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Color-changing cereals and confections
A cereal or confection capable of changing color instantly upon the immersion in an aqueous medium such as milk comprising a colored ceral or confection base, and an edible opaque powder adhereing to said base in a quantity sufficient to obscure the color of the base and a water soluble non-film forming edible adhesive liquid bonding said powder to said base.
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This invention relates to cereals and confections which change color on contact with aqueous liquid such as milk. It also relates to the process to produce such cereals and confections
The presence of even a few pieces of the novel magic-like color changing cereals in accordance with the present invention either alone or mixed with ordinary cereal in a bowl, provides an opportunity to promote children's interest and appetite in the consumption of the nutritious food.
In the field of cereals and confections, visual attraction is an important factor. It is particularly so in the field of children's food such as breakfast cereal and snacks. Because of this, the cereal industry has been making a great effort to enhance the visual attraction of children's breakfast cereals. Thus, there are many children's breakfast cereals which contain various colored cereals, and cereals that contain some colored pieces, and some cereals containing various amounts of colored confections such as dried marshmallows in various shapes, etc.
This invention enhances the visual attraction of cereals and confections by providing cereals and confections which change color on contact with aqueous edible medium such as for example, cold milk, hot water, etc.
It should also be pointed out that an important objective of the present invention is to avoid the use of chemical additives which would give an impression to consumers that the color changes are due to some kind of a chemical reaction.
By way of background, it should also be pointed out that there are many ready-to-eat cereals presently available that are "frosted." These cereals involve a paint-like coating which is applied in the form of a liquid suspension of opaque edible materials, which is then dried to provide a solid film which includes the opaque edible material.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a ready-to-eat cereal or confection which instantly changes color on contact with an aqueous like such as for example, with milk, and to provide a process for producing such cereals and confections. It is an object of the present invention to achieve this result without the use of color changing chemical additives.
It is a further object of this invention to provide an instantly color-changing cereal or confection which does not affect the color of the aqueous medium such as milk when immersed in it.
These and other objects are provided by the ready-to-eat cereal or confection, and by the method of the present invention. In accordance with the present invention an already colored or non-colored cereal piece or confection base is coated with a water soluble liquid capable of causing an edible opaque powder to adhere to the cereal piece or confection base in a quantity sufficient to obscure the color of the cereal base piece. Thus, the color changing cereals or confections so prepared change colors easily, substantially instantly, on addition of cold milk, cold or hot water, etc.
In accordance with the present invention the edible opaque powdered material can include any kind of solid sugar or reducing sugar or other opaque edible powder such as starch or titan white. However, the finer the powder, the better the color covering ability seems to be. Therefore, in practice a confectioner's sugar is a most convenient opaque edible powder to be used for this invention, but any kind of sugar or reducing sugar such as dextrose, fructose, lactose, maltose, sorbitol, xylitol, maltotol, etc. and other edible opaque powders such as starch or tital white are usable. It is preferred that the water soluble opaque powder be one which is colorless when dissolved in water.
Thus, in accordance with the present invention, a cereal base such as a bite-sized ready-to-eat cereal, or a confection base, such as bite-sized pieces of marshmallow, or the like, are colored using edible food coloring to provide a base material for use in accordance with the present invention. These materials are then coated with the water dispersible non-film forming liquid such as for example glycerol, glycerol esters, polysorbates, polyglycerol esters of fatty acids, solutions of sugar in glycerol, and the like.
Thus in accordance with this invention, for example, cereals or confections having various colors may be first placed in an enrober and may be sprayed with a small amount of glycerol. The amount of glycerol may be varied, but usually 0.05 to 10.0 weight percent to the substrate is sufficient to adhere the powder to the base. The preferred amounts of adhesion liquid is between 0.1 and 8.0% by weight. The glycerol-sprayed substrate may then be placed in another enrober, for example, and enrobed with confectioner's sugar. Enrobing in this way requires sufficient rotation time to give a white colored color-changing cereal or confection. The amount of confectioner's sugar may be varied depending on the desired thickness of the powder coating, and typically between about 30% to 200% by weight of the substrate can be used to advantage.
The art of making ready-to-eat cereals is well established and known throughout the world. The ready-to-eat cereal pieces used as the base material in accordance with the present invention can be made by any of the well known methods for making ready-to-eat cereals whether they be methods involving flaking, rolling, extruding, or "shooting" grains from guns.
In accordance with the present invention, the base piece is colored by any conventional means using color solutions and the like. For example, a red color can be provided by FD&C red #3, green can be provided by fast emerald green shade, a mix of FD&C blue #1 and FD&C yellow #5, and yellow can be provided by FD&C yellow #5 powder.
Cereal pieces which have been extruded or otherwise made from doughs having the color material incorporated into the dough prior to shaping are the preferred base or substrate for use in accordance with the present invention.
Many ready-to-eat cereals produced these days involve high speed cooker-extrusion under expansion conditions.
In accordance with the preferred embodiments of the present invention, the ready-to-eat cereal base piece, for example, an expanded extruded cereal dough, is dried to a moisture level below about 10%, and is "glazed" with a solution of syrup or fat to reduce the porosity and to increase the flavor and bowl life. Such a glazing of the base piece is entirely conventional although the use of glazed pieces as the base in accordance with the present invention is a preferred aspect thereof
A water dispersible liquid is then applied to the glazed or unglazed cereal base piece, for example, by spraying a tumbling bed of the cereal base pieces in an enrober. When glazed base pieces are used, non-film forming liquid such as glycerol or glycerol solution in an amount between 0.5 and 10% can be used. Preferably from about 1% to about 3% glycerine, for example, is sufficient to carry out, and to produce a preferred cereal in accordance with, the present invention.
The glycerine coated pieces are preferably transferred to another clean and dry enrober, where they are then enrobed with an edible opaque powder such as, for example, confectioner's sugar or a mixture of colored or non-colored starch and confectioner's sugar. The powder is adhered to the individual pieces by the previously applied liquid, e.g. glycerine, and the addition of the powder is continued until there is sufficient powder adhering to the pieces to obscure or hide the color of the base piece.
After the pieces are thus powdered, they have the color of the powdery material, e.g. white when pure confectioner's sugar is applied.
Alternatively, colored powders such as colored flour-powder sugar mixtures can be employed but it is preferred that a colored cereal base be applied when a colored outer layer is desired. The use of dyes or other water soluble colorants in the water soluble edible powder will result in a change in color of the milk, and in some instances this is regarded as less desirable. A preferred colored powder, for example, is finely ground, internally colored cereal pieces used as the base, but having different colors from the base piece color.
The resulting color-changing pieces can be used enmass, or mixed sparingly in cereals having no colors or bland uninteresting natural colors. Upon mixing milk with the resulting cereal the edible powdered surface is instantly dissolved, revealing the specific colors of the individual pieces virtually instantly.
The following examples illustrate and explain the present invention but are not to be taken as limiting the present invention in any regard.
As in the examples hereinafter, all parts are in parts by weight, all percents are in percents by weight, based on the weight of the material being referred to, and all temperatures are expressed in degrees fahrenheit.
50.00 parts of red colored cereal pieces commercially available as Cap'n Crunch Crunchberries(.TM. The Quaker Oats Company) cereal was placed in an enrober having a barrel 14" in diameter and 6" depth tilted at about 45 degree angle. The red colored Crunchberry pieces were sprayed while the drum was rotating at a rate of about 10 rpm with fine particles of glycerol until the 50.00 parts Crunchberry bed increased in weight to 52.0 parts.
