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We're getting towards the end of the year, and already the hand-wringing has begun over the fetid cesspool that is the NFC West. A playoff team is going to come out of this division, and many people aren't happy about it. And why should they be? The division lacks a team with a record .500 or better, and that doesn't even begin to hint at how awful it is.
Every single team in the division has been outscored in total points. Only two teams (CAR and MIA) have scored fewer touchdowns than the four teams in the NFC West. Take away division wins and the division has a total of just ten wins amongst its four teams. And none them appear to be improving, unless you count the "red hot"49ers, who have won three of five (the only team of the bunch to have a winning record over that stretch). It's a horrible, awful division. A blight on the landscape. If it were a horse, it would be forbidden from breeding.
There is scant hope that one of these teams will finish above .500. The 49ers still have Green Bay and San Diego (an actual hot team) left on the schedule. The Rams still have Kansas City and New Orleans. The Seahawks still have to face Atlanta and Tampa Bay. In between, all these teams will play each other. There's no way any of them get to nine wins. Eight wins would be a minor triumph.
So what do we do if one or more of these teams finishes 7-9 and takes a playoff spot away from a deserving team like Tampa Bay or Green Bay? Many will tell you that the NFL should just redo its playoff format and seed team by record, regardless of division. You and I both know that won't happen under Roger Goodell's watch. The only realistic solution will be to expand the playoff field to include one or two more wild card teams, a system that would include worthy teams but do nothing to exclude clearly unworthy ones, and would likely add more crummy teams to the mix.
I think what will ultimately happen as a result of this, and what should happen, is NOTHING. If you'd like to see a truly flawed postseason model put into action, I urge you to go consult college football. The NFL's playoff seeding may allow for occasional blights, like the NFC West champ this year. But overall, it still has the perfect balance of teams. Not too many. Not too few. If that means seeing the Seahawks get in this year, so be it.
Divisions and conferences are cyclical. For years, NBA fans railed against the weakness of the Eastern Conference, pleading with David Stern to scrap conference affiliations when seedings the playoffs. But Stern ignored that idea, because he's David Stern and he's very mean, and because he knew the East would eventually right itself. The NFC West stinks, but it won't always stink. In fact, with Sam Bradford, the Rams are clearly on the rise, and could easily be a worthwhile playoff team a year from now. And by the time we've corrected the playoff format to account for the NFC West, the NFC West will have ceased being the problem.
So you'll have to grin and bear it this year. You'll watch the Rams get crushed at home by the likes of New Orleans and then go about your business. It won't be the end of the world. Sometimes you get a dud. And no realistic playoff solution is gonna prevent it.


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Sunday, February 3, 2013
My latest filet crochet portrait
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Quick, cheap and simple DIY usherette tray how-to
Hello world,
Today I decided to take a different approach to making a tutorial. My tutorials are usually very image-heavy and so I thought I'd try posting a tutorial as a Pinterest board and see how it comes out.
Check out the link below for my Usherette Tray for less than $10 tutorial! (AKA vendor tray or cigarette girl tray, also popularised by Trixie at the beginning of Rocky Horror) And please do tell me what you think of this new format.
If it works out, I will keep up the Pinterest format as it is much easier to do from my smartphone than building them on Blogger on my phone.
"Science fiction... Double feature... Double feature picture show..."
Friday, August 10, 2012
Wiggly crochet caterpillar/caterpillow?
Hello world,
Just a quick note to share this wiggly crochet critter I've created for a friend's baby shower. Will make a handy companion for the plane trip too I think!
Saturday, July 21, 2012
How To Fix the Dark Shadows that Ruin Great Photos - from How To Geek
This is a great Photoshop tutorial re: how to fix shadows without affecting midtones and highlights in photos.. Enjoy!
How To Fix the Dark Shadows that Ruin Great Photos - from How To Geek >>
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Filet crochet portrait/mural complete! (For a long time now, actually))
Just a quick post to share the final product of my crochet portrait, which I gave to my parents for a christmas present last year.
So here is the final product:
And just FYI, here is the original photo I used as a basis for the pattern:
If you are looking to create something like this, check out my tutorial for creating a filet crochet pattern from a photo >>
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
I have a blogger-enabled phone
I'm excited to announce I have acquired a Samsung Galaxy S II! Hopefully I'll br sharing more wuick posts from now on...

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The Houston Museum of Natural Science was founded in 1909 – meaning that the curators of the Houston Museum of Natural Science have been collecting and preserving natural and cultural treasures for a hundred years now. For this yearlong series, our current curators have chosen one hundred exceptional objects from the Museum's immense storehouse of specimens and artifacts—one for each year of our history. Check back here frequently to learn more about this diverse selection of behind-the-scenes curiosities—we will post the image and description of a new object every few days.
This description is from Nancy, the museum's director of the Cockrell Butterfly Center and curator of entomology. She's chosen a selection of objects that represent the rarest and most interesting insects in the Museum's collections,that we'll be sharing here – and at 100.hmns.org– throughout the year.
Madagascar Sunset Moth – Chrysiridia rhipheus
This spectacular, iridescently colored moth is considered by many to be the most beautiful of all Lepidoptera (the order of "scaly winged" insects, i.e., butterflies and moths). A day-flying moth endemic to Madagascar, it was originally described as a butterfly due to its resemblance to the swallowtails. The rainbow of colors on both upper and lower wing surfaces that make this species so sought after by collectors are not due to pigments, but result from the scattering and reflecting of light by microscopic ridges and pits on the highly curved scales covering the wings.
The museum has several hundred specimens of this moth. It is relatively common in its native habitat, where it periodically undergoes massive one-way migrations when the hostplants for the caterpillar stage (they feed on trees in the spurge family) increase the amount of distasteful toxins in the leaves. Interestingly, after the migration has lessened pressure on the hostplant, the amount of toxins in the leaves subsides to normal levels. In the American tropics, a close relative, the green Urania moth (Urania fulgens), also makes mass migrations for the same reason.
Learn more about moths and their relatives in a visit to the new Brown Hall of Entomology, a part of the Cockrell Butterfly Center– a living, walk-through rainforest at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
You can see more images of this fascinating artifact – as well as the others we've posted so far this year – in the 100 Objects section at 100.hmns.org


