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Dropping out of high school not only impacts the dropout and his or her future, but can mean a loss of money for the entire county, according to information presented recently to the Anderson County Board of Education.
Dropping out of high school not only impacts the dropout and his or her future, but can mean a loss of money for the entire county, according to information presented recently to the Anderson County Board of Education.
School Board member Glenda Langenberg, of Oak Ridge, said she recently attended a state School Boards Association meeting where drop-out rates and their impacts were discussed.
"It got me to thinking about, where were we in Anderson County?" Langenberg said during the county School Board's recent meeting at the Robert Jolley County Administration Building.
"High school dropouts really are everyone's business," she said.
To determine the local impact of dropping out of high school, Langenberg said she enlisted the help of Karen Bridgeman, spokeswoman for Anderson County schools.
On Feb. 25, Bridgeman said she interviewed 234 of the 337 inmates at the Anderson County jail.
Bridgeman said her interviews with the inmates consisted of two questions: "Where did you go to high school?" and "Did you earn a diploma or GED?"
The results, which Bridgeman presented to the school board at its regular meeting Thursday night, show:
• One-third of the inmates -- about 115 -- said they attended Anderson County or Clinton high schools or The Learn Center, which houses the school system's alternative education programs.
• Nearly two-thirds of all the inmates interviewed on Feb. 25 said they dropped out of high school before they graduated, and fewer than half of those dropouts have a diploma or a GED.
According to a 2009 study by the Center for Labor Market Studies, the cost of dropping out of high school equals roughly $292,000 per dropout over a person's lifetime.
That cost is attributed to the fact that high school dropouts earn lower wages and make fewer contributions to local sales and property taxes, the study reports. High school dropouts also cost more in terms of welfare, healthcare and other services.
The CLMS study reports high school dropouts are three times more likely to be incarcerated than those who earn a high school diploma.
According to her interview results, Bridgeman said, of the 115 former Anderson County students who were inmates at the county jail on Feb. 25, the 76 inmates who dropped out of high school before earning their diplomas could potentially cost the county "a staggering" $22,192,000 over their lifetimes.
But, Anderson County officials are working to combat the issues that often result in students dropping out of high school.
School officials, along with District Attorney General David Clark and Juvenile Court Judge Brandon Fisher, are working together to ensure students stay in school.
They have implemented a number of "prevention programs" and plans that help struggling students, and it helps that "we have a DA and Juvenile Court judge whose expectation is graduation," said Leisa Fair, deputy director for School and Student Affairs.
The state Department of Education recently recognized Anderson County schools' efforts to prevent high school dropouts and improve the district's graduation rate.
Leean Tupper can be contacted at (865) 220-5501.


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Google Assistant is finally making its way to third-party smartphones after an exclusive period on Google's own Pixel devices. Two of the handsets first in line to get the feature are the OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T. Users simply have to update their Google apps to get started.
OnePlus confirmed support for the new virtual assistant on Twitter this week. Its official support account has been prompting users to install available app updates (particularly Google's), which will enable Google Assistant. The feature can then be used by holding down the home button. No software update is necessary.
Yay, the Google Assistant is now available on the #OnePlus3 and 3T. What's the weirdest thing you've asked your assistant? pic.twitter.com/IT4DiHNdPK— OnePlus (@oneplus) March 23, 2017
Once enabled, the Google Assistant will do everything you expect a modern assistant to do. You can use it to fetch information, find directions, make reservations, play your music, and lots, lots more. It has more capabilities than Google Now, and it's more conversational.
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Q and A with #storage blogger Chris Evans – Mr Storage ArchitectOctober 21, 2010
By Rose Ross, @Rose_at_O
We're delighted to now have our first interview with leading storage blogger. Chris will be at SNW Europe next week so be sure to send him a tweet or say Hi to him at #storagebeers or should I say #storagebiers in Frankfurt!
Q. Tell us a bit about you:
CE: I live in Bedfordshire with my wife and two children and for the last 23 something years I've worked in IT, mainly in independent roles. These days I spend my time consulting to large clients, which has tended to have a focus on the financial sector. This is mainly in the storage area but isn't exclusively storage-based. Outside of work I try to spend as much time as possible with my family, which usually finds me on the sidelines of football pitches for most of the weekend, watching my sons play. I'm keen on photography, cycling and of course as anyone who knows me will tell you, food too!
Q – Tell us a little bit about the blogs you write and their interest in data storage:
CE:My main blogging site is The Storage Architect (www.thestoragearchitect.com) although I have a new site at www.thevirtualisationarchitect.com that concentrates more on virtualisation and cloud issues. I like to write with the perspective of an IT architect, so you'll find me discussing the issues involved in delivering IT and storage as a service. I also do reviews from time to time and also post occasionally on more specific technical subjects.
Q – Are you a full-time blogger? If not give us an insight into the other parts of your working life.
CE: Unfortunately blogging is just a labour of love and something I do when time permits! I have a real day job consulting with my colleagues at Langton Blue (www.langtonblue.com). We try and look at IT issues from a business perspective and help clients solve their problems. This can be anything from optimising their storage environment to assisting in tenders for new products. I like dealing with many customers as it gives a wide range of perspectives on the industry; no one company does everything right.
Q – What's hot in IT storage this year?
CE:We've seen a large number of acquisitions as the larger vendors look to strengthen their storage portfolios. These have centered around delivering storage for utility computing, data reduction (e.g. De-dupe technologies) and of course meeting the needs of virtualisation. I expect in the next 12 months we'll see more around primary de-duplication and integrating cloud and on-premise storage solutions.
Q – How many storage events do you attend each year?
CE: In previous years not many, other than the UK's Storage Expo, which seems to have lost its way. However I have travelled extensively this year as part of vendor tech briefing days, including a trip to Japan, which was a great experience.
Q – Which one are you most looking forward to?
CE: n the coming year I'm looking to try some new events such as Microsoft's TechEd in order to get a different view of the market. I'm hoping to get to HP's Forum next year and possibly VMworld and of course I will be attending SNW Europe next week.
Q. -What types of stories or companies are likely to attract your attention this year?
CE: I'm interested to see how infrastructure is converging and how that will have an effect on the way we view technology delivery. We're moving away from a silo'ed approach where the Network/Storage/Server teams had little interaction into a scenario where IT professionals need to have a wide range of knowledge. I'm also keen to see what solutions will be developed to implement IT on a large scale as required to deliver Cloud Computing.
Q. How many interviews do you do per week?
CE: Perhaps 2-3 a week, depending on how announcements come out. These are almost exclusively 'phone calls as most IT companies are based in the US. It can mean some are at slightly unsociable hours!
Q – What's the best way to pitch a story to you? Email? Phone? Twitter? By mail?
CE: Email and Twitter are probably best as I can't always guarantee to answer 'phone calls if I'm on customer sites. Mail is way to slow to bother with! You can always mail me (email@example.com) or contact me on Twitter – @chrismevans.
Q – What is your favourite piece of technology?
CE: I think it would have to be my iPhone. I've been a big fan of electronic organisers for many years, including the great Psion devices. The iPhone provides everything in a single place, so I don't need multiple devices to listen to music, browse the web and take notes. I can also ensure anything I need to access is synchonised automatically because of the "always on" nature of the phone. The App Store was a piece of genius thinking from Apple as it essentially extends what was otherwise a static device into something that can offer more and more every day. I'd like a longer battery life on my iPhone as a full charge sometimes doesn't last the day!
Q -What do you think is the most important development in IT storage to date?
CE: hat's a tricky question as it would be easy to pick a few recent developments as examples. However, I started on the mainframe platform so many of the things we see today aren't new. Without a doubt we wouldn't be here today without the disk drive and more specifically the packaging of the 3.5" drive that has become ubiquitous today. I do admire the scentists who can manage to squeeze more and more capacity into the same form factor by inventing new recording techniques. RAID also played a massive part in improving reliability and availability of data. There are many more amazing developments that are too numerous to mention here.