The glycerol-sprayed Crunchberry was then placed in the same but freshly cleaned enrober with a 100 parts of confectioner's sugar. The mixture was enrobed in the enrober rotating at about 10 rpm. When the enrobing was continued about 5 minutes, about 60% of the sugar was already picked up. The enrobing was continued totally about 10 minutes giving a well sugar-covered completely white colored Crunchberry. The weight of the product was 122.0 parts.
A portion of the white colored Crunchberry was blended with approximately an equal volume of honey-colored Cap'n Crunch (.TM. The Quaker Oats Company) cereal and to this was added cold milk. With a normal spoon stirring, the white colored Crunchberries changed to beautiful milky red colored cereal amost instantly. Continuation of the stirring for another 1 minute resulted in changing the milky red color to a brighter red color. No obvious dispersion of red color into milk was observed.
Another portion of the white colored Crunchberry was mixed with a commercially available Instant Oatmeal (The Quaker Oats Company), and to this was added a proper amount of hot water. The white colored Crunchberries changed color to bright red color instantly. The Crunchberries did not become deformed at all by the addition of hot waster, and also there was no obvious dispersion of the red color into the hot water.
By the same method as described in Example 1, 100.00 g. of commercially available colored cereal, Trix (.TM. General Mills Company) was subjected to a fine mist of glycerol by spraying until the cereal bed's weight reached 103.62 g. Trix was employed as the substrate because it consisted of a mixture of red, orange, yellow, and grape colored round shaped cereal pieces The appearance and crispness of the cereal showed no apparent changes after the spraying of this amount of glycerol
The glycerol-sprayed cereal was enrobed with 207.24 g. of confectioner's sugar for 10 minutes as described in Example 1. It gave a 285.58 g. of well sugar-coated, completely white round shaped cereal. The inside color of the product was undetectable by mere as-is observation, after the white coating.
As described in Example 1, the white colored product was mixed with a honey-colored commercially available Cap'n Crunch (.TM. The Quaker Oats Company) cereal, and to this was added cold milk. With a normal spoon stirring, the white colored product changed to variously colored cereals in about 15 seconds to give a beautifully colored bowl of cereal consisting of red, yellow, orange, and grape colored cereal distributed in a honey-colored Cap'n Crunch cereal in milk. No dispersion of color was observed by the addition of milk.
Similarly a portion of the product was mixed with a commercially available Instant Oatmeal (The Quaker Oats Company), and to this was added a proper amount of hot water. The white colored product changed into red, orange, yellow or grape colored cereal instantly to give beautifully colored pieces distributed in the bowl of hot oatmeal. Neither dispersion of colors into the water, nor deformation, nor disintegration of the colored cereal pieces was observed to occur upon the addition of hot water.
In this test, the applicability of this invention to a substrate having other shapes than spherical shape was investigated using Froot Loops.TM. (General Mills Company) cereals having a small doughnut shape in diameter of about 6/8" and the diameter of the inside hole about 3/16".
100.00 parts of Froot Loops cereal containing 3.34 weight percent of glycerol, prepared by the method described in Example 1; a 30 parts sample was removed, was enrobed with 60.00 parts of confectioner's sugar for 15 minutes as described in Example 1, to give 81.40 g. of almost completely sugar coated, white colored doughnut-shaped cereal after shaking off. The "loss" in material balance is due to powdered sugar which didn't stick, but which could be recycled. The inside cereal color was undetectable after the confectioner's sugar coating.
In this experiment, a powdered red colored Trix.TM. (General Mills Company) cereal was premixed with a confectioner's sugar to give a pink colored cereal powder.
Thirty five parts of whole multi-colored Trix cereal pieces was sprayed with 2.80 weight percent of glycerol, prepared as described in Example 2. The sprayed material was then enrobed with 70 parts of a mixture consisting of 56.00 g. of confectioner's sugar and 14.00 g. of finely pulverized red colored Trix cereal. The pulverized red colored Trix cereal was prepared by grinding first and then passing through a Brinkman centrifugal grinding mill equipped with a pore size 0.2 mm screen.
The enrobing was carried out for about 20 minutes to result in a 72.39 parts of pink colored spherically shaped cereal.
The resulting cereal changed color almost instantly upon being immersed in milk. No strong noticeable pink color seepage in milk, or in hot water tests, was observed.
A substantially spherical ready-to-eat standard base is produced from an approximately 15% moisture "dry" mix comprising 66% yellow corn flour, 11% oat flour, 10% rice flour, 2% salt and 10% sugar, and an edible coloring agent. Upon being fed through a high pressure extruder the resulting dough is extruded under expaning conditions, and cut into bite-size pieces to provide pieces with an uncoated density of 4-6 ounces/121.5 cubic inches. Upon being extruded the extrudate is cut at the die into individual bite-sized pieces, and the pieces are dropped into a high temperature, high velocity air stream, as is conventional, to provide a dry extruded cereal base piece at less 10% moisture. The base piece dry mix includes FD&C Red #3 for red pieces, a mixture of FD&C Blue #1 and FD&C Yellow #5 for green pieces, and FD&C Yellow #5 powder for the yellow extrudate.
A syrup is then applied at about 170.degree. F. in a tumbling bed enrober to the base piece as glaze. The syrup comprises a solution of sucrose (58%), brown sugar (4%), salt (1%), vitamins/mineral premix (0.06%), water (18%), fruit punch flavor (0.5%), 42 DE corn syrup (11%) and coconut oil (5%). The syrup glazing is applied at the ratio of 45 parts to about 55 parts base. The glazed base is then dried to a moisture of about 2.0.+-.0.05%, and the dried glazed base is coated with glycerol in a ratio of 6 parts glycerol to 94 parts coated base. Thereafter, powdered sugar is added to the glycerol wetted base pieces in an amount sufficient to obscure the color of the individual cereal base pieces, and approximately 6% of glycerol based on the weight of the glycerol wetted coated base was sufficient to achieve that result. The resulting cereal appears white similar to frosted cereals, except that the white outermost portion remains in a powdery condition. Thus it is quite different from the "frosted" cereals in which the white outermost portion is provided in the form of an integral paint-like film.
40.00 g. of variously shaped and variously colored dried marshmallow bits was sprayed with glycerol in an enrober to 42.43 g. The enrober was cleaned and again using the enrober, the glycerol sprayed dried marshmallow was blended with 60.00 g. of confectioner's sugar. It required only about 6 minutes to pick up all the powder sugar. The product's color was completely concealed with the white sugar bound with glycerol.
About equal volume of this product is mixed with a honey-colored commercially available Cap'n Crunch(.TM. Quaker Oats Co.) cereal, and to this was added milk. With a normal spoon stirring, the white colored product changed to variously colored cereals in about 17 seconds to give a beautifully colored bowl of cereal.
When any of the cereals produced in accordance with the Examples herein are placed in a bowl and milk is added, the white coating disappears virtually instantly as if by magic, revealing the true color of the base cereal piece. It is noted that when attempts were made to cause the opaque edible outer powder to adhere to the cereal pieces by means of later-applied syrups, and the like, not only was the "opaquing" character of the powder substantially eliminated, but the resulting film, rather than powder, was not readily dissolved in the milk.
In accordance with the present invention the cereal making art is provided with a method of making a "fun" experience out of eating an otherwise nutritious and tasty ready-to-eat cereal.
1. A ready-to-eat cereal capable of changing color instantly upon immersion in an aqueous medium such as milk, said ready-to-eat cereal comprising:
- a. A solid colored cereal or confection base, in which the true color of the base will not undergo dispersion is said aqueous medium,
- b. An edible opaque powder adhering to said base in a quantity sufficient to obscure the color of the base, and
- c. A water soluble non-film forming edible adhesive liquid bonding said powder to said base, and in which the water soluble liquid is glycerine.
2. A method of making a ready-to-eat cereal capable of changing color instantly upon immersion in an aqueous medium such as milk, said method comprising:
- a. Preparing a solid bite-sized cereal base having a color.
- b. Coating said base with a syrup, or oil to reduce porosity;
- c. Drying the cereal base to a moisture level below about 15% of the provided dried base;
- d. Applying a water soluble non-hardening liquid to the dried base, in an amount between 1/2% and 10%, based on the weight of the coated base; and
- e. Applying to the thus wetted base an opaque edible powder in an amount sufficient to obscure the color of the base.
3. The method of claim 2 in which the base is syrup coated and dried to a moisture level of less than 10% the syrup coating having been dried to a solid non-tacky glaze, and in which said non-hardening water soluble liquid is glycerine, and in which the opaque edible powder includes powdered sugar.
Referenced Cited
Patent History
Type: Grant
Filed: Sep 16, 1987
Date of Patent: Aug 1, 1989
Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company (Chicago, IL)
Inventor: Hideo Tomomatsu (Crystal Lake, IL)
Primary Examiner: Donald E. Czaja
Assistant Examiner: Mary S. Mims
Application Number: 7/97,040
International Classification: A23L 118; A23P 108;


