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Originally, I named this domain bearmedicineherbals because I thought I was going to have more of an herbal type business. Since that time, I've come to understand that while I love creating herbal products, it's not my passion or main calling. My path has led more and more towards active teaching, writing and practice as an herbalist within the Medicine Woman Tradition. You've all followed me along this rather windy journey for the last year +, and now I've decided to make some changes.
First, I'm expanding. Soon this blog will be one part of a Medicine Woman Tradition site integrated in with the existing Animá site. The site will include extensive information on the Tradition, as well as a way more developed structure of herbal information, including some gleaned and cleaned up from old blog posts. I expect this will make it much easier for many of you to access and sort through the info, instead of getting buried in the archives. Expect more plants, more prettiness, more information and more capability for dynamic interaction. There will more complete plant monographs, therapeutic guidelines, nutritional info, recipes, pictures, extensive links and resources and other fun stuff. Since I rarely leave to speak at conferences and not everyone can come to the Canyon, I enjoy creating a hub and resource online for my students and readers.
Second, the new site and this blog will eventually be under the domain medicinewomantradition.org, but don't worry, I'll have automatic redirection from this address for the next year. This future switch is going to affect my RSS feed, and so at some point I'm probably going to have to ask you to resign up for subscription. If I can avoid this I will, but if I can't I'll make it worth your while and have some incentive ideas to make the transition more fun. I hope to stay put after this move, and just expand outwards.
Third, the Anima site is about to undergo a transformation. The non-working forms and other glitches are starting to piss me off, so it's time to learn Dreamweaver. Wish me luck folks, techie stuff is a real pain for me and takes up way too much time. Pray for patience for me so that I don't run over my computer with our souped up jeep mud monster.
The timeline is a little foggy at this point. I'd like to have all this done by the end of the Summer, and The Medicine Woman's Herbal finished too so that's the current working goal. I thought I'd let you know now so there's less shock when it all happens.
And oh yeah, I have tentative plans for a Medicine Woman's food/cook book. There's a whole section on this subject in the Herbal, but I think I have a lot more to share than what will fit in there. While many who've been coming to the Center for a long time may think of Loba as the main canyon cook, I also love to cook and having been slowly building my repertoire over the years. You can of course expect a special emphasis on food as medicine, wild foods and traditional cooking techniques.
Well then, onward!
7 Responses to "On the Horizon: Change, Growth & Transformation"
I think you'll find dreamweaver manageable. i used it extensively to create my desert medicine woman website years ago with ZERO html and web experience. It isn't too scary!
I'm so glad you got some rain!! what a gift!
So drupal didn't work for you then?
For me, it's fabulous … especially the crosslinking, using "categories".
Ah – I build my site offline, and upload the updated database every now and then.
Piece of cake, although it does mean that I have to jump through hoops if I want to update the blog more often than the rest of things.
Yep, I've set up a LAMP system (on windows, it'd be a WAMP system) : Linux Apache MySQL PHP (or Perl or Python). You should find installs for that, for free, on the world wide web.
I can send you my "dump the database" and "upload the database" thingies if you decide to go that route.
Your inspire me so much! I am excited to see where all this flowing and growing will lead… to more flowing and growing, I guess! (; Thanks (a bit belated) for the good info on Mulberry leaves, I didn't know they were used for the lungs– although a randy old man told me recently that the berries were and aphrodisiac extraordinaire. And thanks, too, for warning me about Comfrey pot-death– I've protected some of my ground Comfrey, thanks to your advice. Thanks again for everything, and for making the most beautiful and useful herbal blog in the world! I am very eager for your book!


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If you have a hand in education — whatever your interest, ability or setting — BLC has something for you. In 2015, BLC drew more than 800 participants, representing countless K-12 and college roles, along with thought leaders from around the world. This year's event will offer a choice of over 100 pre-conference master classes and main conference sessions, feature world-renowned keynote speakers, and showcase services and solutions.
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Ball My brain is full like a warm can of coke. Please don't shake me #BLC11
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Closing notes from #blc12 – what a fantastic conference! We ALL do matter! #youmatter
Closing keynote with @globalearner at #BLC12. Excellent ending to a great conference!
Headed home from #blc12 really enjoyed the connections & learning this year! Txs everyone (I miss you too @lizbdavis )
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@thorprichard @xolotl @IQRowe In Boston now attending #blc12. Great energy building up and a lot of focus on 1:1 Ipad implementation
Some great people in our "hands on" session this afternoon. #BLC12 I'm learning a lot.
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Drew Barrymore holds her baby daughter Olive close as she and her hubby Will Kopelman spend the day shopping on Sunday (February 17) in West Hollywood, Calif.
The day before, the 37-year-old actress and her beau were spotted leaving an art gallery in Beverly Hills.
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Emap's stateside stint was "disappointing, to put it mildly," said Derek Terrington, a media analyst with London's Credit Lyonnais. One American industry executive puts it slightly differently, calling Emap's American experience "the biggest disaster to happen to an acquirer of magazines in some time."
"They did try to expand in one big leap, in contrast with their former patterns of expansion into non-British markets," Mr. Terrington said.
The big leap, meanwhile, is being employed once more by Primedia Chairman-CEO Tom Rogers. The Emap deal brings some focus to Primedia's constellation of 200-plus wildly diverse, mostly niche magazine titles. Primedia significantly strengthens its position in the auto enthusiast space, adding Emap's 23 auto titles including Motor Trend and Hot Rod to its own Automobile and niche specialty division McMullen Argus' 29 titles. And to hear Mr. Rogers tell it, the acquisition allows the company to shift readers from Emap's young-reader title Teen to Primedia's older-skewing Seventeen.
But it also adds to Mr. Rogers' key challenge since becoming CEO in 1999: integrating the portfolio into some coherent whole. The company is still digesting its February acquisition of enthusiast Web site About.com.
"The market would like to see [Mr. Rogers] focus a little bit more," said Mandana Hormozi, an analyst with Lazard Freres. "I would still consider Primedia to be a hodge-podge of assets. ... The problem with Primedia is the strategy is unclear. No one knows what's core."
Mr. Rogers said the company's integration would become clearer over the next two quarters. Further focusing is expected to occur in the wake of the deal, as Mr. Rogers said Primedia plans to sell about $250 million worth of non-strategic properties to partially finance it.
In conference calls with reporters and analysts, Primedia executives said Emap's titles will post $46 million in EBITDA-earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization-for calendar year 2001 and $62 million in calendar 2002. That means Primedia paid a multiple of 11.2 times 2001 EBITDA and 8.3 times next year's. The 11.2 multiple puts it on the higher end of recent magazine transactions. Primedia is paying $505 million in cash and giving Emap about $10 million in warrants to buy Primedia stock.
Emap had sought bids in the $600 million range. Discussions with some executives familiar with the deal strongly suggest bids dropped as the sale process went on.
Emap purchased the titles from current Ziff Davis Media chairman-CEO Jim Dunning and his partners Willis Stein & Co. in early 1999 for what was considered a wildly overpriced $1.5 billion in cash and debt.
Other bidders were David Pecker's American Media, which publishes the National Enquirer and The Star, and financial player Texas Pacific Group. Mr. Pecker, whose final bid was in the $470 million-$490 million range, lost out again on a group of male-heavy enthusiast titles. He was a finalist for the Times Mirror properties won by Time Inc. for $475 million last year.
Emap's experience with Emap USA was rocky. In May the company wrote down about $770 million on the unit. For the fiscal year ending March 31, Emap USA's profits fell 25% to $39.7 million, and revenue was off 7%, falling to $360.1 million. Were it not for favorable dollar valuations, the company said, revenue would have been off an additional $28.4 million and profits off another $4.3 million. Also in May, Emap PLC's CEO Kevin Hand was ousted. Earlier this year, the company unsuccessfully sought buyers for Teen.
Unlike some American observers, Mr. Terrington saw nothing odd in Emap rewarding former Emap USA CEO Tom Moloney with the position of chief operating officer. "I think he took what we call a `hospital pass,"' chuckled Mr. Terrington. "Someone throws you the ball when you're standing in front of three heavy forwards. And they just obliterate you."


