounter
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Her: "Hi...this is Nancy, I am staying with you tonight."
Me: "Yes, hello, we are looking forward to your stay."
Her: "Now how do I find you?"
Me: "Okay, for the first leg you are going to want to take Hwy 120 to Smith Station Road, it'll be 10 miles from the park gate to the Smith Station turn off".
Her: "So is that a long 10 miles?"
Me: "Hmm, well its a straight 10 miles on Hwy 120."
Her: "So its a long 10 miles then?"
Me: "Well its 10 miles at 65 miles per hour, or 16 kilometers at like 105 km/h...on a relatively straight flat road."
Her: "Oh okay, so its a short 10 miles then?"
Me: "Yes, hello, we are looking forward to your stay."
Her: "Now how do I find you?"
Me: "Okay, for the first leg you are going to want to take Hwy 120 to Smith Station Road, it'll be 10 miles from the park gate to the Smith Station turn off".
Her: "So is that a long 10 miles?"
Me: "Hmm, well its a straight 10 miles on Hwy 120."
Her: "So its a long 10 miles then?"
Me: "Well its 10 miles at 65 miles per hour, or 16 kilometers at like 105 km/h...on a relatively straight flat road."
Her: "Oh okay, so its a short 10 miles then?"
Me: "I don't know that I would call it long or short...I would maybe just say that it is a universally accepted 10 miles."
Her: "Got it...it's a long 10 miles then?"
Me: "Umm, I'm not really sure how else I can qualify or describe a quantitative measurement of linear distance other than to say its 10 miles in a straight line."
Her: "So you're saying its a pretty easy 10 miles then?"
Me: "Yes Ma'am...that is exactly what I am saying."
Me: "Umm, I'm not really sure how else I can qualify or describe a quantitative measurement of linear distance other than to say its 10 miles in a straight line."
Her: "So you're saying its a pretty easy 10 miles then?"
Me: "Yes Ma'am...that is exactly what I am saying."
The Second Encounter
(Experienced as I took her breakfast order)
Me: "How would you like your eggs?"
Her: "Well, I am watching what I eat...will I still get the same protein from a hard boiled as a scrambled egg...do you get what I'm saying?"
Me: "Uh-huh, I totally see where you are going with this and I believe this is exactly what French chemist Antoine Lavoisier was talking about when he wrote his treatise on the law of conservation of mass and matter."
Her: "Oh is he the guy who designed NutriSystem?"
Me: "Uh-huh, and would you believe he's actually fathered children by both Marie Osmond and Valerie Bertinelli?"
The Third Encounter
(Experienced as I drew her a map to the Diana Pools)
Me: The Diana Pools are our natural swimming pools on the property. They're where the north fork of the Merced meets Smith Creek and cascades over this huge granite face into a series of little pools.
Her: "Are they heated?"
Me: "Well..heated by solar energy..."
Her: "Oh great, so they're warm."
Me: "Well, no the water isn't warm because the Merced River is glacier fed...(visualize blank stare from her)...So the water is cold but the granite rock absorbs the heat all day and conducts the heat to the water which keeps it around 60 degrees."
Her: "Oh so the water is frozen then? Is that safe?"
Me: "No the water isn't frozen, its flowing water and is it safe?...well it really only takes six inches to drown so really who am I to say whether or not something is safe?"
Her: "So its warm then, do you pump the water into the pools yourself then?"
Me: "No, because I'm 28 so they put the glaciers in here back before I was born...which makes it, you know, pretty easy for me now. I can just kind of let it do its thing."
Her: "Oh that is great, you're so lucky that was all done for you."
Me: "Yeah, my family has always been into installing glaciers."
Her: "Well, I just think it is so wonderful when families can pass a business down generation after generation."
Me: "Yeah, the only thing that is hard is that whole federal inheritance tax on glaciers and, ya know, of course global warming."
The Saga of Harriett in the Big Bad Golf Course
Last month I posted a story about the three month ordeal I endured in the summer of 2009 when my beloved cat Buddy Lee got lost in the woods of Yosemite. I have since received comments from a reader named Nathalie who is currently trying to recover her own cat who is lost in the crowded busy neighborhood near her house.