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On one level - a thrilling and suspenseful level - The Debt is classic espionage, a taut tale of false identity and interrogation, safe houses, and secret border crossings.
On another level, The Debt describes a love triangle, two men vying for the affections of a woman. They are young, ensconced in a strange city, emboldened by the risks they are taking, the threat of death.
And on a third level, The Debt is a study about time and truth, and how it is impossible, really, to come to terms with the lies of the past. They haunt. They hurt.
Now, if only Helen Mirren and Jessica Chastain bore the slightest resemblance to each other. And Ciarán Hinds to Sam Worthington, and Tom Wilkinson to Marton Csokas, for that matter.
That's because Mirren and Chastain play the same woman, Rachel Singer, separated by 30-odd years. Hinds and Worthington, likewise, share the role of David Peretz. And Wilkinson and Csokas are Stephan Gold, old and young. The likenesses, or lack of them, create a kind of running distraction in The Debt, as director John Madden flashes back and forth, from 1965 East Berlin to 1997 Tel Aviv.
In the Soviet sector of the German city, Chastain, Worthington, and Csokas' characters share a mission, and an apartment. They've come from Israel to capture a Nazi war criminal, a doctor who performed unspeakable experiments on Jews in the death camps, and who is now believed to be living, and working, under an alias.
In Israel, three decades later, Rachel's daughter has written a book about her mother's cloak-and-dagger adventures, her status as a national hero. Stephan (Wilkinson) still works for the Mossad, while David (Hinds) has cut himself off from his former colleagues. As The Debt toggles back and forth, filling in the blanks, the reason for David's disappearance, and for the shocking way he returns to Tel Aviv, become clear.
What the three pairs of actors lack in semblance (or resemblance), they make up for to a great extent in their performances. Chastain's work is in striking contrast to her portrayal, opposite Brad Pitt, in The Tree of Life. For one thing, she has actual dialogue, but more than that she plays a woman determined to prove herself, fiercely proud and palpably afraid. Csokas has arrogance, and charm. And Worthington, the Avatar and Clash of the Titans star, proves he can actually hold his own opposite real human beings for a change. There are no digitally rendered aliens or mythical beasts in The Debt.
Although there is something mythical about Mirren - she electrifies a room just by walking into it. Weighed down by the past, her Rachel is the central figure in The Debt, a woman with a conscience - a guilty conscience - and one last mission to complete.

