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Here are my answers to these Curriculum Vitae questions. Please feel free to use the same questions and return your responses to me.
What was the last record / CD you obtained?
If you could recommend a record / CD (of music) to someone and have that person actually listen to it, what would it be?
Lately, I have been recommending Aksak Maboul / Marc Hollander "Onze Danses Pour Combattre La Migraine" (1977) to people. I never tire of that album.
Do you think record stores will all close and people will only be able to purchase music (LP's/CD's) on-line eventually?
Certainly starting to look that way! More
Do you ever copy music for yourself or your friends? What format(s) do you use?
Yes, I do sometimes generate a 'CD on demand' for my friends. I have one friend who will text me and ask, "Do you have any Scott Walker?" (Answer: No) – but sometimes he will hit the jackpot and ask for Nick Drake – the next time I saw him, I was able to fit all three original ND albums onto 2 CD's. Mostly CD-R's at this time.
Do you watch TV very much anymore? If not, why?
Almost nothing since the switch to digital. We watched "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" for a while…but the musical guests were better on Jimmy Kimmel and even the Carson Daly show. Also liked "I Survived a Japanese Game Show".
What's for lunch?
Today, I might have one of those Indian rice bowls from Fresh 'n' Easy. Had a "Mango Chicken" rice bowl last night, which was pretty good.
Seen any good films lately?
No, not really. I think the last film I went to was "Slumdog Millionaire", which was OK.
Any plans to leave your home anytime soon?
What other question(s) would you like to know the answer(s) to?
How much longer will I be able to buy new / used CD's in brick-and-mortar stores?


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Archive for the 'Bad Service' Category
If you have purchased a new home from Persimmon Homes, or Charles Church, you can find information and advice from other home owners and experts on snagging etc. at www.Snagging.org and at the forums.
An interesting post one found when searching for customer reviews on Charles Church and Persimmon Homes, using google. I was also interested in NHBC and how they work with the builder on 'raising standards' and 'protecting consumers'.
I found an interesting post on Block and Beam Flooring Regulations, and other factors (including sound proofing and regulations) troubling a new home owner. They have been pursuing issues with the builder directly and with NHBC. An interesting if not untypical read.
I read an interesting (and I felt typical) view of the problems with buying a new home from Charles Church at the Charles Church and Persimmon Homes Owners Forum.
Definately get everything in writing, and then from our experience expect a lengthy fight trying to get them to honour. For the things you don't have in writing it might be best to chalk those up to experience, having seen first hand what Charles Church spoken 'word' is worth.
We see quality of contruction and customer service as the biggest and continuing problems with Charles Church. We found poor customer service and low quality of workmanship to be a repreated theme throughout our years trying to persuade Charles Church to do the right thing and honour their warranty.
One internet site, titled 'Charles Church Sucks' , lists issues with a new home from Charles Church, with the site poster stating problems 'left me disillusioned and furious'. His advice was to 'think twice' before buying a new home from Charles Church.
We can fully relate to the upset Charles Church quality problems and poor customer service have caused us to feel. How many years before the simple and complicated problems they left are fixed. From a simple leak to the major work they need to undertake, years have passed and progress is very tardy, if even existent.
More complaints regarding the NHBC, only this time it's not Charles Church or Persimmon Homes, but Redrow.
The comments from Sarah Hamilton, a spokeswoman for the National House Building Council, are we found typical of the response NHBC gives, which makes it harder to pursue a claim because of the inability to acknowledge and get to the bottom of a problem. Follow this link to read more about a Redrow new home and the NHBC in this Telegraph Article on NHBC and Redrow Home.
We are still waiting for Charles Church (a division of Persimmon Group plc) to do the right thing. So far the NHBC has in our view been useless as well.
It's been over 4.5 years and still we are waiting, dispute numerous assurances, which have turned out to be nothing buy empty promises.
But the leaks are the smaller issues, the substandard construction of the floor is a much bigger concern to us, and still years after reporting the issues (and Charles Church continuing to build new homes with similar defects) we are still waiting for a proper investigation, and thus for the hope of a fix so we might one day be able to sell the home, which we originally thought would be a safe investment – how wrong we were.


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Growing up, Joshua Ben Longo was plagued with terrible night terrors—often waking up in the middle of the night to see ghosts, trolls and forms of smoke tormenting him above his bed. "Sometimes the hallucinations are harmless, but too often they are frightening," says Longo, who still experiences them occasionally.
Fortunately, Longo has found a constructive outlet for his hallucinations in a series of stuffed monster toys and oil paintings that could even be described as . . . cute. Now a senior designer at Anthropologie, Longo has just released his most ambitious, monstrous endeavor to date: the Monster Skin Rug, for which he's currently raising funds on Kickstarter.
Longo got the idea for the Monster Skin Rug back in 2006. The designer had been sewing his stuffed monster toys for a few years, but wanted to move beyond toys to something more substantial. Although he started with a sketch, Longo quickly moved to physical prototyping, scavenging used felt U-Haul blankets from around Brooklyn and cutting them up to create repeating patterns. "I like to start working with my hands as soon as possible after I have an idea," he says. "There is only so far that a drawing can take you. I have always been obsessed with building form by repeating patterns. For the rug, I wanted to combine my love of monsters and the beautiful texture born from repetition."
After several texture and pattern studies, Longo went out and purchased swaths of white felted cashmere to build the first model. Cutting small shapes from the material by hand, he outlined a silhouette and hand-sewed each scale onto the skin of the soon-to-be beast. Teeth were crafted from polymer-based, oven-baked clay and the head was filled out with polyester stuffing. Longo opted for no eyes on the rug, believing that it looked more ominous without them.