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IGNITE DESIGN LTD is one of the leading retail design agencies with offices in London (Head Office) and Beijing.
A recent design success is the newly opened retail space in Harrods for the bespoke international silversmith Grant MacDonald and their exclusive new luxury range - Silver by Aston Martin.
"Given the Silver Room is full of shiny metal products predominantly displayed on black gloss units, the challenge we faced was to create a real point of difference and make the products the hero. So firstly, we took our Inspiration from both art installations and museum displays of rare & priceless artefacts that give space and gravitas to each individual object", says Paula Dowie, Managing Partner at Ignite.
The finished environment had to "look gorgeous" says Paula. "And everything we designed had to exude quality. Secondly, it was highly important to create an environment which would enhance the very shiny gold & silver products; so we selected materials to perfectly compliment the expertly crafted products on display. A combination of depth, dimension, matt lacquered finishes, laminates and the subtle use of the iconic Aston Martin logo, together with the department's generic gold wall backdrop, all come together to present a story of traditional yet contemporary, highly exclusive craftsmanship."
"We created a Simplistic Architectural approach to presenting the products using modular cubes rather than glass shelves which creates a more unique display environment and allows merchandising versatility, says Dominic Plumb, Ignite's Creative Director.
He continues "intentionally selected subtle changes in texture and finish work with the Aston Martin ethos of quality engineering & style giving visual definition and luxury - while keeping the overall retail display as a backdrop in order to enhance the silver and gold products".
As well as creating a luxury and fluid environment, the carefully considered design allowed for manufacturing against a tight budget and deadline, whilst conforming to the new Harrods environmental guidelines.
"Our clients were delighted with our design work and detailed assistance throughout the manufacturing process," adds Paula.
For more information on retail design and in store communication, contact ignite retail today.


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A daily summary of high-profile members of several complexes.
Gold Feb Contract (GC, ETF: (GLD))
Tuesday's intraday probe above the rally's $1,283.50 per ounce target was extended overnight to also test $1,292.00 into Wednesday afternoon, next targeting $1,298.00, but meanwhile vulnerable to a correction testing $1,280.50.
Silver Mar Contract (SI, ETF: (SLV))
Extending higher after Tuesday's close fulfilled the rally's 16.65 target and rallied Wednesday morning to attack 16.80. The next higher objective in-play is 16.90, so long as 16.65 now holds pullbacks.
30-year Treasury Mar Contract (US, ETF: (TLT))
Closing Tuesday at the 151-16 buy signal wasn't decisive. But that didn't prevent Wednesday's open from gapping up to Tuesday's 151-26 high and surging through the morning to probe the 152-22 target up to 153-00. The recovery's momentum remains intact so long as pullbacks now hold 152-22 as support.
Eurodollar Mar Contract (EC, ETF: (FXE, UUP))
It was already just a formality to actually trigger the 1.1965 buy signal since the 1.1930 sell signal had failed multiple times. Wednesday's gap up to 1.1965 extended higher through the morning .
Crude Oil Feb Contract (CL, ETF: (USO, USL) (UWTI-long, DWTI-short))
Almost literally exploding higher Tuesday above the $58.65 per barrel inflection point could have been confirmed by a second consecutive higher close Wednesday, but was not. That doesn't prevent extending higher anyway to the next higher objective at 61.10, so long as pullbacks now hold 58.65. Regardless, EIA is being greeted from a position of strength
Natural Gas Jan Contract (NG, ETF: (UNG, UNL))
Tuesday's rejection of Monday night's gap up above 2.71 had dipped to fill the gap back down to Friday's 2.66 close. Wednesday's gap up spent the day fluctuating flat-to-higher around 2.71, and a second consecutive higher close Thursday would confirm a recovery underway. EIA is not being greeted from a position of weakness.


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Arabidopsis thaliana Polyclonal ABCD1 Primary Antibody für WB - ABIN334558
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a novel heterozygous mutation IVS4+2T>A (c.1393+2T>A) of the ABCD1 gene are associated with different clinical phenotypes in a family with adrenoleukodystrophy.
Expression of human ABCD1 in oligodendrocytes rescued apoptosis in the abcd1 mutant.
In X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy, lack of ABCD1 function causes increased capillary flow heterogeneity in asymptomatic hemizygotes predominantly in the white matter regions and developmental stages with the highest probability for conversion to cerebral disease.
To assist in the evaluation process, the New York Newborn Screening Program also routinely performs Sanger sequencing to determine if there are mutations in the ABCD1 gene.
ABCD1 and ABCD2 (zeige Abcd2 Antikörper) are involved in the transport of long and very long chain fatty acids (VLCFA) or their CoA-derivatives into peroxisomes with different substrate specificities, while ABCD3 (zeige ABCD3 Antikörper) is involved in the transport of branched chain acyl-CoA (zeige GNPAT Antikörper) into peroxisomes.ABCD4 is deduced to take part in the transport of vitamin B12 (zeige NDUFB3 Antikörper) from lysosomes into the cytosol.
This study showed that the mutations of were detected in SPG11 (zeige SPG11 Antikörper), ATL1 (zeige ATL1 Antikörper), NIPA1 (zeige NIPA1 Antikörper), and ABCD1 in patient with hereditary spastic paraplegia.
CCALD is the most common phenotype (64%) in our Chinese patients with X-ALD. Eight novel mutations in the ABCD1 gene identified are disease-causing mutations.
The current study demonstrates that a single splicing mutation affects the ABCD1 transcripts and the ALDP protein function.
both BCAP31 (zeige BCAP31 Antikörper) and ABCD1 were associated with hepatic cholestasis and death before 1 year. Remarkably, a patient with an isolated deletion at the 3'-end of SLC6A8 (zeige SLC6A8 Antikörper) had a similar severe phenotype as seen in BCAP31 (zeige BCAP31 Antikörper) deficiency
Exome sequencing in two brothers with distinct phenotype including congenital language disorder, growth retardation, intellectual disability and urinary and fecal incontinence, identifies missense mutations in ABCD1 and DACH2 (zeige DACH2 Antikörper).
ABCD1 and its homolog ABCD2 (zeige Abcd2 Antikörper) exist mainly as homotetramers in the peroxisomal membrane
during the active myelination phase the microsomal fatty acid elongation activity is stimulated in abcd1-deficient mice
Deletion of AMPKalpha1 (zeige PRKAA1 Antikörper) in the mixed glial cells of Abcd1-KO mice induced spontaneous mitochondrial dysfunction
Abcd2 (zeige Abcd2 Antikörper) is a strong modifier of the metabolic impairments in peritoneal macrophages of ABCD1-deficient mice
Data indicate that astrocytes from adrenoleukodystrophy protein Abcd1-/- mice respond sensitively to long-term very-long-chain fatty acids (VLCFA) treatment.
Our data support a link between oxidative stress and the deficiency of Abcd1 or Acox1 (zeige ACOX1 Antikörper) peroxisomal proteins.
Study demonstrates that oxidative damage to proteins specifically affects five key enzymes of glycolysis and TCA (Tricarboxylic acid) cycle in spinal cords of Abcd1(-) mice.
ALDP facilitates the interaction between peroxisomes and mitochondria, resulting, when ALDP is deficient in X-ALD, in increased VLCFA accumulation
Accumulation of very long-chain fatty acids does not affect mitochindrial function in Abcd1 protein deficiency.
Abcd1 and Abcd2 (zeige Abcd2 Antikörper) gene silencing sensitizes astrocytes for inflammation and may have a role in X-adrenoleukodystrophy
The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the superfamily of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters. ABC proteins transport various molecules across extra- and intra-cellular membranes. ABC genes are divided into seven distinct subfamilies (ABC1, MDR/TAP, MRP, ALD, OABP, GCN20, White). This protein is a member of the ALD subfamily, which is involved in peroxisomal import of fatty acids and/or fatty acyl-CoAs in the organelle. All known peroxisomal ABC transporters are half transporters which require a partner half transporter molecule to form a functional homodimeric or heterodimeric transporter. This peroxisomal membrane protein is likely involved in the peroxisomal transport or catabolism of very long chain fatty acids. Defects in this gene have been identified as the underlying cause of adrenoleukodystrophy, an X-chromosome recessively inherited demyelinating disorder of the nervous system.