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Drawing is a critical part of self-defense with a firearm.
As Citizen Defenders, we don't walk around with our firearms out in our hands. In most communities this would be.....bad. Instead we have to get the firearm from our holster and get it on target quickly and accurately.
Accuracy is based upon a standard. That standard could be anything that we want, from center mass, to a half of an 8.5"x11" sheet of paper, to the "T-Box" in the CNS zone, but whatever standard of accuracy we deem as "acceptable" we have to practice being able to place the first round from your draw where we want it.
In this Drill, I'm going to do single shots from an open draw at varying distances. What this works is our ability as Defenders to engage in proper shooting fundamentals following a draw.
For many, drawing the firearm places their hands in odd places on the gun. No wrist rotation or a crappy grip, but not in the perfect body position to accurately hit the threat. When you add the complexity of a tight standard of accuracy and the increased demand for management of the shooting fundamentals that distance requires, you now have a challenging drill.
In this drill I only work on accuracy following the draw, but in other times, I've added a speed and lethality requirement (say head shots only) and you can really see that just the simple practice of drawing to a standard of accuracy can be taken in a lot of different directions.
Check it out. And if you want the PDF for this drill, just go to the PDF Downloads tab and fill it out with your name and email and code: Drill #1.


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In Stock. Longfellow's poem "I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day" is a longstanding favorite. In this new music setting, Robert F. Douglas brings a light gentle swing touch to the words. It offers optional instruments including a handbell part written by Alfred's handbell editor, Tammy Waldrop. It will resonate with everyone this and every Christmas
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Livia's Projects: How to Sync Video & Audio in Adobe Premiere Pro
Are you a fan of those travel and video tutorial YouTube channels? New on the scene is Livia of Livia's Projects. In this tutorial, Livia shows her workflow for syncing video and audio in Premiere Pro. Also, check out her recommended 5 Steps To Make Your First YouTube Video in Premiere Pro. In addition to creating tutorials on her YouTube channel, Livia is also posting Premiere Pro tips on her Twitter and Facebook page.
This video is a tutorial and I'm showing you how you can easily synchronize your audio and video in Adobe Premiere Pro CC. —Livia's Projects
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Photography Classes in Republic WA
Are you looking for photography classes in Republic WA? Whether you are a hobbyist, professional, or beginner, the best way to improve your photography technique is through hands-on training with skilled instructors.
Washington has numerous accredited and recognized photography schools. Photography classes teach techniques such as portrait capture, exposure and composition, lighting, posing and unposing, and other photography fundamentals. Being an experienced photographer can pave the road to a successful professional career or lifelong hobby.
There are numerous Photography Classes in Republic WA:
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A couple of recent announcements from two large, very well-known organizations provides some interesting data points on how Web 2.0 is affecting the product designs and business processes of otherwise very traditional institutions. Both USA Today and the U.S. Patent and Trademark office have recently unveiled strategies for letting their users use two-way Web capabilities to contribute directly to the products and services they offer. And many other mainstream companies, such as Pepsi as well as GM and XM Radio have been exploring externally-facing Web 2.0 concepts in their products for a while now.
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The Uncompahgre Wilderness contains two fourteeners: Uncompahgre Peak (14,309') and Wetterhorn Peak (14, 015'). The region has been named 'The Switzerland of America' due to its high elevation and impressive skyline. In addition to the two fourteeners mentioned above the region boasts several peaks over 13,000 feet including: Wildhorse Peak, Matterhorn Peak, Coxcomb Peak, Precipice Peak, Broken Hill Peak and Silver Peak. Most of the valleys between these mountains are large, U-shaped basins cut by glaciers.
Cow Creek Canyon lies in the western section of the wilderness and has been described as 'one of the wildest canyons in all of the San Juan Mountains." No trails delve into this area, but hikers on Wildhorse Peak can get a full view of the chasm.
It's possible to view many types of animals on your ventures in the Uncompahgre Wilderness. Wildlife you may see in the region includes elk, mule deer, bighorn sheep, black bear, bobcat, mountain lion, coyote, snowshoe hare, golden eagle and other smaller species.
Recreation - Recreation opportunities in the Uncompahgre Wilderness include hiking, backpacking, fishing and horseback riding during the summer months. Winter recreation opportunities include snowshoeing, cross-country skiing and backcountry skiing. Mechanized and motorized vehicles and apparatus are not permitted within the wilderness boundaries.
Climate - Weather for the area can vary greatly; but generally, you can expect a cool mountain climate with scattered rain showers throughout the summer months. Normally, the Uncompahgre Wilderness area is snow free from July to September, but conditions depend on the elevation and amount of snowfall each winter. Lower elevations from around 7,000 to 8,500 feet may become snow free by early June, but some creek and river water levels tend to be high. The annual precipitation varies from 25 inches to 40 inches.
Location -
The Uncompahgre Wilderness Area is bordered on the east by Highway 149, which leads south from Curecanti National Recreation Area to Lake City. On the western side Highway 550 borders the wilderness area and leads into Ouray. BLM Road 3300 leads west from Lake City along the southern side of the wilderness area. Many access routes to the wilderness lie along this road. It also connects to Forrest Road 878, which leads to Ouray. Be aware that BLM Road 3300 and Forest Road 878 are not maintained during the Winter, and require high-clearance four-wheel drive vehicles for use in Spring, Summer and Fall.
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Winner's Share – €100,000
Course – Clube de Golf do Santo da Serra (6,826 par 72)
Our 2014 Picks – No Picks
Right then, so after an incredible couple of month's golf in Europe which ended with a superb win for Danny Willett in the Swiss Alps, we now move onto a week that we doesn't whet the appetite greatly. The idea of the Paul Lawrie Match Play and re-run of the postponed Madeira Islands Open hasn't made us jump off our seats in excitement like recent events, but still there is some money to be made we think.
And that brings us to our first point for Europe this week – we are simply not going anywhere near the Match Play. The field is far too random, admittedly there's some decent players there, but it really isn't worth it in our opinion. We are big advocates of this format and love watching a 1 vs 1 battle, but there's too many factors here that make it too tough to call, the main reason being it's straight knockout style.
By all means go ahead if you fancy it, our recommendation would be some cheeky in-play bets on specific matches and even an accumulator – something we may consider further in the tournament's progression.
So, we are going to re-visit Madeira for our betting plans and ignore Lawrie and his chums for now. Plus, we were one of the many who had JB Hansen enjoying a nice lead when the heavens opened on the Portuguese Island a few months ago, so we feel like we're owed something here.
As we wrote back then, Santo de Serra is a shot 6,826 yard par 72 that is perched on top of a mountain, with quite generous fairways and significant elevation changes all leading up to the tightly compact and undulating greens.
The Trent Jones family is not only the designer across the pond this week, because this is another one of his fine creations. He's developed a place that relies on the Atlantic coastal winds for protection, because on a calm day, anyone with distance can rip this place apart – 4 reachable par 5's and 7 sub 400-yard par 4's. That says it all really.
You only have to look back to 2013 when the big-hitting Peter Uihlein (who only found 40% fairways) grabbed his maiden win here. The likes of Madsen, Henry, Benson are names just at first glance who have enjoyed success here and are certainly not shy off the tee.
We're only plumping for a team of 4 here though because the odds aren't the greatest, but let's hope our boys prove to be good value…
JB Hansen (33/1 various)
We couldn't not really could we?! JB Hansen was leading before the postponement and his form is actually better now then it was then, so it seems stupid not to chuck our money on the 24-year old again.
His lowest finish in his last 6 outings is T26, including 3 top 10's, which proves how well he's playing at the moment.
He hits the ball a long way and has the ability to overpower this track, as he showed a few months back.
33's for a regular Challenge Tour player may seem short, but he has, without doubt, some of the best form of anyone in the field and the fact he's already shown what he can do round here, it seems a no brainer in our eyes.
Carlos Del Moral (45/1 BetFred)
Carlos Del Moral is an intriguing player this week and considering he is one of a few who've been playing regular European Tour golf this season, his odds are incredibly appealing.
Firstly, he is one of the bigger hitters on the circuit – averaging over 302 yards (15th for driving distance). Secondly he showed some real class at the BMW in Germany when he recorded one of his highest finishes on the main Tour so far – T4. His 65 on the Saturday propelled him up the leaderboard and was an exhibition in raw power off the tee (1st for distance on the day), impenetrable irons (22nd GIR) and holing those chances you create (4th putts per GIR.)
Basically, it's perfect golf and the fact he went on to play a similar brand on the Sunday, proves to us that he could have a major say on Madeira this week. Plus, he's finished 4th here before as well…
Chris Paisley (50/1 BetFred)
Chris Paisley is mainly a Challenge Tour play, but he has plenty of experience at the higher level to know what it's all about. He has that feel of one of those players who knows what it would mean to win here. The benefits are endless and it could be a major career-turning point for anyone of his current level.
Much like Del Moral, Paisley showed some of his potential in Germany where he actually went one better and finished solo 3rd. He was in the final group on the Sunday, just a couple of strokes behind James Morrison, but neither could capitalise on their early efforts. His putting throughout the week was incredible – he never left the top 10 for each round, whilst he was averaging just over 290 off the tee and playing well with his irons.
All in all it was a decent outing, which he's backed up with a solid T44 in Switzerland last week and the fact he's had 3 finishes inside the top 22 here proves he knows the track.
Jens Dantorp (80/1 Coral)
Our final pick this week comes in the form of a young Swede, Jens Dantorp. The Scandinavian country seems to be churning out decent players at the moment and this 26-year old seems like another one who could achieve a few things in his time.
He won a ridiculous 8 Nordic Golf League titles and broke through on the Challenge Tour in 2013 at the prestigious Rolex Trophy, but since then it has all been relatively quiet.
In fact he didn't even feature inside the top 10 again till this year when he came T8 in Turkey back in May.
A solo 2nd followed before he announced himself again in front of his home crowd at the Nordea Masters.
Along with young amateur star Markus Kinhult, Dantorp found himself propped at the top of a leaderboard containing names with far more credential sniffing below.
He was averaging 300 yards off the tee and didn't drop outside the top 10 for putting stats across those 2 days. Obviously he tailed off slightly at the weekend, but to keep himself in the hunt as long as he did in a big event, shows the potential he has.
Sadly, he's gone on to miss 3 out of his next 4 cuts on the Challenge Tour, but we are going to look past that because he does suit everything on paper and at 80's is definitely worth a punt.


