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Pushing toward a relevant truth is the clearest pathway to hearts and minds. If you can deliver on relevant truths consistently, you'll find that relationships follow. But why is it so hard to find these truths? We're gonna talk about why it's hard, and then illustrate the process using a simple example.
Insight Planning Tells You What They Need to Hear
Most messages get caught up in the noise. How do we get customer insights that tell us what we should be asking? The answer is simple; but if you don't know what you're doing, the process is hard.
Put simply, insight planning is asking the customer for the deeper/real reason they buy, and so you can create advertising that tells it right back to them. And if done right, it can seem like cheating. Unfortunately, people don't know how to listen…or they don't think they do.
In business, it's easy to think the customer is a machine. On one level, we know they're people. But we're in a hurry, and we need to do more with less. So instead of connecting with people, we look for tricks and shortcuts. And instead of doing more with less, we end up doing even less…with less.
Insight Planning is Simple, but Hard
Why don't more companies conduct insight planning? Because it's not easy to measure, and everyone wants results right now. So the only people who do it are those who want a deeper connection with their audience. You know, people who are willing to do the hard work of relationship building.
In other words, you have to
- Really care what your customers want
- Believe there's something about them you don't understand
- Have the confidence you can get that information if you have the right kind of conversation.
Example Workflow
But instead of me explaining the process, let me jump right to what it looks like. Let's use a tactical training company in our example. They train people on how to use firearms effectively and safely. Take a minute to translate these questions into your business.
First, some advice. The key to interviewing is to do one-on-one interviews, make them feel relaxed, don't interrupt, get them talking and slow down the rhythm. You want to go deeper into the questions they seem interested in answering. You know, exactly like you're talking to a friend who really needs a listening ear.
Insight Planning by Role
Here's who you talk to and the kinds of questions you'll ask.
Sales. You talk to sales because they're close to the customer and often know what turns people on to buy. They also know what topics they try to avoid with customers because they're embarrassed. But be careful, salespeople aren't always the best listeners, and they have blind spots too. Often, they're blind to customer objections, depending on their personality.
- What is it that people don't understand about the service?
- What's the hardest idea to sell? Why?
- How are people using the product? Why?
- What do they love about it?
- What kinds of objections are people bringing up most? Why do you think that is?
- Why do people go to a competitive product (even if it's choosing to do nothing)?
Customer service. You talk to customer service because they're dealing with repeat issues and can tell you the general feeling of customers after the sale. But be careful, since they're more concerned with minimizing problems than creating opportunities.
- What are the biggest complaints? Why?
- What are the things you're most proud to tell people? Why?
- What are the things about the product that seem hardest for customers to understand?
Customers. Talk to customers because, locked within them, they have all the answers you'll ever need about what will make them buy. But don't expect them to innovate for you. Often, they don't know what you're capable of doing, so they won't be able to give you ideas for "how to serve them better." Instead, you're looking for them to tell you about their lives. Then you come up with things you're able to to do to make things better. So take your time.
- What's your motivation to participate in training? Tell me more about that.
- What's your biggest fear that training would prevent? What's the gap in training for you? In other words, where's the remaining insecurity that you don't think training could provide? [Here, you're guiding them to an insight that your competition doesn't thinks is there.] Tell me more about that.
Schedule of Tasks
Here's how insight planning plays out for our fictional tactical training company.
- Write a discussion guide.
- For sales and internal.
- For customers.
- Schedule 6 meetings:
- 2 with sales on Tuesday.
- 2 with customer service on Wednesday.
- 2 with customers on Thursday.
- Have your first 2 interviews with sales.
- Build your skills with your sales and internal folks. See if you can get them talking about their jobs and relationships with customers.
- Edit the discussion guides as much as you see fit.
- Conduct 2 interviews with customer service.
- Record/capture your insights from sales and customer service in clearly edited format, with quotes.
- Create a working hypothesis for the kinds of things customers would be interested in talking about and adjust your discussion guide for tomorrow.
- Conduct your 2 customer interviews, creating a relaxed, generous environment where you ease into the conversation and free them to speak, unjudged.
- After both are over, capture insights and quotes and build a 2‑page summary of only the most clear insights. This is just a draft.
- Edit your insights. Write well and be as clear and blunt as possible.
- Share those insights with your team or partners and determine 3 ways that the insights should change the way we do things.
Pro Tips
- This exercise is ideally done with 12 customers by a skilled interviewer. But most businesses would benefit massively from just having even just a few conversations, like in the above example.
- Keep the conversation going. Let this spur an ongoing effort to block off time to think strategically, not just putting out fires, so you can build a long-term effort. Let me know if you need suggestions.
- Record video of the customer conversations if you can. There's nothing quite as convincing as having your customers' voices and facial expressions telling the story, especially if you need to convince others of your results.
- Snowball: Ask the interviewees who else you should be talking to.
Now that I've told you how to do it, don't follow this process. Make it your own. Do it faster or slower. Mix up the numbers.
This is Just the First Step
If you can create a tradition of listening well, with the plans and processes to put the insights to work, you won't be a fake. Instead, you'll be putting your money where your mouth is, creating value for customers as a humble, listening servant-leader. And you'll grow relationships as people start to love you for it.
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International Sportsmen's Expositions (ISE)
Get ready northern California, the 2015 ISE Sacramento is coming soon and better than ever!
Now with more than 600 exhibitors, you'll find everything you need for the outdoors. The largest selection of fishing boats you'll find all year. Hunting lodges and resorts from throughout the western United States plus, Canada, Africa and South America. Fishing guides and captains who can put you on fish nearby, or take you to exotic waters in Mexico, South America and New Zealand.
Learn from the experts on the Aquarium Demonstration Tank, in the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Adventure Theater on the fly casting pond or the other four theaters or demonstration areas.
Five buildings and 600+ exhibiting companies strong, ISE Sacramento is California's largest presentation of fishing and hunting products, sport-fishing boats, off-road vehicles and travel destinations. A dozen theaters, special features and demo areas host 200+ seminars, clinics and contests at this vast ISE. Children under 16 and active military with ID enter for no charge. New for 2015 are the Off-road Test Track, Kayak Theater, Outdoor Product Showcase, elk-calling contest, and enlarged Youth Fair, now filling four buildings at Expo Center.
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After weeks of holiday indulgences you may, like most Americans, be resolving to "get healthy", "eat well" or "diet" in the New Year. Curbing cravings can seem like a monumental challenge with sugar being the leading culprit. Unfortuntately it's hidden in a vast majority of foods in the American diet, particularly processed foods, even those labeled as "healthy". The good news is that you can avoid sugar and reduce cravings without dieting by making a few minor changes.