In an effort to give Nathalie hope and also to preserve for posterity the saga of my little bitty kitty Harriett I give you the saga of Harriett in the big bad golf course...
In an effort to give Nathalie hope and also to preserve for posterity the saga of my little bitty kitty Harriett I give you the saga of Harriett in the big bad golf course...
|This is Harriett
My Dad and I found Harriett in the summer of 2002. We were on a routine run to Home Depot and waiting at an intersection when my Dad looked down and saw two little eyes peering up from the storm drain below. Dad jumped out of the car and reached down into the gutter and pulled what honestly looked like a 1 lb version of Gollum from the "Lord of the Rings" out of the muck. We blew off Home Depot and took the little naked mole rat masquerading as a cat home and then to the vet and over the course of several days nursed it...her...back to health. My Dad cleaned the mites out of her ears every day and my mom fed her with a bottle.
In time she turned into the furry fruit bat looking creature pictured above. She had some special needs, which included a tick and a propensity to walk sideways, thus solidifying her nicknames of "Gollum" and "Smeagol". Our giant Great Dane/Bull Mastiff mix named Snuggles adored her and they became the best of friends and all was right with the world...at least in the Braun family home.
Then in December of 2005 all was suddenly not right with the world. My friend Alise, who was about to leave for Cambodia for research was spending the weekend at my house. We decided to put up a Christmas Tree. Well, in the process of bringing in the Christmas tree I left the back door open...
A day later my mom asked if anyone had seen Harriett. As Harriett is prone to hiding anyway, none of us had really thought much of the fact that we hadn't seen her. A little while later my mom thought she saw a fight between a portly orange cat and our little Harriett on the fence behind the house through her bedroom window. We immediately searched the house...no Harriett.
My mom was distraught. I felt sick with guilt. My Grandma turned to prayer. My Dad turned to a million candlepower flashlight. Alise was in Cambodia and had bigger problems.
Our first lead was the fact that my mom had seen Harriett dart off into the golf course behind our house after the altercation with the fat Garfield cat. So we set up base camp. We took blankets and sleeping bags and set up a base of operations on the back porch so that should Harriett want to just come wandering back to us she would know where to find us.
Suffice it to say that sleeping outside in December on your back porch is miserable and move on...
My next step was to hop the fence into the golf course the next day and look for Harriett. Seeting how heartbroken my mom was and knowing how terrified Harriett must be (wherever she was) I began frantically searching the area of the golf course along the property line with our house. Now in theory this search was a good idea...except that the manner in which I chose to do it was perhaps less than well thought out. I got a machete from the garage and began walking along the hedges and frantically slashing at the brush trying to reveal where Harriett might be hiding. In hindsight I realize that this could have very easily resulted in me injuring myself or the cat...but desperation makes you do crazy things...obviously. After hours of slashing through hedges and bushes and small tree branches I stepped back and surveyed the damage. I had made the area around the 9th hole look like it had been carpet bombed by a C-130 cargo plane in Vietnam. Then I ran.
The next night as we were camped out on the back porch once more my mom began calling Harriett's name. After about thirty minutes we heard something. It was her meow. It was her distinctive little chirp of a meow. My mom called out her name again but we didn't hear anything. Maybe it was another cat. Maybe it was out imaginations. We waited a bit and then my mom called out her name again and again and alternated between saying her name, her best cat friend's name Buddy Lee and her best doggy pal's name Snuggles. We waited a second and then heard her little chirp again.
This went on for three days and we couldn't pinpoint where it was coming from. The acoustics in the golf course behind our house made it impossible to know where she was. For three more nights we camped out on the freezing porch calling her name and then climbing over into the golf course with the flashlights to look at her and thoroughly irritating our neighbors.
I can't speak for my parents or my grandmother but I suspect they felt like me. I could not give up. I had to find Harriett. We couldn't lose her right before Christmas. Well, we couldn't lose her period. I had not slept in five days. I had not eaten in five days. I had leaves in my hair and I had vandalized a public golf course...I was going to find that cat. As I was having a Scarlet O'Hara moment on my porch, shaking my fist at the moon my Dad came running back from the golf course yelling that he had found her!
