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Youth conferences around the world build testimonies and friendships.
When Eric Uptain, 17, of the Spokane Washington East Stake heard about an 11-stake youth conference in his area, he decided he needed to be there. He says, "I was scheduled to work that week. I had to go through a lot to arrange to be there, but it was important to me to go."
Youth conferences have long been a way for young Latter-day Saints to strengthen testimonies and meet others who believe in the same principles and standards. President Thomas S. Monson, in particular, has encouraged such events. He says, "Give them memories to carry into eternity, and your name will be called blessed by the Lord" (in "Mutually Beneficial," Liahona, Aug. 2010, 32).
Devan Fillmore, 16, of the Spokane Washington West Stake explains: "I'm glad we have them so that we can see people who are living the gospel. We can see that they are happy and having a good time, and we can see that we can have that, too."
Here are reports on several youth conferences that took place around the Church.
Africa West Area Youth Conference: "A Mighty Change"
Submitted by Sisters Pamela J. Page and Linda J. Petersen, missionaries in the Africa West Area
Young men and young women from the Africa West Area celebrated the 180th anniversary of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon last August. The event was held simultaneously in 20 venues across Africa and included over 11,000 youth from 27 stakes and 32 districts from the seven nations of the Africa West Area: Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. It was performed for an audience of more than 30,000. Hundreds of yards of cloth were cut, labeled, and packaged for delivery to outlying stakes and districts. Provided with basic patterns, drawings, and construction ideas, each area created the scenery, costuming, and special effects to stage reenactments of Book of Mormon scenes. Casts ranged in size from 40 to 1,700 participants.
Many found themselves feeling a kinship with the stories they portrayed on stage. Samuel Bagbansoro, 14, of the Abeokuta Nigeria District said, "I acted as one of the guards to the wicked King Noah. The scene with the prophet Abinadi made a great impression on my heart. I know now that whoever is filled with the Spirit of God cannot be subdued by men."
As practices progressed and the final performances were held, young men and young women found themselves internalizing their respective roles. "Playing the part of Sariah made me seriously ponder on my role when I will be a mother and how I will be able to have the strength," Chidinma Ijeomah said.
Standing atop the tower erected for the Accra production, Calvin Sowah of the Ghana Accra Adenta Stake, took on the role of King Benjamin. During a television news interview following the production, Calvin shared his perspective on the need for humble leadership in government based upon principles of righteousness. He said, "I realize that most leaders in the world today are proud. I believe that if, as King Benjamin, we will make Jesus Christ the cornerstone of our leadership, we will be good leaders."
Ogden Dance Festival: "Youth Spectacular—Arise"
Submitted by Jerry Nelson
After 18 months of preparation, including writing, choreography, and making costumes for 3,500 youth from 31 stakes around Ogden, Utah, the production Arise: Youth Spectacular was performed for over 45,000 people on three different evenings at a football stadium.
Aleisha Keller, 14, of the Ogden Utah Weber Heights Stake explains, "Three councils, each including 10 stakes, presented a 20-minute dance and musical program. Our stake represented youth from Scotland dancing to live bagpipe music, and the whole group also sang three songs, including 'Called to Serve,' when each of us held up our own copy of the Book of Mormon.
"But my favorite part of the youth spectacular," she says, "was the last song, 'Arise!' Some of the words are: 'Arise, shine forth! Be a light unto the world!' It made me feel wonderful inside that we can all work together to be a standard to everyone we associate with."
In addition to being an evening of uplifting music, the dance festival changed the lives of those involved. Matt Sakurada, 18, of the Roy Utah North Stake says: "There were lots of missionaries participating. That meant a lot to me because my brother is serving, and it felt as if he were there. This Arise program helped me to realize that I should go on a mission, too."
The pageant also touched the hearts of those who saw the production. Jolette Neeley, 20, of the Ogden Utah YSA First Stake says, "When I went to work on Monday following the performance, I ended up talking to one of my coworkers. She had been invited to the performance and pointed out that she had seen me singing and told me how much she had enjoyed it. We continued talking, and I learned that she had not been to church for some time. I was grateful for the opportunity I had to share my testimony with her and gave her the Book of Mormon that I had from the performance. I can testify that our program really did touch lives and planted seeds."
North America Northwest Area Youth Conference: "Be Strong and of a Good Courage"
Excitement built as word of the multistake youth conference spread. Levi Jeppson, 16, of the Lewiston Idaho Stake says, "I was really stoked, because there would be a total of 11 stakes and 1,600 kids. When we all gathered together, it was astounding. I don't think I have ever been with that many LDS kids at the same time."
The North America Northwest Area youth conference reflected the theme found in Joshua 1:9: "Be strong and of a good courage." Two days of activities, service projects, music, and inspiring messages helped teens realize that they are not alone in living clean lives and building strong testimonies.
When they came together in Spokane, Washington, enthusiasm abounded as young men and young women from the area met, made friends, worked together, sang together, and enjoyed the spirit of unity and kindness toward each other. Katelyn Ferraro, 16, of the Colville Washington Stake says, "We found we could do fun things together but be serious and spiritual as well. It makes me happy to have such a blessing in our lives and that we can make new friends."
One of the highlights of the conference was a musical program. Then Elder Whitney L. Clayton of the Seventy spoke. "We don't need to fear the future if we live the way we should," he said. "The promise to Joshua is as true today as it was in ancient times. Positive consequences follow good decisions as surely as night follows day."
Hillary Lake, 18, of the Spokane Washington Valley Stake describes the effect of youth conferences. She says, "Being with others who have a light in their eyes gives me incredible hope for the future and makes me want to be a better person."
Colorado Springs North Stake Dance Festival
One of my favorite stories is when Nephi is asked to build a ship so his family can cross the sea. Although Nephi had complete faith, his brothers had a hard time believing this was possible; however, when it was finished, he and his family received the blessings of living in the promised land. I thought of this story when more than 350 youth in the Colorado Springs North Stake were asked to participate in a dance festival last May.
There were weekly rehearsals split into three age groups, each performing a different set of dances. "The most difficult thing for me to learn was the Tininkling [a traditional dance from the Philippines] because of the poles," says Brendyn Baker, a 13-year-old deacon in the Palmer Divide Ward. Emery Reid, a Beehive, adds, "The hardest thing about the dance festival was getting down the beat and memorizing the steps."
We persevered and kept practicing and preparing. "When it was frustrating, the thought of how it would be when it was all done kept me going," says Samantha Hacker, a Beehive in the Briargate Ward. Others had to sacrifice time and school functions to attend weekly practices. Corinne Bullock of the Gleneagle Ward was working a lot, "so sometimes I had to come straight from work," she says. David Skalla, a teacher in the Palmer Divide Ward, had to skip a swim meet for the long dress rehearsal.
Nearly 4,000 people attended the three performances given at a local high school on two evenings in May. When the lights dimmed and the crowd hushed, excitement began to build as we realized the fulfillment of the blessing of unity that our stake president promised when we began preparing for the festival.
Just as Nephi and his family received blessings after the ship was constructed, we feel the blessings received from being in the dance festival. Austin Bradley, a teacher in the Monument Ward, speaks for many. He says, "I made a lot of friendships at the dance festival, and it's a lot easier to be at stake dances now because I know a lot of people."