Over the years, Longo continued iterating on his initial design, moving to gray felt to cut down on visible dirt and buying the material in bulk to reduce the price. The rugs are now made of a 60/40 wool-and-recycled-denim blend, and have a consistency that is a bit tougher than standard 100-percent wool. "Plus you get nice variation in the gray felt when it has a recycled element," Longo says. As he began to sell more of the rugs, Longo had a die made to punch out scales in strips, as opposed to hand-cutting individual scales. "Hand-cutting each individual scale for one rug was peaceful and meditative to do once," Longo says. "It's awful to repeat over and over."
With his Kickstarter campaign, Longo is hoping to scale production even further, moving all steps of the process to a manufacturer overseas."I reached out to several American manufacturers and they all refused to work on producing this rug," Longo says of his decision to go outside the U.S. "I searched for a year before I took the rug to a manufacturer in China. The factory I'm working with specifically makes soft toys, but was happy to take on the challenge of mass producing the rug." Longo has been working with the manufacturer for the past ten months to perfect the final design and make sure it's ready to scale.
While Longo continues to hand-sculpt each tooth from clay, for his Kickstarter the designer is outsourcing that step as well, working with another factory to have the teeth cast in ABS plastic and painted. "The quality of the teeth has been tricky, but most people won't even notice the difference," he says. "I haven't decided yet, but I may have the gums over-molded with TPE [soft plastic]. The factory and I are working this detail out now."
While moving production to China has been a pretty breezy process, Longo says that the biggest challenge has been figuring out the logistics and marketing for his Kickstarter campaign. "It doesn't matter how much preparation you put into a project like this, you will have to do two to three versions before you get it right," he says. "I spent so much time trying to make the project look good that I didn't anticipate how difficult it is to get people's attention on the Internet—never mind asking them for money. Design school doesn't exactly prepare you for these scenarios. For me, convincing an audience that $425 is totally worth it for a labor-intensive—and, I dare say, amazing—Monster Skin Rug is a challenge." Between video edits, photo shoots and manufacturing, Longo says he has now spent a total of six to seven thousand dollars to bring the campaign to life.
While $425 might sound a bit steep for a whimsical 33-by-54-inch rug, Longo says that he priced the product to cover manufacturing, warehousing and transport after selling the first 300—and that success mass-producing the rugs will eventually lower costs. "I anticipate selling wholesale, in which I case I would sell them cheaper," Longo says, adding that he will be making "essentially no profit" from the Kickstarter campaign.
But if he can use Kickstarter to turn his Monster Skin Rug into a viable product, he certainly hopes to generate enough profit to invest in the next product. "I don't have the luxury and get up, make art and not worry about paying bills at this point in my career," he says. "My intention for this campaign is to slowly start a business and allow myself the time to expand into other mediums. Products, puppets, cartoons, movies, music… I really want to do it all."
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An agreement up front by the Walt Disney Co. to never develop the 8,500-acre Walker Ranch would be a great gift to Central Florida.
Walt Disney World officials have a knack for making dreams come true - they do it every day. So Central Floridians have good reason to hope that the company will not only buy the Walker Ranch but also provide the utmost guarantee that the pristine 8,500 spread will never be developed.


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Monday, November 21, 2011
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After checking in to https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petitions one may look at and sign any or all the present 126 petitions. One petition with 1,690 signatures had a no-nonsense directive for the prez: "Stop lying." Another with 14,210 signatures reads: "We demand a vapid, condescending, meaningless, politically safe response to this petition." A petition must have a threshold of 150 signatures in order to be searchable. It must have 25,000 signatures one month after the petition is created to qualify.
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before "it's too late"
hip hop: a history in mixtapes
In a move apparently now called "pulling a Beyoncé, " Drake dropped a surprise midnight album last Thursday and yes, it's great, but let's be clear on one thing–according to Drake, this isn't an album, it's a mixtape.
The last time Drake dropped a mixtape, in 2009, he threw a release party with LeBron James—which was lavish but appropriate, considering the fact that "So Far Gone" was an instant success that put the rapper on the map and earned him the 'sensitive mobster' image he's been working ever since. If Drake's new tape, "If You're Reading This It's Too Late," gets hailed as a classic, it won't be his first time.
The term "mixtape" is a rollover from the early '90s hip hop scene, when listeners in the underground traded cassettes–usually live and illegal tapings of shows. Friends dubbed mixtapes for friends, who dubbed them for friends, and so on until the playback was buried in layers of lossy hissing. Post-internet-age artists still drop 'mixtapes' today, usually identified by their lo-fi production, small budget, and blatant sampling. Almost all mixtapes are free.
Lots of small-time artists release these tapes every year, hoping to break out and win fans and record label contracts. Occasionally—and in Drake's case—a mixtape will get big, and the rest, as we know, is history.
So, to reminisce on a younger Drake, and pay respect to rap's long tradition of good, free, fresh music, here are some of the best break-out mixtapes dropped in recent memory.
Joey Bada$$ – 1999 (2012)
"People refer to the '90s as the golden age of hip hop. So '99 being the last year of that age, it was basically like a 'last hope' type of thing you feel me?"
Joey Bada$$ was in high school when this tape dropped, which is crazy because his music so easily captures the vignette feel of east-coast boom bap in the '90s. Joey borrows his flow from golden-age greats like Biggie and Common, adding to their ferocity more punchlines, wordplay, and a teenage chilling-ness that disarms his attempts to be socially conscious (cut him due slack here–the kid was seventeen).
But his lyrics get by on sheer vivacity, no doubt helped by the fact that his tracks—two produced by the late J Dilla—have the perfect blend of jazz, clear drums, soupy vibes, and that glad irresistible bass. Vintage on the first listen.
