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Domain Name
Choosing an effective domain is hugely important, because it can make or break whether someone remembers your website or not. Using your name is the easiest domain name to choose. claralieu.com, laurynwelch.com, caseyroonan.com are all simply the artist's name.
If you have a common name like Sam Smith, consider adding "art" or "studio," or another art related work. For example, samsmithart.com or samsmithstudio.com.
Best to keep words that are added to your name broad and generic. Some artists shift media, so if you start with samsmithphoto.com but end up switching to oil painting later, it's a problem if your domain name doesn't relate anymore to your current studio practice.
Short & Easy to Remember
Keep your domain short, it's easier to remember and prevents typos. Compare samsmithweddingphotography.com vs. samsmithphoto.com. The latter domain name is much, much easier to remember and type.
Complicated Names
If your name is very long or difficult to spell, think about ways to shorten your domain name so people don't have to bother with the spelling. For example, Illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka has a name that is hard to spell for most people. His website is studiojjk.com, using his initials which are very easy to remember.
Pay for the Domain Name
Shell out the money (and these days you don't have to pay that much!) and pay for the domain name. There is a giant difference between "claralieu.com" and "claralieu.squarespace.com." This is worth the money and will make everything easier in the future when referencing your website.
Show that Your Website is Active
Once a website is established and coherent with a decent amount of work and information, you need to show that your website is current and active. When someone visits a site and the front page lists an "upcoming" exhibition that was 5 months ago, your site will look out of date and poorly maintained.
Update the home page with news
The quickest and easiest way to show that your website is up to date is to place 1 large image on the home page that is related to your most recent piece of news. If you have an exhibition coming up 3 months from now, list that exhibition on your home page. Adding 1 new image plus some accompanying text takes very little effort and time. Just make sure that you remove that home page as soon as the listed exhibition is over.
Eliminate dead links
Make sure all external links on your site are live. Your website won't come across well if old videos that have since been deleted show up or if people click on links to sites that no longer exists.
On the right is the image you will see if a deleted YouTube video is embedded in a website.
Embed all links
Never type out the URL, (example: "http://artprof.org/") and never type "click here." Both of these approaches will clutter your website with unnecessary text.
Look at the differences between the text formatting on the right:
Curate; Less is more
Resist the temptation to list every single accomplishment, piece of artwork, and idea you've ever had in your entire artistic career. Viewers are easily overwhelmed when presented with too much content, especially if the content is disorganized or difficult to navigate.
Aim for fewer items of higher quality, as opposed to sheer quantity with a lower quality. Having tons of content does not necessarily make you look better, in fact, most of the time it makes you look worse.
Use plain fonts
Unless you are a graphic designer who specializes in font design, an artist website is not the place to get super creative and experimental with fonts. Unusual or decorative fonts can become a distraction from the artwork, and can create associations that weren't intended.
The top font below is a plain font, Futura Bk. The middle font is reminiscent of the Ancient Roman empire while the bottom font seems to imply that you are somehow involved with the roaring 20's???
Stay away from those associations entirely and don't call attention to the font you are using.
Artist resumes: Don't pad
Don't pad your resume, just don't do it. Curators, gallery directors, journalists, etc. can spot a padded resume a mile away, and it will reek of desperation. People can see right through the padding and it will not reflect well on you. The length of your resume is not an indication of quality, so emphasize instead only relevant, high quality experiences that will be received better.
Select exhibitions & avoid repetition
There's no need to list every exhibition that you've ever participated in. Avoid exhibitions that you participate on a regular basis. You can list them once or twice, but more than than is not necessary.
For example, if you have been the "24th Annual Member's Exhibition," and in the 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, etc. shows, it doesn't look good if your entire exhibition history is essentially all the same exhibition. See the exhibition on the right for an example.
Not only does it clutter your resume with redundant information, but it prevents the more distinctive shows you've been in from being seen.
25th Annual Member's Exhibition, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Printmaking Now, The Print Center, Philadelphia, MA
24th Annual Member's Exhibition, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
The New Landscape, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
23th Annual Member's Exhibition, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
22nd Annual Member's Exhibition, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
If you don't have it, don't include it
There are many categories in an artist resume and don't worry if you simply don't have any experience in a category. Every artist who have difference categories based on their individual studio practice and experience.
If you have never done an artist residency before, that's okay! If you don't lecture, and never intend to lecture, it doesn't make you look bad to not include that category.
Exhibition Listings
The most important content in your exhibition listings are the year, the title of the exhibition, the name of the venue, and the town, state, and country the venue is located in.
Extra information like the month the exhibition took place, whether it was an invitational exhibition will only clutter your exhibition listing.
The two exhibition listings below list the exact same exhibitions, but the listing on the right lists unnecessary information, therefore creating dense blocks of text that are much harder to read.
Calculated Risks, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA
Drawings that Work, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Evolution of a Shared Vision, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
Where Are We?, Chazan Gallery, Wheeler School, Providence, RI
Arrivals/Departure, Jewett Gallery, Wellesley College, MA
Field Report, Gordon College, Wenham, MA
Calculated Risks, group invitational exhibition, curated by Davis Museum curator Sara Smith, September, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA
Drawings that Work, juried group exhibition, juried by Sara Smith, December, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Evolution of a Shared Vision, May, drawings from the collection of David and Barbara Stahl, invitational group exhibition, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
Where Are We?, four person invitational exhibition, June, Chazan Gallery, Wheeler School, Providence, RI
Arrivals/Departure, group invitational faculty annual exhibition, September, Jewett Gallery, Wellesley College, MA
Field Report, Boston Printmakers Member's group invitational exhibition, July, Gordon College, Wenham, MA
Link Everything
Any time an organization, artist, or arts related website is mentioned, link to their site. Not only is this a considerate and supportive action to do within the context of the arts community, but it will help your SEO. (Search Engine Optimization) A site that has many external links of trusted legitimate websites will rank higher on Google than a site which has no external links at all.
You can't count on everyone who looks at your resume to recognize every gallery or venue you show your work at, so linking to a gallery's website lets your audience click over to the gallery's website to see that it is indeed a legitimate gallery.
External links should open a new tab
Anytime you link to an external website, you need to adjust your link settings so that clicking on that link automatically opens a new tab in your web browser. Otherwise, clicking on an external link in your website means your audience has left your site and it's harder for them to go back.
When a new tab opens automatically, it's really easy for your audience to go back and forth between your site and the external site.
Out of all the areas of the artist resume, the awards section is the chronic culprit of major resume padding. There are many different types of awards, and it's important to only list ones that are substantial enough that they warrant a listing. Honorable mentions, juror's commendations, being featured on a website, attaining honor roll do not count as awards.
