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Things that make me laugh...
Herein, are just a few things that I just read this evening that kind of made me chuckle, or made me think about a few things, maybe they did for you as well, eh, then again, maybe not. You decide. Deride, if you will.
Part the first:
O'Grady's recent tirade.
As I normally do, I laughed at Mr. O'Grady's latest throwdown on the sport that apparently too many people take way too seriously. How do we know this, well, fast forward to the letters section on Velonews and we have this response from an irate reader of O'Grady's recent outburst:
I read Patrick O'Grady's on-line article, unfortunately.
Was this called for?
"The others, belonging to Janez Brajkovic, Steve Morabito and Yaroslav
Popovych, are indistinguishable from the jillions of other Madone 6.9 Pros
ridden to mid-pack finishes in industrial-park crits worldwide by
potbellied masters racers. "
Sure, we may have never been god-like pros, but describing what is probably the MAJORITY OF YOUR RACING SUBSCRIBERS as "potbellied" was inaccurate, unnecessary and demeaning. This subscriber would suggest that you choose your words a bit better.
John Strasser"
Actual link to letter section at Velonews.com.
Alright, first of all, it looks like someone touched a nerve with Mr. Strasser eh? Did someone eat too much food over the holidays and hasn't been riding since about that time and has a bike that is oh so average, but really highly extremely overpriced? Hey, nothing wrong with the Madone, as long as you don't actually have to pay for one. I'd ride one all day, if it was given to me. If I'm going to part with my hard earned greenbacks, or in the situation that I'm in now, my lack of hard earned greenbacks, sorry, it's not going to be for a Trek. I'd much rather ride the Pinarello Prince that I have now, but I digress.
Second, Strasser, seriously, get a sense of humor. Most pot bellied mid pack master's racers know what they are (it's what O'Grady has been for, well, many years now, and what I ASPIRE to be), and they apparently don't take themselves as seriously as you do. I know lots of master's racers, and guess what? Those are normally some of the coolest cats out there, mostly because the ones I know have been racing bikes since the days of toe clips and wooden bottom shoes, and didn't just discover the sport when Lance rolled around le Tour in 1999 (or later for the late bloomers).
I can picture Mr. Strasser now. Rolls up to the "Saturday Morning World Championship ride" (you know which ride I speak of, there is one in almost every town where there are, well, people who like to ride bikes), on his shiny new Madone, matching Nike shoes, matching Giro Atmos LiveStrong edition helmet, Astana kit (he's already upgraded from the old Disco kit), a $400 pair of Oakleys, embrocation on his newly shaved legs, and not a speck of dust nor dirt anywhere near his visage. As the group rolls out of town, he's yapping away about how he's been doing some zone 3 this week, and maybe a little zone 4, and that his new SRM Dura-Ace crank (he has to use this crank because they don't make a SRAM crank - yet) is giving him great power files that he can upload to his training blog so that his coach can see them, and his friends can be amazed by a ton of squiggly colored lines that only maybe about 3 people in the world really understand anyway.
As the group makes their way into the "meat" of the ride, you know, where the shit normally starts to get thrown down, he sticks in the middle of the ride for a little while. Talking less now, trying to keep the legs turning over, and talking the game gets harder when you suck, and your gut is getting in the way (I ought to know, my gut is getting in the way more and more these days). As the group approaches the section of road where the shit really goes down, all of a sudden, Mr. Madone is no longer seen. Where the hell did the annoying guy go? A few minutes later, we all know the answer.
He took the side road about a mile back so he could take a short cut, catch his breath, and intercept the ride up the road where it's a little flatter, and he can tuck in behind everyone else.
Over the flats we go, and we're grinding it out. Mr. Nike New Shoes is sitting at the back, huffing and puffing, and just barely hanging on for dear life. Ah, a stop sign. He can catch his breath again, and then more flats, same sitting at the back. Finally we reach some climbs, OK, they're not huge, but they are a little bit of a bump, and it normally separates the strong from the weak. Mr. Oakley goes shooting off the back like a caboose separated from a runaway freight train, and as he fades off the back, you hear, "Coach told me to take it easy today anyway, this is supposed to be a rest day..." Yeah, you all know THAT guy, you've seen him. You've ridden with him, thing is, he's not done yet.
After you ride over hill and dale, chasing attacks down for the workout, having fun with your friends, on the run back into town, you see him. Again, waiting, and soft pedaling up in front of the on rushing pack. Approaching the "sprint" line at the end of the ride, he gets back into the line, surprisingly fresh for someone who got dropped about 40 minutes before. The sprint starts to break loose, and I don't need to tell you what that's like on a group ride. You've got yay-hoos all the way from folks who have never raced, to folks who are local strong cat 1s and 2s and 3s trying to actually mix it up, and here comes Strasser again. He jumps into the sprint, and starts going for it. Despite himself, he's an OK sprinter, but he's not that good, in order for him to "win", he slides slightly to the left, therefore running you OFF the road, so that he can "win". Thing is, he starts turning squares 50 feet from the line, and 20 people go rushing past him anyway, and he almost killed you. All in a fine day for guys like this.
You have all had this experience, I know that you have. And there might be some of you out there who ARE this guy. If you are, stop it. Knock it the fuck off. Nobody thinks that you're cool, and really, nobody likes you. What we want to do is toss a tree branch into your spokes, and given the right chance, and opportunity, that's what we're going to do. It would be better for everyone else if you just didn't show up. Seriously, stay at home, or ride alone. Nobody. Likes. You.
Oh, and did I mention? Get a fucking sense of humor.
I was going to write about something else, but I seemed to have forgotten what that was exactly during my above tirade. Sorry about that. More later. Adios.
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News from Austria: Alfred Fried Photography Award 2016
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Organized by the Photographische Gesellschaft (PHG) and Edition Lammerhuber in partnership with UNESCO, the Austrian Parliament, the Austrian Parliamentary Reporting Association and the International Press Institute (IPI), the 2016 Alfred Fried Photography Award is open for entries.
Extended deadline: 10 June 2016. The competition is free of charge.
The annual award ceremony will take place in September at the Austrian Parliament in Vienna to celebrate the five winners. One of them will receive a cash prize of € 10 000 for the PEACE IMAGE OF THE YEAR.
For more information, please visit www.friedaward.com
Bruno Vetters gives the presidentship of Belgian Association NVB to Jos Verhoogen
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On a big event in the FotoMuseum in Antwerp, the Belgian association of professional photographers changed his president.
After nine year of engagement, Bruno Vetters gave his presidentship to Jos Verhoogen, who was vice president of the association.
The same day the Golden Medal World Cup 2015, the Silver and Bronze Camera's 2015, all the EP, QEP and Masters from last year where awarded on stage in front of more than 150 colleagues.
From FEP: "Welcome Jos Verhoogen and thanks Bruno Vetters for 9 years of great cooperation!"
From FEP: "Welcome Jos Verhoogen and thanks Bruno Vetters for 9 years of great cooperation!"
The CGI and the FETA Award in Falmouth University, UK
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WOW!!! That was pretty much the response to the talk and demonstration that Master QEP Photographer, Andy Hens of the Federation of European Photographers gave to a packed audience in Falmouth University, in Cornwall, UK on how Computer Generated Images will impact on the future of photography. So much so, that by the following day at least five of the students had registered for the CGI software he was demonstrating! As well as the students, the University invited regional members of The BIPP to come along and join in, with a view of what is to come! BIPP member, Roy Sims said ,"After an amazing and instructive evening, the here and now is safe, he can create beautiful images but photographers handle the now"!! It's going to affect the commercial photographers first but we have to ask ourselves but for how long?
As well as taking the audience by storm Andy was able to assist FETA Chairman, Dave Matthews and Qualifications Chairman, Jim Lowe in presenting a merit award for the FETA competition.
