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So far on my 2017 adventure, I have learnt 3 things.
1. You can do it cheap, but there will always be unexpected expenses.
2. Planning is a waste of time, the weather always wins.
3. Sandflies really do suck.
I was lucky to start my South Island trip by flying in to Nelson, having fish and chips on the beach with three great friends, then setting off for 9 glorious days with a university friend (Caroline) who I see far too little of.
On the flight over I was stung with a $60 fee for a heavy bag (2kg of tent poles) … small price for a portable home, but still annoying. Nevertheless, I was stoked to be on the South Island and officially at the start of the Unknown Year.
Caroline was leaving from Christchurch in just over a week's time, so we planned a little summer tour around the north/east part of the island. We set off towards the Nelson Lakes with a plan to head up to Angelus Hut so I could show Caroline the amazing view. See previous running post here… https://lorrylovestorun.wordpress.com/2016/01/02/mt-angelus-1st-january-2016/
Unfortunately, the weather had other ideas. After a night battling sandflies (that feeling when you think it's been raining all night but it was actually a swarm of sandflies banging against the fly of your tent 😳), we headed to St Arnaud to be advised against heading up in to the hills. Unless of course we wanted to be crawling along the ridge with hail in our face and not see any view. Hiya summer holidays.
So we decided not to bother, and headed East where the weather was meant to be better. The rain followed us most of the way through Lewis Pass, but we stopped in a dry valley for lunch and stumbled across a beautiful (and quite scary) swing bridge.
We'd planned to stop and stay in Hanmer Springs later in the week, but planning doesn't work so we arrived there on night two. We stayed in an awesome campground just out of town, got lost running on about 10km of beautiful single track trails then soaked the night away in the hot pools.
The wind was slightly insane overnight, and only forecast to get worse so we were glad to be staying in an AirBnB in Mt Lyford on day 3. We headed out to Kaikoura for a look at the Earthquake damage (and try to spend some money there) before heading on the inland road back to our "Log Chalet". It was a mission to find as Mt Lyford seems to be a secret village which comes alive only in ski season, and the steep gravel roads were worrying as we were running out of petrol.. but we got there in the end.
The inland road back towards Hanmer the following day was so beautiful, and we kept heading south (following the sun) on the inland route towards Christchurch. Our next planned spot was Lake Tekapo, so as we made a B-line for there, both of us were getting Eager Feet for some hill action. We decided to stop on the way for an overnight tramp around Mt Somers. We arrived early afternoon but the weather was closing in already. Forecast for day 5 was great so we decided to do a short 3 hour up the hill on the first day, and a big 9 hour mission the next day.
We were hailed on during the walk up, and were glad to arrive at Pinnacles Hut just before it absolutely started pouring. We woke up early the next day to find snow on the hills, clear blue skies and a beautiful sunrise.
We set off towards Woolshed Creek Hut and stopped there for breakfast after about 2 hours of walking through an awesome mountain valley. The rest of the hike was beautiful and challenging, although towards the southern face of the mountain got a little bit boring. It was a great 2 day hike, but a good one day option would be to head between the two car parks and huts as you'd see the best scenery of the track … but would need two cars. We skipped the summit as the clouds were rolling in and time ticking on, and headed to Geraldine for the fish and chips we'd been fantasizing about all day.
We headed closer to Lake Tekapo, stopping at a DOC camp ground on the way only to be woken up by wild boars in the middle of the night. Sadly the weather really closed in when we reached Lake Tekapo, it was cold and misty and there was no view of the majestic Mt Cook. We had a really cold night in the tent but luckily I was with this one so spirits remained high.
From there we spent a couple of days catching up with friends and family in Timaru and Christchurch, thankfully keeping warm in very comfy beds. Unfortunately the Mt Somers adventure had caused the death of my trail shoes, so we also had to do some shoe shopping in Christchurch.. another unwanted, unexpected expense. I do quite love my new shoes though! All of a sudden it was Caroline's last night, but we managed to have a BBQ and a hot tub at my friend Steph's place, so not at all bad!
I did a little friend swap at Christchurch airport, dropping off Caroline and picking up Max. Max and I then heading West toward the mountains of Arthur's Pass in search of some sunshine and running. The drive was awesome and I was so excited to be heading somewhere I hadn't seen before. I instantly fell in love, and could happily spend a week there running new trails every day.
The people in DOC were so friendly and helpful, aided by the fact they were runners too. We'd hoped to experience some of the Coast to Coast mointain run and head to Goat Pass hut, but we were advised against it because of the (more) heavy rain forecast which could make the rivers impassible. Instead we enjoyed running along the Arthur's Pass walkway, up to Temple Basin skifield then finally up Kelly's Creek to spend the night at Carroll's Hut. Even though it lacked a fire, it was a great shelter from the storm for the night.
Day 10 was a highlight. As the sky was blue we decided to hang around Arthur's Pass another day and did a run along O'Malleys track to Anti-Crow hut. I usually think views only come from running up mountains, but this run taught me that valleys are just as beautiful. 16km of single track, grassland and river bed … Bliss.
And thus, brings day 11 and a whole lot of rain. We headed west out of Arthur's Pass (wah!), stopped at Hokitika and then made our way to Fox Glacier. More rain means another night not in the tent.. but my Eager Feet are raring to get back in to the hills tomorrow.


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L.A. Hospital Suspends Organ Transplant Program
The St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles has suspended its organ transplantation program after discovering one of its doctors arranged to give a liver to a Saudi national instead of a higher-priority patient. Michele Norris talks with Los Angeles Times reporter Charles Ornstein about the case.
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One of the largest organ transplant centers in California has suspended its liver program. The hospital discovered that a patient low on the waiting list was bumped ahead to receive an organ intended for someone else. Administrators at St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles say doctors there arranged for a Saudi national to receive an improper transplant, and then staff members falsified records to cover the tracks. Charles Ornstein has been covering this story for the Los Angeles Times. He joins us now.
Charles, this transplant in question took place in September 2003. Could you briefly tell us what happened?
Mr. CHARLES ORNSTEIN (Los Angeles Times): Sure. What happened was that there were two patients at St. Vincent Medical Center, both of them who happened to be Saudi nationals. The first patient was supposed to receive the transplant because he was high up on the waiting list that the government and the regional transplant procurement agencies keep. But he wasn't available. So St. Vincent should have returned the organ, so that it could have gone to the next person on the list, who happened to be at UCLA Medical Center. But instead the hospital kept the organ and gave it to somebody who was 52nd on the list for a transplant. And then afterwards staff members falsified numerous documents to make it seem like the transplant had gone to the more needy patient who actually had not received it.