Inspired by Prevention Guide The Sugar Smart Diet Sugar Detox Made Easy, here are the best foods to eat to fight sugar cravings plus my favorite go-to snack recipe.
Fat - Contratry to popular belief, we need it! 1-2 teaspoons of healthy fats like good old fashioned butter or olive, canola, sesame, walnut, coconut, flax or avocado oil in cooking and to make salad dressings (3 parts oil to 1 part vinegar; season to taste. Easy!).
Whole Grains - Eat 1 cup of brown rice, quinoa, barley, bulgur or couscous in lieu of starchy carbs like white rice.
Lean Proteins - 3-4 oz of cooked skinless chicken breast, pork tenderloin, fish, beef or tofu. Lean protein isn't just for lunch or dinner. Try eating it as a snack or incorporate leftovers into your eggs for breakfast.
Veggies - 1-2 cups leafy greens, green beans, asparagus, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, onion, zucchini, tomatoes, mushrooms or eggplant. Add extra veggies to your meals every chance you get - smoothies, meatloaf, soups, omelettes. Substitute cucumber slices for crackers or zucchini 'noodles' for pasta. Roast long planks of sliced eggplant and use in place of lasagna noodles.
Nuts/Seeds - Skip the bars, which are typically full of added sugars (even healthy ones). Instead opt for 2 Tbsp almonds, walnuts, pecans, pistachios, cashews or sunflower, chia, pumpkin, flax or sesame seeds.
I was a big consumer of protein bars and Kind Bars and needed to kick the habit. This recipe, found in the aforementioned Prevention Guide, helped me do just that. The protein and spicy flavors really help curb my cravings and the nuts are great as grab & go snack or tossed into salads.
The original recipe is a slow cooker method, which I do not recommend. It wasn't worth the time and effort and the nuts were too wet. I've modified the process for better results with a quick oven method. Don't like curry? Use any of your favorite dried herbs and seasonings to taste.
Curry Spiced Nuts
6 oz raw cashews
6 oz raw almonds
6 oz raw pecan halves
3 Tbsp coconut, melted or olive oil
4 tsp curry powder
2 tsp honey
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp kosher salt
1/4 tsp cayenne or more to taste
Combine all ingredients, except honey, in a large bowl tossing to evenly coat. Spread the mixture out into an even layer on a baking sheet. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 10 minutes. Stir and cook an additional 5 minutes. Stir in the honey and cook 2 more minutes. Allow to cool and dry completely then transfer to an airtight container.


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Drop off your children at the WCC Gym for four hours of babysitting in a safe, fun environment. We will provide a meal, G-rated movie, bounce house, games, and outdoor play (weather permitting). Babysitters will be in grades 7th-12th, and adults will be on hand.
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I wrap up my time as Regional Director in Central Florida today, June 30, closing the door on five awesome years of working in an official FIRST capacity with teams, coaches, volunteers and mentors across Central Florida and the state. It's been a joy, a privilege and an honor and I wanted to send along my best wishes to all of you.
I had been volunteering with FIRST for 7 years when I started as Regional Director in 2012. Since then, with the addition of another Regional Director in South Florida and the growth of support positions like AmeriCorps VISTAs and FIRST Senior Mentors, the transition to the League system in FIRST Tech Challenge, which Florida helped pioneer, and the division of FIRST LEGO League into five separate regions, FIRST has grown robustly across the state. I'm happy to have supported the Orlando Regional for the last five years, to have created the FIRST in Florida website as a unifying cross-program platform, initiated the Florida Blue Ribbon Showcase program that I hope will continue, launched the ROBOTICON FIRST Showcase and Off-Season event as a premier educational and FIRST promotional tool, and to have been able to work with so many amazing people in the Florida State Operating Committee, with FIRST Alumni, and in our Florida FIRST community in the creation of resources and the recruitment of new sponsors, mentors, students and volunteers for FIRST teams across all programs.
A new Central Florida Regional Director for the area has not yet been hired, so for the time being, if you need support for FIRST Robotics Competition programs in the Central or North Florida areas, please either write to your FIRST Senior Mentors :
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While I'll miss the "official FIRST" community, I'm happy to be able to focus on running ROBOTICON Tampa Bay in the fall and Gulf Coast Maker & ComicCon in the spring, mentoring and coaching local teams, volunteering with the FIRST State Operating Committee, helping as a tournament photographer when able, and most exciting, working on the development of the Tampa Bay Manufacturing and FIRST Robotics Center.
If you want to stay in touch, you can always reach me at email@example.com . My day job will be working with my husband, Steve, in our company Eureka Factory, which is leading the development of the Manufacturing Center, and also consults for Libraries and other community agencies in the creation of public makerspaces and creative community programming,which always includes FIRST Teams!
You've been a joy to know and work with, and I wish you all a wonderful new season. I look forward to seeing some of you at events, tournaments and Regionals – and hopefully at ROBOTICON!
In the finest spirit of FIRST, and in warmth and friendship,
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Well guys, what a crazy weekend it's been, especially for a Style Editor! Keeping tabs on Paris Fashion Week, the Oscars Red Carpet, all the action from the Monte-Carlo Comedy Film Festival and all the sparkles from an Indian Wedding Extravaganza, I'm starting to feel pulled in 50 different directions!
Don't worry though, I've still managed to find time to keep my eye on the streets and clock these Monte Carlo style feats. From high fashion to high street these following ladies are examples of how one should properly go about "stepping out".
Elena Peretiatko
@tie.el From Kiev with love … and a good sense of personal style, Elena gave us a dose of rock'n'roll softened with a nature tone. I love the rivet detailing on her jeans which ties in with her Pinko Mini Love shoulder bag with silver hardware. A hunter green wrap adds depth with layering and keeps the look from being too aggressive, though the black sweater is studded. Even better she knew exactly the setting in which to best photograph this look, between urban vibes and nature, which is exactly what her look is saying to me. Yay for Elena P!
Berglind S
@berglindsagab Oh yassssss, honey. Ms Berglind is here to serve looks on these streets unapologetically. Okay, is anyone else getting Cher Horowitz from Clueless vibes from this look because I AM LIVING. Check that Burberry check skirt! That Chanel tweed jacket! The silver Chanel bag! The Chanel pearl earrings! Did I mention Chanel enough? Her Chanel brooch is a cute addition as well! Berglind, you look like the chicest teacher I ever saw with those glasses, where can I sign up for your class? 10/10 cause darling you're a winner for wearing the clothes instead of them wearing you.