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Here's the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
State of the Fukushima Reactors
Documents newly obtained by The Asahi Shimbun reveal that United States nuclear experts urged TEPCO to install frozen soil barriers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant as early as April 2011, in an effort to prevent massive amounts of groundwater at the compound from becoming contaminated. However, TEPCO officials balked at the cost (which at the time was estimated at $1 billion), worrying that it would damage investors' confidence in the utility and possibly send it into bankruptcy. Although they were originally scheduled to announce the soil-freezing plan in June 2011, TEPCO executives submitted a memo to government officials, asking them to delay the announcement in order to protect the company's finances. "There is a strong possibility that the market will conclude that we are moving a step closer toward insolvency or headed in that direction," the memo stated. Banri Kaieda, then-head of the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI), which oversees the promotion of nuclear power in Japan, agreed to hold off on making an announcement. At the time, TEPCO Executive Vice President Sakae Muto reportedly promised to quietly proceed with the ice wall project, but never did so. TEPCO denies that Muto made such an agreement.
Now, almost two and a half years later, TEPCO continues to struggle with a growing radioactive groundwater crisis. Because the plant is built on a hill, an estimated 800 to 1,000 tons of groundwater flow downward through the plant each day; government experts believe that 300 tons of contaminated water are flowing into the ocean every 24 hours. An additional 400 tons of groundwater seep into damaged reactor buildings on a daily basis, mixing with highly radioactive cooling water and also becoming toxic and requiring storage. Workers have still not been able to identify where the water is entering the buildings, or how to stop the leaks; radiation levels there remain so high that they cannot get close enough to do so. As of mid-September, TEPCO was storing 435,000 tons of radioactive water in aboveground tanks, as well as in basements of the reactor buildings—137,000 more tons than were stored there last year. Those numbers continue to rise. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration has vowed to use $470 million in taxpayer funds to finally begin building the ice wall, as international pressure mounts in advance of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, which were recently awarded to Tokyo.
Charles Casto, a US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) employee who was stationed in Japan at the time of the disaster, noted, "It was obvious to us that there was a great deal of groundwater intrusion into the plant, and we shared that with the Japanese government. At the time, they didn't believe that there was a significant amount of groundwater getting into the plant." Sumio Mabuchi, an opposition party lawmaker who was an aide to then-Prime Minister Naoto Kan during the early stages of the crisis and led a taskforce on the proposed frozen soil solution, observed, "We finished technical considerations two years ago—this wall could be done by now."
Members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) slammed Japan this week for its inability to deal with the water crisis over the course of more than two years, resulting in damage to the sea and environment. The group was conducting a general meeting in Vienna. "[The toxic water issue] did not emerge this summer. It was there from the beginning." In addition, they criticized the Japanese government for lack of transparency and failure to disclose problems with the Fukushima plant in a timely manner, pointing out that in one instance, news about the disaster appeared on social networking site Twitter two days before the government even admitted that there was a problem.
Not surprisingly, the ice-wall revelation has incensed fishermen, who have not been able to sell their seafood since the disaster first began to unfold in 2011. Fishermen from Iwaki City said that they will postpone test fishing for whitebait until the spring, pointing out that consumer confidence in fish remains low, and fears of radiation are high. Those tests were originally scheduled for September. In order to better assess ongoing contamination, Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) plans to begin wide-scale radiological testing of ocean waters off the Fukushima coast, using a ship with a radiation counter that will examine the ocean floor within a 1,000 km radius.
But in the meantime, the government of South Korea has refused a request by Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries to lift an indefinite ban on seafood imports from eight Japanese prefectures. South Korea's Ministry of Food and Drug Safety imposed that ban on September 9.
In other news, TEPCO has admitted that it dumped 1,130 tons of reportedly low-level radioactive water into the nearby Pacific Ocean last week, after heavy rainfall resulted in water collecting within barriers set up around tanks of contaminated water. Officials called the move an "emergency measure." TEPCO said that the water contained between 3 and 23 Bq/liter of radioactive strontium, which accumulates in human bones and has been linked to cancer. Although the legal limit for strontium in seawater is 30 Bq/liter, the company later acknowledged that they failed to test the water for cesium-134 or -137, both of which are known to cause cancer. Officials said that water from more radioactive areas was collected and was being stored. Groundwater wells in that area, which was the site of a recent leak of 300 tons of highly radioactive water, have begun to show increasing levels of contamination. Water samples taken from one well near the leak on September 14 contained 170,000 Bq/liter of tritium, up from 130,000 Bq/liter just two days earlier.
Workers at the Daiichi plant have discovered that a 66-meter tall structure supporting a 120-meter tall vertical ventilation pipe is cracked or damaged in at least eight different places. TEPCO officials believe that the damage occurred during the massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck in March 2011. Because the pipe, which is currently idle, sits between reactors #1 and #2, experts are concerned that it could topple or collapse if another large earthquake occurs. It was originally used to vent radioactive steam and pressure from containment vessels after the 2011 meltdowns, in order to avoid further hydrogen explosions. Workers are now trying to determine the severity of the situation, but have been thwarted by dangerously high radiation levels that prevent them from getting too close to the pipe.
This week marks one year since the NRA was established to oversee nuclear safety in Japan. Chairman Shunichi Tanaka issued a reminder that the Fukushima disaster is still in a precarious state and a danger to Japan's citizens. "The situation at the Fukushima Daiichi plant remains unstable. Every time a radioactive water leakage, a blackout, or other trouble occurs, I think of the [150,000] people, living inconvenient lives in areas where they have been evacuated, getting worried about their hometowns. We will do our utmost, with a strong belief that we can and must overcome this issue," he said. Tanaka was frank about the challenges that the agency has faced over the past year, admitting that at times, they were "groping in the dark."
During a visit to the Fukushima Daiichi power plant this week, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urged TEPCO officials to decommission the two remaining undamaged reactors there. Thanks to a backup generator that kept reactors #5 and #6 cool, they did not melt down. TEPCO has been reluctant to dismantle them, hoping they could eventually restart them for profit, despite strong disapproval from local government officials and residents.Abe said, "I want a decision to be reached on the scrapping of the nos. 5 and 6 reactors, so that TEPCO can focus on accident response matters." Although the government injected a trillion yen into TEPCO last year, effectively placing it under government control, Abe nevertheless is leaving the decision up to TEPCO President Naomi Hirose, who said that he will announce the company's plans by the end of the year. Hirose also indicated that the company might ask for yet another trillion yen in taxpayer funds to cover decommissioning costs. The Prime Minister is under strong domestic and international pressure to deal with the disaster, which continues to worsen under TEPCO's control.
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TEPCO should be ashamed for all the lieing and hiding of facts for 2 1/2 years. Of course they had an equal partner in the Japanese government. Instea...
TEPCO should be ashamed for all the lieing and hiding of facts for 2 1/2 years. Of course they had an equal partner in the Japanese government. Instead of the government protecting their citizens they are protecting the nuclear industry. It truly is criminal. Thank you Greenpeace and Ms. McCann for keeping the world informed.
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2 Years and still no progress; Danger is growing by the hour and the blame game has got to stop. This needs World wide response to save the Pacific fo...
2 Years and still no progress; Danger is growing by the hour and the blame game has got to stop. This needs World wide response to save the Pacific food stocks and we all must take another look at the true cost of Nuclear power on a global scale. This one site is looking for an additional Trillion Yen? Where and when will it end?
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REALLY! 300 to 400 tons highly radioactive water per day,
that's roughly 96,000 gallons/day.
looking at the Fukushima Daiichi site o...
REALLY! 300 to 400 tons highly radioactive water per day,
that's roughly 96,000 gallons/day.
looking at the Fukushima Daiichi site on Google earth I can made volumetric estimate, Q =KIA
K, permeability = 200 ft/day
I, local hydraulic gradient =0.005
A, area/window = 1700' long x 39' deep =66300 square ft
Q = 496,000 gal per day, that's at least 5 times more than they estimated. No telling how deep the earthquake opened up the foundation bedrock joints/fractures.
Seepage for roughly 600 days = ~297,000,000 gallons contaminated water into the Pacific. Too bad they don't provide where their numbers came from. I agree with other commentor ...that this needs world wide involvement NOW!
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|Though my hands are quite big, take it from me that these were quite small and tricky to do. Where normally I would glue on the eyes, they were in this case too small so I had to draw them onto the 'face,' with a 0.05mm pen mind.
|Thankfully the paddle/oar looks straighter in the final thing, but the stem itself is about a millimetre thick so it's still quite wobbly.
|Here are the two finished characters. I made them complete, as I wanted to 'sit' them in the kayak properly. They are each about 25mm high.
|You can actually take the fella out of the boat, though the lady's hand is unfortunately glued to the 'water'
|I had to wait until they were placed in the kayak before I could do their pupils.
|Had to make sure they were looking in the right direction, him at her and her at the water.
|You can see a little bit of the 'pocket' form of the kayak here.
|I think this shows best the depth of the piece. Though I imagine it's gonna be a bit of a paint to frame or hang at the right angle hah...
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Back in Black
New Zealand Rugby scores with winning data strategy
The New Zealand All Blacks have won back-to-back Rugby World Cup championships. Read how the winningest team in sports history uses data and analytics to stay one step ahead of the competition.
The fireworks of victory explode as confetti rains from the sky. The team captain hoists the trophy into the air as flashbulbs pop and millions of adoring fans in New Zealand join the All Blacks in celebrating their unprecented winning of back-to-back Rugby World Cup championships.
Behind the scenes, the analysts of New Zealand Rugby celebrate a victory of their own.
These days, every professional rugby team uses data, and NZ Rugby is no exception. Traditionally, NZ Rugby collected game data from a third party provider which it stored in bespoke systems and reported using off-the-shelf products such as Microsoft Excel. Facing lag times before gaining insight, and competitors armed with the same data, NZ Rugby recognised that a winning data strategy would require a different approach.
"The real advantage of data comes from finding unique uses of it to inform strategy," says Jason Healy, NZ Rugby Performance Analysis Manager. Healy's team analyses data for New Zealand's provincial and national rugby teams, including the 2015 Rugby World Cup champions, the New Zealand All Blacks.
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Better insight keeps coaches on the ball
With SAS Visual Analytics, NZ Rugby has revolutionised the way it provides data to coaching staff and analysts. Data is now displayed on interactive dashboards which makes spotting trends easier. Coaches can quickly evaluate team and player performance and play patterns. Whereas previous reports were static, Visual Analytics allows end users to interact with reports, filtering and drilling-down, inevitably leading to new questions about the data.
"We've got coaching staff that are still warming to using technology," says Healy. "But with Visual Analytics, they are now receptive to the data and asking more questions than ever before."
As with any competitive organisation, speed to insight is also critical. Previously, game data was imported into basic software where graphs were created manually and shared with the coaching staff – a slow and arduous process. With SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Data Integration Studio, game data is readily available to those who need it quickly, a speed-to-insight that enables teams to benefit from data on the fly.
Visualising performance on the field
Because of its versatility, SAS Visual Analytics can improve operations in game and player performance, player selection, fan experience, business management, ticket pricing optimisation and injury prevention. With seemingly infinite possibilities, NZ Rugby turned to analytics consultants Clarity for help in narrowing their focus and creating sophisticated dashboards. Easy-to-digest performance metrics are now reported daily to coaching staff and managers who use the data to inform decisions on and off the field.
Coaching staff, for example, can view data on the opposition to prepare for matches. They can see who from the opposing team influenced the game, and where and when certain plays were ran – insight that can inform game strategy. "Visualising opposition data has been key for the All Blacks," says Healy. "We were able to focus our training regimen after seeing data on how our opponents played."
With more information at their fingertips, the NZ Rugby coaching staff are able to get more value from game data. As with any good report, it's not what the dashboard says, it's the additional questions that it prompts. Questions that NZ Rugby analysts can answer in future reports, which further improves game strategy.
"It's scary how much we didn't know about our data," says Healy. "With Visual Analytics, the coaching team can get the
information they need to take their teams to the next level."
We can't tell you everything we're doing … but we can say that we're loving SAS Visual Analytics
Wayne Smith, Former All Blacks co-coach
A game fought in the margins
Rugby is a game of margins. Often, games at the highest level are decided by a few key decisions. Although coaching staff and players still rely heavily on their instincts and experience during the game, the difference between winning and losing often comes down to which team has the better informed strategy.
Wayne Smith is a former All Blacks co-coach who helped lead his teams to victory during the 2015 and 2011 Rugby World Cups. Smith praises the evolution of NZ Rugby's data strategy, noting that data has earned its place in the locker room, and that every aspect of the game is now scrutinised to improve performance. "We can't tell you everything we're doing … but we can say that we're loving SAS Visual Analytics," said Smith. "This is world leading for rugby."
NZ Rugby plans to expand its use of SAS Visual Analytics to other areas of the organisation.
Visualising opposition data has been key for the All Blacks. We were able to focus our training regimen after seeing data on how our opponents played.
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Spots for every kind of date.
According to a different mama, "there'll be days like this." You know, when the train doesn't come or the bus splashes you or someone steals your taxi. Bad days, the blues, the pits—whatever you call them, we all have them. And Mama Meena's, a Filipino restaurant in Woodhaven, has the cure. It's a sunshiny place serving sunshiney food.
We started with lumpia Shanghai ($6), miniature spring rolls stuffed with pork and served with a bright chili sauce. These were a poppable bar snack, crunchy and meaty. To drink, we had a freshly made, utterly ordinary mango juice ($2) along with a freshly made, absolutely extraordinary melon juice ($2). Shreds of cantaloupe twirled beneath crushed ice, revealing depths of orange and refreshment of which we were heretofore unaware.
Our chicken adobo ($6.50) wouldn't win any beauty contests. In keeping with the rest of our experience, the soy sauce-vinegar-garlic marinade had rendered the on-the-bone chicken sweet, despite the occasional brackish bite. A Filipina woman sitting next to us ordered the same, then bantered with the waitress-owner-expeditor about Manila in Tagalog.
The pancit bami ($7.50) featured two types of noodles (rice and "yellow"), carrots, shrimp, and chicken, and snow peas, for crunch. Everything fused together into a carbtastic bacchanal. In the interest of research, we attempted to slurp the noodles, but it couldn't be done. Our noodle grease landed on glasses, shirt fronts, and the table. It was fun.
We finished with halo-halo ($5), topped with a scoop of ube (purple yam) ice cream. Halo-halo, or "mix mix" in Tagalog, is a riot of textures, colors, and flavors. This version included red beans, white beans, garbanzo beans, coconut chips, melon pieces, cubes of gelatinous tropical fruit, and shaved ice. Each dip of the spoon offered a surprise, as we never quite knew what combo would come up. The ube tasted like yams, but candied and dense like bubble gum. As it melted, the whole dessert turned lilac.
Mama Meena's takes the "family restaurant" part of its name seriously. When we visited, kids sat in the corner and watched cartoons while their parents took orders. The walls are the color of a farm kitchen in the Midwest, the tablecloths checked. The restaurant puts you in a mood, but not the mood. Here, happy eating isn't a cliché. It's best for: a date whose frown you'd like to turn upside down.
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Alternative Online Stores for Your Kindle Paperwhite
You don't have to purchase e-books from Amazon. E-bookstores are popping up all over the Internet, and with the popularity of the Kindle family of e-readers, most of these stores sell Kindle-compatible content. Publishers may also sell content directly from their websites. Exploring different options allows you to find some hidden gems. The following list is a sampling of what can be found at various online booksellers:
General indie (independently-published) e-books: Smashwords
Romance: All Romance eBooks
Science fiction, speculative fiction, and paranormal romance: Baen
Professional and academic subjects: Taylor & Francis
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender fiction: LGBT e-Bookshop
Horror and dark fiction: Darkfuse
How to buy from an e-bookseller
In general, purchasing from an e-bookseller is a fairly straightforward process that involves the following steps:
Register for an account with the seller.
The seller usually requires your name, address, e-mail address, and information about preferred form of payment.
Some sites e-mail your Kindle purchases directly to your Kindle Paperwhite. If that's the case with the seller, enter the information it needs when you register.
You can find your Kindle Paperwhite's e-mail address in the Manage Your Kindle section of your Amazon account. You can also find it directly from your Kindle Paperwhite. Tap Menu→Settings→Device Options→Personalize Your Kindle. The Send-to-Kindle Email is the third item on the list that appears.
Add the e-bookseller to the approved list of senders who can deliver content to your Kindle Paperwhite.
To do this, on your computer:
Log in to your account at Amazon, choose the Manage Your Kindle option, and in the column on the left side of the page, click Personal Document Settings.
Your Kindle Approved e-mail list is in the middle of the page.
Add the partial e-mail address for the e-bookseller by clicking the Add a New Approved E-mail Address link.
Adding a partial e-mail address, such as @ebookseller.com, authorizes multiple senders from that account to send content to your Kindle Paperwhite.
Make sure to add your own e-mail address(es) to your Kindle Approved e-mail list so that you can send documents to your Kindle Paperwhite.
When you e-mail content to your Kindle Paperwhite, Amazon charges 15 cents per megabyte with a 3G wireless connection but has no charge for content delivered via Wi-Fi. Note that this fee applies to users in the United States. 3G wireless transfers are 99 cents per megabyte outside the United States.
If you set your maximum delivery charge to zero cents under Whispernet Delivery Options in your Personal Document Settings, Amazon will deliver e-mailed content only when you have a Wi-Fi connection.
Browse and identify e-books you want to buy and then add them to your shopping cart.
At the time of purchase, select the format for your e-book.
Ideally, you want to buy e-books with a PRC extension, the preferred format for the Kindle Paperwhite. If PRC isn't available, look for MOBI. Other choices, not as desirable, are TXT or PDF.
Do not purchase e-books that are listed as secure Mobipocket or secure MOBI because they do not work on the Kindle Paperwhite!
Complete your purchase by either having the file e-mailed to your Kindle Paperwhite (if that's an option through the site) or downloading the file to your computer.
Files purchased outside Amazon are not stored in your Cloud. You need to back up the files on your computer.
An e-bookseller might go out of business, so it's a good idea to back up content you purchase from sources other than Amazon.
The following formats are compatible with the Kindle Paperwhite:
AZW, AZW1, AZW2, AZW3 are the various iterations of the proprietary format developed by Amazon for its Kindle-compatible e-books. Content purchased from Amazon has one of these extensions.
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Normally when I diagram a solution for a customer, I use whatever they are comfortable with. I do most of my work these days in OneNote, especially when it's an Architecture Design Session (ADS), since I can capture notes, handwriting, drawings, web pages, whiteboards, camera shots and even voice. In fact you can search on most of those.
Simplicity is the rule – I just want to capture enough data to move to the next phase of the project and ensure everyone understands what we are doing. When we get to that next phase, I like to use Visio. It's a vector-based drawing and diagraming tool, which means you can zoom in or out a great deal without a loss of definition, in most cases. For complicated diagrams, this is essential.
The basic shapes in Visio are fine – and there are some computer and network shapes I use there all the time. But I wanted something that would show the basic parts of Windows Azure, from our IaaS to our PaaS to the SaaS shapes, as well as security federation providers like Google or Yahoo that you can leverage in Azure.
So I created some shapes, and I'll share them here.
Here's the link to the file on my SkyDrive – understand that these are from Buck Woody, NOT Microsoft. They are neither official nor approved, and if they cause your machine to break Microsoft isn't liable for that: http://sdrv.ms/QjalVR
Disclaimer, for people who need to be told this sort of thing:
Never trust any software packages, including those that you find here, until you understand exactly what it does and how it will act on your systems. Always check the script on a test system or Virtual Machine, not a production system. Yes, there are always multiple ways to do things, and this tool may not work in every situation, for everything. It's just a graphic, people. All code on this site is performed by a professional stunt driver on a closed course. Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited. Offer good for a limited time only. Keep out of reach of small children. Do not operate heavy machinery while using this software. If you experience blurry vision, indigestion or diarrhea during the operation of this software, see a physician immediately.