On the awards listing on the left are listings that do not have much substance, whereas the awards listing on the right are legitimate for an awards section.
Honorable Mention, Danforth Museum Member's Exhibition
Featured Artist, Artist a Day
Juror's Commendation, Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial
Honor Roll, Boston University
Artist Fellowship, Massachusetts Cultural Council
Artist Grant, Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation
Artist Grant, The Puffin Foundation
When listing schools you attended, the only ones that matter on an artist resume are schools where you received a degree.
There are many artists received degrees in fields that are not related to art; these degrees are still important to list in an artist resume as it speaks about you and the diversity of your experience. However, it's not necessary to list publications, experience, etc. from a previous career.
For example, if you used to be a Chemistry professor, it's good to list your degrees in Chemistry, but not important to list all of the science journals you published in.
On the bottom left is education listings which are cluttered with information that is not important. On the bottom right, the education listing is distilled down to the most important information.
MFA in Sculpture, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Student Leadership Council
BFA in Painting, School of the Visual Arts
Summa Cum Laude
Semester abroad in Madrid, Spain
GPA 3.84, Honor roll all 4 years in a row
MFA in Sculpture, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
BFA in Painting, School of the Visual Arts
Any collections listed must be by legitimate institutions and collectors. For example, if you notice that "Sam and Sarah Lieu" are listed as collectors on claralieu.com, that's not a coincidence.
If you are in a legitimate collection and the collector's name is not well known, you can link their names to an article or exhibition that will demonstrate their legitimacy. To the right is a sample collections list that would be appropriate
Terry Richards
Sam and Sarah Lieu
The Village Bank
Cafe Harmony
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
Estee Lauder Corporation
Boston Public Library
David & Barbara Stahl
Your contact form can make a break whether someone chooses to purchase a piece, or to contact you about another professional opportunity. Ever give up on a website because you couldn't find the contact info fast enough? The same will happen on your website if your contact page isn't easy to find or read.
Boil your contact page down to two items: 1) your email and 2) social media icons.
On the lower left is a cluttered greeting that makes it tough to find the information you need. In the bottom center, the links to social media are easier to find, but they all look the same. On the lower right, the colorful icons make it really easy to find the social media platform you are looking for.
Format your email on your website like this: clara [at] claralieu.com. This will prevent spam bots from picking up your email address, and be sure that when people click on your email that a new email message pops up.
Email vs. Contact form
Some people have a contact form on their contact page instead of providing their email address. For some people, the contact form feels too anonymous and could prevent them from contacting you. An email address can feel more concrete as opposed to the contact from.
Another option is to provide both your email and the contact form, however, providing both can also come across as making one feel redundant.
Listing your phone number on your artist website is your choice, however if you have any concerns, best to err on not listing your phone number as a pre caution.
Your about page is a chance to write a personal narrative about who you are as an artist and to establish a tone with your audience. This statement is an opportunity to tell your audience something about yourself which may not be as easily communicated on your resume. Keep your personal narrative short, two paragraphs tops.
Whether you choose to write in first person or third person is up to you. Know that most people interpret a statement written in first person to be a little more friendly, while a statement written in third person tends to come across as more formal.
If you're not sure about how formal or casual you want your statement to be, err on being more on the professional side. You can quickly embarrass yourself with a poorly written statement that is too unrelated to your studio practice.
Marly Gallardo's About page
Song Kang's About page
Below are two extreme examples: the bottom left is a formal and professional statement while the one on the lower right is very casual.
I am an Adjunct Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, and a Partner at Artprof.org, a free, online educational platform for visual arts.
My studio practice uses drawing, printmaking, and sculpture as means towards exploring the extremes of human emotion, using the human figure and face as a vehicle for expression.
Hi guys! I teach at RISD and a few years back I started this new website which gives people the chance to study visual arts for free.
I am mostly into making drawings of portraits, and I absolutely love the human figure as well. Lots of my pieces talk about feelings and emotions that people experience in their lives.
Show your face
A website that has no photo of you can come across as anonymous and evasive, and makes it more challenging for your audience to connect with you.
If you're self-conscious about your appearance, have a friend take a photo of you working in the studio as opposed to the more traditional head shot. Whatever format you choose, make sure your face is visible in the photo.
Artists live and die by their photographs
Today, the vast majority of people will see your artwork on a screen before they see your artwork in person. In fact, having the opportunity to see your artwork in person will be rare. For this reason, the photographs of your artwork are absolutely critical to your artist website.
Photos that are poor quality, and which don't accurately represent your artwork can make or break potential professional opportunities. Artworks that are three-dimensional are especially difficult to represent online, so the images you present are everything.
Shoot professional quality photos
There is a gigantic range of options in terms of photographing your artwork. Read about your options, tips on equipment, and more here.
Compress your photos
There are tons of technical aspects to building a website, but one that is chronically forgotten about by artists is compressing your images. If you upload your images full size, uncompressed, not only will that fill up all the space on your website, but your images will take forever to load when people are visiting your site!
Works in progress belong on social media (mostly)
It's okay to have a few studio shots or perhaps some works in progress on your website, it can reveal an aspect of your creative process which can be insightful for your audience.
However, don't overdo it. You want your polished photos to dominant your website, while your works in progress pieces can be spotlighted on your social media accounts.
Yes, you need to be on social media.
Limit scrolling
Avoid stacking large images on top of each other, which forces your audience to scroll endlessly in order to see all of your artworks.
Thumbnail Galleries
Instead, create a grid of thumbnail images, minimum 3 images across for your artworks. You'll want to see it up so that clicking on a thumbnail allows you to expand the image and also to click back and forth between the images. Avoid slideshows that run automatically, frequently their pace is too fast for your viewer.
You'll need to decide how to organize your artwork, most artists will choose to organize by either subject matter or by media. Limit the number of categories you have. Ten categories is too much for your audience to choose from and will make it tough for them to navigate your site.
Use the appropriate terminology
Be sure that the word you use to represent a category is not misleading. For example, if you use the word "installation" and that category leads to images of your 2D paintings installed in living rooms, that can be misleading since "installation" generally is a whole field in itself of fine art.
Watch out for words that can be too vague. For example "galleries" could be either a gallery of images or it could have information on the galleries that represent you. A gallery that represents you should be on the Contact page, while an area that has your artwork could be called "Portfolio," "Work," etc.
Categories should relate to each other
A group of categories such as "Drawing – Painting – Sculpture" work well because they are distinctive, but are all in the fine arts field. Be careful about having categories that seem too disparate from each other, like "Graphic Design – Writing – Glass Blowing" which can be confusing for your audience.