ATP-binding cassette, sub-family D (ALD), member 1
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Pow Pow's Great Adventure
1.2 • 18 Aug 2006
3D platform game.
Developer website: Outside the Box Software, LLC
Pow Pow's Great Adventure is a 3D platformer with classic 2D gameplay. Pow Pow is thrown into a strange world with his girlfriend Mai Mei. However, it turns out Mai Mei and Pow Pow are at the opposite ends of the world. They both must traverse through various environments and defeat many enemies to meet up with each other.
While Pow Pow is the playable character, Mai Mei is no damsel in distress. Pow Pow must communicate with Mai Mei through a PDA device as they work together to leave this strange world...
What's New
Version 1.2:
- Added a Low Level of Detail Option
- Fixed bugs
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Group heads away from Cerberus; looking for the invisable dumbass (aka: Deon) We head to Charon- Dun dun dun.
LLW gives Charon a keycard, TJ gives him one of the gold trophy. LM gives him four gold coins. Charon makes a telepathic deal w/ Deon for the book.
Charon gives LLW a rock to protect and give to the Dragon Keeper.
We end up back in the city w/ the walls. YAY! (Northfields, Iowa)
Armor is repaired, LM and LLW look for an inn, juicer heads off to see the Coalition and to eat everything in sight and to fight anything.
LLW & LM go on top of the building. Liz sees the little boy. Tells LM that she needs to get him. They fly.
Liz disables the truck the boy was in, Crusher starts to fight a Coalition Juicer.
Liz drops down & opens the door to the cab, power bolts the SF. Deon pulls the second SF out.
Crusher works on destroying the building
Liz & Deon dispatch thost in the cab, head towards back. The boy isn't there. Liz finds another rock. Puts it w/ the first one & gets teleported. YAY!


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Colorado's new governor, John Hickenlooper, did not use the terms "manufacturing" or "industry" in his first State of the State address on Thursday, Jan. 13, but he started the speech by recalling how he and other investors overcame difficulties to create a successful Colorado Springs brewery. In other words, Gov. Hickenlooper began his speech by talking about using his experience in business and manufacturing to make larger points about Colorado, its economy, and the state's challenges.
Almost 20 years ago to the day, a person who knew that I loved old buildings coaxed me down 70 miles south of here to look at the only registered historical landmark in downtown Colorado Springs. It was scheduled for demolition. I bought that building from the bank, but despite previous successes in Denver and Fort Collins, I could not attract investors to save the old Cheyenne Hotel.
After almost two years of work, when the bank was on the verge of repossessing the building, our general contractor, the man – the legend – Chuck Murphy, saw another approach. He called a meeting of all the subcontractors who had bid on the project – the electrician, the plumber, the sprinkler guy, all of the others – to come listen to the same pitch I'd been giving to wealthy investors.
Despite my skepticism that small businesspeople would accept such risk, they put their money down. We raised the last $150,000 from the subcontractors. They become my partners. From that point on, everything was different. I'll never forget when the electrician came and was concerned about lighting in the bar. He suggested that we replace the deluxe fan system in our plans with an equally durable fan that also featured lights. I asked what the extra cost was going to be, and he said I'm your partner, "Why would I add an extra cost?"
That's how we built the Phantom Canyon Brewing Co.
Two other simple statements merit appreciative note:
- Our top priority must be jobs.
- Sustainable jobs are created by the private sector.
And the Democratic governor tied these principles into a call for regulatory reform, or at least regulatory reporting:
In the days ahead, I would like to see if we could look at adding a regulatory impact statement or something like a regulatory impact statement to new legislation. Just as we require a fiscal note for every new bill that estimates the costs to state government, we could also include an estimation of the cost to businesses of additional regulations.
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Toro Rosso have a good FP1 and a bad FP2 at Hungaroring
Phil Charles: "The morning session was quite good, but this did not continue into FP2..."
Jean-Eric Vergne (STR9-01): "There is some good and bad today. This morning I was quite happy with the car's behaviour but in the afternoon the balance got worse, making it difficult to drive. We need to understand why we lost performance in FP2 to get the best out of the car tomorrow but I still believe we have the potential to improve."
Daniil Kvyat (STR9-04): "It was a busy Friday as usual where we tried to get as many things done as possible. I enjoy driving this track but I wasn't too happy with the car balance in FP1, but we made a step forward during the afternoon's session. Hopefully we can make another step forward tomorrow."
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|Daniil Kvyat
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Phil Charles (Chief Race Engineer): "The morning session was quite good, but this did not continue into FP2, where we lost a little bit of balance with the car. At the end of the session, Daniil was happier with the balance, while JEV was not too pleased. There was a slight increase in track temperature which has given us a little bit of unhappiness with the car, so we need to understand the effect of the track temperature on the tyres and how we correct for that over the weekend. In terms of working through the programme, we managed to tick off most items on our relatively long test list.
But all in all we are not yet where we want to be with the car, so there is still some work to do tonight."
Ricardo Penteado (Renault Sport F1 track support leader): "Power unit wise we had no issues today and were able to put in a lot of mileage, over 600km in total over both cars. This gave us a lot of data to analyse, which we hope will contribute to an overall improvement in performance tomorrow."
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October 10, 2008
A message for people looking for the Coote Libeau website. Hang in there, our team of highly paid technicians are sacrificing their entire private lives working night and day to get the new site up. Christophe and I have tried flogging them but it seems this only makes them irritable so we will all just have to wait.
In the meantime I suggest you read some of my blog posts to keep you all out of trouble or visit any of the interesting and witty people you will discover if you click on the links to the right.
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A NAT (Network Address Translation or Network Address Translator) is the virtualization of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. NAT helps improve security and decrease the number of IP addresses an organization needs. Continue Reading
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Bikeability can give the opportunity for children to learn how to cycle safely on busy roads using the 3 levels that include learning to cycle, learning to cycle on local streets and learning to cycle at busier junctions and planning safe routes.
Bikeability is coached by a qualified bikeability instructor, this course includes 3 levels shown below:
Level 1
New riders learn to control and master their bikes in a space away from traffic such as a playground or closed car park. Trainees will usually be trained in a group of 3-12, though individual training may also be available in your area. At Level 1 you can:
prepare yourself and your bike for cycling
get on and off your bike without help
start off, pedal and stop with control
pedal along, use gears and avoid objects
look all around and behind, and control the bike
share space with pedestrians and other cyclists
Level 2
This takes place on local streets, giving trainees a real cycling experience. Trainees learn how to deal with traffic on short journeys such as cycling to school or the local shops. Trainees are usually trained in small groups – up to 6 trainees per instructor – though individual training may also be available. At Level 2 you can:
prepare for on-road cycling
start and finish an on-road journey
recognise typical hazards
let others know what you are about to do
know where to ride on the road
pass parked vehicles and side roads
Level 3
This equips trainees with skills for more challenging roads and traffic situations – busier streets, queuing traffic, complex junctions and roundabouts. It also includes planning routes for safe cycling. Level 3 training is delivered one-to-one or in groups of up to 3 so can be tailored to a trainee's individual needs, such as a route to work or school. At Level 3 you can:
prepare for a journey
understand advanced road positioning
pass queuing traffic
perceive and deal with hazards
understand driver blind spots
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- Allyg
- 4 years ago
- Wedding: October 2014
Ugh for the first time in my life I just can't stay motivated to workout. 3 months ago I had to leave my gym membership and now all the gyms in my area need a 6 month contract for child care and we're moving sometime this summer. When I was going to the gym I got really disciplined about going but now that I'm working out at home I just put it off all day. I think part of it was when I was going to the gym I had an unrealistic idea in my head of how my body was going to look and when I didn't get that result ive gotten this horrible attitude of whatever I don't care anymore.
