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There have been huge advancements in technology in recent years, and the methods by which people communicate have changed drastically. Blogging is a current trend that is showing promise. If you would like to learn more about it, continue reading. You will find some great advice here for starting and maintaining a successful blog.
Comment on other blogs to raise your blog's profile. Google Reader is a great way to organize and manage other interesting but related blogs. Comment regularly, if you'd like to say something.
When you make your blog, think about buying a domain name instead of putting your blog on a free site. It's inexpensive and will make your blog look more professional. Having your own domain can make it easier for readers to remember and find your blog. Use your business name or a related keyword in your blog domain.
Ask already established bloggers if they would like to write guest posts on your blog. You will increase the interest in your blog by adding quality content. One good side effect of this strategy is that you'll probably receive a traffic bump, as many bloggers link any guest posts they make to their own blogs. Try to have a rotation of guest authors on your blog.
Consider occasionally inviting guests to post content on your site. This will develop a relationship between you and another blog owner, and you never know when that might come in handy. Cultivating quality relationships may allow you to reap unexpected rewards. You might need a favor in the future, and the blogger with whom you've been exchanging guest posts might be happy to help you.
Have images and graphics within your blog posts. There is a lot of truth to the old adage that one picture is more valuable then a thousand words. The inclusion of images in your blog can enhance your blog by breaking up text content. Often, you will find that images can convey much more than words can alone. For this reason, you should include as many images as you can within your blog.
Maintain the health of your blog. In order to do this, you have to update and maintain your blog, including making minor but appealing changes from time to time. This will prevent boredom from setting in with your readers. It will also keep your blog running smoothly.
Allow others to post guest posts onto your blog. Through guest posts, you and your guest can form an alliance that may come in handy in the future. Good relationships can really help you out. If you are in need a favor, a blogger that you have a relationship with may be willing to help.
Be patient when your blog is in its infancy stage. It takes time for online viewers to come across your blog. You also have to build up the amount of content on your blog before there is enough to entice a large audience to visit. As you stick with your blog, however, and add content, you will pull in readers that are attracted to different things.
Blog writing is not effective if you are just writing streams of paragraphs. Make sure that you do the research and find a topic for your blog that is right. If you don't put thought into what you're writing, your blog probably won't become successful. Remember, the success of your blog is determined by the content you produce for it.
Focus on providing informative or inspirational content for your blog. The more your content interests readers, the more traffic you'll get. If visitors find your content engaging and helpful, they'll be much more likely to visit again. They'll be even more interested if your content has an honest, personal feel.
You can use various social networking sites to advertise your blog; however, you need to be sure that you don't turn into a spammer. On Twitter, if you only tweet hyperlinks to your blog posts, people will start to ignore you. Tweet interesting content, as well.
Submit your blog entries to article directories and post them on your social media profiles. This makes them easier to find, which means they get read more often. Do not limit yourself to just a few outlets to promote your content. This one powerful move can help you access as many viewers as possible. Think in terms of saturating the Internet!
Keywords should be both bold and in italics. This makes the point of your blogs clear and also improves your search engine rankings. Keywords that stand out will invite people to click on them.
Create a schedule for blog posts and then abide by it. This helps your blog defeat all the competition out there. If you choose not to blog on a regular schedule, readers may give up on looking at your blog and read a competing blog that shares regular updates instead. While you should feel free to take breaks around the holidays or other special occasions, frequent posting should be your goal.
Be sure that your "contact us" page has been set up. Make it clear how people can contact you by setting up a separate "contact me" page. You may just get some good feedback if you let your readers contact you.
After you have chosen the best keywords for your topic, you should make every effort to include them in your content, placing them in bullet lists and emphasizing them with bold or italic formatting. Search engines like this kind of content and site traffic will increase accordingly. This piece of advice is quite powerful and can help you in a number of ways.
Ensure that longer posts are adequately divided into paragraphs, or even multiple posts. Readers struggle to consume big blobs of information. So, be sure to break your long segments into shorter ones so the average person can take it in more easily.
Social Media
A new homepage could be just what your blog needs. If you use a blog site, the basic system simply lists recent posts, which is not always aesthetically pleasing. When you create a homepage that is customized and tailored to you, you can create something much more interesting than the basic form on many blogging sites. In addition to providing a more attractive look and feel, doing this is also likely to help you generate more traffic driven by the search engines.
Take advantage of social media. These sites can help increase traffic to your blog. Social media has rapidly become a central part of the Internet experience, and if you ignore them you will turn your back on a vast potential audience for your blog. Sharing samples of your blog's content on sites such as Twitter and Facebook is a great way to expand your audience and your impact.
It is important to make certain that the links you include on your blog bring your readers to an operative, designated spot. This will make your site more easy to navigate and will keep your readers happy. There's nothing quite as frustrating as getting to a blog and not knowing how to find the things you need.
Remember that individuals all around the world could see your blog. There is no way for you to know what impact you will have by getting your voice heard. You need to remember the impact of your blog posts since potentially so many people are reading it at a given moment.
Follow bloggers that are also in your niche so that you are able to offer a better experience. You are competing with them for readers, so it's important to have an idea of what they are doing with their blogs. Your competition will no doubt be doing the same.


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"I enjoy working at Parasec because there is always a positive atmosphere in the office, which makes it a fun and pleasant environment to work in," remarked Zak Litovchenko, one of our information technology support specialists.
A self-described extrovert with a magnetic personality and an infectious smile, Zak joined Parasec in the fall of 2012, quickly cementing himself as an esteemed member of our team. An ambitious and compassionate individual, he always strives for excellence in the workplace. His inquisitive nature and problem-solving savvy make him a perfect fit for his position—providing technical assistance and support to our staff.
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It's a very common situation. A dropdownlist has a parent whose selected value determines what options will be bound to it. But what happens when there are none? And what happens if there's only one option? And why do I have to enter code to insert "Select an Item" to the list? And why does it continue to display even when no item has been selected on its parent and it doesn't have any values at all? And why does it continue to display immediately after the parent's value has been changed and the page is reloading?
Well, what if it wasn't that way? What if it accounted for all those things? That would be really nice, and, in fact, it actually is quite nice.
This extended dropdownlist control has the following additional parameters:
- ParentDropDownListID – Specifies the id field of the parent dropdownlist.
- ParentItemUnpopulatedText – Specifies the text to display when the parent dropdownlist has yet to be populated. The dropdownlist itself will be hidden and this text appears in its place, giving the user appropriate feedback. The default is "n/a" since this dropdownlist really isn't applicable until its parent is populated. (This comes up in a series of three or parent/child dropdownlists.)
- ParentItemNotSelectedText -Specifies the text to display when the parent dropdownlist has been populated but no item has yet been selected (The selected item is "Select an item".) So, for a state/city relationship it could say "Please select a state" or "n/a"–whatever you want. But the dropdownlist itself is hidden, so the user can't select it and wonder why there's nothing in it to select.
- ControlsToHideOnChange – This actually specifies children dropdownlists to hide whenever the selected item changes. In a state/city relationship, if you change the state, the city dropdownlist will need to be repopulated. However, sometimes the page takes a little while to load and the user may try to select a city before that gets repopulated. To avoid the confusion, the city dropdownlist, whose ID is specified in this parameter, will be immediately hidden via JavaScript and a message will appear in its place indicating that the user needs to wait until it is repopulated. You can actually specify multiple children to hide, so if you had county and city children, both would be hidden while the page reloads. The text is specified in the ChildrenRepopulatingText.
- ChildrenRepopulatingText – The text that replaces the child controls specified in ControlsToHideOnChange whenever the selected item for this control (the parent) changes.
- HasSelectedItemText – true/false – defines whether or not a "Select Item" option should be added to the dropdownlist. I will probably eliminate this and just add one based on whether or not the SelectItemText parameter is specified.
- SelectItemText – Specifies the text to add as the first item (with a value of -1) to the dropdownlist.