Standout Tracks: "Summer Knights," "Waves," "World Domination," "Survival Tactics"
Wiz Khalifa – Kush & OJ (2010)
Ever been sleepy on an airplane at high noon with the sun blinding and the sky outside very, very blue? That's the feeling Khalifa lays down in his first track. And the second. And pretty much his entire tape sublimates into this feeling.
Tom Breihan, in his review for Pitchfork, notes that Wiz basically raps about three things: "smoking weed, girls, and smoking weed with girls (usually your girl)." On point. Nowhere in this tape does life ever lose its gloss of '80s-funk synths, R&B, lazy sex, and marijuana—and because of this, Kush & OJ continues to top the mixtape lists—Wiz has pulled off no easy feat, birthing a stoner classic.
There's laid-back music, and there's lay-back music. Save this one for your nicest Sunday morning.
Standout Tracks: "Mezmorized," "The Statement," "Never Been"
KiD CuDi – A Kid Named Cudi (2008)
The breakout summer mixtape that brought us "Day N Nite," and turned 'the lonely stoner,' alias 'the martian,' into an internet big-leaguer practically overnight.
Cudi both sings and raps in this tape—and for once, the rapper can sing—over weird, saddish, EDM-inspired beats sampling artists like Gnarls Barkley, Band of Horses, Paul Simon, and Nosaj Thing. In 2008, this kind of free-form genre-bending was a leap, even for indie rap.
What's more, Cudi's lyrics make most other rappers seem over-the-top and not a little fake. He talks about loneliness, alienation, and loss without trying too hard to make that shit sound like poetry. Take this hook from "The Prayer," sung as sincerely as a eulogy: "And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. But please don't cry, just know that I have made these songs for you … " Hear this. I dare you not to feel it.
Standout Tracks: "Down & Out," "Day N Nite," "Man On The Moon," "Heaven At Nite"
J. Cole – The Warm Up (2009)
There's a story about a younger J. Cole standing in front of Jay-Z's studio in NYC to give his idol a track he made, only to find Jay-Z too busy to even step outside. It seems rejection only made the young rapper hungrier, because the J. Cole we hear in "The Warm Up" spits with an ambition so cutting you just want to hand it to him.
Cole raps over some classic beats, including Jay-Z's "Dead Presidents," without once losing his gumption. That goes for production too—Cole produced nearly all of the tracks on his own, and his beat-making talent is impressive. That plus his blue-collar, one-man attitude almost frame him in this narrative as a younger Kanye, say from "College Dropout." Cole sets the bar at least as high–so high his fans still compare his albums today against his mixtapes. Every track on "The Warm Up" has been polished to kill; it's worth a front-to-back listen.
Standout Tracks: "Can I Live," "Lights Please," "World Is Empty," "Dollar And A Dream"
Lil Wayne – Da Drought 3 (2007)
"Hello Hip-Hop, I'm home; it's your Daddy." Wayne's third mixtape technically wasn't a breakthrough artist's work, but for plain lyrical wow it belongs on this list–certain forum authorities agree that this two-disc mixtape is Wayne's best work to date; certainly it dropped when Wayne was still hip hop's reigning king, actually maybe "the best rapper alive," and he makes excessively clear in this tape how much he knows it.
Every track on Drought 3 remixes old beats; sometimes he just rips a Jay or Nas or Beyoncé song and raps over it–because he can. Slick delivery, syllabic cleverness, and Wayne humor—"And when I was five, my favorite movie was the Gremlins / Ain't got shit to do with this, but thought that I should mention"—made this tape a hip hop holy book that other rappers have been referencing since 2008. Most of all, Wayne's flow on this tape gets pretty damn close to perfect–that is, he sounds like he's not even trying. One warning: this album is intense, and runs almost two hours long.
Standout Tracks: "Live from 504," "Sky is the Limit," "We Takin Over," "Walk It Out," and fuck it, the whole thing.
Big K.R.I.T. – Return of 4eva (2011)
I'm from the South, but didn't like the country much, and sweet tea and fried chicken don't move me. The opening tracks on Return of 4eva, though, somehow always make me homesick.
Krit's roots in an older era of Southern rap come through heavy on here—soul samples and sleigh-bell snares, candy coats and Cadillacs, wood grain and big-assed women. Even for listeners who don't get nostalgia pangs at Southern hip hop, Krit's singlehanded production on Return of 4eva easily matches any studio album put out that year or, for that matter, any year since.
This mixtape has its serious moments—check out "Dreamin'" and "Another Naïve Individual Glorifying Greed and Encouraging Racism"—but most of the tape is Krit doing what he does best, that is, making deeply feel-good car music. Together, this stuff plus a warm night should give you an excuse to drive somewhere.
Standout Tracks: "R4 Theme Song," "American Rapstar," "Free My Soul," "Country Shit (Remix)"
Chance the Rapper – Acid Rap (2013)
"IGH!!!!" If you can take in stride the squawks and other vocal misdemeanors, Chance's tape won't just tickle your imagination, it might even make you tear up a little.
Chance goes a little bit nuts on some tracks, but matches his own breakneck pace with a keen lyric intelligence, humor, and a sense for beats as smooth and buttery as the childhood summers he so likes to describe. But this mixtape really gets gold when Chance is moody, wise, or tripping and, amidst these frequent swings, drops a track like "Acid Rain" or "That's Love."
"Acid Rain" tells the story of a teenage fuck-up who finally, more or less, finds a way to get it together. It's springtime music, and like any good mixtape, it gives me hope for what the up-and-coming freshmen of rap might be dropping for their listeners soon.
Standout Tracks: "Cocoa Butter Kisses," "Chain Smoker," "Acid Rain"
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Book Review: Girl Online by Zoe Sugg (Zoella)
Sunday, 21 December 2014 • book review, girl online, polyvore, zoe sugg, zoella
Girl Online by Zoe Sugg
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Actual rating: 3.5 stars
Okay, so we all know what a great YouTuber Zoella is, but now let's just see what a great writer she is... or if she can actually write, that is.