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My Android Background
I've owned a HTC Desire for almost 3 years (100 years in
dog smartphone years) and it has been quite an experience.
- It was never particularly brilliant at being a phone. Calls would often drop, or never make it through at all.
- The Desire had a bug that meant that replying to an SMS sometimes sent your response to someone else. If you had a mistress, I imagine that could have lead to some difficult conversations… 🙂
- The amount of storage for apps was ridiculously limited. It was supposed to be 512MB, but somehow HTC managed to reduce that to 147MB. There are a few ways around this limitation.
- The last official OTA update was to 2.2 – Froyo. Yup, not even Gingerbread. The official (7.2) Cyanogenmod release did get you to 2.3. But apart from unofficial roms, that was it.
Fixing (some of) the issues
I finally installed a beta Icecream Sandwich (4.04) rom, but now the phone crashes a few times per day. Downgrading to 2.3 did not fix this crash. Generally, the crash isn't problematic, but as my phone is my alarm clock, when it crashes overnight, I get to sleep-in.
I stayed with 4.04 as some apps, including the modern, greatly improved google keyboard, simply don't support Gingerbread.
Also, it is laggy as heck.
Phone usage
- I do use the phone/SMS functionality so that isn't optional
- Non-phone communication – I have Y! Mail, Gmail, LinkedIn, Viber installed
- Internet browser
- Alarm-clock – I have fairly specific requirements here and Alarm Clock Plus works really well for me
- Evernote, Dropbox
- TODO list (Wunderlist)
- Music Player
- Games
Why WP8 ?
I'd be happy to stick with Android, to be honest. But:
- None of the current flagship android phones are particularly tempting, e.g. Galaxy S4, HTC One, Xperia Z …
- It costs £100 for an unlocked smart phone (Lumia 520) !
- It covers most of my use cases
Experience so far
- So far it has been pretty snappy. The specs are not a million miles away from the Desire on paper (1GHz CPU, albeit dual core and more recent I guess, 512MB of memory), but even so, it's a far nicer experience
- I'm covered with most apps – Mail, LinkedIn, Shared (Google-linked) Calendar, RSS readers, Browser, …
- I'm disappointed with the enhanced alarm apps. There is a limitation in WP8 which means that alarm apps can't work correctly in the background and in any case, have limited access to the volume. I'd like to have an app that begins by vibrating and then have a sounds that slowly increases in volume. Maybe I could simulate this with an appropriate tune?