Annina Kraft
@annina_kraft While more is more and totally major, sometimes less is less of a mess. This German entrepreneur is serving up simple glamazon. First, gotta love a good shirtdress. Second, gotta love a good black leather boot. Third, top it off with an out of the ordinary outwear and you have a perfect combination for those days mild days. I love the futuristic feel of this fur and leather gilet coat with zipper on the side and XL zippers on the front. Not too fussy and just the right amount of edgy. This is not your grandmother's fur coat. Welcome to the future. A top knot and aviator sunglasses are a perfect nonchalant touch. Annina you get a 10/10 for this bad ass coat!
@ladiesnbasterds First off Tiffany, love this personal branding, "LadiesnBasterds", sounds like a fun Monaco divorcees lunch club! What I like most about this look is that it's accessible and on trend. Easy to pull off with what you probably already own in your closet. Fray bottom denim is still going strong, perfect with ankle boots. For that wanderlust-instagirl-world traveller look add a fedora hat. A dropped back sweater is perfect to showcase a long necklace draped backwards. To lux it up add in a designer handbag like this classic Chanel Matelasse 30 and you are ready to take on the day … oh, and it really helps to have really pretty hair!
Lina Birgitta
@linabirgittasig Still going with the mood of how to elevate high street to high FASH-ON, influencer and designer Lina Birgitta rocks out in a Stradivarius leather motorcycle jacket and still this Fall/Winter seasons must-have accessory, the baker boy hat – this version from Zara in glen check pattern. As you've probably already figured out by now, one can never go wrong with Chanel … usually. Lina accessorises with a small understated black Chanel handbag. Casual and cool she's the girl everybody wants to be and CAN BE without breaking the bank.
Instagram sensation and style blogger Louis Pisano writes SuperficialLivingDiary.com.
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This off-the-beaten-path experience is truly a hidden gem and one of Montecito's best kept secrets. Casa del Herrero is a historic estate designed and constructed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style architecture.
Completed in 1925, the home (designed by architect George Washington Smith) is noted as one of the finest examples of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in America. It is included on the National Register of Historic Places and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2009.
The home and gardens are open for public viewing by ticketed reservation only. Most of the original furniture from 1925 is still in the home, so you can actually feel what it would have been like to live their.
The Steedman Estate is one of the best preserved, historically significant, and intact examples of the 'heyday' of Montecito estates in the 1920s. The creation of the property reflects a remarkable synthesis of culture, artistic expression, natural environment, and historical antecedents.
Public Tours: Mid-January – mid-December, Wednesdays & Saturdays at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Group tours available other days. Reservations required for ALL tours. Call to arrange a time: 805-565-5653, or email email@example.com. Virtual tours at www.casadelherrero.com.
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For a nap that is...Audrey is enjoying the night life sleeping with mom and dad, but during the day, she is sleeping in her crib! She really likes it. We have a sound machine in there and I turn it on and she drifts off to sleep...
She is really sleeping well. At night she is sleeping about 3-5 hours at a time..YEAH! Mom is actually getting a little rest!
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Audrey sleeps in her bed for the first time.....
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Wednesday, 21 May 2014
Vegitable Upma / Vegitable Uppittu
Vegetable Upma / Vegetable Uppittu is a popular breakfast dish in
Ingredients for Vegetable Upma / Vegetable Uppittu :
1 Cup of Rava or Sooji (cream of wheat)
2 to 2 1/2 cup water
2 tablespoon of oil
1 tsp mustard seed
1 tsp cumin seed
1 tbsp black gram dal (washed) or Dhuli Urad
1 tbsp Channa dal
1 small size onion
3 green chillies or as per taste
1 stem chopped curry leaves
1/2 Cup of mixed vegetables such as Carrots grated, frozen Green peas & corn, Cauliflower finely chopped.
Salt to taste
Optional Garnish : with roasted Cashews
To prepare Vegetable Upma / Vegetable Uppittu :
1. Roast Rava or Sooji in a non-stick pan till golden brown. Keep it aside.
2. In a kadai put oil then add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, black Gram Dal or Dhuli Urad, channa dal and fry till dal gets golden in colour.
3. Put chopped onions, green chillies, curry leaves. When onion turns brown add the vegetables and fry for a while.
4. Then add water and salt and cook till water boils. then add Rava or Sooji.
To avoid lumps keep on stirring the Uppittu till all the water is absorbed. Serve hot with any choice of your chutney or curd.
5. If desired add roasted cashews before serving.
Tips / Notes:
· To prepare Vegetable Upma / Vegetable Uppittu u can use Homemade Ghee / clarifiedButter / Neyyi instead of oil to enhance the taste.
· Fry Rava or Sooji and store it in a jor to prepare recipe in no time, so that u can omit the first step.
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The Annual Crystal City Competition ~ September 24th 5:30-8:30
The New York State Field Band Conference is a competitive field band circuit. The Corning Painted Post Competition Band, under the direction of Joe Stork and Donny Allen, host The Crystal City Competition. Come join us as not only the C-PP Competition Band and C-PP Performance Band take the field, but also other area marching bands such as Hornell, Norwich, Vestal, Union-Endicott, Johnson City, Phoenix and Baldwinsville. Tickets are $8 at the gate. Presale tickets are available for $6 by completing this form. Friday, September 23rd, is the last opportunity to take advantage of the presale discount. The presale tickets requested will be available at either ticket window once the gates open for the show at 5:00 pm on Saturday, September 24th. Presale ticket payments will be accepted at either of the ticket windows upon admission to the event on Saturday, September 24th. Cash only. We are unable to accept credit cards at this time. Sorry for any inconvenience.
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Location: Corning Memorial Stadium, Jacoby Blvd, Corning, NY 14830
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The Quest for the Rightful King
The 2016 Corning-Painted Post Competition Band is pleased to announce
their 2016 Fall production entitled: 'The Quest for the Rightful King'
We take a journey through time to re-visit the legend of the sword and the stone.
Who will pull this fabled maker of fate out from clenched fist of stone.
Musical Selection
I. Henry V – Patrick Doyle
II. To the Stars – Randy Edelman
III. Raid on Leonesse (from the First Knight) – Jerry Goldsmith
IV. Henry V, Procession of the Nobels - William Walton, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov


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6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
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Houston, TX - A despondent Bob Kraft admitted, on Monday, that no amount of Super Bowl wins will fill the void of a missing MLS Cup from his trophy case as he dejectedly fired back at the press.
"You don't understand that every hollow victory by the Patriots just exacerbates my enveloping depression concerning the Revolution," stated Kraft to the room full of journalists. "Sure I can win in the NFL, but anyone can do that. Meanwhile, I've failed demonstrably to build a winner in soccer despite my worst efforts."