To summarise, this book is about fifteen year old Penny Porter from Brighton who has an anonymous blog called 'Girl Online' where she blogs about everything that involve friendship, boys family and her panic attacks. Things start getting really bad for Penny, but then her family takes her on a business trip to New York, where she meets Noah. But Noah has a secret that could threaten Penny's cover.
(I get kind of spoilery in this review, so beware)
For the first quarter of this book, I actually found myself enjoying it because I just found it really cute. It's not the kind of book I'd like, especially since I'm not in the demographic that this book is aimed at. Penny is a wishy-washy character but she is really cute and quirky and has a quirky sense of style (like Zoe) but she is unrealistically clumsy. I honestly don't know how anyone could be that clumsy. I mean seriously. This girl is worst than Bella. Penny is a disaster just waiting to happen.
From the moment, I read the summary before this got released. I knew this book has got cliché written all over it and I wasn't wrong. Where to start? The main character, she's shy, awkward, clumsy and unconfident. She gets into so many awkward situations and says the wrong things all the time, making herself embarrassed. There's the perfect parents, gay best friend (who I assume is Tyler Oakley), nasty former best friend and meets a boy who happens to have a lot of things in common. Convenient much? Very much so.
A lot of people who have reviewed this have said that Penny is a Mary Sue of Zoe Sugg. I feel like Penny is different from Zoe but I do see the similarities. It's very evident that Zoe has included a lot of things she loves into Penny, which kind of makes her a Mary Sue. Its things like fairy lights, scented candles, bath bombs and the fact she's from Brighton, which makes me think 'oh what a coincidence, Zoe loves those things too!' But then again, John Green does the same thing with his characters. If you've seen the book trailer, you can see that the illustration of Penny looks exactly like Zoe! Ironic thing – Penny's meant to have red hair, whereas in the trailer, its dark brown.
I knew Noah's secret would be underwhelming and I was right. In the book's summary, it says 'guitar-strumming American.' That could only mean one thing – Noah's a musician! I actually really really liked how Penny and Noah met. It was so damn cute, I loved it. I actually felt warm and fuzzy inside. Basically Noah was playing the guitar and singing something sad. Penny was just taking pictures (she loves photography and is the semi-official photographer for the Downtown Abbey wedding) and then she just followed the sound. The relationship between Penny and Noah is really sweet and adorable. I wasn't too attached to any of these characters; to be honest they were one-dimensional.
Every time, Penny makes a stupid mistake, I feel as though I have to let her off because she is only fifteen. Usually when I criticise a character, I will just say how stupid they were, but you are allowed to screw up every now and again because how else are you going to learn? No one was born perfect. Our imperfections are what make us human.
I actually did like Penny's blog posts because I feel they are very relatable and it's nice when you're a teenager, you can read about someone else going through the same thing as you. I don't think I had something to read like that when I was a teenager. YouTube wasn't mainstream yet and I wasn't aware of blogs.
The posts about Noah and soul mates were really cringey to say the least. She sounds so awfully naïve and infatuated. "Keep believing in fairy tales"? That's such bad advice. Insta-love is very much present in the book, unfortunately. You know how much I hate insta-love. But Penny is only fifteen after all... she's got a lot to learn.
The thing that annoyed me about Penny was that she keeps saying to herself that she must be dreaming and keeps pinching herself. Can this girl not distinguish between a dream and reality? About the writing – it is very amateurish and it does sound like I'm reading the perspective of a thirteen year old.
I got mid-way into the book and it was so incredibly cheesy, argh. Kind of cringey and kind of making me want to gag. It didn't feel real; it felt like a Disney film. Everything was way too perfect, falling into place and I got a bit bored to be honest. Oh what a coincidence that the vinyl that Penny brought for Noah is an Artist that he really likes, what are the chances?!
The last quarter of the book was a plot twist and I really enjoyed reading it. It dealt with issues like cyber bullying and it was interesting to see how Penny is able to deal with that kind of viral attention. We all know that people on the internet are really mean and horrible. Also the media can take one thing (Penny's blog for instance), twist it, lie and publish it an article. It was great that she was able to face her fears and keep her anxiety under control.
"Every time you post something online, you have a choice." Penny wrote this line in her blog. Zoe said this exact line in her vlog and her blog and she has incorporated it in her book. I mean, not that there's anything wrong with that. Just pointing it out.
There has already been a lot of talk that Zoe did not write this book alone and that it is ghostwritten. She had help from her editorial team, namely a YA author called Siobhan Curham, who wrote this within six weeks. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this. I thought you have to write a book yourself and then your editor will proofread it. It's the same thing with Artists, initially I assumed that all Artists HAD to compose and write their own music.
The point is that Zoe claims that she wrote it but all these articles make it seem like Curham wrote it all. I guess we'll never know what went on in the writing/editing process whether Zoe wrote it or not. Nonetheless, it didn't stop everyone buying it, making it a no.1 top seller and knocking J.K Rowling off the top spot. WHAT!
It's a 3.5 stars from me. I can't give it a 4 because it was too cheesy for me in the middle of the book but I did enjoy it nonetheless. Girl Online is currently only £5 for hardcover on Amazon, so I thought WTH I'll get it. Don't read it if you're expecting something original and don't read it if you hate clichés because it won't be the book for you. Ironically those are the two things I dislike the most about books! Read it, if you don't mind it being a cliché. This book will appeal to a younger audience (ages 12-16). I read it because the summary sounded really cute. I do like Zoella and enjoy her YouTube videos. This book wasn't terrible but it wasn't the best book I've read. It was just okay for a first novel and I will probably read the second book.
The message behind the book is that you should be happy for you are you and to not worry about what other people think.