The aim of the award is to encourage and recognise the high standard of photographic image making taking place in Europe by final year photography students and newly qualified young photographers. The judging was chaired by BIPP South West member Dave Matthews and happened online with three Qualified European Photographers as judges, Johan Brouwers, QEP and EP Chairman, Vincent O'Byrne, MQEP and Adriano Scognamillo, QEP. The anonymity of the candidates is respected at all times. The UK missed out on the major award this year, however a special merit award was made to three students, one of which was Jack Breadmore from Falmouth University. Jack was unable to attend the award ceremony in Grado so David Matthews travelled to the BIPP meeting in Falmouth to make the award which was more than fitting as he instigated the Marine & Natural History Photography BA Honours course at the university before he retired.
Text by Tony Freeman.
Caption: BIPP member David Matthews seen with FEP Master Photographer Andy Hens,(left) making the presentation to Jack Breadmore accompanied by the FEP chairman of judges BIPP member Jim Lowe (right).
Photography by Cartel Photos, Falmouth.
Caption: BIPP member David Matthews seen with FEP Master Photographer Andy Hens,(left) making the presentation to Jack Breadmore accompanied by the FEP chairman of judges BIPP member Jim Lowe (right).
Photography by Cartel Photos, Falmouth.
Photography Masters Conference IV edition
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Photography Masters Conference IV edition - Grado, Italy - Dec. 12-13 - Special fee for FEP members!
We are delighted to announce the next edition of the Photography Masters Conference that will be held on December 12th and 13th in Grado (GO) – Italy.
Now at its fourth edition, the Conference will bring together leading professional photographers from 5 European countries who will share their works, insights and know-how and will provide participants with an excellent opportunity to enhance their photography skills.
The program will include:
December, 12th: Saturday, a program of 2 lectures with renowned international speakers: Gonzalo Puertas (Spain) will bring his experience in commercial photography and Robert Larsen (Germany) will give a speech on nonassigned project design and management. In the afternoon a half-day workshop with Ian Munro (UK) on "The Art of Storytelling". A photographic contest is linked to the conference and open only to the participants.
December, 13th: The program Sunday will open with Vicente Esteban (Spain) MQEP and his "Walk with the classics" which will be followed by Italian MQEP Emanuele Carpenzano with a lecture on contemporary wedding photography.
Then Uli Staiger (Germany) will show his adventures in the magic world of 3D images and finally Sven Germann (Swiss) will disclose his journey "From advertising to Portrait"
info: photographymasters.eu
Nikon Wedding Advanced Campus 2015-2016
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Al via l'edizione 2015-2016 del NWAC, il Nikon Wedding Advanced Campus
NWAC, acronimo di Nikon Wedding Advanced Campus, è un modo nuovo di informare e confrontarsi sulle tematiche e le opportunità legate alla professione di fotografo di matrimonio. Quattro imperdibili appuntamenti di durata settimanale tra novembre 2015 e marzo 2016 – a Torino, Riccione, Verona e Catania - alla presenza dei più affermati professionisti del settore.
Dopo il successo dello scorso anno, il NWAC, Nikon Wedding Advanced Campus, si rinnova con l'edizione 2015-2016. Supportato dalla Nital di Moncalieri (TO), distributore per l'Italia dei prodotti a marchio Nikon, e da sponsor di prestigio come Epson, Grange, Profoto, Album Epoca, Manfrotto, Associazione Nazionale Fotografi di Matrimonio, ANV, CNA, FEP, Tau Visual, Confartigianato Fotografi, il NWAC nasce con lo scopo di garantire ai fotografi di matrimonio le informazioni e la preparazione tecnica necessarie a svolgere al meglio la loro professione, in un mercato soggetto a rapidi cambiamenti e caratterizzato da una clientela sempre più preparata ed esigente.
Rivolti a chi aspira a diventare o è già un professionista del settore, i quattro appuntamenti in programma – a Torino, Riccione, Verona e Catania - definiranno un percorso formativo fatto non solo di tecnica fotografica e di ripresa, ma in grado di toccare anche i delicati aspetti del marketing, della comunicazione, della gestione aziendale, quindi i meccanismi indispensabili a ottimizzare la propria visibilità su Internet e in particolare sulle più affermate piattaforme sociali.
Il NWAC, Nikon Wedding Advacned Campus, è un collettore di idee che punta al confronto, all'aggiornamento e allo scambio, grazie alla presenza di docenti la cui autorevolezza è riconosciuta in tutta Europa.
Mark Seymour, Andre Boto, Andrei Balabasov, Pascal Baetens, Emanuele Carpenzano, Nadia Di Falco, Nancy Fina, Ivana Porta, Gianluca Catzeddu, Lorenzo Colloreta, Mirko Santangelo, sono alcuni dei master che faranno da guida nei workshop settimanali di:
• Torino (1-8 novembre 2015): Stage Introduttivo alla professione di Fotografo Matrimonialista
• Riccione (22-29 novembre 2015): Stage di perfezionamento – Posa e luce nella fotografia di matrimonio
• Verona (17-24 gennaio 2016): Stage di perfezionamento – Post-produzione per fotografi di matrimonio
• Catania (13-20 marzo 2016): Stage di perfezionamento – La fotografia di nudo e il racconto matrimonialista
Il NWAC in numeri
4 appuntamenti di durata settimanale - 180 ore di corso - 18 master - 24 giorni di full immersion - 60 partecipanti (numero massimo).
Info e contatti www.nwac.it
News from Denmark
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Kære fotograf,
Du inviteres hermed til årets dff InspirationCAMP i dagene 19. + 20. + 21. september 3 helt forskellige dagskurser, enten ét enkelt eller flere dage – du bestemmer selv.
Vi har samlet 3 af europas bedste instruktører som alle har MASTER QEP (Federation of European Photographers) kvalifikation i professionelt fotografi, de kommer på dff Inspiration CAMP 2015 for at give DIG inspiration og nye muligheder, både forretnings mæssigt og fotografisk.
Location er midt i Danmark, i helt unikke lokaler med charme, sjæl og masser af historie samt rigtigt gode udendørs faciliteter til optagelser.
Mark Sykes FBIPP, QEP
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Mark Sykes FBIPP, QEP
25th April, in history saw the beginning of the Gallipoli campaign, a date many, on whatever side, will find difficult to forget. Not that his friends and colleagues will need reminding, the date when we said goodbye forever to that stoical, brilliant, witty man, Mark Sykes.
Those of us who followed his postings on Facebook will never be able to look at a full English breakfast again without fond memories. Mark was the kind of guy I was proud to call a friend, the sort where because of geographical implications you didn't meet very often, but when you did it was as if you had been together in the pub the night before. As a photographer, he was second to none and gave freely of his expertise, an inspiration to us all in oh so many ways! Triumph and disaster were treated with the same sardonic grin and a large glass of some Scottish beverage. We became very strong friends after spending a week together in Moscow as guests of the Russian Photographic Association. I knew him ever since we were judges on the A&Q panel of the BIPP for many years. His talent as a photographer and humour were second to none, and it was a privilege to have known him. I still use anecdotes he gave me on professional practice for commercial photography in my lectures to students on my BA (hons) course in Falmouth University. So he is still passing on his skills to the next generation.
Mark was an excellent judge for the Federation of European Photographers Qualifications Board in Brussels. Many times these European photographers asked why Mark did not become a regular judge in Europe as he was very good at critiquing images in a positive way, which the audience in Europe found fascinating. They learnt so much from him, as did the Russians, he was such a fantastic advertising photographer who could communicate easily either to a large group or on a one to one basis.
The comment from the French Judge, Jean Charles Castel sums up what I have said, I HAD THE CHANCE OF MEETING MARK : NICE GUY, WONDERFUL WORK !! RIP MARK !
Mark obviously made an impression on him.
Now he has gone, there is a big void in my life. I will miss his talent, his wit, his British (Yorkshire) eccentricity, and his humanity. His battle with the cancer, which took him far too soon is a lesson to us all, a middle finger raised against its stranglehold.
Almanac of Pictures with Soul
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Almanac of Pictures with Soul
The word 'almanac' has gained a very specific status throughout the cultural history of the Czech lands, Moravia and Silesia, referring to an anthology of ideas associated with important anniversaries. Moreover, it has also marked a selection of texts written in connection of a remarkable transition of a historical threshold.