NORRIS: So since this involved two patients, both Saudi nationals, is it plausible that this might have been a case of mistaken identity?
Mr. ORNSTEIN: It doesn't seem to be so. It seems that, in fact, records at the hospital were kept in the correct name of the patient who actually received the transplant. But when they were sent to UNOS, which is the national organ oversight body, the name was changed, and, in fact, it was digitally altered to insert the name of the patient that should have received the transplant but did not.
NORRIS: And how does money factor into this?
Mr. ORNSTEIN: Well, for foreign nationals, they pay a higher rate than my insurance company or your insurance company or government payors do because they are not entitled to the same discounts that those payors are entitled to. And so in this case, the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia paid for the transplants, and they paid $339,000, which was about 25 to 30 percent higher than the market rate would have brought in.
NORRIS: And so the patient that was supposed to receive this liver--what happened to that patient?
Mr. ORNSTEIN: That patient was at another hospital, UCLA Medical Center, and it's not entirely clear at all what happened to that patient.
NORRIS: How did the hospital, St. Vincent's, discover this problem?
Mr. ORNSTEIN: Every few years the national organ network UNOS does regular audits of programs. And it appears that in the course of the audit they asked questions of St. Vincent about certain patients and how they were doing post-transplant. And they asked about the patient who had been high up on the list and how he was doing. And when the administrator began looking through the records--I believe she was new at the hospital--she discovered that that patient hadn't received a transplant, and that began a process of a few days in which these records were determined to have been fabricated. They put the pieces together, and then the hospital informed UNOS, I believe, late last week that it would be suspending its program and that the two doctors who were affiliated with it were no longer affiliated with the program.
NORRIS: Overall how common is a situation like this, where a patient was given questionable priority?
Mr. ORNSTEIN: It's extraordinarily uncommon. From what we've heard, there are very, very few cases, if ever, where this has happened. As you may recall, back in 1995 there were questions raised when baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle received a liver transplant in Dallas.
NORRIS: Oh, yes. Yes.
Mr. ORNSTEIN: And there were questions about whether or not he should have received it given his health status at the time. The national organ network did an investigation and said that was proper. In this case, the hospital did its investigation and itself concluded that what happened was improper. So the conclusion that something actually happened improperly--we're not certain if there's another precedent for it.
NORRIS: Well, now that the liver transplant program at St. Vincent's has been suspended, what happens to the patients that were on the waiting list at St. Vincent's and elsewhere in the city?
Mr. ORNSTEIN: Well, that's a sad story. There are 75 patients who are waiting for livers on the St. Vincent waiting list. And those patients either will remain on that list but not be eligible for an organ because St. Vincent is now not receiving any livers, or they'll have to re-enter the list at another hospital. And at the moment it's not clear where they would enter that list, if they'd have to start from scratch or if they'd maintain their position, but it certainly is a frustrating time for patients and their families.
NORRIS: Charles, thanks so much for talking to us.
Mr. ORNSTEIN: Great to be here.
NORRIS: Charles Ornstein is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times.
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When you chase a cat it runs away.
This is precisely how life works. It's a little thing called control and human beings are really good at it!
In more ways than one human beings have been taking matters into their own hands for what seems like all of eternity!
We want something, so we chase it. And more often than not, it starts to drift further and further away until it can no longer be seen or heard of!
I can think of a hundred times when I have got something in my head, totally obsessed over it, placed an astronomical amount of pressure and expectation to it, and attached a great big fucking story to it ….. only to see it run a mile! Whether it be a job, a house or a lover …. the list goes on!
Not long ago I found myself with writer's block. It's a normal thing apparently LOL, but for a fresh new blogger this was a living hell. It's excruciating when you have so much to say and it's all up there, and you just struggle to simply put your thoughts into words!
I found myself completely out of the creative vortex, totally obsessing over needing something to write, that it blocked me completely!
I spent every day sitting in front of this laptop writing a few measly sentences. I spent all my days totally engrossed in my own thoughts and the present moment. I had well and truly gone 'walkabout' by this stage. I felt a huge, heavy blanket cover me, and as far as I could see, I was not coming out the other side – this was it.
If I could visually describe the amount of unhealthy control I had flowing through my body, it was green mist, and it was seeping all over me and everyone could see it! Yup, actual green mist. I was over. My writing career was over.
That's when it occurred to me. I was totally in my own way. I had started placing huge expectations and a shit load of stress on myself to write something, and on that journey the only subject that my mind kept coming back to was "I can't write". That is the exact phrase that would come to my head – "I can't write". Tragic, I know.
This is not the only example – there are hundreds! Think of a time when you got something in your head. You thought about it so much, and what started off as a healthy and inspiring idea, then turned into green mist.
I notice it happens a lot when women, in particular, fall for someone. It starts off good, then you start to over-think the small stuff, then you place the story, the control and the manipulation, and then you believe it. And then in your head that's EXACTLY what's happening. Then, before you know it, GREEN MIST.
Another perfect example is business. Starting your own business is risky enough, especially if it involves following your passion. This makes it 100 times worse because the pressure to succeed in that field is huge! You think, "Well, what if I fail?" So, you start to try and control it far too much and before you know it you are so far in your own way that manifestation has run a mile – along with all your clients.
Human beings are very smart and they can sense fear and control a mile away!
And really all that's happening is, you have time on earth, so you are spending it doing something you love. That's it. It's never going to be failure because you love it. You are more or less chasing your own creativity and passion right out the door the moment you place stress and expectation onto it!
We are not born with this trait. It slowly creeps in with age. We learn to control things, and manipulate a situation, and this is unfortunately where all of our disappointment comes from.
I can tell you right now that control, expectation and manipulation just do not work.
Most of the time we don't even know we are doing it. We could say, "I'm going to make my boss give me a pay rise", when what we should be saying is, "I'm worthy of a pay rise".
Or we might also say, "I'm going to make that man love me!" And let's be honest – that's just downright impossible!
What we don't realise (and sometimes we even do realise it) is that the harder we push, the faster it all runs out the door!
