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West Lafayette, IN (PRWEB) February 18, 2014
Students in Dr. Scott Downey's advanced sales and marketing class at Purdue University recently raised close to $6,000 for two diverse charitable organizations – the Wounded Warrior Project, a veterans' service organization that provides programs and services to severely injured service members during the time between active duty and transition to civilian life, and the Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis.
The donations were the result of an innovative partnership between Downey's class and Vector Marketing Corporation, the single-level, direct sales division of Cutco Cutlery Corporation, the largest manufacturer of high-end kitchen cutlery in North America. The partnership, called Cutco in the Classroom, enables students to expand the theoretical knowledge of sales learned in the classroom and gain real-world sales experience by selling Cutco. The students are given training on Cutco products and are asked to develop and implement an effective sales strategy. Most importantly, they must go out and sell product.
"It's one thing to learn sales theory from a textbook, and it's another thing to apply that theory to real-world situations," Downey says. "Going out and selling Cutco teaches students valuable skills such as setting up appointments, making presentations, communicating with prospects and even handling rejection. These are all things you must experience to understand."
Other skills developed selling Cutco include:
- Time management
- Entrepreneurship
- Closing techniques
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Customer service
- Teamwork
Downey notes that sales is not for everyone, but that his senior students who will be graduating with a Bachelor of Science in sales and marketing benefit from a first-hand experience in selling. "Many students love the idea of setting their own schedule and earning an income based directly on how hard they work. Others find that they prefer supporting the sales function." Either way, Downey says that selling Cutco prepares students for whatever future career they decide upon. "No matter what we do in life, we are selling, whether it is selling ourselves during a job interview, selling an idea in the boardroom or selling our spouse on our desired vacation destination."
Downey has been implementing Cutco in the Classroom for the past seven years, however this marks the first time the program has been integrated with a fundraising endeavor. The students each picked their favorite of the two charities and had fun competing against their peers.
"This was not just a lesson in sales; students were excited that the project helped them serve those less fortunate. It is a model we plan to continue," Downey said.
About Cutco Cutlery Corporation and Vector Marketing
Cutco Cutlery is a 65-year-old company with headquarters and manufacturing facilities in Olean, New York. Vector Marketing is the company's sales division, coordinating all sales for Cutco Cutlery through a national network of college students who sell products through in-home personal demonstrations. More than 15 million US households have a Cutco product.


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Beginner 2 Class - East Coast Swing
Wednesday, July 11 to Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Wednesday, 7:00pm - 8:00 pm, by Debbie Housand
Beginner 1 will focus on teaching the basics of the different dance each month. As the month progresses, new steps will be added and by the end of the month you will have a good foundation for each dance taught. Students should enroll in this class at the beginning of the month for the entire month, so that everyone will be close to the same level each week.


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Finally, on Sunday, a Japanese military vessel spotted the 60-year-old waving a red cloth. He was about 15 kilometers (about 10 miles) offshore from the earthquake-ravaged city of Minamisoma, said Yoshiyuki Kotake, a Defense Ministry spokesman.
Shinkawa told his rescuers that the tsunami hit as he and his wife returned home to gather some belongings after Friday's quake. His wife was swept away, Kotake said.
"Several helicopters and ships passed by, but none of them noticed me," he was quoted by another defense agency spokesman, who refused to be identified by name, as saying.
Japanese troops used a small boat to pluck him from the ocean.
Military officials said Shinkawa was lucky that mild weather and relatively calm seas enabled him to stay afloat for nearly two days, the Kyodo news agency reported.
"I thought today was the last day of my life," it quoted him as saying.
RELATED: Search the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) site to see if loved ones in the quake zone have checked in to say they are okay
RELATED: To help, visit www.redcross.org and donate to Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami. You can also text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation to the recovery effort
RELATED: Watch videos of the earthquake and tsunami as they happened in Japan
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Why I Will Never, Ever, EVER Get a Tattoo
Would I have to start planning outfits around the tattoo like I plan for weather?
Everything's skewed nowadays. The lens we use to look at things is permanently on zoom because when you're constantly checking life's rearview, objects may appear closer than they are.
And nowhere is that funhouse mirror effect more obvious than other people's Friends Lists. According to Facebook inflation, I've got hundreds upon hundreds of friends. People who allegedly "know" me and like me. According to me, and the actual calls (not wall posts) I got on my birthday, I have maybe 20 friends -- give or take. When you subtract the ones I haven't seen for years, that number gets sliced in half like a magician's assistant. Is that sad?
There's this thread (is that what they call 'em?) on Reddit -- Let's talk friends: How many do you have, and how often do you see them? -- in which a twenty-something analyzes the loneliness she's been feeling upon realizing that her crew isn't as big as she thought it should be.
"Maybe I just have unrealistic ideas of how many friends everyone else has, in my mind everyone has dozens of best girlfriends or something that all meet up weekly for lunch and shopping. I guess I'd just love to see what other people's lives are like in hopes that maybe this is a normal part of growing up."
Girl, yes. Everyone's idea about the number of friends you should have is "unrealistic" and realizing this is a "normal part of growing up" that unfortunately doesn't get a ton of airtime. I blame chick lit (a genre into which I am attempting to delve with a story about losing friends) and "Sex and the City" and the preschool buddy system and those Kid Sister commercials.
Who among us hasn't gotten the wakeup call that nobody's really calling you like that anymore? And it's not just a quarter life thing, it's a guaranteed slap of reality for anyone who dares get older. A passage that sometime gets quoted from my book by the privileged few that read it speaks to this same secret epidemic.
"Gone are the [college] days when friends are an elevator ride away, dinner plans are made on the way to somebody's hall, and Thursday is Friday or Friday is Thursday (who cares, you'll figure it out in Philosophy C203).