I'm at a healthy weight and always struggled to gain shape and muscle in my butt and legs and now I've completely lost anything and just hate how my lower body looks. What are your mantras, tips for pushing ourself out of a self loathing funk and get the drive to workout out again?


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On June 5, The Telegraph reported:
Tony Hayward cashed in about a third of his holding in the company one month before a well on the Deepwater Horizon rig burst…
Mr Hayward, whose pay package is £4 million a year, then paid off the mortgage on his family's mansion in Kent…
There is no suggestion that he acted improperly or had prior knowledge that the company was to face the biggest setback in its history. …
Since he disposed of 223,288 shares on March 17 , the company's share price has fallen by 30 per cent.
However, evidence shows that BP executives were aware of the looming disaster before March 17.
According to the May 31 Bloomberg article BP Lacked Well Control Six Weeks Before Gulf Rig Disaster, E-Mails Show:
BP Plc told regulators six weeks before its well in the Gulf of Mexico exploded that workers were having trouble maintaining control, according to e-mails released yesterday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee investigating the spill.
"We are in the midst of a well control situation on MC 252 #001 and have stuck pipe, wrote [BP executive Scherie Douglas in a March 10 e-mail] referring to the subsea block, Mississippi Canyon 252, of the stricken well. We are bringing out equipment to begin operations to sever the drillpipe, plugback the well and bypass.
The e-mails shows that as early as the second week of March, BP was enlisting help from J. Connor Consulting Inc., a Houston-based firm that advises some of the world's biggest energy companies on how to respond to oil spills.


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Some cars that are made in the United States include the Chevy Corvette, Acura MDX, Toyota Highlander and the Honda Odyssey. Manufacturers build these and other cars in plants all over the country.
Built in Bowling Green, Kentucky, the Chevy Corvette ranges in price from around $54,000 to $83,000, depending on options, as of 2015. It comes with 460-horsepower V8 engine and a 7-speed automatic transmission, making it one of the fastest and most powerful cars in North America.
The Acura MDX is a crossover vehicle built in Lincoln, Alabama, It comes with a 3.5-liter, V6 engine that gets an impressive 20 miles per gallon and seats five comfortably. The MDX has a starting MSRP of around $43,000.
Although Toyota is a Japanese brand, the Highlander is made in Indiana and its powertrain in West Virginia. The Highlander is a roomy mid-sized SUV that gets around 20 miles per gallon and has a 2.7-liter, 4-cylinder engine. The highlander also comes in a hybrid version.
Built in Marysville, Ohio, the Honda Accord has a starting MSRP of around $22,000 and offers drivers a smooth, quiet ride. It comes with either a V6 or a 4-cylinder engine and is one of the most reliable cars on the road. The Accord has an estimated fuel economy of around 30 miles per gallon.


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No. 17 Baylor, West Virginia have different QBs in rematch of highest-scoring Big 12 game
WACO, Texas – There will be new quarterbacks on both sides when 17th-ranked Baylor plays West Virginia in the rematch of the Big 12's highest-scoring game ever.
Baylor, playing its Big 12 opener at home Saturday night, seems more settled at the position.
Bryce Petty has thrown for 1,001 yards with eight touchdowns and no interceptions in his first three Baylor starts.
West Virginia already has used three different starting quarterbacks in the five games since Geno Smith left for the NFL. Smith passed for 656 yards and eight touchdowns last season in the Mountaineers' 70-63 victory over Baylor in their first-ever Big 12 game.
Clint Trickett gets his second start in a row after throwing for 309 yards last week in a surprising victory over then-No. 11 Oklahoma State.


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Measure to find out how long your space is, and then divide that number in half to find the middle. Or, if you aren't in the mood for perfection, use a reference point (flooring, ceiling tiles, joints between whiteboards, etc.) Mark the middle spot with a pencil mark or a push pin or a sticker.
Find the poster that you want to place at the center of your horizontal display. If you have an odd number, it's easy (with 21 posters, the 11th poster is the middle. If you have an even number, just find the two middle (with 20 posters, find the 10th and 11th posters).
For an odd number of posters, put the middle poster smack dab in the center (on top of the middle mark). For an even number of posters, this middle point is going to be your middle gap. I like to use either push pins or sticky putty so that my initial poster placement can be checked for even spacing before I use staples.
After putting up your middle poster(s), work your way out to the left and the right by using a ruler or other spacing guide (see the cardstock I used below) to make all of the gaps even.
By doing this, you'll end up with an even empty space on the left and the right! Pain free :)
And a freebie!
Step 1: Measure your total length that you want to fill up.
For example, say you have 200 inches of space above your boards. You want to fill up that space with some posters and you want it to be evenly spaced.
200 inches is your total length
Step 2: Count how many pieces you want to put up. Let's say you have 21 posters.
Step 3: Measure the width of each poster. Let's say each poster is 8.5 inches wide.
Step 4: Multiply the number of posters by the width of each poster (I know, this is so obvious...but I've seriously been so desperate to have something fit before, that I have skipped this and felt ridiculous after). For our example, we get 178.5 inches. As long as this number (total poster space) is less than your total length, you are good to go. So far, this is nothing new!
Step 5: Subtract your total poster space from your total length. 200-178.5=21.5 This is the amount of space that can be divided between each poster. Because we have 21 posters, there are 20 spaces between them (there will be either a bit more or a bit less on each end). Each space is going to be around 1 inch.
Step 6: take a piece of cardstock and cut it to the width of each space (for our example it is 1 inch). Use this as your spacer. Start either at the left, the right, or the center. I prefer the center even if I have measured.
Math check: 8.5 inches plus 1 inch in between = 9.5 inches. 9.5 times 20=190, plus 8.5 for the last poster = 198.5. I don't know about you, but that's close enough to 200 as far as I'm concerned!
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Our Governing Body
Dr Tony Hoare
Chair of Governors
Foundation Governor
Father Andre Hart Foundation Governor
Leading Assemblies; pastoral responsibilities in school
Chair of the Ethos Committee
To provide the best possible education for all our children. To this end, the link between the Academy and the parish church is a rich and deep one which enriches both communities. I am passionate about this partnership and want to see it grow in all its variety.
Joe Littlejohn Parent Governor, Resources Committee
I have two children, my son currently attends the Academy in Year 3 and my background is in Computer Science and specifically software engineering. I graduated from Bristol University in 2003 and worked in the software industry for 14 years. As a parent governor I am keen to help WoT Academy remain a great place to be for pupils and teachers alike.
Alex Hirst Parent Governor, Resources Committee
A career in Hospitality and procurement has enabled me to have experience of dealing with people and ensuring value for money with products fit for purpose. A parent of a Year 2 pupil with a desire to ensure the fabulous teaching staff have the tools and support required to deliver for all the children. A keen rugby enthusiast and curry fan!
Jane Johnson Parent Governor
My children are 6 and 2 and the eldest is at the Academy. I have 13 years' experience in primary teaching, mainly in Early Years and KS1 and have particular interests in the maths and music parts of the curriculum. As a parent governor, I hope to work with the school to ensure the best possible education for all children.
David Mcgregor Foundation Governor, Ethos Committee
As a member of the Church of England, Diocesan Synod and Lay Canon of the Cathedral I hope to see WoT Academy as serving all members of the local community equally and sharing with them the wonders of the Christian Faith. As a retired Headteacher I have an aspiration that we provide an environment where learning can flourish and all individuals are supported to fulfil their potential.
Jude Graham Community Governor
I have lived in WOT for a number of years and my children were pupils of WOT Academy. I am now a retired primary school teacher with a particular interest in inclusion and literacy as I was a SenCo and Reading Recovery teacher.
I look forward to playing a supportive role as a community governor.
I would hope to ensure that all pupils achieve their full potential and enjoy their primary years at the school.
Mike West Foundation Governor, Standards Committee
I have taught secondary Mathematics for over 40 years, and have lived in Westbury for the last 20 years, where I am an active member of Westbury Parish Church. My 4 children are all involved either directly or indirectly in education, and I have 4 grandchildren aged 4 – 9 (none in the Westbury catchment). My other interests include rugby, history and choir singing.