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Machine-Foundation Experts Solve Press-Pit Challenge for Automotive Stamper
The 22-ft.-deep excavation project required support by 30-ft. steel pilings; Delta pumped water from the pit through six well points. Then, after allowing the ground to dry, Delta used an epoxy-based non-shrink grout for the press pit that the firm says is five times stronger than concrete. During press installation, Delta placed four 3-ft. by 2-in.-thick leveling base plates atop the foundation, 20 ft. apart, that were within 0.001 in. variance—no additional leveling was required.
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Find Files with the Mountain Lion Spotlight Menu and Window
OS X Mountain Lion includes a fabulous technology called Spotlight that can help you find almost anything on any mounted disk in seconds. A time will come when you won't be able to find a file or folder, although you know for certain that it's right there on your hard drive. Somewhere. Spotlight can
Search for files
Search for folders
Search for text inside documents
Search for files and folders by their metadata (creation date, modification date, kind, size, and so on)
A timesaving way to search for files and folders in OS X Mountain Lion is to use the Spotlight menu itself — the magnifying-glass icon at the far right end of your menu bar. Click the icon to open the Spotlight Search box, and then type a character, word, or series of words in the Search box to find an item.
Memorize and use the super-convenient and easy-to-remember keyboard shortcut for opening the Spotlight search box, which is Command+spacebar by default. If you don't find Command+spacebar appealing as a shortcut, you can change it to whatever you like in the Spotlight System Preferences pane.
If you highlight (but don't click) an item in the Spotlight's menu's results list, a preview pops up to its left.
Spotlight is more than just a menu and Search box; it also uses a technology that's pervasive throughout OS X and apps including (but certainly not limited to) Mail, Contacts, and many, many more. The reason why it's so spectacularly speedy is that it "indexes" your files when your Mac is idle. The upshot is that Spotlight knows file locations and contents soon after a file is created or modified.
You can also use the Spotlight window to create and perform more sophisticated searches. You can access this window in two ways:
Click the Show All in Finder item on the Spotlight menu or press Command+Option+spacebar.
You can change this shortcut to whatever you like in the Spotlight System Preferences pane.
Use the criteria at the top of the window to narrow your search.
This is exactly the same process you use to create Smart Folders! If you want to make a Smart Folder from a search you perform, just click the Save button.
Regardless of which method you choose to invoke it — the Search box in a Finder window, the Spotlight Search box in the menu bar, or the Spotlight window — Spotlight saves you time and effort.