- NoItemsText – Specifies the message to display if there are no items in the dropdownlist, since an empty dropdownlist is annoying. The actual dropdownlist will be hidden and this text will display. So, this could be "There were no cities defined for the state you selected."
Additionally, if there is only one item bound to the dropdownlist, the dropdownlist goes ahead and selects that item. The dropdownlist itself is hidden, and the item text is displayed as a message. It is just annoying when you have a dropdownlist with a single item, but you still have to select it because you have a "Select Item" option that is the initially selected item.
So, that's the extended control as it is now. Hopefully, it will save coding time and provide a better overall user experience.
NOTE: The control as it is written does use Jquery commands as well, so if you're not referencing that, you'll need to rewrite the JavaScript.
public class ExtendedDropDownList : DropDownList { public bool HasSelectItemText { get { object o = ViewState["HasSelectItemText"]; if (o == null) return false; else return (bool)o; } set { ViewState["HasSelectItemText"] = value; } } public string SelectItemText { get { object o = ViewState["SelectItemText"]; if ((o == null) || ((string)o == "")) return "Select an Item"; else return (string)o; } set { ViewState["SelectItemText"] = value; } } public string NoItemsText { get { object o = ViewState["NoItemsText"]; if ((o == null) || ((string)o == "")) return "No items available to select"; else return (string)o; } set { ViewState["NoItemsText"] = value; } } public string ParentDropDownListID { get { if (ViewState["ParentDropDownListID"] == null) ViewState["ParentDropDownListID"] = ""; return (string)ViewState["ParentDropDownListID"]; } set { ViewState["ParentDropDownListID"] = value; } } public string ParentItemNotSelectedText { get { if (ViewState["ParentItemNotSelectedText"] == null) ViewState["ParentItemNotSelectedText"] = ""; return (string)ViewState["ParentItemNotSelectedText"]; } set { ViewState["ParentItemNotSelectedText"] = value; } } public string ParentItemUnpopulatedText { get { if (ViewState["ParentItemUnpopulatedText"] == null) ViewState["ParentItemUnpopulatedText"] = "n/a"; return (string)ViewState["ParentItemUnpopulatedText"]; } set { ViewState["ParentItemUnpopulatedText"] = value; } } public string ControlsToHideOnChange { get { if (ViewState["ControlsToHideOnChange"] == null) ViewState["ControlsToHideOnChange"] = ""; return (string)ViewState["ControlsToHideOnChange"]; } set { ViewState["ControlsToHideOnChange"] = value; } } public string ChildrenRepopulatingText { get { if (ViewState["ChildrenRepopulatingText"] == null) ViewState["ChildrenRepopulatingText"] = "Repopulating Options..."; return (string)ViewState["ChildrenRepopulatingText"]; } set { ViewState["ChildrenRepopulatingText"] = value; } } public string[] ControlsToHide { get { return ControlsToHideOnChange.Split(','); } } public override void DataBind() { base.DataBind(); int itemCount = this.Items.Count; if (HasSelectItemText && itemCount > 1) this.Items.Insert(0, new ListItem(SelectItemText, "-1")); if (itemCount == 0) this.SelectedIndex = -1; else this.SelectedIndex = 0; } protected override void CreateChildControls() { base.CreateChildControls(); if (ControlsToHideOnChange != "") { ServerPage page = GetPage(); foreach (string s in ControlsToHide) { this.Attributes["onchange"] = "$('#" + page.FindControl(s).ClientID + "').hide();" + "$('#" + page.FindControl(s).ClientID + "').parent().text('" + ChildrenRepopulatingText + "');" + this.Attributes["onchange"]; } } } protected override void Render(System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter writer) { EnsureChildControls(); DropDownList parent = (DropDownList)GetPage().FindControl(ParentDropDownListID); bool hasUnselectedParent = (ParentDropDownListID != "") && (parent != null) && (parent.Items.Count > 0) && (parent.SelectedValue == "-1"); bool hasUnpopulatedParent = (ParentDropDownListID != "") && (parent != null) && (parent.Items.Count == 0); writer.WriteLine("
"); if (hasUnselectedParent) { this.Items.Clear(); writer.WriteLine("" + ParentItemNotSelectedText + ""); this.Attributes.CssStyle["display"] = "none"; } else if (hasUnpopulatedParent) { this.Items.Clear(); writer.WriteLine("" + ParentItemUnpopulatedText + ""); this.Attributes.CssStyle["display"] = "none"; } else { if (this.Items.Count == 0) { writer.WriteLine("" + NoItemsText + ""); this.CssClass = "hide"; } else if (this.Items.Count == 1) { writer.WriteLine("" + this.Items[0].Text + ""); this.CssClass = "hide"; } } base.Render(writer); writer.WriteLine("
"); } private Foliotek.Components.ServerPage GetPage() { System.Web.UI.Control control = this; while (control.GetType() != Type.GetType("Foliotek.Components.ServerPage")) { control = control.Parent; } return (Foliotek.Components.ServerPage)control; } }


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"And when [Jesus] entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, 'By what authority are you doing these things and who gave you this authority?" [It's important to note the context for this question which is prompted in the previous verses, 12-17 – when Jesus had, the day prior, overturned the tables of the money changers in the temple and healed the blind and lame.] (Matthew 21:23)
To a large degree, deep inside, the question of the chief priests and elders is ours as well … is it not? It's the question of all humanity at bottom – especially in our age marked by increasing ambiguity and plurality, with its seeming cultural answer of relativism (You know, "Whatever!") or even disingenuous indifference (You've heard it: "It is what it is.") There is a longing in the human spirit for ultimate authority. To be in touch with, or know that which we can finally trust.
Now hang-in there with me on some brief but key historical highlights of this quest, for understanding the matter of authority. … The ancient Greeks sought for it in eudaimonia (e.g. Aristotle's "happiness" or "well-being"). The Medievalists' thought of auctoritas or "authority" in terms of power (e.g. Duns Scotus' potestas absoluta). Or later, philosophers like Immanuel Kant, during the Enlightenment (1685-1815), thought of authority in terms of reason – with their battle cry: "Dare to think [for yourself]" (sapere aude). And in our own time, authority has become invested in Science and Technology (where techne or Scientia, in terms of "technique," has replaced sapientia or "wisdom.")
From infancy we're raised on various authorities. Authority permeates our lives. We accept it. We reformulate it. We reject it. And still, even in our rejection, we presuppose it. It's vital for our lives, because authority marks where we place our trust. But where, in whom or what do we place this trust of ultimate authority? We ask the question of authority because, if we're honest with ourselves, we're so unsure of our own – or our constant disappointment by the authorities around us. Just consider the political authorities in America in 2017.
Between now and this weekend, I'd like for you to read the Gospel text from Matthew 21:23-32, and ponder these two questions: (1) "What is the meaning of Jesus' distinction between an authority "from heaven or from men" (see v.25a)? Is this reference to "heaven" just some easy cop-out to some pie-in-the-sky? … And (2) "Is either brother in the parable that Jesus tells, in vv. 28-31 our Gospel text, really obedient to the father's request? Is there another son, somewhere in this Gospel text who is, and how so?" Perhaps the matter of authority, real and lasting authority, comes down to a matter of obedience. What thinkest thou?
In the meantime, God's grace and peace …
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In a thousand years
will the Mona Lisa still smile
or Venus de Milo bend perfectly?
Will the temples of Ankor Wat still rest in splendor
or Bodhisattwas in Lhasa contemplate silently?
In a hundred years
will people still listen to sonatas by Schubert
or take the time to read Shakespearian plays?
Will art still become irrelevant
as more people become
obsessed with money making
planet raping
technology creating
speed accelerating?
To survive this moment
we must learn to think slow:
Why are we racing?
Where do we really want to go?
Jack: I thought art was already dead. Ella: Don't speak such nonsense –
to live without art is to exist without soul.


