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Explore creativity and imagination through a variety of interactive expressive arts and healing modalities, in an inclusive and supportive community setting.
Community providers are invited to share their resources and information with families at the All Kids Included (AKI) Arts for Wellness Day on Saturday, November 18, 2017 at Pinecrest Gardens. This inclusive event will feature healing and expressive arts, music, movement, guided meditation, light therapy, vocal toning, gardening, yoga and community resources for families with and without disabilities.
Each exhibitor will be provided with a table and two chairs but must supply their own tablecloth and materials. Set-up time is 9-10am.
Registration is free for non-profit organizations and $25 for for-profit organizations. For-profit organizations make checks payable on the day of the event to: Fantasy Theatre Factory.
Space is limited. Submitting a registration form does not guarantee a place in the resource fair. You will receive a confirmation email prior to the event if your registration is accepted.
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About All Kids Included (AKI): AKI promotes inclusive arts and cultural programs in school settings and throughout the community so that kids of all abilities and their families can participate fully in the arts. For more information visit AllKidsIncludedMiami.org
AKI is an initiative of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, and in part through grant funding provided by The Children's Trust. The Children's Trust is a dedicated source of revenue established by voter referendum to improve the lives of children and families in Miami-Dade County.


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- Tulane University Law School, J.D., 1990, cum laude
- University of Mississippi, B.A., 1987
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia, 1992
- Louisiana, 1995
- Maryland, 1990
Jay Adams is a partner in the firm's Tax & Estates Practice Group. Prior to joining Jones Walker, he was a founding member of the law firm of Oreck Crighton Adams & Chase. Mr. Adams has represented clients in matters involving practically every type of sales and local tax in a number of states and local jurisdictions. During over twenty years of practice, he has represented clients with interests in all phases of the energy industry, including specifically companies involved in natural gas production, gathering, processing, transmission, storage, and distribution, and all of the associated state and local tax issues that can arise. He has represented taxpayers before administrative tribunals and in court in Louisiana, Texas, Colorado and Wyoming.
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I think this question has been addressed but the answers I find are not helping me.
in a previous thread, the answer was "Pressing the <UP> button will display [Display All Images], then pressing the <FUNC/SET> button will cancel group playback. " I don't see an "UP" button but I assume you mean the top of the ring. If you press the UP button without first hitting FUNC/SET, you get a screen that asks you to choose a nickname for the phone.
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Employing staff is always a challenge – are we going to get the right person, will the culture fit be right and will they be productive? I recently read that if you need to replace an employee it can cost you between 16 and 213% of the annual salary of that employee. With statistics like this I cannot believe that companies do not tailor make their employee screening policy to ensure that they get the right person the first time. ...Take a look
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With so much news hitting us these days and sadly it is not always good news – terrorism attacks, state capture and the economy only growing by 0.3% in 2016 I have found it really hard to be inspired to write a blog. I do find that I need to count my blessings in life because there are just so many hardships that people are going through. I find myself wanting to visit people who have lost or are losing loved ones,...Take a look
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Recently I have lost a few friends, all of whom had family that experienced numerous problems when trying to wrap up their loved one's estate. I have also just read about the fact that Joost van der Westhuizen did not have a valid will. The scary thing is that his death was by no means unexpected. It shocks me that this situation still occurs, particularly when I thought iFacts was being quite forward thinking in terms of adding social medi...Take a look
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Other mistake: While talking to his therapist, Dick tells her that one of the mishaps that he caused in his relationship with Mary was showing up to a fundraiser naked. While true, this doesn't happen until Episode 13 (Rutherford Beauty) - two episodes later. This was due to the fact that most of Season 5 was aired out of production order.Douglasac
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2018 Program
The retreat is led by Constance Hale. The daily workshops are taught by writers and editors who bring deep experience in many genres. (Find their bios below.) For those locals wanting to dip a toe in rather than taking a deep dive, it's possible to join us for the afternoon workshops only.
The program is still being finalized, but here's what we know so far. (Click here to see the tentative schedule for 2018.)
Arrival. We begin on of Sunday afternoon, May 6, as participants settle into the camp and explore the surroundings. Our first gathering will be a dinner for all writers, their companions, and some special guests.
Morning. The morning writing workshops begin on Monday, May 7 and continue through Friday, May 11. They foster creative exploration and include readings, writing prompts, and feedback.
Afternoons. From 1:00 to 2:30 p.m., we will have sessions open to all attendees staying at the camp, as well as to some local writers on an "à la carte" basis. The they will include sessions in fiction, poetry, memoir, and breaking in.
Evenings. We invite family and companions as well as members of the local community to join us for our special evening programs, which are free.
Optional activities. Each day will include open writing time to allow for reflection and the polishing of pieces. Faculty will be available for personal guidance and editing. A local expert will guide us on a visit to a sacred site. (See photos below of our 2016 visit to Kūkaniloko, the birthing stones of the ali'i, and the gifts of Hawaiian salt we received.) Writers—as well as family and companions staying at the camp—are welcome to join our opening pā'ina (Hawaiian-style party), hikes, excursions to parks and Hale'iwa, as well as swimming, beachcombing, and for the truly adventurous, skydiving at Dillingham Airfield.
Last day. We end the retreat on Friday, May 11, at 1 p.m. after a group reading (ending with singing—see right) and lunch.
Daily workshops 9 – 11:30 a.m. (simultaneous; each writer signs up for one only)
Life Into Literature: Discovering the tools of fiction. With Linda Watanabe McFerrin. Writing without the proper tools is like trying to build a house with a spoon. Humor, honesty, imagination, invention, attention, surprise, intent—these are a few of the tools used in creating literature. Join Linda, a published poet, travel writer, and novelist, in a workshop designed to acquaint you with the implements of the writer's craft and to show how to wield those tools to create a short story or novel. We'll look at character, plot, scene, dialogue, and more. Participants read a little and write a lot, gaining confidence, skill, and a clear picture of what they want to write, where they want to publish it, and how they can achieve this vision.