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Parliamentarians and community leaders criticized the government yesterday for forcing 42 East Timorese who fled violence in the capital Dili in May to return to their homeland.
The 42 men, women and children were told on Friday that they have until midnight tomorrow to go home, an Immigration Department spokeswoman said yesterday.
All of them, currently living in the Australian cities of Melbourne and Darwin, had made failed appeals to Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone for extensions of their humanitarian visas.
Paul Henderson, a Darwin-based minister of the Northern Territory Government, criticized the federal government for ordering the East Timorese out the day after announcing on Thursday that an extra 120 Australian soldiers were to be sent to Dili because of escalating tensions.
"One arm of government is saying things aren't too good in East Timor and we need to send more troops over there and another arm of government is saying it's safe for these 14 to go home," Henderson told Australian Broadcasting Corp radio, referring to the 14 East Timorese who are residing in his home town.
The group was among 54 East Timorese rescued from Dili in May when Australia sent a battalion of troops to quell violence that killed at least 30 people and drove 150,000 from their homes.
The violence had snowballed from clashes between government security forces and soldiers dismissed in March by former Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri.
A dozen of the 54 who were initially given three-month Australian humanitarian visas had already returned to their homes in East Timor voluntarily, the immigration spokeswoman said on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.
The remainder were given two-week extensions on Aug. 24, the spokeswoman said.
She declined to detail why the East Timorese were brought to Australia in first place, citing privacy considerations.
"Because of their personal circumstances, they were particularly vulnerable given the political and security situation in Dili then," the spokeswoman said.
Vanstone had decided the remaining 42 should go home after considering the latest government report on security in East Timor, she said.
Prime Minister John Howard told Parliament on Thursday the level of violence in Dili had fallen in recent weeks.
But Australia was immediately sending an extra 120 troops because the escape of 57 inmates from Dili's prison on Aug. 30 had "escalated tensions," he said.
At the time of Howard's announcement, Australia had 930 military personnel and 180 police in East Timor.
continuing unrest
Meanwhile, peacekeepers fired tear gas to stop fighting at a refugee camp in Dili yesterday, in the latest unrest to hit the tiny territory, eye-witnesses said.
Dozens of youths armed with slingshots and stones attacked a refugee camp opposite the UN headquarters around midday.
"The attack happened at 12.00 [midday] with tens of youths. They threw stones and used catapults, and then the refugees fought back," Americo Marcal, a guard at the Obrigada Barracks camp, told reporters.
Around 50 Australian, Malaysian and Portuguese police were trying to stop the brawl between the youths and the camp's inhabitants, who are also armed with rocks and slingshots, said a reporter outside the camp.
"One canister of tear gas was thrown into the camp," said the reporter.


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Every Act Counts
"Every act counts. Every thought and emotion counts too. This is all the path we have. This is where we apply the teachings. This is where we come to understand why we meditate. We are only going to be here a short while. Even if we live to be 108, our life will be too short for witnessing all its wonders. The dharma is each act, each word, each thought we speak.
Are we at least willing to catch ourselves spinning off and to do that without embarrassment? Do we at least aspire to not consider ourselves a problem, but simply a pretty typical human being who could at that moment give him- or herself a break and stop being so predictable?
My experience is that this is how our thoughts begin to slow down. Magically, it seems that there's a lot more space to breathe, a lot more room to dance, and a lot more happiness."
~Ani Pema Chödrön


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That's the grip of Jamie Moyer down in Florida, he won the 5th staters job yesterday
No surprise out of Spring Training which is coming to a quick close. Jamie Moyer was announced as the winner in the competition for the 5th starter in the rotation yesterday. If Moyer had faltered just a little in Spring Training, the job probably would have been awarded to Kyle Kendrick, who also pitched a marvelous Spring Training, but for now the Phillies elected to go with Moyer.
It will be a long season, and if Jamie is up to the task, he'll be in that 5th spot all year long, but with a few rough outtings, he may find himself back in the bullpen as he finished up the playoffs and World Series last year for the Phillies. That's not the worse thing that could happen to a quality pitcher, and nice guy like Jamie Moyer.
The team travels home for Friday and Saturday's tune up games with Pittsburgh, until then it's 'Paint The town Red Week' with the Phillies PR staff drumming up awareness that the team is back for the start of the season. The Phanatic will be all 'red' until the start of the season when he turns his natural green color again.


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Nintendo on Monday put its latest shot across the bow of Microsoft and Sony when it officially launched WiiWare, its new online repository of downloadable games.
Ostensibly a service where Wii gamers will be able to shop for new, independent games, WiiWare seems to be Nintendo's answer to Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade and its XNA Studio and to Sony's PlayStation Store.
WiiWare is launching with six games: Square Enix's Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King, Frontier Development's LostWinds, XGen Studios' Defend your Castle, Nnooo's Pop, High Voltage Software's V.I.P. Casino: Blackjack, and Gameloft's TV Show King.
Nintendo said it would add new games to WiiWare each Monday.
In February, Nintendo said in an interview with CNET News.com sister site, GameSpot.com, that there were as many as 100 WiiWare games in development.
And while many gamers would surely like to see more games in the system at launch, the fact that there are so many in the pipeline already means that Nintendo will likely not have to worry about populating the service with new weekly titles for some time.
For independent developers, the service also provides a new avenue for getting their work in front of gamers--and on a new platform. Microsoft has been very aggressive with using its XNA platform as a way of bringing independently created games to the Xbox community, and now Nintendo will be able to compete for some of those developers' time.


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SHILO was saved from a high kill shelter in Texas, where dogs generally have just 3 days to be saved before they are killed for space. SHILO is spayed, core vaccines, rabies, de-wormed, heartworm tested negative and micro-chipped. She has an estimated date of birth of 8 October 2017 and at the time of rescue in March 2018 weighed around 17.00 pounds. Shilo has been listed as a German Shepherd Dog Mix, however, we are not able to say for sure what breed she is, it is up to you to look at her pictures and decide what you think she looks like.
She will be arriving at the rescue in Maine on 20th March 2018
We do not recommend dog parks for several weeks, if not months, it is so very important for families and dogs to form a strong bond and get to know each other before exposing them to the potential dangers of dog parks. Although all GaDaH dogs are very well socialized with other dogs, lots of other dogs have not had the benefit of this socialization and do not always know how to play and act with other dogs. You also do not know the control the other families have over their dogs and you should always have a good recall for your adopted dog before going to dog parks.
SHILO is available for adoption from Give a Dog a Home, German Shepherd Dog Rescue for an adoption fee of $550.
This fee is not negotiable and is used to cover the rescue costs of pulling, vetting, health certificate, transport from Texas to Maine, monthly preventatives, supplements, food and anything else that is needed.
If you feel that you have the heart and home to give this precious soul a wonderful life, please go to our website, under the APPLICATION tab, complete, then submit the APPLICATION. Our process takes around 2-4 days, and ensuring your references are aware that we will be calling, could speed up the process. Once you have been approved, we discuss any questions in regards to the dog you are wanting to adopt, then you complete and submit the contract, make payment and then we can work out the pick up / transport arrangements.
Please do NOT submit an application if you are not looking to take home a new best friend within the next few weeks.
SHILO is located at the rescue in Sebec, Maine. We post in various states along the east coast and Canada where we have had lots of successful adoptions to enable more exposure for these beautiful saved souls. Families will need to be prepared to travel to the rescue to meet and take home their new best friend. Sebec is located just outside the towns of Dover-Foxcroft and Milo (approx 8 miles) and approx 45 miles from Bangor. There are also lots of hotels, motels, pet friendly accommodations and wonderful camp-sites for the more adventurous families and what a great way to get to know your new best friend. If there are options to arrange transport, we will work with you to make it happen.