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Join Doug Rose for an in-depth discussion in this video Next steps, part of Learning Data Science: Manage Your Team.
- In this course, we introduced you…to the key roles in a data science team.…A team will deliver deeper insights…than any one data scientist.…The key is to have the right mindset…and focus on exploring instead of defined objectives.…In this course, you saw the three key roles.…There was the research lead, data analyst,…and project manager.…Then you saw how these roles fit together…into a greater data science mindset.…The research lead was focused on asking good questions.…
The data analyst created interesting reports.…The project manager communicated the insights…to the rest of the organization.…You can also see more examples…and in depth information in my book,…Data Science: Creating Teams That Ask the…Right Questions and Deliver Real Value.…It's available through A Press Publishing…and in most online book stores.…This course is one of several data science…courses available in the video library.…I hope you enjoyed this course…on building your data science team.…
Feel free to follow me on LinkedIn.…There you'll see more examples…
Learn the holistic approach to building teams and deploying data science across disciplines. Identify the key roles and responsibilities, including research lead, data analyst, and project manager. Find out how to define areas of responsibility, foster effective communication, and build compelling reports and visualizations. Then see how to avoid the pitfalls of losing focus and arriving at false consensus. These techniques help you build highly skilled teams that produce deeper insights than you'll find from relying on data scientists alone.
- Creating a data-driven culture
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Elon Musk Deletes Facebook Pages Of Tesla, SpaceX After Challenged On Twitter
Verified Facebook pages of Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX and electric carmaker Tesla Inc disappeared on Friday, minutes after the Silicon Valley billionaire promised on Twitter to take down the pages when challenged by users.
"Delete SpaceX page on Facebook if you're the man?" a user tweeted to Tesla ChiefExecutive Musk.
His response: "I didn't realize there was one. Will do."
It is time. #deletefacebook
— Brian Acton (@brianacton) March 20, 2018
It is time. #deletefacebook
— Brian Acton (@brianacton) March 20, 2018
What's Facebook?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018
Delete SpaceX page on Facebook if you're the man?
—  (@serdarsprofile) March 23, 2018
we're waiting pic.twitter.com/5jAEEdja1k
— Ryan Mac (@RMac18) March 23, 2018
SpaceX social media person worrying about their job like pic.twitter.com/I0sGgHV2Rb
— Ryan Mac (@RMac18) March 23, 2018
this should be deleted too right? pic.twitter.com/1llNaXS0CC
— bryson (@Bryson_M) March 23, 2018
yasssssssss pic.twitter.com/qMdTrkcQQm
— Ryan Mac (@RMac18) March 23, 2018
Facebook pages of SpaceX and Tesla, which had millions of followers, are no longer accessible.
Musk had begun the exchange by responding to a tweet from WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton on the #deletefacebook tag.
The hashtag gained prominence after the world's largest social network upset users by mishandling data, which ended up in the hands of Cambridge Analytica – a political consultancy that worked on US President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign.
"What's Facebook?" Musk tweeted.
Many users also urged the billionaire to delete the profiles of his companies on Facebook's photo-sharing app Instagram.
"Instagram's probably ok … so long as it stays fairly independent," Musk responded.
"I don't use FB & never have, so don't think I'm some kind of martyr or my companies are taking a huge blow. Also, we don't advertise or pay for endorsements, so … don't care."


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On the 23rd March, Toby is taking on his first Half Marathon to show his support for his sister Meg.
Having completed a couple of 5k & 10k runs, Toby will be keeping a blog about the highs & lows of his training as he build up the miles ahead of his biggest challenge.
"I am doing this for my sister Meg, who has lived with lupus for a number of years. The way she has coped with this illness, hospital visits and endless medication is inspirational. She's a true Lupus Warrior and I have endless respect and love for her."
Follow Toby's progress on his blog.
You can sponsor Toby via his JustGiving page.
Good luck Toby & thank you for supporting The Hibbs Lupus Trust!
If you would like to run for The Hibbs Lupus Trust, registration for The Liverpool Half Marathon is still open. You can register now via their website.
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Review by Askazombiehousewife
I have purchased several EBooks on being a zazzle artist and this book is a good one, its short but packed with all sort information. The best part is its free and can be found On http://elkeclarke.com/ With the information provided from this ebook it useful for new and old sellers. I realized I needed to re open some of my smaller zazzle stores with more professional sounding names. I had always wrongly thought of my side stores competition with myself instead of way to make stores with more professional sounding names pinned to my main store. The tips will keep you from wasting your time. The eBook was published when zazzle was doing Freshness score but the ebook is still very relevant and one of the more up to date Ebooks about making money on Zazzle out there. The only real change is Zazzle wants store owners to keep under 100,000 products for designer stores. I highly recommend this ebook.
What is Zazzle?
For those who don't know what zazzle is its a printing company that allows artists, designers and major brands like Disney a new way to sell product. With zazzle you can take your art put it on a shirt , mugs, prints and other products. Customers can then buy what they like and the designer or artist will get a commission. Its a great for artists who haven't been in big galleries to sell their work. With ebooks like Elle Clarke she makes a lot easier.
Who is Elke Clarke?
Elke Clarke is one of the top designers at zazzle and is a diamond seller. That is an elite group of top zazzle designers with highest sales. http://elkeclarke.com/


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Monthly Archives: March 2018
Partners in crime.
Just sent the list…
Hey friends-
Just sent out the list of names. If you had asked for the list but don't find the email please let us know.
For all who follow, we know you pray and care.
Mucho love.
Fruit by the numbers.
I recognize that most often when we discuss what God is doing here we stay very general and some could argue we write in hyperbole.
In order to give you a real clear understanding of the massiveness of the HS activity that we are witnessing let me give you some numbers. Then we'll invite more of you to consider receiving the actual list of real names we are responsible for.
Take a quick glance at this silly graph that I worked on for a couple hours🤔😆. There are 104 people represented. I have broken them down into 3 categories to simplify the math (there is suppose to be a cross in the middle of the graph, but photoshop was acting up or something).
Out of the 103 names that I have been given over the last year and a half 55 of them are active. Active could mean they have become a believer and are meeting with me weekly and even sharing with their friends, or meeting with me once or twice a month while still discovering who He is. But this group represents all the guys that I at least have regular contact with. 55. It's quite a load. I'm not completely alone. I have a few partners that have come side by side, but it's still quite a task. Just setting up meetings is tiresome, very tiresome. Then to pour into these guys and open the Word and invest in each person can bring a level of fatigue that is uncommon. It is not hyperbole or overspiritualism to truly admit that without the power of God and prayers there is simply no way it happens. The level of joy is divine, no question. But the fatigue is real also.
Then 43 of the names I have been given are not responding. This list is compromised of people who have given us their name, phone number, and perhaps Facebook account, but they are no longer responsive. Many of these guys have met once or twice, received a Book and made steps towards faith. Others have never met us once. But this category represents guys that are no longer responding to calls, texts or Facebook messages. We certainly should keep praying for them because every couple months different ones of the "not responding" guys comes back around. In a few cases they return to tell us they have already begun to believe or are ready to believe and join a community. So we continue to pray and we continue to call or text or IM them infrequently with the hope they come around again.
The 6 MIA-Unknown guys have all made significant advances towards faith, but then it's like they disappeared. Two in particular were about to be dunked, and from the weekend the dunking was supposed to happen till now we have not heard from them. Their phones are off. Facebook accounts closed. It's hard and sad to think about.
A couple reasons why this list is uniquely significant:
1) instead of just praying in general for Arabs or for this region or country, we have the unique ability to know actually names of individuals to lift up who are seeking the Lord on one level or another. What an opportunity to have over 100 people to pray for by name.
2) the other thing to keep in mind is that I am just one of about 30-40 people who have a list like this. That's right. There are that many people here growing in faith. Some guys and gals have double the amount of names, some have less. The point is, we have a way to comprehend the real magnitude of what is happening.
Who gets excited about this?
