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Writing is an emotional endeavor. Whether you write fiction or non-fiction, want to educate or entertain, the end goal is to stimulate an emotional reaction or response from your readers. The fastest and easiest way to do this is to understand your own emotions and what brings you to the computer or the notebook to put your thoughts, emotions, knowledge and stories on the page.
So, I challenge you: What is it? Why do you want to write?
For me, from a very young age, I loved hearing and reading stories. Some of my earliest memories are of my father reading to my brother and me before bedtime. Once I learned to read on my own, my dad made sure I had a number of books to keep me occupied. The Nancy Drew Mysteries, The Orphalines, Black Beauty, and The Black Stallion were among many. I read biographies, books about art, history, and world events. I fell in love with immersing myself in another world, living other people's experiences and realities, and traveling to different settings, either real or imagined. I found myself wanting to provide that kind of experience for others through my own creative imagination and started writing stories and poetry as early as the third grade.
My favorite things to write are historical and contemporary mysteries, along with my own blog, because I want to educate and entertain. I also want to lose myself in a world of my own creation with characters I've created from my imagination, or from people I have met and known, or from famous people in history.
My agent, the wonderful Paula Munier, once told me that people love to read and write mysteries because they love puzzles. They want to create and make order out of chaos. She also wrote this in her book, Plot Perfect. I had never thought of it before, but when she said it, it made perfect sense to me.
Once I started to understand what emotionally motivated me to write, my passion for it grew even more. Sometimes we need to sit down and think about what really makes us tick before we can take the big leap and commit to such an ambitious endeavor. Writing a book can be many things. It can be liberating or healing, it can be exhilarating and fun, and it can be daunting and overwhelming, all at the same time. But for whatever reason it is that you want to write, it helps to understand why you want or sometimes need to be married to a project for weeks, months or even years. I use the word "married" because writing takes the kind of commitment required for such an emotional experience and sometimes life-long journey.
In February, I am teaching an online course called, "So, You Want to Write A Book?" along with clinical psychologist Dr. Benjamin Perkus at The Aroma Freedom Academy. The class uses the Aroma Freedom Technique (AFT) to help people break through the emotional blocks that are preventing them from achieving their goals and dreams. The course is presented as a workshop to help people who want to write a book but don't know where to begin, or those who have started the process, but got stuck somewhere along the line, or for those whom, for whatever reason, have not achieved their goal of writing a book. The first lesson we will take students through is discovering why they want to write a book. We will also be working on a non-fiction book in conjunction with the course and are looking for people's stories of transformation, either with writing or other life experiences, to include in the text.
If you are interested in the course, have a story of transformation, or just want to discuss why you want to write, please feel free to contact me!
I look forward to hearing from you!


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Kindergarten: it looks different, sounds different, and even smells different. And in an age where technology is increasingly found in elementary classrooms, many teachers are left asking when and how technology should be introduced to youngsters.
There are a number of learning opportunities when technology is integrated effectively into the classroom: learning can be individualized, students can collaborate, and teachers become facilitators. Recognizing this, I opted to give blended learning a try in my own kindergarten classroom. And indeed, by the end of the year, my five and six year olds were able to operate computers independently, created projects together, and were developing some basic coding skills.
These results were achieved through careful and purposeful scaffolding with technology throughout the school year. The use of technology in October was vastly different from how it was used in May. October was filled with lessons about logging in, shutting down, winding up cords on headphones, and how to wait patiently for help. Some of these lessons involved me using prep time to set-up computers and then running back and forth across the room to help panicked kinders who lost their tab or accidentally logged out.
However, by December, we participated in the Hour of Code, made our own light design on one of the White House Christmas trees, and had started using Khan Academy. By March, I was using Khan Academy and ThinkCentral (a curriculum resource) while also working with small groups to differentiate instruction. And by the end of the year, my students further developed their coding skills, created a digital story with a partner utilizing the Little Bird Tales software, and had explored Google Street View to learn about different landscapes (as a way to integrate science and social studies).
Here are my 11 strategies for blending technology into the kindergarten classroom:
Use software that is age-appropriate. Look for programs that don't require a lot of reading, that are interactive and visual, and will be fun and engaging for this age group. I would suggest creating a test account for yourself so you have full access to the student experience.
Tip: One way to track down resources like this is to use hashtags on Twitter to ask other educators what they're using; also, consider checking out EdTech indexes like the one EdSurge has created to help you track down the right edtech for you.
Use tech as a tool instead of a supplement. Avoid the traditional "computer time," by integrating technology in meaningful ways. Using your learning objectives as a guide, ask, Hhow can I use technology to help my students achieve their goals?