If you truly are someone who works in that many contrasting fields, consider building a separate website for your non art related content.
Artist Statement
Artist statements are a chronic issue for visual artists, none of us became visual artists to express ourselves verbally! Which is why it's a good idea if you can afford it, to hire an editor to help you with your artist statement. Keep the statement very short, 1-2 paragraphs long. Boil your artistic practice down to key words and phrases and be clear and succinct.
Menu Bar
Menu bars should have as few items as possible. Be sure that the terminology that you choose is accurate, and that the words on the menu bar are straightforward and clear, such as "About," "Contact", "Illustration," etc.
Drop down menus are okay to have, but keep them at a minimum. If a menu bar conveys that there is an overwhelming amount of content on the site, people will leave the site immediately.
Your name must be very visible on the home page, and a short tag line is helpful for people to get a quick sense of who you are.
Usability Testing
Usability testing is a very revealing process that allows you to catch problems with your website that you yourself wouldn't otherwise pick up on.
Sit down with someone and ask them to click through your website. Make sure you choose someone who has never seen your website before. As they explore your website, ask them to say out loud exactly what is going through their heads.
As the person talks out loud, take notes on how they navigate the site. Are they clicking on sections that you want them to click on? Are they able to find what they want? Are they confused how to get from one section to another? Make changes to your website based on these observations. Then, do another round of testing to see if those changes have improved your website.
Test with a minimum of 2 people
Try to find 2 people who are not artists, and who you know will be honest in their feedback on your website. Even better, test 2 people of different ages to get a sense of how differently people react to a site depending on their age demographic.
Usability Testing Resources
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug


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During the eighties, in Spain, as in many other countries all around the world, tons of electronic music cassettes appeared, often unipersonal, where the artist himself became the editor and distributor of his works. It was DIY at its purest! The appearance of the multitrack recorder and cassette duplicators helped the emergence of this phenomenon that became an international underground movement. The first cassettes published in Spain, framed within the electronic music. Pioneers such as Esplendor Geométrico (EG-1, 1981), La Otra Cara de Un Jardín (1981), and el Internado (the first project of fame Francisco López). Shortly after, artists and labels appeared throughout the Spanish geography, such as Ortega y Cassette and Laboratorio de Música Desconocida, both in Barcelona, Auxilio de Cientos (Granada), Consumo del Miedo (Jaén), Necronomicón (Puertollano), STI (Zaragoza), and on and on.
The underground electronic scene in Madrid during the eighties was agglutinated largely around cassette seals such as Toracic Tapes (directed by Miguel A. Ruiz), I.E.P. (founded by musician Luis Mesa), Proceso Uvegraf (by Juan Teruel), and EGK (the sublabel for cassettes of Discos Esplendor Geométrico).
CRONICA TÉCNICA is a compilation of themes from this scene recorded between 1981 and 1991, most of which were originally published on cassette, and which focused mainly on Industrial, noise and experimental music. Some of the musicians, such as Uvegraf or Miguel A. Ruiz, are still active.
Followers of the Industrial music and the experimental underground of the seventies and eighties (the first discs of TG and Cabaret Voltaire, Esplendor Geométrico, Maurizio Bianchi, SPK, Asmus Tietchens, etc.) will appreciate and be surprised with this selection for its quality, specially thinking that this music has been kept hidden in the totally unknown since then.
The selection was made by Andrés Noarbe, manager and editor of Esplendor Geométrico since its' founding in 1980 and director of the pioneer label in publishing electronic music in Spain: Discos E.G. (now Geometrik Records). He lived this movement of cassette labels in Spain in the first row from the beginning, and met most of its protagonists. None knows the scene best, plus he has kept in the scene ever since then.
CRONICA TÉCNICA is edited by Geometrik Records in collaboration with Munster Rec., and is the second volume of the Spanish Underground Cassette Movement series after the first one: Fungus Cerebri, dedicated entirely to Esplendor Geométrico and still available. More volumes will soon follow. Stay alert!

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A Sage (仙人, Sennin) is someone who is able to utilise senjutsu and has mastered the art of Sage Mode. It is also a title given to someone because of their renowned power, wisdom, or holy standing.
Main articles: Senjutsu and Sage Mode Senjutsu (仙術, English TV: Sage Jutsu, Literally meaning: Sage Techniques) is a specialised field of techniques that allows the user to sense and then gather natural energy. Senjutsu practitioners learn to draw the energy of nature inside of them, blending it with their own chakra. This adds a new dimension of power to the practitioner's chakra, resulting in the creation of "senjutsu chakra" (仙術チャクラ, senjutsu chakura).
Senjutsu is taught by the toads of Mount Myōboku and the snakes of Ryūchi Cave. Whereas use of senjutsu is somewhat common amongst the animals that reside in these locations, very few humans have learned to perform senjutsu due to steep prerequisites and the inherent dangers of it.
Other Meanings
- Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, more commonly known as the Sage of Six Paths, was one of the first to be born with chakra, he saved the world from the Ten-Tails and created ninshū, a predecessor of the modern ninjutsu. He was capable of using the Six Paths Senjutsu which he, post-mortem, transfers as the Six Paths Sage Mode to his son's reincarnation.
- Son Gokū has the moniker of Great Sage Equalling Heaven (斉天大聖, Seiten Taisei) and is also called the King of the Sage Monkeys (仙猿の王, Sen'en no Ō), although neither of the terms are written with the same kanji as the title "Sage".
- The term 仙人 (Sennin), refers to the Japanese term of Chinese sages and practitioners of Taoist ways, who have gained immortality and incredible powers through the manipulation of qi, or natural energy through their body by becoming ascetics and living on mountains, where qi is said to gather at the most and to start flowing from into the world. The training and measures needed to become a Sage in Naruto is just as vigorous and demanding, and similar in some regards, requiring one to have massive reserves of chakra, and come to adopt natural energy, not for the pursuit of immortality, but to become harmonised with the flow of the world around them.
- In the fourth databook, Hagoromo is called "Rikudō no Shinsen" (六道の神仙) on one occasion. Although both "sennin" and "shinsen" can be translated as "sage", the latter is an archaic way to refer to supernatural beings and even gods.
- The Mount Myōboku, the Ryūchi Cave and the Shikkotsu Forest are called the "Three Big Unexplored 'Sage' Regions" (「仙人」三大秘境, "Sennin" Sandai Hikyō).[1]
- When Kabuto Yakushi used Sage Mode, he described himself as a "perfect sage" (完ペキな仙人, kanpeki-na sennin), as opposed to Orochimaru, who lacked the body to attain Sage Mode. This suggests that a sage is simply someone who can use senjutsu.