All in all, well done Zoe for writing a book (even if she had a lot of help in the process).
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Learning to be economical: the energy cost of walking tracks motor adaptation.
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Many theories of motor control suggest that we select our movements to reduce energy use. However, it is unclear whether this process underlies short-term motor adaptation to novel environments. Here we asked whether adaptation to walking on a split-belt treadmill leads to a more economical walking pattern. We hypothesized that adaptation would be accompanied by a reduction in metabolic power and muscle activity and that these reductions would be temporally correlated. Eleven individuals performed a split-belt adaptation task where the belt speeds were set at 0.5 and 1.5 m s(-1). Adaptation was characterized by step length symmetry, which is the normalized difference in step length between the legs. Metabolic power was calculated based on expired gas analysis, and surface EMG was used to record the activity of four bilateral leg muscles (tibialis anterior, lateral gastrocnemius, vastus lateralis and biceps femoris). All participants initially walked with unequal step lengths when the belts moved at different speeds, but gradually adapted to take steps of equal length. Additionally, net metabolic power was reduced from early adaptation to late adaptation (early, 3.78 ± 1.05 W kg(-1); and late, 3.05 ± 0.79 W kg(-1); P < 0.001). This reduction in power was also accompanied by a bilateral reduction in EMG throughout the gait cycle. Furthermore, the reductions in metabolic power occurred over the same time scale as the improvements in step length symmetry, and the magnitude of these improvements predicted the size of the reduction in metabolic power. Our results suggest that increasing economy may be a key criterion driving locomotor adaptation.
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It seems the message of this research for those seeking to establish a new habit is to repeat the behaviour every day if you can, but don't worry excessively if you miss a day or two. Also be prepared for the long haul - remember the average time to reach peak automaticity was 66 days.
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In a recent newspaper article I noticed a reference to "asian sweatshops" with women sewing garments for very little pay. The author seemed to think that "sweat" is about hot and crowded working conditions, but it is actually about the psychological hold that the employers have over the employees.
Here in Canada the sweatshops we typically read about involve new Canadians working for very little pay on a piece-work basis, and they often have poor English and they may be uncertain about their immigrations status. Because they are unable to easily move within the economy and the community the sweatshop owner can control what they think and what they worry about. So the workers are afraid to leave.
Surprisingly, sweatshop conditions are quite common in the business world. A few years ago I worked in a northern town and I watched the owner of a small hotel sweat his employees. It was amazing. He would fly down to Winnipeg to recruit employees, and he would look for applicants who were physically unattractive, or recently divorced and unhappy about that, or heavily in debt, or who had very low self-esteem. He was looking for folks who were off balance. He hired them, flew them north to his community, and gave them room and board in the staff quarters of his hotel. He worked them long and hard, he didn't pay them very well, he probably over-charged for the board and lodging, and he kept them off balance. Their work was never really good enough. "Was this any way to reward a man who took you in, gave you work, believed in you when no-one else would, tried to help you in a difficult time in your life, and you help me by not finishing the clean up of the dining room?"
My man had a distinct advantage because there was a housing shortage in town, and it was very difficult for one of his employees to leave and find somewhere else to stay. You really had to leave and fly south, or stay under my man's terms. I got to know a woman who had managed to leave the hotel and still stay in town, and she had found a place to stay (on a new friend's sofa) while she found new employment and which led eventually to her own apartment. She said that when she left her boss was nearly apoplectic with rage.
My man's employment tactics were legal, and they were very effective. He kept his labour costs down and could schedule split shifts and long shifts without difficulty.
But the absolute low point came one morning when I was having my breakfast in his coffee shop, and I watched him sweat his wife.
I have since heard that she left him. Not a moment too soon.


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Once again, I'm falling behind. ITs because I'm spending as much time as I can outside trying to extricate my strawberries and iris and lilies from the rampant mint, oregano, snow on the mountain and hops in the backyard. 2 smaller beds DONE, the big bed to go in the back yard, and then I'll tackle completely removing the front flower bed, putting in a new border (current one rotted...) and putting back the plants without the weeds (ha, right, i know). Side Story - Dominic likes worms. Every time he'd see one when i turned dirt, he grabbed in and HELD it. He must've had 10 worms by the time we came in. He was sad to let them go, too.
Anyway, this morning Dominic's REA's supervisor made the observation that Dominic seemed to be much more able to come back to center quickly and on his own instead of going off on a hyper spell (he loves playing w/his REA and some of the things make him laugh, and then he gets all wound up). Today they were working on Numbers... the REA blew up a balloon - 5 breaths worth - and counted plus did numbers on her fingers for each one. He repeated the numbers, and did some of them independently. At the end, she waiting for him to say GO and then released the balloon - which flew all over the living room and amused him endlessly.
This afternoon his preschool teacher told Rod that Dominic had an amazing day - he sat on the floor with his legs neatly crossed for circle time. To this point, in this classroom he's been in a cube chair for circle time because he cannot concentrate enough to sit on the floor. She wanted to know what we're doing differently... ITs the enhansa plus the actifolate we added back in last week. Everything else has been pretty stable.


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Mackenzie and Amy were best friends. Until Amy was brutally murdered.
Since then, Mac's life has been turned upside down. She is being haunted by Amy in her dreams, and an extremist group called the Trackers has come to Mac's hometown of Hemlock to hunt down Amy's killer: A white werewolf.
Lupine syndrome—also known as the werewolf virus—is on the rise across the country. Many of the infected try to hide their symptoms, but bloodlust is not easy to control.
Wanting desperately to put an end to her nightmares, Mac decides to investigate Amy's murder herself. She discovers secrets lurking in the shadows of Hemlock, secrets about Amy's boyfriend, Jason, her good pal Kyle, and especially her late best friend. Mac is thrown into a maelstrom of violence and betrayal that puts her life at risk.