Start small and allow for exploration. Before doing any academic work with technology, let your kindergartners play with it. Some may not have any background knowledge in how to operate a computer or iPad; give them the opportunity to figure it out. Even starting with fun websites like abcya.com that have fun educational games (and don't require a login) can help youngsters get acclimated to using technology.
Have extra adult support for troubleshooting. If you have a teacher's aide or parent volunteer, they can be a great resource to help students when they run into a problem they cannot solve (like clicking on the wrong tab or accidentally logging off). This will prevent many meltdowns if extra help is available!
Use screencasts to give visual instructions to new software. Screencasts are a great way to give instructions for using software that don't require the teacher to do a live demonstration. Instructions can be viewed multiple times, the teacher can pause the video to answer questions, and students are able to preview the software before using it. Screencast-o-matic is a great free resource to create your own screencast.
Keep logins simple and accessible to students. UseUsing memorable combinations can help students log onto their own accounts independently. Using combinations of first names, number of letters in name, special classroom codes, etc. will keep things personal and easy to remember. You may also want to add this information to the front a work folder, index card, or something else they regularly access if they need help remembering. This adds responsibility for students and keeps you from running around and logging everyone in.
Scaffold instructions for independence with software. Remember to start small. Don't expect students to be able to operate software completely the first time you introduce it. Scaffold the same way you would with the rest of your instruction. For example, practice only logging in and getting into an activity the first few times you use new software. This may require more prep for you in the beginning, but will effectively build independence overtime.
Let them struggle (and problem-solve). The hardest thing as a teacher can often be letting your students struggle or giving appropriate wait-time before jumping in to help. In the beginning, you may want to jump in a bit faster, but as students become more independent, step-back and see if you students can guide themselves. Ask guiding questions such as, "Hhow do you think you could solve that?" This will make technology less intimidating for them, and for you!
Individualize instruction to build independence in thinking/learning. Once students are able to use technology independently, use this newly learned skill to differentiate instruction. There are a number of programs that allow students to progress individually through lessons (LearnBop, Khan Academy, MobyMax, Razz Kids, etc.). You could even use programs like Edmodo and Schoology to assign your own lessons to individual groups.
Allow for creativity and collaboration. While kindergartners are just learning to use technology, this doesn't mean they are too young to collaborate on creative technology projects together. Digital storytelling is a great way to allow creative youngsters to express what they learned.
Integrate technology regularly and in a variety of ways. Practice makes perfect, right? The best way for young learners to get comfortable with technology is for them to use it regularly and in a variety of ways. With regular integration in my classroom, my students were willing to take risks with technology and their learning I didn't think they would.
I hope these tips were helpful to you, and help you get started with blending technology into your classroom. I'd love to hear about how you use edtech—please let me know in the comments below!
About the author
Kaitlyn Rickman is an educator who is passionate about integrating technology in meaningful ways. She currently teaches kindergarten in Traverse City, MI, and loves the passion of young learners. Kaitlyn is also close to finishing her Master's Degree in Educational Technology from Grand Valley State University. You can follow her tech integration adventures on kaitlynrickman.com.
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The popularity of Goethe's novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, was blamed for a spate of suicides. It set a trend for manufactured outrage that is with us still.
When cultural commentators lament the decline of the habit of reading books, it is difficult to imagine that back in the 18th century many prominent voices were concerned about the threat posed by people reading too much. A dangerous disease appeared to afflict the young, which some diagnosed as reading addiction and others as reading rage, reading fever, reading mania or reading lust. Throughout Europe reports circulated about the outbreak of what was described as an epidemic of reading. The behaviours associated with this supposedly insidious contagion were sensation-seeking and morally dissolute and promiscuous behaviour. Even acts of self-destruction were associated with this new craze for the reading of novels.
What some described as a craze was actually a rise in the 18th century of an ideal: the 'love of reading'. The emergence of this new phenomenon was largely due to the growing popularity of a new literary genre: the novel. The emergence of commercial publishing in the 18th century and the growth of an ever-widening constituency of readers was not welcomed by everyone. Many cultural commentators were apprehensive about the impact of this new medium on individual behaviour and on society's moral order.
With the growing popularity of novel reading, the age of the mass media had arrived. Novels such as Samuel Richardson's Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740) and Rousseau's Julie, or the New Heloise (1761) became literary sensations that gripped the imagination of their European readers. What was described as 'Pamela-fever' indicated the powerful influence novels could exercise on the imagination of the reading public. Public deliberation on these 'fevers' focused on what was a potentially dangerous development, which was the forging of an intense and intimate interaction between the reader and literary characters. The consensus that emerged was that unrestrained exposure to fiction led readers to lose touch with reality and identify with the novel's romantic characters to the point of adopting their behaviour. The passionate enthusiasm with which European youth responded to the publication of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) appeared to confirm this consensus.