Kraft reportedly left the Super Bowl victory immediately after the trophy presentation to sit in a darkened suite at NRG Stadium and watch a replay of the three straight finals that his beloved Revolution "Buffalo Bill'd" back in the early 2000's.
"I breathe Revolution football. I live Revolution football. It's all I can understand. I kick every ball with Lee Nguyen. I chase every header with Kei Kamara. I make every turn with Gershon Koffie... wait... he is still on the team, right? The Patriots are the placeholder that give light to my love of the Revolution and every failure that breaks the heart of our fans is a dagger at my own heart and hurts my pride."
The Nutmeg News will have more on this as a dejected Kraft reviews the 2014 final while photoshopping a new Revolution logo and calling about how the new stadium permitting is going in downtown Boston.


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Socialist Realism in Albania: A visit to the National Gallery of Art
I took the digital photos in the gallery below in 2014 when I was on a three-week trip through six countries in the Balkan area of Eastern Europe. One of those countries was the oft overlooked Albania, where I spent two days in the capital city of Tirana. I won't go into general detail about post-soviet bloc Albania, or Tirana, suffice it to say the country has a growing economy in Europe and the tales of lawless society are pure myth. It is definitely not a wealthy country, but Tirona was bustling little city, full of life and new construction everywhere. However when I was there I was specifically looking for the remnants of the soviet-era Albania, and I found the gold standard: The National Gallery of Art in Tirana.
The modest sized building housing the collection is in the city center - surprisingly the architecture is solid 60's modernism, not the concrete brutalism that one would expect of a state institutional building in a soviet bloc country. It's a smaller, less-flashy version of the National Historical Museum (with the massive realist mosiac adorning the front), which is less than half a kilometer away.
The collection itself is 50% nondescript pre-socialist painting and sculpture, and 50% socialist realist paintings, housed across six galleries. It's an amazing collection of socialist realist art and the pieces themselves are beautiful. For an amatuer "scholar" in socialist realist art such as myself that had never seen a single example of the style from Albania, It was truly wonderful to be able to finally see what the socialist realism of Albania looked like, up close and personal.
When you look at these pieces, it's immediately apparent that the Albanian artists developed a very unique response to the world of Socialist Realism. While the pieces from 1940 - 1950 are examples of typical formal realism painting, The propaganda work from 1950 - 1970 is where the divergence is plainly evident. Some of the work is reminiscent of Diego Rivera's stylized surrealist-realist frescos, while other work combines a design approach to the composition with angular, futurist-inspired figures in motion. It's all quite fantastic, and the time-capsule nature of the museum itself (I was the only visitor in the musuem for the hour I spent there) only added to my sense of wonder. You can see many more pieces at the museum's website here.


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Citizens and environmental groups have expressed opposition to the idea of releasing into the ocean water tainted with tritium, a radioactive substance, from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
"Long-term storage (of the tritium-containing water) is possible from technical and economic standpoints," Komei Hosokawa, 63, an official of the Citizens' Commission on Nuclear Energy, said at a public hearing held in Tokyo on Friday by a subcommittee of the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy. "The radiation levels in the water will decrease during the long-term storage," he added.
At a similar hearing held the same day in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Aki Hashimoto, a housewife from the city, said, "I never want to see further worsening of ocean pollution from radiation."
Opinions objecting to the release of the tritium-contaminated water into the ocean were also heard at a hearing held in the Fukushima town of Tomioka on Thursday.
After Friday's hearings, Ichiro Yamamoto, who heads the subcommittee, told reporters that many participants in the hearings said the tainted water should continue to be held in storage tanks.
The subcommittee will study the option of keeping the water in the tanks, he added.
Tepco is lowering the radiation levels in contaminated water at the Fukushima No. 1 plant using special equipment, but the device cannot remove tritium.
The tritium-tainted water is stored in tanks within the premises of the power plant, which was heavily damaged in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
In 2016, an expert panel of the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy discussed five methods to dispose of the tritium-tainted water —injection deep into the ground, release into the sea after dilution, release into the air through evaporation, conversion into hydrogen through electrolysis, and burying it after it is solidified.
The panel estimated that the ocean release is the cheapest option, costing up to about ¥3.4 billion.


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Jeff Faria's sweeping space opera is bursting at the seams with living and breathing characters, crackling dialogue, exciting technology, and a plausible, daring futuristic setting.
The strength of the work lies in its relentless world building, with every nook and cranny carefully considered. From the corporate higher tiers, to the dark underbelly. From the polished bot slaves to the wayward teenagers forging their destinies in the dirt. It's clear that the author has patiently developed the finer points of this universe, right down to the tiniest grain of martian sand.
The story begins with Josh, a gifted teenager struggling to find his place in this universe. However, the tale quickly branches off to incorporate world founders, antagonists and movers and shakers. As a result of the sheer scope, the story feels a little unfocused in the beginning stages, but it finds ground again when we're thrust back into Josh's world.
We learn early on of Josh's difficult upbringing and understand his struggle to find meaning and purpose in a chaotic world. Yet amid such a great ocean of characters, Josh can often become lost in the waves, so it's always good to find him again. This reader would have enjoyed more time spent with this important character, and a chance to get closer inside his head.
Faria is a talented writer; the book is packed full of memorable quotes, and his dialogue sparkles with believability and intensity. At times, the pace slows as Faria handles the unenviable task of juggling world building and plot building. I can't help feeling that the book could do with being a deal shorter, thereby increasing the pace.
Much of the story is dialogue driven, and the pages fly by with the snappy, sometimes hilarious back and forth between characters. However, the action really ramps up towards the finale, with a well-earned conclusion.
The writing style is seasoned but welcoming, and there were little to no typos to be found. This is a strong science fiction. Well written with memorable imagery, concepts, and lessons.
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Review: Band of Heathens at The Hamilton
The Band of Heathens made their way to Washington, DC last week at The Hamilton to showcase their most recent album, Duende. Defined loosely in English as "the power to attract through personal magnetism and charm; a spirit", duende is the only way to describe the flow of energy the five man band from Austin, TX radiated. The band swarmed the stage but in a measured way; there was a large collection of instruments to be aware of including more than four guitars, a drum set, a keyboard, and a baby grand piano. They opened with "LA County Blues," a sway-worthy country rock jam, then let the bass line lead them straight into "Sugar Queen," a grittier groove that the band vamped for a full minute, clearly enjoying the layers of instrumentals they arranged. At this point, the hardcore fans ditched their dinner table seats and made themselves comfortable dancing at the foot of the stage in a mainly seated performance venue and no one minded. "Jackson Station" from their self-titled album began and everyone caught the slower, gritty vibes of the song arranged with an extended piano solo at the beginning, a harmonica solo at the bridge, and emotional vocal riffs highlighting different stories of loss that converge at the Jackson train station.