Q – What is the best piece of advice for companies pitching stories?
CE: I expect to see something real and quantifiable in a story. I'm not interested in seling successes, but much more in seeing how companies have innovated and produced unique and real ideas that are game changers. I'm always interesting in reading about those.
Q – What was the best press trip you've ever been on? Why was it so great? Any tips for PRs planning trips/events for bloggers?
CE: Without doubt it has to be this year's trip to Japan with Hitachi/HDS. It was amazing to experience such a different culture to that in the west. The local team were so organised in ensuring we got from one event to another in typically efficient Japanese fashion, but at the same time we had a chance to experience some great restaurants and engage with senior execs at Hitachi. I think PRs should be making an effort to get a good balance between the formal and informal parts of the event and get execs accessible to the bloggers. The best discussions occur in the restaurants and bars after the formal presentations.
Q- What's your favourite restaurant?
CE: don't really have a particular favourite as I love to try new places all the time, however as a family we find ourselves regularly at Pizza Express and Loch Fyne to get our pizza and seafood fixes! Fortunately, living just outside London gives is plenty of choice and on a recent trip to Barcelona I was able to indulge in some great paella.
Q – Are you a social media lover? Which ones are you on? FB? LinkedIn? Twitter?
CE: Absolutely I'm a fan (and I guess I'd have to say that anyway) but it is true. Social media has done many things; it's opened up the world for people to communicate and share with friends and family in a way they never could before. It has changed the way IT vendors approach customers and made them be more responsive and open, which provides great value to the end user.
Q- Tell us something no-one knows about you? Do you have any unusual or unexpected hobbies/interests? Do you have a claim to fame?
CE: Unfortunately I don't have any peculiar talents, however in the internet boom I co-founded a company selling music online before Apple released their iTunes store. In fact we sold customised CDs first, as the way to get just the tracks you wanted then moved into digital downloads but we were too far ahead of the market and couldn't get access to decent music content.
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In the Spring When Kings Go Out to War
According to the Hebrew calendar Rosh haShanna or Yom Teruah begins the New Year 5777. Using the Pythagorean skein mathematical system we see that the numbers 5+7+7+7=26 which we reduce further by adding 2+6 to equal the single digit number of 8. The number 8 means "new beginnings".
As we enter this year of "new beginnings" YHVH is releasing His Word to His set apart ones that "In Worship we will find our strength to stand in the day of battle!" His Word, (as I heard it) is being accompanied by the sound of marching as to war with vibrant, strong harp music. There is nothing melancholy about this New Year, 5777!
Now is the time to "cut away", "cut off" and "cut through". YHVH will arm us with His spiritual sword to cut away, cut off and cut through those things outside of His will in our lives. (Prophetic word given at River of Life fellowship in Lucedale, MS, by Mark and Tammy McLendon, Yom Teruah, 2016)
As we look at the state of the world today it seems that there is war and/or the threat of war everywhere we turn. How are we supposed to respond? Do we run and hide? Do we stand and fight? Do we tremble in fear? Do we ignore and hope it all goes away? Do we pretend that all things will continue as they have been?
I believe we will find the answer to our conundrum in the story of King Jehoshaphat from 2Chronicles 20:1-30. The Moabites and Ammonites are coming against Jehoshaphat, king of Judah for battle; a great multitude is coming and they are already at Engedi, which is within the territory of Judah.
Jehoshaphat is afraid, but he sets his face to seek YHVH, and proclaims a fast throughout all Judah. And Judah assembles to seek help from YHVH; from all the cities of Judah they come to seek YHVH.
Jehoshaphat stands in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of YHVH, before the new court, and says, "O YHVH, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you. Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend? And they have lived in it and have built for you in it a sanctuary for your name, saying, 'If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and before you—for your name is in this house—and cry out to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.' And now behold, the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, and whom they avoided and did not destroy—behold, they reward us by coming to drive us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you."
Scripture tells us that all Judah is standing before YHVH, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
And the Spirit of YHVH came upon Jahaziel, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly. And he said, "Listen, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat: Thus says YHVH to you, 'Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed at this great horde, for the battle is not yours but God's. Tomorrow go down against them. You will not need to fight in this battle. Stand firm, hold your position, and see the salvation of YHVH on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.' Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them, and YHVH will be with you."
Then Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before YHVH, worshiping YHVH. And the Levites stood up to praise YHVH, the God of Israel, with a very loud voice.
The story concludes with this counsel of King Jehoshaphat; "Hear me, Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in YHVH your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you will succeed."
Jehoshaphat appointed those who were to sing to YHVH and praise him in holy attire, as they went before the army, and say, "Give thanks to YHVH, for his steadfast love endures forever." And when they began to sing and praise, YHVH set an ambush against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed. And all the people of Judah saw when they came to the watchtower of the wilderness were dead bodies lying on the ground; for none had escaped.
They were three days in taking the spoil, it was so much. On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Beracah, for there they blessed YHVH. Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat at their head, returning to Jerusalem with joy, for YHVH had made them rejoice over their enemies.
The Proposal: An Esther fast for three days — beginning at sundown on the 5th of November and ending at sundown on the 8th of November.
The enemy is in the land. The question is: Will the enemy be successful in its efforts to kill, steal and destroy or will YHVH's people, who are called by His Name rise up and chose life and that in abundance? (John 10:10)
Every hour for the 72 hour period of time on Facebook/FLASHPrayer and on Twitter @Americas7000 there will be posted a scripture to pray regarding this battle for the hearts and minds of human kind along with relevant issues. Please take three (3) minutes every hour as you are able to pray fervent and effective prayer concerning these posts.
If you have a prayer need to include in this 72 hour Esther fast please go to: www.GodsPowerLines.com/media and fill out the form with your request. (Please note that I can't promise that every request will be included.)
We have a GREAT NEED! Let us make sure we get a GREAT CURRENT flowing so that we will have GREAT POWER available to address the needs of this time in our world's history.
1Corinthians 4:20, God's kingdom isn't just a lot of words. It is power!
It is my opinion that if we ignore this and other calls to prayer we will become engaged in a "war" and not on some other country's shores, but on our own. Are we going to embrace a "reprieve" from judgment that YHVH may be giving us or are we going to blaze full speed ahead into destruction? It's our choice and how we chose will determine whether the kings go out to battle or not…
1Chronicles 20:1, "In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle…"


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Business awards: Week of Sept. 7
■ Kentucky Highlands Investment Corp. has announced the first six recipients of loans from the SOAR Small Production Loan Fund, which helps small producers grow healthy, nutritional foods they can move into commercial production.
Recipients of loans of $7,500 each are:
J&J Farm Produce Market: Founded in 2010 by Julian Turpin as a roadside fruit stand near Somerset, J&J Farm Produce Market & Deli sells Kentucky Proud organic vegetables, fruit and other produce grown by the owner on his 55-acre farm in Lincoln County and by the neighboring Amish community. J&J Farm Produce also supplies produce to supermarkets in Pulaski County. The SOAR Production Loan provided J&J Farm Produce with financing to buy coolers and a cargo trailer to transport produce.
Maggie and Will Bowling: The couple grow organic vegetables, herbs, fruits and cut flowers on their 55-acre farm near Oneida in Clay County. Products are sold in markets in Manchester and Hazard to food services, including Manchester Memorial Hospital, and area restaurants including Thersey's in Manchester. Produce may be ordered directly through the Old Homeplace Farm website, Oldhomeplacefarm.com. In addition, Maggie Bowling previously was Grow Appalachia site coordinator at Pine Mountain Settlement in Bell County. The SOAR Production Loan Fund allowed the Bowlings to purchase a new 30-foot by 96-foot-high tunnel greenhouse to help extend their growing season to 10 months.