Kathleen Peacock's thrilling novel is the first in the Hemlock trilogy, a spellbinding urban fantasy series filled with provocative questions about prejudice, trust, lies, and love.
Hemlock by Kathleen Peacock
Expected publication: May 8th, 2012 (HarperCollins Children's Books)
( ++ ) Why this book: First, the cover looks absolutely stunning and gorgeous. And the plot? VERY wolfy/urban fantasy, and just has me on the edge of my seat already.
What's YOUR WOW pick this week?


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"I don't know what you're doing, but you look amazing and should keep it up" is what my mother meant to say — and how it would have sounded if her stubbornness to hold on to the last bastion of her Korean identity wasn't confusing the ever-living hell out of everyone she encountered, each day, for the last 40 years of the life she has spent here in the United States. I wonder now, if she knew, if she'd feel the same way. There's some part of me that believes that it would bring her greater peace, or at the very least, less discomfort for me to be thin and a heroin addict over just being fat and normal.
I had heard it since I was a child, but it never really stopped stinging. I am, at this day, 5'7" and I looked my "best" according to my mother, at around 113 pounds. My father would often joke that if I had to "haul ass, I'd have to make two trips" and my mother would sigh loudly and say things like "you know, stomach crunches would help you get rid of that tummy" or "you're so beautiful, but you could stand lose some weight in your thighs," which she would pronounce "thigh-its" and I would think "I'll lose some fucking weight there when you learn how to speak goddamn fucking English." I remain, a healthy 150 pounds, at this time.
I imagine the conversations I would have with my father, if I were ever honest with him about my addiction, "Mom basically just told me to keep on shoving needles in my arm, so long as you can continue to see the bones in my chest plate – I'm clearly paraphrasing." He'd look up at me from a book, over his drug-store glasses, on his big Greek nose, with his classic German sense of sentimentality and say "She's a banana," as always. I never knew if he decided on that particular piece of fruit because they were both yellow and I didn't care to hear the manifesto on it, so I'm just going to give his (and our family's) world-acclaimed wit the benefit of the doubt.
The reality of the situation is that they were both bananas. Being born in the early 80's to a couple in their late 30's was relatively unheard of and perhaps for good reason. They were also both unequipped to handle just one child as curious and, eventually, sullen as I was. There were days where I dreamed of a sibling to share their laser-focused neurosis that hung in the air like old cigarette smoke in the only home I've ever known. Other days would go by and I couldn't imagine wishing that kind of punishment on anyone.
Absent in their own ways, my father was, for lack of a better term, a professional grifter that went on fishing trips three months out of every year just to get the fuck away from both of us – and for that matter everyone who wasn't a fish. He managed to somehow be both a world-class gemologist who could take one look at a piece of antique jewelry and tell you everything about it, but couldn't figure out not to wear the Ed Hardy shirt that my mother had misguidedly given him as a Christmas present because she found it on sale at a Marshall's.
"What the hell are you wearing?" I'd ask him the first time I saw him in it, after coming to stay with them, for as long as I could handle, between Philadelphia and a doctoral program, Pittsburgh and establishing a home plan for my boyfriend who was in state prison for two years, and a vehement promise to myself that their home would never be my home again, after I left Central Pennsylvania, at the age of 17. "What? This?" He said, pointing to the skull with a snake coming of its eyes, with two sequins for eyes of its own, and just loads of douchey attitude. "Yes, that, Dad. I'm used to the stone washed jeans, orthopedic shoes, and silver-studded, Navajo belt. Are you having a mid-life crisis or something?" "No, I just like the pocket," he replied and continued wearing the shirt likely to this day because who was he kidding, nothing in his life was a crisis.
My parents met in the 70's while my father was living in a van, driving from Albuquerque to the great expanses of the United States, selling Indian jewelry from a vendor he knew in New Mexico named Phyllis.
Phyllis was terrific. From when I knew her, in her late 60's, to her dying day she was kind, calm, and funny – everything that my parents were not. To top it off, she looked exactly like the giant turtle from my favorite movie The Neverending Story and I would sit and talk with her for hours – another luxury that was never afforded to me at home. She'd do the driving and selling and living out of a van herself, but she opted for a motorhome and she actually took her son along with her, something my father would only do on special occasions, perhaps when he'd sense that my mother's overbearing nature was starting to spread fissures across my personality. I was an accomplished pianist by the time I was 5, yet my mother continues to remind me to brush my teeth to this day, and I am in my mid-thirties. There are stretches where I will avoid detnal hygeine, strictly out of spite, and my will teeth feel like they have sweaters on when I glide the tip of my tongue across them.
My mother was working at a beauty salon at the time called Head Hunters. You can't even make that kind of stuff up. They probably only hired her because she looked like she was fresh off the boat from Jakarta looking for round-eye melons to lop off and shrink in her hut. It didn't matter that she wasn't Indonesian, in a place like Mechanicsburg, everyone in a 60-mile radius was either white, or not. Head Hunters was one of the many stops on my father's route and though he claims to have disliked her immensely upon their first meeting, she was only 5" tall, 86 pounds, with C-cup tits, which was apparently enough for him to swing back around in a few months and take her on a date. I'm not fully certain how she ran until she was 8 months pregnant, or, for that matter, managed to stay erect and upright long enough to do someone's hair.
I have the first three pieces of jewelry that he sold her, a giant ring, cuff, and squash blossom necklace with huge turquoise stones, hand-signed by a jewelry-maker that no one will remember, but me. I recall being 18, searching in a forgotten kitchen drawer for a cheese knife. Finding jewelry instead, I asked my mom about them. She was constantly squirreling things of value away in strange places. It pains me to think about going through their house after she dies – not because she would no longer be on this earth, but because I will literally have to tear down walls and go through every sweater and Ed Hardy pocket in search of gold kurgans, diamonds, and car titles.