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I already talked about the personal stuff in the last post. So, what did I play this year?
Winter (is coming…yeah, it's old now)
I was still very into WoW at this point. I rejoined a raid team for Throne of Thunder (a decision that, in retrospect, was probably foolish) and did quite a bit of soloing old raid content (25m Naxx for green Druid T7, which is the best looking armor you can still get). I also really enjoyed Isle of Thunder, which is my favorite zone of the expansion. The gating was well done, the introduction of random rares for VP was great, and dat Saurok jump.
Outside of WoW, I played Dishonored, but quit it early on. I need to give it another try – the game itself was fascinating, but I 1. don't like stealth games very much and 2. always feel compelled to play the "good" side for morality-choice games, which quickly led to frustration. The world-building was excellent, though. I also played some Secret World, which was entertaining, but the hotbar combat felt too close to what I was already doing at the time. That's on my list for another look.
WoW in this season was more ToT raiding (polished off Lei Shen around June/July) and getting into pet battling. I got REALLY into pet battles for about a month, but once I had a good selection of pets at level 25 and had finished the quests, I was basically done. I mean, I get the concept of horizontal progression, but once you get more than ~50 pets, I felt I was fighting the UI more then actually having fun battling.
Other games included Borderlands 2, which was stellar, and Bioshock Infinite, which was less so. BI was visually spectacular, but the gameplay was meh and the storyline took a few too many leaps. BL2, meanwhile, hit the perfect combination of number geekery and action. I also got my son into Skylanders, which was a great time. (Though the Skylanders rubber-band system of co-op was incredibly frustrating, especially with no jumping.)
I essentially retired from WoW after ToT was over; I hadn't planned on it that way, but my wife and I a big fight over continuing to raid. She had a valid point – being as she's wheelchair-bound, asking her to keep an eye on our son while I raid is stressful. I made a few quick sojourns later to Timeless Isle (decent, but no IoT) and Proving Grounds, but that basically finished off my WoW playing.
Otherwise, this was BL2 and Indie season. Played some Gunpoint, Rogue Legacy, and Dust; also spent a few mindless days embroiled in idlegames (Cookie Clicker, Candy Box, Anti-Idle, etc) and flash games on Kongregate.
Birthday time! Since I was feely overly depressed, I threw my usual financial caution to the winds and dropped about $1000 on a new desktop PC and monitor. Of course, I then got into the Hearthstone beta and have been mainly playing that nonstop, which definitely required that power. :) This month, I picked up Skyrim for $6 and Tomb Raider for $5 during the Steam sales, so I finally have something pretty to play on my new 1440p screen. Don't really like Skyrim (blasphemy, I know) but I've been enjoying Tomb Raider so far. Apparently, I need a runny jumpy shooty stabby game at least once a year. (I had the Assassin's Creed games on my short list of games to pay full price for, but ACIII ended that trend.)
Looking ahead to 2014
Blizzard-wise, I'm eagerly anticipating the Hearthstone open beta and then release, to bring more players into the game and hopefully some non-PvP content (which I would happily pay for). This may be the first year I don't pick up a WoW expansion pack on relea….*snort* yeah, I'll still buy it Day 1, even if I'm not raiding anything. I'm very hopeful for more of a difficulty range for 1-player content that isn't just a one-off gimmick (Brawler's Guild, hey). Otherwise, I've felt zero compulsion to go back to Diablo 3 since abandoning a character in Act 2 of Inferno a few weeks after release; I'll probably put some time in with the new gameplay systems there and see if I feel Reaper of Souls is worth a purchase. Still don't own any Starcraft games. :)
I don't get excited about upcoming games anymore, really (odds are I'm waiting for a sale anyway), but if I had to pick a quick list, I'd say Transistor, Watch Dogs, Child of Light, and the further progression of Star Citizen, though I don't expect a release there until 2015.
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Getting UnstuckJanuary 17, 2005
Four tips for getting yourself out of a design jam.
Your pencils are sharpened and the page is blank. You've spent the last half hour watching cars, pouring a cup of coffee, and cleaning your keyboard without a thing to show for it. You've got designer's block, my friend.
I find myself struggling to begin my creative process from time to time, and there are some tricks I've picked up along the way that actually work quite well for me. My own tricks, mind you, which may not work for you since everyone's wired differently.
Don't look at another designer's work if at all possible.
This is counter-intuitive because some will tell you that looking for inspiration is exactly what you do want to do, but here's why it doesn't work for me. Browsing for a starting point means I'm trying to find something interesting in other people's work, and when I do I can't help but get the feeling that they've done exactly what I wanted to do. If I have a site open that I really, really like as I design, there's no getting around the end product really, really looking like the original. Sure, I've added enough unique character to create an original work, and I may be the only one ever comparing the two side-by-side, but I'll always know where the inspiration came from. If it's too close to the original, it's hard to live with the result.
A recent exchange with another designer went something like this:
"I really like what you've done here. It's like you've taken the Apple aesthetic, the clean and simple look, and extended it to include the client's brand. It doesn't look like Apple, but as a designer I can see your influences."
It was meant as a compliment of course, and infuriatingly, he was dead on the mark. The site in question looks nothing like anything Apple has ever done, and is heavily branded in the client's favour, but once you have that comparison point, you know.
Throw a whole bunch of ideas on a canvas and see what sticks.
Start cruising your favourite stock provider for fresh type and photography, play around by searching for random words completely unrelated to what you're working on, and hunt through your personal collections for any source imagery that might catch your eye. Some of the most effective work I've done comes from purposely moving into new territory, and using imagery I wouldn't have found without doing some exploring.
Plan, or improvise. Either way, do your DD.
Some may be structured and have an orderly approach to the design process, starting from paper and progressing step-by-step to pixels; others might take pre-planning documents and jump immediately to their image-editor of choice. I find that different jobs require different approaches; some of them take a few sketchbook pages before I'm ready to start thinking in pixels, others will never touch the physical page.
What's more important than a planned process, however, is the due diligence (DD) that must happen before a design begins. Gathering materials like existing branding, project objectives, content, and anything else available is essential for the design process.
I've done work where the only thing to go on has been a logo and a site name. No content, no brand guidelines, absolutely nothing but an idea and a handshake. Without fail, every time projects begin this way, the end result is a) unsatisfactory, b) expensive, and c) absolutely nothing like what I started with. The latter is most disappointing, because often I wasn't able to build the site I really wanted to since the site's goals (that weren't pre-established) prevented it.
If it's not working, throw it out.
This is probably the best tip I can give you. If you have an idea that has been stuck for a while, it's a sign. The idea isn't working, or at least it's not working in its present form; ditch it. Save it first, then start a completely fresh idea.
Once you're able to divorce yourself from your ideas to the point where you can get rid of something you were initially excited about, you'll find that sometimes it takes 2, 5, or more revisions before you get the one idea that's going to work for the job at hand.
This was a tricky one for me to learn, because there are some really great concepts that have fallen by the wayside simply because I couldn't see my way through from start to finish. But once I started getting used to the idea of just trashing something that wasn't working, I found that it became much easier to design myself out of a corner. And now that I've factored the potential for multiple revisions into my usual process, I'm finding my initial success rate of hitting the right solution the first or second try is going up nicely.
Cam C. beat me to it. Hillman Curtis' book MTIV is excellent for this kind of block.
Another thing that I use is music. Find a song that fits with what you're designing. If you're designing something conservative, throw on some Beethoven. Better yet, if you're designing something conservative, throw on some Slipknot. That should get the juices flowing and provide for some interesting results.
If I find myself stuck I switch tools. Turn the computer off. Pick up paper and scissors, crayons, pastels, watercolors, brushes. Fabric and glue. Likewise, if I am sketching and I get stuck I turn on the computer. I find it especially useful to do something with my hands. My hands are an extension of my brain, just as my eyes are. So when I actively use my hands to make something, I feel I'm using more of my brain than when I use my hands to click the mouse.
I work primarily in architecture and I have found this a useful technique no matter what type of design I am doing.
I find the best method is a cup of extremely strong coffee and a time away form the machine. Usually 4 ounces of espresso with cream and sugar, a newspaper or magazine (as a distraction) will do the trick. It used to go well with a cigarette, but that ended. Damn personal well being…
Inspiration is one of those fleeting, untangible things that comes in the most unexpected and oddest places. Don't be afraid to take the time as that's usually all it takes. Damn time constraints…
I also find it's always good to get away from the computer, usually go for a walk (with or without the accompanying iPod) or just watch some TV or read a book or just jam to some good music. There is nothing worse than designer's block, and it all too often happens.
And if I may ask, what was the inspiration to write this particular article?
Tip #1 has always worked well me, as well as Jason's suggestion. And if all else fails, go take pictures. A picture got me unstuck from a recent design block.
I think all these are great diversions. There's the tric…no matter what you choose make sure your mind is totally off the problem and into/onto something else if even for a brief period of time.
MAke the subconcious do the work ;)
Geez, I could have used this article about 3 months ago before learning these lessons the hard way. I recently wrote an article about the major lessons I learned from my own redesign. Each one of your points are dead on though Dave.
A good long run always seems to help me get my thoughts and creativity back in order.
I have been having this exact problem. I browse around for ideas and I end up with a site that I think is too much alike my inspiration. I then scrapt it and feel frustrated. From now on I am going to avoid browsing around and pick up my pencil and a pad of paper. Thanks for the great advice dave.
Dave, thank you for some insight on how to by pass those pesky blocks, and you're right about when you look at someone elses work for inspiration too. Even though your evolved vision has no distinct resemblence, you still feel "less whole" about it. Meaning you can't own it as much as you could if it had been purely inspired from your mind alone.
I'll be taking your advice!
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" I may be the only one ever comparing the two side-by-side, but I'll always know where the inspiration came from. "