Regarding this, however, we do not perceive the Almanac of Works of Members of the Czech Professional Photographers Association, which you are just about to open, as a milestone. We rather see it as an attempt to follow up the once excellent tradition, the age of photography movement dynamic development in our country, as well as an effort to prove that, despite the current difficult situation of the photographer profession, members of the 'Association' do not forget, that what brought them to photography was their desire for self-expression, inner longing to perceive and treat photography as a modern visual mean of interpersonal communication.
Thanks to the rapid development of digital imaging, the art of photography is now in a special, perhaps even ambivalent situation. The 'smart' mobile phone cameras are contributing to the swift development of recording of practically everything that happens, while the much easily attainable technical level of pictures makes us think that almost everybody can take an impressive picture as long as they have good hardware and software equipment. If the twentieth century received the 'picture century' epithet then the dawn of the twenty-first century may be marked as the dawn of the digitalised picture age.
Imaging technologies enable us to drive a car that is yet to be manufactured, walk among half-built houses that so far only exist on the blue-prints. We can admire non-existent landscapes in 'photographs' as well as wonderful mountains, all of which exist only thanks to the fantasy of the author of the photography and technical options of Photoshop. This phenomenon – on its own remarkably positive – however, leads to the overproduction of picture smog, to loss of feelings for critical evaluation of modern imaging media products, while it supresses the visual literacy, leading thus also to a negative impact on the profession of a photographer.
A whole number of various producers and businesses are now equipped with cameras and other technology, taking pictures for their internet catalogues themselves, and only a few care that such catalogues are far from perfect. Carefully created photography of architecture is disappearing, melting away in virtual video sequences that are acquired at a greater speed and, most of all, with less effort.
The crown of this outclassing movement are indeed the photo booths placed in all possible state institutions, which have uncompromisingly erased communal portrait photo studios. However, the more these machines resigned to the real essence of a photography, i.e. to 'drawing with light', in the name of a better computer processability of the picture, the more has their production moved away from, what we understand under the term portrait, and there is no time or money left for its quality any more.
Indeed there would be no point in presenting all reasons that has led the Czech Professional Photographers Association to this seemingly anachronistic, perhaps even Quixotic deed, the publishing of the Almanac with selection of the art works of its members. Following sensitive philosophers – who many years ago came to the idea that 'Quixotism' has its sense in the modern society, that this 'swimming against the tide' can refer to the necessary revolt against the chaos and haste of our time and the loss of sense of human deeds – this collection of pictures strives to point out to the fundamental human need to think about the communicative component of photography imaging, to stop for a while, dwell over the pictures and look for their hidden meanings.
It was thought at the dawn of the 'light drawing' that a photography wold get closer to visual art, or as the case may be, to painting by breaking the mechanical process of the creation of image by manual intervention, however the 'New Objectivity', 'Direct' and 'Subjective Photography' movement, just as the influence of surrealistic tendencies and the strong drift towards 'Staged photography' during the 20th century proved that the power of photography as well as the depth of its content expression are based on the ability to use own expressive means of the photographic image, without borrowing the painting and graphic methods, as was noted by Albert Renger-Patzsch in 1925.
The pictures in this Almanac are striving to be just like this.
prof. Miroslav Vojtechovsky, QEP
Included Authors:
Vladimir Birgus
Magdalena Blahova
Karel Dosek
Bohumil Eichler
Jaroslav Fiser
Jiri Hanke
Borivoj Horinek
Josef Husak
Frantisek Chrastek
Rudolf Jung
Ales Jungmann
Daniel Kaifer
Jiri Kovanic
Vladimir Kozlik
Maria Kudasova
Zdenek Lhotak
Jan Neubert
Jan Pohribny
Stanislav Pokorny
Rudo Prekop
Roman Sejkot
Petra Skoupilova
Milena Valuskova
Miroslav Vojtechovsky
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LL Cool J will serve as host of this year's Grammy Awards, ending several years of a no-host format, the Recording Academy announced Wednesday.
"I'm thrilled to be part of music's biggest night," LL Cool J said in a statement. "I will always have fond memories of my first Grammys Awards and to now be hosting the Grammy show, in the company of so many other incredible artists, is a dream come true."
The show has not had a host since Queen Latifah in 2005.
Kanye West tops Grammy nominationsA two-time Grammy winner himself, LL Cool J has hosted the live nominations concert since 2008, but this will be his first stint at the actual awards show.The 54th Grammy Awards ceremony airs live Sunday, Feb. 12 at 8/7c on CBS. Performers will include Kelly Clarkson, Foo Fighters, Adele, Bruno Mars, and Taylor Swift.


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First the Super Bowl, and now the XXII Winter Olympics, and not long after the games are over, IRS deadlines for taxes! Many professional athletes will feel the pressure of taxes come April, so if you are one of them, pay attention.
Just like regular taxpayers, professional athletes are subject to steep fines and penalties for incorrectly filing taxes. What is the difference between professional athletes and everyone else? Generally, professional ball players, motorsports athletes and Olympians fall into wealth rapidly, and their careers are brief, often lasting less than a decade. Professional athletes are some of the wealthiest taxpayers in the United States, and many famous athletes will earn an annual income of more than $1 million.
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When meeting with a tax professional, make sure to inquire about the following circumstances:
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- Fines– If you have ever been fined by your league, ask if the fine is contributed to a charitable organization. If so, you can deduct the fine you paid from your taxes.
- Equipment- If you have spent money on skis, goggles, tennis balls, baseball bats, helmets, etc., the IRS considers this a career requirement and you are allowed to deduct these expenses, so keep all receipts.
- Travel– If you pay for flights, hotels, or meals out while on the road, this is considered tax deductible.
- Rent for Housing– Rent paid on a house or apartment while training under a contract is also deductible.
- Sports Agent Fees– Agents help an athlete find work and get paid for appearances. Agent fees can be deducted.
- Sport Massages– Any medical injuries that have required rehab through physical therapy or healing massage can save you money on your tax bill come April.
- State of Residency– If you claim residency on a state that taxes less, it could save you money.
- Workout Gear– Any equipment or gear purchased to promote athleticism is a tax-deductible expense.
If you are a professional athlete, knowing what questions to ask your tax specialist could save you hundreds of thousands of dollars. It is important to remember to keep all receipts and correctly keep track of all expenses.
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An inspiring journey along the scenic Bells Line of Road
Mount Banks, Blue Mountains National Park
The prominent tabletop of Mount Banks (1,034m) is a distinctive landmark along The Botanists Way.
Named for Sir Joseph Banks, the 'father of Australian botany' and George Caley's mentor, Mount Banks was the furthest point of Caley's 1804 exploration.
Turn south off Bells Line of Road 9.5 km west of Mount Tomah and follow the gravel road 1.3 km to the picnic area in a saddle at the foot of Mount Banks.
Good views into the upper Grose Valley around Blue Gum Forest can be seen from the roadside and from the picnic area a steep but rewarding walking track leads 2.5km (return) through open heath to the basalt summit.


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1. Who is required to complete the CPD Requirement?
Lawyers and paralegals in the 100% fee-paying category are required to fulfill the CPD Requirement. Lawyers and paralegals
who are in other fee categories are also required to fulfill the CPD Requirement if they practise law or provide
legal services, if they provide legal services on a
pro bono basis only, or if they are practising Life Members.
Fee Categories for more information.
Effective January 1, 2018, licensees who are subject to the CPD Requirement are required to complete the Equality, Diversity
and Inclusion (EDI) CPD Requirement. See
Frequently Asked Questions about the CPD EDI Requirement for more information about this aspect of the CPD Requirement.
2. What is the CPD Requirement?
Under the Law Society's CPD Requirement, lawyers and paralegals are required to complete at least
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January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2020, lawyers and paralegals are required to complete a total of 3 Professionalism
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3. Do I have to take accredited programs to fulfill the CPD Requirement?
Only programs and activities for Professionalism Hours (including EDI Professionalism Hours) must
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Accredited programs containing Professionalism Hours can be identified by the following logos, which will appear
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Communication Guidelines for Providers. The Law Society offers a number of accredited professionalism
programs at a nominal cost to lawyers and paralegals. Please see
CPD Calendar for more information about Law Society's CPD programs.