Soon enough, the little old lady living in a shoe is you -- and the rent is effin' unbelievable, and nobody comes to visit because you're too far from the Metro. Adulthood comes in little jigsaw pieces. Once the painstaking work of fitting them all together is done, the picture doesn't look nearly as cool as it did on the box."
What's most interesting to me about the reverse shame of "your number" when it comes to compadres, is that much like that other number, women seem to be the only people really worried about it. How many guys do you know wringing their hands over whether or not they've got enough boys to kick it with? Granted men don't do friendships like women do.
There's like a pause button they can push that keeps decades-long friendships fresh in the emotional DVRs. When my boyfriend gets calls from homies from back home, people he hasn't talked to since high tops and fades, it's like no time has passed. And when I prod him every other lazy Sunday to "go hang out" with the handful of names I know there's a 50/50 chance he'll just shrug, "Nah, I'm good."
And that's the thing you realize about your friendships as you age -- you're good. It isn't that you've got fewer friends, a bunch of fake friends or none at all. It's that you no longer need the constant white noise of friends, Romans and countrymen to feel confident, to feel like yourself. Because in the end, during the quiet time when the computer's off and the phone is somewhere charging, it's just you and you're good.


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April 30, 2012
ReelSEO.com, the nation's premier video marketing website for businesses, has partnered with VScreen in a major initiative to broaden its instructional content. VScreen will contribute weekly "How To" videos to ReelSEO.com, covering all aspects of video production...for both beginners and veterans alike.
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LOS ANGELES, CA - April 30, 2012 ReelSEO.com, the nation's premier video marketing website, has partnered with VScreen in a major initiative to broaden its instructional content.
California-based ReelSEO.com, who's content focuses heavily on Internet video marketing...will be joining forces with VScreen, a custom video production studio specializing in business videos, to provide viewers with more hands-on technical advice on how to shoot, edit, and produce video. Reel SEO's founder Mark Robertson noted that online video's exploding popularity has triggered a desire by many businesses to include video as part of their marketing strategy...as well as learn how to produce their own videos in house. Robertson welcomed the VScreen partnership as a major step toward meeting that need.
VScreen's Stephen Schweickart said his Orlando-based firm will be providing a series of weekly videos covering everything from beginner's basics to advanced content for those more experienced. Product video reviews for both hardware and software will also be included, making ReelSEO.com a one stop solution for both marketing and production advice. "Our videos will be a bit unconventional...viewers can expect to see a blend of humor and satire in how we present the material. We believe that adding a different twist will not only engage viewers more effectively...but mix a little fun into the process as well."
Viewers will be able to see what it looks like by visiting ReelSEO.com beginning May 7 when the first video of VScreen's instructional series will appear.
For more information on VScreen, please visit vscreen.com or call 866-720-0204.
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is still alive.......kind of.
Michael and William met at work and decided to attempt creating "funny" videos for the world wide web. Michael and William accept that they have failed so far and are sorry. Any attempt at an idea for a video is immediately shot down by Cat In A Box's mysterious and reclusive head writer, Scott H. who spends his time perfecting various calender poses.


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I mentioned part of this new Blake Lively interview in yesterday's links, but it's worth discussing the entire piece in full right now. Blake gave an interview to something called "Style Magazine" which I'm assuming is a UK publication. In the interview, Blake reiterates her favorite Q&A chestnut, which is that she never, ever works out and she just has that body normally without any exercise at all. She also discusses how you'll never see her do a nude scene on film. I guess we're supposed to forget about seeing her bits and pieces in those hacked ("hacked"?) photos then. And although I haven't seen Savages yet, I'm sure I heard something about a graphic sex scene? Yes, yes, I did. And didn't she has sex scenes in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee? I never saw that either. But this is probably just Blake trying to prove how she's a super-modest 1950s housewife, I guess.
Blake Lively has ruled out ever doing nude scenes. The Gossip Girl star said she is not a fan of stripping off for acting roles and said she found nudity in movies 'distracting' to the plot.
The 24-year-old said: 'When I see nudity in movies, I am always distracted by it. I know that if I am watching a scene and someone has their b00bs out, then that's all I'm looking at – I can't help it. I just don't think that will ever be right for me.'
Lively, who is dating Ryan Reynolds, is one of Hollywood's most sought after young actresses. She was recently seen in the Oliver Stone thriller Savages and is known to have an enviable body. But insists she does virtually no exercise to maintain her slim figure.
She told Style magazine: 'I am terrible; I don't do any exercise – I'm going to have to learn the hard way. I love food too much, and my family is from the South, so the food I like is not necessarily the best for you. There are days when I will be like, "Oh my goodness, I am not happy with the way I look because I cannot fit into any of my clothes". So I eat quinoa that week, and then I feel good.'
Lively said she realises how fickle Hollywood can be and relies on her family and close friends to keep her grounded. The star remains grounded by surrounding herself with friends and family who are always truthful with her.
'The same people who love you to death one day will hate you to death the next, so who do you give the keys to your self-worth to?,' she said. 'You have to have those keys for yourself. And you have to surround yourself with people who are honest with you. I need honesty. I need good friends who can say, "I love you to death, but you look terrible in that and you need to change right now."'
I don't have a raging hate-on OR love-on for Blake either way. Sometimes she's very interesting, sometimes she's super-annoying. I'm finding this current version of Blake to be pretty annoying. She's trying to convince us of too many things all at once – like, we're supposed to think that she's a super-glamorous fashionista who loves clothes and has a natural "style eye" AND that she doesn't care about how she looks insomuch as she doesn't feel like going to the gym ever AND that she's a perfect Betty Crocker housewife and super-loyal girlfriend to her barely four boyfriends (total, over her lifetime). Maybe she truly is all of those things. But I suspect that she's just an ambitious hustler who works incredibly hard to project a certain kind of image.