The Sorrows of Young Werther is an epistolary novel, which recounts the tortured love of a young man, Werther. His letters reveal an intense passion for Lotte, who is already betrothed to another man. Werther cannot reconcile himself to his predicament and concludes that he has no choice but to take his life. His refusal to compromise and willingness to die for love resonated with the idealistic and romantic imagination of the novel's young readers.
The publication of The Sorrows of Young Werther turned into an almost instant media event. It became the first documented literary sensation of modern Europe. The novel was translated into French (1775), English (1779), Italian (1781) and Russian (1788) and was repeatedly republished in different editions. There were more than 20 pirated editions published within 12 years of its appearance in Germany. It also enjoyed remarkable success in the United States. It was one of the biggest-selling novels before the War of 1812 and, according to reports, had a powerful influence on the early American literary public.
By all accounts a generation of young people adopted Werther as their hero. Many of them memorised excerpts from his letters and imitated the affectations associated with their tragic idol. It was widely reported that young men and women wept for days, even weeks, over his tragic demise. Followers of Werther also copied the fashion of their tragic hero. Groups of young men took to wearing yellow trousers in combination with a blue tailcoat and high boots in imitation of Werther's appearance.
The novel spawned a cottage industry devoted to the merchandising of Werther-related souvenirs. What was frequently described as 'Werther Fever' was reflected through the mass marketing of drawings, engravings and everyday objects decorated with scenes from the novel. This commercialisation of 'fan products' included cups and plates by the manufacturer of Meissen china. One entrepreneur came up with the brand, 'Eau de Werther' to market his perfume. Nor was the impact of this Werther mania an overnight phenomenon. The appeal of Werther lasted until the early 1800s. Decades after its publication, Napoleon declared his admiration for the novel and asserted that he had read it seven times.
The scale of the reaction to Werther perturbed authorities throughout Europe. Many officials and critics perceived the vivid and sympathetic manner with which Goethe described Werther's descent into self-destruction as legitimating the act of suicide. They condemned the novel as a danger to the public, particularly to impressionable young readers. The novel was blamed for the unleashing of an epidemic of copycat suicides throughout Europe among young, emotionally disturbed and broken-hearted readers. The numerous initiatives to ban the novel indicated that the authorities took these claims very seriously. In 1775 the theological faculty of the University of Leipzig petitioned officials to ban Werther on the grounds that its circulation would lead to the promotion of suicide. The city council of Leipzig agreed and cited the increased frequency of suicides as justification for banning both the novel and the wearing of Werther's costume. The ban, which was introduced in 1775, was not lifted until 1825. The novel was also banned in Italy and Denmark.
The calls for bans were justified on the grounds of preventing the damage that a book like Werther could cause to its young readers. The Hamburg Protestant Pastor Johann Goeze denounced the novel as a 'heinous book'. 'Consider for God's sake how many of our youth could end in circumstances similar to those of Werther', he asked in his call to ban the book in order protect public morals. The bishop of Milan, a catholic, shared the apprehensions of his German protestant colleague. It was reported that he was so disturbed by the peril that Werther represented to public morality that he bought up all available copies of the novel to protect Milanese readers from its influence. Unease with the effect of Werther on its readers was not confined to theologians and public moralists. During the course of a debate on the novel in Sweden, the poet Johan Kellgren (1751-95) indicated that he was worried that the 'Werther suicide might become contagious by suggestion and warned of literature where emotions played a dominating role'.
Even one of the most prominent representatives of the German Enlightenment, the writer and philosopher G.E. Lessing (1751-91), was uncomfortable about the influence of Werther on its readers. Lessing acknowledged that he enjoyed reading the book but nevertheless he wrote to a friend that the 'novel could cause more harm than good'. Lessing was unsettled by its sympathetic treatment of the protagonist and of the manner of his demise and feared that 'a young man of similar disposition' might adopt such a course of action in imitation. Although Lessing possessed an intellectual and moral outlook that was very different to the religious critics of Werther, they all shared an instinctive mistrust of their readers' ability to resist the influence of Goethe's apparent condoning of romantic suicide.
In November 1784, five years after the publication of the English translation of Werther, the Gentleman's Magazine published the following notice under its obituary:
Suddenly at the Chaceside, Southgate, Miss Glover, daughter of the late Mr.G., formerly an eminent dancing master. The Sorrows of Werther were found under her pillow; a circumstance which deserves to be known in order, if possible to defeat the evil tendency of that pernicious work.