Melanie Gross: Gross and her husband have been involved with organic farming and Grow Appalachia for several years. With the SOAR Production Farm Loan, the Grosses will buy several beehives and bees to expand their honey operation in southern Laurel County and construct a high tunnel greenhouse to extend the growing season for various vegetables.
John Stanley and Heather Lundy: Moving to the Bybee area of rural Madison County from Nova Scotia in early 2014, Stanley and Lundy continued the organic farming efforts they had begun seven years earlier. They've started a Community Supported Agriculture program and began to sell their products at the farmers market in Berea. Their 11-acre farm includes 11 2,500-square-foot plots growing a variety of produce, two high tunnels constructed by Grow Appalachia, free-range chickens for eggs, and a number of herbs. With the working capital loan from the SOAR Production Farm Loan Fund, the two will extend their farm practices that conserve and build soil health, expand produce operation, add more laying hens and grow their CSA for next year.
Terry and Mildred Simpson: Lifelong residents of Wayne County, the Simpsons took over operation of the family farm on which Terry grew up in the early 1980s. Included in their diverse farm operations, the couple have operated a certified Kentucky Proud roadside market near their home for 15 years to sell produce and flowers. The SOAR Production Farm Loan will be used to buy a "cool room" to maintain fresher product during the floral and vegetable season and to buy a mulch film lifter to remove and conserve the plastic mulch film from the ground at the end of each growing season.
Fox Brothers Farms: Retired teachers Donnie and Daniel Fox have been growing three to four acres of produce in the Canadatown community of rural Whitley County for more than 10 years. The brothers focus on corn, watermelons, beans and tomatoes. Their products are sold through the two Whitley County farmers markets, at their roadside produce stand and by direct sales. With the SOAR Production Farm Loan, Fox Brothers Farms will clear land for added production, buy additional equipment and fence the area around their gardens to prevent loss from deer and raccoons.
Kentucky Highlands Investment Corporation and Grow Appalachia created the low-interest loan fund this summer for small farmers in the 54-county SOAR region of Eastern and southern Kentucky. The fund was established with support from a $200,000 grant through the Governor's Office of Agricultural Policy.
For more information on the loan program, go to Soarfarmloans.org.
■ Nancy Swigert, director of speech-language pathology and respiratory care at Baptist Health Lexington, will receive Honors of the Association, the highest award given by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, at the organization's fall meeting in November.
Swigert has served the association in many roles, including president and vice president of government and social policies. She has been in her current role at Baptist Health Lexington since 2007 and has represented speech-language professionals on a Medicare advisory panel to guide how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recognizes and reimburses speech services.
■ Jacqueline Smith, epidemiology section chief for the University of Kentucky Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, has received an honorary diploma from the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society.
According to Craig Carter, director of the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and executive director and president-elect of the epidemiology society, Smith has revolutionized the way the lab uses large volumes of diagnostic testing data to delineate current animal health trends.
"Jacqueline has played a key role in our ability to provide early detection of animal disease outbreaks via a custom-developed mathematical disease cluster detection system," he said.
Smith received a bachelor's degree in agriculture from Berea College before moving to Madison, Wis., to complete a master's in dairy science in 2001. She joined the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory's epidemiology group as a research analyst in 2006 while earning a doctorate in animal science from UK with a strong focus on epidemiology, graduating in 2012. She has served as the epidemiology section chief since 2008.
■ Sidney Ratliff of Danville, Kathy Sink and Cindy Nabar of Lexington, and Nathan Truesdell of Lawrenceburg have been named 2015 Local Food Heroes.
"These Local Food Heroes were selected by their fellow Kentuckians for their hard work and their dedication to the mission of producing fresh, nutritious foods for their customers to enjoy," state Agriculture Commissioner James Comer said.
Sink and Nabar produce tomato plants. Truesdell is a produce grower who operates Circle T Farms. Ratliff owns Mozybeau Farms, a producer of heirloom seeds and vegetables.
The Local Food Heroes awards are a partnership of the state Department of Agriculture, Seed Capital KY and Louisville Metro. The awards are sponsored by Farm Credit Mid-America.
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BioAmber files for a voluntary petition for relief under chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code and it's two Canadian subsidiaries, BioAmber Sarnia Inc. and BioAmber Canada Inc. file for a Notice of Intention to make a proposal under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act.
The company has one of the largest succinic acid production facility's in the world in Sarnia, Ontario that opened in the spring of 2015, employing roughly 60 people. Their mission was to be a fast-growing producer of chemical intermediates that uses sugars instead of fossil fuels and sell competitively priced, sustainable chemicals with strong profit margins to have the cleanest environmental footprint in the industry.
Appearing to have been riding the edge of the knife for the past several years, recently losing their founding president and being delisted from the Toronto and New York Stock Exchange, it has been a trying time for this Canadian company.
They lost buckets of money back in 2013, but investors kept on coming regardless. Still rolling with the punches, BioAmber believes that filing for these procedures will be in the best interest of the stakeholders and will best facilitate its efforts to renegotiate its debt and raise the funds needed to continue operation.
"This process will provide BioAmber with the time and stability to restructure its finances," says Richard Eno, chief executive officer of BioAmber. "This restructuring, combined with the significantly improved cost structure we anticipate, will position BioAmber to emerge as a much stronger company which will be better positioned to meet the growing global demand we see for our product."
There can be no guarantee that the company will be successful in securing further financing or achieving its restructuring objectives. Failure by the company to achieve its financing and restructuring goals will likely result in the company and/or its subsidiaries being forced to cease operations and liquidate its assets.


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A previous version of this report said Icahn added to Herbalife stake. It has been corrected.
Activist investor Carl Icahn went mostly on a selling spree, reducing or eliminating positions in his portfolio, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing late Monday. Icahn eliminated his stakes in Gannett Co. GCI, +1.28%, Hologic Inc. HOLX, -1.28%, Mentor Graphics Corp. ment, and Tegna Inc. TGNA, -2.08% Also, the filing confirmed that Icahn had unloaded his last 4.8 million shares of Apple Inc. AAPL, +0.00%. Icahn added to his current position in Xerox Corp. XRX, -0.99%


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Friday night's concert was both a return visit from very special friends in the neighborhood, as well as a first-time event. Duke Performances presented internationally renowned musicians and Durham residents, Branford Marsalis and Joey Calderazzo on the stage of Baldwin Auditorium on what is probably the shortest distance these two legends would ever travel from their home to a gig. While both have appeared at Duke several times before, those appearances were usually as part of a quartet. Tonight was a rare opportunity to hear the extraordinary artistry of pianist Calderazzo and Marsalis on both tenor and soprano saxophones without the usual addition of drums and bass.
This indeed had the feel of just a very large homecoming as both musicians recognized numerous people they knew in the audience and Marsalis even took some good-natured shots at his wife and daughter sitting in the first row. The nearly full house was immediately put at ease and any celebrity vs. audience pretense was quickly dispelled and settled into a symbiotic exchange of the love of great music.
I did have a problem with the placement of the Steinway concert grand piano. It was nearly to the edge of stage right, perhaps where it would have been if this were a big band playing. So for most of the concert almost all of the left half of the stage was unused. There was also a constant electrical buzzing that in the ballads became like a third droning instrument.
These guys have a long history together and their onstage camaraderie and telepathic musical connection was a joy to behold, in addition to the marvel of their playing. After some initial comments and interaction with the hometown crowd, they launched into a rhythmically jagged and up-tempo tune that somehow straddled both classic New Orleans style and funk. The name was not announced, but for anyone who may have been trying this for the first time, their minds should have been immediately blown. I imagine that many came because of the undeniable celebrity of the Marsalis name and perhaps had never heard of or heard Calderazzo. Having heard him several times before, I will testify and shout out that here is a jazz pianist that belongs with the names Tatum, Powell, Peterson, Corea and any others. He played the entire concert without a break (unlike with a quartet) and every moment his playing was filled with inventiveness, creative turns that were unique and personal, and unimaginable technique that bordered on trickery – especially since I was not sitting on the very narrow keyboard side!