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South America 2012
After past journeys to Brazil and Ecuador, the spirit of South America beckoned me to return, shining reality on three travel dreams: Macchu Pichu, Easter Island, Patagonia. Again, the beauty of nature befriended me and presented the gift of illuminating the world--a light of memories that burns life-long.
Felt welcomed by the Peruvians: even strangers on deserted streets greeted me with "hola".
- Lima, with its oceanside location, old town, and markets where good paintings were offered, was impressive. Children seemed happy, playing hopscotch or jumping rope. Families seemed intact. At the food markets, the offer of vegetable varieties surprised me, especially black corn. As for archeology, the library-shelf looking Inca site, with its stone-spined books was a splendid masterpiece widening over present-day urban architecture.
- Cuzco, the former Incan capital, appeared to be Florence set in a Peruvian valley, only with sienna brown tiled roofs instead of the burnt-orange Florentine ones. The Incan spirit breathed on the hill-tops, in the cathedral paintings, on the symbols mown into the mountainsides. An air of creepiness leaked in the unlit cobblestone lanes. Also, the presence of llamas, alpacas, and vicunas flavored the Andean meadows nearby. At times, altitude sickness seized me: Cuzco is 2,600 meters above sea level.
- Machu Picchu, world-class sight, mystical, breathtaking in several ways, almost spiritual—the mountains inhale you. The citadel remains are exquisite. The richness of the shades of green atop this Incan paradise pleasingly stuns the senses. The shape of stone abounds: trapezoidal doors, an arrowhead compass, triangular rooftops. Also of interest in the Incan valley, Ollantaytambo, a little-sister archeological site to Machu Picchu; yet, a worthwhile visit, with its Incan-cross designed water conduits, carved mountain faces, and lookout towers—a site of cultural heritage indeed.
Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
- The feeling of being orbited to another planet. An isolated, eerie-landscaped island, a sea castaway, on which wild horses outnumber people and statues stand, kneel, bend, slouch, and lie prone and supine on coasts, hillsides, and coves. One crater contained a slope-sized patch of pink bourgainvillea flowing into sapphire waters dotted with massive lily-pad islands on which three-meter high grass sprouted. Like the Galapagos Islands, Rapa Nui possesses an unearthly uniqueness that roots itself in a memory fascination harbors.
- The presence of horses created a Wild-West atmosphere. There were times in the day and night these unsaddled animals strolled down steep streets at will. The sound of hooves added to the surrealistic mystique of the island. One horse actually walked into the post office. Another night, three cowboys rode into town, tethered their horses to a post, went into the bar, returned an hour later and rode back up the hillside, disappearing under the dusty moonlight.
- The 1,000 statues speak for themselves and about themselves.
- Santiago, A metropolis that grows on you. First impression: fractured smog, a la LA, with wraparound mountains veiled in a haze that only lifts itself at sundown. Bellevista, sociable part of town, fresh, energizing: Santiago neighborhood of Pablo Neruda, whose house opens as a museum filled with odds and ends: Picture-tube-less TV converted into a shelf for cutlery, watermelon scenes, sailing collectibles—compasses, portholes, bars. All in all, a hodge-podge of souvenirs and gifts he amassed—an artist's thrift shop feel pervaded. Yet it was special to be in Neruda country, to be near the spirit of his poetical genius.
- Patagonia, The flight from Santiago to Punta Arenas took place under clear skies, which enabled spectacular views of the Andean lakes, fiords, glaciers, and volcanoes in Chile. One volcano was active. These snow-capped peaks looked like scattered vanilla ice-cream in moss-green cones.
- Punta Arenas's winds were gale-force level, making it hard to photograph the 9 condors and hosts of Magellan penguins that frequented the area.
- The cloud formations over Punta Arenas and Puerto Natales are every painter's dream. They have a 3-D look that makes them come alive right before your very eyes.
- Torres del Paine National Park. One of the most beautiful in the world, with glacier chips floating on calm lakes, lakes whose colors are so varied it astounds. Also, a canary-yellow shrub makes for a fairy-tale landscape in this expansive park. Unfortunately, a tourist allegedly made a campfire and the winds spread the flames and much of the park burned: this wonderful nature haven had to be closed indefinitely—this fire took place just two days after my departure.
Cruise through the Straits of Magellan, Beagle Channel, Cape Horn
- After an almost midnight-sun experience at Puerto Natales, a harbor where cloud formations boggle the mind and the eyes, I joined a mini cruise (100 passengers), on a 5-day ride ending in Ushuaia, Argentina. Once a-sea (an ocean feeling indeed), I noticed we were always alone. Saw no boats and no lights ashore—generated an explorer feel to the entire cruise. Also there was an ever-present rough sea, a storm-approaching aura hovering over our passage through the waters. We rode the Zodiacs (rubber boats) to uninhabited islands, which offered diverse sights: Magellan penguins, tropical forests, beaver-gnawed woods, topaz-ice glaciers. On Cape Horn, the southernmost point in the world, the rains came, forcing us to scuttle back to the Zodiacs, but not before crossing the boardwalk to the iron albatross monument and testing the view from the desolate lighthouse.
- The whole cruise route presented a cornucopia of wildlife: penguins, cormorants, condors, albatrosses, elephant seals, dolphins, and whales.
- Only a brief stay in Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego. A respectable harbor town that has to cope with the disembarkments of hotel-sized cruise ships.
- Buenos Aires. Strong European flair here. Quay area made into an upscale waterside setting hotels, restaurants, and sailboats edge.
- Street life interesting and honest.