What We Talk about When We Talk about Art: Narrative nonfiction in search of a soul. With Bridget Quinn. This workshop focuses on reportage, personal essays, and criticism. We look closely at—and respond to—the blooming world around us, whether that be nature, painting, food, music, architecture, books or anything that captures our interest and fires our passions. Really: anything. It might be the fabric of your favorite shirt. It might be a piece of coral you find on the beach. It might be the old Sagara Store, boarded up along Farrington Highway. Or a shuttered gas station in the town you grew up in. We'll begin each session with close observation and writing. We'll read essays, features, and memoir. We'll look at how we create a compelling narrative with the bones of what we've got—the conflict, action, and resolution that all good storytelling requires. Then we'll fashion something with form and meaning. In other words, art.
Crafting Your Manuscript. With Larry Habegger. This workshop is for writers with fiction or nonfiction manuscripts underway and on the way to publication. The class offers a mix of instruction, workshopping, solo writing time, and one-on-one feedback. We meet as a group Mon., Wed. and Fri. On Tues. and Thurs., writers will focus on revising while Larry offers intensive one-on-feedback. This session is intended for writers in any genre. We will workshop material you've already written rather than giving you prompts for new material. Attendance will be limited to eight and by invitation only. To be considered for this workshop, and so that we can ensure the right mix, please send a double-spaced, 10-page sample of the manuscript or stories you are working on to email@example.com at the time of registration.
Afternoon sessions 1 – 2:30 p.m. (one per afternoon, open to all attendees)
Launching into Verse: Titles, first lines, and how to get started. With Matthew Zapruder. (Mon. 1 p.m.) In this workshop and discussion for those writing poetry, Zapruder shares insights and some reliable tips on the craft.
Make your Memoir Read Like A Novel: Using the tools of fiction in personal storytelling. With Zoe FitzGerald Carter. (Tues. and Thurs. 1 p.m.) All books, whether fiction or nonfiction, explore the human condition and universal themes. This series of two workshops looks at how to balance action and reflection in the in literary memoir, specifically through scene, plot, dialogue, character development and description. We will also discuss where to begin and end your story and how to use multiple timelines.
Side-by-Side: Words, art, book. With Tamara Moan and Lynn Young. (Tues. and Thurs. 1 p.m.) This workshop explores the cross-pollination that comes when words and pictures meet. By engaging in both literary and visual art exercises writers will experiment with making meaning on the page. Some writing exercises stimulate idea generation, and consider formal aspects of craft such as sound, rhythm, and metaphor. Others walk you through the process of refining and editing your raw material. Visual play will include exercises in drawing and other mark-making techniques, as well as communication through abstract design, experimentation with materials, page composition, pacing, and sequencing. At the end of our days together you will have constructed your own handmade book of text and image. This workshop is suitable for writers and artists at all stages of development and does not require any prior experience. All art materials will be provided.
Exploring the Image: Workshopping poetry. With Barbara Marsh. (Wed. 1 p.m.) In the first half of this session we use exercises to find fresh ways of expressing emotions by moving through the concrete image and then re-envisioning the whole poem. In the second half, we share our poems, with or without the possible new lines.
Read Me a Story: Children's Lit. (Thurs. 2:30 p.m.) Writers read their children's stories and get feedback. Listeners welcome.
Faculty leading morning workshops and afternoon sessions (preliminary list)
A graduate of Columbia Journalism School, Zoe FitzGerald Carter has written for The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, and Vogue. Her memoir, Imperfect Endings: A Daughter's Story of Love, Loss and Letting Go, chronicled her mother's decision to end her life after living with Parkinson's disease for many years. Zoe teaches writing at The San Francisco Writers Grotto and is currently at work on a book about race.
Larry Habegger is a writer, editor, journalist, and teacher who has been covering the world since his international travels began in the 1970s. As a freelance writer and syndicated columnist, his work has appeared in many major newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Travel & Leisure, and Outside. In 1993, he cofounded the award-winning Travelers' Tales Books, where he has helped develop the company's publishing program and worked on all of its 140-plus books. As a writing teacher and coach, Larry emphasizes the craft. He specializes in the art of the personal essay, but he also edits memoirs and books about, oh, golf.
Constance Hale (director) writes children's books, adult's books, essays, profiles, and, every now and then, a poem. She also curates sinandsyntax.com, a place "for those who love wicked good prose." Connie has been an editor at the Oakland Tribune, San Francisco Examiner, Wired, and Health, and coaches writers tackling their first (or fifth) books. She was born in Waialua, and her family lives in Mokulē'ia, which makes this retreat a happy overlay of the personal and the professional. Her recent children's book, 'Iwalani's Tree, is even set here.
Barbara Marsh is a London-based American writer, musician, and teacher. She won the 2015 Troubadour International Poetry Prize, and her debut collection is To the Boneyard (Eyewear Publications, 2014). As a musician/singer/songwriter, she was half of the Anglo-American duo The Dear Janes (Geffen Records). She has an Mphil in Creative Writing from the University of Glamorgan.
Tamara Moan is an artist and writer who lives in Kailua, on Oahu's windward side. With BFA and MA (creative writing) degrees, she works as an editor, freelance writer, and instructor at the Honolulu Museum of Art School. Her non-fiction on art and Hawaiian culture topics has been published in Hawaii- and national-circulation magazines; her poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals including Bamboo Ridge.