It turned out that nearly all of the tunes played were from their 2011 album Songs of Mirth and Melancholy, a CD that I strongly recommend. Knowing how to effectively program a show and gauge the ebb and flow of an audience's attention span, they alternated up tempo tunes that dazzled us with speed and dexterity with sensitively crafted ballads. Except for a blazingly fast rendition of George Gershwin's "Liza," the program was about evenly split into original compositions of Marsalis and Calderazzo. Between each number were wonderful stories about their friendship, recording sessions, composing techniques, family, and other assorted topics. It was done in a natural and genuine manner that added to the communal and unpretentious feeling of the concert.
Probably the most moving and spectacularly beautiful performance of the concert was "Hope," a work written by Calderazzo in memory of Michael Brecker. If you think these guys are solely machines running up and down scales at warp speed, you will be proven wrong as you listen to their tear-inducing playing in this, as well as other ballads. Shades of Chopin and Debussy in the piano colored the plaintive and heart-tugging phrasing of Marsalis' horn. They held the audience in an almost hypnotic trance. Then, just as quickly as if to say "snap out of it," it was again party time with a samba beat.
Marsalis revealed the breadth of his influences as he described the harmonic influence in Sergei Prokofiev's opera The Gambler in writing "The Bard Lachrymose," an enchanting and multi-faceted work. Towards the end of the evening, he told the story of being quasi-forced to compose a piece for his wife since all his musician friends were doing the same. He and Calderazzo played the result of that; "Eternal," an ethereal, sultry composition that reminded me a bit of John Coltrane's "After the Rain." (Not afraid to say that since he freely admitted to often stealing ideas – please don't sue me!)
While listening to these musicians, who are as good as anyone ever on their instruments, I couldn't help comparing this performance with one of the many, many "classical" piano-plus-soloist concerts I've heard in this very hall. There was simply an unbounded joy, naturalness and ease here that I find missing in most other genres of music. They were having a blast and were certainly not afraid to show it. Not that being staid and serious is necessarily bad, just that this was a most delicious difference.


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During the month of February and March we prioritised the teaching of Dance - Creative and Folk. This tied in nicely with our Céilí for Seachtain na Gaeilge! Here are some pictures of Junior Infants making a mirror dance with their partners!
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I've Heard This One Way Too Many Times And So Must Have You, Or, The Curse Of Knowledge
In their book Made To Stick, Chip and Dan Heath talk about a concept called the "Curse of Knowledge." Here's how they explain it:
"In 1990, Elizabeth Newton earned a Ph.D. in psychology at Stanford by studying a simple game in which she assigned people to one of two roles: 'tappers' or 'listeners.' Tappers received a list of twenty-five well-known songs, such as 'Happy Birthday to You' and 'The Star-Spangled Banner.' Each tapper was asked to pick a song and tap out the rhythm to a listener (by knocking on a table). The listener's job was to guess the song, based on the rhythm being tapped...
"...Over the course of Newton's experiment, 120 songs were tapped out. Listeners guessed only 2.5 percent of the songs: 3 out of 120.
"But here's what made the result worthy of a dissertation in psychology. Before the listeners guessed the name of the song, Newton asked the tappers to predict the odds that the listeners would guess correctly. They predicted that the odds were 50 percent.
"The tappers go their message across 1 time in 40, but they thought they were getting their message across 1 time in 2. Why?
"When a tapper taps, she is hearing the song in her head....Meanwhile, the listeners can't hear that tune - all they can hear is a bunch of disconnected taps, like a kind of bizarre Morse Code.
"In the experiment, tappers are flabbergasted at how hard the listeners seem to be working to pick up the tune. Isn't the song obvious?
"...The problem is that tappers have been given knowledge (the song title) that makes it impossible for them to imagine what it's like to lack that knowledge.
I find myself reflecting on this idea that I have been "cursed" with more knowledge than those that I'm trying to communicate ideas to fairly often. Whether I'm leading a team at work or speaking at church, I've rehearsed ideas in my head and spent countless hours working through my thoughts in detail. When it comes time to present them to others, I often forget that they are still at square 1 and haven't been walking through the process for weeks like I have. It's my responsibility to take them through the process to get them to where I am.
It's really easy to present things in a way that I think is clear while at the same time leaving out key details and making assumptions about what my audience already knows. I think I see this most clearly when I use an illustration or "cliché" that I almost decide to leave out because I am so tired of hearing it. I say it simply because it does a good job of making the point, even though I know everyone in the audience must be rolling their eyes at me. Invariably though, someone is impacted by it and tells me that they'd never heard that before, or never thought of things in that way. It's usually those things that seem to affect people the most.


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About the Irish Pole Dance Academy:
Our mission: To create a supportive, welcoming and fun environment where your needs and goals as an individual are recognized and supported. A place where creativity and expression are met with encouragement and the support of a greater community. We want to help you to gain strength and confidence and to become the best possible version of yourself, both physically and mentally. We want you to experience empowerment, passion and positivity in each and every class, and to take this with you outside of the studio to positively impact and improve the world at large.
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Arlene – Founder / Pole Dance Expert
Arlene is an 'old school' pole dance legend and is the heart and soul behind the Irish Pole Dance Academy. When Arlene started taking pole fitness classes (with her mum) as a keep-fit hobby back in 2006, she was a quiet, reserved graphic designer with no fitness, no strength or flexibility, and then went on to become the first ever Miss Pole Dance Ireland in 2007, and has won many titles since. She never set out to become one of Ireland's leading pole dance experts and champions, it just sort of happened organically! Arlene has traveled the world to compete, perform, teach and develop pole dancing into the art form that it is today. When not training on the pole, Arlene loves drinking tea, spending time with her cat Ollie, listening to rock 'n' roll music and Burlesque. She also works part-time as business coach helping fellow fitness entrepreneurs get their business on track!
Follow Arlene on instagram @arlenecaffrey
Jillian – Pole Dance Expert / Instructor
Jillian started poling in June 2011 and has been hooked ever since. Jillian loves to share her passion for pole dance and education with others; she completed the XPERT Pole Fitness instructor training in 2013 and this combined with her own experiences as a language teacher has laid important foundations for her journey as a true Pole professional. Jillian's goals as an instructor are to help empower others to feel as good as they can in their own bodies and to help our students to overcome challenges, experience triumphs and see improvements at each step of their pole dance journey. Jillian is certainly best qualified to do this as pole dance has helped her to not only get her body back after having her son, but also to help her maintain her sense of self when walking away from an emotionally abusive partner. Jillian is also an avid reader, loves to travel and loves to challenge the status quo with some feministin'.
Leanne – Pole Dance Expert / Instructor
Leanne took up pole dancing in 2010, initially as a way to have a bit of random fitness fun as well as doing something for herself, by herself. She says that pole dancing has really changed her life; before she took it up she was incredibly unhealthy and extremely underweight. All of that has changed, and on the way she has met many incredible people, and learnt a lot about herself and others. She hopes it can do amazing things for you too and she looks forward to helping you achieve that at IPDA! Leanne has also won her fair share of competitions, including Pole Theatre Ireland 2015 Drama Category Winner and All Ireland Pole Dance Champion 2015 Leanne also love to read and watch films, she is a self-professed nerd! You can catch Leanne performing as a contortionist all over Dublin city.