--The Boca neighborhood. Reminded me of the Prater amusement park in Vienna. Colorful corrugated-iron facades, boasting balconies plastic figures peer from: Evita and Maradona seem to dominate.
--South of the city, ranch visit. Enjoyed tango show and a solo dancer who spun bolas from his teeth while hot-stepping it (temperature: low 90s Fahrenheit). The horse show presented the skills of the gauchos, particularly a horse-sprint under a bar on which rings were suspended on leather straps. The gauchos, on their half-tailed horses, dashed at breakneck speed under the bar, stabbing at the rings with pens. These cowboys then proudly rode to appealing women seated in the front row of the performance and spilled the captured ring onto a finger these spectators teasingly outstretched. The prize for the gaucho was the woman's joining him for a 5-minute ride around the ranch.
- Montevideo. Authentic South American capital. Has its own flair. One of standing still in time. One which missed the boat to high technology and modern architecture—which makes it appealing.
- Punta del Este. The opposite of Montevideo. Miama beach set on the Atlantic. Beachy culture and atmosphere. Still far from the predatory yacht harbors of North America and Europe.
- Casa Pueblo. The Antonio Gaudi/Friedensreich Hundertwasser version created by Uruguayan artist, Vilero, who happened to be there. He generated a gracious, humble impression. Word has it, his son was one of 5 survivors of a plane crash in the Chilean Andes; and the house/hotel was built by the father to pay respects to the unfortunate who didn't survive the 70 days in grueling conditions. In this regard, Casa Pueblo is designed like a glacier that tongues the sea. A sight that's more than what meets the eye.
Trip summary
It's hard to top southern South America. I felt like I was hopping across stepping stone of paradise, feeling how some of the biggest travel dreams in my life not only became true, but also became a sturdy reality and a solid path of sure-footed memories I wish to use again and again.


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DETROIT — AT&T Inc. Wednesday announced improved broadband coverage in several areas around Michigan.
AT&T announced the activation of new mobile broadband cell sites in Petersburg and Temperance in the southeastern corner of Michigan, and added new layers of frequency, also known as "carriers," to four cell sites throughout the Cadillac area and eight cell sites in the Traverse City area in northwest Lower Michigan, to more efficiently manage available spectrum and increase mobile broadband capacity.
The expansion helps manage ever-growing demand for mobile broadband services by allocating more network resources for AT&T's mobile broadband network.
AT&T's mobile broadband network is based on the 3rd Generation Partnership Project family of technologies that includes GSM and UMTS, the most widely used wireless network platforms in the world. AT&T has the best international coverage of any United States wireless provider, providing access to voice service in more than 220 countries and data service in more than 200 countries.
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"We want you to have an extraordinary experience whether you are sharing videos and photos with friends, watching a movie, checking the latest scores, or keeping your business mobile on your AT&T device," said Brian Ducharme, vice president and general manager for AT&T Michigan and Indiana. "Smartphones, tablets and laptops are continuing to drive unprecedented demand for wireless access everywhere. We're investing in a combination of technologies … to meet these needs and ensure an advanced broadband experience for all our customers."
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The U.S. semiconductor industry, one of the country's top export sectors, is responsible for a fraction of one percent of U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to the EPA's most recent GHG Reporting Program data (2014). The EPA data shows that out of 5.7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (mmt CO2e) emitted by industrial facilities in the U.S., only 3,204 mmt CO2e -- or 0.177 percent -- is emitted by electronics manufacturers, including semiconductor manufacturers. Most of the industry's emissions are associated with the use of fluorinated gases (F-gases) used in complex manufacturing processes, without which advanced semiconductor manufacturing is not technically feasible.
Although the industry contributes only a very small amount of GHG emissions, SIA and its members have been engaged in ongoing efforts to reduce these emissions.
- Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with EPA, SIA members voluntarily reported on their emissions of PFCs, a category of GHGs. Under this agreement, SIA members reduced their collective absolute US emissions of F-gases by more than 35% since 1995; and down 50% from their peak in 1999.
- SIA and its members have participated in the efforts of the World Semiconductor Council (WSC) to reduce emissions of PFCs. The global industry committed to a 10 percent reduction from a baseline year, and in 2011 the industry announced that it far surpassed this goal and achieved a reduction of 32 percent in absolute emissions. To build on this success, the global industry is implementing a new 10-year reduction goal.


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An Indian expatriate was arrested at Sheikh Saad Al- Abdullah Terminal for attempting to smuggle 8 kgs of gold into the country. According to sources, customs officers were inspecting the luggage of the passengers when they noticed an individual trying to escape without passing through the customs.
They checked him to find gold around his abdomen and feet. When questioned, he confessed that he was planning to sell them to the owner of a gold shop. He was arrested and referred with the confiscated gold to the concerned authorities for necessary legal action against him.
Meanwhile, a wanted Kuwaiti citizen was arrested in possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia. He was referred to the Directorate General for Drug Control for investigations. In addition, an Egyptian expatriate was arrested in Salmiya area in possession of hashish and tools used for consuming drugs.
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
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Maybe it was because this was the first sunrise that I actually remember watching, or just because it was a sunrise over the ocean, or maybe it was simply because I was still half a sleep. I'm not sure, but for whatever reason this cliché really struck a nerve with me. As I said before, I had never really watched the sun rise. However, I have watched my fair share of Disney movies and was expecting nothing less than than a Lion King grade sunrise. Leave it to Disney to set up more unrealistic expectations.
I did not see the sunrise with the severe beauty of the bright reds, yellows, and oranges that you might see on the internet, in romantic movie scenes, or in The Lion King. Nor was it the sunrise that shook my entire being or that left me a changed and better person. It was the sunrise that was partially hidden behind clouds. The sunrise that blanketed the sky in the softest pastels. It was a sunrise that forced me to feel all the world around me, the refreshing ocean breeze on my face, the morning songs of the birds, the cool sand between my toes, the smell of the salty ocean air, and the rhythmic crashing of the waves. The sunrise that had me waxing poetic... how very cliché.