"Would you like to have them?" she asked, not because she was being sentimental, or because she was the kind of person who would give anyone anything if they ever so much as looked at it in a positive way for more than 30 seconds, which she is and was, but because she didn't wear them anymore. I was in a bit of a nuevo-hippie phase at the time, with dreads and patch pants, reeking of patchouli, and turquoise fit the bill, so I happily took them. I didn't know then that I would look at those pieces later and think "This is where it all started." This is where the pain and the anguish and the anger that became my life started, with porous rock that osmosed the oil of the skin of its wearer to the extent that it would change its very color, and expertly wrought silver, made by someone who cared enough to write their name on it, but will never be remembered. It started there. I started there.
I still have all three pieces, but I broke the singular stone in the ring. I keep that piece the closest and I don't hide the rest in strange places, as if I had a pet raccoon. In my practical jewelry box, filled with my father and mother's discarded silver, is my beginning, but it won't be my end. Though my story starts with turquoise, it ends, as so many stories do, with the beautiful, unconcerned pale of dope.


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A little after we saw Bud outside the Lung Moon, he hops on a pedicab and gives the poor driver a hard time by the mere fact that he is a fat bastard and weighs more than the poor dude can handle. Anyway, we next see the struggling pedicab still heading down Johnston Road but this time at the large intersection with Fleming Road.These shots are great because I can see that just in this small stretch of road there are still a lot of surrounding buildings that still stand. The first is from the top two shots and it stands on the corner of Johnston and Wanchai Road.
See, still there and being looked after, although the view to the mountains at the end of Wanchai Road is no longer clear and we now just get the side of a high rise rather than the green foliage that was there in 1975. As the camera pans left we can see a few buildings at the other side of the street (Johnston Road turns south here and these buildings are actually on part of Wanchai Road still). Here is the 2009 Streetview.
Well, you can see the square-windowed place (the Ming Tak Building) was still around in 2009 but I can confirm that not long after I originally made this post, it was demolished and redeveloped. Sometimes I feel this blog has a nasty knack of alerting developers to their next victim :-(.


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Capcom announced it will be releasing Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney to Nintendo 3DS this winter. The title originally debuted on the Nintendo DS in 2008, and its availability on the 3DS means that all six main Ace Attorney series can now be played on that platform.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney centers around the young lawyer's first cases, and features the same forensic investigation gameplay for which the series is famous. Rather than being a simple port though, the 3DS version of the game will offer several welcome new features.
On the 3DS the title will have upgraded visuals, including the ability to examine some objects in 360 degrees to find evidence. You'll also be able to use the system to dust particular crime scenes for prints.
There are also new dialog and text options. You can now skip through text, which will be ideal for people who have played the game before. You can also switch between the Japanese and English versions of the game at will. Capcom suggests comparing the backgrounds between the two for some cool differences.
You can join Apollo Justice in November as he solves critical cases like noodle cart theft and magic panty disappearances. It won't cost much either; you can get it on the Nintendo 3DS eShop for $19.99.


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Adoro te devote, latens Deitas, quae sub his figuris vere latitas: tibi se cor meum totum subjicit, quia te contemplans totum deficit. *** Godhead here in hiding, whom I do adore, Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart, Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art.
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Holy Saturday
We are in a period of mourning, on our knees, joyful yet silent, waiting in hope, waiting in tears, waiting in gratitude for what our Saviour has done for us. We await and keep Vigil in prayer, preparing to celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord.
And just as Our Lady wept at the foot of the cross, so do we, but our tears differ, for we weep in repentence, in deep sorrow for our sins, the blood of the Lamb on our very hands. We weep for ourselves, for without our Savior, we would be lost and our suffering would be definitive, eternal separation from God. We weep for those who have chosen to reject the God who loves them so dearly, and we weep for our own inability to return His love fully to him.
And we hope in our Savior, we trust in our Savior, and we find joy even in our tears because we know that the Heavenly Father sees us through the wounds of His Son, who stood in our place and bore the justice which should have been meted out upon us.
It is through the Holy Spirit that we see and understand what Jesus has done, for in and of ourselves, we cannot grasp the immensity of his deed. Jesus dies not only in abandonment that we could not withstand, but also so he could send us a permanent companion to unite us in his Body; He sends us the Advocate, the Holy Spirit.
Holy Saturday is a day of mourning, but not so much for the Lord for we know he rose and released us from death; but rather,for our willful separation from Him. But because of His Sacrifice, we rejoice in the Triumph of the Cross, eagerly awaiting his light to return to the sanctuaries, waiting to be reborn again with him; we all await the Resurrection.
When I look upon the cross, I see the hand of God holding not just Jesus, but the entire world. I see the work of the Holy Spirit who brought me home and placed me at the foot of the cross next to the Blessed Mother. and today, I weep with her for she has withstood the sorrow of all sorrows and in her motherly embrace, we may all find the comfort we so require, and the path through her heart into the most Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ.
We will never understand our salvation without first understanding sorrow, which leads us to an understanding of the love that gave us the redemption.
Soul of Christ, Sanctify me.
Body of Christ, Save me.
Blood of Christ, Inebriate me.
Water from the side of Christ, wash me.
Passion of Christ, Strengthen me.
Oh, good Jesus, hear me.
Within thy wounds, hide me
Suffer me not to be separated from thee
From the malicious enemy defend me.
In the hour of my death call me
and bid me come to thee
that with thy saints I may praise thee
for ever and ever. Amen.
2 comments:
- Cathy_of_Alex said...
The Anima Christi is one of my favorite prayers.
Did you draw the image? Very nice.