Through the second half of the set it was clear that bringing people together is at the core of the collective's spirit. Vocalists Ed Juri and Gordy Quist invited the crowd to join them in singing the ad lib to "Look at Miss Ohio," "do right...right now". The crowd also clapped together (on beat!) during "All I'm Asking." The ballad-forward, one man opener Reed Foehl joined the Heathens back onstage to perform a cover of "When I Paint My Masterpiece." The band did Bob Dylan's song no disservice as evidenced by the crowd's excitement. After they finished "Green Grass of California" (a song not subtly detailing the effects of marijuana and a good group of friends), they lauded DC for being one of the few cities where weed is decriminalized, and in the same breath poked fun at the city for being the center of current political affairs. All the while emphasizing the importance of coming together in times of trouble.
The band concluded with "Hurricane," engulfing the crowd with effortless lyricism accompanied by their soulful, Americana sound. The set ended, and reality returned as if a hurricane had truly passed. We'd been caught up in the energy and the spirit of the band, and the ride was over.
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A salary man vomited on my shoes today.
Well, I actually didn't see any on my shoes but it was mighty close. Frighteningly so.
As soon as it happened a train attendant came and asked the guy if he was okay. He responded in the affirmative and the train attendant went to get cleaning materials.
At this moment the woman sitting next to me went and offered the man a pack of tissues.
She got off at the next stop. Their relationship did not bloom like the dramas have taught me.
The next time the train attendant came out, he asked the barfer where he was headed. Same stop as me, it turned out.
I could have got up and moved, but I was too curious. So I watched.
At every stop someone came and did as much cleaning as they could until the train had to leave. We spent a good twenty five minutes with vomit on the ground.
But it wasn't being ignored.
At every stop they accomplished something. Spreading sanitized sawdust like stuff on it. Covering it in newspaper. Sweeping it up.
Considering all that was available on the train was the sawdust type stuff, it was quite impressive how it was taken care of.
Of course, this whole time the man who vomited watched other adults clean up his mess.
He got off the train the same time as I did so I imagine he is at home now much like I am.
How must it feel to be in such a position.
There are of course some people who could sleep soundly even after such an incident. I cannot imagine that.


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Last week we saw a fare war which offered ~$2000 fares between the West coast and Europe. The best part was that British Airways and codeshare flights receive a $400 discount when booking through AARP, which brought the fares down to ~$1600 for the roundtrip business class tickets.
Per this FyerTalk thread, there seem to be decent fares for winter travel between the East coast of the US and Europe. New York to Barcelona, for example, is pricing out around $1900 for the roundtrip in Business class:
That's an okay fare for business class travel this time of year, but by using the AARP discount you can bring this down to ~$1500:
On top of that, if you have the British Airways Visa Signature® Card you can save an additional 10% as long as all flights are operated by British Airways.
The 10% discount is taken on the total fare – which includes taxes, fees, fuel surcharges, etc. You do have to be an US based British Airways Visa cardholder, and must be flying a roundtrip from the United States.
Just enter the promotion code "CHASEBA10" under the "Save money on your booking" section (you'll have to open the drop-down menu to see all the options):
And you'll see the 10% discount reflected in the final fare price:
In terms of pure cents per mile, this isn't quite as good of a deal as the flights from the West coast, but obviously more convenient for East coast flyers. If you can stack the AARP and Chase discounts it's even better! It's certainly a better value than La Compagnie at a similar price 😉
It's also worth mentioning you can still get the AARP discount on British Airways codeshare flights, though those flights won't be eligible for the Chase 10% discount. If you'd prefer the direct American flights to Barcelona, for example, those would still qualify for the $400 discount:
This is available to and from quite a few markets, though I'm boarding a flight right now and can't search all of them. I figured it was better posting about it now, as I'm sure this fare won't last.
Hopefully some of you are able to take advantage of this!


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At this newspaper, we remember the two administrations (1984-89, and 1993-1998) of the first United Democratic Party (UDP) Prime Minister, Dr. Manuel Esquivel, for three things. One was the spraying of Belize's marijuana fields with the deadly herbicide called paraquat; the second was the sale of the southern half of the "common grounds" we once called the Newtown Barracks for the building of the Ramada Hotel, which later became the Princess Hotel and Casino; the third Esquivel memory we have is the vindictive smashing of the largest industry to emerge in the last quarter century on Belize City's Southside – semi-professional basketball.
When Dr. Esquivel made all these decisions which have impacted so negatively on the roots black community in Belize City, he was surrounded by a large amount of people in Cabinet who looked like roots black. At all material times, Dr. Esquivel's Cabinet featured the Hon. Dean Barrow, Belize's now three-time Prime Minister, who is the eight-time area representative for the Southside's Queen's Square. Both of Dr. Esquivel's Cabinets included the Hon. Hubert Elrington, who represented the Southside's Lake Independence. All of Mr. Barrow's three Cabinets have included Hubert's younger brother, Wilfred, who also served time briefly in the second Esquivel Cabinet (1993-1998). The Hon. Michael Finnegan, who is the UDP's six-time area representative for the Southside's Mesopotamia constituency, has served in all three Barrow Cabinets. Hon. Patrick Faber is a four-time UDP area rep in the Southside's Collet division, and Hon. Boots Martinez is the four-time UDP area rep for Port Loyola. Both Mr. Faber and Mr. Martinez have served in all three Barrow Cabinets.
The people who look like us but are British in their hearts must not be angry at this newspaper for expressing our fury at their recent vote to begin the dismemberment of the MCC Grounds. For some of us slave descendants, the Garden is like our church. And, it is not as if we can do the black British anything: we are only a voice crying in the wilderness. The black community here had ample time to fight for the MCC. The proposal to dismember the MCC and make it into a parking lot for the Ramada/Princess must have been on various Cabinet tables for a couple decades. Looking back, we can see now that once Esquivel's Cabinet began the dismemberment of the Newtown Barracks, the MCC was doomed.
There is a symbolism to the commencement of the Garden's dismemberment which is not lost on the roots black community. In the first place, our inability to preserve the MCC illustrates how weak we, as a people, have become over the last four decades, and in the second place, it underlines the class difference between the "black British" who have actually sat in the Esquivel and Barrow Cabinets, and the roots black masses who have been depleted by migration to the United States. It may be said by strangers, and it will be said by historians, when they consider the Newtown Barracks and the MCC episodes, that it was our own who did it to us. But these people have, in their deeds, set themselves apart from roots people. Their manifest loyalty is to Buckingham Palace, and that Palace's "heirs and successors." It is for that reason we refer to them as "black British."