Bridget Quinn is the author of Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art & Made History (in That Order), an Amazon pick for Best Art & Photography Books 2017. Her writing appears in Narrative Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, Hyperallergic, Ms. Magazine blog and many other publications. A denizen of that lively creative community, the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, Bridget is co-host of the Grotto's weekly podcast, The GrottoPod: Writers on Writing.
Linda Watanabe McFerrin is a poet, travel writer, novelist and popular workshop leader. She is the author of two poetry collections and a winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction. Her novel, Namako: Sea Cucumber, was named Best Book for the Teen-Age by the New York Public Library. She has written the short-story collection The Hand of Buddha, co-edited twelve anthologies, and written a zombie novel, Dead Love, which was a 2009 Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in a Novel. She is the founder of Left Coast Writers a writers organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Lynn Young is an artist and a writer living on Oahu. She works as visual arts educator at UH-Mānoa in the College of Education and has been teaching art in public schools and museums for more than 15 years. She is the author of the poetic memoir, Where's My Ritspik? published by TinFish Press in 2015.
Matthew Zapruder is the author, most recently, of Why Poetry, a memoir about poetry (Ecco/Harper Collins, 2017), and the volume Sun Bear (Copper Canyon, 2014). Zapruder has published three other collections of poetry and collaborated with painter Chris Uphues on For You in Full Bloom (2009). He co-translated the Romanian poet Eugen Jebeleanu's last collection, Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems (Coffee House, 2008). His books have been selected as top five poetry books by Publishers Weekly and top ten poetry volumes of the year by Library Journal; he also won the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America in 2006. An Associate Professor at Saint Mary's College of California, he is also editor at large at Wave Books, and from 2016-2017 held the position of Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine. He also plays lead guitar in The Figments, a Western Massachusetts–based rock band.
Special guests & evening events
Sunday, 6:30 p.m.:
The Bobby Ingano Quartet: The father-and-son virtuosi Kaipo and Adam Asing accompany steel guitar master Bobby Ingano and legendary guitarist Kuki Among to play traditional Hawaiian music in what is referred to as "the Territorial style." In the strains of their renditions of beloved classics, you will hear traces of jazz, swing, and even country, as well as echoes of the greats of yesteryear: Alfred Apaka, Jerry Byrd, David "Feet" Rogers, and Gabby Pahinui. They will serenade us , honoring requests and accompanying hula dancers in the crowd. The Asings play with the Royal Hawaiian Band, and all four musicians have been regulars at many of Honolulu's famous rooms, like The Halekulani's Room without a Key and the Waikīkī Marriott's Moana Terrace. They also play every Monday night at Dot's, in nearby Wahiawa.
Monday, 7 p.m.:
Why Poetry: An impassioned call for a return to verse. Award-winning poet, editor, translator, and professor Matthew Zapruder shares his story of a life in poetry, in a reading and Q & A with the audience. (7 p.m. Free and open to the public.)
Tuesday, 7 p.m.:
Barbarian Days: A Surfing life. Pulitzer Prize–winning author William Finnegan reads from his memoir about surfing in Hawai'i and around the world. He also answers questions about what it's like to write for The New Yorker, how he chooses his subjects, and how he works the craft of narrative nonfiction.
Wednesday, 7 p.m.:
One Voice: The Kamehameha Schools Song Contest. Join independent filmmaker and hula dancer Lisette Marie Flanary for a screening and discussion of her award-winning film. The writer, director, and producer of Lehua Films, Lisette creates documentaries that celebrate a modern renaissance of the hula dance and Hawaiian culture. Her film credits include American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai'i, Nā Kamalei: The Men of Hula, as well as One Voice. She is currently in post-production on the third film in her hula trilogy entitled Tokyo Hula. Lisette is an Associate Professor at the Academy for Creative Media at the University of Hawaiʻi and was recently awarded the Board of Regents's Medal for Excellence in Teaching in 2016.
Thursday afternoon and evening:
Hawaiian Featherwork and Make-your-own-lei Session. Master craftsman Herman Kekoka'oiwinani Mossman Tachera studied and developed his knowledge in Hawaiian feather art under the guidance of the late Mary Louise Kaleonahenahe Kekuewa and Paulette Nohealani Kahalepuna, who are considered the foremost masters the art. He has over eighteen years of experience and has conducted workshops throughout Hawaii, the U.S. mainland, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea. In January 2016 he was artist-in-residence at the de Young Museum in San Francisco during a special exhibition there. He will talk story, show you his exquisite work, and guide you in making your own flower lei.


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This information is a little hard to find on the Internet. This is how to install Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) in VirtualBox, in a "do it yourself" way (installing from an ISO image). There are some people who have made pre-installed VirtualBox images, but one problem you may run into going that route is that the Android serial number will match everybody else who's using the same image as you, since Android generates this number on its first boot.
Getting an Android ISO
The folks at Android-x86 have been making x86 builds of the Android OS for quite a while now, and none of this would be possible without them. They have ISO images for various versions of Android available, but most of them don't work very well in VirtualBox. For example, their "eeepc" image for Android 4.0 has issues with the audio drivers and the network (it has no Ethernet support built in, etc.)
So this means using one of the Android-x86 images from there won't get you too far because audio and networking won't work. Fortunately, somebody has put together an ISO image that's been custom tailored to VirtualBox. I don't remember where I found this ISO image; if it's yours, leave me a comment and I'll edit this post.
android-x86-vm-20120130.iso (244MB). This ISO works much better.
Create a Virtual Machine
In VirtualBox, create a new machine for Android.
Machine Name: "Android ICS" (you can name it anything you want)
Machine Type: "Linux 2.6"
Memory: I gave my VM 1024MB of memory.
Hard Disk: I created a new 16GB VDI image that dynamically expands.