The condemnation of this 'pernicious' work and the assertion that it bore responsibility for the demise of Miss Glover provided the foundation for the construction of a legend about the novel's destructive influence on its English readers. In informing the public about a 'circumstance which deserves to be known', the author of this notice helped construct a story that would be integral to the folklore of suicide
The notice of Miss Glover's demise immediately roused a correspondent, 'Theophilius', to write a letter denouncing 'the gloomy and violent passions that agitate and torment the mind of a Werther'. In the decades to come rumours of suicides committed by readers of Werther circulated on both sides of the Atlantic. Typically, newspapers went to great lengths to report the careful staging of suicide by individuals who drew attention to their tragic demise by clutching a copy of Werther in their dying moments.
Stories of suicides staged to highlight the 'Sorrows' of the anguished reader acquired the status of a compelling cultural myth. Time and again allusions to the staged version of a Werther-induced suicide were accompanied by the repetition of an alleged remark made by the French woman of letters, Madame de Staël (1766-1817), to the effect that Werther 'had caused more suicides than the most beautiful woman in the world'. Did Byron really state that Werther was 'responsible for more deaths than Napoleon himself'? In a sense it does not matter, because like so many of the allegations made about the effects of this novel they were effortlessly integrated into the urban legend surrounding it.
In the United States the campaign of moral outrage against Werther gained momentum in the 1790s. During the last decade of the 18th century American publications regularly reported on the devastating effects of the novel on its readership. In 1798 one contributor to the Philadelphia-based Weekly Magazine sought to convince booksellers 'to remove the book from their shelves, by alleging that it had already proved "the bane of more than one family" in the state'. Yet as the novel continued to be a best-seller well into to the 1800s, its critics became more and more hysterical in their attacks on its author. Goethe was charged with producing a novel that sought to romanticise suicide. It was as if America's moral anxieties were sublimated through its reaction to this novel.
As late as 1865 the German author J. W. Appel outlined two cases of suicide by readers of the novel. In one instance he cited the example of a young man who killed himself by jumping off a tall building with a copy of Werther in his possession. The other case provides an account of a mother whose son committed suicide after reading it. The mother was reported to say 'you too, my son' had 'underlined several parts in Werther'. This was taken as further conclusive evidence of a causal link between reading the work and a young man's suicide.
What our exploration of the narrative of Werther fever suggests is that it acquired a life of its own to the point that it mutated into a taken-for-granted rhetorical idiom, which accounted for the moral problems facing society. Warnings about an epidemic of suicide said more about the anxieties of their authors than the behaviour of the readers of the novels. An inspection of the literature circulating these warnings indicates a striking absence of empirical evidence. The constant allusion to Miss. G., to nameless victims and to similarly framed death scenes suggests that these reports had little factual content to draw on. Stories about an epidemic of suicide were as fictional as the demise of Werther in Goethe's novel.
It is, however, likely that readers of Werther were influenced by the controversy surrounding the novel. Goethe himself was affected by it and in his autobiography lamented that so many of his readers felt called upon to 're-enact the novel, and possibly shoot themselves'. Yet, despite the sanctimonious scaremongering, it continued to attract a large readership. While there is no evidence that Werther was responsible for the promotion of a wave of copycat suicides, it evidently succeeded in inspiring a generation of young readers. The emergence of what today would be described as a cult of fans with some of the trappings of a youth subculture is testimony to the novel's powerful appeal.
The association of the novel with the disorganisation of the moral order represented an early example of a media panic. The formidable, sensational and often improbable effects attributed to the consequences of reading in the 18th century provided the cultural resources on which subsequent reactions to the cinema, television or the Internet would draw on. In that sense Werther fever anticipated the media panics of the future.
Curiously, the passage of time has not entirely undermined the association of Werther fever with an epidemic of suicide. In 1974 the American sociologist Dave Phillips coined the term, the 'Werther Effect' to describe media-stimulated imitation of suicidal behaviour. But the durability of the Werther myth notwithstanding, contemporary media panics are rarely focused on novels. In the 21st century the simplistic cause and effect model of the 'Werther Effect is more likely to be expressed through moral anxieties about the danger of cybersuicide, copycat online suicide.
Frank Furedi is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent. His book The Power of Reading: From Socrates To Twitter was published by Bloomsbury in October 2015.


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Um, yeah....loooooots of strips to equal the length of the perimeter of the quilt.
Getting ready to pin the finishing strips around the outside of the quilt.
Sewing the strips on. When that's finished, I wrap the strips around to the backside of the quilt and hand sew with a blind stitch to finish up. Happy Valentine's Day! Some quilting love from me to you.


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This magical new audiobook by Governor General and Trillium Prize nominee Mark Frutkin, set in 13th century Venice and Cathay, is a dazzling fresco of shimmering language, brimming with golden tableaus of arid deserts and cobblestone alleys, the wafting scent of cardamom and the mystical trill of a praying friar. It is the story of Marco Polo, as he is about to set sail on an arduous and lengthy pilgrimage with his father, uncle, and faithful guide across the sun-soaked silk route - the rich path of the carpet-makers and the black seas of the Indian Ocean.