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Danger Zone
This story appears in the November 1998 issue of Business Start-Ups magazine. Subscribe »
Rocket USA Inc. was ready for takeoff. In a few harried months during the summer of 1997, the five-person company in Oak Park, Illinois, had done everything it could to get off the ground. The finishing touch was signing a contract with a Japanese company to be the sole distributor for a line of collectible windup toys, including the robot from the original TV series "Lost in Space."
Company president Michael Perry, 40, had planned for everything--except a crisis. With c.o.d. orders streaming in and the first inventory of robots filling the warehouse, UPS went on strike. The package delivery company's shutdown was an inconvenience for many small businesses, but for Rocket USA, it was a stratospheric disaster.
"We were totally in the dark about how we were going to ship," says Perry, who didn't have accounts with other carriers and discovered other carriers would only accept current customers' deliveries. "We had to hand-carry orders to the post office [because] we really had no backup plan."
Entrepreneurs may think crises are reserved for politicians, large corporations and Kathie Lee Gifford, but a debilitating disaster can strike even the smallest of ventures. Unlike Fortune 500 CEOs, who have legal departments and PR agencies to call on, small-business owners have to handle emergencies themselves.
But can a small business really plan for a crisis? Absolutely, says crisis management expert Jeffrey R. Caponigro. "It's even more important for a small business or start-up to be prepared for a crisis because their margin of error is smaller," says Caponigro, 41, president and CEO of Caponigro Public Relations Inc. in Southfield, Michigan, and author of The Crisis Counselor (Barker Business Books). "They're dealing with a much more fragile environment, where even a minor crisis could put them out of business."
Caponigro defines a crisis as anything that has the potential to negatively affect the reputation or credibility of your business. He suggests entrepreneurs follow some basic steps to prepare for and manage a crisis:
Form a crisis team. Even if it's only you and one other person, you need to define roles and know who to call if a crisis hits. Since disasters don't always work the 9-to-5 shift, make sure you exchange home, pager and cell phone numbers so you'll know how to reach team members at odd hours.
"The first rule of crisis management is to not wait for a debacle to happen before starting your planning process," says Hal Warner, a crisis communications counselor in Vienna, Virginia. Warner says steps should be taken in advance to minimize damage and maintain your company's good image. You may not know the exact nature of the storm looming on the horizon, but you and other employees can develop enough scenarios to cover almost any potential disaster.
Identify your vulnerabilities. To make a list of your company's vulnerabilities, start by looking within your business. While a meteor may fall from the sky and pulverize your biggest client, a crisis is more likely to result from internal mismanagement.
Caponigro advises businesses to make two lists. "On one list, put the crises that are most likely to happen," he says. "On the other, list those that may not be likely to happen, but would be extremely damaging if they did occur. Then compare the two lists to see if any vulnerabilities appear on both lists. If so, those are the crises you really need to be prepared for."
Prevent vulnerabilities from turning into crises. Once you've identified your vulnerabilities, ask yourself if there's anything you can do now to prevent them from turning into crises. For each vulnerability, list the action steps you intend to take to eliminate or lessen the risk of it becoming a crisis.
Develop your plan. Take a look at your list of action steps and determine which ones can be done in advance so you can be better prepared if the crisis happens. "Your plan is particularly valuable during the first few hours of a crisis when you may not know what to say, what to do or what's really happened," says Warner. "The plan will serve as an invaluable road map during a stressful time when strategic thinking can give way to rash decisions."
Warner says crisis plans should not be voluminous documents. They should consist of a simple checklist of action steps for each potential crisis. Plans should also identify crisis team members (including pertinent contact numbers) and a list of who's responsible for which actions.
Move quickly. When a crisis threatens your business, time is of the essence. "The window to prove to your public that the crisis is being managed as effectively as possible is usually only a few hours long," says Caponigro. "In the early stages of a crisis, it's important to prove your competency and control over the situation. You'll have a difficult time establishing this once you're placed in a defensive mode."
Communicate. Inform everyone who's important to the success of your business about the crisis, and ask for their input and feedback. This list may include customers, prospective customers, suppliers, community leaders and the news media.
Crisis experts advise businesses not to try to sweep the crisis under the rug in hopes it will blow over. "If [key people] are going to find out about it anyway, you'd be much better off informing them proactively and explaining what happened than having them read about it in the paper the next day," says Caponigro. He also suggests getting all the bad news out at once. Avoid letting a new accusation surface every week.
Warner calls this an "oozing" crisis. "Picture an oozing tube of toothpaste. Like the toothpaste, once a crisis is out, you can't get it back in," he says. "Businesses often put a crisis on the back burner, hoping no one will notice it, but all of a sudden, it leaks out and you're in deep trouble because it appears you've been hiding something."
Handle the media. In an era of almost instantaneous global communication, a negative story about your company that breaks in the middle of the night can be worldwide news before the morning newspaper hits your doorstep. Crisis experts offer these guidelines for dealing with the media:
- Write a concise statement about the crisis, and detail the steps you're taking to remedy the situation.
- Don't stray too far from your statement when talking to reporters.
- Keep accurate logs of media inquiries and news coverage.
- Be clear and avoid jargon.
- Be concise. Speak in short, eight- to 10-second snippets.
- Stay in control. Don't let the interviewer dictate the discussion.
- Be confident. People remember more about how you said it than what you said.
- Be honest. If you don't know an answer, admit it.
Monitor and evaluate. Determine how the crisis has affected your sales as well as customers' behavior and opinions. In his book, Caponigro suggests some effective ways to assess the impact of a crisis, including:
- Measuring and tracking sales and profits during and after a crisis.
- Using a news media monitoring service to provide you with copies of media coverage of your crisis.
- Establishing a telephone hot line for customers to call with questions and comments about the crisis.
- Conducting focus group sessions to get opinions from your target customers.
Perry survived the UPS strike and learned some valuable lessons. His distribution system is now much more diverse, and he has enough contingency shipping relationships so that the shipping of orders would continue smoothly even if a major carrier went on strike. "Don't believe the unexpected won't happen," says Perry. "That's the game of business--trying to have a solid response to anything that pops up. And don't worry; crises will come."
Brian Ruberry is the owner of Ruberry Communications, a public relations firm in Potomac, Maryland.
Crises That Can Strike Any Business
- Employee layoffs/downsizings
- Lawsuits
- Poor financial performance
- Discrimination/harassment claims or charges
- Negative media coverage
- Damaging rumors
- Product defects or quality problems
- Violent threats or actions by a disgruntled current or former employee
- On-the-job incidents
- The sudden death of a senior executive
- Loss of significant business from one or more customers
- Government probes or fines
- Natural disasters
- Boycotts, pickets or strikes
- A failure in technology
Source: The Crisis Counselor
Hazards Of A Mismanaged Crisis
- A significantly damaged reputation that can take years to repair
- Loss of employee loyalty
- A decreased level of productivity
- Lower sales
- Reduced profits
- The cost to hire lawyers, consultants and other experts
to help reduce the damage
- The shift in focus that occurs when managing the crisis takes the company's attention away from its primary business
- Changes in senior-level executives and other personnel
- Necessary changes to re-engineer products and services
- Possible product or corporate name changes
Source: The Crisis Counselor
Benefits Of A Well-Managed Crisis
- Increased visibility and name recognition
- The opportunity to show the competency and leadership of the business owner
- Improved relationships and stronger bonds with those people important to the business' success
- Changes made in the business that are necessary for its long-term success
Source: The Crisis Counselor
Common Crisis - Management Mistakes
- Failing to plan in advance
- Ignoring warning signs
- Making decisions too slowly
- Failing to communicate with employees and managers
- Failing to prepare information materials in advance
- Not obtaining input, feedback and questions from people important to the business' success
- Failing to return phone calls from those inquiring about the situation
- Saying "no comment" to media questions
- Being unwilling to make necessary adjustments
- Being misleading or dishonest
Source: The Crisis Counselor
Contact Sources
Caponigro Public Relations Inc., (248) 355-3200, http://www.caponigro.com
Rocket USA Inc., fax: (708) 524-9664, http://www.rocketusa.com