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An unapologetically rowdy all-female rock band from the Pacific Northwest, Thunderpussy are a loud and proud quartet whose music combines a heavy dose of indie rock smarts and arena rock bombast with a dash of humor and plenty of showmanship. Thunderpussy were formed in Seattle, Washington in late 2013 by vocalist Molly Sides (formerly of This Bitch Don't Fall Off), guitarist Whitney Petty (a veteran of the Grizzled Mighty), Leah Julius (ex-Cumulus and Sundries), and drummer Lena Simon(also a member of La Luz and Kairos). It didn't take long for Thunderpussy to earn a reputation on the Seattle music scene -- their second gig ever was reviewed by an local online music magazine that called it the best show of the year. The band continued to play out regularly in the Pacific Northwest, and in 2016 Ruby Dunphy joined the band after the departure of drummer Simon.
In September 2016, Thunderpussy began work on their first album, with producer Sylvia Massy at the controls. As the group members pondered offers from several labels, they were approached by Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, who invited the band to cut a 7" for his HockeyTalkter Records imprint. The single, "Velvet Noose" b/w "No Heaven," featured guest guitar work from McCready, and the endorsement from one of the major figures on Seattle's music scene helped spread the word about the group outside the Pacific Northwest. In late 2017, Thunderpussy struck a deal with the Universal-distributed Stardog label, and the label issued a seasonal single before the year was out, a suitably rockin' cover of "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)." In February 2018, Stardog dropped a four-song EP from Thunderpussy, Greatest Tits, featuring tunes that had previously been released as digital singles.
Grease is more than a word to the members of Max Pain and the Groovies, it's a lifestyle. Living greasy started for the quintet back in their old stomping grounds of Salt Lake City, Utah. The band would get together as teens to skate, chase girls, and stumble their way through learning instruments in the hopes of one day spending their lives touring, traveling, and skating together. Eventually they'd grow into spending their nights chugging beer, hosting house shows and wrestling matches in their garage, all while honing in on the psychedelic, garage sound that would define Max Pain and the Groovies. They even named their 2016 sophomore album Ancient Grease.
Shane Preece (guitar), Kallan Campbell (bass), David Johnson (vocals/keys), Troy Coughlin (drums), and Dallin Smith (guitar) make up the raw, skateboarding fivesome that now calls New York City their home. Over the years, Max Pain accomplished a majority of their creative goals from their home state of Utah. They started to spend a number of months out of the year touring, while being one of the buzziest bands in all of Salt Lake. Their hometown success had seemingly reached its peak.
On one fateful national tour, the group broke down in Bushwick, Brooklyn. As they watched their bus set aflame, they thought, well this is it, better look for jobs and apartments in Brooklyn. Even though the bus eventually started back up and the group set back out on the road to home, New York was heavy on their minds. Shortly after that they packed up and moved everything, two of the guys on their motorcycles and the rest crammed in their tour bus.
Once the band collectively moved to Brooklyn, they immediately started booking shows and setting roots in their new home. To this day, all five of the members call their band house home. They jam together in the basement, run a screen printing company out of their backyard, and work on their motorcycles out front on the street.
The sense of togetherness runs deep in Max Pain and the Groovies. If anything, their upcoming EP will be a testament to the growth each of them has done individually and the growth they have undergone as a unit.
We spent the day with Max Pain to get the inside scoop on their new music and what's up with their many side projects and interests. We also picked up beer at their local bodega to find out who would drink the warm beer in the keg out back. No surprise to us, it was David.
(courtesy of Alexandra Graber and Pond Magazine)
Jonathan Phillips, Dylan Palmer, Terry Kane and Reid Cummings are fairly normal dudes that met as students at the University of Tennessee. Since forming Faux Ferocious, the Nashville-based psychedelic blues punks have released music via Burger, Infinity Cat, and Striped Light. Last year's Cloning the Rubicon was a muggy collection of spellbinding, brain-liquefying recordings likely tracked in a pay-by-the-hour motel room on Murfreesboro Pike; warm, dosed Icehouse in one hand, cheap guitar in the other. Hairy hypnotic rock 'n' roll that will still slap you into a pause. The best kind.
(Courtesy of Joseph Coakley from Aquarium Drunkard)
Fever Beam played their first show in June of 2018 and since then have been on a role. Their charismatic and high energy shows have had them playing all over Florida and opening for acts like Dex Romweber, and Sarah Shook & The Disarmers. Kasey's twangy guitar melodies and powerhouse singing matched with Dane and Sam's infectious rhythms and vocal harmonies have quickly gained Fever Beam a heavy following as well as Tampa Bay Times and Creative Loafing consistently citing them as "the best new band to come out of Tampa Bay."
Fever Beam is set to soon release their first single recorded by The Woolybushmen's own Simon Palombi as well as an EP and 2019 will see them touring across the states.
A bleeding heart, rainbow fueled, passionate nightingale has taken a form that is Geexella.
" I like to call myself an intersectional hip-pop artist. The things that makes me geexella are being queer, black, and Latina; the qualities that aren't only parts of me, but what drives me the most. I'd like to bring that out in the music I create and when I perform."
Bred in Maryland whilst raised in the sunshine state, geexella has influences varies from southern hip-pop to bachata which derives from her family. This afro-latina has generated a new sound with a fusion in her roots. A sound not only invigorate the soul, stimulates the mind but also embodies who she is. And who is she? a person that wants to change the world through her harmonies. But she doesn't stop there. geexella is involved in Girls Rock Camp Jacksonville for over three years, it is an organization that cultivates self-empowerment and positive identity development in girls and trans-youth. She believes in personal freedom, and often spoke for the misunderstood that felt alone in this deep vast universe we call home.
It hasn't been always smooth sailing in the life of geexella either. She is the living product of her battle scars and she is proud of it. She survived an almost disastrous collision which caused her car to flip three times, and climbed out physically unscathed. But the blood inside her was boiling, as she has been granted a new life by the grace of God. Geexella has dropped her first EP "gee things." Altering the world one microphone at a time.
The Young Step hail from St. Augustine, Florida. Their sound is as obscure and mysterious as the northeast Florida swampland, with subtle impressions of David Bowie, David Byrne, The Doors, Roxy Music, and T-Rex, blended with New Wave quirkiness a'la Devo and the B-52s, and including a sort of 'Rock N' Roll Spiritual' aspect only the lovechild of Alan Watts and Janis Joplin would understand. It's a funky-sexy-quirky mind-trip.
In a little more than a year as a band, the Jacksonville-based Garage Surf trio The Mother Gooses has already recorded two EPs, while building a dedicated local following with the ragged, unhinged energy of their live shows. Produced by Dan Brown (Royal Trux, 68 Comeback, The Screws), both 4-track EPs, Aug. 2016's "I Want You" and Nov. 2016's "My Baby Left me by the Sea..." present a sound heavily influenced by the music of mid twentieth century California surf culture and primitive 60s Garage compilations like "Back From the Grave," as well as the revivalists of subsequent decades like The Cramps, The Gories, and Thee Oh Sees. The group just began work on its first LP, anticipating an early 2018 release.
Shantih Shantih is a four-piece rock n' roll band from Atlanta, Georgia playing fuzzed out melodies and mesmerizing beats. Anna Barattin (ex-Vermillion Sands / Trouble in Mind & Fat Possum, and now an Atlantan by way of Italy) delivers distinctive vocals over threefold backing vocal harmonies.
"L.O.V.E." is the acronym for "league of vibrant energies" and "culture" is used to bring everything from their respects of each other to their tailored talents. "We all just bring this certain type of element to the table and we help each other grow," Flash said. Per Cheech, they all met at a show setting being on the same bill. She reflected on seeing them each perform, and after that evening, she wondered what it would be like if they collectively came together. That curiosity turned into reality, and it eventually spawned their collaboration album titled Fluidity. The 12-track album, available on SoundCloud, was originally supposed to be a project masterminded for Rob, but after some time, it turned into a joint effort. "It was supposed to be just features but we restructured it," Rob said about the record.