I've experienced this all too much. You know, you hear designers from all over say "I could just spend hours at the garden looking for inspiration."
I'm starting to think you should put a word of caution in the main xhtml used for the csszengarden that says, "Designers, beware: if you are browsing through the csszengarden seeking inspiration, put your keyboard back together, then leave your office for a while."
Anyway, thanks for the interesting perspective Dave. It's taught me something new and different. Out of all the things to do it's "don't look at other people's designs." I think I'll try it on for size come my next design. It also makes you want to go back and redesign all the one's that you 'sort of' based your site off of someone elses. Even very small design elements like 16x16 pixel icons will haunt you. :0
Just in time. I'm in the midst of coming up with a new design for my own site and just hit a wall. time to throw it out I think.
Also, if its not working, step away from it. Go for a walk, go play some basketball, get away from the damn computer. That works for me.
My problem is: I come up with brilliant (according to my standard) ideas at the most inconvenient times. In the car, 200 miles away from my computer, during exams, on holiday, you name it. Once at my desk, I'm jammed. That blows.
As far as I'm concerned, there's only one remedy for that kind of designer's block: AIR GUITAR. Yeah baby, that always gives me a boost.
Go ahead, try it.
Peter's comment made me smile, but it is true. I've never tried the air guitar as a form of inspiration yet, but music can really have a mindfilling, idea-injecting effect.
An iPod is a must for every designer.
i tend to look for inspiration from other mediums when i'm stuck. magazines, billboards, television, movies, building architecture.
looking at other sites doesn't work too well because it seems too much like taking someone else's ideas and just reusing them.
What a timely point of view. I'm sitting here with a bad case of block and decided to see what's going on on the internets and I get this.
I also like to step away from the project and do something else, it just sucks when you're under time constraints.
Back to the drawing board.
Not looking at other designer's work is my favorite tip of those. I always feel like I've copied a site when I do that, for exactly the reasons you pointed out. It is the worst feeling.
"…do your DD"
What is DD?
And related to point four, I have heard a similar thing in regards to writing songs: if your entire song hinges on one or two extremely awesome lines, get rid of them. Don't get dependant on a snippet of billiance that does not work with the work as a whole.
I agree with Jason. Step away. If you can't step away, work on something else. Quit focusing on your block, and give yourself something else to occupy your mind.
Good writeup Dave.
DD = due diligence. Sorry, I didn't call that out well enough. Fixed.
I always follow a 'ritual' everytime I finished reading client briefs and/or got creative block: Take a walk outside my living/working place and watch everything, people, cars, signages, birds, whatever, unfolding in front of my eyes.
Inspiration come from everywhere. Good writing Dave.
Dave, the first thing I liked about your post was the comment about "cleaning your keyboard"… at one point last year, I had the entire keyboard apart (all the keys popped off, too) and the non-electrical bits drying in the sink during a particularly bad block.
I've found a lot of creative energy in the past 3-4 months, and a lot of it is due to discovering the points you've outlined. I also have found a few great books on creativity; Hillman Curtis expands wonderfully on some of the same points in his M.T.I.V. book. I've found that his suggestion of looking for themes in movies, fashion, etc. have given me a better sense of how to keep the creative process on track.
Find your ritual and break it down. The mind is at it's most creative when it has to do something it has never done before and does not know how to do it.
NOT posting in here can help as well …
Well, we just wrote a whole article about this subject (http://www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=42!)
My favorite thing is to give an idea to a friend and have him completely turn it inside out. Have someone else (or yourself) remix all the visuals. Or do a completely different version and see how two opposites might help discover a new path.
Dave (#28), the only problem with that solution is that the designer might well feel at tht point that the work has been 'tainted' (for want of a better word)by the fact that it might now have become something to do with an external influence. Pride, that ever daft and 'getting in the way' thing, might become at stake and at the end the designer might not be quite happy.
Due dilligence…I never thought I would hear that outside of my training program at work - interesting way of putting it.
Oh and that air guitar thing; definitely. Guitar fueled music is THE cure to designers block in my honest belief.
A good read though, and one I have to say that I will keep bookmarked for future reference!
What spectacular timing! I have two mockups due to the client on Monday; one looks 'bleh' and the other… well, I think I want to do something with their logo, but without being cliché. I'm stumpted.
My trouble is not getting the creative juices flowing, but focusing them. I can create plenty, just not something that suits the brief as well as I'd like.
The right post in the right moment … :) I was developing a new graphic for my website :|
It might not be the most professional answer, but when the walls close in on me and I can no longer concentrate on making any progress in my design, i'll minimize everything and play a quick round of Quake. The speed of gameplay darts up my adrenaline and ultimately, my concentration when i decide to come back to the real world and knock something out.
How many times I've had the same thing!
All to often (prn: off' - en) I've had designs that just hit a glass cieling. Ditching the idea and starting over has saved me many times.
Glad to know others do the same thing…Ifelt like I was just a poor designer!
I am not sure this will work if you are a professional web designer, but
Here is mine: Let yourself loose, believe in your own taste, design what YOU think looks great. Stopping up and always thinking what other people will like will only limit your creative thoughts.
Your last point reminded me of a book Steven King wrote called "On Writing", a non-fiction on his personal approach. One point he drove home was "Kill your darlings." There are times I focus on an idea, excited about it and therefore determined to fit it in one way or another. When I take a break, as Jason suggested, and come back, I realize that while the idea still held water, it just didn't do so within the confines of this piece. Kill your darlings.
What is 'air-guitar'?…
Playing guitar without a guitar. Long hair and over-the-top enthusiasm helps.
«Browsing for a starting point means I'm trying to find something interesting in other people's work, and when I do I can't help but get the feeling that they've done exactly what I wanted to do.»
Exactly this have happened so many times with me as well. However, the worst thing is discovering another page that looks exactly like your own, new, fresh webpage - just after you have completed and published it.
I've been designing webpages for a while, and…well - nearly all types of layout, all shapes, all color-combinations - everything - have been used somewhere, sometime before. And I was never the first one to do what first I thought was more or less unique.
A common problem I have is that I'll come up with a great idea and then forget it before I write it down. Grr….
Everyone's ideas are very interesting. I agree with most of them. Fact is that the creative process consists of accumulating all the facts you can, your training, your history, client info, everything, and then vacating so that it can percolate and something new can come forward. I don't tend to look at other people's work either, though I often suggest it to others - silly of me. I have a 90% rate of client success with my first real solid ideas though, over a history of 35 years as a designer. Even though I estimate and charge for three sets of sketches, they choose the first one almost inevitably. So, how does this happen, actually this way, and one more thing. You all may think this is a little out there, but I did a doctoral program in the study of creativity - how we enhance it and where it comes from - and in the process of that research I learned a little religious fact that surprised me - the souls in the next world are resposible for leavening this world with all the creative ideas and discoveries. It sounds really strange and out of character with everyone's ideas and I am not suggesting to be a religious fanatic. But, there is some interesting truth here. I pray. And, like magic, really, images come into my head and I sit down to work and I don't stop till I have built them - and then I look at the page or the computer screen and go - wow, whichever one of you thought of that, its really cool! And as amazing as it sounds, every time, in that idea is either the final or the seed of the finished product that the client really loves and also receives marketing or financial success. Go figure. So I have to throw that suggestion in the pot - you can even be as inventive as to have a conversation with some creative geniouses of the past and say "hey give me a fresh idea of yours, please". If anyone wants to check this out it source is from some teachings in the Baha'i Faith. Honestly though, commercially it has worked beyond all I could have imagined. Thanks for a great article to stir up all these thoughts and inspire us.
I love the strong coffee idea (#16).
One of my favorite techniques is to imagine flipping through a large book of designs. Think through how each of the aspects of your design could change… color, texture, emotion, dimensions, etc. When you find a design you like, sketch it.
On a similar note, I've always wondered why our brains can exhibit so much creativity within a 5 second dream but can't come up with a decent graphic design when the pressure is on.
Matt (#36), I have to say I prefer some Lager. Seriously. Oh yeah, and the graphic design bit; I suppose it's because creativity struggles to reign free when the pressure is on. I can write thousands upon thousands of words of babbligs for sites as well as designs, but when I really need to do that 1500 word English Coursework, My mind goes blank.
Dante, I have the same thing - but usually in the middle of the night. Indeed, all too often I'll wake up with a great idea, mutter "I'll write it down in the morning" and then go back to sleep. I've taken now to keeping a notepad and broken pencil by my bedside as a result.
Another solution I have to 'designers block' actually is to read a comedic book.
Dave, I have exactly the same experience with clients that only give me a logo and a handshake and the rest is up to me. The result is mostly the same, it takes a long way to get it right, I have a hard time to fill the content from a to z, to set up the right structure, and in the it gets expensive… And it often gets on my nerves when they pressure you because it takes too long. No wonder, you have to do more then just your job as a designer.
Once I start browsing around to find inspiration it is mostly a bad sign for me, the sign that I have a designer's block, taking a break and listen to some music mostly helps. At this stage I often have something already but I'm not pleased with the result. Dishing the whole thing is exactly what I do too ;-)
Next step I do is looking in some books and magazines. The ideas are mostly stuck in a little corner of my mind waiting to reveal itself, the end result is a certain 'eureka!' feeling.
All to often I'm hit with that same urge to look at Zeldman or Airbag, then just creating a copy.
In the end, I guess it's best to work with magazines for inspiration, not websites. I often find some of the best ideas come from those… Even the occasional book lends itself.
Now I see that air guitar thing. If there are 3-4 designers in the same creative trouble, they can form an "air band". One plays on air guitar, one on air drums, one on air piano and so on.