Mark Hibbitt Parent Governor, Vice Chair of Resources Committee
I firmly believe in all children having access to a good education and as a local resident of Westbury-on-Trym for the last 10 years becoming a Governor at my children's school seemed like the perfect way to get involved with local community work. When I'm not working or spending time with my family I enjoy playing and watching a variety of sports including managing a local amateur football team.
Beverley Bates Community Governor, Safeguarding Governor
I have been involved in Education most of my working life; teaching in secondary, primary, state and private schools. After remaining at home with my two children I worked with my husband in our own company, based in Westbury on Trym, as Finance Director and Company Secretary. The last years of my teaching career were spent at Westbury on Trym C of E Academy and I am now enjoying the opportunity to use my experience in this new role as a Governor.
Clare Warbis Staff Governor, Ethos Committee, Online Safety Lead, IT committee, Marketing Group
Clare is a Registered Nurse who specializes in Telephone Triage for Out of Hours. She also works part time at the Academy as a Communications Officer and SEND admin. Clare has three children, all of whom attended Westbury On Trym. Clare is passionate about the school community and has been involved at Westbury for many years.
Matt Baker Parent Governor
One of my sons currently attends the Academy and the other will hopefully start in a few years. I have worked in education in varying capacities for the last 16 years and am currently employed as an Educational Psychologist by a Local Authority. I applied to become a Parent Governor as I feel I am well placed to support those in the Academy community on their journey towards excellence'.
I have two daughters at Westbury on Trym Academy. I became a parent governor in September 2016 and hope to help make the school as enjoyable and successful as possible for all pupils. My background is as an actuary and so I have a particular interest in mathematics and helping the staff and Governors with understanding and interpreting data.
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Contacting the Governors
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Although everyone may read the emails sent to the address, only governors are able to post a reply on the message board. All emails will be acknowledged and discussed at the next FGB, after which a reply will be posted.


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Turbo & Superchargers
VAG 1.8T Turbo upgrades and turbo kits
TSR 1.8T turbo upgrades stock location
......The first stage in the world of turbocharger upgrades is a hybrid replacement turbo. These are designed to be fitted to the standard location and can be fitted without the need to change any other hardware components, this saves the large costs of manifold changes and also allows the use of already upgraded components such as high flow downpipes. TSR offer both a hybrid k03 turbo and a hybrid k04 turbo depending on which is fitted to your vehicle.
The TSR K03 hybrid
This turbo when fitted with other modifications,
Turbo back exhaust system
High flow air filter
Front mount intercooler kit
Larger injectors
3" MAF housing
Ecu remap
Is capable of giving a reliable 260-290bhp.
The TSR K04 hybrid
This turbo is a direct fit to all of the 210/225bhp 1.8t engines. When fitted in conjunction with a remap power around 300bhp can be achieved.
TSR Garrett Turbo kits for 1.8T
TSR 350 Kit
This kit utilizes the ultra reliable garrett GT28 base turbo which is then modified to our own exacting specification the end product is a custom hybrid GT2971R unit. This turbo gives a nice early spool up and holds boost high up the rev range. The turbo is bolted to our own TSR stainless steel tubular manifold which has gone through a long and rigorous test process to get optimum primary length and collecter efficiency. This kit along with TSR custom software will make 350bhp.
The base kit includes,
TSR Garrett GT29 hybrid turbo
TSR stainless steel tubular manifold
TSR 3" downpipe
TSR custom boost hoses
TSR custom intake pipework
Braided oil and water feed and return lines
This kit is designed to fit the 210/225bhp engines (however they can be altered to fit any 1.8T engine
vehicle please call for details).
Performance software is also required for this upgrade.
Cost £3600
Additional hardware required
High flow fuel injectors
High flow fuel pump
4 bar pressure regulator
Front mount intercooler kit
High flow sport cats
Sport exhaust system
Optional hardware upgrades
Wossner low compression forged pistons
TSR/Wossner H beam con rod set
ARP headstud kit
Vibratechnics engine mounts
Uprated clutch kit
TSR Intercoolers
Specially designed by TSR, these intercoolers can be front mounted into Golf 1, Golf 2 and Golf 3 making them ideal for 1.8T conversions. They are complete with location lugs to fit into the front subframe and have angled inlet and outlet pipes to clear the battery and other obstructions.
Turbosmart's success on drag, circuit and rally tracks has benefited its street-tuning range of products. The lessons learnt while designing and manufacturing parts to handle extreme horsepower, torque and speed requirements have translated to street technology that is not only functional and reliable but also extremely durable and versatile.
It's this technology, together with the total commitment to quality and performance, that sets Turbosmart apart from other brands.
TSR Performance supply a full range of of these high quality kits. Contact us for more information >


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This Confirmation Wall Crucifix will make a terrific gift for any young man or woman celebrating the Sacrament. The crucifix will look great on the wall of their room.
It measures 5 1/2 inches long, and is made from cherry wood. The inner portion of the crucifix is made of pewter. It features Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit. The Holy Trinity is represented in its entirety on this crucifix. God supports Jesus on the cross, with a dove flying above them. The dove represents the Holy Spirit, and that is why this would make a great Confirmation gift for a boy or a girl. This crucifix is unique and extraordinarily detailed.


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One of the main reasons to join a photography club is to challenge yourself to take better pictures. One of the best ways to improve your photographs is by sharing them with others and welcoming feedback. Please enjoy the galleries below and feel free to submit comments and or constructive feedback.
The Calvert Photography Club has an active group on Flickr, a great photo sharing website. All club members are encouraged to join the Flickr Group and post images to the group pool. Choose this gallery to see some of the latest images from the groups Flickr pool.
All images should be considered copyrighted unless otherwise specified. Inquires should be directed to the credited photographer.


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by Matthew Peckham
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the all-comics McSweeney's #13, with 3,732 pictures, clocks in at the content
equivalent of 12 copies of War and Peace.
For a complete list of what's hitting newsstands at comic shops near you, you should check the Diamond Shipping Lists or grab a copy of Previews.
If you're a creator who'd like to submit a work or body of work for review, or anyone wishing to recommend a book or series for review, drop me a line at firstname.lastname@example.com.
[Editor's Note: Here you will find the other Sequential Art columns and a popup window for Sequential Art Links.]
Of all the books I've laid eyes on over the decades, many of them remarkably old, musty, stained, browning, several worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and locked behind glass displays, leatherbound or filigreed, embossed or inlaid, I have encountered nothing quite as entrancing as the latest collection of eclecticism from the house that Dave Eggers built. The all-comics McSweeney's #13 is a visual map of an underappreciated universe, a cosmology of ideograms and geometries, a pictorial translation of the world into some nearly four-thousand images racing through 264 pages of lunatic detail, craft, consideration, and history. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the all-comics McSweeney's #13, with its 3,732 pictures, clocks in at the content equivalent of 12 copies of War and Peace.
You may recall McSweeney's #10, also known as McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, edited by Michael Chabon, released last year to a mix of critical acclaim (several of the tales made The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 short list), disdain (see, for instance, SF Weekly editor Scott Edelman's op-ed "Mammoth, Thrilling and Wrong"), and was by perhaps a third as many, simply ignored as hyperbole in disguise. Whatever your position, McSweeney's is a magazine that likes to stir controversy and get the editorial forges glowing; the result, a temporary spike in dialogue and public engagement. As long as the dialogue is courteous, this is not such a bad thing in a society dulled by such a record-breaking abundance of irrelevant, flavorless, strangely addictive consumable vapidity.
Issue #13 departs almost completely from straight prose, collecting over four-dozen contemporary artists and original or excerpted tales displaying, in a delightfully provocative package, the untold versatility of the idiom's contemporary American practitioners. To be precise, this is guest editor and comic artist Chris Ware's vision of the world, targeting the alternative/underground scene, missing too many important artists to count, yet astoundingly complete when one considers the editorial decisions of inclusion and exclusion for which the post of editor almost exclusively exists. How one rates the success (or failure) of a collection like McSweeney's #13 is thus entirely dependent on what one wants McSweeney's to be: as a historical collection, this issue fails, touching peripherally on bits of comic history, but mostly casting its net across the past several decades; as a contemporary collection of comic creators from multiple genres, it fails -- it's hooks are clearly in Ware's vision of the world -- essentially the underground/alternative scene; but as a hodge-podge of amazing, definitive, overlooked, exemplifying art, it succeeds wildly, and should be read by anyone interested in the most recent and important developments in the evolution of interstitial art.