The same black British who voted to dismember the MCC are responsible for what happened at the Sarstoon River mouth on Saturday morning. Again, for the last year at least, we Belizeans could see that this is what we were heading into – a violation of our territorial sovereignty and a national humiliation.
Perhaps we from the roots should just lick our wounds and shut our mouths. There was a time when we would have marched. We marched in 1919; we marched in 1934; we marched in 1972. It may even be said that we marched in 2004. But we have been unable to organize ourselves to demonstrate our dissatisfaction in public numbers with any of the various felonies committed by these Barrow administrations. We are not going to spend any time in the present editorial trying to figure out why this has been so. All we will say is that there are black people in the present Cabinet, just as there were black people in the Esquivel Cabinets, who thought and voted otherwise from what the masses of roots people wanted.
And yet, these were representatives of the people elected in free and fair elections. Their power to do what they did was and is legitimate power. What, then, gives us at Partridge the right to fulminate against these infamies? The plain evidence of our eyes and our ears gives us that right. The roots people around us are not happy with these infamies. In fact, roots people are outraged.
In the cases of the Newtown Barracks and the MCC Garden, it was our own elected governments which declared war on us descendants of slaves. In the matter of the Sarstoon River on Saturday morning, it was the Guatemalan government and military which declared war on us. Now, the black British who declared the Barracks and MCC wars against us, have for some time been coming to us and telling us the Maya of the Toledo are our enemies. The opposite is the case: the Maya of the Toledo are the first line of defence for us Afro-descendants against the racist, neo-European oligarchy who sent their armed muscle to our Belizean territory on Saturday morning. The message is plain, beloved: if we want it, we have to fight for it.
Power to the people. Remember Danny. Big up, Wil.


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Come out to the Seaside Artist's Association annual Studio Tour!
I will be sharing a space with Sandra Gray, Jan Ziegler, and Willie Ziegler.
I am going to have jewelry, paintings, prints, handmade cards, bookmarks, and the return of my popular Name-Your-Price Bargain Art Bin!
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Ubuntu means helping one another in the common spirit of humanity and this is what nonprofit organization, Monkeybiz, strives to do. Founded in 2000, this income-generating bead project has taken South Africa by storm with their belief in and mission to create sustainable employment for women. They have a strong focus on women's economic empowerment as well as health development - two issues poor communities in South Africa continue to struggle with. The profits are reinvested back into the community in the form of services such as yoga and weekly soup kitchens. Monkeybiz's commitment to developing artistic careers and skills, providing access to nutritious food, greening townships, and providing care for AIDS orphans through simple bead work is outstanding. One thing I love about Monkeybiz is their pure devotion to their mission. Each piece is unique and signed by the artist (Monkeybiz works with over 450!). The pieces are beautiful, handcrafted with provided wire, recycled cotton, and glass seed beads, and reflect the life of the individual artist. We are so pleased to have Monkeybiz at the Aviary as well as spread a little Ubuntu ourselves. Come check it out - your perfect beaded animal is waiting for you, I promise.


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The new Chocolate Theme
cfuhrman Fri, 06/21/2013 - 22:44
I've now created a new theme, 'Chocolate' based on Twitter Bootstrap and using a Google Font called Comfortaa. Hope you like!
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FuhrWerks is almost complete. As of right now what remains to be done is the following:
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Fats, Oils, and Grease (FOG) Program
If this happens, there could be severe consequences that include:
- Public health endangerment
- Damage to your home or business
- Damage to our creeks, streams, and ponds
- Aquatic life endangerment
- Damage to the sanitary sewer system
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The City of Southlake's FOG program was established by Ordinance 914, to ensure protection of the public health, the environment and to prevent damage to the City's public sewer system. The FOG Policy Manual was established to control all aspects of the program.
Liquid Waste Hauling Information
Any vehicle transporting liquid waste within the City of Southlake must complete a permit application. If you are a liquid waste hauling company, read our How-To document under the Helpful Links section explaining the permitting process. Then click here to begin your permit application.
If you are a food service establishment looking to hire a liquid waste hauling company, please view the most recent list of permitted liquid waste haulers in our Helpful Links section.
What can you do to help reduce FOG waste?
Train your staff.
Trapping oils and grease with paper towels and disposing of them properly can go a long way. Before washing or rinsing pots or dishes, wipe off cooking oil, salad dressing and sauces using paper towels and discard in designated waste containers.
Throw away solid foods before placing dishes in a sink or dishwasher. Other solids, like coffee grounds and tea leaves, should also go in the trash rather than down the drain.
Strain the drain. This will prevent any solids from being washed down the drain.
Keep a clean, FOG-free kitchen
Regularly maintained kitchen equipment prevents build up FOG. Remove all solid grease build-ups from processing equipment exhaust systems by scraping waste into a container for disposal. Pour oily and greasy water used to clean fixtures down a drain equipped with a grease trap and not into an outdoor drain. Outdoor drains flow directly to the river without treatment. Connect floor drains to an oil and grease trap. Make sure to dispose of any cleaning products according to instructions found on the bottles.
Clean grease traps regularly
The City of Southlake requires for grease traps to be cleaned at least every 90 days. Based on the flow of grease, many food establishment require a more frequent clean up. An easy way of knowing when to clean out the grease trap is when the percentage of total occupancy is 25% of the trap.
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The European Union offered a path to membership to western Balkan nations, calling on a region divided by poverty and ethnic tensions to improve the rule of law, curb corruption and put aside past grudges to enter the world's largest trading club.
With the U.K. set to become the first EU member to depart, Serbia and Montenegro can join by 2025, the European Commission said after approving an Enlargement Strategy in the Western Balkans. Officials said the region's other four countries Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Macedonia and Kosovo have a clear perspective toward entering the bloc at that time as well, depending on the pace of reforms and negotiations, more than two decades after the bloody breakup of the former Yugoslavia.
The strategy is a shift by the EU after a decade of financial crises, the largest refugee inflows since World War II, Brexit and Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. An alleged coup attempt in Montenegro, unrest in the parliaments of Macedonia and Albania and tensions between Serbia and Kosovo underscore the risks of renewed unrest. Officials in Brussels focused on resolving security issues and strengthening the rule of law in the region of 18 million people.
"From a European perspective, it's important to understand that we either export stability or we import instability," EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn told reporters in Strasbourg, France. "The EU, its member states, will never accept a state that hasn't resolved pending issues or conflicts."