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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
NOTD: Ulta Love My Blackberry + Finger Paints Flecked
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oh, thats a pretty dark blue, then with the speckles (but without the matte polish) it kind of looks like a stary night sky :)ReplyDelete
Love it! I really like those blue green flakies:)ReplyDelete
LOVE LOVE ITTT!!ReplyDelete
Congrats! Love the first picture, the nail polish seems sooo shiny!ReplyDelete
Love it! I think this is the first flakie combo I like more un-matte-ified! Gorgeous.ReplyDelete
I love flecked. This is absolutely my kind of manicure! I'm actually wearing dark blue polish with flakies as I type!ReplyDelete
I love this combo!ReplyDelete
El color azul de base es precioso pero con el Finger Paint ya es increíble. Mate también me gusta pero me llama más con brillo.ReplyDelete
Wow...I removed a very similar combo just last night after four days of wear. It was also Ulta Love My Blackberry with FP Twisted. I may try your combo someday soon!ReplyDelete
This is such a beautiful combo!!! Congrats on your promotion!ReplyDelete
Wow, this is an amazing color combination! I will have to try it for myself with my bottle of Frisky and a dark purple.ReplyDelete
Why is that in Portugal there are no such colours??ReplyDelete
I'm depressed :(


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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found a long sought population of "stellar outcasts" stars tossed out of their home galaxy into the dark emptiness of intergalactic space. This is the first time stars have been found more than 300,000 light-years (three Milky Way diameters) from the nearest big galaxy.
The isolated stars dwell in the Virgo cluster of galaxies, about 60 million light-years away. The results suggest this population of "lone stars" accounts for 10 percent of the Virgo cluster's mass, or 1 trillion Sun-like stars adrift among the 2,500 galaxies in Virgo.
"Our discovery provides a new tool for studying clusters of galaxies," says Harry Ferguson of Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.
The distribution of the stars in Virgo could help astronomers probe the distribution of dark matter in the cluster. (Dark matter is an unknown type of matter that accounts for most of the mass of the universe.)
Another possible spinoff is that the stars detected, which are the brightest members of the red giant class, may serve as "standard candles" (stars that can be used for calibrating distances), providing an independent method for measuring cosmological distances to Virgo. Such measurements are key to estimating the expansion rate and age of the universe.
These results are being presented at the 189th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Toronto, Canada, by Ferguson and co-investigators Nial Tanvir (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom) and Ted von Hippel (University of Wisconsin).
Intergalactic stars have been predicted to exist as a result of galaxy interactions and mergers early in a galaxy cluster's history. These close encounters should have ripped stars out of their home galaxies and tossed them into intergalactic space, where they drift free of the gravitational influence of any single galaxy.
It was predicted that the stars should appear as a diffuse excess of light in Virgo, and there have previously been observations from ground-based telescopes that report just such an excess. "However, there are large uncertainties in the ground-based measurements, and it is not clear whether the diffuse light originates from galaxies too faint to detect individually or from a more uniform sea of stars," says Ferguson.
The accidental discovery in 1996 of planetary nebulae (stellar remnants) in Virgo, which are far removed from any galaxy, offered additional evidence that such an intergalactic population really exists.
The Hubble astronomers found the background stars by taking an exposure of a "blank" portion of sky in Virgo. The position is in the vicinity of the giant elliptical galaxy M87 in the center of Virgo, but far enough from the galaxy for the stars not to be members of M87's halo. The Virgo field was compared to the Hubble Deep Field (HDF) image which represents a region of sky devoid of any nearby galaxy cluster. With the HDF serving as the control, the astronomers counted approximately 600 sources down to 27.8 magnitude.
The stars are bright red giants stars late in their lives. Presumably there are many fainter stars perhaps as many as 10 million in the same field but are below Hubble's sensitivity.
"These stars are truly intergalactic because they are so isolated their motion is probably governed by the gravitational field of the cluster as a whole, rather than the pull of any one galaxy," says Ferguson.
The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) planned for installation on Hubble this February will be used to help understand the history of the stellar outcasts.
Comparison of heavy element abundances in the "loner" stars and in the Virgo galaxies should help to uncover whether the stars wandered off from the outskirts of galaxies that still exist, are the remnants of galaxies that were completely disrupted, or were somehow formed in the dark reaches of intergalactic space.
Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
(Phone: 410-338-4514)
Harry Ferguson
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
(Phone: 410-338-5098)


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Montpelier woman youngest to run B2B Challenge in honor of late friend
July 3, 2013, was a day Hartley Bingham will never forget. Her childhood friend and training partner, Merritt Levitan, was hit and killed by a car in Arkansas while biking across the country.
"One of my really good friends, he called me at night and told me essentially she wasn't going to make it," Hartley, who now lives in Montpelier, said.
Merritt was biking the county with classmates as a senior high school project. The young driver who hit the group was texting.
Even though Merritt was already pronounced dead, Hartley flew to Memphis, Tennessee, to say goodbye to her friend and hug her one last time.
"I was terrified going into the hospital of what I would see, and she was so peaceful and looked so at ease that it put me at ease," Hartley said.
The mothers of these girls took prenatal classes together in Boston, so you could say they were meant to be best friends. Even though Hartley, 21, moved to Vermont during middle school, the two stayed close. Before the accident they were training together -- Merritt for the bike ride, Hartley for her first half-marathon.
Hartley said Merritt loved to give back to people, so she set up a scholarship fund in her memory. Funds go toward after-school programs for at-risk Boston students.
Hartley and Merritt's family also started a campaign called Text Less, Live More, bringing awareness to the dangers of texting and driving.
Now, Hartley is the youngest Boston 2 Big Sur Challenge participant. She will run the Boston Marathon on Monday, then head to the West Coast 13 days later to complete the Big Sur International Marathon.
Both of these races require you to raise money for a cause. Hartley has raised over $20,000 for the Merritt's Way Scholarship.
"So now my senior year of college, that college I have done without my best friend, I'm doing this incredibly scary and daunting feat of running two marathons in two weeks," Hartley said.
When she crosses the final finish line, Hartley says she knows Merritt will be watching over her.
"In my mind Merritt should have been the one to do this
,. I think a lot of it will be really emotional and coming to a close, but I think it's going to be in a really healthy way, and I'm really excited," Hartley said.
To learn more about the Merritt's Way Scholarship click HERE.
To learn more about the campaign Text Less, Live More click HERE.


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The screencast below will give you a quick overview of Posterino. Enjoy!
Apple names Posterino among Best of Mac App Store 2011


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Bruce Skiles was elected to the Hospital District No. 1 board Tuesday to fill Ken Vinduska's position, and Linda Carlson and Linda Allison were re-elected to three-year terms. Carlson received 19 votes; Skiles and Allison, 18 each; and Gene Winkler, 12.
Vinduska left the board after 10 years.
For his annual operations report, CEO Jeremy Armstrong compared current business to when he began in 2006. Inpatient services have fallen by about two-thirds, but outpatient care has more than made up for the loss of inpatient revenue, he said. The shift to more outpatient care is part of the hospital's strategic plan, he said.
Chief Financial Officer Bev Reid gave the annual financial report. Inpatient and outpatient revenue were both up in 2013 compared to 2012, she said, and the hospital district had a net income of $467,000 for the year, although that includes about $700,000 of tax revenue.


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Whew! It was getting hard to breathe.
UPDATE: Via Twitter:
You could do eight posts and then go bowling. Because that would be Henry the eight and Ann Bowlin'. Don't lose your head!
You could do eight posts and then go bowling. Because that would be Henry the eight and Ann Bowlin'. Don't lose your head!
I'm sensing a "Henry" theme today.
Henry the horse.
"Henry? Henry Aldridge!"
"Coming mother."
Williamburg's favorite Henry, Patrick Henry while drinking late one night with his buddy Tommy Jefferson, are said to have started yelling "Give me liberty or give me death!" The rest of the story was that the serving wench at their favorite tavern was an early Hooters Girl who was named Liberty. Their drunken outburst was overheard and repeated all over town, but Tommy, fearing the Royal Governor's wrath, blamed it all on Patrick Henry, and thus began the American Revolution. The power of good Hooters should never to be misunderestimated.
Did he enjoy too much the tantalizing combination of caramel, peanuts and fudge? Oh Henry!
Didn't Bob Hope sing "Hank's for the mammaries?" Henry and breast blogging in one swell foop!
Well, as long as we're talking Henry's today:
Here's my contribution.
Poor Ann ( note, the Professor title is not in use on such a delicate subject ) will get the reputation for running a hard and titilating Blog, when it was always us commenters enlarging her better points. We are her Borat experience.
Ruth Anne, you're hilarious.
Henry's wife-o-meter
I only know one Heimlich maneuver joke. And it's not funny.
Ruth Anne, a genuine talent, makes it look easy.
It's not.
This little tale isn't as funny as I remembered it.
So why the hell am I linking to it?
[Insert clever "Henry the Choking Shrimp" joke here.]