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Ever since Janell Burley Hofmann, '01,made her son sign a contract in order for him to have his own iPhone, the Cape Cod mother of five has started something of a revolution.
The 18 rules in the contract included guidelines for parenting, but also basic tenets for civilized living in our technological age, including respecting others, taking responsibility and experiencing life fully.
"I never wanted his iPhone or any electronic device to rob him of some of the human experiences, which is going outside and playing with your friends" and other childhood pursuits, says Ms. Hofmann, 34.
The BSU graduate and Sandwich mom never expected that the contract, which she included in her blog in the Huffington Post, would thrust her and her son Gregory into the national spotlight. Since giving Gregory the iPhone at Christmas 2012, mom and son have faced a barrage of media attention, including an appearance on ABC TV's "Good Morning America."
And the rules – which she dubs "iRules" – have provided the impetus for a new book, which she hopes will help other families navigate today's technology waters: "iRules: What Every Tech Healthy Family Needs to Know About Selfies, Sexting, Gaming & Growing Up."
"'iRules' is about building a system with the technology that works for your family. Assessing your own family's needs, getting to know why you need the technology. So it really is a guide," says Ms. Hofmann, who also presented at TEDx San Diego with a talk titled, "Parenting in the Screen Age."
The West Bridgewater native has experience understanding families and the technological pressures they face. After transferring from Keene State College to Bridgewater State in 1999, she completed her undergraduate degree in communication studies. By then, Gregory was already in her life.
She then went to work for the YMCA, then as a program coordinator for the Sandwich Recreation Department, running family, parenting and community workshops and programs.
"I can see, when I look back, how all of this built toward doing my work around technology and parenting, because I was really looking at the big picture of family and parenting with purpose," says Ms. Hofmann. "In a lot of my parenting classes, technology was coming up as something that parents were learning to cope with and needing advice, needing guidance."
With five children, some would say, one might need to parent with purpose. Ms. Hofmann readily would admit that enforcing rules in her household comes with her role as a parent. Her son Greg, now 14, when presented with the iPhone contract, took it all in stride and would say, "That's so my mom," Ms. Hofmann says.
Others have reacted strongly to Ms. Hofmann's iRules. She says she was not prepared for the barrage of backlash or of the support she has received. "I never imagined that I'd have to defend it or that I would be called 'controlling' or 'bossy' or 'a total nightmare,'" she says. But in a world of all-encompassing technology, the idea of controlling the devices in our lives and not the other way around has been overwhelmingly positive, she said.
Ms. Hofmann and Adam, her husband of 14 years, have struck a balance between the inevitability of technology and the need to, at times, disconnect. Adam, who is a vice president of an insurance agency and a part-time musician, is a fan of the latest and greatest gadgets. He has social networking accounts that he rarely uses and has deleted some, Hofmann says, and now he is concentrating on his wife's book promotion.
"While he has all this technology and uses it at work, it benefits his life, [but] socially, in his personal life, he's really stepped back from the technology," Ms. Hofmann says. "I wonder if that's a cycle that's going to happen for a lot of people that they use it. They use it to its benefits, and then they do put it away."
The family will sometimes leave their devices behind when hiking on the Cape. But the notion of the contract isn't lost on their other children, Brendan, 11, Ella, 9, Lilly, 8, and Cassidy, 6.
"They absolutely expect that when they turn 13, that following Christmas they'll get an iPhone, so we've already started that conversation," says Ms. Hofmann. "I'm a big fan of delaying the technology until we feel like our child is ready and that we're ready to parent it … because what I hear from a lot of families when I do workshops and when I travel to schools or libraries is, 'I gave too much technology, too soon.' And they're having to pull back the reins, which often harder to do."
Ms. Hofmann admits that her family's "iRules" don't fit with every family. Each family must decide its own boundaries, she says.
The book discusses the concept of "Slow Tech Parenting," using the technology for its intended purpose, but not getting lost in it. "So it's a part of our lives, but it's not central to our lives, and I think that's the key," she says.
"The key component in iRules is that it's going to help people build a tech-healthy family. We know the technology is here to stay. It's coming into their schools. It's coming into social life, our professional lives, and certainly our personal lives. So what can we do for our family to stay healthy with the technology? It really is becoming part of the health and wellness conversation."
Check out Ms. Hofmann's website for more information, or read her blog at Huffington Post. (Story by Steve Ide, University News)