The first thing one notices about McSweeney's #13 is that it is a beautiful book. I was at a local author's reading recently (location: an independent bookseller), and happened to have my copy along. Lying inconspicuously on a chair a few feet away, the book managed to catch the attention of the shop owner. "They just don't make them like this anymore," she said, sighing, smiling, reverently holding, then caressing the book's ornamented and cloth encased spine. I hadn't even brought along the slipcase, a breathtaking piece of Chris Ware ingenuity I'd removed to keep safe: a single piece of thick paper stock folded in half, and then in half again, so that the second fold turns up midway along the length of the book, forming a "wraparound pouch." In the pouch: two additional "mini-comics" by Ron Rege and John Porcellino, the former a terrifyingly honest visual transcription of an interview between an Israeli and an imprisoned female Palestinian would-be suicide bomber, the latter a tender, unhurried collection of poetic slivers of life realized in stark, simple black lines. Unfolding the wraparound jacket itself yields a roughly 29"x22" poster; on one side, a mass trademark assemblage of editor Chris Ware's bizarre, hilarious, boring, stimulating, annoying, (and many other mixed adjectives) comic work, adorned with beautiful golden etchings and calligraphy. On the opposing side: contributor bios, and artist Gary Panter's maze-like tribute to the history of the idiom, resembling an elaborate Aztec carving. A careful read of both can easily devour an hour, and that's just the cover.
Ware's prose introduction, like Chabon's in McSweeney's #10, is a provocative cruise missile aimed at conventional wisdom about comics. If you've paid much attention to the art industry over the past few decades, you're no stranger to the critical movements engaged in "rescuing" breakthrough sequential art from elite dustbins and dismissive, irresponsible criticism.
Comics are an art of pure composition, carefully constructed like music, but structured into a whole architecture, a page-by-page pattern, brought to life and "performed" by the reader -- a colorful piece of sheet music waiting to be read.Even more revealing is Ware's systematic deconstruction of the creative process itself:
Let's take an example: your "idea" demands a scene which starts at night... someone sitting at a table, tired, drawing. Now unless you're dealing with a character you've already developed, you realize, once you start to think about it, you don't really know how to draw the person you thought you were imagining more or less clearly all this time. How old is he? What color is his hair? (What does hair color mean, anyway?) Also, should you show all of him sitting at that table, or should you just show his face? From the front, or side? If he's tired, is he resting his head on his hand, or should he be yawning?And so on, for several more paragraphs, as Ware helps the reader realize that this sort of drawing is as complex and mysterious a process as any other form of composition. "Cartoons" may appear to be less articulate in form (with their misleadingly simple lines) than today's literary darlings (aka "the canon"), but this is simply deception, instigated in the service of the same invisible social and cultural currents that proceed to identify Borges or Joyce as literature, but Gene Wolfe or Michael Moorcock as writers that slot nicely alongside Star Wars or a collection of tie-ins to Xena: Warrior Princess.
The remainder of the book is a who's-who list of alternative/underground writers. There's Ivan Brunetti with three existentially comedic one-pagers touching on Dutch artist Piet Mondrian, musical composer Eric Satie, and philosopher Soren Kierkegaard; Robert Crumb's "The Unbearable Tediousness of Being," a collision of two utter losers (one male, one female) so completely self-absorbed and sex-obsessed that communication is impossible; a Milt Gross "review" of William Faulkner's The Wild Palms done up comic-strip style; Mark Newgarden's "The Little Nun," playing the stereotypical devotion of the religious against various sundry realities, with emphasis on strong base geometric shapes and simple lines to achieve depth perception in two-dimensions; Jim Woodring's strange hyperbolic elaborations on dreamlike sequences and extensions of improvised tangents to tangible realities; Lynda Barry's (One Hundred Demons) "Two Questions," a brutally honest look at artistic self-loathing and idiosyncratic triumph; Mark Beyer's "Amy and Jordan," where the existential meaninglessness of the scripting is offset by the abstract characterizations set against odd shapes and painstakingly detailed backgrounds; Gary Panter's "The Nightmare Studio," a sequence of abstract stream-of-consciousness imagery, where some of the author's original edits hover like ghostly impressions behind the inked finals; Charles Burns's "Black Hole," a beautiful, summery spontaneous beach-love piece with a horrific twist; Ben Katchor's excerpts from "Hotel and Farm," an edgy, scratchy art series of strips following illogic tangents and performing subtle indictments of the sterilized and concealed industrial food industry; Richard McGuire's "ctrl," a vision of the world from above, zooming in and out to perform the trick of simultaneously illustrating sequence, while relying upon it to allow the viewer to make sense of stills that often resemble photographic mysteries, i.e. objects captured on film so close or distant they appear as alien landscapes to the naked eye; and Art Spiegelman's (Maus) indictment of the 9/11 aftermath, and the exploitive American cycle of fear and consumption.
Interposed are a handful of prose pieces by luminaries like John Updike, whose motif "love breeds knowledge" outlines a history of favorite strips he grew up with, plus a beautiful hands-in-tub description of the technique, his study of it, including a few surprisingly good Updike cartoons (Updike veers slightly when he makes the comparison of pictures ("can feel perfect") to words ("mean different things to different people"). Ware himself provides a history of Rodolphe Topffer, the Swiss novelist whose nineteenth-century narrative sequence of images entitled "Obadiah Oldbuck" is a solid argument for the first comic strip ever. There's even a tribute to Charles Schulz, displaying the wavering, lightly sketched images on crumpled pieces of notepad paper he used to "doodle" out ideas for "Peanuts." Ware's "Philip Guston: A Cartoonist's Appreciation" itself slots perfectly into the theme of art ahead of its time. Guston was an abstract painter who circled back to representational art ahead of his contemporaries, and this Guston indictment of self-serving artistry is telling:
There is no such thing as non-objective art. Everything has an object. Everything has a figure. The question is, what kind?The best contributions are excerpts from previously published works. Joe Sacco's The Fixer, nominated for a 2004 Eisner Award, is probably the most important piece in the collection, another addition to Sacco's unique and genre-drafting brand of sequential journalism, a look at the relationship between a journalist and his native contact, known as a "fixer," whose job is to provide information when the heat's on (and hookers when it's not). Chester Brown's Louis Riel (also nominated for a 2004 Eisner) is the fascinating biography of Louis Riel, leader of the French-speaking resistance movement opposing the Canadian government's takeover of the Red River Settlement (now Winnipeg) in the late nineteenth century. Chris Ware himself gets multi-billing in this issue, from the cover wrap to "We'll Sleep in My Old Room," one of the most haunting stories in the collection, a complex tale of love and loss.
The book has its share of misfires. Clowe's "The Darlington Sundays" is aimless, missing the deeper subtext and subtle tenderness one feels for his characters in Ghost World, and Archer Prewitt's "Sof'Boy" is simply silly (the first, about a fly called "flitty," however, is excellent), and reminds us that creative license can be extended too far. The other significant problem is with the thematic content of most of the prose essays, which strangely counteract the artsy thrust of the book by dolling out "boy's life" nostalgia trips about growing up with pulp comics and the superhero motif. Notable offenders include Pulitzer-winning authors Michael Chabon (here using the anagram Malachi B. Cohen) and John Updike, both of whose essays taken independent of context are masterfully written, tender, and funny, but here undermine what Ware is up to rather than bolstering his cause, which is to challenge the notion that comics either are, or need be, mere vehicles for adolescent superhero power fantasies.