Who would like to receive the list of names by email?
Isn't God truly amazing and true to His Word?
We are all apart of this folks. Aslan is moving all across the earth.
Until everyone has heard!!


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"Cup: The Intimate Object X" is hosted by the Charlie Cummings Gallery in Gainesville, FL. I am participating as an invited artist this year for this amazing cup show. Close to 1,000 cups will be exhibited in the Gallery and Online. There are both invited artists, and juried artists in this show, so it will be a nice collection of work you have seen around, and some you may have not. Every year the show gets bigger and better, I'm really looking forward to adding a cup to our collection from the exhibit.
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By: Janette Artea
A key component to surviving college is balance. After all, it isn't long before you find yourself trekking to class, killing it at the internship of your dreams, and socializing, or as we like to call it - networking. In order to survive it all, aside from establishing your professional persona, it's important to step back and develop the habits that will benefit you in the long run. Don't be the intern who can't handle her workload and messes up in a big way or the student that fails to prioritize her classes and bombs a test or two. Below, three ways to achieve, and maintain, the perfect school-life balance all while being the star intern and acing your history exam!
1. Procrastination is the enemy.
When your to-do list is three miles long, it's easy to say, "I'll do this later." Don't. It's a vicious cycle. The second you start procrastinating, your list of things to get done just gets bigger and bigger. Motivation will go out the window, and before you know it, you won't even know where to begin. Aim to get ahead of your work. Your stress levels will remain at an all time low and future you will be forever grateful. Remember that the sooner you get your work done, the more time you have to hang out with friends or stay in and binge watch Netflix. The choice is yours.
2. Master your schedule.
Events. Meetings. Study groups. Happy Hours. There are so many items that will land on your calendar. Take the time to add your class schedule, important assignment due dates and special events you definitely want to make time for. Keeping your calendar up to date will not only keep you organized and on top of deadlines. You'll be especially glad you relied on the good ole calendar app when your social calendar begins filling up.
3. Self care is the best care.
In a world that encourages jam packed schedules, it's important to make time time for yourself. Whether it's a massage and mani at Chill House, a trip to one of New York's many art galleries or a solo walk in the park - it's super important for your well-being to take a step back from work and school obligations and focus on you. Doing so not only keeps stress at bay, but will also allow you to come back refreshed and ready to tackle a new to do list.
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Spouses: If They're Really Good At One Thing, They Really Suck At Something Else.
This post made me laugh out loud. So true, for all of us!
Spouses: If They're Really Good At One Thing, They Really Suck At Something Else.
This post made me laugh out loud. So true, for all of us!
From Janelle:
The recent lull between projects has been welcome and has given us the opportunity to do what we love; entertain. This house was designed for entertaining; individual sitting and eating places encompassed in open spaces allow for easy conversational flows and wherever you are everything and everyone is visible. A separate dining room could not be incorporated into the floor plan but our expandable glass dining table on wheels allows us to serve company in a formal sit down format when it rolls into place.
Last weekend twelve guests gathered at a makeshift dining area in the middle of the Great Room feasting on grilled mustard crusted salmon, Brussels sprouts, Caesar salad, Giada De Laurentiis' Pasta Ponza (with my own twist of substituting sundried tomatoes for some of the cherries) and The Foodinista's Killer Banana Pudding with Nilla Wafers that one diner loved so much she literally licked the glass clean.
Last night I hosted a Ladies Only Mixology Event gathering twenty of my friends for lessons by a professional bartender on crafting such fabulous cocktails as Marie Claire Champagne Cocktail (my favorite although I don't like gin), Bloody Martini, classics like Cosmopolitan and with a twist Grapefruit Cosmopolitan, Lemon Drop, Chocolate Martini and as Thanksgiving is quickly approaching Pumpkin Pie Martini which was a huge hit. When Lewis arrived home he wondered if food had actually passed anyone's lips as the floor was covered with food and sticky beverage remnants but that is a sign of a great party!
From Lewis:
Well I'm just glad they didn't burn the house down. Just goes to show that woman are just as messy as men but the house is performing as expected for entertaining. Now we just need some more comfortable seating to be finished.
From Janelle:
Hey, that sounds like a green light for my lime green couch!
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Camping Valdevaqueros – Tarifa
In one of the most idyllic corners of Tarifa, at the foot of a natural park and in front of the Valdevaqueros beach, we find this camping with all necessary facilities and services to make your holiday enjoyable.
Just some meters from one of the world's most famous kitesurfing and windsurfing beaches, it offers spectacular views to the African continent.
The Camping Valdevaqueros has an area of 12930 square meters spread over several areas:
– An area for camping, very shady and on lawn, but without electricity, ideal for tents and pickup trucks.
– Large plots separated by hedges, shady, with electricity and water.
– Bungalows with living room, kitchen with small fridge, bathroom and covered terrace with tables and chairs. They are fully equipped with bed linen, towels, utensils, remote control air conditioning and heating, remote control satellite television and microwave.
This campsite in Tarifa is open all year, has a reception, a small supermarket, bar-restaurant, children's playground, tennis court, swimming pool, showers, car wash, special area for dehydration of caravans and chemical toilets, Wi-Fi, laundry service, services for babies, among others.
Undoubtedly a great choice for a stay at a campsite in Tarifa, in a quiet and family atmosphere between the sea and the mountains.


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Nils Petter Molvær (NPM), Norwegian musician, composer and producer, connects multiple music styles - jazz, ambient, house, electronic and break beats, as well as elements from hip hop, rock and pop music - and effortlessly melts them into convincing soundscapes of deep intensity. NEW ALBUM AND TOUR 2016.
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Completely alone on stage, surrounded by kalimba, kazoo, zither and various electronics to sample and manipulate her voice, she's always a fascinating experience in concert. Mari Kvien Brunvoll has a unique ability to fire up an audience, and has the ability to capture the listener into her universe and never let you go. Her music is a personal expression that straddles jazz, electro pop, acoustic blues and folk music from different corners of the world.
With guitar, effects pedals and an ingenious computer setup, the Austrian musician Christian Fennesz team up with Arve Henriksens trumpet, vocals and live electronics to create a totally new and fascinating musical universe. DATES ON REQUEST 2016.
Etter å ha gitt ut tre kritikerroste plater under vignetten "Norwegian Song", tar Dag Arnesen konseptet videre i samspill med bl.a. strykere fra Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester. LEDIGE DATOER PÅ FORESPØRSLER. http://eepurl.com/bq8fq1
En Sån Karl, Du Är Den Ende, En man i byrån, Sången Han Sjöng Var Min Egen og Musik ska byggas utav glädje. m.m. Kjente internasjonale slagere, egne hits, sambarytmer og dykk innom den rikholdige svenske visesangtradisjonen der navn som Cornelis Vreeswijk og Evert Taube er sentrale. Skandinavias showdronning. Ledige datoer i Norge jan 2016.
Arild Andersen Trio with Tommy Smith and Paolo Vinaccia
+ special guest Helge Lien. One of the most interesting and unusual jazz trios to have emerged in the last ten years is the international collaboration between Norwegian master bassist Arild Andersen, Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith and Italian percussionist Paolo Vinaccia. Andersen formed the trio in 2007 with the clear aim of breaking new ground in contemporary jazz and their impact was immediate. Their group's initial live performances were noted for their astonishing power, precision and dynamism. AVAILABLE SPRING AND SUMMER + TOUR DATES 12-23 OCT 2016. http://eepurl.com/bw-XJz
The mesmerizing voices of Oslo's Trio Mediaeval have captivated the concert world with their breathtaking performances and recordings of a diverse polyphonic repertoire that features medieval music from England and France, contemporary works written for the ensemble, and traditional Norwegian ballads and songs. AVAILABLE 2016.