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Welcome to my first crack at posting team news from all-'round Major League Soccer (MLS). What comes below will be by no means exhaustive; really, it's only a compilation of what I bumped into during my travels. And, of course, anyone feeling I made a grave omission is welcome to correct that in the comments; by the same token, tips and mentions to reports are also welcome, so's I can post those in future editions.
And, yes, I'm aware that I'm starting this feature appallingly late in the season. Without further adu…shit, habit…without further adu – dammit! seriously, it happened again – without further ADO, enjoy the team news. If I skipped your bunch, it doesn't mean I don't like 'em; you'll notice entries for both DC United and the Los Angeles Galaxy below. Hell, I'll even start with 'em:
DC United
Marc Burch finds his MLS niche
Emilio's and Vanney's upside(s)
Kissing Ben Olsen's butt, but also laying out good dish on DC's tactics.
Los Angeles Galaxy
Look at all them injuries. It's true: nobody walks in LA.
New England Revolution
The FNGs from Gambia (don't worry about the name in the headline; he ain't comin').
Real Salt Lake
Beckerman believes in Kreis (see bottom)
Colorado Rapids
Casey rising; Sanneh plugging holes
Kansas City Wizards
Chicago Fire
Columbus Crew
Comings/Goings (Szetela); Convalescing and Waivers
FC Dallas
FrankenCooper "ready to push himself"; Goodson concussion
New York Red Bulls (or is it Red Bull New York?)
Jozy's injury; Galarcep's sass
Well, that's it for this….waitaminute…whoops…
Toronto FC
Dichio's busted foot, TFC's doomed season.
OK, done now for reals.
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Pension Freedoms and the almost complete demise of final salary or defined benefit pensions in the private sector have massively increased the dangers of lousy pension outcomes for people not actively managing their pension choices.
Back in the old days, (50s, 60s, 70s or 80s), if you worked for a private sector company with a pension scheme and you joined, then took the default option each time a choice came up, you were probably OK in retirement. This passive approach to retirement probably did not make the most of the opportunities available, but on the other hand, it would not come back to bite you either.
These days, if you are lucky, you either have an older money purchase pension scheme or you have been auto-enrolled into a money purchase scheme that has a default investment portfolio, possibly including Lifestyling as you near retirement age. If you have followed the passive approach outlined above, then it is highly probable that your pension fund will be inadequate for your needs, invested in low risk, low return assets from inception or "Lifestyled" into them by the time you get to retirement.
A recent article in the Saturday Telegraph has demonised Lifestyling as the most recent evidence of a conspiracy of ineptitude by the pension providers, (See the original article at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/pensions/11685944/Pension-freedom-flaw-750000-savers-lose-9pc-in-four-months.html).
I would disagree with the Telegraph analysis and I would suggest that the real issue is one of apathy towards pensions in general. Our political betters have not convinced the bulk of the population that they need to actively contribute to their pensions and exercise personal choice throughout their working lives. Most people seem to be sleepwalking into poverty.
Thinking back to the decisions my parent's generation had to make, so long as they joined the employer scheme they would be well provided for and failing that, the State pension would provide a minimum level of subsistence. These days, unless you are a full-time public sector worker, the default choices will not be enough; auto-enrolment schemes will only put 8% of annual earnings into a scheme, where the Money Advice Services own estimates suggest that a 22 year old man on average industrial wage would need to put in at least 17% on top of his employer's 3% to get half pay at 68, his state pension age. (See https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/tools/pension-calculator).
As I see it, the choice for those not in full-time public sector employment is stark, either actively get involved in your pension choices and be prepared to put money away consistently or accept the inevitability of poverty in retirement.
As a starting point, if you are in a pension scheme, is the pension fund suitable? If you are more than 10 years from retirement, then you should have equity exposure to generate gains. If you are less than 10 years from retirement, then your attitude to investment risk and attitude to retirement comes to the fore; if you are expecting to go to flexible drawdown for retirement income, then either learn the ropes or pay for advice.
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**NOTE - The Refugee Training Event Scheduled for Thursday has been Postponed**
This weekend is an exciting weekend for Abiding Presence! Bishop Richard Graham will be with us to preach and preside at all services. He'll also be at The Abiding Table at 10:00 a.m. to meet with senior high and adults over breakfast. Please make sure you're here for our special services this weekend!
Abiding Presence is one of the 9,252 congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). These congregations are divided geographically into 65 synods. Our synod is the Metropolitan Washington D.C. Synod. Our synod is the geographically smallest synod of the ELCA, but it is not the smallest numerically. Our synod is made up of the 80 congregations in Washington, D.C., and the counties in Maryland and Virginia that surround D.C. It also includes the one ELCA congregation located in Bermuda.
Together as the ELCA and the Metropolitan Washington D.C. Synod we are able to witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ and serve God's people in far more ways than we could on our own as a single congregation. Our synod supports two outdoor ministry sites that provide summer camp and year around retreat ministries. We support the work of missionaries around the world. The synod has come together to support Abiding Presence by offering us a grant to enable us to call Pastor Heidi as our Pastor for Discipleship.
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One of my favorite dishes of all time is from The Old Spaghetti Factory. When I was younger my family used to joke that I should own or franchise a location. I just love their Mizithra Cheese and Browned Butter Spaghetti. There is something about that cheese and browned butter together that makes me swoon. Especially when you add a crisp salad with house Creamy Pesto dressing and a scoop of their own spumoni ice cream for dessert. The best spumoni you will ever find. Which brings me to tonight's dinner, Mizithra and Browned Butter Orzo. I saw the recipe in an issue of Fine Cooking and was immediately taken back to The Old Spaghetti Factory. Of course their original recipe calls for plain old Parmesan, but I've spiced it up with some Mizithra and a couple of yummy toppings. For dinner, I paired it with some spicy mango chicken sausages from Aidells and garlic green beans.
The big adventure in the recipe came from the Mizithra cheese. The last time I used Mizithra (about 4-5 years ago) it was pretty easy to find pre-grated or in wedges. Today however was a little more difficult. After going to four stores myself and sending my wonderful Mom to one by her house I came up empty-handed. My last attempt was Whole Foods. If anyone has something unique, it's them. Well there are two here in town and obviously I went to the one close to our house. Sadly the woman told me they didn't have any but she was willing to call the one downtown to ask. Low and behold they had it, and thankfully my awesome husband works only minutes away and took 15 minutes at the end of his busy day to snag it. Without further ado, time to cook!