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- The RGA5 is a compact, robust yet lightweight fall arrest block.
- This unit does not have an integral handle, but is fitted with an alloy swivel eye for connection to an anchorage via a karabiner.
- Due to its low weight, this device is ideal for use with certain horizontal lifelines.
- As a general-purpose fall arrest block, the RGA5 has proved its worth in the industry.
- Fitted with webbing instead of wire, this block is suited for work in and around fragile components i.e.; aircraft industry and glass lined vessels.
- The RGA5 has been updated in November 08 and now has a working length of 5 metres.


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CYDSTEPP ("Side-step") is one of the Glyphs you can find in a game of Desktop Dungeons. When used, this Glyph grants you Protection from Killing Blow. Initially locked and available only to the Warlord, it can become unlocked and available for all classes.
CYDSTEPP is cast by simply clicking it.
Each use of CYDSTEPP costs 10 Mana, except for the Wizard for whom it costs only 9 Mana, and the Berserker for whom it costs 12.
When cast, CYDSTEPP will give your hero the ability "Protection from Killing Blow" (commonly referred to as "Protection from Death", "Death Protection" and so forth, although the concept is slightly different).
This ability will remain with the hero for an unlimited amount of time. However, it will instantly dissipate the moment your character receives a hit from a monster that would otherwise kill him. When this occurs, the hero's Health will be reduced to 1 instead of 0, and he will survive the hit. This is indicated by the words "Saved from Death" floating above your hero.
If the hero receives a hit that would not reduce him to 0 or less Health, the Protection effect does not trigger and does not dissipate. It is therefore possible to receive any number of hits from a monster without losing the Protection effect as long as the hero doesn't receive a Killing Blow.
CYDSTEPP will only protect you from attacks by enemies. Other effects that drop health below 0 or otherwise kill you (such as effects from racial abilities and/or Gods) will not trigger the protection, and will NOT save you from death.
CYDSTEPP is not cumulative: You may only be protected from one Killing Blow at a time. If your hero already has the "Protection from Killing Blow" ability, a second use of CYDSTEPP will not have any effect! However it is still considered a "successful" use of the Glyph, will cost Mana, and will trigger God-related effects if any. It does not matter which source gave you "Protection from Killing Blow", be it items, Gods, or a previous casting of CYDSTEPP.
Once a previous "Protection from Killing Blow" has dissipated due to a monster's attack, CYDSTEPP may be cast as normal.
A note to remember: Triggering a Death Gaze from a Gorgon or other monster is considered a Killing Blow, and will trigger the "Protection from Killing Blow" effect accordingly.
For a new Player Profile, CYDSTEPP is not available for use. To be able to use CYDSTEPP at all, the player must unlock the Warlord class by defeating the Normal Dungeon with a Berserker.
Any game played with the Warlord will start with the CYDSTEPP Glyph on the starting tile. The Warlord needs to pick it up if he intends to use it. CYDSTEPP always appears when playing the Warlord class, regardless of any other factors.
Once the Normal Dungeon is beaten with a Warlord, CYDSTEPP becomes fully unlocked. From that point onwards, the CYDSTEPP Glyph has a chance to appear in any dungeon played, regardless of any other factors. The chance for it to appear is supposedly the same as that of other Glyphs, though this has not yet been conclusively proven.
CYDSTEPP vs. Other Sources
CYDSTEPP is not the only source in the game for acquiring "Protection from Killing Blow". Items, Gods and Racial traits may bestow the same exact effect.
Remember that you can only be protected from one Killing Blow at a time. The only way to survive two Killing Blows in a row is to acquire the effect, use it up (by surviving a Killing Blow), and then acquire it again. You will need to repeat the process for every Killing Blow you wish to survive.
The source of the effect makes no difference!
Stand-alone Use
CYDSTEPP is one of the few spells that has a serious impact on gameplay on its own - finding it in a Dungeon might dictate the rest of your game, if you choose to pick it up. This is especially true for all characters who subsist on heavy, powerful Melee combat - particularly Humans.
The general strategy involved is to cast CYDSTEPP as soon as you find it (or have the Mana for it), then replenish enough Mana to use it again (more than once, if at all possible) without actually activating it a second time. You then go fight a foe who is much tougher than you, to the point where it delivers a Killing Blow and your Protection leaves you alive at 1 Health. Proceed to cast CYDSTEPP a second time, and attack the monster again. You will remain at 1 Health, and will still be alive, after having delivered at least 2 blows to the enemy. If your Health was high enough to survive the first attack (or several), this will have increased the number of attacks you've made on the monster to 3 or more! You can continue surviving and casting CYDSTEPP over and over until you run out of Mana to cast it.
This strategy enables characters to take on very tough monsters in Melee combat. A character with a high Attack Strength can bring down monsters several level higher than himself this way.
The reason why this spell is usually used "stand-alone" like this is because it costs so much mana to use (10 for most characters), leaving little or no mana for other spells. However, it is always possible to give up the second step of the above strategy (casting the second CYDSTEPP and surviving another Killing Blow) and instead use the built-up mana for casting other spells, such as BURNDAYRAZ, APHEELSIK, etc. (see Spell Combos, below).
Spell Combos
This is a simple and extremely effective two-punch combo. CYDSTEPP is used in the regular fashion to suffer as many Killing Blows as possible while inflicting a lot of damage on the monster. 5 Mana are kept "Aside" at the end of the CYDSTEPP volley to Poison the monster with APHEELSIK.
At that point you are free to explore for Mana and Health, cast CYDSTEPP again, refill Mana again if necessary, and repeat the process on the monster until it dies.
This combo can help you kill monsters that are of a MUCH higher level than yourself. The CYDSTEPP basically nullifies those monsters' Attack Strength (they'll just drop you to 1 Health every time, even if they have Death Gaze), and APHEELSIK makes sure that only the availability of unexplored tiles determines how much damage you can inflict on any monster.
This is the basic Melee-oriented equivalent of the BURNDAYRAZ+APHEELSIK combo.
Also remember that APHEELSIK doesn't work on the Undead, and can be Resisted by monsters who possess Magic Resistance.
For a Three-Glyph-Combo, try BLUDTUPOWA.
This is, usually, not a good combination of Glyphs to have. CYDSTEPP and BURNDAYRAZ are counterparts - they are the two primary Glyphs used to damage your enemies, where Melee-style characters employ the former, and spellcasters employ the latter. There is not much benefit in using the two together, especially when other combos can be acquired.
The main reason why it's usually one-or-the-other is that they both cost a large amount of Mana to use. BURNDAYRAZ works well in combination with cheaper spells, or alone. CYDSTEPP doesn't really leave Mana for anything other than cheaper spells, and is already excellent if you have the mana to cast it more than once!
However, barring other options, it is always possible to start your attack run with a BURNDAYRAZ fireball just to give your enemy the first "push". You will need no less than 16 Mana for that to work though, so again, this is not the most favourable solution.
At first this combination looks great: You can cast CYDSTEPP more often, and need to waste fewer tiles between fights. However, remember that characters who rely on CYDSTEPP will constantly be hanging around at 1 Health, so using this combo is risky. This combo is largely mandatory for characters who have purchased the Terror Slice item.
If you have other means to get your Health back, such as lots of Potions, assistance from Gods or racial abilities, this combo is much more acceptable. In addition, this leaves one extra Glyph Slot to be used for a low-cost spell of your choice - preferably APHEELSIK. In a three-Glyph-combo, CYDSTEPP, BLUDTUPOWA and APHEELSIK can be devastating to your enemies!
These are two very simple and very common combos. The low casting cost of these two Glyphs means that either of them can be cast with the little extra Mana that always seems to hang around after casting CYDSTEPP.
Naturally, their use is very different: BYSSEPS should be cast between every blow, until you are left with just enough Mana to cast CYDSTEPP. If you can come by a little extra Maximum Mana, you can cast it for the first, second, and even third round of combat (if you can survive that long).
GETINDARE is a little different: It's a Mana saver combo. When you and your enemy reach the state where the next attack will kill both of you, instead of casting CYDSTEPP to survive this blow, cast GETINDARE. You will kill your enemy with the first strike, thus not wasting more than 3 Mana and not costing you any Health (though your Health would usually be 1 at this point...). Basically, it will save you about 7 Mana points per battle. This combo only works if you have enough Maximum Mana to cast both CYSTEPP and GETINDARE together (normally 13 Mana).
Specific Classes
Choosing a Warlord for a dungeon will always spawn the CYDSTEPP Glyph on the starting tile (see above). Warlords rely on CYDSTEPP to kill high-level enemies by surviving their deadly blows while causing as much damage as possible to the monster. This is their primary method for taking out bosses, as well.
The same method is used by pretty much any other character who picks up CYDSTEPP once it's been unlocked, though each class will add its own twist to this method.
Note that the Warlord has a special benefit that other classes do not: When his Health is below 50% of Maximum, he receives a +30% Attack Bonus. And since the Warlord spends most of his time at 1 Health (after surviving Killing Blows), this bonus is applied very often. Note that the bonus is cumulative with all other attack bonuses, so you can even double this up with BYSSEPS (see above).
The Warlord may live on CYDSTEPP, but the Rogue is its greatest champion. Due to his extremely high attack damage, the Rogue can deliver massive damage to the enemy while sustaining several Killing Blows thanks to CYDSTEPP. In addition, the Rogue already has low health, and so doesn't sacrifice much from constantly hovering around 1 Health. Combine this with the Rogue's innate ability to First-Strike his victims, and you've got a winning combination - with two Glyph slots to spare!
Similarly to the Rogue, the Berserker is built on Attack Strength and can use CYDSTEPP to deliver a lot of damage to an enemy.
The downside to this is that to the Berserker, casting CYDSTEPP costs 12 Mana. Therefore finding and using CYDSTEPP early in the dungeon is rare. In addition, Berserkers tend to follow gods who dislike the use of CYDSTEPP, making this a little trickier choice.
Fighter, Thief, Assassin
All three are primarily Melee-oriented classes who can nonetheless withstand the cost of CYDSTEPP and benefit from it. If your character development is already leaning towards spellcasting though, you may want to forgo CYDSTEPP.
Another useful Melee class, the trick here is that you only need CYDSTEPP to lower your enemy's Health to the point where Death Gaze can finish it off. This saves up on some Mana, because on average you'll be using CYDSTEPP less often than other classes, especially if your Death Gaze ability is high.
The Vampire is an excellent user of CYDSTEPP in the latter stages of a dungeon, provided enough the player has left enough blood pools to abuse CYDSTEPPing against the boss(es). Once the vampire reaches a level (or a level + item combination) that boosts it to a max hp over 100 it may attack the boss without abandon by casting, attacking, drinking from a blood pile and recasting CYDSTEPP. This may be used in lieu of or in conjunction with a mid-fight levelup and it renders most flavors of bosses harmless- especially those that rely on extremely heavy hits (Gharbad, Aequitas, Lord Gobb).
CYDSTEPP and the Gods
Several Gods in the game have various opinions about the use of CYDSTEPP - they may favour it or reject it, depending on their own particular creeds.
Glowing Guardian
As the god of Holy Warriors, Glowing Guardian respects any hero who can heroically risk his life and come out alive. For each use of the CYDSTEPP Glyph, he will reward you with +2 Piety Points. This occurs regardless of whether the character already had "Protection from Killing Blow" when the Glyph was cast.
To make things even better, for each time you actually survive a Killing Blow (I.E. trigger the effect of the spell), you will receive another Piety point. (Note that this happens regardless of whether the Protection effect came from CYDSTEPP or any other source).
This makes Glowing Guardian the veritable patron saint of CYDSTEPP.
Jehora Jeheyu
The God of Chaos, Jehora prefers his combats messy and deadly. If you try to cheat death, you will be punished.
Jehora Jeheyu will deduct -10 Piety points each time you cast CYDSTEPP. Note that it doesn't matter if you already had the "Protection from Killing Blow" effect when you did so - you will still be punished.
Note, however, that the spell is still considered successful - it will cost Mana as normal, and will give you the "Protection from Killing Blow" effect!
As with any other Glyph, Taurog will penalize you -5 Piety points every time you use CYDSTEPP. Also, his reduction of Maximum Mana means you will usually remain with too little Mana to use the Glyph anyway.
Binlor Ironshield
Binlor is also averse to the use of spells, and will inflict a penalty of -1 Piety point per each use of CYDSTEPP, as with all other Glyphs (except ENDISWAL).
Mystera Annur
When you rely on CYDSTEPP, worshipping Mystera is a big mistake. It may boost your Maximum Mana, allowing you to cast CYDSTEPP more often, but it also reduces your Attack Strength to 1 permanently, meaning that survival in Melee combat brings you virtually no benefit.
Tikki Tooki
Although Tikki Tooki does not punish you for using the CYDSTEPP glyph, he will punish you for using a death protection effect. While still preferable to dying, the -10 piety hit means that you cannot use this glyph very often.