He had found her! Where was she? Of course...she was at the top of a seventy foot pine tree about 100 yards from our back porch. A seventy foot pine tree with no branch lower than ten fee off of the ground. Fabulous.
So I did what any rational, sane person would do. I called the fire department. Well, I learned very quickly that contrary to popular belief the fire department does not actually get cats out of trees. Apparently, it is considered a waste of tax payers dollars and it would be too dangerous to risk driving the fire engine across the golf course and getting it stuck in one of the sand traps. My Dad had an alternate plan...he was going to climb the tree. He went and got a ladder. Remember this tree is seventy feet tall. All I heard in my internal monologue were the words..."Sweet Jesus"
I of course did the next best thing a sane, rational person would do after being rejected by the fire department. I pitched a tent...in the golf course...at the base of the tree, so that just in case Harriett managed to come down we would be there for you.
Sometime around four or five in the morning a golf cart with it's headlights on cruised up along side of our campsite and then sped away. A few minutes later two gold carts came back...apparently the driver of the first decided he needed back-up.
"Excuse me...ma'am, ma'am...why are you sleeping in the gold course?" called the man from the first cart.
"My cat is in the tree!" I yelled back.
"Are you homeless?" the hollered at me.
"Me? No...I live right there in that house. I motioned over to my 6,000 square foot house."
"Are you the doctor's daughter?"
There was a pause.
"Well, you can't sleep in the golf course."
This hollering back and forth was getting tiresome. I got out of my sleeping bag and walked over to the golf carts. I explained that I had been searching for my cat for five days and that I was so close that I couldn't walk away now. I then think I might have fallen to my knees and begged for help from the golf course manager.
He looked at me with pity and then said that he would need me off the golf course by the time the first golfers got to the ninth hole. At this point I said, "You wouldn't happen to have a cherry picker or anything that we could use to get up there and get my cat do you?"
"No we don't but we have the tree trimmers coming today to clean up that area over there..." he motioned to the hedgerow I had absolutely obliterated four days earlier. "It's the weirdest thing...must have been the wind."
"Yeah that is weird..." I said trying to look as perplexed about it as he was.
An hour later the tree trimmers with their cherry picker rolled in. The cavalry had arrived. The manager had explained my plight to the tree trimmers already but as they cruised in like the SWAT team I fell to my knees once more pleading, "Seniors, seniors...my gatito es arriba en el arbol...por favor...necessito su ayuda!"
They obliged me. And with my mom, my dad, the golf course manager, the head of security for the golf course and me watching they planted the legs of the cherry picker and began raising the bucket up to the highest branch in the tree. The intrepid tree trimmer Javier had leather gloves and a cat carrier and was ready for business. Just as Javier was within arm's reach of Harriett she panicked. She ran to the end of the branch and fell...falling almost seventy feet to the ground below. I almost couldn't look. My mom screamed. The golf course manager yelled "Aye dios mio!". It couldn't end like this!
It didn't. Harriett somehow managed to land on all fours and then what did she do next? She bolted up the next tree over, a sixty-five foot Ponderosa Pine. She scaled that thing like Spiderman climbing up the face of the Empire State Building.
Javier was undaunted. His partner Marco repositioned the cherry picker and Javier ascended to the heavens once again to attempt to get Harriett for a second time. It was inspiring to watch. This time if Javier failed and Harriett fell out of the tree again there was no way she would live...she had to have used up all of her nine lives by now.
As Javier approached Harriett in the bucket attached to the massive mechanical arm the second time Harriett froze. Javier reached for her and started to guide her into the cat carrier. We were almost there. Just another inch or two...so close...but just when it looked like it was going to be okay Harriett freaked out and fought and then fell sixty-five feet to ground below landing on her side. We all cringed, assuming the worst but no sooner did Harriett hit the ground with a thud than she popped back and up and started running at full speed toward our backyard.