Now, I'm not suggesting that you just sit back and do nothing! I totally believe if you want to live your dream life you have got to go get it! I just don't believe that we have to chase it! I believe that if you chase something to the point of obsession, you lose the true meaning of why you wanted that 'something' in the first place, and instead you are chasing it out of fear.
Humans have this idea in their head that if it's not hard, it's not real. It's almost like it's meant to be an intense struggle and if it's not, then it must be phony. "Too easy" they say?
Well, I'm telling you right now, in my experience, the more I chase something and fret over a situation, the more obsessed I get with it, the faster it runs.
But, the moment I let go and trust the process is the moment it comes. Manifestation finally has room to move! You have been in the way for too long and you nearly missed out!
Babies are a perfect example. Yeah, a silly one but a perfect one. Babies don't know control (even though they appear to always be the centre of attention and can control a whole room) 🙂 If a baby wants something, they just ask, right?
If they are hungry they cry, if they are happy they laugh. They literally don't know control or manipulation. They just be! They are always living in the present moment. They can't walk or talk and they manage to get everything they need!
Now, I know this seems like a far-fetched way of explaining this due to the fact that it is our duty to protect our babies, but just imagine if this trait never existed?
If we wanted something we would just ask! Imagine the time we would save! There would be no attachment to the end result because whatever is meant to be would be, and all your desires would make manifest because you would have total trust. There would be no negative stories and attachment because you would be so present and so free of any sort of green mist!
The whole reason we control is due to lack of confidence and distrust in the process. It's all fear.
Just remember that Manifestation is always working for you – it's working around the clock! You just have to give it room to breathe.
Don't be that needy human wanting and needing everything to be exactly the way you want it. Stop manipulating a situation to get the end result that YOU want. It will only work against you. Let it go and just be.
Just be. Make manifest and get the hell out of your own way, would ya!
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• Grab your current read
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• Share the title & author too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers.
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The groundswell inside your company
In the previous several chapters, we have been learned a lot of information about how to use groundswell to connect with the customers. But don't forget it that the employees of companies are very important as well. In chapter 12, we are going to talk about the internal groundswell. As we know, those employees are extremely important for the enterprises, "They're a natural constituency for social connections. They obviously have something in common: they work for you. And they ought to have a common goal: your company's success" (Li & Bernoff, 2011, p. 234).
Apple Inc., as one of the biggest communication and electronic equipment suppliers in the world, they have more internal communication problems. We have discussed before that there are five major objectives that companies can pursue in the groundswell, these objectives also applies for within the company. Apple should set up the management level to listen to the employees, get some idea from some employees, and talking to them. Try to find out some of the work of conscientious and responsible and full of enthusiasm of employees, this will have a huge impact on the companies with energizing the groundswell. Since we know the importance of employees, after understanding the employees' idea and advice, company should actively cooperate with hard work, try their best to provide a better working environment and platform to support their work, especially for the big companies of high-tech research and development like Apple (Li & Bernoff, 2011, p. 237-238). There are a lot of companies doing the same thing with Apple, such as Samsung and Nokia, they provide people with electronic communications terminal equipment or electronic equipment. These companies should not be too constraint between themselves, should be bold communicate with each other, to get more and better creative inspiration, to produce more better products.
Li, C. & Bernoff, J. (2011) Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing
Energizing the groundswell
After reading chapter 7 from the "groundswell", there are five steps that for applying the techniques of energizing to our own company. They are as follows:
- Figure out if you want to energize the groundswell
- Check the social technographics profile of your customers
- Ask yourself, "what is my customer's problem?"
- Pick a strategy that fits your customers' social technographics profile and problems
- Don't start unless you can stick around for the long haul
(Li & Bernoff, 2011, p.148-149)
The company like Apple, they do have a strong brand and emotional connections with their customers. Those customers of Apple, they have been talk about the products all the time, they really want to know the quality of the products and the functionality of the products and all kinds of the problems like these. There is no doubt that Apple should energize the groundswell, this will bring the company more benefits. However, before we decided to do energizing the groundswell, the company has to check the social technographics profile, and make sure what kind of people would be your customers. Once the company knows the customer types, they have to find out the problems that their customers will have and pick a appropriate strategy to deal with them. Apple, as a leading technology of electronic equipment suppliers, they need to face many problems, such as the technical issues of their products, the maneuverability of the product function and so on. As a result, choose a suitable strategy to deal with these kind of problems is very important. In the end, is also very important that be sure to energize the groundswell is applicable to the company in a long run time.
Li, C. & Bernoff, J. (2011) Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing
Tapping the groundswell with Twitter
After reading chapter 10 in the "groundswell", I realized that Twitter is becoming the most useful tool for the communication between people from each other. There is a very important thing about it that Twitter updates are limited to 140 characters. Try to think about that, what can people say in 140 characters? I would say this is going to be really interesting and no matter what people updated will be very attractive.
Twitter is not only the most popular tool for people's communication, it also a very important and practical tool for the companies. There are five primary objectives that twitter can serve for the companies, they are as follows:
- Listening to twitter
- Talking to twitter
- Energizing with twitter
- Supporting with twitter
- Embracing with twitter
(Li & Bernoff, 2011, p.202-208)
First, listening to it. For twitter, listening is a essential way that people will know what they are getting into once they open up the twitter updates. Apple Inc. should spend some time on twitter and listening to it, it will help the company know better what people say about their products online. Second, talking to it. Just like many companies did before, Apple might tweet some special deals and news about their products and services. Third, energizing with it. What Apple can do about energizing with twitter is that they should listening first, try to find out that the people the company want to energize, then responding to those fans and retweeting them, it will help Apple get more attention from those fans' own followers. Fourth, supporting with it. As we know, more and more companies are using Twitter to do the support for their own business. Same with Apple, people who are using Twitter, especially the customers of Apple, they might have a lot of questions and problems to the company. The company can give some technical supports and reply to some extent by using Twitter. Last, embracing with twitter. Embracing is the most challenging of groundswell objectives, this is so hard that communicate with people only use 140 characters at one time. For Apple, it is better to use Twitter to drive people to surveys or to engage in dialogue. As long as the companies use Twitter for their business, it will bring great wealth to these companies someday.
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Helping the groundswell support itself
After reading chapter 8 from the "groundswell", we might have a better understanding that the groundswell support is way better than the traditional support ways. According to those numbers that mentioned from the groundswell, the companies need to spent a lot on the support for their products or services. Once the companies get touch in with the groundswell support and do it well after they completely mastered how to use it, it will bring a lot of benefits to the companies, not only reduce the cost of a company and it also makes the companies more efficient.