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Long Beach Blues Festival heats up Rainbow Lagoon for Labor Day weekend
2009-07-03 · By Editor
Bobby Womack, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Mavis Staples and the Funky Meters will be among the performers at the 30th annual Long Beach Blues Festival, set to take place Saturday and Sunday, September 5 & 6 at Rainbow Lagoon Park, adjacent to the Long Beach Marina, in downtown Long Beach. Tickets for the festival go on sale on May 30, with ticket information available at http://www.jazzandblues.org.
The blues festival is the flagship event and an important revenue generator for KJAZZ 88.1 FM, the #1 full-time jazz and blues radio station, and one of only five remaining, in the country.
Young guitar master Kenny Wayne Shepherd tops the bill on Saturday, September 5 along with New Orleans' Funky Meters featuring original members Art Neville and George Porter Jr. Also appearing Saturday are Texas blues/rock guitarslinger Johnny Winter; soul singer Betty Lavette, whose recent albums for Anti- Records have received high critical marks; the Homemade Jamz Blues Band, the youngest band ever to be nominated for a Blues Music Award; and Hill Country Revue featuring Cody Dickinson and Chris Chew of the North Mississippi Allstars.
The blues festival line-up on Sunday, September 6 includes recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Bobby Womack, known for such hits as "Lookin' For a Love," "It's All Over Now," "Across 110th Street" and "That's the Way I Feel About Cha"; and Mavis Staples, long the lead voice of the Staple Singers ("Respect Yourself," "I'll Take You There") who has forged a vital solo career in recent years. Also on the Sunday bill are the Blind Boys of Alabama, purveyors of rockin' gospel since 1939; Louisiana slide-guitar wizard Sonny Landreth; four-time Blues Music Award nominee Diunna Greenleaf, from Houston; and the Andy Walo Trio, whose guitar-wielding frontman accompanied the late Junior Wells for many years.
In its three decades of existence, the Long Beach Blues Festival has become one of the nation's pre-eminent blues celebrations. As a major fundraiser for publicly supported radio station KJAZZ, the event serves not only as an annual weekend devoted to a classic American music form, but to help keep jazz and blues on the air all year long.
(Homemade Jamz Blues Band will play the Long Beach Blues Festival on Saturday. More info after the video)
Over its long history, the Long Beach Blues Festival has featured a who's who of influential blues and soul artists including Chuck Berry, Booker T, Taj Mahal, Dr. John, Little Richard, Jerry Butler, Bobby Blue Bland, Otis Rush, Etta James, Charles Wright & the 103rd Street Rhythm Band, Robert Cray, Bo Diddley, Little Milton, Otis Rush, Albert Collins, Jimmy Smith, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Joe Liggins & the Honeydrippers, Big Joe Turner, Lowell Fulson, R.L. Burnside, John Mayall, Charlie Musselwhite, Eddie Floyd, Lonnie Mack, The Blasters, Son Seals, Irma Thomas, the Allman Brothers Band and the Black Crowes.
According to co-producer Bill Silva at Bill Silva Presents, "Once again, we are thrilled to be involved in the 30th anniversary of the Long Beach Blues Festival at the Rainbow Lagoon Park. We couldn't be more pleased with the array of artists we have scheduled to appear at this gorgeous site."
Rum & Humble's Martin Fleischman adds, "It's always a privilege and a pleasure to spend Labor Day weekend with a full complement of world-renowned blues and soul artists on hand. This is our heritage and the Long Beach Blues festival has allowed us to nurture and celebrate it every year for 30 years now."
"Year in, year out, the Blues Festival has proven to be one of the largest events for Cal State Long Beach," said President F. King Alexander. "We are very pleased to be able to share the success of this two-day event with the city of Long Beach and our community."
Presale tickets become available exclusively through Ticketmaster Thursday, May 28 at the Early Bird Presale price of $39.50 per day or $70 for a weekend pass. Starting Saturday, May 30, tickets will sell at the Plan Ahead discount price of $43.50 per day or $75 for a weekend pass. Advance Price tickets will take effect once Plan Ahead tickets are gone, at $49.50 per day or $80 for a weekend pass. Plan Ahead and Advance tickets will available through Ticketmaster, at World of Strings in Long Beach and at West L.A. Music in West Los Angeles and Universal City.
In addition, the Festival offers several VIP package rates, all of which include a donation to benefit KJAZZ: The Buddy Pack (two weekend passes plus parking and beverages) for $300; and the Platinum Pass (two VIP weekend passes plus VIP parking, food and beverage) for $750. Also offered are the Backstage Pass (two backstage passes plus VIP parking, food and beverages) at $1,500 and the Ultimate Backstage Pass (two backstage weekend passes and a reserved seating area plus VIP parking, food, beverages and hotel or transportation) at $5,000.
VIP ticket packages are available directly from KJAZZ by calling (310) 478-5061 or online at http://www.jazzandblues.org/events/lbbf/2009/microsite/.
The Long Beach Blues Festival is produced by Bill Silva Presents and Rum & Humble. Executive producers are the California State University Long Beach Foundation and Global Jazz, Inc.