Another problem is that Ware's vision turns out to be fairly narrow, providing a list the erudite, often elitist publication The Comics Journal would approve of, but sidestepping such essential creators as Neil Gaiman (The Sandman), Alan Moore (From Hell), Eddie Campbell (Bacchus), Osamu Tezuka (Buddha), Craig Thompson (Blankets), Tony Millionaire (Sock Monkey), and for goodness sake, Will Eisner himself. In spite of what it accomplishes anyway, the collection misses a rare opportunity to transcend party lines within as well as without.
In the end, though, this is a book for book lovers, a tribute to literary comic art that will be embraced by the choir, but most importantly, an introduction to a side of the comic scene the unconverted (as well as many faithful) will be unfamiliar with. Contradicting a trend toward blandness in publication design, Ware's issue of McSweeney's is essential reading you'll feel as justified admiring for its stunning visual dexterity as scrutinizing for its symbolic gravity. Comics have a long road to hoe before they're moved from the grubby adolescence of the GN (graphic novel) section of chain retailers' stores to lit sections, but in the meantime, there's McSweeney's #13 to put the lie to the notion that comics, like Trix, are just for kids.
Matt Peckham lives in Nebraska and Iowa. His first book, a guide to Mike's Carey's Lucifer, will be published by Wildside Press. For more about Matt, check out mattpeckham.com
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Deana Martin, daughter of legendary Dean Martin, never forgot her father's constant advice: Know all the lyrics. Sing from your heart. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Never be late.
Martin took all the advice and ran with it, especially about being on time. She called for her scheduled interview right on the dot.
This Saturday, Aug. 10, Martin will perform her "Deana Sings Dino" show for one night at Turning Stone Resort Casino. She'll sing "That's Amore," "Volare" and more of her father's hits, and songs by Rat Pack pals Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. -- to her, Uncle Frank and Uncle Sammy.
Martin has a birthday coming up on August 19, but hasn't had much time to think about how she's celebrating. At (almost) 65, her frenzied 2013 schedule includes 280 stops, which is, she admits, insane.
"But it's because I love it," said Martin, calling from Branson, Mo., while on a quick break from the whirlwind tour. "It's a wonderful feeling to sing all these fabulous songs and make new memories. It's what I was meant to do."
Martin never had formal singing lessons, per her father's advice.
"My father said, 'You don't want singing lessons unless you want to sound like the rest of the choir,'" Martin said. "I'll tell you something -- he had that perfect, beautiful, natural voice. I don't think he understood that a lot of people didn't have it too."
Even after decades of singing her father's music, she doesn't tire of the repetition.
"The more I sing, the more I understand the songs," she said. "They take on different meanings. It's a learning process. It's a new challenge every day. It's always exciting."
After her shows, Martin tries to be as approachable as her father was to his fans.
"I hear wonderful stories about my dad from some fans, stories I had never heard growing up."
One man at a show told Martin about a time he met her father when his motorcycle broke down between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. He walked into a service station just as a limousine pulled up. He asked if he could get a ride and sure enough:
"He got in the front seat and they rolled down the partition," she said. "He looks back there and it's Dean, Frank and Sammy and they said, 'You want a beer?' They gave him a lift to Vegas.'"
Continuing Reinterpretations
Although Martin's life is saturated with the Great American Songbook, she also jams out to contemporary hits in the car or around the house.
"I love Adele, I love Maroon 5, I love Bruno Mars," she said. "I love really good music. I'll watch 'The Voice' and 'American Idol.' For me, I'm always looking for new songs."
But Martin always loves hearing her father's voice pop up in commercials and movies, like when "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" (2011) opened with "Ain't That A Kick in the Head."
"They're breaking out of a prison and all of a sudden, it's Dad's voice," Martin said. "It's a pleasant surprise."
She also loves to hear her father's music reinterpreted by younger artists, like Michael Buble. Last December, Buble told Martin over lunch at Patsy's in New York City, "People think that I go after Frank Sinatra's style, but it was really Dean."
The loss of a father and fatherly figure
Dean Martin died on Christmas Day, 1995, in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 78.
Nearly a decade later, in 2004, his daughter made friends with a man who reminded her so much of her father's style, dress and sense of humor: the late Dennis Farina, who recently died on July 22, at age 69.
"They were so similar." she said. "He was a dear, dear friend of mine. He was a great actor. He was funny. He was a good guy and family man. I just adore him. He will be truly, truly missed. Forever."
Martin's Facebook page flooded with photos with Farina, calling him one of the coolest men she had ever known. She also attended Farina's funeral in Chicago.
"I tell you, it was tough to get through but it was beautifully done," she said. "Oh my gosh, it was just overwhelming for everyone. The person who played 'Taps' could hardly get through it. It was a huge hole in my heart."
From pages of her book to the big screen
Martin's 2004 book, "Memories Are Made Of This, Dean Martin Through His Daughter's Eyes," is being made into a movie, directed by Joe Mantegna, who played Dean in the HBO movie "The Rat Pack," and written by actor/writer Bonnie Hunt.
Jennifer Love Hewitt will play Deana "because I'm too old to play me," Martin joked. "Plus, you know, she looks like me."
Martin inadvertently cast Hewitt in the role while discussing the movie at a show in New York City.
"I was actually telling the audience I'd love for Jennifer Love Hewitt to play me," she said. "All of a sudden I heard, 'OK, I'll do it.' They turned the lights up and it was Jennifer sitting there with her mom. I had no idea she was there."
The role of Deana's father is still up in the air, although she's mentioned in various interviews she'd like to see Johnny Depp in the role.
Announcements for the movie's production date back to 2011, but timing doesn't matter to Martin as much as properly telling her father's story.
"I have to tell you, things go glacially slow in Hollywood. I want to make it exactly right."
"Deana Sings Dino: Honoring Her Father, the King of Cool, Dean Martin"
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When: August 10 at 8 p.m.
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A Management Trainer & Business Coach on AGILITY, CHANGE MANAGEMENT,CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT, PRODUCTIVITY from KOLKATA.
Monday, December 29, 2008
"Capturing The People Advantege" By Booz&Co
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Corporate Sustanability And Adaptablity In The Changing Business Envoirnment
Management Matrix And It's Measurement.
Management Matrix have an operating model (not just a collection of people), which allows you to scale better, ie economies of scales in production, sales, and in optimization.
Management Matrix understand the key drivers of output in your operating model in production ,sales, materials management.
Management Matrix are consistently managing the unit to your operating model.
Management Matrix have a set of early warning signs (your key drivers) that you can focus more attention on when they get below certain thresholds (i.e., it helps you to know where to spend your time).
Management Matrix have a set of measures that you can benchmark against other companies to understand where you have opportunities to move to best practices, and
Management Matrix know when you need to add staff or other resources well before you get caught short.
It is an approach in measuring the effectiveness of the business operation.
Metric driven management can and should be applied in every functional unit in an expansion stage company, from product development activities (e.g., project management, bug fix reports, usability testing) to marketing (lead generation ROI, website path analysis, shopping cart abandonment, number of daily quality leads) to sales (e.g., movement through the sales funnel, salesperson activity analysis) to customer service (response time, close rates, close times, etc.) to overall customer satisfaction measured both qualitatively (surveys, interviews, etc.) and quantitatively (usage reports, retention rates, etc.).
The key to getting the right metrics program in place is to eventually understand the minimum number of measure that give you an accurate understanding of the state of your company.
In different situations and in the transformation time Matrix Management helps an organization.
Many (most of the organizations) very early stage companies can get by without metrics-based management, as there are very few people in the organization, the processes you have are quite simple, and you can manage staff a lot easier. But as soon as you start getting any measurable number of users/customers, metrics-based management starts becoming useful, and as you grow more metrics become difficult to live without.
There is no sense building systematic operating models and a set of metrics if you are not going to manage to them. I have met many intuitive managers who don't get (or don't want to get) this approach. If you don't believe in the approach, shoot me a note or comment to this post. If you don't completely get the approach, hire someone to work for you who does (I have done this multiple times at my portfolio companies).IT comes in to operation it enhances the efficiency of an organization.
Once you lock into a set of metrics (it will take some time to determine the best most simple metrics), you should try to use the same metrics over time. I am amazed when I go into certain board meetings and see a different set of metrics each quarter…sometimes managers feel the need to present the metrics that show off the accomplishments of the company…I would rather see the metrics that show the improvement opportunities for the company…this is where the real upside is!