5. What is the difference between CPD programs and CPD activities?
CPD programs are formal, instruction-based sessions. They are usually offered by organizations such as education
providers, law associations, law firms, government associations and industry groups. CPD activities include a
broad range of other, non-program learning methods such as teaching, writing, mentoring and participation in
study groups of 2 or more colleagues. See
Eligible Educational Activities for more information.
Note that CPD Programs and CPD activities must be accredited by the Law Society if the lawyer or paralegal is
seeking to count them as part of their Professionalism Hours. See
CPD Accreditation Process for more information.
6. Are online programs eligible for CPD Hours?
Participation in "interactive" CPD programs and courses such as "real time" on-line courses, streaming video, and
live web and/or telephone conferences are eligible if there is an opportunity to ask and/or answer questions
with colleagues and/or instructors. Lawyers and paralegals may view previously recorded programs with at least
one other colleague to satisfy the interactivity requirement. There is no annual maximum for these methods of
viewing programs.
Viewing archived webcasts, video replays, or other recorded program formats without a colleague are eligible educational
activities for up to 6 hours per year.
7. Can CPD Hours completed in one calendar year be carried over into the next calendar year?
No, a lawyer or paralegal who completes more than 12 hours of eligible CPD activities in a year is not entitled to
carry over the balance into the next year.
8. I made an error when entering my CPD Hours on the Portal. How can I fix it?
Lawyers and paralegals can edit or delete any entry for a professionalism program, substantive program
or activity using the self-edit function.
9. What is the requirement for a lawyer or paralegal who returns to practice during the reporting year?
Lawyers and paralegals who resume practising law or providing legal services within the reporting year must complete
1 hour of CPD for each month or partial month of practice or provision of legal services. CPD hours
can be completed at any time during the open reporting period. There is no requirement to complete these prorated
hours after returning to practice or to the provision of legal services.
10. Will CPD Hours obtained outside of Ontario count toward the CPD Requirement?
Yes, as long as the program or activity is an eligible educational activity for the CPD Requirement. See
Eligible Educational Activities.
11. Is teaching an eligible activity?
Yes, teaching is eligible to a maximum of 6 hours per year. Actual teaching time will be multiplied by a factor of
3 to reflect preparation time. For example, 30 minutes of teaching will be equal to 1 hour and 30 minutes of
CPD. The teaching content must be law-related and within the CPD definition. There is no limitation on the type
of audience. If the same content is taught more than once in a calendar year, CPD credit is only available for
the first delivery of that content. Teaching is an eligible activity only if it is undertaken on a volunteer
or part-time teaching basis. Teaching as part of full-time or regular employment will not be eligible.
Chairing a program may be eligible, provided the chair does more than introduce speakers. The Chair must act as a
facilitator of the program for it to be eligible.
Acting as a judge or coach in a mooting competition is an eligible educational activity.
In order to qualify for Professionalism Hours, teaching activities must address topics of professional responsibility,
ethics, practice management and/or equality, diversity and inclusion and be accredited by the Law Society. See
CPD Accreditation Process for more information.
12. Is presenting an information session to clients or writing/editing client bulletins an eligible activity?
If presenting the information session or writing/editing client bulletins is primarily a "teaching" rather than a
"pitching" activity, and enables the lawyer or paralegal to fulfill the definition of CPD, which requires that
the activity maintain or enhance a lawyer's professional knowledge, skills, attitudes and ethics, then it is
an eligible activity. If the educational content of the activity is minimal or basic, or if it is repeated with
modest changes to a number of audiences, it is not eligible.
13. Is writing and/or editing an eligible educational activity?
Yes, writing and editing books, articles with or without a co-author is eligible to a maximum of 6 hours per year.
The book or article must be intended for publication by a third party, or included as part of an in-house or
firm publication, rather than for personal use. Editing legal texts or case reports and preparing case headnotes,
with the same restrictions as set out for writing, are also eligible activities. There is no limitation on the
audience for whom the work is written.
Only volunteer or part-time writing is eligible.
Writing as part of full-time or regular employment is not eligible.
In order to qualify for Professionalism Hours, writing and/or editing activities must address topics of professional
responsibility, ethics, practice management and/or equality, diversity and inclusion and be accredited by the Law Society.
CPD Accreditation Process for more information.
14. Is mentoring an eligible educational activity?
Yes, mentoring activities are eligible to an annual maximum of 12 hours. Eligible mentoring activities include
mentoring, being mentored, providing coach or advisor support, participating in a coach or advisor program, acting
as an articling principal, or supervising an LPP work placement or paralegal field placement. For more information
Eligible Educational Activities.
In order to qualify for Professionalism Hours, mentoring activities must address topics of professional responsibility,
ethics, practice management and/or equality, diversity and inclusion and be accredited by the Law Society. See
CPD Accreditation Process for more information.
15. Are study group activities eligible?
Yes, study groups are eligible and have no annual maximum. This will include attendance at a group session of 2 or
more lawyers or paralegals that is organized for the purpose of discussing content that falls within the CPD
definition. Study group participants may be lawyers or paralegals from a variety of settings — sole and small
firm colleagues in the same community or lawyers and paralegals in the same firm, legal department, government
agency, or clinic. Live, in-person participation, in addition to telephone conference, web conference (e.g.,
Skype, Google Chat) or videoconference are all acceptable delivery methods, as long as attendees can interact
with one another in real time.
File or matter- specific discussion is not eligible. Lawyers or paralegals who facilitate or instruct study
group sessions may claim up to 3 hours of credit for every 1 hour session to reflect preparation time.
In order to qualify for Professionalism Hours, study group activities must cover topics of professional responsibility,
ethics, practice management and/or equality, diversity and inclusion and be accredited by the Law Society. See
CPD Accreditation Process for more information.
The Law Society has additional resources to assist lawyers and paralegals in obtaining CPD Hours through study groups.
Professionalism Case Studies for more information.
16. Are bar association, or other law or paralegal association, meetings eligible?
Where lawyers or paralegals attend meetings that involve both business related to the association and an educational
session dealing with substantive, procedural law or professionalism content that comes within the CPD definition,
only the hours devoted to the educational session are eligible.
17. Can self-study be counted toward the CPD Requirement?
Self-study is not eligible for CPD Hours. Self-study is defined as reading or reviewing material on one's
own without some form of interaction with colleagues and/or instructors through live Q&A sessions, simultaneous
discussion, real time chat or embedded learning prompts. Lawyers and paralegals will continue to report annually
on the Lawyer Annual Report and Paralegal Annual Report, respectively, the number of self-study hours they complete.
The minimum expectation for self-study hours remains at 50 hours. The number of self-study hours is not mandatory,
but reporting is. Reporting of self-study hours is not part of the CPD Requirement.
18. I'm a Certified Specialist. How does the CPD Requirement affect me?
Certified Specialists have the same requirement as other members. They are required to obtain a total of 12 CPD Hours
per calendar year, which must include a minimum of 3 Professionalism Hours and 9 Substantive Hours.
19. Are listservs, online forums and network sites eligible for CPD Hours?
This type of information exchange is not eligible as it does not involve sustained interaction and learning by participants.
20. Where can I learn more about the Law Society's decisions about the CPD Requirement?
Please see the
February 2010 Joint Report to Convocation (PDF) for background information about the CPD Requirement.
Click here for information about changes to the CPD Requirement made by Convocation on April 26, 2012.
Click here for information about the changes to the Mentoring CPD activity made by Convocation on January
26, 2016.
Click here for information about the new EDI CPD Requirement approved by Convocation on
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An effort by two U.S. Senators to cement a broad series of privacy protections into federal law came under fire last week when a legislative analysis from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) suggested that it might override numerous state laws that offer even stronger safeguards for consumer information.
Contacted by Raw Story, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) — who is cosponsoring the bill with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) — begged to differ, arguing that their proposals would not represent "a step backwards" for privacy rights.
But EFF attorney Lee Tien isn't so sure.
The Kerry-McCain "Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights," according to Tien's analysis, does not establish a baseline or "floor" for states to build stronger privacy protections. It instead erects a legislative "ceiling" for privacy protections and expressly preempts many state laws that try to address some of the same problems.