Mizithra and Browned Butter Orzo (adapted from Fine Cooking)
- 1 1/2 cups low sodium chicken broth
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 tbs unsalted butter
- 1 cup orzo
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- 1/2 cup Mizithra cheese
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp fresh cracked pepper
- 1/4 cup toasted pine nuts
- 2 tbs diced chives
In a saucepan bring the broth and 1/2 cup of water to a simmer over medium heat. In a large saute pan cook the butter for two minutes just until golden brown. Be careful not to burn the butter. Add the orzo and toss to coat completely with butter. Continue cooking two minutes. Add the wine to the orzo and butter. Stir and cook for one minute. Add the broth mixture to the orzo and stir. Reduce heat to low and cover saute pan. Continue cooking on low for 12 minutes or until orzo is tender. Remove from heat and stir in the salt, pepper. Allow it to rest for ten minutes. While orzo is resting heat a small saute pan on medium-high heat to toast pine nuts. Stir or toss continually for 2-3 minutes until they start to brown. Mix in Mizithra cheese and granish with toasted pine nuts and chives. Enjoy!


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In June, Lifetime announced its plan to turn Grumpy Cat–the cantankerous feline made famous by a popular image macro–into a movie star. Grumpy Cat (whose actual name is Tardar Sauce) has starred in her own videos before, but her feature film debut will take her acting career to the next level. The trailer for the film is now out, and it has been mostly panned by the YouTube audience.
The film is called Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever, and yes, it's a holiday movie. It stars Tardar Sauce as a disgruntled mall cat who goes on an adventure after serving as the subject of a young girl's Yuletide wish. Aubrey Plaza voices the titular cat, who seems to be powered by CG throughout the majority of the trailer (unless I missed the part where cats know how to fire paintball guns).
If this sounds to you like Lifetime scraping the bottom of the meme barrel, then you're in agreement with the majority of the trailer's viewers. As of this post, the trailer has 4,701 likes against 5,307 dislikes; despite that mixed response (or perhaps because of it), the video has received more than 1.4 million views in just three days.
Will Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever be bad? Yeah, probably. Will it be "so bad, it's good"? The jury's still out on that one. No matter where the consensus ultimately falls, one thing's for sure: The movie will not give the actual Grumpy Cat any reason to ease up on her trademark sneer.
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by John Ellis
As disturbing as this thought is, conservative Christians need to be prepared for the moral dilemma that will come if Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination. For the record, I don't yet believe that Trump is going to win the nomination. Pretty much all of my DC insider friends assure me that he won't; I'm told that the Republican Party already has a plan in place to ensure that Trump doesn't secure the nomination. However, while I trust my sources (pretty much everything else that they said was going to happen during this election has happened), my brow is beginning to furrow with incredulity at their assertions. This is why I've already decided how I'm going to vote in the horrifying eventuality that Donald Trump is the Republican nominee.
Or, rather, how I'm not going to vote. If Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination, I will abstain from voting. And, in the frightening event that Trump does win, I encourage all of my fellow conservative Christians (and non-Christian Republicans, too, for that matter) to abstain from voting or write someone in[1] if you believe you must vote.
I've already written why I believe that Christians shouldn't support Trump. Sadly, I've heard from many people who agree with me, but who tell me that they will vote for him if he wins the nomination. Their logic is often "the lesser of two evils" when faced with a choice between Trump and Hillary Clinton[2]. This is ironic since they claim to agree with my first Trump article in which I challenge the validity of the platitude "the lesser of two evils." Not to mention that I don't believe that between Hillary and Trump, Hillary is the lesser of the two very obvious evils – but more on that later. With the hope of dissuading anyone from voting for Trump, I've outlined five reasons why I believe that Christians (and non-Christians, too) should abstain from voting for Donald Trump in the general election.
Trump's Immorality
My ten year old daughter is prone to using hyperbole when describing, well, almost everything – and that's not hyperbole on my part; ask my wife, if you know her. When my daughter uses hyperbole, I frequently remind her of the fable of the boy who cried wolf. I tell her that if hyperbole is a regular part of her rhetoric, it will lose its effectiveness. And, possibly worse, constantly using hyperbole makes it difficult for people to know when you're using superlatives seriously. I say that to implore you to not mistake what I'm about to write for hyperbole – the phrase "we're electing a president, not a pastor" in relation to Donald Trump is so non-sensically stupid as to render me befuddled to the point where my initial response is wanting to smash something. I haven't broken anything, yet. But the risk remains.
Of course, we're not electing a pastor; I haven't heard anyone say otherwise. In fact, it's the definition of a "well, duh!" statement. For those of you that use that line, whom are you refuting? We are electing a leader, however. You know that, right? And a person's character or lack thereof can't be divorced from that individual's ability to lead.
As Christians, as humans, for that matter, we should want and do everything in our power to promote men and women with moral integrity into positions of leadership. I get it, Hillary Clinton is immoral; she's an example of unbridled lust for power and, among other things, she believes that it's ok to murder babies. I'm not arguing that you vote for her. But, Donald Trump isn't merely immoral; he's the moral equivalent of, well, a Donald Trump.
For the sake of space, I'm not going to rehash Trump's obviously disgusting evil (I wrote about some of it here), but I will hit the low-lights – the man owns strip clubs. I mean, really, what I else do I need to say? But, there's more; he made his fortune in the casino industry, an industry that is a cesspool of vice, corruption, and oppression. He treats women as if women were not made in the Image of God. Trump is a pathological liar. Well, maybe not "pathological," I'm not a psychologist. But he does lie an awful lot. He's a proud fornicator[3]. He exhibits a level of hubris that would make Oedipus blush. And the man is a racist who has yet to disavow David Duke and the KKK (even if, at some point after I publish this, he does, think about it; how long should it take someone to disavow the KKK? I believe, immediately.) I could continue pulling miry examples out of Trump's slough of immorality, but I don't believe that's necessary; I hope.
Every Christian, at least, if not every human, does have a moral line which their leaders cannot cross. You do have a moral line, right? I mean, you must have a moral line that leaders cannot cross. And how in this ever expanding universe is Donald Trump occupying space on the right side of that line for you?!?
Trump's immorality will affect his ability to govern in a manner that promotes peace and justice. Stop fooling yourself; as a declared follower of King Jesus, you cannot seriously claim that our King is ok with you casting a vote for one of immorality's poster boys.
Trump's Inability to Govern
Trump doesn't play by any rules other than the rule of "do what's best for Donald Trump." I've seen the argument that since Trump is so successful, all he'll worry about in the Oval Office is his legacy. The implication is that the desire to protect his legacy will keep him from being the worst President in history. Nonsense! Considering that Trump's entire life is one long example of Trump doing what's best for Trump, that belief is baseless speculation. For one thing, you're assuming that you and Trump have the same definition of "legacy." For another, you're assuming quite a bit about his abilities[4].