Ola Kvernberg has received none less than three awards since his latest release. Liarbird (2011) was unanimously celebrated among critics both in Norway and abroad, and went on to win the Norwegian Grammy (Spellemannsprisen) for Best Jazz Album in 2012. During the Kongsberg Jazz Festival later that year, he received the country's biggest prize; The Kongsberg DNB Musicians Award, receiving 300.000NOK. In 2013 he went on to win the Best Movie Music category at the Amanda Awards (norwegian Oscars equivalent) for his musical score for movie "Chasing the Wind". AVAILABLE ON REQUEST 2016. http://wpu.ir/y0xk2
A little nation with a big jazz tradition is the land of fjords and trolls. Fascinating new artists and acts sporting a huge zest for playing and an irrepressible urge for experimentation keep pushing out of Norway to conquer the rest of the jazz world. The Helge Lien Trio, who have already won a large circle of fans in Scandinavia and Japan with their five albums and inspiring live concerts, are especially significant. They maintain the balance between jazz traditions and the avantgardist art of improvisation like hardly any other classic piano trio, par excellence. DATES ON REQUEST 2016.
Arve Henriksen is probably Norway's most versatile musician of his generation, always on the move, always searching and exploring possible and seemingly impossible paths. From the Rune Grammofon catalogue he will be known through the three solo albums, twelve releases as a founder member of groundbreaking improvising group Supersilent and four with Food (two of them on RG). He was a member of Christian Wallumrød Ensemble and has played and recorded with a large number of Norwegian and international musicians, most notably David Sylvian, Jan Bang and Dhafer Youssef. In 2008 the album "Cartography" was released on ECM, but now Arve has a new album out on Rune Grammofon. DATES ON REQUEST 2016.
The Persian Sufi poet Jalaladin Rumi has had a great influence upon music, dance, poetry and philosophy in several countries. An active theologist, mystic and poet in the 13th century, Rumi left behind a large number of written material that has been a source of inspiration for mystics, musicians and other creative souls to this day. This is manifested once again when Norwegian composer Trygve Seim and his ensemble perform their Rumi Songs - a symbiosis of Rumi's beautiful poetry and Scandinavian contemporary music. DATES ON REQUEST 2016. http://eepurl.com/bBeTAH
Stian Westerhus is one of Norway's most in demand young musicians playing in bands like Monolithic (with Kenneth Kapstad from Motorpsycho), Puma, Nils Petter Molvaer Group and many more. For the last few years Stian Westerhus has put more and more energy into challenging the electric guitar alone on a stage. Having been blessed with little or no respect for the instrument his performances balance raw expressiveness, virtuosity and melodic instinct utilizing his Norwegian heritage as well as growing up listening to Slayer. With a soundscape far beyond the standard guitar he seeks to push the boundaries for improvised music across the muddy waters of genres. AVAILABLE IN 2016. http://www.kalleklev.no/artists/1/1453.html
SVANTE HENRYSON Henryson/Balke/Jormin/Kleive Quartet
A band made up of four Scandinavian jazz stars – Svante Henryson (cello), Jon Balke (piano), Anders Jormin (double bass) and Audun Kleive (drums) – some of the most influential musicians in the last twenty years of European jazz.The project, which began with the first edition of Jon Balke's Magnetic North Orchestra, was born thanks to the open musical vision of its leader Svante Henryson and has its roots in the constant desire of its other members to explore and interact. Henryson is a unique musician when it comes to voice and phrasing, an all-around artist able tomove with absolute freedom in a musical universe without distinction of musical genre. He is acomposer for orchestra and a formidable improviser, equally comfortable playing double bass andelectric bass as well as being a virtuoso on the cello. AVAILABLE 2016. MORE
Ketil Bjørnstad returns to the piano/cello duo, instrumentation which defined two of his best-loved albums, "The River" and "Epigraphs" with David Darling, back in 1996 and 1998. This new collaboration with Svante Henryson, however, tells a different story. AVAILABLE 2016. MORE
Master pianist Stenson, long term bassist Anders Jormin and alertly responsive young drummer Jon Fält have developed a richly detailed sound-world like nothing else in modern jazz – at once an extension of the jazz piano tradition and, with its windows opening onto classical music and world folklore, a force apart from it. AVAILABLE 2016. MORE
Known for the dazzling success of his song Yeke Yeke, Mory Kante, brilliant Guinean griot, singer and master of the kora, always thrills his audiences at every show - no matter where in the world he is performing! This musical pioneer of African music with his band of talented musicians, are always a breath of freshness from the musical mother-source, and an electric-and electrifying!-reminder of the unifying power of his truly planetary world music! AVAILABLE 2016. MORE
IVER KLEIVE and REIESRUD
Based on Norwegian folk tunes and hymns Iver kleive and Reiersrud added a new dimension to traditional church music. The music from the acclaimed trilogy; Blå Koral (91), Himmelskip (96) and Nåde over nåde (06). This "Cathedral trilogy" is built on the old Norwegian folk tunes and hymns as well as their own compositions. Let yourself be enchanted by the diversity and character of these beautiful melodies. Available in 2016 on requests. Spotify. More
The album Rocks And Straws are based on poems by the North Norwegian cult poet Arvid Hanssen, translated into English by Roy Frode Løvland. The poems have strong elements of nature mysticism, but also examines man and nature and the human nature. Anneli find it liberating to not sing "I-me-you-you" texts, but rather deal with something bigger, something that everyone shares. AVAILABLE DATES ON REQUESTS 2016. http://eepurl.com/bkvGm9
The Magical Forest
It is inspiring to find traces and fragments of ideas about the world tree, axsis mundi, in Finnskogen. I have transformed these and some parallel stories into songs that are encircled by instrumental passages and improvisations by the musicians. Mircea Eliade comments on axsis mundi that, "every Microcosm, every inhabited region, has a Centre; that is to say, a place that is sacred above all." http://eepurl.com/bzhtr
During the last couple of years IBRAHIM ELECTRIC has been one of the most popular European jazz groups... These 3 personal instrumentalists have - besides the popularity with this group - made a name for themselves as some of the most striking on their respective instruments in Scandinavia. NEW ALBUM OUT NOW. DATES ON REQUEST. http://eepurl.com/bz6Gbf
Guitarist Eivind Aarset, one of the most exciting, individual and creative voices from the Norwegian jazz underground, saw Electronique Noir, his first release as a leader, hailed as "One of the best post Miles electric jazz albums" by none other than the The New York Times as well as America's leading jazz magazine Jazz Times and the UK's Jazzwise. Now Light Extracts, his much anticipated follow up album, is set to establish Eivind as one of the key voices in European Nu-Jazz. NEW ALBUM I.E OUT NOW. DATES ON REQUESTS. For GAS please contact artribute.
Kristin's latest album, "I'll meet you in the morning" (2013/2014), received very good reviews in both the Norwegian and European press and it was followed with tours both in Norway, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and Austria. Kristin Asbjørnsen is one of the most original and critically redeemed voices in the Norwegian jazz, pop and world music scene, and it's always a great experience to witness her live. Her ensemble creates an unique ensemble sound, where the string and percussion instruments is combined in a warm and organic expression. The rich sound of her ensemble has elements of West-African and Afro-American music, Nordic jazz and contemplative church music. AVAILABLE ON REQUESTS. http://eepurl.com/bp7XTX
Geir Sundstøl & Erland Dahlen are two of the most prolific musicians from Norway. Now they have released solo discs "Furulund" and "Blossom Bells", both on Hubro (hubromusic.com) in September. They will present the material in duo format on some selected concerts. http://eepurl.com/bAsRGf
We are excited to present an unique collaboration of Jamaica meets Scandinavia: Sly & Robbie meet Nils Petter Molvaer. They toured Europe this summer intensively - including all major festivals (Montreux, Pori, Molde, San Sebastian, Barbican and so on) - and the results were fantastic. Super enthusiastic audiences everywhere.