"It's a comprehensive [privacy] bill and therefore it reaches far more broadly [than state laws]," Tien told Raw Story in a telephone interview. "So, the footprint of the preemption is naturally pretty broad."
In his analysis (PDF), Tien describes numerous laws, namely in California, that could be preempted by the Kerry-McCain proposals. Those laws apply to things like video rental histories, telephone records, personally identifying consumer financial data and other information both online and offline.
He also suggests the bill would make it more difficult for consumers harmed by breaches of privacy to sue the offending parties, and that some privacy enforcement may end as the bill would shift responsibilities away from local governments and municipalities and onto state attorneys general.
"We're trying to get a picture of what this looks like from state to state," he said. "The preemptive scope of the bill runs generally toward personal information. [EFF's] memo cites a number of laws in California that address the personal information for police officers, battered women's shelters — you can think of all sorts of personal information that might have been protected in one way or another by the law" which may be overridden.
"There are reasons why many companies like a stronger or broader preemption [of state laws], because they would prefer there's a single set of rules that cover everything so they don't have to deal with a lot of different laws," Tien added. "On the other hand, privacy and consumer advocates have tended to believe that over-preemption is a dangerous thing."
Reacting to the analysis, Sen. Kerry said that he respects the EFF, but that the concern may be misplaced.
"No one can argue that a patchwork of state laws, none of which are comprehensive, can possibly protect consumers in the Information Age which by definition knows no borders," Kerry told Raw Story in an email exchange. "Local and state laws by definition can't provide the new, universal protections in our Bill of Rights or possibly cover the same scope of activity.
"I respect EFF, but nowhere in their analysis does it say our bill would be a step backwards for privacy rights. The net result is, by any standard, is a net positive. That is why respected consumer privacy advocates from Consumers Union to the Consumer Federation of America and the Center for Democracy and Technology all support our bill.
"Different pieces of legislation related to interstate commerce place different levels of preemption on state law. Ours is the only bipartisan, comprehensive privacy bill under consideration today."
Reached for comment, Sen. McCain's staff had no statement regarding EFF's analysis.


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White House aide Dan Pfeiffer may have pulled off the "full Ginsburg" on the Sunday shows, but his performance was more like the "full Monty"–Monty Python, that is.
"Irrelevant" was Pfeiffer's refrain: "The law is irrelevant" on the IRS scandal, he told ABC's This Week; it's "a largely irrelevant fact" where Obama was during the Benghazi attacks, he told Fox News Sunday; it's also "largely irrelevant" who edited the Benghazi talking points to create a misleading picture of the attacks.
It's a denial equal to "just a flesh wound" in Monty Python and the Holy Grail–or, better yet perhaps, the infamous "Dead Parrot sketch" in Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which a pet store owner tries to convince an irate customer to ignore the obvious.


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Love Letter: Boxed Edition
All of the eligible young men (and many of the not-so-young) seek to woo the princess of Tempest. Unfortunately, she has locked herself in the palace, and you must rely on others to take your romantic letters to her. Will yours reach her first?
Love Letter is a game of risk, deduction, and luck for 2–4 players. Your goal is to get your love letter into Princess Annette's hands while deflecting the letters from competing suitors. From a deck with only sixteen cards, each player starts with only one card in hand; one card is removed from play. On a turn, you draw one card, and play one card, trying to expose others and knock them from the game. Powerful cards lead to early gains, but make you a target. Rely on weaker cards for too long, however, and your letter may be tossed in the fire!
This edition comes in a box!
Designed by: Seiji Kanai
Published by: Alderac Entertainment Group
Genres: Card and Dice
Ages: 10 and up
Players: 2 to 4
Playing Time: 20 minutes
Year: 2014


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It's just been announced that Cat-Minster: The CFA International Cat Championship will be making its worldwide televsion debut on GSN–the Game Show Network–in March. Think Best in Show but with cats, and probably a few lesbian trainer/owner relationships on the sly.
You think you're excited? Here's what Dena Kaplan, the Senior VP of Marketing for GSN, had to say about it: "'Every dog has their day, now it's the 'purr-fect' time for cats to get in the limelight. GSN is thrilled to capture the exciting world of top feline breeders putting their pedigreed pets, their pride and passion on the line to win the coveted title 'Best in Show.' We believe that CAT-MINSTER: CFA INTERNATIONAL CAT CHAMPIONSHIP has the legs to be an annual tent pole event on GSN."
If you like your felines a little edgier, take a look at MyCatHatesYou.com. And if you prefer your cats in sinks, check out CatsInSinks.com. (Their tagline? "It's about cats. In sinks.")


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I used the flowers for inspiration and the lovely magenta tones.
I also used this sketch from Em Stafrace over at Page Drafts which I rotated 90 degrees,
Here is what I came up with.
My journalling on the back of the layouts says:
Throughout most of my married life, all but the last year, Simon has never bought me flowers (not even when my kids were born) and I understand his reasoning even if I don't like it or agree with it. You pay a fortune and they die after a few days... Well that may be so but it is a week of sheer pleasure and a feast for the eyes. So I have always, religiously, every week bought myself flowers for my desk in my studio. What I get depends on how I feel... Sometimes I want bright and happy, sometimes I want soft and pretty and I think I have had every variety and colour there is at some point in time. The flowers in the photos are possibly one of the prettiest I have had. In a terracotta pot with a slight green patina it was made up of a beautiful white, with a pink centre cabbage rose surrounded by soft pretty pink rosebuds and in between a very pretty lilac frothy filler. I don't know most of the flowers names and I don't really care. I do know that I don't choose the flowers I think that they choose me and for the time that they are on my desk they bring me unspeakable joy and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Here are some close ups.
I used some of my gorgeous Maja Design papers from the 'Coffee in the Arbour' collection... Do you know how much I love these papers? :) Of course you do. So I started with a cream cardstock to match the papers and used some cream gesso (that was coloured with paint) and then I added a touch of magenta glitter to the wet gesso, some paint splats and some stamping.
I added my layers and cut the window chippie in two and coloured it with distress inks and added a little clear embossing powder as well. I am very happy with how they turned out.
The big flower was coloured with distress stain and mists to get the right colour even though it looks a like more brick colour in the photo. the other flowers and some cotton were also added and a few pearls because you can't have shabby without the pearls.
I punched the edges of the paper and added the title which is also showing a little more red than the purple in the photo.
Thanks so much for stopping by to take a look and also for taking the time to leave me a comment. I really appreciate it.


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About Us
In January 1897, Mr. J.J. Deal presented the association a lot on Church St. to build our new library. A building committee was appointed consisting of the president, Miss Sarah Sinclair, Mrs. Ida Varnum, and Mrs. J.A. Sibbald. They started subscription papers and canvassed the town and surrounding county. On January 17, 1899 the 24th annual library meeting was held in the new building which, when completed cost $1339.75 and carried a debt of $155.00 which was paid by a memorial less than one year later. The book committee reported using $9.96 for purchase of books during the year, all other money raised went to the building fund. There were 86 patrons who had library cards. In 2015 the library has over 3500 library card patrons and serves over 30,000 patrons a year. Servicing Jonesville, Scipio and Fayette townships.
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When Jared Lee Loughner shot Congresswoman Gabrielle "Gabby" Giffords through the head and murdered six other people outright, it really was because he was "insane" and "deranged," as Bob Norman put it in his heartfelt open letter to Joyce Kaufman. Loughner's most coherent political position is an ill-defined anti-Semitism. He is not a Tea Partier. He is not a right-wing extremist, in any commonly understood sense of the phrase. He is, rather, a very strange boy with a head full of very bad chemicals.
That Loughner suffers from some kind of imbalance ought to come as a bigger surprise than it does. Schizophrenics, after all, do not appear on popular radio shows or cable news programs egging each other on to greater and more horrible acts of violence. The certifiably insane do not congregate in Town Hall meetings and promulgate an agenda at the expense of dialogue and reason. They do not call the noncrazy "treasonous" or compare the sane majority to Nazis. They do not organize. They do not moralize about the depravity of the mentally competent.