Think about it, how did Trump build his fortune? Well, Trump took his inheritance and turned it into gold on the oppressed backs of gamblers. If you claim that Trump is a successful businessman, you may as well go ahead and make that same claim about Pablo Escobar.
Just because casinos are legal in the places that Trump built them doesn't make casinos a legitimate business venture. Sinfully preying on the weakness of humans and exploiting fellow Image Bearers does not make someone a successful businessperson. It makes that person a greedy opportunist. And let's not forget Trump's bankruptcy. Sorry, that's bankruptcIES. And, dare I mention, the artificially coifed con artist's Trump University.
That being said, I will mention this about Trump's ability; if he is ever sworn in as President, lobbyists everywhere will cry themselves to sleep with crocodile tears of joy. Unleashing Trump's greedy opportunism in the White House will make every other politician in DC look like a Franciscan Monk[5].
In school, most people learn about how Andrew Jackson swung open the White House doors during his inauguration party to the average citizen. And that ended badly. Think about that happening with Trump, but replace the descriptor "average" with "evil" before the word citizen. If Donald Trump is President, he will swing open the doors of access to the leader of the free world to all manner of slimy, unsavory characters. Don't forget – he's a casino magnate. The White House will become a literal den of thieves. And whatever constraints are holding back the worst of the politicians in DC will be removed[6]. The governance of America will basically be up for grabs to the winners in Trump's Machiavellian slot machines.
Trump's Not a Conservative
At this point, those of you still considering voting for Trump are probably saying to yourselves, "But if I don't vote for Trump, Hillary will win!" Yes, you are correct, sort of. Hillary will beat Trump if they face off in the general election. But not because you didn't vote for him, but because Trump can't beat Hillary in the general election to begin with[7]. Look, I understand that you don't want Trump to win the nomination; you're just considering voting for him in order to keep Hillary from winning. Those who want Trump to win the nomination lack the mathematical acumen required to read poll numbers. You don't, of course (right?). Which is why I'm sure that you understand (right?), although you may be keeping yourself from admitting it, that in a head-to-head, Trump cannot beat Hillary. The DOJ could bring an indictment down and the FBI could handcuff her during a televised debate, and Trump still ain't beating her head-to-head. But that's not even the biggest issue.
Politically, Donald Trump is not very different from Hillary Clinton. He's a liberal. Donald Trump is as politically liberal as Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump is as politically liberal as Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump is as politically liberal as Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump is as politically liberal as Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump is as politically liberal as Hillary Clinton. Second verse, same as the first, a little bit louder and a little bit worse. DONALD TRUMP IS AS POLITICALLY LIBERAL AS HILLARY CLINTON.
Don't believe me, ask Cecile Richards who has thanked Donald Trump for his kind words about Planned Parenthood. While you're Googling that, let's count the ways that Trump is a liberal – 1. He's pro-choice. 2. He supports government run health care. 3. He wants to raise taxes. 4. Donald Trump is friends with Hillary and Bill Clinton. 5. He was a Democrat until he became a Republican in order to run for President. 6. Donald Trump is a liberal. I'm begging the question, I know, but, still, Donald Trump is a liberal because he's a liberal.
Voting for Donald Trump is basically voting for Hillary Clinton, but voting for someone without the ability to actually govern.
However, when claiming that "voting for Donald Trump is basically voting for Hillary Clinton," there is an important caveat that needs to be mentioned. And that is, with Trump as President, almost all the evil of Hillary will be pursued but with the added bonus of being pursued by a man who will have zero qualms with blowing the whole thing up. And, by "the whole thing," I mean civilization as we know it.
Donald Trump has shown zero signs and/or ability to actually collaborate with anyone else. I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't already have a portrait of himself wearing a gaudy crown hanging in one of his gold-plated bathrooms. Giving Trump the keys to all of this country's secrets, military might, and the power of legislative order, we'll end up having a massive war of some kind. At that point, drafting our daughters will become an actual concern and not merely a theoretical one.
And that's just international issues. We may not have to worry about war with foreign countries; domestically, Trump has the potential to end what was started in 1776. Politically, many in Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, will refuse to work with Trump. A potential fight between Trump and Congress is a potentiality that should scare everyone. Keep in mind, Trump has no moral compass. He's already asserted that he'll follow President Obama's path, and wield the executive order as his plaything. As President, Donald Trump could potentially wreak so much havoc that our country may end up pleading for a foreign government to take over.
Considering the turmoil that Trump as President can unleash, the social Darwin dictum "survival of the fittest" is going to jump off of our Jennifer Lawrence starring movie screens, and come mortally home to the vast majority of double-cheeseburger stuffed middle-Americans (of which I count myself one).
Trump's main supporters are vicious racists. When David Duke, ex-KKK grand wizard, is saying things like voting against Trump "is treason to your heritage," all right-thinking Christians (and non-Christians) should wash their hands as fast and as thoroughly of Donald Trump as they possibly can. A Trump administration will empower the dregs of our society to enact their violent dreams.
The amount of chaos that Donald Trump could unleash on this country means that for the sake of self-preservation, I will not be voting for Trump. And neither should anyone else.
There Is Still Hope
Unfortunately, many of you are so fed up with politics and the Republican Party that you've decided that blowing the whole thing up is the best course of action. And that's why you're planning on voting for Trump this fall. Except, your plan, besides being wrong, has some serious flaws.
Many people to like imagine themselves the hero in the imaginary scenarios that play out in their daydreams. At the least, they imagine themselves surviving whatever apocalyptic scenarios that play out in their mind. Setting aside the reality that most people are ill equipped to handle the violence and turmoil that would come from a societal apocalypse, there is zero reason to participate in ushering in such an event.
For those who are planning to vote for Trump because you want to "blow the whole thing up," have you considered your neighbors? Have you considered the pain and suffering that "blowing the whole thing up" will inflect on many of your fellow citizens? You may have lost hope, but that doesn't justify taking part in inflicting pain and suffering on your neighbors. Not to mention that giving up hope is not a valid position for a Christian to take.
There are multiple ways that lack of faith can be manifest. God is still in control if Trump wins; as Christians, our only hope is in the return of King Jesus. I won't lie; it's easy for me to look at this election with fear; that's lack of faith on my part. But, casting your vote as a way to "blow the whole thing up," also demonstrates a lack of faith that God is in control. By doing that, you're stating that the world has spun out of the grasp of God, and that the best option is to vote for chaos. God is not a god of chaos. As Christians, we are called to pray for leaders who pursue justice and peace. Trump will not pursue justice or peace.
There is still hope, because God is still in control. There is no reason to vote for Trump out of a sense of desperate hopelessness.