All the default settings worked fine for me. Here's what the defaults were on my system
Networking Type: NAT
Adaptor: "Intel Pro/1000 MT Desktop (82540EM)"
Audio: Intel AC'97
Storage Layout:IDE Controller:
CD Device
SATA Controller:Hard Disk
Make sure the VM boots from the ISO image.
On the boot screen, select "Installation - Install Android-x86 to harddisk"
Choose "Create/Modify Partitions". This takes you into cfdisk.
Choose "[New]"
Choose "[Primary]"
Press enter to accept the default partition size (mine was 17174.38)
Choose "[Bootable]"
Choose "[Write]"
Type "yes" to confirm writing.
Choose "[Quit]"
Choose to install on the sda1 device (Linux VBOX HARDDISK)
Choose to format the drive "ext3"
Pick "Yes" to confirm formatting.
Pick "Yes" when it asks to install the GRUB bootloader.
Pick "Yes" when it asks to mount /system as read-write (this will be important later to install the Google apps).
Create a fake SD card when it prompts. I made mine 2047MB (the maximum allowed).
Choose "
Make sure you detach the ISO image from the virtual machine so that it will boot into the installed OS. If you see the "Installation" option again, it means you're booting from the ISO still!
Tips for Running Android
You'll want to disable mouse integration to be able to interact with the GUI at all. This can be done from choosing the "Machine" menu in the VM window and clicking "Disable Mouse Integration" -- or pressing HostKey+I.
The Escape key on your keyboard corresponds to the Back key in Android. The context menu key on your keyboard corresponds to the Menu button in Android (the context menu key is usually next to the right Windows key).
To power off the VM, press HostKey+H. This will cause Android to pop up the shutdown dialog that you'd expect on a real phone. You can also use the "Machine->Send Shutdown Signal" to do the same.
Install the Google Apps
You may notice that this Android VM doesn't include the Android Market, GMail, or Google Maps. These are some of the Google Apps and due to some licensing restrictions Android-x86 doesn't include them "out of the box".
On a real Android device that's been rooted and flashed with a custom ROM, you'd install the Google apps by flashing them in recovery mode. But you can't get into recovery mode on VirtualBox. Thus, the method for installing the Google Apps is kinda sketchy, but it works (and if you know of a better way, feel free to tell me).
You'll need a file with a name like "gapps-ics-20120304-signed.zip". These are the Google apps (the date part might be different). You can Google them, but I have a copy of them here to download too.
You don't really need the entire Google Apps file, actually. Just the "system" folder inside the zip file. Create a new tar file of the "system" folder so that it will be easy to get it into your Android device. I have a prepared "system.tar.gz" for you if you just want to use mine.
GApps Download Links:
gapps-ics-20120304-signed.zip (52MB)
system.tar.gz (just the /system folder; 28MB)
The steps to install the Google Apps are as follows:
Download system.tar.gz to your Android VM somehow. I used the Web Browser app and downloaded it there. You could probably also use the Email app, or if you're really Android savvy, push it with the Android Debugger.
If Android tells you that there is no SD card so it can't download the Google Apps, that's because you skipped that step while first installing your Android system. The very last step of the installer asks if you'd like to create a virtual SD card partition, and you should've had it do that. If you didn't, the only easy solution I know of is to reinstall the OS.
Open the "Terminal Emulator" app in Android.
Enter these commands (note: don't type the $ or # symbols at the beginning of these lines. These symbols indicate the prompt.)
$ cd /sdcard/Download
$ tar -xzvf system.tar.gz
$ su
# cd /sdcard/Download
# cp -rf system/* /system/
Pay special attention to the cp -rf command. Make sure the slashes and *'s are in the right places.
Reboot the phone.
You should now see the Market app, GMail and the others in your app menu.
Note: in my experience, the Market app will be somewhat unstable. When you start the app, it will Force Quit after 10 or 15 seconds. However, if you're fast enough you should be able to quickly search for a specific app you'd like and begin the download process before Market crashes, and the app will continue to download and install regardless.
I imagine that the unorthodox way of installing the Google Apps might be partly to blame for the Market being unstable. The other Google apps seem to work fine though.
No Warranty
Android is primarily an ARM architecture operating system and the x86 version isn't supported by Google. While a lot of apps will work in Android-x86, some may crash in weird ways. If you're an Android developer though, this can be pretty useful because Android-x86 will run a lot faster on your hardware than the standard emulator from the SDK does, so you can test your apps much more rapidly (the Android-x86 site has some documentation on how to connect ADB to your virtual machine).
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What do I need to do to prepare my car for the cold mornings of autumn and slippery roads covered in leaves?
The first thing to do is to check your tire pressure. When you leave your warm garage and go out into the colder weather, your tires can lose inflation pressure. Even if your vehicle is not in a garage, you will likely need to add air after the summer months. For every 10 degrees the temperature drops, the tires will each lose approximately 1 psi. A symbol that looks like an exclamation point inside parentheses will generally show up on your dashboard to let you know the pressure is too low. Feel free to stop by Jaffarian Volvo Toyota Scion's Service Department for us to check your tire pressure.
Tire pressure is important because it can affect steering, handling, gas mileage, and the life of the tires. Every vehicle has its own ideal PSI. To find your recommended pressure, check the label on the driver's side door jamb or your owner's manual.
I'm glad you asked about the leaves on wet roads, because drivers usually don't consider them as dangerous as driving on ice or snow. But when leaves accumulate on wet roads, they can get extremely slippery, making the driving conditions similar to driving on ice. If the temperature drops below freezing, the wet leaves will freeze and the roads become more dangerous.
Besides reducing the car's traction, causing skidding and the possibility of losing control of the vehicle, leaves may cover the white lines, making it difficult to see lane markers.