Doggedly pursued by a vengeful assassin of the Venetian Doge, Marco is eager to arrive in the promised land of the mighty Kublai Khan and bask in the safety offered by his royal legions. But while enjoying the myths of the new land, Polo is haunted by the recurring appearance of a winged lion, lurking behind his dreams and roaming the palace of his heart. Even upon his return to Venice, a naval battle, and capture by their rival Genoa - even as he languishes in an enemy jail cell recounting his trials to an incredulous inmate - there is always the heartbeat of the lion.
With a winged lion haunting his dreams, young Marco Polo moves through a gorgeous and magical 13th-century Venice as he prepares for a journey to Cathay and battles against an always-pursuing assassin in The Lion of Vencie by award-winning Canadian author Mark Frutkin. Actor David DeSantos conjures the world of this enchanting story with expert characterization and a loving treatment of Frutkin's colorful, extensive descriptions. Listeners will smell the salt air, see the maritime light reflecting off the magnificence of Venice, and feel the suspense of Marco Polo's dilemma.
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Do you remember the blogs before the "blogs"?
The posts of writing with very few photos.
When they were a web log?
Today may feel like a throw back to that as this is a long post with little photo fun.
If you are only here for the photos, today isn't your day. Sorry about that.
If you aren't here for the real life of running a business, it's still not looking good for you.
Today is a thought day!
It's an answer to your curiosity day.
It's a post that might hit on the things people don't want to hear if they too are considering opening their own business.
It's also a long post full of words.
It's also a long post full of words.
So, here's the thing. I get asked more and more frequently by people in the shop but mostly by email from my far and wide readers about my thoughts on running a small business.
How did I do it?
Do I regret it?
Any advice?
How much does it cost? (more than you can imagine)
Will I still be able to have a life?
It's something I have been meaning to write here for awhile as I type out the answer a few times a month to followers.
In case you are really new here, this blog has been in operation now with me as the sole author for 6 years. The business you now know me for only grew out of it in the last few.
I am a Registered Dental Hygienist by trade and still manage my time running a business in that as well.
I am also a woman, wife, daughter, friend, and shopper. There are obviously other things that I am good and bad but lets just leave that there for a moment and focus on the shopper, retail owner aspect of this conversation.
When I go to work in Hamilton to clean teeth, I often spend my pre patient mornings, lunch and after work hours running around picking things up, delivering items for the shop. In between if I have a few moments I loved sneaking down the mountain to check out some cute shops, one of which was "The Edit".
It was a small fabulously curated vintage shop with clothing, some home accessories but my favourite was the vintage jewellery. Many pieces made their way home with me and I wear them frequently .
This shop is closing.
Yen, the owner has made the courageous decision to focus on the increasingly growing online presence she holds on instagram and on etsy and focus on that without the overhead of a brick and mortar store. This lovely woman also has another business which she also focuses time on if I remember correctly in landscaping.
I read her blog post on closing the shop and thought, I need to share this post.
I wrote to her on insta and asked if she would mind and she said yes so I am posting her words on what it is like running a vintage business in today's online and walmart world.
I shortened a bit of it but for those of you that want the perfect answer, there unfortunately isn't one but this is close. I nodded my way through a lot of her words. A vintage business is a different animal and I have curbed some of her post as it really applies to the city of Hamilton but,
~from the edit blog
And there it is...
I'm closing the shop on Ottawa Street and moving to a studio space to focus my vintage business in a more online direction.
Matt, the perpeptually positive, says that I am just redirecting my business to follow consumer demand and lowering my overhead. He is not wrong, for a while now I have noticed that a high percentage of my sales are either online or are directly originated from online; where people come into the shop not to browse but to purchase 'that thing' they saw on the shop's Etsy or Instagram.
And I'm half business savvy enough to know that this is 100% the way I am supposed to spin it. I just need to say that The Edit is just taking the next step in being able to efficiently provide quality vintage to its loyal clientele by opening a studio space. And that is the truth and I am super excited about how cool my studio space is but it does kinda feel like I am leaving out part of the story...
I didn't excitedly sign a new lease on a bigger space last January and rope my friends into painting every single fixture in the shop with layers and layers of primer and white paint in order for me to leave it all behind one short year later. And as much as I know, for my sanity and for the bottom line, that moving into a studio is the right choice for me, closing down the shop is still something that makes me really sad.
Some might even say that having a bricks and mortar shop turned out to be a failure.
I said it. The 'f' word. I'm pretty sure I'm not allowed to say that word and I'm going to get lots of texts from my friends (and my mom,thanks boo) telling me I am not a failure. And it's not totally a failure per se, I think The Edit vintage has a bright future but the street front location part of the equation did not really work out quite as planned...