I will never vote for Hillary Clinton[8], but the disturbing reality is that between Hillary and Trump, Hillary is actually the lesser of two evils. And considering that I will never vote for Hillary, I will definitely never vote for Donald Trump. And neither should you.
[1]I highly recommend Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse as a write-in vote.
[2] Sorry, Uncle Bernie fans, the Democrat Party is not going to allow your guy to win the nomination.
[3] At least Bill Clinton had the decency to try and cover his immorality up.
[4] Trump University, anyone?
[5] Well, maybe a Benedictine Monk.
[6] In one of his few instances of actually articulating a policy position, Trump has promised to silence the free press. What do you think happens to evil when no one is able to keep tabs on it? It becomes more evil; that's what happens.
[7] That fact should take you off the hook. No reason to vote for such evil. He ain't going to win, regardless. And this doesn't fall under "if everybody who says he can't win would vote, he'd win." There aren't enough people in America who will vote for Trump for Trump to win. If you vote for him, you'll be siding with a losing cause that is populated by ignorance, racism, and self-interest. And all for nothing. You're not even selling your soul; you're willfully tossing it onto the trash heap of history.
[8] Unless she reverses course on many of her positions – beginning with her support for the murder of babies.


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In fiscal 2009, MFIs in India added 8.5 million consumers, taking their consumer base to 22.6 million—an increase of 60%. The growth in their loan book was even more spectacular—around 97%—from Rs5,950 crore to Rs11,734 crore. In terms of consumer acquisition, Spandana Sphoorty Financial Ltd recorded the highest growth rate, 104%. Bandhan Financial Services Pvt. Ltd and SKS Microfinance Pvt. Ltd expanded their consumer base by 91% and 87%, respectively. SKS and Spandana grew their loan books by 214% each and Asmitha Microfin Ltd by 111%. Also, the relatively bigger MFIs have been getting even bigger. For instance, in 2008 there were 21 MFIs whose loan books were worth Rs50 crore or more. In 2009, 27 MFIs joined the Rs50 crore loan book league.
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Are we seeing a bubble in the Indian microfinance industry? Will it lead to another subprime crisis? (After all, MFIs cater to subprime borrowers.) At a recent panel discussion on this subject in Mumbai, I was happy to note that almost all MFIs were willing to look at the mirror, something they did not do until a journalist for TheWall Street Journal filed a report in August from Ramanagaram, a silk making city in Karnataka, where borrowers had stopped repaying their loans. The loan repayment revolt was seen also in Kolar, another town in Karnataka. I have not been to either of these places, but after talking to many people who closely track the industry I am convinced that MFIs in India have bothered more about expanding their loan books than about asset quality and knowing their customers. At Ramanagaram, Kolar and quite a few other places, they chased borrowers and gave them loans beyond their repayment capacity.
Theoretically, nothing can go wrong with such loans. This is because they are tiny loans, not beyond Rs25,000, and in most of the cases such loans are repaid in weekly instalments. Moreover, these loans are given to a group in which each member makes sure that others do not default. Since the average per capita income of an Indian is about $1,000 (around Rs46,900) a year, a rural household has $5,000 of annual income since, typically, each family has five members. So, nothing can go wrong with Rs25,000 of exposure and no one can default. Statistically, the default rate in large MFIs is around 1%.
But the reality is very different. Too many MFIs chase the same set of borrowers and, as a result of this, many borrowers end up borrowing Rs1 lakh and even more. Since there is no credit bureau, MFIs do not have access to the credit history of their clients and cannot stop a borrower from accessing multiple loans from different MFIs. Also, the real annual income of many borrowers is less than $1,000. So, the default rate is bound to go up. In fact, I sometime wonder that if the default rate is only 1%, why do MFIs need to charge their borrowers 24-36% when their cost of money is around 12%. Indeed, there is a huge intermediation cost for tiny loans, but it's very difficult to justify such a high loan rate when default risk is so low. Either they are making too much of profits or not making a full disclosure of their non-performing assets.
Why do MFIs want to grow at a scorching pace? They want to drum up their valuations. With a fatter loan book (and there is no resource crunch as banks are always willing to give them money), their valuation goes up and private equity funds make a beeline to invest in them. In the past one-and-a-half years, such funds have invested around Rs850 crore in MFIs and more money is in the pipeline. Some of the investments have been made valuing Indian MFIs at about seven times their book value against the global norm of 1.5-2 times. Quite a few MFIs have been posting 30-40% return on assets. This cannot go on forever.
Those who are involved in the MFI movement in India often cite the example of the growth in mobile telephony and other consumer sectors to justify the scorching pace at which they are growing. This is not the right comparison. As JPMorgan's Nicholas O'Donohoe, who has been closely following this segment, puts it, in finance, unlike in consumer goods, intense competition does not necessarily make the product cheaper for consumers but the quality of assets gets affected as players start compromising on underwriting. Indian MFIs must know their customers before they lend. If they do not curb their irrational enthusiasm, they will end up killing the goose that lays the golden egg.
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Roving, puni, sliver, batt, rolag, commercial top, worsted, woolen and so on.. I am feeling as if I am learning a new language. As I weave my way through the world of fiber I sometimes feel as if I will never get it all shoved in my brain. I cannot imagine that this all started with a few alpacas! At first I thought I would just raise the alpacas, shear them and toss the fiber into a coop. But once I had the bags full of this beautiful stuff (not a word acceptable to the fiber industry) I did not want to let go. Hence the spinning wheel and now on to a carder. While I understand the process of spinning and carding, the jargon is taking longer to absorb.
And of course there is the learning curve. Last year's shearing was not very organized. My shearer was wonderful but I didn't have a clue what I was doing. The sorting of the blanket from the seconds, from the thirds..Whew. Preparation is the key to shearing. I have done some reading on the subject and think the best plan is to have the animals in the night before to pick out the debris by hand. Of course not all the vegetable matter will be eliminated, but this should help greatly. I read somewhere that one farmer uses a hair dyer on his animals the night before to clean the vm out. Um..I am not sure about that. I don't think even the minis would tolerate the noise and the blast of hot air let alone an alpaca. I am looking forward to a positive shearing experience. Never mind that it was highlighted as one of the "dirtiest jobs."