Bulgaria, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, will host a summit in May to discuss the matter, and the bloc's leaders may make concrete decisions in June, EU foreign-policy chief Federica Mogherini said. Along with other ex-communist nations between the Baltic and Black Seas, the former Yugoslav states of Croatia and Slovenia have joined the 28-member bloc and are benefiting from improved trade and billions of euros in development funds.
"This represents a change of focus from Brussels," the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies said in a report. "Whereas previously the EU had assumed that improving economic connectivity would automatically bring about political cooperation, the approach now recognizes that these two issues must progress together, and that sometimes the politics has to come first."
The commission broke down the necessary work into six initiatives:
- rule of law
- security and migration
- socio-economic development
- connectivity
- digital agenda
- reconciliation and good neighborly relations
By 2025, "the EU could become larger than 27 members," according to the strategy. While the date was specifically mentioned for Serbia and Montenegro, accession talks may begin with Albania and the Republic of Macedonia on the basis of fulfilled conditions, according to the report. Bosnia and Herzegovina can become a candidate "with sustained effort."
"That's an indicative date an encouragement so that the parties concerned work hard to follow that path," Jean-Claude Juncker, who leads the European Union's executive arm, told EU lawmakers in Strasbourg. "We wish to see enlargement in the western Balkans."
For Serbia to progress, it must normalize relations with neighboring Kosovo in a legally binding agreement, the commission said. All countries must introduce measures to uphold judicial independence and tackle organized crime and graft.
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said her country will "work even faster and more efficiently on fulfilling the criteria" for EU entry and won't be seeking shortcuts.
"The people of the Balkans and the leaders of the Balkans have made a clear choice: the choice of being inside the European Union," Mogherini said. "Today, we're telling them that we've made the same choice."
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Why Delta Air Lines Soared 128% in 2013, and Can It Keep Rising?
Delta Air Lines has been one of the best-performing airline stocks in 2013, with a 128% gain for the year, trailing only Spirit Airlines .
Margin expansion has been the primary driver of Delta's success this year. The company has fairly consistently posted unit revenue gains outpacing the industry average, while cost growth has abated. This has allowed Delta to grow earnings per share by more than 60% even though revenue growth has remained in the low single digits.
However, Delta may have trouble replicating its success in coming years. While the company remains the strongest of the major airlines, its big 2013 gains leave more modest upside for 2014 and beyond.
The year that everything went right
In many ways, 2013 was the year that everything went right for Delta Air Lines. The company began its streak of unit revenue outperformance in spring 2011, but in that year and in 2012, strong unit revenue gains were often accompanied by big cost increases. In 2012, unit costs rose 6%, following an 11% jump in 2011.
These cost hikes were driven primarily by increases in fuel price and secondarily by higher employee wages. Rising costs fully offset the 10% and 7% unit revenue increases Delta posted in 2011 and 2012, respectively.
In 2013, Delta's unit revenue has continued to grow, albeit at a more moderate pace. Moreover, unit costs have started to fall. Fuel costs have dropped significantly year to date, due in part to the impact of Delta purchasing a refinery in Pennsylvania, thereby increasing the national supply of jet fuel and reducing the refining premium airlines have to pay.
Meanwhile, non-fuel unit costs have increased just 3% year to date, while non-fuel cost growth dropped to just 1% last quarter. This improved cost discipline can be attributed to Delta's $1 billion structural cost reduction program, which the company revealed at its investor day event in December 2012.
Opportunities and challenges for 2014
Delta has some room for continued margin improvement in 2014. The structural cost reduction program has just started to kick into high gear with the arrival of Boeing 717 aircraft subleased from Southwest Airlines . These planes will be much more cost-effective to operate than the aircraft they are replacing -- primarily 50-seat regional jets.
The implementation of Delta's joint venture with Virgin Atlantic should also improve the company's competitiveness in New York, where it will now take a strong No. 2 spot for flights to London's Heathrow Airport (a critical business market). This should drive some further unit revenue gains in New York.
On the flip side, oil prices have been on the rise recently, so Delta may not benefit from the same cost decreases that boosted earnings in 2013. Additionally, the company's ongoing battle with Alaska Air in Seattle and Salt Lake City will probably be a drag on earnings, though Alaska will bear the brunt of the damage. Lastly, from an accounting perspective, Delta will need to start accruing income tax in 2014, which will lead to lower reported earnings.
Adding it up
Today, while Delta is a reasonable investing opportunity, it has much less upside than it did at this time last year. In all likelihood, the company will produce some pretax margin growth in 2014, but earnings per share will fall due to Delta's need to accrue taxes. With this in mind, there are more promising stocks in the airline sector today.
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In partnership with Audi, this 3 hour excursion will be highlighted by visits and discussions with Galerie König at St. Agnes, The Haubrock Foundation, Eigen + Art Lab, and Side by Side Gallery Akim Monet.
When: Saturday, April 30th
Time: 1:30pm - 4:30pm
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1. Re: Publishing New and Updated Workbooks to Tableau ServerJeffrey Line Mar 3, 2017 5:00 PM (in response to Christopher McKinnish)
Our process is similar to your a little. We just have a test and a production project for our various department.
If I remember correctly you can't move a workbook over top of one that already exits in a project.
I typically will down load the test workbook and then publish over top of the one in production. This keeps everything in place with subscriptions, views and refreshes. It also allows you to role back to a prior version if needed. Don't believe moving a workbook does allow for that.
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OAKVILLE, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Jan. 14, 2015) - Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario)
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FedDev Ontario Minister Gary Goodyear and Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) President & CEO Jayson Myers today kicked off a series of roundtables with manufacturers in southern Ontario to seek input on how to retain and grow jobs in this important sector of the Canadian economy.
Joined by Oakville Member of Parliament Terence Young, Minister Goodyear and Mr. Myers visited Siemens Canada Limited headquarters in Oakville to learn more about the company's history and products. Siemens, one of the world's leading electronics and electrical engineering companies, has a 110,000-square foot, five-storey facility, which brings together hundreds of employees in a collaborative environment.
Minister Goodyear and Mr. Myers then co-hosted a roundtable with representatives from local manufacturing firms to discuss challenges and opportunities for advanced manufacturing in Ontario.
Earlier in the day, Minister Goodyear, along with Minister of State for Sport and Member of Parliament for Bramalea-Gore-Malton Bal Gosal, toured Koss Aerospace and announced a FedDev Ontario investment of nearly $5 million for the Mississauga-based aerospace and defence manufacturer.
FedDev Ontario also recently announced renewed investments of almost $30 million in CME and the Yves Landry Foundation for two funding programs that opened to manufacturers in December.