For the group to have just started this year in February, they've had the pleasure of presenting themselves on various Jacksonville stages — even hosting their own summer tour, which placed them in various cities around the state like Orlando and St. Augustine. "We even rocked a coffeehouse bruh," said each of them excitedly. In late July this year, they also had the opportunity to be the special guests at OG Thursdays, putting on an extraordinary performance. To top it off, when they all did their own solo songs, you could feel the room gravitate more towards them as a unit, and definitely on an individual level.
(Courtesy of Mr. Al Pete from Void Magazine)
A freaky '60's inspired space-rock band out of Tampa, Florida, The Venus consists of brothers Alexander and Phillip Charos, Jackson Davis, Jeremy Trevino, and Dylan Gunn. They have just released their long awaited LP, a flow of songs initially intended as demos but quickly recognized as a beautiful mess of a debut.
{'It was nice to do something that was just about having fun," Charos said of The Venus, which got a lot of its inspiration from old sci-fi movies and surf-guitar records. Everything was recorded quick and dirty just so Charos could listen back to ideas immediately, and that made mixing the record a nightmare so intimidating that it led him to avoid the album completely.
"It really tested my sanity as an engineer," Charos, who runs Yoko Phono studio in St. Petersburg, added. "I would mix the album then be unhappy and mix it again, and again and again." } -Courtesy of Ray Roa from Creative Loafing
Their live shows are all at once mesmerizing and envigorating. They create a stereo image of guitar riffs and weirdness, vocal yips and yaps accompanied with driving bass and drums which all together makes time disappear and transports you to a place between here and there. Heavier than your average surf-rock, but less than doom, The Venus are an exciting band to let your mind loose on.
For a band that's been together for less than a year, Northeast Florida rock n' roll quartet 9E has already made a substantial bit of noise, bringing its raucous live show to venues across the region and perking the ears of riff-heavy rock enthusiasts with its own moody, atmospheric take on the classic bass-drums-guitar lineup. Blending an apt rhythm section—compliments of Brent Knoechel and Don Nicol (formerly of popular local act Strange Friend)—with the synergy of the decades-long musical partnership between Darkhorse Saloon guitarist Jason Hoey and Beach's Renaissance man Tony Prat (a relationship that spans something like a half dozen groups, including the ahead-of-its-time duo Cobain's Brains), 9E is a relative North Florida supergroup, if there ever was one.
(Courtesy of Matt Shaw from Void Magazine)
Dust Fuss, led by Taylor Olin, hail from St. Augustine Florida and make punky country blues style tunes. They are on the brink of an EP so stay tuned and make sure not to miss their live show!
"We all share reverence for bands like The Mummies, Supercharger, Reigning Sound, Mr. T Experience, The Nerves, The Exploding Hearts," Ghose says of how Mercy Mercy derived its genuinely unpretentious sound. "The spirit of that type of garage rock was built on people that just want to play music."
Over the course of just a few months playing together, Mercy Mercy has already put together a handful of raucous, lo-fi tracks. Using just a Tascam Portastudio 424, Mercy Mercy recorded everything live, with just two mics on the drums and two mics on the guitars.
"It was cheap and easy," Ghose says of the decision to use such a rudimentary recording set up. "It's like the Ramones showed us all, anyone can play rock and roll. The Portastudio enabled us to document those efforts, for better or worse."
(Courtesy of Matt Shaw from Void)
"New Age Soul. With his band of merry men, the "Cheap Suits", Goth New Wave meets Rock, Funk and Soul. Set to release the album, "Magic Beach Motel", February 22nd, 2019, check out this new indie up and comer.
Hello Shark's Lincoln Halloran has the knack for making the most crushing verses feel heartwarming, simply because his eloquent expression raises the awareness that another human has experienced a similar feeling.
Hello Shark began when a teenage Halloran moved from his home of Massachusetts to Vermont in 2006. He quickly recorded an amateur but heartfelt debut called Book Lungs and began touring the Northeast, slowly building a community web that would stretch to include Owen Ashworth (of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and Advance Base), Rochester's Attic Abasement, and the members of Brooklyn collective the Epoch.
The Jackettes are not so much a band as they are an attempt to give form to the passion felt for the music that we have come to know and love in our human existence. Like a child trying on their father's too-big suit and tie or a group of toddlers shoulder-stacked under a baggy trench coat– we are youthfully attempting to carry the glimmering torch of our musical ancestors. This is an effort to give the world her next "classic sound." We love it all: from the tender ballads of the Great American Songbook, to the unpredictable antics of a swinging 70's r&b diva mythical and real….and we feel a strong obligation and connection to those of the yester-world to make music with those same characteristics. A sound that transcends being accepted and understood. We are humans struggling under the weight of living and dying. We are made by a great creator trying to be as creative. So it goes. The music we create embodies the out of touch, out of sync, misunderstood hysterical breakdown of simply living- to unite us.


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When summer is spoiling us with hardly bearable heat, a glass of crisp cold beer often comes to the rescue. Deeply rooted in the Belgian culture, beer commonly seems to evoke a rather traditionalist opinion about it. Once a Belgian picks a brand, there's a high chance they're going to stick with it for many years ahead. But there are people that aren't afraid of experimenting. Those are the people that run Brussels Beer Project.
Brussels Beer Project is the fruit of Olivier de Brauwere and Sébastien Morvan's labour. It's a local brewery that produces beers with funky names like "Churchill's Delusion", "Juice Junky", and "Miami B**ch" and infuses them with flavours of blueberries and chipotle, and jasmine tea and cigars. The company puts the community first - both the one that's enjoying their products and the one that's working on them in the offices. Their love for experiments comes from the desire to be a part of the future rather than following traditions.
When the two creators of the company met, they both had their corporate jobs secured. However, they didn't plan on it staying that way for too long. In 2012, with both of them approaching their thirties, they decided that it's now or never - they quit their jobs and set up a brewery in Brussels. They called it a "project" because they believe it's an ever-evolving venture. This venture seems to be working out just fine as it is celebrating its fifth year this September.
Today we talk to the Belgian counterpart of the duo Olivier de Brauwere. Whenever he talks about work, he emphasizes the importance of the team and the community. He doesn't have a favourite beer and says his favourite food is the one you can share with others. We actually interrupted his sacred lunchtime to have a chat and he seemed perfectly okay with that. In fact, when talking about his passion project he completely forgot about how hungry he was.
Would you say that you were born an entrepreneur or did you learn it?
It's a good question. Actually, I don't know. What I know is that since I was a kid I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I come from a super 'classic' family. 'Classic' meaning that they are lawyers, bankers, teachers - anything but entrepreneurs. But since I was a kid I wanted to create my own business, be my own boss. I think especially what is driving me is creating a business in line with your values. Shaping the atmosphere, the culture of the company all in line with your ideals.
So, I don't know if I became an entrepreneur or was there an entrepreneur inside me. I think there's no one kind of entrepreneurs, you can succeed in many different ways.
What kind of changes do you expect in the future of your field?
Well, overall, when you look at the number of breweries, I think Belgium has a very competitive landscape. And that number is growing fast. So, I think the trend for the coming 5-6 years will be more and more dynamic projects. And I think that's a very good thing, as it makes people more sophisticated, more aware of what they're drinking. They are also not afraid of spending a bit more money for quality and local products.
That ties in with another trend - people are drinking less and less. That is why it is important to produce the highest quality products and not forget about the communication.
What Belgian start-ups do you admire?
I feel that more and more young people in Brussels are becoming entrepreneurs and there are plenty of them which are quite impressive. I think one which I find very nice and inspiring is Thibaud Dehem, the founder of marketing agency 87 seconds. Their basic concept was creating videos in 87 seconds mainly for internal communications. Then they expanded into other videos and marketing services. Now they have offices in Paris, Spain, Geneva, and the Netherlands as well.
I think a part of their success is due to their internal communication, the way the team is managed. Just like us, they have no hierarchy, everyone is an entrepreneur, everyone is respected. I think it's a nice inspiration, succeeding in a competitive market like that with an original approach.