Jamaica's multi Grammy Award winners and the heartbeat of the island will perform onstage with electro-jazz pioneer trumpet virtuoso Nils Petter Molvær and fellow Norwegian Eivind Aarset pluss finnish electronic-wiz Vladislav Delay (Sasu Ripatti) for some unique shows in 2015 with a set of new material (organic blend of electronic / dub / jazz / world) composed specially for this tour. Let us know of your interest. AVAILABLE IN 2016. http://eepurl.com/bCxkPn
Kornstads new project is quite simply to fuse opera arias and jazz. Never has jazz and opera been mixed this way - never has a world renowned jazz musician suddenly turned into a promising opera tenor, refusing to leave his unique tenor saxophone sound behind. A real tenor battle! The sound of "Tenor Battle" is inspired from the 78 rpm-era of singing and jazz, where salon orchestras often switched between the classical hitparade and the popular music of the time. The sound, however is hard to describe. NEW ALBUM OUT NOW. AVAILABLE ON REQUEST 2016. http://eepurl.com/bhYIcf
Ketil Bjørnstad
There is something of the Renaissance Man about Ketil Bjornstad who is recognised as a unique figure in the arts in Norway. Trained as a concert pianist, he has recorded over thirty albums since 1973, including five volumes of solo piano and collaborations with both jazz and rock musicians. Alongside his music career, he has been equally prolific as a writer, with over 25 novels plus collections of poetry and books of essays. AVAILABLE 2016. MORE
Nils Økland is a renowned master of Norway's national instrument the Hardanger fiddle. However, his musical outlook is far wider than just traditional music and his contributions diverse. Both as an instrumentalist and as a composer he interlaces elements of classical and contemporary music as well as jazz with traditional Norwegian expressions, finding common traits and not least common expressive mindsets across genres and time periods. Økland belongs to the category of musicians who have come to represent an individual sound and a musical sensibility that is completely their own. AVAILABLE 2016. MORE
Starting out as a Hank Marvin-influenced rock guitarist with The Vanguards, Rypdal turned towards jazz in 1968 and joined Jan Garbarek's group and later George Russell's sextet and orchestra. An important step towards international attention was his participation in the free jazz festival in Baden-Baden, Germany in 1969, where he was part of a band led by Lester Bowie. During his musical studies at Oslo university and conservatory, he led the orchestra of the Norwegian version of the musical Hair. He has often recorded with ECM, both jazz-oriented material and classical compositions (some of which don't feature Rypdal's guitar). Today, Rypdal is an important member of the Norwegian jazz community. AVAILABLE 2016. MORE
Their debut recording from 2012, "Didymoi Dreams", was awarded with a much deserved Norwegian Grammy (Spellemannpris) and was applauded across the borders, with The Guardian concluding about its "power, originality and fearlessness" and BBC calling it "an enthralling listen". While "Didymoi Dreams" was a concert recording, "Bonita" is a live-in-the- studio recording, necessarily so because this is all improvised. Not that it´s easy to spot any major differences in that respect, anyone who have experienced this duo on stage can testify about their unique and telepathic musical dialogues, seemingly without the need to even look at each other. Whether on a stage or in a studio, their soundworld is magical, mysterious, beautiful and terrifying, all underpinned by the evocative song titles. AVAILABLE ON REQUEST 2016. MORE
From his work as successful pop producer in the 1990s his creative thrust and pioneering work in developing the concept of live remix- improvising with electronics alongside more conventional instruments and performers - has led today to him being constantly in-demand as producer and performer..There are times when it seems everything that has come before suddenly coalesces, reaches critical mass and engenders near-exponentially increased success and opportunity. For Jan Bang and Erik Honore, their Punkt live remix festival has evolved, since its early inception in Kristiansand, Norway, into a musical aesthetic brought to other festivals like Mannheim's Enjoy Jazz and Estonia's Jazzkaar. In ten years it's become a multinational event of world renown, its ever-expanding "Punkt Family" including a network of musicians that has— beyond Norwegian stalwarts like Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset and Sidsel Endresen—also welcomed British avant-songsmith David Sylvian, Estonian guitarist Robert Jürjendal, Japanese composer Dai Fujikura, and Spanish guitarist David Soler, amongst many others. AVAILABLE 2016. MORE
Christian Wallumrød has worked as a musician and composer since 1992, and he is considered one of the most prominent and influential musicians of his generation in Norway. Following his debut on ECM Records ("No Birch", issued in 1996), he has released a string of albums with Christian Wallumrød Ensemble (CWE) on the same label, all to considerable critical acclaim. The latest record 'Outstairs' was rewarded with the Norwegian Grammy (Spellemannsprisen 2013). While being the composer and leader of his own ensemble, Wallumrød also focusses strongly on improvisation with another longstanding collaboration, the French/Norwegian group Dans Les Arbres (DLA), also with two releases on ECM. CWE and DLA has been his main body of work over the last 10-12 years, and both groups are touring extensively. A quite recent project is Brutter, Christian's collaboration with drummer brother Fredrik, a duo dive into human and machine driven pulses. Early 2015 is release time for his first solo album named Pianokammer (on the Norwegian label Hubro). AVAILABLE 2016. MORE


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Costs only 2 cents per hour with flame operating, 7 cents per hour with both flame and heat (based on average national residential electricity rates).
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if i walked through the gate,
would i find the quiet place?
would i find the place where all things make sense?
the place where i could understand why things are not always the way i want them to be,
but the place of resolution that all things are as they are?
and if i didn't walk through that gate,
would it be okay if those answers were not there for me?
i don't know if i can walk through that gate,
i don't know if i can't.


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Jessie Raymond: 'Nothing' is best Christmas gift ever
Between noon on Thursday, Dec. 25, and 8 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 29, I accomplished nothing.
I therefore count this as the best Christmas ever.
Unlike most families, we don't do much after Christmas morning, which we spend opening gifts, drinking coffee and devouring a braided cinnamon Christmas bread like zombies eating brains.
When friends hear that we have no plans to go anywhere or see anyone over Christmas, they frown and say, "You poor things." But the pity in their words can't mask the envy in their eyes; we've got it easy.
Not that we're antisocial. Earlier in December, we took care of plenty of cookie baking and visiting. We even hosted a large Christmas party at our house on the 19th. The final preparations for Christmas carried us right up to Christmas Eve, and we coasted into Christmas morning with no obligations other than to eat ourselves into a long winter's nap.
For me, this year was particularly delightful, what with the holiday falling on a Thursday. I was looking forward to a four-day weekend with plenty of down time. As usual, I forgot one thing: I don't like down time.
I wish I did. For instance, I love the idea of slipping into a warm bubble bath in a bathroom lit only by a dozen candles, like you see in the movies. But I tried this once and the sheer monotony of it got to me in about four minutes.
Typically, if I have free time, I feel like I should use it to get things done, whether that's rearranging the medicine cabinet or pushing a giant boulder up a hill and letting it roll back down, ready for the next day. As long as I'm doing something — anything — I'm happy.
Under normal circumstances, therefore, I would have used Christmas Day to briefly recover from the craziness of the preceding weeks, then woken up on the 26th with the burning desire to refinish a large piece of furniture.
This year, however, I honestly did nothing — and liked it.
I'm hardly exaggerating. I'm an early riser, but for those four days, I slept in — once until a record-breaking 7:45 a.m. I would have slept even later if I hadn't been awoken by my husband holding a mirror under my nose.
I did fold some laundry. And I emptied the dishwasher. A few times, I seriously considered cleaning out the fridge, though nothing actually came of it. I couldn't resist taking a shower and getting dressed each morning, but most days it didn't happen until after 9 a.m. (And my friends say I don't know how to loosen up.) But mostly I just lazed around.
So why was this year different?
I'd like to say it's because as I get older, I'm learning to appreciate the quiet, reflective moments as much as the busy ones. But that would be a lie. In high school I was voted Most Restless, and I haven't changed.
The truth is, I got sick.