I was standing the farthest from our backyard and stood there slightly dumbfounded as I saw my dad take off running after Harriett, followed by my mom, followed by the manager of the golf course, followed by the director of security for the golf course, followed by the man who had been operating the cherry picker. Javier was still up in the bucket. It was surreal. I then shook my head and followed in pursuit.
I saw Harriett jump over the fence to our backyard and then with the agility and swiftness of a cat my Dad somehow leaped over the fence and landed on top of Harriett with his full weight. Okay, now the cat was definitely dead. But as soon as the dust cleared Harriett wriggled out from underneath my Dad's weight and shot like a bullet towards the back porch. At this point I thought we had lost her for good. She was so traumatized there was no way we were getting her back now.
But no sooner had I said that then I saw that Snuggles the Great Dane/Bull Mastiff and Ling our Chow had cornered her under a bunch. My mom swooped in and grabbed Harriett in a towel and rushed her inside the house.
A few minutes later she was curled up in my mom's arms next to the Christmas tree telling her all about her ordeal. That night I was able to sleep, with Judy Garland crooning "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" from my iPod, and safe in the knowledge that once again...all was right with the world.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
Christmas Really Does Come Twice A Year!
Okay I am back at it with my blog. I took a little hiatus to recover from an ear infection and while I was convalescing I found a stash of hidden gems in the cupboards above my closet...about 70 vinyl albums with original covers stacked neatly behind an off brand Thigh-Master. Finding this cache of recording gems made me realize that Christmas really does come twice a year!
The album on the top of the stack that I pulled down first was this retro gem:
The album on the top of the stack that I pulled down first was this retro gem:
|Christmas With The King Family
The back of the album cover features this scintillating description of just what lies in store for you when you put this album down on the old turntable:
"Christmas with The King Family has always been a time of music, a time of singing. One of the first Christmases the Kings can remember was the eve papa King Driggs pulled up to the family house with a car load of oddly wrapped packages, a violin, a clarinet, drums, the makings of the Driggs Family of Entertainers. Each year since, the growing King Family has spent musically: exchanging presents together on Christmas eve, and singing. Singing as a whole family, with its eight branches presenting their own show of Christmas songs.
This album is such a Christmas, with the traditional songs the Kings all love...the Al Burt carols, Bill Drigg's own composition, "Holiday of Love," their own traditional song "Hear the Sledges with the Bells," and many, many others. It is an album of warmth, of sincerity. It is a family Christmas album in every sense."
|I'm going to go out on a limb and guess by the condition of the vinyl that this bad boy has never been taken for a spin.
|Who knew Diane Sawyer was a member of the singing King Family?
So if anyone is planning on coming by my house this Christmas you can be sure that there will be lots of sparkling cider and Special K loaf and of course "Christmas With The King Family".
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How does New York inspire you?
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The main reason was that my client, Aetna, made me an offer I couldn't refuse. It was an opportunity to do something I had been writing think pieces and intellectual capital about as a consultant in the healthcare space. I'm passionate about payer-provider collaboration, getting healthcare organizations to work together so they could stop screwing over the patient. The client asked me to come on board and I thought "Well, this is my shot". So, I took the leap.
When I looked up your company, Abacus Insights, I saw that it's less than a year old and you were leaving a company that was very established. What prompted that decision and what are some of the differences that you experience working in the startup space?
It was really just amazing timing. I had been at Aetna for five years and honestly, grown jaded. I had all these ideas about great stuff I was going to do when I got there and how we were going to change the industry. But it's a big company, so things move slowly and I was ready for something a little faster and more nimble. I got a call out of the blue from a former colleague looking for people to join him at a start-up. I always thought the guy was pretty smart, so I agreed to talk to the CEO and see if this is something worth following up on. The CEO was really impressive. He is a super motivated and motivational guy. He's a doctor and three-time entrepreneur that's also former Chief Strategy Officer for Horizon BlueCross, a well-connected and intelligent individual that I knew I could learn a lot from. I made the jump at the end of last year and we already have three major clients with a couple more in the pipeline. We're already looking to have close to ten million lives under management in the next year or two.
What exactly is your role in assisting with the growth of the company?