After reading the materials from the groundswell, we can easily find out that if the companies are getting start with the groundswell support, it is very important and necessary to build a good community for support itself. However, how do we build a good community for support? The groundswell did really detail some of the suggestions to the companies for building their community for support. They are as follows:
- Start small, but plan for a large presence.
- Reach our to your most active customers.
- Plan to drive traffic to your community.
- Build in a reputation system.
- Let your customers lead you.
(Li & Bernoff, 2011, p.174-176)
For those high-tech companies like Apple, it is very important that they better get start their product lines small, they need to be focused on a few things instead of too much product lines and try to avoid too complex. The customers for Apple, they better know how does the community work, so the company needs to find out those people who are Apple's most active customers. Once the company open up a online support community like Facebook, Twitter or Myspace, they have to make links on their official website to the community's web address, if do so, it will bring to the company's support community a lot of traffic and attention. About build in a reputation system, it is truly important that if the company does build a good reputation system that allowed customers to participate and behave in a right place, this will give the company like Apple more credible advice. As we know that Apple has been trying to develop personality and convenient products all the time, the opinions from those customers are quite useful that Apple can develop better products and provide better services.
Li, C. & Bernoff, J. (2011) Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing
Talking with the groundswell
After reading the chapter 6 from "Groundswell" – talking with the groundswell, it is very clear to clarify that the talking with the groundswell is much different from marketing. As we know about marketing, there are two major methods that the marketing department would use, they are advertising and public relations. Almost all companies have invested a lot of time on marketing, they have already said a lot to the consumer groups. But once the companies have found that how talking with the groundswell and how they will effect their marketing, you will know this can be better communicate with customers and improve the company's marketing system.
If the companies do conversations with customers, like opened up a social network account ( Facebook, Blog,etc.). It will helps the companies better understand what the customers want from the online comments and get other people's attention who read those comments. There are many ways to talk with the groundswell, overall, they can be simply divided into four ways, they are as follows:
- Post a viral video
- Engage in social networks and user-generated content sites.
- Join the blogosphere.
- Create a community.
(Li & Bernoff, 2011, p.103)
First, post a video online, Apple did produce many products, it is better to put some videos online like YouTube, and let people make comments about their products and share them. Second, engage in social networks and sites, Apple may create a social networking site like MySpace to have conversations with customers. Third, join the blogosphere, pick a strong sense of responsibility person to write blogs. For Apple, the company must choose a person who knows the products very well and in a leadership position, use these blogs to listen and respond to customers. Fourth, create a community, it is a very powerful way that Apple wants to get in with their customers and give them more accurate and more comprehensive information about their products.
Li, C. & Bernoff, J. (2011) Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing
POST Process
After reading the chapter 4 from "Groundswell", there is four-step planning process called POST method which is people, objectives, strategy and technology. There is no doubt that these four steps planning process are really useful to us to build our groundswell strategy. The example cases that mentioned in this chapter clearly showed us there are many companies lack of knowledge of the social networking space and how to use them to profit for the companies. As a matter of fact, this problem is very common and there is a name for it – "groundswell approach-avoidance syndrome" (Li & Bernoff, 2011, p.66). To better know the majority of our customers and to build a better relationship with our customers, we should according to the POST steps.
After through the future understanding of the POST method, we can be sure that the POST method is great for the interests of Apple Inc. POST is the foundation of the groundswell thinking, the first step is called people, the Social Technographics Profile can really help us more accurate determination of the customers. According to the results from "Forrester", we can easily find out the most consumers for Apple are the joiners and the spectators (Forrester). For these two groups of people, they usually use the social networking site like Facebook, Twitter, Blog and so on. The second step is called objectives, we have to clarify our goals first. There are five objectives that companies may pursue in the groundswell, they are listening, talking, energizing, supporting and embracing. In my opinion, we should touch with the target are listening, talking and embracing. For Apple, the company has to listen to the customers and better understand their customers; the company has to use a different way to talk to their customers, not only is to use "outbound communications" to their customers, such as search ads and emails (Li & Bernoff, 2011, p.69); the company has to help the customers work with each other and get a chance to have good ideals to improve the products and services because of Apple is a high-tech industry companies. Third, the strategy, the company has to figure out that how do they want to change the relationship with their customers, think about the consequences of their strategy, the most important thing is pick a right person that full of enthusiasm and responsible to run this strategy. The last step is called technology, the companies has to select appropriate technologies to combine, especially for the high-tech companies like Apple. According to the results from "Forrester", for Apple, the company can build all kinds of network platform, such as Facebook, Twitter, Blog, YouTube and so on. Thus, companies can better communicate with customers and will get more benefit from it.
Although this is so hard to do well on those steps, and after these steps can also cause many mistakes and failures, but once we are in more accurate better understand them and use them, this will bring more benefits to the company and lead the company to the next level.
Li, C. & Bernoff, J. (2011) Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing
Forrester: http://empowered.forrester.com/tool_consumer.html


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Celtic 0-0 Rangers
Rangers have avoided defeat for only the second time in the last eight Old Firm derbies.
They could even have claimed their first top flight Old Firm win in almost six years, had striker Alfredo Morelos been more clinical in front of goal.
The visitors' top two chances both fell to the 21-year-old during an impressive second period, both from superb crosses from the outstanding James Tavernier.
The first forced an absolutely top drawer save from Craig Gordon, who somehow deflected the effort wide with his legs. But the second effort, an unmarked header, flew wide of goal when Morelos really should have at least worked Gordon again.
Those weren't the only chances a spirited Rangers created. Just five minutes into the match, Morelos was handed a shooting opportunity when Celtic defender Mikael Lustig lost possession. He couldn't convert and neither could Tavernier on 48 when an acrobatic effort from Daniel Candeias' cross was tipped superbly over by Craig Gordon.
Celtic were also left to rue missed opportunities. They went closest on the stroke of half-time, when they really should have sent the home crowd into raptures. A neat one-two set Stuart Armstrong away on the right but his low cross was sent just wide by Scott Sinclair.
The hosts had created their fair share of chances during the first period. James Forrest saw an effort deflected agonisingly past the post. And soon after, Rangers managed to stave off danger from a goalmouth scramble. First Wes Foderingham saved Moussa Dembele's header and then Scott Sinclair's scuffed effort was stopped by the keeper after his first had been blocked.