I came down with something bigger than a head cold but smaller than the flu. Whatever it was, it convinced me that loafing around was actually the most effective use of my free time. I think I might have even enjoyed a nice bubble bath, if I'd had the energy to find the candles.
The timing was perfect. I started sneezing on Christmas Day and spent the subsequent three days shuffling from bed to couch to loveseat, curling up for a rest whenever the mood struck. Sure, I had to put up with fatigue, body aches and a runny nose, but I considered those a fair price for learning to embrace low-key living.
Had I been well, I would have woken up at 5:30 on Friday morning, cranked out a 56-item to-do list — starting with "Find giant boulder" — and raced to get everything done before returning to work Monday.
Instead, I relaxed.
Looking back at the long weekend and thinking of all the things I didn't do — the knitting project I didn't start, the oven I didn't clean, the car I didn't vacuum — it's clear: I had more free time than I've had in months, and I don't have a single thing to show for it.
I've never been more proud of myself.


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With the potential for much longer lifetimes and lower energy consumption as compared to current lighting technologies, the use of white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for general lighting, an area of research known as solid state lighting, is likely to be a disruptive technology in the lighting industry in the coming years. They have the potential to be more than twice as efficient as fluorescent lighting and ten times as efficient as incandescent lighting. Also, environmental benefits such as the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions and a reduced dependence on fossil fuels for lighting can be achieved.
Thus, there has recently been a great interest in the development of white-light phosphors for solid state lighting devices, specifically for use in light emitting diodes (LEDs). We have recently demonstrated cadmium selenide (CdSe) nanocrystals with a broad, balanced emission spectrum over the visible region due to their "magic size" diameter of 1.5 nm. When encapsulated in a perfluorocyclobutyl (BP-PFCB) polymer and coated on commercial UV LEDs, these magic-sized CdSe nanocrystals act as frequency downconverters to produce light from 420-710 nm, making them an excellent material to use as a white-light phosphor for LEDs.
Thus far, we have found that the choice of encapsulant plays a significant role in the optical properties of the nanocrystal films. Some encapsulants caused a quenching of the nanocrystal emission, a modification of the white-light spectrum, and/or did not provide protection for the nanocrystals where the films became discolored and the emission intensity decreased greatly in just a few days at temperatures found in an LED junction. The BP-PFCB polymer we have focused on provides a robust and stable environment for the nanocrystals while maintaining the unique optical properties of these ultra-small CdSe nanocrystals. With the color quality of these devices in the range of those desired for general lighting, we are now focusing on increasing the efficiency of our devices by optimization of the nanocrystal concentration, UV LED wavelength, and film thickness, investigation of their scattering properties, as well as the use of dielectric thin film mirrors to increase the extraction efficiency.
Absorption and emission of white-light CdSe nanocrystals, where the dashed lines are the absorbance curves and the blue lines are the emission curves. The red spectra are the nanocrystals in a toluene solution and the blue spectra are the BP-PFCB polymer encapsulating the nanocrystals in a film. The inset shows a color photograph of a UV LED coated with encapsulated nanocrystals.
The emission from white-light CdSe nanocrystals in different encapsulants, with the highest intensity seen for the BP-PFCB polymer.
Related Publications: M. A. Schreuder, J. D. Gosnell, N. J. Smith, S. M. Weiss, and S. J. Rosenthal, "Encapsulated white-light CdSe nanocrystals as nanophosphors for solid-state lighting," J. Mater. Chem. 18, 970-975 (2008) (link)


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Hello crafty peeps! :hatched_chick: Watermarking is soooo very important when it comes to posting a picture. A watermark is a name/design that pinpoints the original owner/maker. If your craft was reposted on an account other than yours, it is crucial that you have a watermark on your photo so that viewers know who the creation belongs to.
People can easily claim your work if you dont have anything on your photo stating it's yours. Without a watermark or copyright claim, you have no evidence proving the creation belongs to you. :dizzy_face: :dizzy_face:
Anyhow! This favorite will demonstrate how you can protect your crafts in my personal favorite watermarking app: "Picsart" :smile: :smile: When photos are saved, watermark is clear and easy to read. You can also bend text! However you can use alternative apps such as Textgram, Phonto, and more! All apps stated are free of charge when downloading on android devices :grin:
Download the Picsart app from the Google Play Store or App Store. Open/start the app.
Select the plus sign to start the watermarking process! :relieved: :relieved:
Select edit to choose a picture you want to watermark from your gallery.
Scroll until the picture is found. Select it.
Then scroll bottom bar to the left. The picture underneath says right but that was a mistake! :joy: :sweat_smile: Then select "text". Then type your username or company name and select the arrow.
You can change font, make it bigger, etc. Just read the pic below! :grin:
Scroll bottom bar to left to bend font! Then select bend. Read below to learn more!
Once your text is in spot, select the arrow to continue. Then select the download button to save to gallery!
Even though you may have a watermark on your photos, others dont :dizzy_face: If someone's work is stolen click here to find out how to get rid of it :punch: :boom: And here's some extra info on intellectual property.
And thats it! You can now protect your art and other's art from being stolen :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: Hope you enjoyed this tutorial! See ya :wink:


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text: Catfish21 3 Report post Posted August 2, 2018 Greetings to all, just wanted to take a quick moment to introduce myself. I have been riding for over 20 years and I figured it was finally time I got my but to school. I will be attending the 2 day school at VIR on August 8th and 9th and I could not be more excited. I have read Keith's books several times over the years and have always wanted to take it to the next level i.e. racetrack. Thanks to a friend at work who has attended multiple California Superbike Schools I finally took the plunge. I know it will be awesome. Best Regards, Catfish 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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By Megan Barickman
It has only been 46 years since Christopher Stone published "Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects," his seminal essay in which he first introduced the idea that society should "give legal rights to forests, oceans, rivers, and other so-called 'natural objects' in the environment – indeed, to the natural environment as a whole."[1] The Rights of Nature movement, despite considerable gains over the course of these few years, is still relatively young, and its proponents are still actively involved in debates about how to best articulate its conceptual framework. In what follows, I will attempt to summarize four of the most pressing (and interesting) theoretical considerations that have emerged in contemporary writing about Rights of Nature.
What Do We Mean When We Say 'Nature'?
As Kate Soper writes in her book What is Nature: Culture, Politics and the Non-Human, the term "nature" is a complex and ambiguous concept.[2] We use "nature" to indicate that which is untouched by human hands, as well as to describe manufactured products (all-natural dish soap). We use the term to talk about that which is inherent in us (human nature) and to describe the vast workings of ecosystems that lie outside of, or encompass, human activity. There is no doubt that nature, in all of these usages, is meant to signify the 'other,' the opposite of culture, human manipulation, and in fact, humanity itself.
As philosophers increasingly question the boundaries between nature and culture, the question of what exactly we mean when we say "nature," and what we want to say instead, becomes more and more prescient. For Rights of Nature advocates, who wish to change the paradigm of our interaction with the non-human parts of the world, this is a question of particular importance. That is not to say, however, that this question requires an immediate answer. Rather, it requires our careful attention, especially as we attempt to answer the other questions surrounding Rights of Nature.
On What Grounds Do We Grant or Acknowledge Rights of Nature?
Directly connected to the question of how we define nature is the question of the theoretical and legal grounding on which Rights of Nature will be established. Most proponents of Rights of Nature will agree that rights ought to be accorded to nature (or recognized) on the basis of nature's existence alone. As Judith Koons compellingly argues, the universe is revealed to us as self-organizing and self-manifesting, and this is enough to demonstrate its intrinsic worth.[3] While the issue is still a complex one, and there is plenty of room for minor theoretical disagreements, the general consensus shows just how closely this rationale is intertwined with the core tenant of Rights of Nature; nature ought to be protected, not for anything that we see in it, but simply because it is, on its own terms.