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Monday, November 4th, 2013
Posted by WSC Marketing; Kayla McKeil, Director of Marketing
ND Humanities Council helps bring national writers to Williston for writing workshops
WILLISTON, N.D. - Have a story to tell, but not sure where to start? Williston State College is teaming up with the North Dakota Humanities Council to connect you with two professional and accomplished North Dakota authors in two free writing workshops.
The two-part workshops are intended for writers at every stage of development, and are free and open to the public.
Debra Marquart's memoir, The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere (Counterpoint Books, 2006), was awarded 2007 PEN USA Creative Nonfiction Award. Marquart is a professor of English and the Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University. Her next book, a poetry collection titled Small Buried Things, is forthcoming from New Rivers Press in 2013.
Taylor Brorby is currently serving as Holden Village's first Writer-In-Residence. His first book, 50 Years of Memories: Holden Village And Its History, is due out in late 2014.
These hands-on workshops are designed for members of the community interested in honing their writing skills. Each event will include a discussion of the process of researching and writing, about the different approaches to writing the essay, and will include time to workshop with the authors. Participants should bring a notebook and pen/pencil.
Williston State will be hosting the first workshop on their campus in the Learning Commons Thursday, November 7th and 21st from 11am - 1pm. Any numbers of participants are welcome to attend these sessions. Lunch will be provided both days.
Books on Broadway will be hosting the second workshop on Friday, November 8th and 22nd from 6pm - 8pm at 12 West Broadway in Williston. Space is limited at this workshop and participants must register to attend.
Participants must be able to attend both sessions of whichever workshop they choose to join.
Finished stories generated during the workshops will appear on the NDHC website. The NDHC will also publish a special issue of On Second Thought magazine in the summer of 2014 that will print the best stories from the workshops.
For more information about Marquart's and Brorby's visit to Williston, contact WSC's Steve Grunenwald at 701.774.4255, or firstname.lastname@example.com. A complete schedule of their visit is available for viewing online at www.ndhumanities.org. Participants should visit the NDHC website and register as soon as possible. Space is limited.


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|HOF Class of '05
Bruce Schwager is a 1955 graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy where he was a four-year letter winner for the Mariners football team and a three-year letter winner and track & field and wrestling. Schwager was best noted for his abilities on the football field where he started three of his four seasons at fullback and both offensive and defensive lineman positions. In 1954, he was honored as the NCAA Lineman of the Week after the Mariners November 6 contest against Rochester University. At the conclusion of the 1954 season, he earned All-Long Island honors. Schwager also wrestled as a heavyweight for three years (two as a starter), in addition to throwing shot put for three years with the track & field team, while also excelling in numerous extracurricular activities.
After graduation, Schwager became the first player in Academy history to be drafted by a National Football League team, when selected by the Chicago Cardinals in 1955. He was under contract with the Cardinals from 1955-59, and later signed with the New York Times of the American Football League for the 1960 season. He also played for the Norfolk Tars while on active duty with the U.S. Navy from 1956-58.


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At the level of national politics, the American democracy is in clear crisis. Rampant gridlock and partisan bickering undermine progress and earn the mistrust and frustration of the populace. Fortunately, a better story is unfolding in many local settings.
At the level of national politics, the American democracy is in clear crisis. Rampant gridlock and partisan bickering undermine progress and earn the mistrust and frustration of the populace. Fortunately, a better story is unfolding in many local settings, where public officials and community-based leaders can make a real difference in addressing important issues like public safety, education reform and job creation.
One of the keys to solving local public problems well is the democratic art of public engagement: creating the means for residents to have a meaningful voice and role in addressing public issues.
A recent study from my organization on public engagement in California shows that both local public officials and leaders of community-based organizations are looking for new and better ways to engage their communities, because the old ones just aren't cutting it.
These older approaches, they say, too often lead to gripe sessions, are dominated by people with narrow agendas, and frequently omit large sections of the citizenry, including young people, low-income populations and immigrants. Such problems, of course, are by no means confined to California.
What's worrisome on the one hand and hopeful on the other is a cycle that I've seen throughout my career in this field: bad engagement begets bad engagement and good engagement begets good engagement.
Poorly designed public consultations -- public hearings and the like -- lower the expectations of both leaders and citizens. Public meetings that are done for formality's sake only, or worst of all that are rigged, are of course that much worse.
Even well-intentioned leaders who truly wish to partner with the public can become dejected by the vicious circle of bad engagement. As one superintendent I worked with put it, "I've experienced a lot more public enragement than engagement in my time."
Citizens, for their part, grow cynical and angry and learn nothing from poorly designed, empty-gesture or cynically rigged public participation exercises. As a consequence, the spiral of mistrust, gridlock and political dysfunction deepens.
Fortunately, many public officials and civic leaders throughout California are experimenting with more thoughtful, well-designed and inclusive forms of public engagement. Just over half of local public officials (53 percent) say they have participated in an inclusive and deliberative type of public meeting in the past year, and 43 percent of civic leaders say the same.
More and more examples of well-designed public engagement exist. One of my favorites is Participatory Budgeting, which started in Brazil and has spread to U.S. cities including New York, Chicago and Vallejo, CA. In Participatory Budgeting, residents identify community problems, develop proposals to utilize public money that is set aside for community projects, vet them with municipal agencies, present them to their community, and vote on which projects should receive funding. This voting process actually determines what happens.
Many other examples of sound, local civic engagement can be found in the writings of Matt Leighninger and at the websites of the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation, the National League of Cities, and the Center for Advances in Public Engagement at my own organization, Public Agenda.
Just as bad engagement begets bad engagement, good engagement begets good. Sound and creative practices raise expectations and build communication and trust between the public and public officials. They generate the kind of public support and public-private civic partnerships that get parks cleaned up, bridges repaired, children educated and communities strengthened.
Through well-designed engagement, public officials come to understand that citizens can play a constructive role in shaping the policies that affect their community. Some of the most satisfying moments of my career have involved watching public officials experience their first truly well-designed and deliberative round of community dialogue. They're amazed at how thoughtful and constructive people can be, given a little information, a few tools and a modicum of the right support.
The public officials and civic leaders in California and elsewhere who are embracing an ethic of civic participation and developing smart practices for fostering it are generating democratic hope. They open up possibilities for those of us who believe that our democracy can do much better.
In the words of one elderly resident following a Brooklyn community conversation with African-American, orthodox Jewish and other community members, "we should have done this years ago."
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Carl Sagan Center
How many planets exist that might support life? Indeed, what is required for life to exist? How does life start? How does it evolve, and what fabulous creatures can evolution produce? How often do intelligent creatures appear in the giant tapestry of life? It is exactly these questions that are being addressed by the scientists of the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe.
The center brings together leading researchers in astrobiology, the study of life in the universe. Astrobiology uses modern science to seek answers to the age-old questions: Where did we come from? Are We Alone?
Our team focuses on a wide set of disciplines ranging from observing and modeling the precursors of life in the depths of outer space to studies of Earth and its rich biological history. We seek to understand the concept of habitability, on our planet and elsewhere in the solar system. Many of our scientists participate as investigators in NASA space flight missions, as observers on some of the world's finest telescopes, and as explorers probing life in inhospitable environments, including the Arctic, Antarctic, high mountains and the depths of the sea. Appropriate to the sweeping scope of this research, we have many partners including NASA, the National Science Foundation, and major universities.
Carl Sagan Center Projects and the Drake Equation
Each Carl Sagan Center research project is related in some way to understanding the origins of life or the extent to which life may be present beyond Earth. The study of astrobiology is a way to understand the various factors in the Drake equation, and thus to help guide the search for extraterrestrial life.
Carl Sagan Center Funding
Sagan Center scientists generate much their own funding through outside grants, usually from NASA or the National Science Foundation. The SETI Institute's excellent management enhances the impact of this funding, and we provide a supportive and stimulating environment for scientists undertaking basic research in astrobiology.
Carl Sagan (1934 – 1996) was an American astronomer, biologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in the space and natural sciences. During his lifetime, he published more than 600 scientific papers and popular articles, and was author, co-author, or editor of more than 20 books. In his works, he advocated skeptical inquiry and the scientific method. He pioneered astrobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Sagan became world-famous for his popular science books and for the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which he narrated and co-wrote. He was a trustee of the SETI Institute and his memory remains an inspiration for everyone at the Carl Sagan Center.