Tips for driving on wet roads:
• Slow down if you are driving on a road covered with leaves, especially when driving around turns to avoid skidding or rollovers.
• Allow yourself plenty of room to stop in an emergency.
• Keep a greater distance between you and the vehicle in front of you. Leaves also make it difficult to see potholes and bumps in the road, which can ruin your tires.
• When driving in neighborhoods, keep in mind that a pile of leaves raked to the side of the road is an inviting place to a child. Children enjoy jumping into the leaf piles or burrowing down into them and hiding. Never drive through a leaf pile. Use caution going around turns and where children are playing.
• Keep leaves off of the windshield and wiper blades to maximize your visibility while driving. Be sure to replace your wiper blades if you haven't in the past year.
• In order to avoid the possibility of a fire hazard from the exhaust system or catalytic converter, never park your vehicle over a pile of leaves.
• On foggy nights, please use your low beams. Drivers tend to turn on high beams in the fog and that could blind an oncoming vehicle. Keep your headlights clean and free of debris and be certain all lights are in good working order.
Some ideas for celebrating Halloween
Instead of "trick or treating" this weekend, you may want to take your children to one of the exciting Halloween events in the area such as "Witch's Woods Haunted Hayride" at the Nashoba Valley Ski Area in Westford (www.witchswoods.com) which has six events in one place including a haunted mansion; or Canobie Lake Park's Screeemfest (www.canobie.com/screeemfest). Of course, it is always exciting to be part of the biggest Halloween celebration city in America—Salem, Massachusetts! For events in Salem, go to www.hauntedhappenings.org or http://www.salemweb.com/calendar for more information.
If you want to take a ride down to R.I. this weekend, try the Jack-o-Lantern Spectacular at the Roger William Park and Zoo in Cranston. It is a nighttime display of 5,000 illuminated jack-o-lanterns all along a beautiful Wetlands Trail, with more than 100 pumpkins carved into unbelievable individual works of art. More information is available at www.rwpzoo.org. I haven't been there, but it is recommended by AAA as a worthwhile spectacular event!
With Halloween on the weekend this year, there will be many children out walking in the dark, and teens out late celebrating. This is one of the most important times to drive slowly and defensively on city/town roads and in neighborhoods. Let's make this a safe Halloween, free of accidents.
Have a happy and safe Halloween!


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CRJ Positions and Practice
New Year's Eve 2017
The past and the present.
English vintage photo (likely 1930s) of three ladies paddling, dressed in bokeh from NYE 2017 fireworks in Florida, USA.
CRJ week 9 – Critical Theory
The topic this week of Critical Theory has been really stimulating and interesting, and has required me to look far more critically at my own work. This has allowed me to refocus and given me new inspiration for what I'm going to do over the next three modules; which is a very good thing as I was feeling a little 'stuck'.
The presentations I have watched and the articles I've read have given me much to think about, and I have been a) considering where I stand in relation to various theories, and b) looking at my own practice, trying to decide where it sits theoretically, and what I can improve in this respect as I develop my future research and output.
Despite the fact that Francis Hodgson (2012, Quality Matters) stated he didn't believe that photography to be elitist; what he was saying was, in my view, just that. If we are able to create and share a common language when describing quality, that immediately devalues the opinion of anyone who does not have the same vernacular. Additionally, can a set of 'rules' define quality, when creativity and invention are not static? There can be no new valued style, form, interpretation or theory unless the definition of quality is refined alongside these progressions.
Reading the newspaper articles by Sally Mann , (in the New York Times, 2015) and Tierney Gearon (in the Guardian, 2001), I was struck by the naivety of the women, who both seemed surprised by the reaction the photographs of their nude children received. Their intentions had been quite different, wishing to capture childhood innocence in family life. However, once the photographs reached the public domain the interpretation altered, allowing the viewer to reach their own conclusions.
In this week's online forum we were asked to post a picture and describe two different interpretations of it.
This was my contribition:
Photographer Cezar Dezfuli recently won the Taylor Wessing prize for this photograph of a migrant named Sumaila, taken off the Libyan coast last year. He took pictures of all the 118 refugees who had been rescued by a German boat. Dezfuli didn't realise the poignancy of the expression on Sumaila's face until he looked back at them all later. He said "There was something about the way he looked into the camera and something in the clothes he was wearing that gave the photo a texture. I don't know exactly what it was, but it just summed up the story I was trying to tell really well."
My interpretation 1 – the Guardian's text over the photo says ' Who is the man in the photograph?'
Who is he? Where is he from? Why is he looking so intensely at the camera? What has happened to him? Where is he going? Who is he with ?
My interpretation 2 – the composition of the photograph. The man looks as if has quite literally come straight out of the water, and the way the eyes sit just above the horizon is powerful. The shadow of his head tells us where the sun was. His collar bone is protruding, is he under nourished? He is not smiling. His clothing is dishevelled and dirty. The sea is calm.
The first interpretation questions; the second is factually based, with the composition leading the viewer towards understanding the greater context of the photograph.
In my own practice, my pictures tend to be about something, rather than of something. The difficulty lies in how to allow the viewer to read the picture in the way I have intended; as the meanings I try to embody are not usually transparent. As my work develops, this is something that will need consideration and resolving.
For instance, the above image is one of a series. They are an account of the deconstructions and reconstructions of an old photograph in a frame which I bought last weekend at a flea market for £2. It is not my intention for the viewer to think that this is a photograph of the sum of its parts; but rather what is symbolised by this act of destruction. This small piece of family history was discarded, with responsibility passing to a third party, a stranger, to dispose of. Note the duplicity here – I am at the same time destroying and recreating.
This topic has given me much to think about and has already changed the way I work.
CRJ week 7
This week we were asked to work in pairs and set each other a micro project . Mine was set by Jo:
Produce 6 images of aspects of one local park.