Which makes one wonder: Why did it take Jared Lee Loughner to put a bullet through the brain of Gabbie Giffords? Why didn't a Tea Partier do it first?
By their own loudly professed standards, large elements of the populist right believes Gabbie Giffords and those like her are worthy of death. Moderate Dems are, after all, Nazis -- and what does one do with Nazis? Are we really to believe that Allen West, Joyce Kaufman, et al., believe we were too hard on Adolf Hitler? That Dresden deserved clemency? Are we to believe that this meeting, recounted by former New Times writer Thomas Francis, was some kind of prank? Or else that the strong emotions evident on the accompanying video are something other than what they so clearly are -- expressions of a barely suppressed, violent impulse?
The recounted meeting took place last spring, at Fort Lauderdale City Hall, where Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was attempting to explain new health care legislation to her constituents. She was unable to do so. A small minority of those in attendance, who opposed what was then becoming known as "Obamacare," refused to allow the meeting to progress. They did so not through a sit-in or by blocking traffic on nearby Broward Boulevard but by shouting down the congresswoman and refusing to allow the citizens who elected her to have their say. Their goal, in other words, was to short-circuit the workings of democracy. "Nazi!" several were heard to yell. "Stalin!" said one, of Wasserman Schultz. Contradictory though those two charges may have been, they added up to a clear conclusion: Inoffensive little Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose most controversial political opinion to date has been that Terri Schiavo deserved a better death than could be allowed in a three-ring media circus, is a totalitarian.
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If that's truly the opinion of the populist right, they have every right to hold and espouse it. It is somewhat less honorable of them to merely pretend to feel that way in order to win elections. The Joyce Kaufmans of the world (and the Allen Wests, Rush Limbaughs, Sarah Palins, and Glenn Becks) can condemn Loughner's actions, but by doing so they admit to their own dishonesty. They have not, after all, suggested that the administration of Barack Obama and his allies are "vaguely reminiscent of socialists." They do not say he is "kind of like" a Nazi. They do not say he is "not quite hard enough" on terrorism. They say he is a socialist, that he is a Nazi, that he is a terrorist. He is, according to the wisdom of the rightist noisemakers, a Manchurian candidate, and Democrats are his treasonous, anti-American co-conspirators. If we are to take such rhetoric seriously, what option remains save armed rebellion? In what sense is Loughner anything but a patriot?
"If ballots don't work, bullets will," said Joyce Kaufman, meaning that strictly democratic processes may not be sufficient to enact the kind of governance she favors. Allen West advocated that patriots "take it to Lexington and Concord" -- "it" meaning his particular brand of conservative patriotic fervor. In recent days, as the chattering classes have struggled to make sense of the bloodbath in Tucson, such lines have been remembered, re-aired, and eyed with suspicion. Could these rhetorical flourishes have led to violence?
No. There is no indication that Loughner was ever even exposed to the far-right punditry. And even if he had been, it takes more than a rhetorical flourish to inspire someone to pick up a gun. Which is why the hyperbolic sound bite, which has drawn so much scorn in the wake of the Tucson massacre, is less a cause for concern than the ethos that spawns it. The right wing has no monopoly on hyperbole, but it has very nearly cornered the market on the weaponizing of difference, on the insistence that a political opponent is not a citizen with ideological diffeerences, but an enemy, immoral and un-American. Joyce Kaufman does this. Allen West does this. In Loughner's back yard, Jan Brewer does this. These individuals do not merely craft the occasional martial metaphor; they are in the business of articulating a whole, martial political philosophy. The populist right may not share Loughner's beliefs, but they certainly have endorsed his MO. If none of them have enacted it as yet, it is not because they lack the desire. It is only because they lack the balls. Or else they're liars. Time will tell.
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Hi, guys and welcome to a new blog feature called Friday Night Date! This feature will be hosted once a month on a Friday, here on In My Secret -Book- World were I will be interviewing one of our most loved book boyfriends.
This month, my date is Micah from the Mythology Trilogy by Helen Boswell. I don't usually like nice guys, but there a few of them, and he tops that list. Check out our date below and you'll find yourself falling for him too.
Hello, Micah and welcome to In My Secret –Book- World! I'm so happy to have you here, and I can't wait to get to know you better, though be warned, I ask lots of… let's say unusual, questions.
Thanks for having me over on your blog! *hands you flowers*
Describe yourself in five words.
Demon with a good heart
Tell me one thing about you that I won't find out from just reading the Mythology books.
I was junior hockey league MVP when I was a kid. Love hockey, but I don't play much anymore. Hope says she's glad because it means I'll probably keep all of my teeth. *eye roll*
What's the first thing that drew you to Hope?
Her self-confidence. She went through a lot when she was younger because she was different, you know? But I could tell when I saw her that first day at school that she doesn't care what people think about her.
Your life isn't easy, and I know there are some aspects of it you don't like, so if for one day you could be anything you want, what would it be?
That's a tough one. I bet you think I'm gonna say I wish I was a normal guy, but I grew up feeling more-or-less normal, until my transformation, so I know what that's like. I guess I wish I could be a guardian for just one day, so I could know what Hope has to deal with.
If you were into guys, which male celebrity would you get naughty with?
Ha! You are getting personal, aren't you? Okay. Make it…Robbie Amell. He's kinda hot ;)
What's the one thing a girl can make the mistake of doing that would totally turn you off?
Be mean and petty to someone else. I hate that crap.
What is your most embarrassing moment?
Probably when my big sister was using my apartment as the "model" to show prospective renters. She never let me know when she came over, and I was butt-naked when a couple of girls from Buffalo State came in to see "the apartment."
Is there anything you've always wanted to do but haven't done?
Travel overseas. I've never been to Europe. Any recommendations of where I should go first? ☺
What's the worst thing you've ever done to anyone?
Send an innocent guy to the Underworld. Can't get any worse than that.
What are you most afraid of?
That the control I have over my darkness will slip again someday. I can't live with myself if I hurt anyone…again.
We're close to the end of our date! If you have any question for me, now is the time, Micah, because next we're having a Quickie!
My question for you is, if you could be any character in any of the Mythology books, who would it be and why? ☺
Hmm, since I really like Hope and I know how much you love her, I'll go with Jonathans love interest. I'd love to be his love.
Suits or sweats?
Cars or bikes?
Bikes - I assume you mean the motorcycle kind ;)
Rain or snow?
Rap or rock?
Football or soccer?
Blond or brunette?
Dogs or cats?
Dogs. Unless they bite.
NYC or LA?
Thanks again, Micah! I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did!
Totally. Thanks, Aseel! xoxo
For those of you who haven't met Micah before or read the Mythology book, you can enter the giveaway below to win the first book.
About the Book:
Book one of the Mythology series.
Hope Gentry doesn't believe in Fate. Born with an unusual power to see the dark memories of those around her, Hope just wants to be a normal teenager. But on the first day of her senior year of high school, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to a transfer student named Micah Condie. At first glance, Micah seems like a boy that most girls would dream about. But when Hope's powers allow her to discover Micah's darkest secret, she quickly becomes entangled in the lives of mythical entities she never dreamed existed. Was this her destiny all along? And will her powers help her survive the evil of the Demon Impiorum?
Mythology isn't just for English class anymore.
About the Author:
Helen Boswell loved to get lost in the pages of a story from the time she could sound out the words. Originally from upstate New York, Helen spent much of her early adult life tromping around in Buffalo, NYC, Toronto, and Las Vegas, those cities now serving as inspiration for the dark and gritty urban backdrops of her stories. An author of both urban fantasy and contemporary romance, Helen loves to read and write characters that come to life with their beauty, flaws, and all.
Helen dedicates her time to raising her family of two boys, teaching college students, and of course, writing.
Find out more about Helen at www.helenboswell.com.
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This giveaway is open internationally and will run until the 10th of October. First winner will be able to choose between a paperback copy of any book in the Mythology series, open internationally. A second winner will get signed book swag, US only.
For those who missed it, you can read my date with Rebel from Dance with Me by J.C. Valentine here. You can find all previous Friday Night Dates here.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — Admit it, the first thing you want to know about Fernando Rodney, the Mariners' new closer, is why he chooses to wear his cap cocked toward his left ear, right?