I'm Director of Product for the company, so I'm spearheading our team to get our data management platform for healthcare payers, the BlueCross BlueShields, Emblems, and Aetnas of the world launched. The issue with these big companies is that they've got complex systems that cost a hundred million dollars a year to maintain with large data warehouse managers like IBM. If they want to make a change, it will cost more millions. It's kind of ridiculous, but companies pay it because they don't have any alternative. Our premise is that we can do this for them in the cloud, in a secure environment and they can cut a lot of the operational costs with all or more of the functionality. We make it so much easier for them to then connect to other partners, data sources and sources of innovation. Innovation being stifled because it's tough for data exchange to occur is a huge problem in the industry and we're solving it.
What is the day to day of your job look like?
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What's the most challenging aspect of balancing it all?
We're keeping things flat and lean, which means everybody is involved in everything. The type of problems we're trying to solve for usually require ten times the amount of people that we have. Everyone is super leveraged. Everyone is using all the skill sets they have, which is tough, but it's also really exciting having ownership over a lot of what is happening. That was a huge draw because I got used to needing to go through multiple approvals to try to do anything and having it shut down at the last minute because the direction changed. Now, being in an environment where stuff goes from your brain to in front of the client to rapidly iterating on the development, there's nothing like it.
What is your definition of success? Has that definition evolved over time and if so, how?
I'll answer the second part first and say that my definition of success has definitely evolved over time. Growing up, I used to tell everyone I was going to the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company ever. What was successful to me was running a business, being on the cover of Fortune and getting accolades. Throughout my career, I've gotten to know myself and understand what makes me happy and what makes me tick. Success is being able to look back at a job well done and to feel self-actualized. If you're able to enjoy the progress that you've made or you're able to point to something in the world and say it's a little better, brighter or more efficient because of the work you put in, then I think you're a successful person.
What decision of yours has had the greatest impact on your life?
That's a really, really good question. It's hard for me to look back at my life and feel like I had to decide. I mostly felt like I only had one real option. However, I think there's probably one or two points where I actually had to make a choice. One was in college when I was choosing my major. I chose to go with a more business-focused major than a more technical focused major, which set me up career-wise. The other is making a choice to get involved in a startup when I was still working in consulting early on. That catapulted into a bunch of new opportunities that eventually brought me to New York.
What's on the horizon for you if you think over the year or so?
Over the next couple of years, I'm really looking to grow with Abacus. It has the potential to be something major and the culmination of a lot of the change I have wanted to see in the healthcare industry for more than 10 years now. From a personal standpoint, I got married a little over 2 years ago, so I'm learning how to prioritize family. At the end of the day, that means a lot more than being able to do something cool at work. I also run my first marathon this year, which I'm super excited about.
How do you stay motivated as you strive to achieve your goals?
Sometimes you just don't really feel like doing anything, but being healthy helps me a lot. Over the last few years, I've gotten into making sure that I'm getting enough sleep and exercising. I take time to recharge and keep the spiritual aspect of my life going. I've been in situations in the past where I was just burning out and feeling like even though I was getting all this work done, life was kind of gray. Motivation comes from balance at this point.


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According to TMZ, Johnson's attorneys haven't specified how much money they think the wide receiver is owed for the footage, but they have been very up front about what else they want: an order barring the site from ever posting the clip again. Something tells me the latter request won't be very difficult to obtain at all, but it remains to be seen whether a judge will be as sympathetic when it comes to the supposed damages.
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Ethos Donmez Hotel has just undergone extensive remodeling in the spring of 2010. There are 35 rooms with air-conditioning and private balconies. Upon the roof is a terrace restaurant serving traditional Turkish Cuisine that also offers room service. There is the Phoenix Bar on the ground floor which is one of the most popular in Dalyan and the Ethos Donmez Hotel is located just 70 meters from the boat docks where one can cross the river on a row-boat to tour the ancient city of Kaunos or take a riverboat cruise to Iztuzu Beach, Sultaniye Mudbaths, or visit the Köyceğiz Pazar - the Monday outdoor marketplace.
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