Must be clear specific elements of the park – objects or people, not large landscape shots.
No trees or flowers as the main focus.
Format etc up to you.
Immediately I knew that I would go to Wicksteed Park as it's right on my doorstep and beautiful at this time of year. I was pleased that the brief didn't ask for landscape photography, as I like to go for shots that are a little different .
Firstly I planned to take the six in a square format, and arrange together them in one larger image . However I soon changed my mind, as I wanted to be more creative with their arrangement. My second plan was to take the photographs on my Sony camera, then print them on my Fujifilm Instax printer, allowing me to arrange the prints in a way that would join lines, shapes or colours that I had chosen.
Unfortunately I encountered a problem with this, as I was unable to power my mini printer, despite many attempts throughout the week to source a power cable or batteries. This was overly complicated and after 5 days of trying I decided to opt for plan C instead. Luckily I have hopefully got batteries arriving soon so I'll be able to use it again.
Back to the park…walking through it in the hour before it closed, as the light began to leave, I looked for different angles and perspectives. Sometimes I shot upwards (such as placing the camera underneath a sign), sometimes I shot downwards (onto a gate), and sometimes I keyed in a slow shutter setting and put it behind my back as I walked along. The photo in the header for this post was again taken on a slow shutter speed as I turned round, trying to keep the hand held camera horizontal.
The six I chose all have a common theme of either circles, posts or lines. Some of them are edited afterwards, mostly subtly.
I chose to present them as a slideshow, so that the chosen contours move through into one another, connecting them all together in some way. Although the brief specified no trees or flowers, it was almost impossible not to have one or two in the background.
Xmas 1917 as a stimulus – CRJ week four
This week we were set a collaboration task, which proved to be logistically more difficult than I imagined it would. The topic for the work was completely up to us.
After finding a family portrait postcard photo, with the only words written on the back 'Xmas 1917', I made the decision to look at family portraiture through the following decades, with the ambition of arriving at the present date – 100 years seemed like a good idea, but it turned out to be a bit of a mammoth task!
Unfortunately, work loads meant that my partner in crime and I weren't able to talk properly until the night before our webinar. So after discussing the initial idea (the postcard) we pretty much went about it alone until then.
I asked friends on Facebook if they had any suitable photos I could use – I gathered two this way, a few from mine and my husband's family archives, and obtained the rest via the Google search engine. This in itself presented problems as I had no way of knowing whether searching for British family portraits would also yield portraiture from other countries. There were many very early photos to choose from. There were less from the 1930s onwards; and the later the decade, the more difficult it became to find official family portraits.
Settling on six photographs, and after having read Paul Martin Lester's Visual Analysis, I set about analysing them – although had I done so according to all of his six stages this would have taken considerably more time.
A quick chat the night before with my collaborator, and all was set to present my work the following morning at our webinar session. I had some interesting feedback. One of the group gave me some background historical information about the location of the studio where one of the portraits was taken (Bow in the 1960s). My tutor also introduced me to a couple of search engines that I'd not heard of before, where the search results will be less biased towards the UK. Apparently imageatlas.org/ is a collaboration between a photographer and a programmer.
It was interesting seeing the other team's collaborative project, which was based on a couple of triptych slides of bridges. The discussions which followed were largely focused around locations, different ways of presenting work, themes, output.
I've realised that I should start planning not only what my Research Project will be, but how I am going to make it accessible / present it.
I tried hard not to 'make anything' this week, but by Thursday I couldn't wait any longer! The photo montage at the top of the page is some of the mothers and children photographs I sourced – one from every decade between 1910- 1960. Having said that, the relationship between the subjects was another assumption that I had to make.
The chosen photos with their basic analysis' are below.
Reflective moments – CRJ week three
In response to the debate surrounding his Hipstamatic photographs of soldiers during the Afghan war, Photojournalist Damon Winter stated that it was "never my intention for these photos to be seen only in the context of the tool by which they were made'; and that there are two valid fundamentals involved in the making of the image – aesthetics and content. However, I consider there to be a third, equal component – that of the photographer's intention.
We may draw parallels to the aesthetics of Art , for example "Equivalent VIII" (commonly known as Bricks) by Carl Andre in the 1970s. His installation was a minimalist oblong arrangement of bricks. In this case, the piece was considered to be a work of art because the artist intended it so, and was further validated by being exhibited by Tate Gallery. Critics claimed that the Tate had been duped, others defended its decision as a major player in the international world of contemporary art.
I would argue that by applying smartphone filters to his work, Winter deliberately intended to create an aesthetic piece of work, and in this case the original publisher of his photographs in 2010 (New York Times) was in fact the exhibitor, just as was the Tate when it exhibited Winter's Bricks.
If his intention was to create an intimate narrative of the soldier's lives, Winter succeeded. In his creative use of the tools he had to hand, he was able to produce a set of controversial photographs which had their validity questioned and discussed.
Nowadays of course, the Hipstamatic filter can be applied after the picture has been taken. If an individual wishes to, they may take a photo on a DSLR, upload it to their smartphone and then apply Hipstamatic (or other) filters.
With photography being so immediately accessible these days to anyone with a smartphone, the meaning of the word 'photographer' has had to adapt to change, although the general public, in my experience, still view photography as a profession that requires lots of expensive equipment, technical expertise and a repertoire of carefully staged shots (whether it be events or landscape etc). However, images made on the smartphone by 'citizen witnessing' – a phrase coined by Stuart Alan in his 'blurring boundaries: professional and citizen photojournalism in a digital age' (2013), can be sent anywhere around the world in seconds – therefore allowing the casual bystander to become an 'accidental' photojournalist. Newspaper and online publishers typically pay less for these images than those from a professional photographer.