- Sunday, April 08, 2007
- Adoro te Devote said...
Hi, Cathy!
I did draw the image, back in my "seeking God" days. It's not really theologically correct as the Holy spirit is rising and not descending, but I think that the inspiration came to me in that form because it was the Holy Spirit who drew me to the foot of the cross and into God's hands to willingly place myself there.
And of course, all through the prayers of teh Blessed Mother.
- Sunday, April 08, 2007


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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
More MA small businesses offer health benefits after reform, lessons for CT exchange
Massachusetts implemented sweeping health reforms in 2006, including creating a health insurance exchange – the MA Health Connector. The reforms were very successful in increasing health coverage in the state; less than 2 percent of residents are now uninsured. The percentage of Massachusetts's smallest businesses (under 10 workers) offering health benefits to their employees rose by 2 percent from 2005 to 2010 while the US average fell 4% and Connecticut's rate dropped 7%. For more, read the first CT Health Insurance Exchange Watch Brief. In recent discussions at the CT Health Insurance Exchange Board meetings, much has been made of low small business enrollment in the MA Health Connector. Board members and presenters have focused on how to make Connecticut's exchange attractive to small businesses. But the point isn't to build enrollment in the exchange, it is to get people and small businesses covered. It is very possible that the MA Health Connector's ability to offer quality products at more affordable prices placed competitive pressure on the market outside the exchange to improve options. Building a functional exchange in Connecticut can have positive effects on the rest of the market. We urge the CT Health Exchange Board to refocus on providing affordable, quality insurance options to everyone. Let the market do its work.
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Sailing Away From BabylonJuly 4, 2008
Greetings. Once again, we find ourselves in a holiday weekend; at least in the United States. This is one of those topics that, if not worded properly, could leave an impression that I'm either unpatriotic lacking in faith, or just weird. Most people look forward to holidays for a host of reasons. First, there are the reflections on the purpose that the holiday was established such as the fourth of July being the day when the United States declared her independance. Other reasons involve time away from work, getting together with family and friends, travelling, or just relaxing and putting away the cares of the mundane. All of these are notable things to look forward to and many place a lot of planning into how the holiday will be observed. Before continuing on, this first passage is important to be mindful of, regardless of the level of ones enthusiasm concerning days set aside for observation:
Romans 14:5-6 "One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be persueded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
In other words, my thoughts are not an indictment on the actions of others concerning this, nor should they be. Verse 17 of the same chapter states "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." The issue of whether or not a person goes to extremes to esteem a day isn't really that big of a deal and in times past, I've been one to look forward to holidays with great anticipation. While I still enjoy them, things are much more subdued. My peace and joy comes from the Lord Jesus Christ and is so awesome that nothing in this world can add to it or take from it. As the Lord draws us ever closer to him, the things that we once looked forward to or found pleasure in just seem to loose their pizzazz. Insofar as holidays are concerned, it's not a disagreement with the purpose of the holiday; it's just the lack of eternal significance that makes the cause hard to get too worked up over.
Take the fourth of July; the day in history when the nations of England and the United States went their separate ways. Had things ended up differently and the American colonies remained a part of the British Empire, our salvation would be every bit as great as it is now. (Our citizenship is truly in heaven.) Earthly events can have phenominal significance concerning the course of history and may affect the conditions under which one has to live out their days under the sun, but they have no bearing on eternal matters. Governments; be they monarchies, republics, theocracies, or the emerging global tyrrany that will be headed by the son of perdition, lose their influence on a person once that person passes into eternity. This next sobering passage says it all:
Revelation 20:12 "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works."
The issues of eternal significance are so permanent that as we draw closer to Jesus, the things of a temporal nature fail to move us as they may have in times past. This is not an ideological or legalistic shift; it's just a "diminishing" of enthusiasm for something that, in the grand scheme of things, isn't a big deal. This not only goes for holidays but applies to an array of issues. A good example would be a recent visit to the dentist. As I was in the chair, Dr Humphries brought up the Red Wings winning the stanley cup this season. Now a few years ago, I would have been really excited, would have tuned into every game possible, and would now have two or three t-shirts commemorating the accomplishment. Instead, his invitation to comment caught me off guard and I responded with a "huh…oh…yea…I saw it in the paper." This is not an indictment of hockey or of my dentist who is outstanding in his profession. It's just that…well….I COULDN'T CARE LESS ABOUT WHO WON THE STANLEY CUP!
As the Lord transforms us into his image and spiritual growth takes place in our lives, our agendas will be altered as well. Up until 2004, I was very politically minded and would have been a good poster child for neo-conism. I was ensnared by an ideological mindset that hampered me spiritually and spun everything observable into a conservative format. (Note: when something is spinning, it's hard to make out the details as they truly are) Today the Lord has completely delivered me from this hinderance and the eternal perspective of things is much more in focus. Everyone, liberal or conservative, rich or poor, well-educated or barely literate, bond or free, will stand before God. When a person enters eternity, wealth, race, fame, knowledge of the things of this world, and all other temporal issues lose their significance. If one were to peer into hell at this very moment, I doubt that they would find any conversations about the upcomming election. This is not to suggest that one should not partake in the upcomming elections. It's just that its outcome will have only temporal ramifications. I still wonder; will the elections even take place and if so, will our next president be the final one? (The prophesy concerning this can be read HERE but PLEASE do so prayerfully.)
Well, I'll be going for now as I have a lot of things to get done today and the goats are waiting for breakfast. In short, we should look to the eternal and while we are players in the temporal course of events, they should not be overly dominant. Our peace is in Christ and that transcends everything that this world can offer. Please check out this posting at Scottish Warriors. It's far more relevant than my ramblings in the preceeding sections of this post and reveals the importance of being grounded in the faith. Until the next time, I wish to all a blessed weekend in Christ.