So what happened?
I'm sure I don't need to write a post breaking it all down but I honestly think these are things in small business that we don't talk about. Small business owners start with a dream and stars in their eyes and probably a couple Pinterest quotes about how if you follow your passion, you will never work a day in your life. And there is nothing wrong with some stars and some Pinterest quotes but it's also nice when the grind happens to know you are not the only one feeling the pain or that sometimes all the passion and heart and good intention is not enough. We don't share enough about the journey (well, maybe that is because as a small business owner you maybe don't have the time or energy to share...) so when something happens, a small business just disappears and we all kinda draw our own educated or uneducated conclusions.
I think we can sum up exactly my experience with running a bricks and mortar by saying it is really hard...
Retail is hard. I've said it before and I will say it again. Retail is so hard. Despite that, having your own retail space is probably one of the top 'dreams' that people romanticize about. Setting up a shop and putting it all together is so so fun. And standing behind your counter for the first time and making a sale to a stranger who loves your stuff is this incredible high... But the day to day is tough. The needle that flicks from making a sale to not making the sale is set so delicately... A cold day, a hot day, a too nice day, a lazy day, a bloated day, a cranky infant day; there are so many factors involved in getting store traffic and making a sale. And retail is not just hard for me. It's a struggle for everyone. So if you have a favourite shop in the city that you have not been to in a while, go and visit and make a little purchase and give them a hug (if they are into it). I suspect it's been a generally tough year for retail across the board.
Shopping at small independent shops is not always the easiest. The hours are not like Walmart and it takes a little bit more effort but it is the small stores that give a city or community their shape. I know the city of Hamilton is on a bit of a high right now; after years of being 'the armpit of Ontario', we're apparently cool... And that's cool. But let's be real, it's still a struggle. If you love this city, don't just pay lip service to it. If you want your neighbourhood to be interesting and walkable and varied, remember the little and the medium guys. Your dollars have the power to shape your city.
Also, as it turns out, selling vintage is really hard. Besides the amount of work it takes to source abd clean it, it's also a lot of work to sell each individual piece. The best thing about vintage is that it is so unique but the worse thing is also that it is so unique. I know it sometimes looks like things sell out so quick at the shop because the shop generally gets a really good response on Instagram (and I am so grateful for that online support, thank you, thank you...) but the problem is that I can only sell one of each item. Even if 5 people are dying to own that one piece, I can only sell it once and then I have to get to work and hustle to sell my next item. Every single item in the store is unique and has to speak for itself in order to sell. So if I sell the three things I posted on Instagram that day, it's great, but they are still likely only a drop in the bucket of the amount of overhead it takes to run a bricks and mortar.
I also think The Edit departs a little from what a traditional vintage shop is and that may have hurt me because I almost needed to explain the concept to the consumer... The way I see vintage is that it can be worn in a very modern way; mixed and matched with what you already have in your closet. To me vintage is just better quality and more unique than what you can get at the mall and I just love getting someone into their first vintage piece and opening their eyes to the fact that vintage does not have to be costumey or scary... It translates well online because that's how I have always dressed for the blog and because people can see the outfits put together. But people who don't follow me online and see a vintage shop, they imagine it being more costumey. So no, I don't have a wacky 60's polyester suit for you to wear to Aunt Betty's costume birthday party but I do have a 60's blouse you could wear with jeans. If I could turn back time (sorry, if I get that song in your head now...), I would not go back and start by being more 'vintagey'; it's all part of the process and it's just a lesson I learned over the last two years...
So there it is.
To answer the questions I posted above, there really is no answer.
I love my job and am becoming incredibly fortunate to have an amazing customer base that is growing rapidly, but that isn't always the case and sometimes no matter how much you love your idea of business it isn't something others love or maybe people can't find you.
My business growth and reach is based heavily on social media and word of mouth referrals.
We are in a building that is before all the "action" in Fonthill and one that is at the end of a lane merge so everyone's head is turned the opposite direction when they drive by.
We have a large amount of new customers coming in on a daily basis still because of our heavy social media presence (yippee) but many of these people like to tell us/me that they didn't know we were here to different ranges of condescending lecturing about my poor advertising skills or unreliable signage that I spent a lot of time designing, editing and paying for. Sometimes it gets "tough" to hear these things and frustrating but it is all a part of retail.
The day to day to quote above is "tough"
Everyone has an opinion and loves to offer it.
I work and then come home and work some more. In order to run any kind of retail based business you better love and, almost more than love what you are selling because you are going to be living and breathing it non-stop for at least the first year.
I am also a self realized micro-manager.
To some this makes me a bitch.