It's too late now to turn back the clock for the place of citizen photojournalism, with or without filters. We've opted for retro style images in certain situations because they sell – the iPhone stock app Stockimo (a sister company of Alamy) actively encourages its contributors to apply filters.
Work in progress
As per my previous post, this week I've been experimenting with prisms as well as different printing techniques.
I also created a montage, based on a photo I took in Bournemouth earlier this year (original below).
Here is the same picture with the left half photoshopped to include fragmented photos from the same town. I paid attention to shape, contour and colour.
Unfortunately it doesn't work as I intended, it needs more light and smaller pieces in it.
Once I had printed this out, I laid it on my desk with the image from the bottom left corner displayed on my computer screen. It's a photo c.1903 of people on the beach at Bournemouth. I reflected some of this image downwards using the prism. It's a clumsy attempt but it's given me a lot to consider. I'd previously seen some of Sam Hurd's prism photography online.
So much to think about that I'm going to have to leave the practical element alone and do a lot more reading and reflection this week, to hopefully give me inspiration to find a direction to take my photography in.
My tutor has suggested I look at the work of Fred Ritchin, Emily Allchurch, Erik Kessels, Tom Butler, Joachim Schmid and others. And I need to read more articles on the reading list.
Antique photo + DSLR, Smartphone, Prism, Instax
After reading articles about the place of smartphone amateur and professional photography, particularly with reference to apps such as Hipstamatic, today I set up a small exercise in the garden. All I needed for this was my DSLR with a macro lens, an antique photograph, an eight inch prism, and sunshine. I took a number of images however the objective was to use multiple simple techniques rather than to find a perfect shot.
Once I had taken a photo that I was satisfied with, I uploaded my chosen picture to my smartphone, applied a Hipstamatic filter to it, and finally printed it out on an Instax Fujimilm portable printer. (The kind where you watch the photo develop).
What could we call this fusion style of photography?
"Bear with me, I'm having an earthquake…" CRJ week Two.
It's a strange title for a post I know, but this is a sentence spoken by my tutor during our webinar this morning as his surrounding book shelves wobbled just a little bit. Just one small part of the (massive) learning curve that I'm currently experiencing as I'm immersed in this cross – continental, interdisciplinary, flexible learning degree – that the architecture in Tokyo is built to a high specification to withstand these tremors.
That aside, I picked this as a title for my latest post as it seemed to sum up quite nicely some of my brain activity this week, as I grappled with new concepts, tried to critically evaluate some of my work and that of others; and to understand how I am, and am not, interdisciplinary in my work. I had to turn my thinking on its head, experiment with new ideas, research other work and figure out if and how my own had any contextual relevance to the content in this week's tutor presentations.
As I looked more critically at my own work, I saw just how much evidence there was of the human psyche. Psychology has always fascinated me, having studied it during my Combined Honours BA. Since then my work within the educational sector has included liaising with mental health professionals; volunteering for an organisation which searches for missing despondents; as well as learning how to improve and maintain my own well-being as I've got older and more savvy about matters of the brain. I hadn't really summed all this up previously and put it conveniently into a box labelled 'psychology', but the more I think about it, the more I realise this is what I have been doing.
One genre which also interests me is the use of found objects / collage / montage / embroidery within the photographic image. I looked at the creative work of John Stezaker, Ingrid Karlsson, Julie Cockburn and other examples of montage; and a scientific study by Ekman et al starting in the late 1960s. Ekman's study led to the development of a set of facial photographs which represented the recognition of basic human emotions. I found this interesting and considered the links between this and the modern day selfie and emoji.
In my work, I often rework and reuse part of one of my images (such as the boat seen below on the left, taken in the Gulf of Mexico).
In the collage, top right, the body of the boat has been cut out from a book of idioms, the idiom being "all at sea" and its meaning (lost, confused). This is one of my more overt examples of an interdisciplinary approach between photography, psychology and other art forms which rely on layering. A bold approach to colour deliberately exaggerates the intent.
I spent so long this week thinking critically about my own work, and reading, that I left myself short of time to create something new. However, although my new images may be a little clumsy, they are something I can work with and hope to develop further:
Here, I have cut out the face of the girl in the vintage postcard, then placed it on top of a photograph by Tom Stoddart entitled 'Young mother and child awaiting evacuation from Sarajevo'. The mother is anxious and tearful, not knowing whether she will be able to take her child away from the constant fear of living in a town under siege. This contrasts heavily with the photograph on the left (incidentally the message written on the reverse said 'Ivy, with love and best wishes for your birthday, from Dad and Mother'). Two different times, different lives, different hopes from mothers to their child.
My tutor suggested that I look at the work of John Goto, which is now on my list of things to do during the coming week.
It's been a good week.


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James Daniel Holmes, 83, of Gothenburg passed away Friday, Feb. 18, 2011, at Gothenburg.
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Service-orientation design principles
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Service-orientation design principles are proposed principles for developing the solution logic of services within service-oriented architectures (SOA).[1][2][3]
The success of software development based on any particular design paradigm is never assured. Software developed under the service-oriented design paradigm carries even greater risks. This is because a service-oriented architecture usually spans multiple business areas and requires considerable initial analysis. Therefore, SOA developed without concrete guidelines is very likely to fail.[4] To ensure that the move towards service-orientation is a positive change that delivers on its promised benefits, it is helpful to adopt a set of rules.[5]
The service-orientation design principles may be broadly categorized as follows, following Thomas Erl's, SOA Principles of Service Design:[6][7][8]
- Standardized service contract
- Service loose coupling
- Service abstraction
- Service reusability
- Service autonomy
- Service statelessness
- Service discoverability
- Service composability
It is the application of these design principles that create technology independent services and hence provide interoperability in the long term.[9] These design principles serve as a guideline for identifying services.[2]
Strategic goals[edit]
The application of these principles helps in attaining the underlying goals linked with the adoption of service-orientation in the first place. These goals are strategic in nature i.e. long term and look beyond the immediate needs[10] of an organization. These strategic objectives could be summarized into the following seven goals & benefits:[11][12]
- Increased intrinsic interoperability
- Increased federation
- Increased vendor diversification options
- Increased business and technology alignment
- Increased ROI
- Increased organizational agility
- Reduced IT burden
Each of the above goals and benefits directly helps towards developing an agile organization[13] that can quickly respond to the ever-changing market conditions with reduced efforts and time.