As the sun began cresting over the horizon and soft pastels faded away to the reds seeping into the clouds, a thought struck me.
We are the sunrises.
Like each sunrise from the beginning of time, each of us is unique and special. We are works of art constructed with love and care found in every minute detail. We were made perfectly imperfect by the greatest artist and creator. We are vast, beautiful, and brilliant, whether we are made from the vivid fiery reds or the understated beauty of the softest pastels.
Because the Son rose, we rise every day. With our light we can light the paths of those who are lost in the dark.
Therefore let your light so shine before this people, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
3 Nephi 12:16
Like the sun we must rise everyday.
We are important and necessary for life; we are strong because even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise again.
So even though it's cliché, I still love the early mornings when it feels like the rest of the world is fast asleep and I'm the only one awake and everything feels like it isn't really real. I love that I forget about all my my problems and for a time it's just me, the world, and the sunrise.
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I was surprised to like the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie. I even saw it twice. I haven't done that since the first movie. I wasn't surprised to not like Transformers.
I was surprised to see the church paying out like a zillion dollars. Not the paying so much as the where are they getting a zillion dollars. I thought churches were basically non profit.
Currently I'm reading the new Dortmunder book and loving it. Heard some Laurell Hamilton stories. I like finding a new author to enjoy. It's like the first bite of a new flavor of ice cream.
And, oh yeah it's Harry Potter week. I'm nearly beside myself waiting for book 7. It's the first one I've ordered to arrive on the release date. I might actually go to a Harry Potter release party at the local B and N.
I saw these bookcases. One day soon, I think I'll need to replace some of my old, wal-mart pressed board bookcases. But first some rain barrels.
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Two people were mugged early this morning in the North Side's Roscoe Village neighborhood and one of them was critically injured, Chicago police said.
It's unclear if these muggings are related to others within the past two weeks in the Lincoln Park and Lakeview neighborhoods, about 2 miles away.
The latest incidents happened between 4 a.m. and 4:20 a.m. a little more than two blocks from one another. But police said it's too soon even to say these incidents are related to each other.


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Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2009 APS April Meeting
Volume 54, Number 4
Saturday–Tuesday, May 2–5, 2009; Denver, Colorado
Session T7: History of MURA, Fermilab and the SSC
Monday, May 4, 2009
Room: Governor's Square 12
Sponsoring Units: FHP DPB
Chair: Gloria Lubkin, American Institute of Physics
Abstract ID: BAPS.2009.APR.T7.2
Abstract: T7.00002 : Fermilab: The Ring of the Frontier, 1967-1989
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Adrienne W. Kolb
(Fermilab History and Archives Project)
Fermilab, the home of the highest energy hadron accelerator in the world, has been at the frontier of high energy physics for almost forty years. Between 1967, when the Lab was founded in a suburb of Chicago by Robert R. Wilson, Edwin L. Goldwasser, and Norman F. Ramsey, and 1989, the final year of Leon M. Lederman's administration, Fermilab was the premiere proton facility for experimental particle physics in the US. Wilson's era saw the construction and achievement of the 200-500 billion electron volts (BeV) Main Ring. Lederman led Fermilab into the next frontier with the superconducting Energy Doubler/Saver, renamed the Tevatron for its design energy of one trillion electron volts (TeV). In the 1980s-1990s, as construction of facilities became more complex and experiments grew larger and took a generation to complete, how could the costs be met without even more careful long-term planning and budgeting? Why did Fermilab's accelerator complex advance while others did not? What role, if any, did politics play? What can be learned from Fermilab's experience about maintaining US involvement at the forefront of 21st century particle physics research?
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The enigmatic Helena Hann-Basquiat dabbles in whatever she can get her hands into just to say that she has.
Some people attribute the invention of the Ampersand to her, but she has never made that claim herself.
Last year, she published Memoirs of a Dilettante Volume One, this past April, released Memoirs of a Dilettante Volume Two, as well as the Shakespearean-style play, Penelope, Countess of Arcadia.
She is currently working on a sequel to JESSICA entitled Singularity, featuring contributions from four other writers.
Helena writes strange, dark fiction under the name Jessica B. Bell. VISCERA, a collection of strange tales, will be published by Sirens Call Publications later this year.
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"We are all made of the same stardust that birthed the universe."
A well-dressed man looked out at his acolytes and smiled serenely.
Wendy was beginning to miss the $150 she'd spent to attend this seminar. But she had already tried everything else. Doctors had given her a smorgasbord of pharmaceuticals, therapists had tried hypnotising her, regression therapy, and even ECT, which had only resulted in terrifying dreams of lightning. CT scans, blood analysis, even a spinal tap all showed nothing. There was no tumour, no encephalitis, no miscellaneous physical irregularities. One doctor was leaning toward schizophrenia, but she had no delusions about the voices in her head, she just wanted them gone. She could carry on a conversation, and if it was difficult for her at times, it was only because she had to fight to be heard over the constant barrage of prayers, petitions, screams and laughter that filled her head.
What started a few months before as a dozen voices – grunts, really, with no semblance of language – had quickly grown, and developed, until now, it was a cacophonous din that filled her head at all hours. When conventional medicine failed, she turned to the unconventional – acupuncture, yoga, Transcendental Meditation, and then finally, The Fellowship.
The Fellowship wasn't a religion – David insisted that religion was man's attempt to reach god, but what he and his followers were doing was instead trying to find the god within themselves.
"There is a universe inside all of you, with so much untapped power and potential just waiting to burst free."