Many consulting companies are there who are operating in the matrix plans and operate accordingly.
Here is an example of Wipro Infotech
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Business Process Reengineering
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Benchmarking And It's Utilities In The Modern Management World.
Bench Marking and its Importance in Corporate Strategy.
What company sets the standards in your industry, and what can you learn from them? Many executive teams sit around the conference table, beginning the budgeting process for the fiscal year and comparing their performance from year to year. That is a good start--but it is not enough in today's economy.
It is necessary to look at internal, as well as external, standards. The ultimate goal of benchmarking is to utilize actual peer operating results to improve the performance of all business processes, including production, purchasing and customer service.
Research demonstrates that performance in these areas can be improved by 18 percent through benchmarking, according to the Trendsetter Barometer, a quarterly survey of CEOs sponsored by Pricewaterhouse Coopers. These are not just speculative questions--the answers form the foundation upon which you can build a benchmarking strategy for your enterprise.
An executive team that reduced the cost per full-time equivalent employee from $37,000 to $34,750 might be pleased, but not as happy as it might be. If it had compared the company's costs to industry standards, it might have discovered that the average cost per full-time equivalent employee in its field was $32,000.
Finding the relevant data--for the purpose of comparison and contrast--is the first step in benchmarking. Potential resources include trade groups, federal or state governments and even benchmarking Web sites. For example, AMMBIT (Advanced Middle-Market Business Intelligence Tool) is a benchmarking tool developed by PricewaterhouseCoopers. This interactive tool provides private companies access to aggregated high-quality and hard-to-find operational and financial performance evaluation data on more than 3,500
Once you have the data source, you must determine which metrics are most important for your business. These might include activity ratios like receivable turnover, days sales outstanding (DSO), gross margins, income from operations as a percent of sales or net income as a percent of sales.
You should use a number of small metrics--from three to five--at any given time. Using too many metrics might make the process overwhelming. When first starting the process, in fact, you may want to use just one metric.
For example, a retailer named, XYZ Corp. decides to examine its metric of DSO to assist XYZ's finance team in determining the efficiency of its overall credit policy. This is calculated by dividing sales by average and sales per day by dividing that result into 365 days. If XYZ's DSO is 62 days in the current year and is down from 65 the previous year, it might think the company is doing well. However, if XYZ's CFO discovered through benchmarking that the leading companies in her industry had DSOs of 45, she would know that some improvement was needed.
This difference is commonly called the "performance gap." There will be reasons why your company is performing well below the standards set by the leaders in your field. To narrow this gap for DSO, you should look at the key areas of receivable and collection, credit approval and invoicing:
* Receivables Management. Make sure the executive in charge of accounts receivable is utilizing industry best practices, like linking sales compensation to cash collected, not sales invoiced. He should also review payment terms when negotiating with new customers, and set goals to improve billing accuracy and timeliness.
* Collection. Ensure that your sales representatives are involved in the collection process. They should stay on top of past-due accounts.
* Credit Approval. Conduct credit review on existing customers, as well as new customers. The credit department should not only ask for references, but check them.
* Invoicing. Mail invoices promptly. The invoices should clearly show payment terms and specify penalties for late payment. Problems should be addressed quickly, ensuring that the same errors are not repeated.
A $50 million distributor with a DSO of 62 would have about $8.5 million in receivables in accounts. Each one-day reduction in the DSO generates an additional $137,000 in cash flow. What's more, improving the DSO by 10 days will produce an added $1.4 million in cash flow, which creates an additional revenue stream to pay outstanding debts or purchase newer productivity-enhancing equipment or software.
Benchmarking is not a one-time project. Once you have succeeded with one metric and improved your company's performance, you can benchmark other metrics. Because this is a perpetual process to gauge strengths and weaknesses, benchmarking will cultivate the implementation of industry best practices. This will reduce any other performance gaps your company may have and help you lead the field.
It is not only in case of financial analyses but Bench marking can also be used in there functional areas like Human Resource , Production, Materials Management, Sales and Marketing.
If you talk about HR , it is the quality of human capital working with particular firm, the capacity of he firm t retain the human capital, what value addition in can do to the human capital in turn what value addition the employee can do the the organisation.
Production out put can be compared between the firms in the same industry , to what extent the out out can be increased , what technology/operation practice can be introduced to enhance the production capacity to remain competitive in the industry.
In the technology front what latest technology can be applied and what amount to R&D expenditure must be incurred to remain updated with the current competition.
In the age of globalisation when a firm have to compete in the global marketplace the benchmarking has become a very handy strategic tool in the hand of the management professionals.
Benchmarking is always used to make the restructuring and re engineering in the industry.
Best Practice and Bench Marking is the all time and a continuous process in the strategy mapping process.Proactive professional management always use this these tools to over come any shortfall in the short fall in the outcome and use this as a trouble shooting tool.
Corporate Social Responsiblity:A Predominat Role To Play In Tomorrows Corporate World
Corporate social respsbility is coming up in all the frontiers of modern corpoarte world.It's just the tip of the Iceberg, CSR has really changed the thought process of the business organizations. CSR is also about enpowing the poor with the light of education ,good health has become a mandatory factor in present polarized world ie Human Capital Index. We are at the cross road of Capitalism and socialistic economy, it is ultimately the people who are going to benifit in turn the human race will benifit. Distribution of wealth is not so easy, empowering the poor is not so easy, and it is easier said than done. As we alwayes say it the 80/20 rule which prevails in creation of wealth and sharing of wealthBut obviously there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Bill Gates and Melinda Gates Foundation is doing a phenomenal job in eradicating the poverty and certain disease from he face of this world.
NACO is getting a sizable amount of funding from the Gates foundation.This is a foundation with specific mission and very focused approach for solving some major problems with HIV/AIDs, malaria specially o he sub Saharan Africa and the 3rd wold countries,mainly to the poorest region of the world affected by extreme poverty. India
The assistance is given to this foundation by thousand of NGO's who are working
actively , the uniqueness of this foundation it s the world's most diversified fund
doing philanthropic job.
In the last world economic forum Gates illustrated how global leaders are creating new markets and providing expanded access to existing ones -- tapping into a new kind of "Creative Capitalism" -- to improve lives.
As we are in the cross road of capitalism all the profit making organizations must return a certain amount of profits back to the society from where it's making the profit.
It's the moral responsibility of all the corporate citizen to repay the dividend back from where it's making money
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Change Mangement
It is a continuous process and must continue to go on provided it has to get going smoothly in the hyper competitive today's global business environment.
On the contrary the resistance to change is an inevitable part during the change management process sometimes and quite often a very very painful process.
Resistance to change is very common disease and a phenomenon organisation have.It is the duty of the top management to carefully introspect and analyze the business environment and surroundings and then come to a conclusion what type of change an organisation requires .
In an global economic situation when the world has become increasingly small the change management is very much required.
In early 1990s Late Dr Micheal Hammer wrote " Business Process Reengineering" in short we call BPR.
To talk very carefully we mean all business activities are nothing but systematic process to achieve business goals, the emphasis of process has been taken from Late Adam Smith the great Scottish Economist and philosopher on his doctrine of " Division Of Labour".Process leads to enhancement of skill sets and a bunch of skill sets that requires upgrading.
Process management with effectiveness is an important part in managing successfully today's complex business.
The main question which lies in the resistance to change which is an obstacle to the effective change management and the capacity of the adaptability an organisation has.
Employees shy away from the change process because the consultants or Top management are not in a process to make the internal customers to understand about the benefits they will reap if change management in is used.
In today's knowledge bases economy every employer must create an organisation which will create value to its internal customers, and it can only be possible if it is a learning organisation.It's an expensive proposition to make a thriving learning organisation as involves money training and patients.
Whether the change is large or small, the ability to manage it is a critical component of high performance. Organizations must prepare for coming both external and internal changes, manage the complex organizational and workforce transition to the desired end state.
Top management must help them operate successfully once a business and transformation process to realize the greatest leverage from their business improvement efforts.
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