My wonderful employee manager is helping me let some of this go but also completely understands that this is my baby and I need/want it to grow in my vision and sometimes micro managing is what it takes.
When part of your business is vintage you need to remember that once you sell your items, are you going to have time to find more? Do you have a good handle on areas to look? Do you know the price points your area can handle? Because if you don't rest assured, they will find it elsewhere in places like Etsy which is open 24/7 or buy a replica in places like Homesense.
When you make items (like my pillow collections), are you making them the best way possible and efficiently enough to make a profit? Are you able to carry through with requests from customers in the time frame you promise?
We have had only 1 run in with a customer in the shop that didn't realize there aren't an army of people sewing for us in the back and didn't listen to the time frame given. The situation was rectified but are you prepared to handle those people and not lose them as customers?
Your customers are going to expect you to deliver, and deliver frequently.
Are you ready for that pressure?
Do you know how to handle the paperwork end of the business? If you've never done it before, you might want to pack some reading hours into some bookkeeping books for your area and find someone you can ask questions of.
I suppose to wrap up this long conversation, I don't have all the answers and am learning a new answer daily but there things I know for sure
1) love what you do, i know i do more than i can tell you or convey here
2) surround yourself with the best help you can afford, this includes making sure your family support system understand and i mean really understand what you/they may be giving up/gaining
3) find people also in retail and ask questions
4) do what you do as best as possible, give it 110% all the time
5) learn to use social media properly
6) have fun because otherwise what's the point
7) love what you do
8) set boundaries. when we first opened the doors we were desperate to get people in the door and love us. love me. love my idea.
as a business owner you always want to continue to grow but that gets out of control so quickly. i no longer answer emails/ Facebook shopping ( the do you still have? whats the price of?) questions after 8-ish pm. in our social media world that i just told you to get good at, you can also lose yourself and your handle on life by giving too much of yourself to people who expect a 24/7 service. they don't mean it but for the love of your business and the success of your life you need to set boundaries before you explode into an anxiety driven nightmare
Did you make it this far?
I suppose any conversation that goes like this one should end in thanks.
Thanks for reading.
Thanks for shopping and
thanks for remembering that you matter more than you know in the cycle of your life, home, business, and city.
Have a good one everyone,


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Staff appraisal in university libraries
Staff appraisal was an American invention that emerged at the time of the Second World War. It only came to general notice two years later with the publication of the twenty-third report of 'Committee A' of the University Authorities' Panel (UAP) and the Association of University Teachers (AUT). Only one major study of the functioning of the universities' appraisal system has been published (3), and very little has been written on the experience of libraries(4). The purpose of this study was to shed light on the impact of appraisal on the 'old'university libraries and their staffs,s and to try to assess its benefits and disbenefits.
staff appraisal; university libraries; staff; impact; benefits; disbenefits
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
CILIP Registered Charity no 313014
ISSN 1756-1086 (Online)


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- Posted March 11, 2014 by
- Docross69
Chesapeake, Virginia
This iReport is part of an assignment:
I'm more than my score
I'm more than my score of zero
After graduating at the bottom of his high school class, Docross69 joined the Navy, which he credits for teaching him to apply himself. "The Navy taught me to do things the best you can and to do it right the first time," he said. "I took my newfound structure and applied it to college courses."
He now holds an Associate's degree in Arts and on in Nursing (RN), a Bachelor's degree in Nursing, a Master's degree in Business Administration and one in Science and is currently enrolled in a Doctor of Nursing Practice program. "My opinion of the SAT is that it's useless," he said. "I'm proof that you can do anything you set your mind to."
- Verybecoming, CNN iReport producer
I never took the SATs or ACTs and my life turned out great. I earned an Associates in Arts (AA), Associates in Nursing (RN), Bachelors in Nursing (BSN), Master in Business Administration (MBA), Master of Science in Nursing, and now I'm currently enrolled in a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program at Grand Canyon University.
I graduated at the bottom of my high school class and then joined the Navy. The Navy taught me to do it right the first time and I've carried that with me all the way. I never let test scores determine my career path and its paid off.


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(Great Characters in Literature)
Characters Discussed
Arcade (ahr-KAHD), an angel who plans to lead a revolt against God (Ialdabaoth). He gathers together hundreds of thousands of rebel angels but is disappointed when Satan quashes the revolution.
Monsieur Julien Sariette
Monsieur Julien Sariette (zhoo-LYAH[N] sahr-YEHT), the meticulous librarian in charge of the extensive collection that Arcade uses to educate himself for the revolution. Sariette is confounded and frustrated because Arcade scatters the books. When a volume of Lucretius, a very rare work, is lost, Sariette's mind snaps.