David spread his arms as if to illustrate this bursting action, and was met by tears and applause.
Wendy scanned the audience, wondering if any of them heard cries for help, cries of passion, anger, sorrow and joy, and had to drug themselves with dangerous doses of painkillers every day to block it out, or if any of them had developed a barbiturate addiction in order to sleep at night.
David announced that they were going to join hands and share energy, and people started forming circles and talking about chakras and sacred vessels and a bunch of other stuff that went over Wendy's head. She'd tried to go into this experience with an open mind, but when the chanting started, her senses were simply overwhelmed. Her head could only take so many monotonous voices at once. She excused herself and left, disappointed and without any profound revelation or healing insight. Finding no solace, enlightenment or self-actualization among The Fellowship, she sought instead the artificial temporary silence afforded her by a double dose of Seconal.
She awoke the next morning with the same terrible pain in her head. She went to the bathroom, splashed some water on her face, and in the mirror, she saw it – a giant eruption, right in the middle of her forehead like a Bindi worn by a Hindu.
Oh shit, she thought miserably. What am I, seventeen?
She'd read about stress acne, and imagined that's what this was. Stress was too small a word for what she was under. She could feel the voices in her teeth, like a constant humming or buzzing. Some of them seemed to be speaking directly to her – it had taken her months to accept this, but sometimes the voices called her name, asking for things like rain and protection and a baby brother, but most of them seemed to be talking to each other. She had no idea what they expected her to do – she had tried speaking to them, but when she spoke, she received no response that made any sense to her.
That day – the day she actually spoke back to the voices, was the day she went to a psychiatrist. She heard the words coming out of her mouth – It's like there's an entire world inside my head – and began to worry that she might be going insane. But the voices weren't telling her to do bad things, and she didn't hear the voices coming from some dog or anything – they simply were, and wasn't that bad enough?
She stared at the pimple in the mirror, and thought about squeezing it, but there didn't seem to be any head. It was just raw and angry looking, and she knew what her mother would say.
"Don't pick at it, you'll just make it worse!" she mimicked in a passable imitation, and then sighed and dug through her medicine cabinet for some rubbing alcohol and cotton balls.
"Okay, Mom, I'll leave it alone. I'll just dab it with some alcohol and let it dry up on its own."
But as soon as she touched the wet cotton to the red blemish, her head nearly cracked open with pain. It wasn't just that the alcohol stung – it did – but that was nothing compared to the sudden rush of sound that caused her eardrums to pop and her nose to bleed.
It was as if a billion voices were screaming together in terror and protest.
"Okay," she surrendered to the voices that the doctors assured her couldn't possibly be there. "You win. The pimple stays."
When the pimple hadn't disappeared – when it had, in fact, grown three times in size and had rings of purple and yellow around it like a bruise – she'd gone back to the doctor's. She'd tried putting ice on it to reduce the swelling, but it just kept getting bigger day by day. If she didn't know it was impossible, she'd say that it was as if something were in her head hammering, digging a hole in her forehead from the inside out.
The doctor sent her away with some antibiotics, sure that it was just an infected pimple, and told her to leave it alone, and to wash it with antibacterial soap and let it air dry.
She laughed and cried the whole way home at the idea that the doctor's solution was soap and water. But she did as she was told. For three weeks, Wendy resigned herself to a cleansing regimen, beginning with an antibacterial soap, and an organic exfoliate, and then a mask made of sour cherries and mango. Her skin had never felt so good, so clean, but the pimple, the blemish, the eruption, whatever it was – was unaffected. So in addition to the noise – the impossible, unexplainable noise that only she could hear – her forehead throbbed in a pulsing ache, in time with her heartbeat. She guessed that the pain had caused her blood pressure to elevate, because the throbbing seemed quicker than usual.
She stopped going out altogether. She tore up her couch cushions and covered the walls of her bedroom with foam to try to soundproof it, and whether it worked or not, she couldn't say, but she was willing to try anything to get some semblance of quiet – even if it was only relative.
One afternoon, she took more pills than she probably should have, but all she really needed was the oblivion of sleep. She buried her head in her pillow and tried to shut out the voices, which had recently been joined by what she could only describe as the sounds of industry – giant machinery, like pistons chugging and jackhammers pounding.
When she woke, she smelled blood, and was horrified at the sight of it on her pillow. She stumbled drunkenly to her bathroom and threw up in the toilet. Weakly, she pushed herself up off the floor and made her way to the sink, where she stared at her bloody face in horror. Whatever it was on her forehead had burst, and split the skin nearly two inches. She cleaned off the blood, and then grabbed some anti-bacterial ointment, some gauze, and a bandage.
Touching it was agony – but she feared that if she didn't at least try to clean it, that it would get infected. Whatever it was, infection could only surely make it worse.
Tumour, her mind spat bitterly, and Wendy pushed the thought away. But as the pain in her head began to hit an apex over the next few weeks, this thought kept coming back. She kept dressing her forehead in bandages, resisting the urge to pick at it, and afraid to see what was becoming of it. Each night as she went to bed, she stared out at the stars and made one wish – Quiet, she prayed. Silence, stillness, peace and quiet.
But each morning, as the drugs wore off, her prayer remained unanswered.
In moments when she was losing her lucidity and slipping into hazy, drugged sleep, she sometimes thought of David, the charismatic leader of The Fellowship, telling her without a trace of irony that she had a universe inside her. She knew that's not at all what he was talking about, but wondered what he would say if he could feel, for just one moment, what it felt like to be her. It did indeed feel like she had an entire world inside her head, but that was just fantasy. She wished she could believe in such things, but she lived in the real world – a world of Ebola and HIV and Cancer of every sort imaginable. Whatever it was that was causing these – hallucinations – for surely that's what they were – was just something the doctors didn't know how to find yet. She'd rather believe in the failure of science than in some con artist's pseudo-spirituality.