The service-orientation design principles help in distinguishing a service-oriented solution[14] from a traditional object-oriented solution by promoting distinct design characteristics. The presence of these characteristics in a service-oriented solution greatly improves the chances of realizing the aforementioned goals and benefits. Erl has identified four service-orientation characteristics as follows:[15]
- Vendor-neutral
- Business-driven
- Enterprise-centric
- Composition-centric
A vendor-neutral service-oriented solution helps to evolve the underlying technology architecture in response to ever changing business requirements. By not being dependent on a particular vendor, any aging infrastructure could be replaced by more efficient technologies without the need for redesigning the whole solution from scratch. This also helps in creating a heterogeneous technology environment where particular business automation requirements are fulfilled by specific technologies.
Within a SOA, the development of solution logic is driven by the needs of the business and is designed in a manner that focuses on the long-term requirements of the business. As a result, the technology architecture is more aligned with the business needs.
Unlike traditional silo-based application development, a SOA takes into account the requirements of either the whole of the enterprise or at least some considerable part of it. As a result, the developed services are interoperable and reusable across the different segments of the enterprise.
A service-oriented solution enables to deal with new and changing requirements, within a reduced amount of time, by making use of existing services. The services are designed in a manner so that they can be recomposed i.e. become a part of different solutions.
The service-orientation design principles are applied during the service-oriented analysis and design process. The extent to which each of these principles could be applied is always relative and needs to be weighed against the overall goals and objectives of an organization as well as the time constraints. One important factor that needs to be kept in mind is that it is not just the application of these design principles alone but the consistent application [6] that guarantees the realization of the service-orientation design goals linked with the adoption of service-orientation. This is because services are an enterprise resource, i.e. giving the confidence that they conform to certain standards and could be reused within multiple solutions, so in order to remain such a resource, they must emerge from a process to which these principles have been applied consistently, as an inconsistent application would result in services that are not compatible with each other, resulting in loss of the fundamental service-orientation design characteristics.
See also[edit]
- ^ Service Archived May 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ a b Hubbers; et al. "Ten Ways to Identify Services". CiteSeerX 10.1.1.94.5879 .
- ^ Wojciech Cellary, Sergiusz Strykowski.E-Government Based on Cloud Computing and Service-Oriented Architecture.Date Accessed: 11 April 2010.
- ^ Jon Brodkin.SOA failures traced to people, process issues. Date accessed: 8 April 2010. Archived October 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Gero Vermaas.Top 10 SOA Pitfalls. Date accessed: 8 April 2010. Archived February 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ a b Thomas Erl (2008)."SOA Principles of Service Design". Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-234482-1
- ^ Hoijin Yoon. "A Convergence of Context-Awareness and Service-Orientation in Ubiquitous Computing". CiteSeerX 10.1.1.114.1823 .
- ^ Michael Poulin Evolution of principles of Service Orientation, part 1.Date accessed: 12 April 2010. Archived February 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ David Webber.Services as Web Services: "Are We There Yet?"How Web Service Technology Stacks Alone Cannot Fulfill the Goals of SOA.Date Accessed: 11 April 2010.
- ^ The immediate needs are those that are linked with automating a particular business process e.g. invoice processing while long-term requirements are those that look beyond the current requirements and are usually spread across multiple business processes
- ^ SOA Goals & Benefits Archived October 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Sadi Melbouci.Methodology to Deliver Service Oriented Architecture.Date Accessed: 10 April 2010. Archived March 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ An agile organization within the context of IT world is one that can quickly respond to its business requirements while using much of its existing resources.
- ^ A solution that is based on service-orientation design paradigm and is made up of services.
- ^ Erl et al, (2009)."SOA Design Patterns". Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-613516-6
Further reading[edit]
- Mauro. et al. Service Oriented Device Integration - An Analysis of SOA Design Patterns. [Online], pp. 1–10, 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2010. Date accessed: 8 April 2010.
- Dennis Wisnosky.Principles and Patterns at the U.S. Department of Defense[Online].Date Accessed: 10 April 2010.
- Ash Parikh.Service-Orientation is the New Mantra![Online].Date Accessed: 10 April 2010.
- Ertan Deniz.XML and XML Web Services[Online].Date Accessed: 10 April 2010.
- Nafise Fareghzadeh. Service Identification Approach to SOA Development[Online].Date Accessed: 10 April 2010.
- William Murray.Implications of SOA onBusiness Strategy and Organizational Design[Online].Date Accessed: 10 April 2010.
- Diaconita. et al.Two Integration Flavors in Public Institutions[Online].Date Accessed: 11 April 2010.
- Fabian Meier.Service Oriented Architecture Maturity Models:A guide to SOA Adoption?[Online].Date Accessed: 11 April 2010.
- Moosavi. et al. A Method for Service Oriented Design[Online].Date Accessed: 11 April 2010.
- Kjell-Sverre Jerijærvi.SOA Contract Maturity Model[Online].Date accessed: 12 April 2010.
- IBM Red Books.Power Systems and SOA Synergy[Online].Date accessed: 21 April 2010.