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Comparative Physiology of the Vertebrate Kidney by William H. Dantzler
By William H. Dantzler
This quantity emphasizes the comparative method of lower than status vertebrate renal functionality. i'm confident that this technique is of specific price in realizing either the main points of renal functionality on the mobile and subcellular degrees and the renal function in regulating fluid volumes and solute concentrations. My publicity to this strategy first happened in the course of a pupil examine event within the laboratory of Wilbur H. Sawyer, who additionally supplied an advent to the works of Homer W. Smith and August Krogh. the significance of this method was once bolstered by means of doctoral and postdoctoral examine within the laboratory of Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen. it's been proven via years of non-public adventure seeing that then. My learn and my realizing of renal functionality were aided over the years by way of collaboration and dialogue with a number of scholars and co-workers. Of specific impor tance in constructing my perspectives on comparative renal functionality, and particularly at the courting of constitution to operate, has been my lengthy organization with my colleague and buddy, Eldon J. Braun. Donald S. Farner, who urged the writing of this quantity, supplied beneficial editorial suggestions. a lot of my own examine during this region has been supported through the years via provides from the USA nationwide technology beginning and nationwide Institutes of health and wellbeing. The writing of this quantity used to be accomplished whereas i used to be in Wiirzburg, Federal Republic of Germany, supported through a Senior U.S. Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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1985 a), that some heterogeneity in filtration rates among nephrons may exist. 2 reflect inadvertent selection of accessible nephrons whose function is not representative of all nephrons in the kidney. In addition, in those species in which nephrons function intermittently (vide infra), the selection of technically acceptible SNGFR measurements may have resulted in mean values greater than true means for all nephrons. These possibilities are suggested by marked differences for some species between the mean measured values and the mean values predicted from allometric analyses (Yokota et al.
3). 2). These studies and others on a marine elasmobranch species (lesser spotted dogfish, Scyliorhinus canicula) also indicate that during changes in whole-kidney GFR, the filtration rates of individual functioning glomeruli can change (Brown et al. 1980; Brown and Green 1987). These observations provide quantitative support for the inferences drawn from visual observations of changes in blood flow through the glomerular capillaries of amphibians and reptiles (Bordley and Richards 1933; Grafflin and Bagley 1952; Richards and Schmidt 1924; H.
2. Section of cleared tissue from superficial area of kidney from bird (Callipepla gambelii, Gambel's quail) that had received salt load. Vaculature filled with silicone elastomer (Microfil) . 35 (185) References 26 Braun and Dantzler 1972 Braun and Dantzler 1972 Braun and Dantzler 1975 Braun and Dantzler 1974 Braun and Dantzler 1974 745 Braun 1978 0 Braun 1978 772 Values are means ± SE. Numbers in parentheses are sample sizes. Unfortunately, no direct determination of the number of nephrons filtering in the starling kidney under any conditions is available.


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Introduction Best WordPress Themes Divi
Within the previous 10 decades, I've used a lot of different WordPress themes and have been really disappointed. Up until recently, I had been using MyThemeShop, which was fairly good. However, I had to perform a great deal of customization to allow it to do and operate how I needed it to. A few weeks ago I decided to give GeneratePress a try, and let me just say, it is by far the best WordPress theme I've discovered in a decade . I was dismissed and am now moving all my websites to GeneratePress. I'll go into precisely why in my comprehensive GeneratePress review under. And if you are wondering, yes I have attempted Genesis, Astra, OceanWP, Avada, X motif, Divi in addition to many other lightweight and thicker multicolored themes. Best WordPress Themes Divi
To Begin, Click here to download GeneratePress.
GeneratePress Review
GeneratePress is a totally free WordPress theme created by Tom Usborne, a developer from Canada. I have actually seen it for years from the WordPress repository. Most of you know that I'm fairly picky when it comes to web performance, so I tend to ignore everything in the repository. Typically because a lot of things on there isn't that good, or not supported for long. However, in this circumstance, that was a mistake. The theme now has over half a million downloads, 80,000+ busy matches, with over 500 5-star ratings. So clearly Tom is doing something right here.
I Really set up the free version of the motif and in a matter of 15 minutes purchased the premium version. I could tell right off the bat, the programmer was thinking precisely how I was imagining a theme should get the job done. And I'll go into that more below, but let us first look at a number of the features. I'm going to be covering the superior version of the theme, because it's worth very penny. In fact, Tom, in the event that you ever read this and are visiting Scottsdale, Arizona, java on me.
Super lightweight and quick. Modular design allowing you to enable/disable things you don't want running. This is one of the biggest reasons I adore GeneratePress.
Responsive, looks fantastic across all devices.
Schema built-in, for better results in SERPs.
Dramatic integration using the WordPress Customizer. I have not been a lover of the customizer previously, but Tom does it right.
Compatible with popular plugins, Yoast SEO, WooCommerce, EDD, BuddyPress, bbPress, and WPML. Great browser support back to IE8.
It also works great with the popular fast-growing Elementor page builder. If you would like to dive into even more customizations, these are a great combo. I have also read that individuals using Beaver Builder have experienced success.
Translation ready.
Font wonderful built in.
A lot of hooks and filters that make it good for developers.
Great active support from the programmer. Normally, 3 updates per month.
The Documentation can be unbelievable. Besides have great documentation on their site, the subject has existed long enough that what I wholeheartedly throughout the setup process was found within a couple of seconds from their own forum.
Diving Into GeneratePress
Now it is Time to the fun part! I test a new theme right out of the box with no customizations to just see how fast the base is. This tells me a great deal of what I could expect by the time that I add everything for this. Running the stock GeneratePress WordPress motif on Kinsta hosting clocked in at a whopping 265 ms load time. I was very impressed.
One Thing I was worried about with GeneratePress was that the modular layout was going to generate a lot of big files, but this isn't the situation. You can tell that Tom actually worked hard on making sure that every file loaded in GeneratePress is as little as possible. With HTTP/2, the number of files is not as significant. But the dimensions is! Have a peek at some of the center GeneratePress files below:
/generatepress/css/unsemantic-grid. min.css 2.9 KB
/generatepress/style. css 7.1 KB
/generatepress/css/mobile. min.css 1.6 KB
/generatepress/js/navigation. min.js 1.1 KB
/generatepress/js/dropdown. min.js 1.5 KB
This is a programmer that cares about functionality! And I've Seen exactly the same throughout each the premium add-ons. They are literally as small as possible get them. In reality, Font Awesome is most likely the largest file contained. And that is not even his. Together with Font Awesome 5 coming round the cornerwe could anticipate that to get smaller also.