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LostWinds Blossoms - Update and Price Drop for Easter.
The blossom is coming out in Cambridge UK, and so is a new LostWinds update!
To celebrate, Frontier is dropping the price of LostWinds to $0.99, CN¥6, £0.69, €0.79 for a week over Easter, starting 00:00am on Friday 6th April 2012.
The new LostWinds update v1.0.2: • runs at full resolution on the new iPad (3rd generation) • has further control improvements (to both multi-touch and D-Pad) • has performance optimizations that benefit all supported devices • has an improved Photo-mode interface
And will be released before the end of the price drop on Friday 00:00am 13th April 2012.
LostWinds is available on the Apple App Store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lostwinds/id477973472
And here's a pic of Toku outside creator, Frontier Developments', office.
Happy Easter!


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Personal Design Principles: An Approach to Future Design Projects and Work
In the fall of 2008, I began a very promising career on Wall Street. Fresh out of graduate school from an Ivy League university, armed with statistical models and naïve optimism, I was ready to conquer the financial world. I started my job on Monday, September 15th, 2008—one of the most historical days in modern times—the same day that the investment bank Lehman Brothers defaulted. The Lehman default, much like the Crash of 1929, radically changed the course of American history. It also changed my course; beginning a career in finance when the very institutions I was working for were, literally and figuratively, "on trial", gave me great pause. I became hyper aware of the interconnectedness of the financial markets to our everyday lives and increasingly critical of the practices that govern these markets. As the years went on, the crisis reached a global scale: the Euro-Zone Financial Crisis in 2009, the Greek protests and strikes and the beginning of the Arab Spring in 2010, the Egyptian Revolution and the Occupy Wall Street Movement in 2011. I realized I could no longer contribute to the economic engines that were creating such global unrest. I was called by an internal sense of responsibility to contribute to positive change in the world.
I saw first hand how our global economic, financial, and technological systems, by virtue of their design and the values upon which they were crafted, not only control how we live, but inherently determine our future. But I also saw how we, humanity, by banding together as one with a common vision, have the power to change our future. It is within this context that I will outline a set of principles that govern my approach to design. In the words of the great designers Dunne and Raby: "[W]e need to move beyond designing for the way things are now and begin to design for how things could be, imagining alternative possibilities and different ways of being, and giving tangible form to new values and priorities.[1]"
Ecology Above All Else
In his paper, Reasons to be Cheerful, Clive Dilnot outlines human history as it relates to the artificial, and breaks it into three distinct epochs. Most notably is the "Age of the Artificial,[2]" the period that we are currently living in, that Dilnot describes as the time when "the artificial and not nature is now the horizon, medium and determining condition of the world" (Dilnot, pg.5). He describes climate change, namely global warming, as one of the "destructive historical markers" of the "Age of the Artificial" and suggests that we are now defined by the Anthropocene Age[3]—the era where humans begin to impact the environment to such a degree that even the Earth's geology is forever altered. This idea that our increasing dependency on and obsession with the artifice has directly resulted in a fundamental change of our planet's ecosystem must dictate the direction that humanity moves toward into the 21st century. Thus, the primary axiom in the guiding principles of my design ideology is that, above all else, the ecology of the planet must be protected and sustained.
In 2013, after we surpassed a critical threshold[4] of atmospheric CO2, Martin Wolf published a series of articles[5] in the Financial Times (that, in fact, Dilnot references). Wolf suggested eight implementations for both G-10 and emerging countries to reduce our collective planetary C02 emissions. His ideas ranged in scope from simply implementing a global carbon tax to a wide spread shift (from coal and oil) to nuclear power plants. While his approach to addressing climate change is pragmatic, Wolf's thinking is too narrow. His suggestions fall disappointingly within the constraints of a now archaic 20th century industrial-military-complex system. As designers—literally building the framework for our future society—we have to think more broadly and creatively.
On the other side of the spectrum from Wolf sits Jeremy Rifkin, who, in his essay about the Third Industrial Revolution, proposes a radical alternative:
The emerging Third Industrial Revolution…is organized around distributed renewable energies that are found everywhere and are, for the most part, free—sun, wind, hydro, geothermal heat, biomass, and ocean waves and tides. These dispersed energies will be collected at millions of local sites and then bundled and shared with others over a continental green electricity internet to achieve optimum energy levels and maintain a high-performing, sustainable economy. The distributed nature of renewable energies necessitates collaborative rather than hierarchical command and control mechanisms.[6]
While Rifkin does little to help us understand, practically speaking, how these new technologies will usher in a new age, his vision of a democratized future—based on distributed renewable energy and decentralized manufacturing powered by 3D printing—is one that has become fundamental to my design practice. He paints a picture of a future in which I very much want to live. It is this kind of thinking about "shifting the fulcrum of power from centralized global companies to distributed … enterprise networks…to arrive at a sustainable post-carbon era" (Rifkin, pg. 9) that I believe must be central to a set of 21st century design principles.
Do No Digital (or Otherwise) Harm
In stark contrast to Rifkin's concept of "lateral scaling" that transfers power from mega-corporations to individuals is, from his book Who Owns the Future?, Jaron Lanier's bleak notion that in the future
the biggest and best-connected computers [will] provide the settings in which information turns into money. Meanwhile trinkets tossed into the crowd spread the illusions and false hopes that the emerging information economy is benefiting the majority of those who provide the information that drives it.{C}[7]{C}
Lanier's words are chillingly prescient when we examine the city of Songdo presented by Orit (et al) as a case study in the essay Test-Bed Urbanism[8]. As Lanier writes, "the problem is not the technology, but the way we think abut the technology" (Lanier, pg. 15). In Songdo, we have a real-life example of what is perhaps the epitome of everything that is wrong with our use of technology and the way we think about our future. While the problems with Songdo are too numerous to list in the context of this paper, one in particular is relevant: the view that people can/should be reduced to the data they provide. Orit observes:
For Cisco—like Facebook, Google, and other companies that attempt to link user behavior at the interface with consumer behavior in order to monetize their vast data sets—data are the currency of this new realm, a realm envisioned as an interface for inserting and extending the sensorium (Halpern, 282).
Corporations making profits from mining their customers' data is a relatively new phenomenon, and, I believe, one for which we may not fully understand the broader implications. I cannot help but be reminded of 1984's "Big Brother" who was forever watching and controlling the population of Oceania. As a technology designer, I think it is imperative to think critically about our projects and to understand the implications of one's own involvement. As Lanier writes in his book You Are Not a Gadget[9]:
[Technologists] make up extensions to your being, like remote eyes and ears (web-cams and mobile phones) and expanded memory (the world of details you can search for online). These become the structures by which you connect to the world and other people. These structures in turn can change how you conceive of yourself and the world… It takes a tiny group of engineers to create technology that can shape the entire future of human experience with incredible speed (Lanier, pg.5).
Thus, fundamental to my design principles is the idea that in building our designs or propagating an ideology with our work, we have a great responsibility to, like the physician code of non-maleficence, do no digital (or otherwise) harm. We cannot be motivated solely by profits. We have a duty to the future of mankind to ask questions. How will this work change human behavior? Will this work cause unforeseen social risks? Or as Bill Joy writes about nanotech in Why the Future Doesn't Need Us, am I "working to create tools which will enable the construction of the technology that may replace our species. How do I feel about that?[10]" Failure to consider the broader implications of our projects could result in, dare I say, a world full of Songdos whose inhabitants are merely "monetized" versions of our former human selves.
Design to Inspire
Critical thinking and analysis, specifically as it relates to the social and cultural landscape of users, must be the cornerstone of a designer's work. In his essay Prototyping the Social: Temporality and Speculative Futures at the Intersection of Design and Culture[11] Jamer Hunt writes that critical design is a practice that "adopt[s] a more ideologically driven position in relation to design's place in the world, and that work begins to point to a fruitful conjoining of critical social analysis and design" (Clarke, pg. 39). Instead of, as Hunt suggests, innovating for innovation's sake or developing useless products that just add to "the vast amount of dreck" (Clarke, pg. 39) in the world, we must design to compel users to think. As the project A/B, from the critical design pioneers Dunne and Raby, suggests (see Figure 1), rather than "design for production," we should "design for debate." Instead of designing a project that "makes us buy" we should design something that "makes us think."
It is in this vein that Hunt discusses a series of critical design projects such as Synthetic Reux that explores our "cultural fixation" on brands, Is this your Future? that looks at the energy crisis, and Neugenics that deals with genetic modification. Hunt argues that while these projects are compelling, they will not "…effect large-scale social change. They are more speculative than interventionist" (Clarke, 41). I disagree that critical design projects lack the ability to effect large-scale change. Critical design, as a genre, has the ability, and in fact by definition should, inspire humanity. One of the biggest problems with many critical design projects is that they instill fear through their largely dystopian vision for the future. While they do, through their designed artifacts and designed futures, encourage users to think critically about our current social values and practices, they only show the user where not to go but do little to direct users toward an alternative route. As Hunt says, the practice is inherently "speculative" not "interventionist." There are many designers today taking a different approach to critical design. For example, in 2014 the MOMA's PS1 featured a piece called Hy-Fi by the The Living[12]. Hy-Fi was a tower built from organic bricks that "harness the incredible 'biological algorithm' of mushroom roots and tune it to manufacture a new building material that grows in five days, with no waste, no input of energy, and no carbon emissions.[13]" The Living is designing a future where "[b]iology, rather than machining, … emerg[es] as a leading contender to assemble our future environment.[14]" Through their brick artifacts, they ask the user to question, reflect and perhaps take action. This is critical design that inspires! This is the kind of critical design practice that I will try to emulate: one that leads users, through hope, towards a vision of the future that will mobilize us all to want to create lasting social change.
Figure 1: Dunne & Raby's A/B Project. Described as a manifesto for their work. Source: dunneandraby.co.uk
Astrophysics as Aesthetic
If Shannon Mattern[15] is correct that in knowing our infrastructure we have a better understanding of our environment, then we must, if not know, then at least recognize our cosmic infrastructure: the building blocks of life, that which connects us all together. As a former astrophysicist, I cannot help but see the world as but a small part of a vast and expansive realm, made up of the cosmic dust resulting from an explosion billions of years ago.
Today, as I design new technologies, contemplate the artifice and our connection to it, and imagine our possible futures, I often think of the great physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Max Planck, and Albert Einstein whose contributions to science not only shaped our understanding of ourselves but very much the technology in our hands. Thinking about the aesthetic as a set of principles underlying my work, then, it is astrophysics as aesthetic that makes up the foundation of all I do. At the core of my work there is always an underlying message that, in the words of Planck:
There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.
As we leap into the 21st century, with technologies that have the power to literally shape the future of humanity and planetary ecology, we must realize that we, humans, are fundamentally linked to all that surrounds us at both the most microscopic and macroscopic levels.
So, as I embark on this new career in design I will shape my ideas and the work that I produce based on these four fundamental design principles. I take the responsibility of bearing the title designer very seriously. I can only hope that I may, through my work, in some small way create environmentally sustainable solutions, effect broad social change, develop projects that inspire, or build to help us understand ourselves. I hope that I may contribute to a creation of a better future. I can't help but think back to my time on Wall Street at the social movements that defined our century so far and that inspired me to choose an alternative career. It is evident, as in Tahrir Square, that when we band together we can manifest a revolution. It is up to us as a global collective to decide the future of humanity. I have faith we will chose the right path.
{C}[1]{C} Dunne & Raby. "Between Reality and the Impossible". Text from the exhibition at the Graphic Design Museum. Amsterdam, 2011. http://www.dunneandraby.co.uk/docs/content/betweenrealityo.pdf
{C}[2]{C} Dilnot, Clive. "Reasons to be cheerful, 1, 2, 3… (Or why the Artificial may yet save us)". Unpublished.
{C}[3]{C} "A Man Made World." The Economist. May 26, 2011. http://www.economist.com/node/18741749
{C}[4]{C} Wolf writes that "[o[n the present course, it could be 800 parts per million by the end of the century."
{C}[5]{C} Wolf, Martin. "We will watch the rise in greenhouse gases until it is too late to do anything about it". Financial Times. May 14th, 2103.
"Global inaction shows that the climate sceptics have already won". Financial Times. May 21st, 2103.
Wolf, Martin. "The Climate Change Skeptics Have Won". Financial Times. May 21st, 2013.
{C}[6]{C} Rifkin, Jeremy. "The Third Industrial Revolution: How the Internet, Green Electricity, and 3-D Printing are Ushering in a Sustainable Era of Distributed Capitalism." The World Financial Review. March 3rd, 2012.
{C}[7]{C} Lanier, Jaron. Who Owns the Future? New York: Simon & Schuster. 2013.
{C}[8]{C} Halpern, Orit. Et Al. "Test-Bed Urbanism." Public Culture. 2013. Volume 25, Number 2. 70: 272-306
{C}[9]{C} Lanier, Jaron. You Are Not a Gadget. New York: Vintage Books. 2010.
{C}[10]{C} Joy, Bill. "Why the future doesn't need us." Wired Magazine. April 2000.
{C}[11]{C} Hunt, Jamer. "Prototyping the Social: Temporality and Speculative Futures at the Intersection of Design and Culture." Design Anthropology: Object Culture in the 21st Century. Alison J. Clarke. New York: Springer Wein. 2011.
{C}[12]{C} Link to actual piece from MOMA: http://momaps1.org/yap/view/17
{C}[13]{C} Rajagopal, Avinash. "Behind The Living's "100% Organic" Pavilion for MoMA PS1." Metropolis Mag. Feb 2014. http://www.metropolismag.com/Point-of-View/February-2014/MoMA-PS1/
{C}[14]{C} COREN, MICHAEL J. "How We'll Grow The Next Generation Of Buildings With Bacteria." Fast Company. August 2013. http://www.fastcoexist.com/3015899/futurist-forum/how-well-grow-the-next-generation-of-buildings-with-bacteria
{C}[15]{C} Mattern, Shannon. "Infrastructural Tourism." Places Journal. July 2013.


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On 10.08.2011 12:45, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Think on the lines of "there are lots of people who vote for a > politician you consider a jackass, but he hardly ever wins an election > anyway" > > Then think how many complaints about a valid user you get when just > one or two stray emails of his get misreported, compared to when that > user gets his password compromised by a nigerian or has his PC > infected by a virus. This comparison apparently suggests that misreports ought to be handled and repaired, just like viruses or compromised passwords, however statistically negligible they might be. (It could even possible to devise methods to handle misreports so as to minimize the amount of time that the relevant abuse team has to spend on manual investigation.) Is that what you meant?


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A student from Scilly has raised over £2500 for the charity Dig Deep. Rachel Pearce is about to embark on an incredible adventure climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for the charity and has been very busy fundraising for the charity in Scilly.
Rachel who spoke to Will over the Christmas New Year period is studying to become a teacher at the University of Brighton has been spending her breaks back in Scilly and using this time as a great opportunity raise money and awareness of the charity.
Dig Deep states on it's website that "Clean drinking water, proper toilets and good hygiene are essential, and yet in rural Kenya too many children and communities lack these services. They have to walk long distances to collect water; children are getting sick from unclean water and poor hygiene and girls are dropping out of school because of the difficulty of not having private toilets."
"Dig Deep seeks to change this, giving children clean and safe environments to learn and communities the basic resources they need to survive and thrive."
Rachel along with family and friends raised a whopping £1505 during a major fundraising day at Barclays Bank on St Mary's. Barclays matched pound for pond up to £1000 for charity and even though she's met her target she's still raising money for the charity. Rachel's fundraising page can be found here and you find out more about Dig Deep at www.digdeep.org.uk.
Rachel popped into the Radio Scilly studio to talk to Will about the fundraising event and her upcoming expedition. Click below to find out more and listen to the full interview.