Meanwhile I need to get along with moving the fiber I already have. I have bags and bags of fiber some of which is in roving and a lot more raw. It is time to get a move on and process the fiber and sell it. I am preparing my very first skein of yarn from Tula. I am going to submit it to the spin off at the MOPACA show in April. This will be Via Verde Farm's first show and entrance into the world of competition. I am pretty excited. And I opened an etsy store. I don't have the photos up yet and hope by the end of the weekend to be up and running. You can visit us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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I really don't enjoy shoveling snow. I usually hand the job off to Noah, but wasn't able to do so today. I knew that I had a big job to finish before 12 pm as a piece of furniture was being delivered and the workers needed to get from the drive to the living room i.e. across the grass and up the stairs to the front door. They also needed to remove a piano from the basement. There needed to be a path to that door as well. But first I had to take Miriam to get her braces. We were so hungry after the appointment that we stopped at the grocery store and grabbed a bite to eat. And do not ask me why I bought a donut. I never, ever eat donuts and this one was covered in 10 lbs of sugar. I am savory kinda of gal. What was I thinking? By the time I got home and started shoveling away I was beginning to feel quite light headed. What was wrong? I wondered. That blasted sugar! I was really dizzy by now but there was no time to go inside and crash on the couch. The piano was going to be delivered in 15 minutes.
Living on a farm one should always expect help from the animals that reside there. And as if on cue the goat saw me struggling through the snow and came to investigate. I no longer could stand. I was not only sugar jolted, but realized my body was too old for this work! I dropped to my knees and began crawling around while shoveling. It was quite a scene!
The goat aided my efforts by standing in the way every 2 or 3 minutes so I could take a break. (ha ha) After about 10 minutes I collapsed in the snow. Goat ambled over to me and sniffed my face. I guess she was concerned I wasn't breathing. I lay spread out in the path with the shovel by my side and Noah's big Russian hat warming my head. Suddenly I felt something heavy on my forehead...Chester! He had come to my rescue as well. What helpful animals we have! Needless to say I did finish the path and clear the stairs. And yes, I did clean it while on my knees. And no, the animals only followed me around and did not help one bit.
In the end all my efforts were in vain because the men brought the piano through the garage! Curses to snow and apple fritter donuts!
Friday, January 8, 2010
I decided that Chester needed a post all to himself. He is quite the cat. Black, sleek and panther-like. He has a determined character and is intelligent Chesty comes when called for, purrs on demand, sits on car roofs and jumps through any open door. I would like to share a few stories about him.
I took him to the vet with Alice and Jake a few months ago. I gathered them up and put them into a large animal carrier. O.k. they were really heavy. Three cats each weighing about 8 pounds in a very bulky carrier. Of course I was carrying them and trying to get out of the gate before the goats could and push the minis back so I could squeeze out. Naturally I dropped the cats in their carrier. I know. I know. But they were fine. Completely freaked out but fine. I lugged them over to the truck and put them gently into the back seat. They were not pleased. Meowing and so forth. The whole way to the vet they whined. They got their vaccinations, etc. and as I was leaving the office when the nurse offered to put each cat individually into a cardboard box carrier. This way I would avoid dropping them and they would feel "safer." Fine. So we did that. Chester tried to escape but with four hands manipulating him ...
She helped me put the three carriers into the car. I went back into the office to pay. Then I climbed back into the truck and started to leave the parking lot when I heard meow and then I saw him! He was standing next to me in the car. I pulled over and investigated. He had chewed/clawed himself out of the box!! Unbelievable. So I let them all out and drove home with Jake on my lap, Alice between my legs and Chester on the steering wheel!
I thought for sure Chester was finished with cars after that day. But apparently not. A few weeks ago Sam opened his car door and then went to the back seat to fish something out of a bag. He then shut the door and climbed into the driver's seat and drove down the lane. That is when he heard "meow". He turned around to find Chester in the back seat as comfortable as can be.
But the most astonishing feat of Chester occurred yesterday when I let Alice and Chester into the basement room where I work on fiber preparation. It is an unfinished part of the house. However there is a small cabinet that holds the video equipment for the theater room. It is accessible both in the room I work and the theater room. I was playing with Alice when I heard clunk, clunk. I followed the noise and I could not find Chesty. Hum. Odd. I heard the phone ring and left the room, shutting the door behind me. I ran upstairs. When I finished the call I walked out of the office and guess who was standing there? Chester. I took him back down stairs with me. He wandered around a bit while I worked and then I heard the clunking again. This time I made it just in time to see him open the cabinet door with his paw and enter. He had done that before and passed into the theater room then upstairs. What a sneaker.
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With increase in the number of criminal activities related to critical infrastructure such as government institutions, healthcare facilities, and infrastructure in the transportation and BFSI sectors, demand for security technologies is on the rise. There is a need for highly reliable and accessible personal authentication and identification systems, and biometrics has emerged as a suitable solution. It is based on behavioural and physiological characteristics of individuals that are difficult to replicate.
Biometrics include authentication of individuals by evaluating one or more unique biological traits such as voice, hand geometry, gait, fingerprints, facial features, irides, and veins. Also, biometric technologies are considered to be more reliable compared to physical devices and numeric codes. With advances in hardware, sensors, readers, pattern recognition, and signal and image processing technologies; a number of biometric technologies such as vein recognition, facial recognition, iris recognition, retina identification, voice recognition, signature verification, hand geometry recognition, keystroke recognition, ear recognition, EEG/ECG pattern recognition, and palm print recognition have been developed.
The adoption of biometric monitoring systems is gaining prominence worldwide in law enforcement, financial institutions, access control, immigration, national ID, time and attendance monitoring, border control, hospitals, retail, and airport security.
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China Eastern Airlines deployed a hand geometry recognition system to monitor attendance of pilots. Similarly, Feng Tai Stadium used vein recognition for physical access control
The Foreign Ministry of Russia has made fingerprint biometrics mandatory for people applying for entry visas, as well as fingerprint and retina biometrics for passports
In India, the UIDAI has issued 82 crore Aadhaar cards, which is a biometric solution for verification of identities
The UAE's Ministry of Interior has installed multimodal biometric screening systems in the country's airports
Egypt's Cairo International Airport has implemented biometric screening that uses facial recognition
UK police have implemented the use of handheld mobile fingerprint scanners to carry out identity checks on individuals on the street
Nuance Communications provides a voice biometrics application, VocalPassword, for law enforcement. It can be used for immigration control, voice mining surveillance, and offender monitoring. Voice mining surveillance monitors communications and identifies suspected targets on phone lines under surveillance
Technavio's analysts forecast the global biometric monitoring systems market to grow at a CAGR of 26.71% over the period 2014-2019.
This report covers the present scenario and growth prospects of the global biometrics monitoring systems market for 2015-2019. The report also presents the vendor landscape and a corresponding detailed analysis of the top four vendors operating in the market.
To calculate the market size, the report considers revenue generated from sales of biometric solutions, including hardware, software, integrated solutions, and services used for monitoring and tracking purposes. Monitoring processes taken into consideration are surveillance, and time and attendance monitoring. The revenue generated from after-sales services is not considered.
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