Who is (or was) your mentor?
The question makes me remember the Steve Job's metaphor about connecting the dots. He said his projects are a series of dots that over time were connected. He's been learning many things not knowing that at some point these dots will connect and bring something.
That is how I see mentorship. It's having lots of different discussions with lots of different people from different backgrounds.
What's on your bucket list?
I used to have a real bucket list when I was younger and, if I remember well, there were a few things on there that I've ticked off. One of them was creating my own business. My wife and I also wanted to live at least 3 years outside Belgium and we did that. We also went backpacking across Asia for 6 months - that was on the list. One thing that I didn't do yet and I for sure want to is jumping with a parachute. It's an old dream of mine.
There's a major disadvantage about bucket lists though - it's focused on end-goals. You focus on things you want to achieve and you miss out on enjoying the journey. Lots of entrepreneurs often raise new objectives and don't always take the time to enjoy their way there.
So, if I had to, I would put enjoying the moment as the number one thing on my list.
What are your guilty pleasures?
Food and drinks. Once a week my wife and I go to a nice restaurant. It's not always an expensive one either and it's about enjoying the food, the drinks, and the time together.
What is a problem that you face every day that nobody has fixed yet?
Bike safety. I got into a serious crash a few weeks ago and I hurt my arm. Most of the employees come to the office by bike and most of them have had some sort of accident. And there is no small accident when there's a bike and a car involved - the cyclists are too vulnerable.
That are decent efforts being made to improve on this - more bike lanes, the drivers are getting used to it as well. If someone could create an airbag for bikes that would soften the fall though, that would be brilliant.
Who should we interview next?
87 seconds for sure. Another one maybe is SortList - an online platform that aims to link projects to marketing agencies. It's like Uber that is a transport company without cars, Airbnb is a hotel platform with no properties - they strive to be the biggest marketing platform with no actual marketing agency.
Visit their taproom at 188, Antoine Dansaert street - 1000 Brussels or look out for a funky name on the beer menu in bars around the country.
Look out for BBP's Wanderlust Craft Beer festival celebrating their 5 year anniversary on September 15th.
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I suppose it's a bit like that film The Matrix - you realize that you live in an ethereal and closed world only when you actually get to step outside of it. Or, like some people who have never been to another country, your view of the rest of the world is shaped just by what you see on TV. I guess I've been like that with open source stuff, and particularly Java; looking out incredulously from my little village of Microsoft technologies and products at the wide world beyond.
I started my computing days with what we euphemistically called a "home computer" (basically a games console with a keyboard), and progressed via a series of Amstrad computers to real PCs. At the time I was doing statistical and reporting work for a large manufacturing company, and had played with several MSDOS-based databases until I finally found nirvana with Windows 3.1 and Microsoft Access 1.0.
OK, so I'd learned a lot of computing theory in the meantime (such as a mixture of languages and programming theory), and I'd even written and sold technical, commercial, and business software. But most of it, especially after drifting deeper into the Windows way, was aimed at Microsoft operating systems and integration with Microsoft products. Gradually I'd been drawn in and captured by the Redmond magic.
It's only since I began work on our current HDInsight project that I've had to navigate deeper into the dark and scary jungles of open source; slashing away at the undergrowth of bewildering terminology with my virtual machete (Bing); wading knee-deep through murky and meandering streams of sometimes conflicting advice and guidance; and peering in amazement at the vast array of previously undiscovered wonders of nature such as ants, pigs, hives, zebra, and even a strange yellow elephant.
Sitting inside my nice comfy and well-defined Microsoft technology world, it's un-nerving to realize that until recently I never knew that all of this even existed. OK, so I've had dealings with Java, though mainly only under duress, and I've read about and even learnt a bit of other languages and frameworks such as Python and Ruby. In fact my first serious attempts at creating Windows DLLs were with Pascal (mainly because I could never get my head round C++). So Java code itself isn't really an issue.
No, where it all gets complicated is that almost all of the docs I read about Hadoop and the associated technologies are written by experts for experts. It seems like you need to know all about a whole range of topics and technologies before you can start learning about them. It's a bit like letting someone watch a medical drama series on TV and then giving them a scalpel, an operating theatre, and some (currently) live patients to practice on.
For example, I read endless articles about testing and debugging. It seems I should start by mocking out my objects (makes sense) and use a test runner to execute them within a single node local installation of Hadoop and with the Java virtual machine in advanced debug mode (I think). So I read about PowerMock, but it says I should use it with Mockito, but that says it's an extension of EasyMock. And I probably want to do it all from within Eclipse.
And to set up a local cluster I need to install Hadoop directly, although I have the HDInsight single node development environment already installed on my laptop. Can I use that instead? And if I want to run the Java VM in debug mode I probably want to use another program called ant to configure it. I'm sure I'll work all this out in time, though at the moment I'm wondering if it's going to be easier just to phone a friend (or ask the audience).
What's clear, however, is just how adaptable, configurable, and interoperable all this stuff is. I suppose I'm used to a strict product hierarchy and road map, nice dialog boxes and configuration web pages, and reams of beginner documentation for the Microsoft technologies that make up the confines of my own little world. Now I've strayed outside of the Microsoft Matrix, and discovered a whole wide world out there, I can't find a map. I'll probably spend the rest of my writing days blundering through the undergrowth, peering hopefully at every new edifice of civilization I can find, until - hopefully - it all start to fall into place. Or until some kind soul (aka Program Manager) taps me on the shoulder and mutters the equivalent of "Dr. Livingstone I presume."
Yes, the adventure is fun at the moment, but I'm quite looking forward to going home again...


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So you're an expert at making the Old Fashioned thanks to our earlier post, but it's the holidays, so what about something a little more seasonal? We know you're probably thinking "wait a second, this sounds harder than a traditional Old Fashioned", but have no fear, we have your holiday back on this one.
While many may think of the Old Fashioned as a whiskey cocktail, it is more of a style of cocktail, especially if we follow the original concept of the cocktail, which is a spirit, sugar and bitters, and usually garnished with a citrus peel and sometimes a cherry for color.
This opens the possibilities for a plethora of other cocktails, based on the simple Old Fashioned formula. So that simple 3-step Old Fashioned in our earlier post could be iterated through as many spirits you would like to try. This means that the Tequila Old Fashioned becomes a thing, as does the Rum Old Fashioned, or the really old school Gin Old Fashioned.
Now that we are all Old Fashioned Connoisseurs, let's start making spirits bright (see what we did there?). Enter the very special Gingerbread Old Fashioned made with the Limited Edition Gingerbread Old Fashioned craft cocktail starter that's available exclusively for this holiday season.
Mixing glass, bar spoon, strainer, double old-fashioned glass, 1 oz./½ oz. jigger, Whiskey Ice Co. Spherical Ice Ball Maker
2 ounces aged rum (preferably a latin rum that is not too sweet, like Bacardi 8 Años, or Ron Zacapa Centenario 23)
½ ounce Limited Edition Gingerbread Old Fashioned cocktail starter
1 ice ball from your Whiskey Ice Co. Spherical Ice Ball Maker
Strip of orange peel for garnish
Step 1: Pour the Limited Edition Gingerbread Old Fashioned cocktail starter syrup, and the aged rum into a mixing glass with a some ice cubes, and stir for about 25 seconds (about the length of time it takes to form an ice ball with the spherical ice ball maker).
Step 2: Place your ice ball into your double old-fashioned glass and strain rum mixture over top.
Step 3: To garnish, squeeze orange peel over cocktail to release oils into the glass and then toss the orange peel into the glass. You can get extra fancy if you want to press a clove through the orange peel, but we just stick with the peel itself.
You have now officially graduated from Old Fashioned university, you should celebrate with Gingerbread Old Fashioned.
Always enjoy responsibly and this holiday season, when you are getting into the spirit, just don't let too much of "the spirit" get into you.