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I'm a Hospital-acquired Infection Survivor trying to live up to my promise to save lives and improve the health care system!
On August 15, 2006, I entered Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center for routine surgery. I was scheduled to be home in two days. I have been an athlete all my life and was considered the picture of health. So I could never have imaged that I would spent the next month in the ICU and it would be two months total before I was able to leave the hospital.
During one of the evening dressing checks my mother noticed a black dot near my incision. She asks the nurse about it and was assured that it was "nothing". However we had not seen that dot in the morning when Doctor Pearson came to check my incision. My mother asked the nurse to please call the doctor and ask him come back to the hospital to take a look at it. After many sighs and condescending remarks, the nurse agreed to "bother the doctor for what is going to turn out to be no big deal" when my mother said she would call him herself.
In the hour and a half it took my doctor to return to the hospital the tiny black dot on my stomach had turned into a quarter sized pustule! After waiting for the same nurse to answer HIS pressing on the call button, the doctor looked at my mother asked if she was squeamish and told her to put on gloves and a mask.
Right then and there the doctor and my mother proceeded to open up my incision, extend it out by about 2 inches on each side, and began to squeeze out pus and drainage. It was the most surreal moment of my life.
I had contracted a nosocomial surgical site infection. Nosocomial infections are those which are a result of treatment in a hospital, but secondary to the patient's original condition. Infections are considered nosocomial if they first appear 48 hours or more after hospital admission.
I had acquired NECROTIZING FASCIITIS or as it is commonly termed MAN-EATING FLESH DISEASE. The following weeks were a blur of painful tests, major drugs and multiple surgeries to cut the infection out of my body.
Health officials estimate that 2 million patients a year will acquire a nosocomial infection during their hospital stay. Of those patients, over 100,000 will DIE.
Ms. Magazine reports that as many as 90 percent of deaths from hospital infections could be prevented.
Unfortunately, a peaceful convalescence was not to be the case for me. The medical bills marked 'Past Due' began arriving even as I lay in the hospital attached to an IV with liquid food, antibiotics and a wound vacuum machine. My battle for proper follow-up care and medical supplies began immediately upon being sent home from the hospital. While still bed-ridden and healing from the six surgeries my parents and I were forced to begin a campaign of letters and calls fighting for help.
In total disbelief, we began sharing our experiences via emails and blogs to educate and help others.
As a natural progression, my parents and I started the Alliance for Safety Awareness for Patients (ASAP), a nonprofit organization designed to educate and protect patients through the awareness of hospital acquired infections.
Thank you for taking the time to look over our network. I hope you will find valuable information and connections here. I hope we can empower you with the confidence to be a proactive participant in the medical care for you and those you love.
May God Bless and keep you.
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Great to speak with you on the telephone. Don't forget to send me your e-mail so we can correspond & let me know when you might be in the bay area.
I looked for a way to reorder the modules but, alas, found none. I'm pretty sure there used to be a way. I'll try again in a few days. (((HUGS))) Love U
Alicia, I'm having problems with my profile. It's no longer the way I had it, with my story at the top and everything else beneath it. "Recent Activity" is now at the top. Do I just see it this way because it's my page or does everyone see it this way? I can't figure out how to move my story back to the top. :\
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One hunter that loves to love you - Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers and 3 reasons they make great pets.
Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers are often thought of as small Golden Retrievers, which they absolutely are not.Tollers are very much their own breed.
Here are three great reasons you may want to consider welcoming one of these adorable geniuses into your home.
1. Tollers are low maintenance
Their natural drip-dry coat, takes almost no effort to care for. Rinse them off and they are ready to go.
2. They are Incredibly smart
Tollers are excellent communicators.They will always clearly let you know what they want. They have the ability to communicate in many ways with humans - with their eyes, vocalizations, and body language.
Tollers learn at high speed and they remember things that are important to them. They will never cease to amaze you. Your family will be able to see their intelligence and affection for you in your dog's eyes.
3. Pure joy
It is true that most dogs are joyful, however it is tough to meet a more enthusiastic dog than the Toller.She will lift your mood, support you with enthusiasm and find joy in every situation. A simple game of fetch can appear to be the best time of their lives.This zest for life is inspiring in a home.
Bonus fact
The Toller has exceptional watch-dog abilities.Their bark alone can be more than enough to scare away an intruder. Yet their intelligence keeps them from barking unnecessarily at all other times.


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- Oozing and gooey and effortlessly simple: the omelette is so incredibly easy to make, I don't know why pages of recipe books have been devoted to it's complexity. But first, a word about my friend Claire. Claire is an incredible celebrity booker who I've worked with over 8 years. She's booked some of the best covers I've ever worked on. (Brooke Shields, Faith Hill, and Giada de Laurentiis included) She's also one of those wonderful people that take the weather with her. She's brilliantly sunny, even while all those around her might be full of gloom. Today Claire can't decide whether to walk over the bridge to my apartment, or take the J train. She's bringing with her a cool set of eye glasses she wants me to have, and in lieu; I'm cooking her an omelette.
OMELETTE STUFFED WITH GOATS CHEESE: Crack 4 eggs in a bowl, add 4 tablespoons of tap water, salt and pepper and whisk. Put butter or french walnut oil in a medium pan and add the egg mixture to the middle of the pan so it spreads out evenly to the outer sides. Let sit for one minute. Don't stir. Put sticky nuggets of local NY goats cheese on one side of the pan, let the cheese sit and cook for a bit and then relax, (it's just an omelette!) When the egg mixture still looks runny and not yet cooked through, fold over one side to the other side, covering the cheese nuggets and slide off onto a plate and voila! Tip: Don't over cook, take the omelette off when it's just nearly cooked through, and not yet hard. It will continue to cook while it rests.
I used goats cheese from Painted Goat Farm, NY. Which I got at the New Amsterdam market.


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Dr. Martens, whose life filled with legendary colors, was born in 1960 in England. He is so famous that everyone in the UK recognizes him very much. Even some people pay attentions to him and become his firm advocators when they are still student.
The first design of Dr. Martens is the 1460 type of eight-hole pattern. This classic pattern is exclusively design for the policemen of Docklands. This pair of shoes paying more attentions to the practical wearing and design especially the yellow tailoring lines and unique printed patterns have gained a large popularity among people when it comes out. There is no doubt that Dr. Martens Originals have become the fashion culture symbolization in different ages. After that, they have constantly launched three-hole, six-hole, 10-hole, 14-hold and 20-hole classic patterns. As for colors, they surely offer you variety of choices. The classic fashion still continues its heats and popularity in 2014.
Dr. Martens Originals Spirit of 69, the inspiraions of this series of shoes originated from the design concept of shaven hairstyle. Between 1968 and 1970, there is a movement have great impact. Young people are attracted by the Ska Music that was transmission by Jamaica immigration. The unique personality of shaven haired people is the perfect performance of rakish temperament. This is the real multi-cultural youth movement in England for the first time. The most classic matching is big boots, blue jeans and simple shirts. Since shoes of Dr. Marten are far more comfortable than these high top boots, therefore, they would feel very proud if they have a pair of Dr. Martens. However, Spirit of 69 also represents the spirits of certain times and era and they still have great influence on people's music styles and living ways! For people who pursue fashion, I strongly recommend such a good pair boots for you! I am certain that you will become the fashion street style master indeed!


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Enable Midstream to Present at the Master Limited Partnership Association's 2017 MLP Investor Conference
Public Company Information:
OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Enable Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: ENBL) (Enable) announced today that its President and Chief Executive Officer Rod Sailor will present at the Master Limited Partnership Association's (MLPA) 2017 MLP Investor Conference. The presentation will begin at 10:55 a.m. ET Thursday, June 1. A webcast of the presentation will be available at investors.enablemidstream.com.
Sailor and other members of Enable's senior leadership team will also conduct one-on-one meetings with the investment community at the conference.
Enable owns, operates and develops strategically located natural gas and crude oil infrastructure assets. Enable's assets include approximately 12,900 miles of gathering pipelines, 14 major processing plants with approximately 2.5 Bcf/d of processing capacity, approximately 7,800 miles of interstate pipelines (including Southeast Supply Header, LLC of which Enable owns 50 percent), approximately 2,200 miles of intrastate pipelines and eight storage facilities comprising 85.0 billion cubic feet of storage capacity. For more information, visit http://www.enablemidstream.com.