One morning, like any other, she woke up in pain as usual, but as she rolled out of bed, there was a tearing at her forehead that caused her to cry out in agony. In the night, part of the bandage must have caught on her pillow, and when she moved, it had torn off.
She reached her hand up to her forehead and hesitantly touched it, then drew back. It felt different, like it had scabbed over. She allowed herself a moment of hope – perhaps it was healing. The sea of voices crashing like waves in her head told a different story, washing away her hope just as quickly as it had appeared.
Staring at her reflection, she thought again that it did look like a scab, and had a sudden urge to pick at it, not caring if it would leave a scar. She lifted her hand to do just that, and then hesitated.
"Leave it alone, it will heal on its own," Wendy whispered, echoing her mother's advice.
Ignoring the advice, she picked at the edge, able to get a bit of her fingernail under it, and felt it give. As she lifted it just a bit, she felt a sick shudder in her stomach, and heard screaming in her head that seemed to echo off the walls of the bathroom. She continued to pry, defying the voices, and the edge of the scab began to lift. It was like there was a tear in her forehead, and out of it, bright white light poured, blinding her as it reflected off the mirror.
Horrified, she pulled her hand away, and the scab fell back into place, the light extinguished. Her own terror rose with the shouts of protest she suddenly heard, louder than ever, threatening to make her head split.
But there was a moment – a moment when she thought she heard a voice among the din – or maybe it was a hundred voices, all saying the same one word, as if it were a simple prayer.
Please, the voice said. Please.
Her forehead burned and throbbed, the crusted flesh in the centre of her forehead pulsating like a leech gorged with blood. She stared at it hatefully, and prepared herself for what, she didn't know.
"Soonest begun, soonest done," she said, teeth clenched.
Tearing the scab off in one quick motion, blinding white light poured out of the gaping wound in her forehead, filling the room. Wendy collapsed on the floor with a sigh of relief, as an entire universe burst free and died screaming.
"They're gone!" she cried, bleeding out on to the bathroom floor. "The voices are gone!"


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The last few months we have been setting about tackling the remaining issues customers have faced using Lightworks. The biggest of all these was our current licensing system (Sentinel HASP) This has caused problems during installation, activation and simply starting the application, all of which gives a negative customer experience. We are pleased to announce that this licensing has now been removed and replaced with our own EditShare Licensing Service (ELS) This same licensing service has been trialled over the last couple of months with great success in the Linux Alpha/Beta versions.
The user will sign in to the application using their Lightworks Username and Password (an internet connection MUST be present on the system) Any existing licenses still yet to expire on the current release build of Lightworks will be honoured in the new ELS system. The user simply signs in to the new version entering their Username and Password and their existing license(s) will appear in the list for them to activate (Pro and AVID DNxHD)
The new ELS licensing has some limitations.
- Users will not be able to detach a license from one system to another. To get around this, any user that purchases Lightworks Pro will be given a Pro license that can be used on two different systems.
- There is no concurrent network licensing system in place. If a user has a Pro activation that has 4 concurrent users, this will show a Pro license in ELS that can be used 5 times on separate systems.
- There is currently no way of canceling a license and moving it to another system.
- There is currently no "Offline" activation method. Users MUST have an internet connection present on the system they have installed Lightworks on.
To coincide with the new release and the new licensing we are introducing for the first time a 30 day Pro Trial license, allowing users to experience the full power of Lightworks Pro. The 30 day trial can only be used once on a system and is not renewable. When the user signs in to the application they will be offered the chance to try the product for 30 days or continue using the Free version of Lightworks. Once the 30 day trial expires, the software will revert to the Free version.
Before we release 11.1 on 28th May we are uploading one last Beta build (11.1.l) today which includes the new ELS licensing for testing purposes.
To access the latest Beta build for Windows please visit: lwks.com/beta
The fixes since 11.1.k are:
- Added entirely new EditShare Licensing System (ELS), which replaces Sentinel HASP
- Added further improvements for R3D playback (4-5k images)
- Fixed entire clips appearing offline in shared projects when only part of the file (audio or stereoscopic eye) was offline
- Fixed audio mixer track selection
- Fixed AAF settings for Protools target
- Fixed AVC-Intra50 files importing as green image
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Societe Brewing celebrated its quinquennial anniversary on June 24th and we were there! The folks at Societe were nice enough to invite us for the festival. While last year Societe hosted The First Quadrennial Brewers' Games, where different breweries competed in different events to win awards, this year's festival was more traditional with unlimited beer and an added benefit of some really nice food and beer pairings. After the festival, those who bought a ticket for the feast got themselves a five-course dinner which was an exclusive rare beer and food pairing. The group tasked with the food pairings for both the Fest and the Feast was The Five Chef Societe, headed by Karl Prohaska and includes many of the top chefs in San Diego.
In the News!
- Intergalactic Brewing is unsure of its future. Alex knows the current business plan is not working well enough to give his family when they need to live. Ideally, he would like to find investors to keep the doors open. However, he is not opposed to selling the equipment or the company in full. This change may happen in a few weeks or may happen in a few months, he is not sure.
- AleSmith Brewing's collab with Sublime, Sublime Mexican Lager (40oz. to Freedom,) will be pre-sold in Eventbrite for $9.99 for the 40oz. bottle on July 8th and picked up at the brewery on or after July 15th. 12oz. cans will be sold at the brewery and in stores on or after July 15th.
- Coronado Brewing is building a 1,000 square foot kitchen at their Bay Ho location. They want to offer a higher standard of food and make sure it is more consistent. The kitchen will have countertop equipment and a double level pizza oven for items like paninis, pizza, and other bar-like foods.