The premium add-ons Are setup in what I'd call a modular layout. You can activate/deactivate whatever you are not using to ensure they do not load on your website. Since the co-developer of the perfmatters plugin which has a script manager built, I felt at home for this. Everything ought to be made this way.
If You are curious, I'm using the next add-ons on this site:
Page Header
No Child Theme Needed
One of The best features of GeneratePress is that I no longer have to use a young child motif . This makes my life much simpler. No more editing my functions.php or header.php documents. I can literally upgrade my GeneratePress motif this exact moment and not lose one customization. The hooks add-on certainly helps make it possible. It permits you to incorporate custom code/PHP everywhere throughout your WordPress site. Best WordPress Themes Divi
Other Things I Love About GeneratePress
On each Page/post that you have a lot of options. You can alter the sidebar layout and the footer widgets.
You Can easily swap a page involving the default to a complete width page, in addition to disable components.
The WordPress customizer options is where GeneratePress really shines! Remember, lots of these options are permitted by the superior add-ons. I can not show you everything, otherwise, we'd be here all day. However, allow me to show you few which really come in handy.
Responsive Columns
Another Plugin I highly recommend grabbing is the free Lightweight Grid Columns. Not to my surprise, this is also made by the exact same programmer as GeneratePress. It allows you a super simple way to incorporate responsive columns to any page or post. Features include:
Desktop grid thickness
Tablet grid thickness
Mobile grid thickness
Add custom classes
Insert custom inline styles
Equal height columns
Here is An example under:
You might want to Also catch his incredible WP Display Posts plugin too. See my featured posts on the sidebar of this site? That is using the WP Show Posts plugin. I have it set to display posts from a particular"featured" category. You might also have it show last modified/updated articles, recent posts, etc.. I'm using the free version and it works great.
To Get started, Click here to download GeneratePress.
Sections Add-on
The Sections add-on in the premium edition of GeneratePress allows you to do all kinds of things concerning design. Consider it like a page builder with no bloat. GeneratePress is certainly not just for blogs! I am in reality utilizing GeneratePress to our ecommerce website (perfmatters.io) which is operating Easy Digital Downloads. Feel free to look it over. However, as you can see below, it looks like a site.
Speed Tests
For all those Of you who are regular readers, you probably didn't even notice I changed the entire theme that powers woorkup.com. It just took me about an hour for GeneratePress to mimic my MyThemeShop theme that I had spent annually customizing. Here's a comparison under.
woorkup.com Old MyThemeShop Theme
My older MyThemeShop theme was already pretty fast, but I invested a lot of time customizing it. In reality, I've gotten a great deal of emails from you guys asking me to publish all of my customizations. My advice now is, simply get GeneratePress!
woorkup.com New GeneratePress Theme
With the New GeneratePress motif I was able to achieve faster speeds and 600 fewer lines of code! And remember, I do not have a kid theme. Each of the customizations were made with the wonderful GP hooks and snippets plugin (both CSS and PHP).
Like the WordPress theme I've working on woorkup? You are in luck. Tom asked if he can create a replica of woorkup for the brand new GeneratePress site library. I am happy to let you know that you can now install my woorkup motif on your own GeneratePress website with just a single click! It's known as the Marketer motif. Get started using a fantastic blog design immediately.
brianjackson.io Old Array Theme's Theme
I also Moved over my personal website, brianjackson.io, to GeneratePress. Previously I had been using a motif from Array Themes. It's a pretty basic minimal website, since I don't use it for much. Since you can see it loaded pretty fast.
brianjackson.io New GeneratePress Theme
I was Able to duplicate the entire appearance 100 percent in GeneratePress in under one hour. And as you can view it loads faster! Amazing. I was even able to get rid of a couple plugins that weren't needed due to GP.
forgemedia.io Old Array Theme's Theme
I also Moved over our business website, forgemedia.io, to GeneratePress. Previously I had been using a motif from Array Themes. It is a fairly basic minimum website, as we simply use it to our LLC. As you can see it already loaded pretty fast. Best WordPress Themes Divi
forgemedia.io New GeneratePress Theme
I was Able to again move everything over and get it looking just how I wanted it in under one hour. And as you can view it loads even faster! Amazing. I managed to get rid of a total of four plugins and it dropped my total page weight 2x!
I can't express my Excitement about locating GeneratePress and I'm moving over all of my websites for this (which includes some EDD e-commerce sites). Once I've got my 9 sites all running in GP with no child topics, my entire life is going to be a breeze! The developer has restored my faith in multi-purpose subjects , which when done the correct way, can actually perform quicker.
And The best news isI finally have a thousand more options to pick from than I did earlier.
What GeneratePress Is Good For…
GeneratePress Is the ideal alternative for performance-focused users who wish to have the ability to customize and control exactly how their site appears.
You Can make GeneratePress do pretty much anything. And because GeneratePress has a focus on functionality, the site that you build will have a great foundation to make it load fast.
Because Of that, people who build WordPress websites for a living love GeneratePress. They will normally pair it with a WordPress page builder and use it for literally any kind of site.
However GeneratePress Might Not Be A Good Fit If…
…you Need something which will immediately appear perfect out of the box.
For Example, if you realize you want to create a fashion blog, you might be happier picking out a niche theme that is developed exclusively for fashion bloggers.
While GeneratePress has gotten a great deal simpler to use, as a result of its pre-built Website Library, GeneratePress still looks very barebones if you first install it.
So To make GeneratePress look how you want it to, you'll almost certainly will need to go in and personalize matters. And though the significant advantage of GeneratePress is how customizable it is, some users, especially casual users, do not like having to make those changes themselves.
GeneratePress Features Which Make It Unique
Here Are a few of the particular features that clarify why GeneratePress is so popular.
Lots Of Customization Options In The Real-Time WordPress Customizer
Past Performance, another place where GeneratePress does nicely is its customization choices.
GeneratePress Utilizes the WordPress Customizer for customization, and this is convenient as you'll have the ability to see all of the changes that you create in real time.