Well, here you go:
"That sometimes confuses the hitter, too, when it's turned," he said. "The hitter looks for your eyes. It's like a dog. When you go somewhere, the first thing (a dog) looks at is your eyes and how you move.
"If you move straight back, he (relaxes and) is OK. So I try that, sometimes, (with the hitter) to move quick (toward the plate). They think I'm not looking at them. They can't see my face, sometimes."
Rodney chuckled as he explains this…the sort of chuckle that makes you wonder if he's simply sowing more confusion through this comparison between hitters and dogs, their eyes and such.
You decide.
There's no confusion in this: The Mariners signed Rodney, who turns 37 later this month, to a two-year deal for $14 million in the hope he can rejuvenate a leaky bullpen.
On Thursday, he made his spring debut by working one inning in a 7-4 victory over Chicago White Sox at Camelback Ranch. His results were mixed: one run, two hits in one inning.
No matter..
"I think it was great," Rodney said. "The most important thing for me was the fastball was in a good location. That's what I was looking for on the first day. I think the next step is going to be (even) better."
Rodney inherited a 2-1 lead from starter Scott Baker to start the fourth inning. (Why the fourth inning? Largely to put him in match-ups against major-league players before the mass substitutions in later innings.)
All began well.
Rodney retired Adam Dunn on a grounder to first and slipped at a third strike past Paul Konerko. But Dayan Viciedo ripped a double to right and scored when Carlos Sanchez looped a single into center field.
Sanchez stole second before Rodney ended the inning by retiring Adrian Nieto on a routine fly to left.
"(Rodney) did OK," manager Lloyd McClendon said. "The ball came out (well). He made some good pitches. They found the small end of the bat a couple of times, and they got hits."
Prior to the game, McClendon dismissed any suggestion that Rodney is behind schedule even though most other relievers have thrown at least twice in spring games.
"It's a typical closer's type of spring," McClendon countered. "They don't need many innings. Most of them don't want many innings. And they usually find a way to start late. He's no different than the rest of them."
Rodney is also unconcerned but now says he's ready for more work.
"I feel strong," he said. "The only thing is I feel I need more games now to get my body in shape. Other than that, just keep working hard."
His priority is fastball command to both sides of the plate.
"If I locate my fastball," Rodney said, "I can throw the change-up in any count. I didn't use that too much today because I wanted to get my arm loose with my fastball command.
"Next time, I'm going to throw a couple of change-ups."
And if what you see when you look at him is a guy in a crooked cap…well, Rodney hopes that's what the hitter sees, too. Along with any runner who happens to reach first base.
"When I put (the cap) like that," he said, "the runner at first, sometimes I think they think I'm looking at them. They say, `Oh, he's looking at me,' and they stop (from taking a bigger lead).
"The hitter, he wants to see your face when you deliver the ball."
Now we're back to dogs' eyes.
"That's baseball," Rodney said while flashing a pirate's smile. "Every day you try to do something to improve, to get better, because every day when you come to this game, you don't know what's going to happen."
The crooked cap?
"That's what I do now," he said. "Since I starting doing that, everything is working right."
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Thin-Film Interference
We have not covered in class yet and the book does not offer much help. Is it asking for the value (m)? If so how is that determined? Thanks.
Light of wavelength 616 nm (in vacuum) is incident perpendicularly on a soap film (assume n = 1.36) suspended in the air. What are the two smallest nonzero film thicknesses (in nm) for which the reflected light undergoes constructive interference?
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This solution contains an annotated diagram and step-by-step explanations of wave concepts to determine the nonzero film thickness for which reflected light undergoes constructive interference.


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About Andrew Hudson
Andrew Hudson is Denver's jobs guru!
He is the Founder and CEO of Andrew Hudson's Jobs List, the Rocky Mountain Region's premier job-search website. More than 35,000 subscribers receive the weekly updates and hundreds of thousands more visit the website each month. Currently, the website lists more than 1,000 jobs per-month and recent surveys have shown that Andrew Hudson's Jobs List has become one of the most effective job-seeking websites for employers looking for qualified candidates.
From 2006 to 2008, he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications for ARCADIS, U.S., a global environmental engineering firm based out Arnhem, the Netherlands.
From 2002 to 2006, he served as Senior Director of Advertising, Marketing, Communications and Sales for Frontier Airlines where he directed the popular and award-winning 'talking animal' advertising campaign.
From 1995 to 2002, he served as the Director of Communications for the City and County of Denver and as the Chief Spokesman for Denver Mayor Wellington E. Webb.
From 1991 to 1995, he was the Chief Public Affairs Officer for Denver's Regional Transportation District, one of the nation's largest public transportation systems.
From 1988 to 1991, he served in Washington D.C. as Press Secretary to United States Senator Tim Wirth from Colorado.
Andrew is also a professional jazz bassist and performs in a variety of jazz clubs and festivals throughout Colorado.
A third-generation Denverite, Andrew lives in Englewood, Colorado with his wife, Christine and their three children, Nick, Julia and Mateo.
About Andrew Hudson's Jobs List
For more than 15 years, Andrew Hudson's Jobs List has been connecting employers with top professionals throughout Colorado and the Rocky Mountain west. According to a recent survey, 70% of employers posting jobs found Andrew Hudson's Jobs List the best site for finding new employees.
Yes, I, Andrew Hudson, am actually a real person. I've actually had people email me thinking I'm an avatar, or a made-up person that is part of a bigger corporate scheme. But I'm all too real. I'm 46-years-old and live and work in Greenwood Village where Andrew Hudson's Jobs List is my full-time job.
In reality, the idea of a centralized job source came to me more than 15 years ago when I was faced with finding a real job for the first time in my life.
It was 1993 and I had just moved back to my hometown of Denver from Washington, D.C. I'd graduated from the University of Colorado in 1989 and began an internship with Colorado Senator Tim Wirth and gradually worked my way up to where I moved to Washington, D.C. and became his Press Secretary. Unfortunately for me, he decided not to seek reelection and I was out of a job and moved back to Denver.
So here I was, 27 years old for the first time ever, I was forced to look for a real job.
I began looking for a job in public relations and did all the typical things a job seeker did, which, at the time, meant scanning the help-wanted ads in the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News (this was before the Internet). What I found was that many of the best jobs weren't advertised in the newspapers which meant job searching also meant a lot of cold calling to companies and agencies and trying network with friends, contacts and business leaders whom I could call for an "informational interview." I also would go to my local county workforce center which had big thick notebooks full of job listings from companies throughout the city.
It was at that time that I began thinking of developing a centralized job-seeking resource for specific careers; so, instead of having to search high and low for the opportunities, career jobs in specific sectors and industries could be found under one umbrella.
Fast forward a couple of years. The Internet boom began and with it, several websites were created that did exactly that. Monster.com, hotjobs.com, careerbuilder.com – global job websites that were in effect, turbo-charged accessible data bases that sorted jobs by location, career, salary, etc.. To many job seekers and employers, this was a perfect solution that created tremendous efficiencies for both sides.
But as these websites grew – and grew – and grew, those initial efficiencies became too overwhelming. Job seekers were now competing with thousands of other job seekers from all over the globe and employers were being overwhelmed with thousands of resumes and applications.
And as this was going on, a small revolution was percolating in the form of niche websites and email lists targeted at local professionals and employers in specific career sectors.
In my case, I'd been enjoying my life serving as the Press Secretary to Denver Mayor Wellington Webb and had developed an email list of local community and business leaders to whom I'd send press releases, articles and other news of interest to on a regular basis. As this list grew to a few hundred folks, it became somewhat of a viral phenomenon. If you wanted to know what was going on at City Hall, you needed to be on "Andrew's List."
As my email list became more and more well known, subscribers to the list started sending me jobs to post. To me it seemed like a great community service and I didn't hesitate and soon, more and more local jobs started appearing on my list. These jobs were primarily in the areas of public relations, public affairs, marketing, government and nonprofit jobs.