As Alessandro Pelizzon and Monica Gagliano point out in their paper "The Sentience of Plants: Animal Rights and Rights of Nature Intersecting?," there is good reason to shy away from other rationales for rights, even though doing so has caused some environmental activists to be less accepting of the tenets of Rights of Nature than might be hoped.[4] Pelizzon and Gagliano address, in particular, Peter Singer's contention that rights ought to be accorded to animals on the basis of sentience, which Singer defines as the capacity for pain and happiness.[5] In their article, Pelizzon and Gagliano outline several new studies regarding the cognitive capacity of plants in order to argue that sentience, like nature itself, is a culturally constructed and negotiable term, and therefore, is not the most effective basis for extending rights to non-human entities. Rather, the authors suggest, the principle of rights should be understood on the grounds of a constantly evolving knowledge of the other.
Pelizzon and Gagliano's point is an important one for Rights of Nature in general. If Rights of Nature is to be taken seriously as the ideological rejection of paradigms that assign value to nature based on its relationship and meaning to us, then it must also be a shift to a new evaluation of nature that acknowledges our limited perspective.
What Part of Nature Receives the Rights?
We cannot, however, simply leave nature alone. Whether such an approach was ever possible is debatable – we are, after all, inhabitants of Earth and will always have to decide on the terms of our habitation – and we have now reached a stage of development where every ecosystem has been altered, in some way, by human influence. We will have to decide, despite our limited perspective, what parts of existence ought to be preserved as they are found today, what ought to be restored to the best of our knowledge and ability, and how we will develop and manage the integrated spaces where plants and animals exist in the midst of human habitation. Deciding what parts of nature should be given legal rights must be a large part of this decision-making process, if Rights of Nature is to be successful.
In their 1994 article on Nature's Rights, Susan Emmenegger and Axel Tschentscher outline the four major paradigms that might be used to guide this discussion: holism, ecocentrism, biocentrism, and physiocentrism.[6] Holism and ecocentrism focus on ecosystems or systems of relationships as rights-bearing entities, while physiocentrism and biocentrism would grant rights to discrete entities rather than the relationships between them.
To be more specific, in holism, the world is seen as a single entity, an interconnected whole, which in and of itself is protected by rights. While ecocentrism also focuses on the relationships between living things and their environment, it is more nuanced and complex than holism. In ecocentrism, each relationship or set of relationships, such as an ecosystem, is seen as a potential rights bearer. In physiocentrism, every living and non-living thing is inherently valuable and is potentially a rights-bearing entity. Biocentrism, on the other hand, considers the interests of living things only.
There are difficulties inherent in each approach. Holism, for instance, is blind to the very real dilemma of competing interests. To provide an extreme example, very few people would want to argue that a deadly virus has as much a right to exist as do the people it infects, or that the "relationship" between a virus and its human host should be protected. Perhaps even more importantly, if rights are to be meaningful as a legal tool, they must foresee and allow for the discussion of competing interests. The Rights of Nature articles included in the constitutions of Ecuador and Bolivia, which are essentially holistic, are often criticized on these grounds as vague and internally inconsistent. Nathalie Ruhs and Aled Jones point out the way in which the articles treat all of nature and humanity as a legal conglomerate, leading to potentially unresolvable conflicts between the Rights of Nature, humans, and the rights of different locales.[7]
Ecocentrism, on the other hand, by treating the rights of different ecosystems and relationships separately, largely avoids this problem. However, both the holistic and the ecocentric paradigms, as Emmenegger and Tschentscher point out, could cause us to try and "pause" nature by focusing on maintaining a balance of relationships that, in reality, are constantly in a natural state of flux. It is worth noting that physiocentrism and biocentrism do not inherently obviate this problem either; it is possible to imagine that if all species were granted the inherent (and equal) right to exist, then extinction would need to be avoided at all costs, even when it is arguably the result of natural causes.
Emmenegger and Tschentscher, who favor biocentrism as the model for Rights of Nature because it is the closest to our current individualistic rights legal system, argue this problem can be circumvented by allowing for change, such as extinction, but only if the "rules of game are fair." That is, if we know that extinction or radical changes occur very slowly in most cases where human influence is not operative, then we can assume that a species moving rapidly toward extinction or a radical change isn't being given its fair evolutionary chance.
Not everyone agrees, however, that Rights of Nature should be set up as a "marketplace of interests" that mirrors our own current legal system[8]; there are many who object that excessively individualistic rights will fragment the integrated system that is nature. As Peter Burdon points out, there are now discourses on human rights that seek to shift rights from individuals to the relationships between them. Burdon argues that this new direction of rights discourse will be the most useful in developing a working Rights of Nature model.[9]
What Role Should Humans Play?
But what, and this brings us full circle, is humanity's ideal relationship to 'nature'? Proponents of Rights of Nature may readily agree that current environmental laws will always be ineffective because they are founded on an ideology that views nature as fundamentally separate from (and often owned by) humanity, but it is much harder, as should be obvious by now, to determine the proper relationship between humans and the rest of nature. Many new theories have emerged in recent years, often akin to indigenous world views, that challenge the nature/culture divide on which so much of our thinking about nature is based.[10] Rights of Nature demands that we take seriously how we think of nature, but we must also take seriously the fact that, fair or unfair, it is humanity that must make the decisions about how to move forward.
Anne Louise Schillmoller and Alessandro Pelizzon in their article "Mapping the Terrain of Earth Jurisprudence: Landscape, Thresholds and Horizons," critique many of the new philosophical gestures that seek to shift values away from human exceptionalism. Schillmoller and Pelizzon say that these gestures ignore hierarchies of interest and differentials of power.[11] For example, how and by whom will non-human voices be represented? While theory may decenter humanity's dominance, practice, in Christopher Stone's words, will remain "unavoidably anthropocentric."
In order to practice Rights for Nature carefully and responsibly we must be cognizant of asymmetrical power relations and establish the epistemic conditions of knowledge, i.e. what information is meaningful and who speaks with accuracy and authority. The good news is that Rights of Nature advocates are already asking the right questions to succeed on this front. We need only remain active and engaged in our debate of these considerations.
[1] Stone, Christopher. "Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects." Southern California Law Review, issue 45. (1972). pp 450-501.
[2] Soper, Kate. What is Nature? (Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers, Ltd., 1995).
[3] Koons, Judith E. "What is Earth Jurisprudence?:Key Principles to Transform Law for the Health of the Planet" in Exploring Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence 45 (Peter Burdon ed. 2011).
[4] Pelizzon, Alessandro and Monica Gagliano. "The Sentience of Plants: Animal Rights and Rights of Nature Intersecting?" Australian Animal Protection Law Journal. Vol. 11, 2015: pp. 5-13.
[5] Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals. 2nd ed. (New York, NY: Random House, 1995).
[6] Emmenegger, Susan and Axel Tschentscher. "Taking Nature's Rights Seriously: The Long Way to Biocentrism in Environmental Law." Georgetown International Environmental Law Review. Vol. VI: Issue 3, Summer 1994: pp 576-579
[7] Ruhs, Nathalie and Aled Jones. "The Implementation of Earth Jurisprudence through Substantive Constitutional Rights of Nature." Sustainability. 2016: p. 174.
[8] Ibid.
[9] Burdon, Peter. "The Rights of Nature: Reconsidered." Australian Humanities Review, Issue 49. pp. 69-89.
[10] See: Kent, Jaimie. "Rights of Nature and the Political Implications of Post-Humanist Ecologies" (2017). Theses and Dissertations. 686. http://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/686.
[11] Schillmoller, Anne Louise and Pelizzon, Alessandro (2013) "Mapping the Terrain of Earth Jurisprudence: Landscape, Thresholds and Horizons," Environmental and Earth Law Journal (EELJ): Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 1. Available at: https://lawpublications.barry.edu/ejejj/vol3/iss1/1


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The days before I am getting the Dexcom (G5) I am extremely excited. I simply cannot wait to try it out. Can it really live up to the hype? Is it really as good as others have told me? How will it be to not check my blood sugars on my pump but on my apple watch?!
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