The Free variant of GeneratePress gives you adequate possibilities, but should you have GeneratePress Premium, you will be able to customize pretty much everything about your site.
For Example, if you go into the Design area, you can configure comprehensive settings to yourown:
- Header — you can move your header round and alter its styling
- Navigation — GeneratePress gives you two different navigation options, including sticky menus
- Sidebar layout — you can utilize one or two sidebars
- Blog post design — like featured picture dimensions, metadata, etc..
- Footer layout — like the number of widgets to include
Likewise, The Typography area enables you to control the font to get each and every element on your site, such as buttons:
And You also receive a thorough region to control the colour of each and every element on your website.
All In all, GeneratePress will give you a lot more customization options from the WordPress Customizer than most other topics. This amount of detail might be a little overwhelming if you're a beginner. But once you understand the way the preferences come together, you will have complete control over how your website looks.
Optimized Performance And Quick Page Load Times
Across All its attributes, GeneratePress always has a focus on excellent performance and clean code. The whole theme is less than 30 kB, and it is about as small as you'll ever find for a WordPress theme. Even most other optimized WordPress topics are still 200+ kB. And a few poorly coded themes can even surpass 1 MB!
GeneratePress Also does not have any code dependencies, which will help you avoid the render blocking error that Google Pagespeed Insights often mentions.
Place That together, and you obtain a superfast-loading motif. How fast? To give you an idea, I conducted a small test.
First, I set up a vacant site utilizing a random popular WordPress.org motif (Envo Magazine). After testing its performance with Pingdom, it
- Had a performance tier of 77
- Loaded in 1.05 seconds
- Had a page size of 243.9 kB
- Had 15 asks
That is Not bad at all! But GeneratePress can do better.
Next, I activated GeneratePress on the exact same test website without altering anything else. Here is how GeneratePress did:
- Had a performance grade of 87, 10 points greater
- Loaded in 666 ms, ~37% quicker
- Had a page size of 26.8 kB, ~90% smaller
- Had 9 requests, ~40% less
If You perform that same test with different themes, you are going to continue to see that GeneratePress is one of those fastest-loading WordPress topics in existence. Best WordPress Themes Divi
Other Helpful Premium Extensions, Plus Much Modular Approach
Past Giving you more design controls from the WordPress Customizer, GeneratePress Premium also comes with a lot of other useful features like:
- Elements — a unique feature that allows you create customized hooks, page headers, or design templates.
- Page Header — allows you create a unique page header onto a per-page basis.
- Sections — this is kind of like lightweight page building. It permits you to create separate"sections" onto a page, each with their own design and column settings.
To Remain lightweight, GeneratePress also gives you a modular interface where you could pick and choose exactly which characteristics you want to activate.
That Way, you do not have to slow your site down for a feature which you're never going to use.
Pre-Made Starter Sites Make It Easier To Design Your Site
In The last, you needed to build GeneratePress sites from a blank canvas regardless of what, which made the theme difficult for casual users to install.
Earlier In 2018, though, the programmer added a fresh Site Library attribute for GeneratePress Premium users that allows you easily import any among those 25+ pre-built demo sites.
You Can import them right from your WordPress dashboard.
Yes this site still uses GeneratePress! All I did was click on a few buttons to import a presentation site.
Page-Level Settings Provide You Comprehensive Control Over Every Piece Of Content
With Most themes, every post and page will use the very same configurations for the most part. You may have some custom formats or templates — but you do not have very much control past that.
GeneratePress Changes that by providing you a new Layout meta name box for every single post and page:
You Can use this meta box to:
- Change the number of sidebars your site uses, or the sidebar orientation (such as altering the sidebar from right to left)
- Choose the number of footer widgets to utilize
- Disable certain elements, such as your header, navigation menu, article featured image, post title, or footer
- Create a special"container" for your page builder
Where These controls would be the most useful is if you're using a WordPress page builder.
By Disabling certain elements, you're able to produce the correct baseline for your page builder design, which makes it easy to create custom articles as needed. Best WordPress Themes Divi
GeneratePress Pricing: Affordable And Works On Unlimited Sites
The Core GeneratePress motif can be obtained at no cost at WordPress.org.
Nevertheless, If you are serious about using GeneratePress, I feel you should buy the GeneratePress Premium plugin, as that's what produces the theme so elastic. The free version doesn't give you almost as numerous settings from the WordPress Customizer. And you'll also lose out on the premade Site Library.
GeneratePress Premium is also still fairly reasonably priced. It costs only $39.95, which gives you use on unlimited websites . You'll also get a 40% discount if you want to renew to continue receiving support and upgrades following the first year (you can, of course, continue using GeneratePress following the first year without renewing — you just won't get any more upgrades ).
When You consider the typical premium WordPress theme will often cost around $60, GeneratePress offers a great price.
As I mentioned, I do not think GeneratePress is for everyone.
If You want a niche-specific theme, you can probably save time by buying a theme that satisfies your needs for your niche out of day one.
But If you are ready to spend time changing preferences, then GeneratePress' style controls give you the flexibility to flip it into any type of WordPress site. Or, you may even be able to find a starter website that fulfills your needs to save a little time.
Additionally, It is one of the fastest-loading WordPress topics you will locate. So if you're seeking the best performance possible, using GeneratePress as your WordPress site's base is a great choice.
If You combine it with fast-loading hosting, you shouldn't have any difficulty making your site load in under one minute. Best WordPress Themes Divi
To Begin, Click here to download GeneratePress.


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No injuries in Cliffside Park apartment fire
No injuries in a 2nd Alarm fire on Anderson Ave in Cliffside Park. Fire started in the rear of a second floor apartment and firefighters from Cliffside Park, Fairview and Ridgefield battled the blaze. Tariq Zehawi/NorthJersey.com
CLIFFSIDE PARK — No one was injured in a two-alarm fire on Anderson Avenue Monday.
The fire started in the rear of a second-floor apartment and firefighters from Cliffside Park, Fairview and Ridgefield battled the blaze at the scene, according to Cliffside Park Fire Chief Dave Martone.
The fire started near businesses such as European Lash Studio, Polat Upholstery and Tommy's Pet Salon.
The cause of the fire was still under investigation.
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In the morning of 11 March 2011, America Financial Business Delegation visited Shineway Pharmaceutical accompanied by vice-mayor Wang Dajun, vice magistrate of Luancheng Liu Jianfang, Zhang Zhiping and other leaders.