Taglines of Breweries Game
- Drink Helix
Dedicated to the Craft
- For Sinners and Saints Alike
- Artfully Engineered
- Off-Centered Ales for Off-Centered People
- Planted in 2016
- Old School Beer for New School Palates
- Godfather of Beer
- Unparalleled Craft
- Love Your Mother
- Tastes Like Wizards
- No Practice is Sacred
- Sip. seize. enjoy.
- Drink Freakin Awesome Beer
- Put Some South in Your Mouth
- Ales & Lagers – Friends & Neighbors
- Stay Coastal
- Culinary Soul Infused Into Every Drop
- Tasty Grub & Grog
- Great Beer. No Exceptions
- Drink. Pour. Explore (Actual slogan "Pour. Drink. Explore.")
- For the Love of the Beer
We come back from the break with Karl Prohaska, the head chef at Kitchens for Good and The Five Chef Societe. Karl gives the listeners a rundown of what The Five Chef Societe is and what the anniversary party "Feast" entails. Karl goes over the food that was at the festival and feast. We then get into what Karl is up to now, which is helping people who are having a rough time in life learn life skills like cooking, financial needs, and a lot more.
After another break, we are back with Doug from Societe. After a visit from Bobby Mathews, Doug talks about the new beers they released for the anniversary party. During the explanation of the beers, we have our first sacrifice of the day, at least one we saw. Doug explains how they made their newest Farrel beer, The Thief, and he talks about flavors and what he thinks separates their Farrel beers from "sour" beers. Finally, we ask Doug about the South African hop controversy and he gives the craft beer drinkers some very good advice.
During this break, we left the mics alone and Jeff from Burning Beard and Bobby Mathews who is infamous in the San Diego beer scene, get on the mics for some karaoke. Eventually, Brian gets on the mic to transition the show to our final segments as the festival comes to a close.
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Henry and Katherine are crowned on Midsummer's Day at Westminster Abbey. Henry takes the ceremony seriously, vowing to do everything he can for his country. A month later, Katherine is pregnant. The relationship between England and France is tenuous and Henry one day receives word that a French messenger is waiting to see him. The messenger has a letter for Henry from King Louis, a reply to a letter purportedly written by Henry begging for peace between the two countries. Henry, having not written any such letter but realizing that someone had forged his name, is outraged. He looks around at his council, trying to figure out who did the deed and soon realizes the reason his father didn't assign a man into the role "Protector." He is actually continuing to rule from the grave through several...
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Our Farm
Our farm is based in Herefordshire, a region that boasts some of the richest farmland in the world. It's here that we grow King Edward and Lady Claire potatoes for the distillery, as well as cider apples for our Naked Chase Apple Vodka and Williams Gin.
Having the distillery located on the farm allows us to keep a watchful eye over how our potatoes and apples move from field to bottle. It's this single-estate approach that makes us different – something you can taste in our award-winning vodka.
We start by mashing up our potatoes and apples, which are all harvested from the fields and orchards surrounding the farm. Apples are sweet enough to ferment naturally, but we add a brewer's yeast to the potato mash to help it along the way.
After about a week, we're left with a low alcohol wine.
We put the low alcohol wine from the fermentation stage into our bespoke copper batch pot and wait patiently as it's distilled four times here and twice more in our rectification column. The column is the tallest of its kind in the world, at 70ft it rises through the roof of the barn.
At this point, the spirit has reached the dizzying heights of 96% ABV and is well on its way to becoming Chase Vodka.
After distillation, the raw spirit is tempered with water drawn from a source at the heart of the farm. Once it's reached a much more drinkable 40% abv, we hand bottle our vodka and seal it with a handmade cork. The whole process, from farm to bottle, takes up to two weeks.
We're a stones throw away from the Malvern Hills – the home of the Queen's favourite water.
Making Our Gin
Unlike most distilleries, we opt out of buying in a readymade neutral grain spirit. In our quest for traceability in the industry, we use either our Chase Original or Naked Chase Vodka as the base to our Williams Gins.
Opening the belly of our 250l Carter head style still, Ginny, we add in the raw spirit at 96% along with the same amount of water from the farm. The botanicals are stuffed into a pillow case and placed into the carter head, where the flavours are infused into the vapours passing through. This method provides a very floral style with great length and depth. For our GB gin we infuse juniper buds and berries to ensure that we distil the driest gin possible, followed by wild botanicals including; cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, almond, coriander, cardamom, cloves, liquorice and lemon to ensure a distinct and robust flavour.
For our Elegant 48 gin, however, the process is a little more complex. In our bespoke gin still, we add hops, elderflower, juniper, Bramley apple and angelica, plus secret wild botanicals
from our meadow and fresh water from our well. These infuse into our apple-based spirit beautifully to help create a refreshing yet complex gin.
We believe in a truly sustainable approach to farming and creating spirits, this is why we let nothing go to waste. All our waste produce goes to feed our herd of pedigree Hereford cattle, and wherever possible, the fresh ingredients used in our products are sourced from right here on our family farm.
As farmers at heart we value our countryside, every inch of it, from field to bottle.
Discover more behind our process and check out our Farm & Distillery tours.
Why Hereford?
Chase Farm is based in Herefordshire in the heart of Middle England, it is often known as the 'forgotten county' due to its off-the-beaten-track location on the borders of Wales, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. It is in this special county that William Chase was born and started his two businesses, Tyrrells Crisps and now Chase Distillery. William is often heard talking about the provenance of Chase Vodka and Williams Gin and he believes that it is the rich, red Hereford soil and our Single-Estate mentality that have led to our spirits being named 'The World's Best'. Please do come and visit us on the farm and take a guided tour around the distillery, once you visit Hereford you won't want to leave!