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Martin and his wife Julie are artists and shop owners, sewing, dyeing and selling their work in Laguna Beach California.
Originally from the Basque country of Spain, Martin and Julie are well known throughout Southern California and Spain for their collaborative work in one of a kind hand made and hand dyed clothing. Having made clothing for the Queen of Spain, Martin and Julie continue to receive awards from the American Craft Council for their outstanding creations and designs and have their work featured on the covers of magazines such as Fiberarts.
Often you will find Martin in the shop as well as Vicky his assistant. Julie is always busy in the studio but does stop by occasionally. Currently, Martin is an invited exhibitor at the Festival of Arts running through August 31st, 2007.
Since recently relocating to their new shop at 290 Forest Ave., they have added work by other acclaimed designers of handmade and hand dyed garment and accessories in a wide range of styles and sizes. Whether you are a resident of Laguna Beach or or a visitor to this beautiful coastal town stop into Duet and treat yourself to some wearable art!
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SUP Race, SUP Surf, Windsurfing, Kitesurfing, Surfing
Board Setup:
Falcon 12'6 & 14' & ProWave 7'6"
Competition ranking you're most proud of:
It was during the last french championship in Hossegor (2016), waves were pretty big during the technical race in the famous spot of La Nord (Hossegor), I finished 6th. I'm also proud of my 4th place at the Nautic SUP Paris crossing in 2017!
Your favourite SUP adventure:
My favorite contest is for sure the paddle storm master in Brest (France), a race based on a waiting period to get the craziest conditions for Downwinding.
Your favorite SUP adventure:
I guess my favorite adventure is coming very soon.
Number one on my bucket list:
Going to the Mecca, Hawaii!
Soundtrack of your life:
Jamming - Bob Marley
For the perfect SUP day there has to be...
... wind and friends.
I love ...
... having a good session with my friends, my brother and my father!
For the perfect SUP day there has to be:
Perfect waves on my home spot and juste friends and family on the line up.
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In this post I will share the process I followed to make
the two Hearts Pendant Necklace!
- I hand cut with saw 2 hearts, 2 leaves and a small flower from a 0.5mm brass sheet and a 0.4mm copper sheet
- I soldered the parts together
- I rasped all edges and the whole piece with sandpaper to get it clean
- I naturally oxidized my piece with Ammonia and Salt
( This is the recipe for Natural Patina, here)
- After oxidation, I rasped with sandpaper the brass parts, leaving the blue patina on the copper heart
- I Coated with varnish and let it dry
- I decorated with 2 small Pearls and connected the copper chain
You can try many ideas for a copper & brass pendant, like balloons, flowers, a butterfly, a small house, a crown, a clock or whatever you want!!
Clicking on the images, you see the details of the item!
This is my etsy shop... ev.i.'s metalwork jewelry
and this is my facebook page.. EV.I.'s Handmade Jewelry
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Archive: January 2012
Check out this amazing interview with punk rocker Alice Bag, on her new autobiography Violence Girl: A Chicana Punk Story. Beyond the book itself (which I really really want to buy and read in the few hours of free time I have in between classes and homework), she discusses punk identity and how that intersects with her own identity as a Chicana woman. Complicated, fascinating stuff. Here's a quote from the article:
Emily K. Larned's celebrated zine Muffin Bones is back after a THIRTEEN YEAR hiatus!
Issue 2 will be avaliable at the Chicago Zine Fest in March, so you'd better get stated on your submissions! Click here to see the Zine Apothecary website. Deadline is February 1st.
Mark your calendars! You are cordially invited to the 2012 Brooklyn Zine Fest to be held on Sunday, April 15 at Public Assembly. Come and find out why Brooklyn made "DIY" a household term. Details at brooklynzinefest.com We'll see you there!
I sat down with Gender Trouble by Judith Butler, salivating to sink my teeth into a juicy argument against the gender binary...only to be slapped in the face with sentences like "What happens to the subject and to the stability of gender categories when the epistemic regime of presumptive heterosexuality is unmasked as that which produces and reifies these ostensible categories of ontology?" ...
Not Your Mother's Meatloaf is doing an all-call for zine submissions on the theme of Endings - due
January February 1st! The project strives "to challenge hetero and gender normative practices in sexuality education" through stories and comics that represent a wider spectrum of topics that should be taught in sex ed. Make sure to check out their past issues at the Sex Ed Comic Blog.


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Featuring digital wireless technology, the Xvive U2 Wireless Guitar System delivers a full 20Hz-20 kHz frequency response without any signal dropout. Simple to use and a long battery life, the Xvive U2 will become your main wireless so you experience the freedom to move about the stage. Another benefit is that the Xvive is so compact you can transport it in the compartment of your guitar case.
The Xvive U2 Wireless Guitar System will only work with passive pickups.
The Xvive wireless system operates via 2.4GHz ISM band for crystal clear broadcasting ensuring the integrity of your signal and can cover 100 feet of range (line of sight) without signal dropout. The rechargeable Li-Ion batteries make the U2 environmentally friendly and each charge can last up to 5 hours. The transmitter and receiver are made out of a durable ABS plastic and the built-in jack rotates 300 degrees to easily and comfortably fit most every instrument.
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Mall. The revitalized area continues to grow
more popular each year, and is now a destination with retailers, boutiques, restaurants,
cafes, theaters, offices, residences, artist
studios, parks and plazas—all within 22 city
blocks. Belmar's new urban design prioritizes pedestrians, public spaces, and families.
76 shops, 20 restaurants, and more than
3,000 residents call Belmar home. Plans on
the horizon include a hotel and five new
residential developments.
Cherry Creek North
299 Milwaukee St., Denver, 80206
Located in the heart of central Denver,
Cherry Creek North is home to over 320
small businesses. Dotting the small neighborhood streets are world-class shops
including boutiques, spas, restaurants,
galleries and other specialty shops.
Cherry Creek Shopping Center
3000 E. 1st Ave., Denver, 80206
303-388-3900; www.shopcherrycreek.com
Located just minutes from downtown,
Cherry Creek Shopping Center is the Rocky
Mountain region's premier shopping center
with more than 160 shops. Many of the
stores in the mall are exclusive to the area,
including Neiman Marcus, Tiffany & Co.,
Burberry, Louis Vuitton, and Anthropologie. Popular dining spots include Elways
(owned by former Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway) and Kona Grill. Younger
children will enjoy the Rocky Mountain
Play Park, an indoor play area located on
the lower level that features Looney Tunes
characters. Valet parking is available in front
of Neiman Marcus.
Colorado Mills
14520 W. Colfax Ave., Lakewood, 80401
303-384-3000; www.coloradomills.com
Colorado Mills features some of the best
shops around, including Coach Factory,
Forever 21, Express, H&M, Saks Fifth
Avenue OFF 5th, Last Call by Neiman
Marcus, Sports Authority, Off Broadway
Shoes, Eddie Bauer Outlet, Burlington
Coat Factory, and Super Target. Colorado Mills is Denver's only indoor Outlet
Mall. There are some great restaurants
here, such as Yard House and California
Pizza Kitchen, as well as numerous
entertainment options including United
Artists Theaters & IMAX, Jumpstreet
and The Putting Edge. The mall is conveniently located off of I- 70 and 6th Avenue.
More than 200 stores range from women's,
men's and children's brand-name fashion
and sports apparel.
Denver Pavilions
16th Street Mall and Glenarm Place
Denver, 80202; 303-260-6000
This popular outdoors mall attracts people
from all over the metro region. The Pavilions includes more than 40 restaurants,
shops, and entertainment venues, including
a United Artists movie theater and a holiday
carousel for children. Popular spots include
Victoria's Secret, the Rocky Mountain
Chocolate Factory, the Hard Rock Café and
the Coyote Ugly Saloon.
Downtown Boulder
Pearl Street and Broadway, Boulder, 80302
303-449-3774; www.boulderdowntown.com
Downtown Boulder has upwards of 1,000
businesses ( 85 percent of which are locally
owned and operated). A nice mix of popular
chain stores and locally owned shops and
restaurants dot the Pearl Street Mall, an
outdoor pedestrian mall with the best people
watching in the region. About two-dozen
restaurants downtown offer a full lunch
for $5 or less, and many other restaurants
provide elegant dining options. As an added
benefit, multiple garages offer free parking
on weekends.
FlatIron Crossing
One W. Flatiron Crossing Dr.
Broomfield, 80021; 720-887-7467
Come for the view of Boulder's Flatirons—but stay for the shopping! This
1.5-million-square-foot, indoor/outdoorshopping center has a pond and sandboxfor the kids, and a skating rink that's openin winter. Restaurants, movie theaters, andmore than 200 fashion and specialty retailersare found at FlatIron Crossing. Someexciting shops include Coach, ColdwaterCreek, BC Surf & Sport, Banana Republic,J. Crew, Papyrus, LOFT, the ContainerStore, and more. This is a quintessentialColorado shopping experience.
Larimer Square
1430 Larimer, Denver, 80211
303-534-2367; www.larimersquare.com
One of the most unique shopping areas
in downtown Denver, Larimer Square is
the city's most historic block. The beautiful buildings offer a peek in Denver's
early days, while also featuring luxurious
clothing stores, specialty shops, nightclubs
and lounges, numerous restaurants, and
more. Visitors can easily while away the day
in this small but beautiful district. Popular
shops include Cry Baby Ranch, an eclectic
boutique that "gives the cowboy aesthetic
a modern and fun makeover" and Victoriana Antique and Fine Jewelry, one of the
region's largest and most respected antique
Marketplace at Northglenn
104th Avenue and I- 25, Denver, 80204
303-294-7984; www.northglenn.org
Marketplace at Northglenn encompasses
about 650,000 square feet of space and has
about 40 stores, including Lowe's, Bed, Bath
& Beyond, and Sports Authority.
Outlets at Castle Rock
5050 Factory Shops Blvd., Castle Rock, 80108
303-688-4495; www.outletsatcastlerock.com
The largest open-air outlet center in Colorado, the Outlets at Castle Rock sits on 43
acres and is home to 120 premium brands,
including Polo Ralph Lauren, Gap Outlet,
Banana Republic Factory Store, Columbia
Sportswear, Children's Place, Calvin Klein,
Eddie Bauer, Timberland, Tommy Hilfiger
and others. More than 4. 2 million people
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The Ultimate Workout and Recovery will be at the The Family Cafe, Florida's premier event for people with disabilities, The Annual Family Cafe!
This year's 19th Annual Family Cafe will be held on June 16-18, 2017 in Orlando. We hope to see you there!
About The Family Cafe:
Since 1998, The Annual Family Cafe has brought together thousands of individuals with disabilities and their family members for three days of information, training and networking each June. With a great range of individual breakout sessions, a packed Exhibit Hall with dozens of vendors, and a series of special events including Keynote speakers and The Governors' Summit on Disabilities, The Annual Family Café offers families exposure to a wide range of public and private resources, opportunities to find support by networking with other families, and unprecedented access to policy-making officials.
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The Beaches of Sagaponack Photographs by Tria Giovan
10 April 2014 - 30 May 2014
511 GALLERY is pleased to present MOMENTARY: The Beaches of Sagaponack Photographs by Tria Giovan, photographs of a three-mile stretch of beach on the eastern end of Long Island shot over ten years and four seasons.
MOMENTARY features eight large color photographs from Giovon's extensive project, ten-thousand images of Sagaponack's shoreline. The works in the exhibition begin in the late nineties with High Tide Winter 1999 and end withRain 1 Summer 2010. Each photograph contains its own mix of sand, ocean, wave, and sky. Occasionally, Giovan excludes one of the elements. Grey 2 Winter 2009 shows no trace of a beach - only a foggy sky, the low, even curl of a wave, and an indistinct horizon line. Swoosh Spring 2006 conceals the sky, focusing instead on a sand bar and foamy variations of a single wave within the sweeping tide. The viewer is aware that the larger context exists but is visually led to confront the boundary-less-ness of both the image and the reality of the landscape being represented.
The viewing stance, or entry, into each scene, is an essential component of Giovan's photographs. In each image, the artist frames the question of how the viewer positions himself or herself in relation to the elements, asking "where are you" when looking at or when in a landscape. Sand Bar Wave Summer 2006 provides a central, traditional entryway into the pictorial space: a rippling wave parts the beach, and our eyes at once are brought to the middle-ground, where a rising tide spills evenly over the sand bar toward the shore. Other works appear to destabilize the viewing position entirely, especially White Spring 2009, which depicts a row of high white waves that crash into the ocean itself. The horizon line between sea and sky is partially blocked by spray, and there is no sand visible. As viewers of the image, as of the natural scene itself, we are placed in the picture and in nature, wading in the shallow waters. By individuating the viewer's position and experience of the landscape, Giovan explores the role of landscape art and challenges the public mythologies it often promulgates.
The relationship between the viewer and the seascape infers human presence in a series that appears to avoid representing traces of it. At first glance one may celebrate the Sagaponack beaches as a "natural" landscape that escapes the human impact and is affected only by "natural" forces. This is not the case: these beaches are protected by governments, conservancies, land trusts, and economically resourceful individuals who have long fought to preserve the natural - in ways that may sometimes prove to be "unnatural."
In that sense, Giovan's project speaks of a new way in which one might approach the physical environment and its conservation. Nature, as it may be argued in these images, will change on its own, quietly, second by second, day by day, season by season, and decade by decade. MOMENTARY, thus, starts with a seemingly small subject, the particular moments of a particular beach, but through its relentless examination dissects the so-called natural landscape, and widens its context to include ecology, the politics of landscape and landscape art, and the meaning of the natural.
Tria Giovan was born in Chicago and at age three moved with her family to St. Thomas, American Virgin Islands, where she lived for twenty years. In 1987, working in New York as a photographer's assistant, she initiated her first photographic project, Lower Eastside Interiors. From 1990 to 1996, she traveled to Cuba twelve times for her series Cuba: The Elusive Island, which was exhibited worldwide and then published as a book. In 1999, she began photographing the Sagaponack beaches, a twelve-year project resulting inSand Sea Sky: The Beaches of Sagaponack, which won the 2012 International Photography Award in the category of nature books. Giovan's photographs have been published in Aperture, Esquire, Smithsonian, Harpers, and Vogue, and her work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Jewish Museum, and The New York Public Library. The artist lives and works in Sag Harbor, NY.
The show's opening reception will take place on Thursday, April 10 from 6 to 8 pm.
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Sensors Expo & Conference
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McEnery Convention Center
San Jose, CA USA
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|A New Type of Neural Network for Anomaly Detection in Sensor Data
|Marion LeBorgne
Talk Abstract
We are living in an area with an ever growing number of sensors, where streaming analytics and machine learning are critical. But what does it take to automate stream processing? How do we create machine learning models that can keep up with exploding numbers of data streams? This talk covers how to leverage HTM (Hierarchical Temporal Memory) - a new type of neural network - to create applications that learn in real time, automatically and without the need for data labeling.