The delegation was warmly welcomed by Shineway. Mr.Wang Qinli, as Vice-president, introduced the development and emphasized that Shineway's stock was listed on main board of Hong Kong. After looking around the exhibition hall and Quality Control centre, the visitors showed high interest, gave high praise on Shineway, and were willing to establish further business on aspect of capital operation and consulting business etc. (reporter: Gao Yanchang, translator: Chen Liwei)


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Chrysler filed for federal bankruptcy protection Thursday and announced a new partnership with Italian automaker Fiat as part of a larger restructuring plan. Auto analysts assess the company's move and what it means for its workers.
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Chrysler filed for federal bankruptcy protection today, but the automaker aimed to emerge from the process quickly, with a new business partner and new federal aid. Jeffrey Brown has our lead story report.
The announcement came from President Obama. He said Chrysler was taking the hard path, but also the right one.
I have every confidence that Chrysler will emerge from this process stronger and more competitive.
The administration had given the nation's third-largest automaker until today to come up with a restructuring plan and avoid the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, and it almost made it.
Four banks, holding 70 percent of the company's debt, agreed to erase it for $2 billion in cash. And last night, the United Auto Workers ratified a cost-cutting pact, in return for part ownership of Chrysler.
DON MILLS, Chrysler worker: I think we have to vote for it just to keep things rolling in the Motor City here, keep Chrysler afloat.
RENEE SMITH, Chrysler worker: I just hope and pray that something will definitely turn around in another way, but that's all you can do at this point.
But talks broke down between the government and 40 hedge funds. They were owed nearly $7 billion, and they refused a Treasury offer of $2.25 billion in cash to write down the debt.
That standoff triggered the bankruptcy move, and it did not sit well with the president.
They were hoping that everybody else would make sacrifices and they would have to make none. Some demanded twice the return that other lenders were getting.
I don't stand with them. I stand with Chrysler's employees and their families and communities. I stand with Chrysler's management, its dealers, and its suppliers. I stand with the millions of Americans who own and want to buy Chrysler cars.
President Obama said those who have made sacrifices will help Chrysler emerge from Chapter 11 faster, possibly in less than 60 days.
This is not a sign of weakness, but rather one more step on a clearly charted path to Chrysler's revival. Because of the fact that the UAW and many of the banks — the biggest stakeholders in this whole process — have already aligned, have already agreed, this process will be quick, it will be efficient. It's designed to deal with those last few holdouts, and it will be controlled.
As part of the process, Chrysler will form a global partnership with Italian automaker Fiat. The government will provide additional financing, up to $8 billion, and help choose Chrysler's new directors.
The current chief executive, Robert Nardelli, said today he will step down after the company comes out of bankruptcy protection.
In the meantime, Chrysler will halt most production during the legal proceedings starting Monday, but it will continue to sell cars, and the government will back its warranties.
If and when Chrysler comes out of bankruptcy, the United Auto Workers' retiree health fund would have a majority stake in the company, 55 percent; Fiat would own up to 35 percent; the U.S. government, 8 percent; and the Canadian government, the final 2 percent.


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Which charge is more favorable?
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Which charge is more favorable?
Between these two drawings of Lewis Structures, would it be more favorable to draw the structure so that there is a -1 charge on 2 of the O's and a 0 formal charge on the central atom, S or would it be better for all the O's to have a FC of 0 and then S to have a charge of -2? I'm not sure if there is a rule about charges on the central atom.
Re: Which charge is more favorable?
I was told the goal is to have all the atoms with a charge between -2 and 2 (so only -1,0,1), so I think having a -1 charge on two atoms would be better than -2 on one.
Re: Which charge is more favorable?
Having multiple -1 charges are better than a single -2 charge.
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It has come time to choose lighting. I've been looking and looking and looking and looking for years. There are so many fabulous pieces available, how can I possibly select only a few? I've always wanted to go to the Blue Whale. For the last five years I've been dying to visit the Kenro Lighting showroom at the Pacific Design Center in Hollywood, revel in the high density heat from the gleaming modern fixtures and be dazzled but I could never justify taking an afternoon off work to do so. I managed to squeeze a few hours away from the office, excited to hit the show room only to discover that it had CLOSED "due to the economy". What a disappointment!
I bought a vintage 60's light at retro store Swank in Palm Springs last year and Lewis almost had a coronary when I made the purchase but I had to have it. Ok, the boutique owner had it in her house for years in the mid-west and she probably picked it up for a pittance at a garage sale and I paid retail price but what did it matter, I loved it! She found it, she had it and she even gave me a discount so that Lewis didn't pass out cold onto the shop floor.
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SOME DISCOUNT!! There is a retail price and then there is a retail price on stuff that has been picked up at estate auctions, garage sales, etc. They are obviously "one of kind pieces" because "they just don't make them anymore" so that the store owner with a shop catering to a shopping cliental of decorators and funky art collectors can mark them up 500%. This light brand new in the mid-to-late 60's was around $20, probably sold at a garage sale in the 80's for $25, thrown in the trash and picked up by some lady that put it up for sale for $300. WTF. No more shopping trips to Palm Springs. I can still find that stuff as well as shag carpet, velvet Jesus, Elvis and MLK pictures at work in South Central.


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The Freight swings like it's never swung before when the Esprit de Django et Stephane Festival sets the stage sizzling with three nights of music and three days of workshops inspired and influenced by the legendary European jazz band, Quintette du Hot Club de France. Fronted by gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt and virtuoso violinist Stephane Grappelli, the Paris-based combo revolutionized jazz in the 1930s and '40s by applying an irresistible, string-fueled propulsion to the more sedate big-band sound of the time. This weekend's festival showcases some modern heirs of Django's and Stephane's hot jazz sound.
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Warriors Of Light: A Final Fantasy Tribute
Nov 9, 2019 - 5:00 PM
Ongaku Overdrive is honored to bring you Warriors of Light, a Final Fantasy tribute with music, games, art, vendors, and cosplay.
What will be at Warriors of Light?
▪Musical acts performing their renditions of Final Fantasy and other Square music 🎵
▪Multiple video game setups 🎮
▪Video game tournaments with cash prizes 🕹
▪Artists, vendors, and exclusive event merch
▪A cosplay-friendly atmosphere
▪Final Fantasy-themed cocktails🍹
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