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The following is a summarized quote from the trailer of Rob Bell's new book Love Wins.
"Several years ago we had an art show at our church… there was one piece that had a quote from Gandhi in it… …Somewhere in the course of the art show somebody had attached a hand written note… they had written, 'reality check, he's in Hell'… …He's in Hell? And someone knows this for sure? And felt the need to let the rest of us know?..."
Though roughly summarized, one could get the point of where Bell is going with this. Since the release of the book, the Christian community has been in an uproar over what the mega church pastor is saying: justifiably enough, However, I'm not here to voice my opinion on whether Bell is a Universalist or if what he's saying is correct.
Let me take you back to a few months ago before the world knew about Love Wins.
I began attending a class at a church that I regularly do not attend. On the wall of the class room I was in hung a poster of Jesus' "so called" Facebook page—as if it were something real. Along the many categories, quotes, groups, and comments was Jesus' friend list. It contained some of the more notable names within the Christian faith: C.S. Lewis, King David, David Crowder, and YOU! Among these names was Rob Bell—third on the list.
I attended this class throughout the time of about nine months. It was during this time that the rise of Bell's new book came about. One evening I entered the room as usual; perhaps I was getting coffee when I noticed that the poster had been altered.
In the same fashion that Gandhi has been banished to hell, so had Bell. There was an "X" over his picture with a blunt two word statement: "Not Anymore"
Rob Bell isn't Jesus' friend anymore? And someone knows this for sure? And felt the need to let the rest of us know?
For the first time in my life I have witnessed true irony.


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Nigel Carr 2014 Climate Fellow
Ensure low-income communities with sub-standard energy access employ renewable solutions by partnering with local entrepreneurs to create clean tech businesses.
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Nigel Alexander Carr is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Qorax Energy. Qorax helps entrepreneurs in high-risk, post-conflict states with substandard energy access like Somalia effect change with the most locally appropriate renewable technology solutions. Nigel has focused his career on new businesses that address the powerful long-term secular trends in favor of a more efficient use of resources. He has worked for Brightfields Development, the nation's preeminent solar developer specializing exclusively in contaminated land with over 140 MW (dc) of projects completed or in development, and previously spent time evaluating waste-to-energy and wind power projects. Nigel is a recipient of the Harold Grinspoon Entrepreneurship Award and received a BA from Amherst College, where he studied the material science and system design of photovoltaics and polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells.
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Letters to the editor: Nov. 19
Send old Ky. slave home far, far away
Roundball season is here and soon the University of Kentucky team will win a game and the cheerleaders will link arms and sway as they sing My Old Kentucky Home. They do this, as we all do, without remembering that the song was written to be sung by a man in blackface who has been sold down the river to work in the sugarcane fields. He remembers his family back in Kentucky where in happier days they were together. Now his old Kentucky home is far away.
But Kentucky deserves better. We have much to be proud of, and slavery isn't in that category.
Come to our rescue, song writers. Give us new lyrics, not the easy ones that might be used in pop music, such as lighting up another coffin nail, downing a double of bourbon and remembering the pot you won on the Derby. Choose instead more lasting sources of pleasure and pride, such as Mammoth Cave, Abraham Lincoln nor the storing of NCAA National Championships which Big Blue has won over the years. Give us a song that honors our state and is one that we will all be proud to sing.
Al Crabb
Print the truth
Now that the election is over the truth can be seen, not the stories printed by the liberal press. The Republican Party thumped the Democratic Party. Republicans increased their edge in the House by double digits, took control of the Senate and outgained the Democrats in gubernatorial seats. The Republican candidate for Illinois governor (President Barack Obama's home state) won, despite visits and appeals by Obama for the Democrat. Democrats lost in every governor's race in which Obama campaigned except Pennsylvania.
The press reported that the Kentucky Senate race was very close and printed many letters praising Alison Lundergan Grimes and degrading Mitch McConnell. Yet McConnell won by 15 points with 56 percent of the vote.
It would be far better if the press reported the facts as they are, not as they wish them to be; printed letters to the editor on a fair basis and refused to print letters filled with inaccuracies and falsehoods by overly biased individuals, and kept its leftist leanings confined to editorials and not try to portray its feelings as the voice of the people. Print the truth and not some fairy tale of things as you wish they were.
James D. Miniard
Wrong name
The Democrats of Kentucky missed a golden opportunity to dislodge Mitch McConnell from his stranglehold on the U.S. Senate job he holds. Unfortunately the candidate they chose had the middle name Lundergan.
John Stewart
Who elected them?
I happened to read the announcements of two engagements on a recent Sunday. Both listed the woman as the "bride-elect" and the man as the "groom-elect." Since when? What was their platform? Who elected them? I didn't see their names on the ballot. Who did they beat out for the honor? How close was it? What happened to "bride-to-be" and "groom-to-be"?
Mark Stuhlfaut
Smug Gruber, media
None should be surprised by MIT Professor Johnathan Gruber's smug remarks about the lack of intelligence of American voters or why he needed to lie to us.
Obviously, he had to lead us to the promised land of socialized health care because we're "too stupid" to know that's what we need.
Obamacare wouldn't have passed if people knew what was in it. Elitist arrogance driven by narcissistic egos are among things the Constitution and federalism were meant to protect us from. Ironically though, we've been afflicted with these things for the last six years by an administration that views the Constitution as an obstacle.
Our constitutionally guaranteed freedom of the press is intended to help journalists speak truth to power and in so doing expose government lies and malfeasance. But this hasn't happened in any of the dishonest, illegal, counterproductive, unrealistic government activities that have occurred routinely for six years. The mainstream media have deliberately ignored Gruber's remarks.
Gruber and the mainstream media have patrician attitudes of intellectual and moral superiority to the public they claim to serve, but actually disdain. What we are told is carefully controlled by a media that serves well-spun news to "get our minds right."
Stephen H. Pulliam


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I feel like my finger is hovering on the trigger of a cannon of all things Christmas. I'm almost ready to unleash the most wonderful time of the year at my house, but first a little Thanksgiving fun!
Freebirds is a really cute little movie that's perfect for November. It offers plenty of laughs for both kids and adults. Read about its content here.
I was tickled to spot these turkeys and they inspired my whole look for the table. I LOVE the touches of pink! I look forward to putting them out year after year.
Also, let's talk about how much mileage I'm getting out of these pumpkins. They work September through November!
I added these dinner napkins and put these under the glasses. When I buy a pack of fun napkins for movie night I always use the extras throughout the following week for dinner and packing lunches for the kids.
The place cards are just the cutest.
For dinner, we are having enchiladas. Because we just are. If you wanted to play off the theme, you could do a toned-down thanksgiving-type meal or turkey/cranberry/dressing/cream cheese sandwiches. The main character in this movie, Reggie, is a turkey who learns how to order pizza so you could do that too!
If you haven't already, give this silly little movie a try!


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Campaign series 1 0f 3
This is a series of three ads that I did for a campaign. I sketched the idea then presented it. This is the first advertisement placed by the company in 10 years. Seen in outside magazine. (1:3)
Ad Campaign 2 of 3
This is the second ad in the campaign for Outside magazine placement. I photo directed and modeled (back passenger seat) this photoshoot. (2:3)
Ad campaign 3 of 3
This is the third ad in the campaign for Outside magazine placement. The bottom image had to have photoshop surgery because the bike handle bars were on backwards. (3:3)
Print Ad for Industrial Supply
2015 Concept and design
Ad 2 for Industrial Supply 2015
2014 concept of "man-made" spin off ad for University of Utah Football catalog.
Photography done by me on iPhone, as well as headline concept.
Magazine Spread
Layout and design of Info graphics for Prevent Child Abuse Utah spread in 'Business in Utah' magazine
Catalog Layout
2 page sample from a quarterly product catalog for Industrial supply.
Layout redesign and product fullfilment.