The Government of Canada invests in manufacturing innovation through initiatives such as the Advanced Manufacturing Fund, Technology Demonstration Program, the Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative, and the Automotive Innovation Fund.
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"Manufacturing has been, and still is, the backbone of the Canadian economy. The Government of Canada is proud to support Ontario manufacturers that are adopting new technologies, competing globally and creating more high-quality jobs. Our programs, third-party partnerships and events such as this manufacturing roundtable speak to the importance we place on working with and supporting the sector."
- Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
"The Ontario economy depends on manufacturers to drive exports, commercialize most new technologies and create high paying jobs across a variety of industrial and services sectors, so in many respects our economic prospects are directly tied to the future of manufacturing in Ontario. Advanced manufacturing technologies are revolutionizing products and production processes for Ontario manufacturers and, while competitive pressures remain extremely strong, adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies will help keep Ontario firms competitive."
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Sundays with Hitch on TCM/
I spent most of the 2007-2008 school year watching Turner Classic Movies. Both of my children were out of the house and in school for seven hours a day and I couldn't think of a better way to decompress after parenting an undiagnosed ADHD toddler for five years. My obsession was probably a little unhealthy. A few weeks ago, my husband asked me why I don't watch old movies anymore. "Because I watched every one I wanted to see."
That isn't an exaggeration. I will occasionally check out TCM's schedule to see if there is anything I missed or an old favorite I want to re-watch. Occasionally, I'll find one of the latter, but the former? I haven't found one yet.
During that time, I tried to watch all of Hitchcock's movies. Easier said than done. They weren't all available on DVD and TCM played the same ones over and over, probably due to rights issues. When I did find a DVD of Hitchcock's British movies, the quality was terrible. The sound was horrible, making it difficult to understand what anyone was saying. His early works are also very static, resembling filmed stage plays more than what we think of as movies. But, that was not unique to Hitch. Most films from the last 20s early 30s suffer from this restraint.
So, though I tried to get through those early movies, I found myself falling asleep more often than not, getting bored or irritated by not being able to hear. There are probably about eight to ten movies I need to see to complete the set. Luckily, TCM is having a Hitchcock festival every Sunday in September.
As far as I can tell, TCM has managed to get the rights to just about every movie. The two exceptions I can see are Under Capricorn, a historical drama staring Ingrid Bergman I haven't seen and The Paradine Case, which I have and I'm pretty sure I hated it.
This Sunday's schedule is excellent. Starting at 10 am (Eastern) Murder (1932), Rope (1948), Spellbound (1946), Marnie (1964), The Birds (1963), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Psycho (1960), The Lodger (1926), Blackmail (1929), and Frenzy (1972). I don't have the time or patience to watch them all (but if you do, I recommend it!), but will save a couple to my DVR to watch next week.
What I'm Watching - Murder and Blackmail. When I originally tried to watch them, the sound for Murder was horrible and I think I fell asleep during Blackmail.
Movie I Wouldn't Bother to Re-Watch - Spellbound. Despite Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman, I just didn't care for this one. But, I plan to read the book it was based on so I might re-visit it after that.
If You Can Only Watch One - If you've seen Psycho and The Birds, then you should definitely watch Shadow of a Doubt. Excellent psychological serial killer drama.


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I haven't been blogging this past week, but I have been making lists.
The "Seriously No Longer Necessary" List:
1. Announcement that this is a non-smoking flight. That new law happened in 1998, the year Bill Clinton did not have relations with that woman. Please let's stop talking about it.
2. All 82 NBA games preceding the playoffs.
3. Proxy statements mailed to my home. This shareholder votes no more paper without pictures!
4. Pegged pants, nude pantyhose, urban fannypacks. Epically wrong in every decade attempted.
5. Saying "Let's agree to disagree" when what's really being said is "I'm going to keep talking until it starts raining inside or I find your TV remote and confiscate it."
6. Juice pouches, SAT tests, front loading washing machines and other very badly designed things that are guaranteed to leak, frustrate or lock in smells.
7. Spam protection in the form of those boxes of letters and numbers that are completely unreadable to anyone who is not a computer.
8. Those coupons at the end of the grocery receipt which don't stand a chance of making it to the Proxy pile for much, much later recycling.
9. Deodorant without antiperspirant. I've been around the European block long enough to know it's a two pitted problem.
10. Notifications without solutions. If traffic disruptions have been noted, YES reroute me. If my personal data has been compromised, fix it. If someone has listened to a song on Spotify - unless you have video of them belting it out on hidden camera - shut it.
11. Conversation in the dentist chair and during a pap smear.
12. Aspartame, Acesulfame Potassium, Rebiana aka Stevia aka Truvia and other hardtopronounce things trying to be somebody's sugar. For the love of donuts, keep it real.
13. Selfie tripods … please, please before they become any more of a thing.
"Things Worth Waiting For" List:
1. Teleporting (obviously), pollenless trees, a half way decent cell phone battery, a happy Bon Iver song.
2. A worldwide "Sriracha to Every Table" food movement.
3. A future US President that is neither a Bush or Clinton.
4. Eye contact with the driver before you step into the crosswalk. Safety 1rst friends.
5. A Lip-Sync Battle between Jimmy Fallon, Justin Timberlake, and Emma Stone at your birthday party where you then take the stage and kill it (while televised) followed by water turning into wine for 5,000 of your closest friends.
6. An Intelligent Scale that knows how to subtract for clothes, water weight, and that second handful of peanut M&Ms.
7. Elf 2, LA Confidential 2, Gladiator 2 (for my Mother), Unbroken the movie, any new film featuring Matthew McConaughey with his shirt off, a GIVE BACK of all the cumulative human hours wasted on the bad Adam Sandler films.
8. The lottery to pay for your kid's college tuition. A Bush or Clinton to pay for your second kid's college tuition.
9. The unfolding drama in Rio. How exactly will they pull off the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics? Stay tuned – We Will Be Right Back After We Bend Putin's Ear.
10. Your wife or girlfriend to hit her mid-30s—when her libido catches up with, and probably outburns, your own. (I know ??? This entry courtesy of an "25 Things It's Worth Waiting For" article in Men's Health. Click away if you must.)
11. Richard Sherman's 2015 post game interview when the Seattle Seahawks repeat as Superbowl Champions !! (a totally appropriate use of double exclamation points)
12. Kumbaya my Cable Company, kumbaya. Kumbaya this-woman-who-wants-to-know-if-I'm-interested-in-a-new-business-from-home, kumbaya. Kumbaya All You Airlines, kumbaya. Oh Still-Waiting-For, kumbaya.
13. The spontaneous destruction of selfie tripods. Kumbaya.


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