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ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday said that he was disqualified merely on holding an Aqama but PTI Chief Imran Khan was cleared of allegations of money laundering despite his confession of wrong doing.
"Despite all investigations, no proof of money laundering was found against me and I was disqualified for holding an Aqama. But, Imran Khan despite his tendering an apology for wrong doing was cleared of charges," he said talking to media in front of Accountability Court.
"How could be a person cleared of charges who confesses wrong doing and tenders unconditional apology while a sitting Prime Minister be disqualified even when no allegation is proved against him," he added.
He said Imran Khan had confessed transaction of millions of pounds for construction of house as well as investments in Niazi Services. "But, our courts cleared him of charges despite his confession. It is matter of record and I am not beating about the bush."
Nawaz Sharif said if Imran Khan had not committed any crime why he had to tender unconditional apology before the court. "He had confessed about his crime and money to which the case pertained to, was either pilfered or siphoned off or it was money laundering. In any case, it was a crime but he was declared truthful and righteous."
Contrary to it, he said, an elected Prime Minister was disqualified on an imaginative salary and Aqama that in other terms is a Visa. "Now the nation has to decide on this matter and the nation would definitely give its verdict in 2018 elections."
Referring to NA-120 by-election, Nawaz Sharif said Imran had claimed after the court decision against him (Nawaz) that the said election would be a referendum against the PML-N. "But, Maryam led campaign in NA-120 forced Imran Khan to eat dust. You (Imran) lost the referendum in NA-120 and 2018 election would also prove to be a referendum against you."
He said it cannot work that one person is pushed to wall and other is bailed out and then it is stated that the justice has been done.
"All this is moving forward through a strategy. But, the time has changed and it is 2018 and not 1947, 1958, 1969 or 1977. Time has changed, the nation is awake and we shall have to meet obligations of present times," he added.
When asked about bail of Imran Khan from anti-terrorism court, Nawaz Sharif said, there are many secrets in this matter and he will inform the nation about it.
He said Imran had been making hue and cry by playing up rigging mantra, but was any rigging found in any constituency. "What kind of rigging he had been talking about, I could not understand."
He sought any solid reason behind his summoning to courts and trying for the charges which were not proved against him during investigation.
When asked about his visit to Saudi Arabia, Nawaz Sharif said, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are brotherly countries having cordial relations since former's inception. "We enjoy mutual bonds of affection and these bonds are cementing with every passing day."
He said his visit to Saudi Arabia was not a 'wonder of the world.' "People who nurtured rumors were spiteful not to me but also to friendly relations between the two countries. Their conduct was highly irresponsible."—APP


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The issue of Lovable Lingeries Ltd will open for subscription tomorrow. The issue will remain open for investors from March 8th to Mar 11th.
Lovable Lingeries Ltd is one of India's leading women's innerwear manufacturers based in Mumbai. "Lovable", "Daisy Dee" and "College Style" are the flagship brands of the company.
Company is planning to use the money raised through IPO in setting up of a manufacturing facility at Bengaluru to create additional capacity. Company is also planning to open exclusive brand outlets and investment in joint venture.
Click on the below link to find more detail about Lovable Lingeries Ltd IPO:


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Transgender Complete, a Virtual Handbook
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Publisher Description
This is an important and complete resource for:
Transgender People who seek more information about themselves, their gender origins, how to maintain better relations with and come out to family members and employers;
Those Who Know a Transgender Person will learn the cause, why it is kept a secret, their biological imperative to express their inner gender, and how to maintain a loving relationship with their transgender loved one;
Employers will learn why transgender employees are ideal employees and how simple and effortless it is to integrate them into any organization; and
Students and Professionals, in the fields of psychotherapy, education, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and medicine, will gain insight into transgender peoples' thoughts and lives.
This book includes every aspect of transgenderism, original research, and over 180 comments from transgender women and men regarding the issues.
Joanne Borden, is also the author of "The Transgender Monologues, Gender, Sexuality, and LGBT Life" plus "Identical Treatment In the Machine of the Law, The Quest For Transgender Civil Rights" is the winner of the Best Story Teller of 2012 at New York City's Fresh Fruit Festival and based this book on 4 years of full-time research.
Dr. Renee Richards, a transgender icon and modern transgender pioneer, wrote, "I read it [Transgender Complete] and was impressed with how comprehensive and erudite a discussion it was of all things transgender."