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Saturday, February 24, 2007
Okay, That's It!
1. Stock or bond trader
2. Bearing Sea crabber
3. College or Pro coach or athlete
4. US Navy SEAL
5. British SAS
6. Green Beret/Special Forces operator
7. Emergency Physician/Trauma Surgeon/Pick any other specialty here
8. Fighter pilot/ Helicopter pilot in Iraq
9. Official food taster for Fidel Castro
10. Britney Spear's child
11. Hillary Clinton's personal assistant or husband
Here's one that's NOT on my list... part-time physical education substitute teacher. Yet, for one poor soul, this job was way too much.
I mean what is it with people? It's a Friday night in the ED. There are three kids screaming from IV sticks and lab draws, one dude dying in bed three from his end-stage liver disease and variceal bleeding, a guy the cops brought in who's under arrest and has just been tazed who is awaiting clearance for jail while uttering, to anyone that will get near him, ''FUCK YOU MAN!", and a family of four from Mongolia (no shit) who barely speak English with an 18 year old daughter who is either declaring herself as schizophrenic OR has meningitis OR encephalitis OR has been badly cursed by a shaman in her native land.
In between it all is the aforementioned part-time PE teacher, in tears, with a headache, allergic to compazine, reglan, DHE, and toradol, who actually looks at me (with sweat and blood on my shirt), and tells ME that her two-day a week job is way too stressful, but that her life will magically turn to fluffy white goodness if she can simply get a shot of stadol and phernegan. KING ME!
6 comments:
Good post. :)ReplyDelete
- scalpel3:41 PM, February 24, 2007
That about sums it up.ReplyDelete
Dude - don't get me started about spec ed staff. I have to deal with them as my kid has Down Syndrome. Most of them function about 1/2 step beyond the kids they are supposed to be helping. She probably does think her 12 hours a week is more stressful than your 12 hour day.ReplyDelete
(No straw man posts please - I said MOST - not ALL).
These people have the unique ability to suck your soul, and my only hope is that at some point in their lives or the hereafter they pay for these trespasses.ReplyDelete
Mongolia? I hear Ulan Batur is beautiful this time of year.
- Hallwayfour5:12 PM, March 05, 2007
Great post. I also love the 4 am sore throat or rash that comes in when the rest of the ED is about to explode with sick patients (and only one doc on) and demands to get treated NOW for their symptoms that have been bothering them for a week.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1:33 PM, March 06, 2007
There is a special place in hell for PE teachers. I can't wait to dance on the graves of every elementary school and high school PE teacher that ever graced me with distain and turned their back as the students beat each other.ReplyDelete
It will take more than that to win my sympathy...


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Back from Tribal Council, Jonathan is feeling a little betrayed, which is justified. Jeff is also realizing that he's not in the strongest position with Tangdang.
Mike councils Jonathan to not freak out, and to wait for a crack in Tangdang. And with all of Abbi's Crazy, it's going to happen sooner or later.
Lisa, Jonathan, and Abbi go fishing. In a confessional, Lisa reveals her plan to get rid of the remaining returning players, Jonathan and Mike, and then get rid of "the people no one likes," also known as Artis, Pete, and Abbi. Can't argue with her plan. Hope it works out for her. And as Jeff says, since Abbi, Pete, and Artis think they're running the game, it will be fun to pick them off.
We're wasting no time in this episode, and it's Reward Challenge time! This challenge involves swimming, digging, and, of course, a puzzle at the end. Reward is a feast of BBQ ribs, cornbread, and salad. Survivors are broken into two teams, with Malcolm, Denise, Jonathan, Lisa, and Jeff on the yellow team, with Abbi, Artis, Pete, Mike, and Carter on the blue team.
Abbi is actually competing in a challenge, go figure. The yellow team outmatches the blue team with the exception of Lisa, who falls behind on her swimming leg. Lucky for yellow, Denise is next and awesome, plus Mike totally screws up releasing his fishing trap.
The teams are almost evenly matched going into the puzzle part, which is a fairly simple eight-piece banner. Unfortunately for the blue team, Jonathan and Jeff awe awesome at it, and yellow wins.
It's sad time for the blue team back at camp eating beans and rice. Abbi is a little rude, openly talking about her alliance right in front of Mike, who is not a part of it. Pete is starting to worry about her big mouth, and also getting annoyed with her paranoia. However, because she is so unlikeable, he recognizes that she's the perfect person to take to the final two.
Things are much happier with the blue team, and the ribs do indeed look delicious. Consensus is that no one likes Abbi, Artis, and Pete. Jonathan is going to see an opening here. And he does. He points out that he may be on the chopping block, but at least he's likeable. He's going in a very non-threatening direction, and it may work for him. I'd certainly like to see him outlast Cranky, Crazy, and Sneaky (Artis, Abbi, and Pete).
Wow, Lisa has certainly turned her game on. Far cry from the lady who was crying at the beginning of the game. Now she's saying she'll stick with Tangdang because she'd do well with them at the end. She also wants to stick with Mike, and tells him about Malcolm's Immunity Idol. She's probably realized that she's going to come a distant third in a final three with Malcolm and Denise.
Everything will come down to who gets immunity, so it's Immunity Challenge time. First, there's an obstacle course, collecting puzzle pieces, and then only three people move on to the end to complete the puzzle. Pete, Jeff, and Jonathan make it, with Mike a very close fourth.
Jonathan gets out to a slow start with the puzzle, and looks like he's out of it, but he pulls from behind and manages to win Immunity. And now everybody will be sent scrambling trying to figure out who will be going home now.
And, as predicted, everyone is thrown for a loop. Abbi, Malcolm, Pete, Artis, and Lisa agree that Mike will go home now, but we just saw her tell Mike she would keep him. Jeff also concurs about sending Mike home.
And now Lisa is telling Pete about Malcolm's Immunity Idol. You know, for someone who prides themselves on trustworthiness, she's been breaking her promise to Malcolm all over the place. She's obviously made the real life/Survivor game distinction when it comes to promises, which I'm okay with, but may bite her in the butt with the other players later on.
Pete confronts Malcolm about the Immunity Idol, and Malcolm panics and lies. Everyone tells Malcolm that Jeff is the one going home, so we'll have to see. Everybody is lying their faces off at this point, so it's anybody's guess who is actually going home. And see, now Pete is lying to Lisa about selling her out to Malcolm.
Geez, the shenanigans this week are ridiculous! Now Malcolm has told Jeff about the plan to vote for him, and another group of people plan to vote for Pete. Jonathan must be loving this right now.
Tribal Council time! Malcolm calls Lisa right out on throwing him under the bus, and she totally admits to it. Abbi also admits that Mike and RC were not considered part of the tribe, but that they'll keep Malcolm because he's strong.
Lisa tells the whole tribe about Malcolm's Idol, which gets Abbi to admit that she also has hers. She claims that hers is for her whole alliance, but if you don't know who to give it to, it's not much help.
And now Jonathan is making a play for Kalabaw, along with Mike and Malcolm, to form a solid alliance. Lisa also tries to solidify an alliance, but I don't think anyone will trust her with anything at this point. I think it will probably be Pete, but we'll have to see. And despite Abbi's claim that the Idol is for her alliance, she doesn't take the opportunity to give it to Pete.
But oh, no, it's Jeff! How did that happen? We'll have to wait for the credits to see who voted for who. There was one vote for Abbi, so I'm thinking someone screwed something up. Malcolm looks shocked.
Credits: Jeff is pissed, and wanted this million more than the $60 million he made in baseball. I'm sure whoever wins will trade you. But more importantly, Artis, Mike, Pete, Abbi, and Lisa voted for Jeff, while Jonathan was the lone vote for Abbi.
Next week: Lisa remembers that she doesn't like the rest of her original Tangdang tribe after they're mean to her, so she considers changing alliances again.


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The TI MSP family of ultra-low-power microcontrollers consists of several devices featuring different sets of peripherals targeted for various applications. The architecture, combined with five low-power modes, is optimized to achieve extended battery life in portable measurement applications. The device features a powerful 16-bit RISC CPU, 16-bit registers, and constant generators that contribute to maximum code efficiency. The digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) allows the device to wake up from low-power modes to active mode in less than 1 µs.
The MSP430AFE2x3 devices are ultra-low-power mixed signal microcontrollers integrating three independent 24-bit sigma-delta ADCs, one 16-bit timer, one 16-bit hardware multiplier, USART communication interface, watchdog timer, and 11 I/O pins.
The MSP430AFE2x2 devices are identical to the MSP430AFE2x3, except that there are only two 24-bit sigma-delta ADCs integrated.
The MSP430AFE2x1 devices are identical to the MSP430AFE2x3, except that there is only one 24-bit sigma-delta ADC integrated.
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The Saint Joseph's University Honors Program seeks to produce well-educated, articulate citizens who exemplify the highest standards of academic, professional and personal achievement. The program offers an enriched General Education curriculum that broadens cultural interests, integrates knowledge, sharpens writing skills and encourages student involvement in the learning process.
The curriculum is composed of intellectually rigorous courses that satisfy both General Education and major requirements. Many Honors courses are yearlong, interdisciplinary team-taught courses in the arts, sciences, social sciences, and business.
Graduates of the Honors Program have gone on to study in world-class graduate and doctoral programs at institutions such as Harvard, Yale, and New York University, as well as secured leadership positions in corporations around the world.
Students who are admitted into the Honors Program receive many special benefits, including:
- A student-to-faculty ratio of 10:1
- Advanced registration for classes
- Dedicated Honors suites in residence halls, which allow like-minded students to live together, even as freshmen
- Opportunities to present research and creative work at national conferences and seminars
- The most up-to-date information regarding scholarship and funding opportunities for graduate and professional work
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