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Over the weekend Chanel invited some fancy-pants people out to Montauk to celebrate the release of the lastest J12 Marine men's watch. Laird Hamilton, the new brand ambassador, is a professional surfer and married to professional volley ball player Gabrielle Reece. "Like CHANEL's newest brand ambassador, Laird Hamilton, CHANEL has allowed themselves to be swept away by the beauty of the waves, and has incorporated these elements into the design of the J12 Marine, the newest addition to CHANEL's fine timepiece collection."
The guests ""…dined on fresh seafood at wooden tables and then gathered around the fire pit for cocktails and smores." Can we say jealous? And how about the surf boards? I've always been to scared to try surfing but a Chanel surf board can easily sway me…
The event looks like it was awesome and though you may not think of Chanel when you think of surfing, Chanel always manages to have that magic touch that makes just about anything seem like it was meant to be paired with Chanel. My only question is, where was my invitation to this?
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text: Share: Comments Print May 22, 2013 at 11:36 AM View from Sacramento: Saint Stern deserves statue, thanks Posted by Don Shelton This opinion piece was published by The Sacramento Bee earlier this week. It's an interesting perspective on how NBA commissioner David Stern, who has been roundly criticized in Seattle, is viewed in Sacramento for keeping the Kings from moving. By Ailene Voisin / Sacramento Bee columnist SACRAMENTO, Calif. – We could nominate him for sainthood. We could erect a statue in front of the downtown arena. We could name a street after him. But at the very least, we should schedule a David Stern Day before the NBA commissioner retires Feb. 1, 2014, because this is the man who saved the Kings. Again and again. Stern resisted, explored, implored, engaged, tutored, explained. For all the right reasons – because Sacramento simply did not deserve to lose its only major professional sports franchise – the NBA's most powerful figure refused to allow the much-traveled Kings to morph back into Royals or become SuperSonics, Las Vegas Gamblers, Tampa Bay Bears, Virginia Beach Swimmers. Or who knows where else those Vlade Divac, Chris Webber and Oscar Robertson jerseys would be hanging right now – and don't forget the Monarchs' WNBA championship banner, either – had Stern wearied of the chronic Sacramento-induced headaches and eased into cruise control for the final months of his stewardship? While the attempted palace coup by Chris Hansen and Steve Ballmer was the most serious and exhausting threat to the Kings' future in Sacramento, it was far from the first. The Seattle investors stood at the end of a very long line. "One way or another, we have been living with this for the past decade and a half," state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said last week after the Maloofs agreed to sell their controlling interest to the investment group headed by Silicon Valley software tycoon Vivek Ranadive. "A lot of fits and starts. Some questions along the way. But (this) totally ranks among the highlights of my time here." Steinberg, who was among the City Council members who approved the $70 million loan when former owner Jim Thomas launched the first direct hit at the franchise in 1997, ranks high on the list of those deserving credit. The list also includes City Council members who approved a term sheet; city officials who repeatedly revised and improved arena proposals; and especially Mayor Kevin Johnson, a native Sacramentan and three-time NBA All-Star who assembled an impressive ownership group and proved to be just as persistent and persuasive as his former boss. But KJ will be the first to tell you this: Stern showed him the way. "The commissioner set out very clear guidelines," Johnson said Saturday. "He said, 'If you want to keep a team, go read the NBA bylaws, go read the constitution, and you will see why teams leave under relocation. If you have fans who support the team and can build a building, it's very tough for a team to be pulled from a city. Understand that section and build your case.' " Stern, of course, has significantly more experience at these relocation squabbles than his counterparts in the National Football League or Major League Baseball. Those bylaws he talked about were included in the NBA constitution after the Clippers moved to Los Angeles without league authorization in 1984. While owners seeking relocation subsequently have played by the rules, the league's inability to resolve Seattle's thorny arena issues and preclude the Sonics' move to Oklahoma City five years ago is the itch that occasionally still flares and swells. Too seldom mentioned is that, historically, timing is an exceedingly significant factor in the success or failure of most stadium and arena ventures. And unfortunately for Sonics fans, when Stern intervened in Seattle, the region was still in the midst of the recession, fractured by political infighting, and afflicted by arena fatigue; previous public contributions for Seahawks and Mariners facilities left little appetite for aiding the Sonics. Thus, when the Maloofs four months ago agreed to sell controlling interest to Hansen and Ballmer for $341 million (and a record team valuation of $525 million), the prevailing sentiment within the industry was that the Kings were goners, soon to become Sonics. Even after Johnson introduced the impressive Ranadive and the City Council reiterated its backing for the private/public arena financing plan, Sacramento remained the underdog. Seattle was too wealthy and too tantalizing a market. Sacramento would never get an arena built. The Ranadive investment group lacked deep pockets. The Maloofs disliked the mayor. And no matter how passionately Stern advocated for retaining an established market, he was deemed too old (70) and no longer as influential among owners who were increasingly younger, wealthier and more forceful. Reports of his demise, it turns out, were greatly exaggerated. "David still has control of that room, man," one owner said after the board of governors voted Wednesday against relocation, requesting anonymity because of a league-imposed gag order. "Before the meeting began, I was thinking, 'Seattle might have the votes.' But Stern has a real affinity for Sacramento and a strong belief in small markets and cities with only one team. He mentioned Portland, San Antonio, a couple others, and explained that this is why the NBA is special. He's the one who got it done." Later, a visibly exhausted Stern appeared relieved and eager to pass the Seattle/expansion discussion duties to his successor, Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver. Meantime, the soon-to-be-retiring boss will oversee the Kings' formal ownership transition and offer assistance when asked. And he has been asked by the incoming owners: Members of the league's New York-based marketing arm (TMBO) arrive this week to kick-start the hiring process and season-ticket and sponsorship campaign. Asked to characterize his recent dealings with Stern, Ranadive laughed. "He is a man of great vision, and he's a strong leader. He is also a very persuasive guy. I told him, 'David, I am afraid to take your calls. You are such a persuasive, charismatic person, it's hard for me to say no.' " But when it mattered most, it was Stern who said no, which is why Sacramentans need to think more about what this man has done for this team and this community. Sainthood. A statue. A street with his name. A day in his honor. Until we meet again, a simple "thank you" will have to suffice. Want to be a reader contributor to The Seattle Times' Take 2 blog? Email your original, previously unpublished work or proposal to Sports Editor Don Shelton at email@example.com or email@example.com. Not all submissions can be published. The Times reserves the right to edit and publish any submissions online and/or in print. Comments


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BREVARD, N.C. --- Junior Jacquise Moore (Concord, N.C.) and senior Darius Smith (Woodbridge, Va.) posted game-highs of 29 points and 11 assists to lead the Lees-McRae College men's basketball team to a 94-89 win over Brevard College, as the Bobcats scored the game's final seven points en route to the program's best start as an NCAA Division II member.
With the win, Lees-McRae (3-0) records the first three-game win streak to open a season as a member of the NCAA, posting a field goal percentage of 53.7 percent while knocking down 61 percent of its shots in the second half. The Bobcats won the battle on the glass by a 31-26 margin, including a 10-7 advantage on the offensive boards, while converting 17 Brevard (0-1) turnovers into 17 points.
Moore turned in his best performance of the young season, knocking down 13-of-17 from the floor and 3-of-4 from downtown for a game-high 29 points. Chad Hicks (Winston-Salem, N.C.) added a double-double with 17 points and a contest-best 10 boards, as Smith dished out a game- and season-high 11 assists. Darryle Bond (Nashville, Tenn.) and Mike Chambers (Winston-Salem, N.C.) chipped in 13 and 12 points, respectively, as Moore tallied a game-high five steals.
Dominique Pickett and Darius Moose led the way for Brevard with 25 and 24 points, respectively, as Moose added 10 rebounds to post a double-double. Trevon Shaw added 14 points off the bench, while Jake Pifer chipped in 11 points. Pickett and Manzey Miller dished out seven and five assists, respectively, as they each tallied three steals.
Brevard jumped out to an early 15-7 lead before the Bobcats responded, closing the gap to 28-26 with a 19-13 run, which was capped by a pair of freebies by Chambers with 8:49 left on the clock. The Tornadoes quickly countered with a 10-2 spurt, pushing the margin to 38-28 on a Moose lay-in at the 6:01 mark.
Lees-McRae answered with a 20-11 run, cutting the lead to 49-48 heading into the intermission following an emphatic throw down by Moore and a buzzer-beating layup by DeAndre Tillman (Charlotte, N.C.).
The Bobcats carried the momentum into the second half, opening the period with a pair of quick buckets from Moore to take a 52-49 advantage with 19:02 remaining. Brevard countered with a 13-4 run, claiming a 62-56 lead following a Pifer triple at the 16:18 mark.
Lees-McRae responded once again, launching a 16-2 surge to open a 72-64 lead on a Bond jumper with 12:12 to go in the game. Brevard countered with an 8-3 spurt, trimming the margin to 75-72 following a Pickett trey at the 9:52 mark.
After the Bobcats pushed the gap to 83-74 with an 8-2 stretch of their own, Brevard answered with a 10-2 run, cutting the lead to 85-84 on a three-point play by Pickett with 4:38 to play. The Tornadoes continued the rally over the next three minutes, claiming an 89-87 advantage on a Moose lay-in to cap a 5-2 spurt with just over a minute left on the clock.
The Bobcats would score the final seven points of the contest, taking the lead for good on a downtown dagger by Chambers at the 1:01 mark, before Moore and Smith capped the scoring with a layup and two free throws in the closing seconds.
Lees-McRae returns to the court on Friday evening when the Bobcats travel to Salisbury, N.C. to take on Livingstone College at 6 p.m. in Johnson C. Smith University's Tip-Off Classic.


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