In 2003, Mayor Webb was unable to run for reelection due to term limits and as a political appointee, I was also out of a job. But my list of subscribers, now 1,000 strong, still encouraged me to continue the email broadcasts, particularly as it related to the listing of new jobs.
Over the next two years, the list grew to 3,000 subscribers! At this point, employers would simply send me a job listing, and I would simply cut and paste the text of the job listings to Word document and attach it to an email. I'd format the list every Sunday morning.
In 2005, Comcast, my Internet service provider, began implementing restrictive anti-spam policies which prohibited the number of emails you could send out at any one time and during any one day; in other words, I could only send out 100 emails at one time and only 1,000 emails per day! This became a logistical nightmare and in 2005, I was about to throw in the towel and stop providing this service.
At this point, a small miracle happened. Carol Miller, a friend of a subscriber to my list who also runs an online newsletter service called NetNewsdesk.com contacted me and said she wanted to assist by providing access to her online newsletter and website development tools. Her service also included the ability to manage a massive automated email subscriber list. As a result, in November, 2005, my first website, http://www.prjobslist.com was born and made the job listings available online, as well as via email, to subscribers.
The popularity of the site is completely viral; the site has had no formal marketing or advertising but has succeeded on complete word of mouth. Since 2005, more than 35,000 subscribers have signed on to receive the weekly updates and recent surveys show that 99% of subscribers subscribed to the site after hearing about it from a friend. Currently, the website lists more than 15,000 jobs per-year. Recent surveys have shown that Andrew Hudson's Jobs List has become one of the most effective job-seeking websites for job seekers; and employers looking for qualified candidates have come to rely on the list's vast pool of qualified applicants.
AH Jobs List Today
In 2008, http://www.prjobslist.com morphed into www.andrewhudsonsjobslist.com mainly to reflect the other job sectors that have been added on the site. Today, Andrew Hudson's Jobs List posts jobs in the following career sectors: public relations, marketing, advertising, graphics, copywriting, human resources, nonprofit. The site also posts out-of-state jobs, and also encourages employers to list internships.
The site also provides a service, 'Job Seeker Profiles' for job seekers to promote themselves. For $10 per-month, job seekers are allowed 300 words to describe their backgrounds and the types of careers they are seeking. All funds derived from Job Seeker Profiles are donated to charity.
In addition, I hold more than 30 AH Jobs List Career Bootcamps per-year. AH Jobs List Career Bootcamps are intensive three-hour interactive small-group sessions that will help get job seekers out of their job-seeking rut and make their minds swim with fresh job-seeking ideas and a new perspective on how to market and brand their unique skills and experiences.
I also hold large quarterly job seminars and job fairs and through these events, more than $100,000 has been raised for local charitable organizations including the Red Cross, the Denver Zoo, the Mi Casa Resource Center, Volunteers of America, local Tsunami relief and the Samaritan House homeless shelter.
In the future, I hope to expand AH Jobs List to other communities and to other job sectors.
I'm always looking for new ways to improve the site and welcome comments and advice on how to make the site even more helpful and effective for job seekers and employers alike.
Booking Andrew Hudson for a speaking engagement
Andrew Hudson is a highly sought after motivational speaker on job seeking, workplace culture, career planning, career reinvention, marketing and public relations.
He is also regular media interview subject for his expertise on topics relating to career planning and job search issues. He has appeared on CNN, the Today Show, the London Times and many other local and national television and radio news shows and print publications.
In addition, he is also regularly hired to present his popular public relations and social medial seminars, Crisis Communications Strategies for Executives, Understanding Social Media, and How Public Relations Works. These seminars are tailored to managers and executives at the corporate, government and nonprofit levels.
He is also regular media interview subject for his expertise on topics relating to career planning and job search issues. He has appeared on CNN, the Today Show, the London Times and many other local and national television and radio news shows and print publications.
If you'd like to invite Andrew to speak to your organization or enquire about Andrew leading a seminar, please contact him at email@example.com or call him at 720-289-5877.
Following is a partial list of his speaking engagements:
Colorado Society for Human Resources Management Annual Conference, Keystone, Colorado 2012
Keynote Address, University of Denver Career Services Conference, Graduating, Now What?2013
Keynote Address, Goodwill of Colorado's Annual Power of Work Lunch, 2013
Keynote Address, Colorado Festival and Events Association Annual Conference 2011, 2012, 2013
Keynote Address, International Festival and Events Association Annual Conference
Chicago, 2004
Denver, 2012
Keynote Address, CSU Global, School to Work Career Consortium 2012, 2013
Keynote Address, Rocky Mountain Workforce Association Annual Conference, Vail, 2013
Commencement Speaker, CSU Global Commencement, 2013
Commencement Speaker, Colorado Institute of Art, 2000
Denver Art Museum, Executive Media Training, full day seminar 2012
City of Longmont, Executive Media Training, full day seminar 2012
Mi Casa Resource Center Executive Media Training, full day seminar 2013
In addition, Andrew Hudson has lectured at the following universities:
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Colorado, Denver
Johnson and Wales University
Mesa State College, Grand Junction
Adams State College, Alamosa
University of Denver
Metro State University of Denver
Colorado Institute of Art
Community College of Denver
Front Range Community College
Western State, Durango
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Kristen Stewart will make her directorial debut in an upcoming film "Come Swim" which she also penned three years ago. Stewart is ready to jump into a profession which she fell in love when she was still a little girl.
The movie, originally entitled "Water," based on a poem that Stewart personally wrote. From there, she got the idea of doing the script that leads to making a movie out of it. The 26-year old actress, who rose to fame in her portrayal of Bella Swan in the thriller love story franchise "Twilight" trilogy, drew inspiration from Jodie Foster.
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Stewart told Hello! Magazine as reported by TV3.ie how amazed she was at the difference between acting and directing. She added that Foster's message to her in directing further strengthen her wish to the point of giving up acting.
"I've never thought there was a huge divide between acting and directing," she told Britain's Hello! Magazine. "Jodie Foster said something very helpful when I told her I was going to make this movie – she said: 'The first thing you're going to learn is that you don't have much to learn – you're totally ready already.' That was an incredible thing to hear coming out of that particular mouth."
It will be a huge challenge for Stewart especially manning from behind the scene. This is due to the fact that this year's 54th New York Film Festival will honor Stewart. She will have three movies screened at this year's festival namely "Certain Women," "Personal Shopper," and Ang Lee's "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk."
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In an interview with Ruben Nepales of Inquirer.net, Stewart started her directing job back in 2014. She co-directed with David Ethan Shapiro a music video of the band, Sage + The Saints, for their song, "Take Me to the South."
Stewart draws inspiration from some of Hollywood's finest directors like Woody Allen, Ang Lee, and Olivier Assayas whom she had worked with. She has learned from the best and ready to make her mark in film directing. "Come Swim" is part of an anthology of short films commissioned by Refinery29, a fashion, and lifestyle website The film is now in its post-production and has no play date yet for a big screen debut.
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The strength/assistance exercise with the biggest carryover to the jerk is probably the push press. Well, besides squats of course! Let's make that clear, the jerk is a lower body movement. Yes, the bar is in your hands and the weight is supported on locked out arms but the weight gets up there with the power of your legs. If you want your jerk numbers to go up, get your leg strength up. Squat goes up, everything goes up.
Back to the push press. Heavy push presses will teach you how to finish the drive. If you don't finish that drive and put your leg strength into the bar, the bar isn't going anywhere. It will also reinforce proper bar path and improve lockout strength.
Strictly for carryover to the jerk, your grip width on your push press, push jerk, and split jerk should all be the same. You've probably seen that complex. The push press, push jerk, split jerk 1RM or similar. I've had multiple lifters PR their push press doing it. By moving their push press grip out to match their jerk grip there's less distance to lock the bar out. Admittedly that complex gets you to really drive the crap out of the bar.
Most of the time in weightlifting, you want your assistance work to mimic the full movement as much as possible. Unless you are bringing up a specific weakness. You want your deadlifts and pulls to hit the same positions and your snatch and clean. You also want your overhead work to have the same grip and bar path as your jerk. Strengthening good positions and ingraining motor patterns.
In closing, fix your hand placement, drill good positions, and always do your squats!
Coach Taylor