Maurice d'Esparvieu
Maurice d'Esparvieu (moh-REES dehs-pahr-VYEW), a wealthy, lazy young man whose guardian angel is Arcade. After an attempt to dissuade Arcade from his plans, d'Esparvieu regards him with quiet amusement and shares his clothes and his mistress with the angel.
Madame Gilberte des Aubels
Madame Gilberte des Aubels (zheel-BEHR day-zoh-BEHL), Maurice's mistress, who also bestows her favors on Arcade.
Satan, a sympathetic prince who, petitioned by Arcade and his army of rebels to lead the revolution against God, refuses. The rebel forces accept his reasons for not making war: If the revolution succeeded, Satan and his forces would become as God and the heavenly hosts; that is, they would lose their sympathy for humanity. War begets war, and the vanquished always seek to regain what they have lost. The real duty of the revolutionary army of angels is to stay on Earth to spread the doctrine of love and compassion because only by doing so can God be defeated and peace come to the universe.
Prince Istar
Prince Istar, a rebel angel who specializes in chemistry. He supports the revolutionary cause by manufacturing bombs.
Théophile (tay-oh-FEEL), an angel, approached by Arcade, who refuses to fight God. He is ashamed because he has satisfied his lust with a mortal woman, but he still respects God's authority.
Sophar (soh-FAHR), an angel who has become a Jewish banker named Max Everdingen. He will not join the rebel forces, but he offers to sell them munitions, the cost of which he would finance at his bank.
Zita (zee-TAH), a hostile female angel who wishes to join the ranks and fight as a man in the revolution.


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Fox News' O'Reilly And Watters Ridicule "Transvestites," "Gays" At Mermaid Parade
Fox News' Bill O'Reilly sent his producer Jesse Watters to interview participants at Brooklyn, NY's historic Mermaid Parade. The resulting video package mocked the appearance and demeanor of the interviewees — many of whom were dressed in drag — in order to imply the subjects were disgusting, deviant, and unfit to be around children.
The July 11 video package, part of a recurring segment on The O'Reilly Factor dubbed "Watters' World," featured clips of the Fox contributor conducting interviews with attendants and participants of Brooklyn's Mermaid Parade, a large art parade founded in 1983 with the goal of promoting self-esteem and self-expression in the Coney Island neighborhood.
The package featured Watters asking parade-goers dressed in drag and in costumes a variety of questions, followed by derisive reactions from either Watters or from inserted film clips that depicted famous actors and actresses in moments exuding disgust or disdain. One clip of an attendee dancing near Watters was spliced together with a clip of Jim Carrey's Ace Ventura character puking into a toilet. At one point, Watters asked a parade-goer — who revealed he was a teacher — whether he was "setting a good example" for children.
O'Reilly has a history of promoting damaging depictions of people who don't conform to strict gender norms, including advising parents to punish boys who like the color pink and warning that watching transgender people on television might cause kids to experiment with homosexuality.
The Watters' World segment is also symptomatic of Fox's broader transphobia problem. The network repeatedly uses the image of a "man in a dress" to mock and stigmatize the transgender community.
A number of equality groups, including the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and Basic Rights Oregon, have criticized Fox for its transphobic content.


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The Andy Warhol Museum is proud to present 'Theater of the Self' a survey exhibition of work by Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura. By quite literally assuming a place in these works, Morimura reimagines historical narratives and, in the process, conflates issues of originality and reproduction, gender, and race to create what he calls a "beautiful commotion."
The exhibition will focus on three important bodies of work: 'Requiem' in which Morimura recreates iconic photographs relating to 20th Century political and cultural life; the 'Actresses' series in which he assumes the personae of Hollywood luminaries such as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor; and his celebrated 'Art History' photographs in which he painstakingly restages canonical European paintings.
Morimura's fascination with the self-portrait, celebrity, and the nature of identity align him closely with the work of Andy Warhol. In fact, the artist has described himself as Warhol's "conceptual son" and, like Warhol, his practice presents a view of the self as something constructed through our relationship to the images that we create and celebrate.
October 6, 2013 - January 12, 2014, The Andy Warhol Museum
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HENDERSONVILLE — James E. "Ed" Inman, 80, of Hendersonville, died Friday, October 14, 2011.
A native of Muncie, Indiana, he was the son of the late Samuel Inman and Helen Stonehill Inman. He also is preceded in death by three brothers, Thomas, Robert, and Joseph Inman; two sons, James Eric Inman and Sgt. Matthew Inman (USMC); and his former wife, Virginia Bailey Inman.
He was a graduate of Gage High School in Chicago, IL. James served in the US Marine Corps from 1951-1953 and served in the reserves until 1959. He retired in 1990 after 40 years of service with Uarco Company in Chicago as a pressman. James was a past Commander of the American Legion Post #103 in Punta Gorda, FL and a volunteer firefighter in Lemont, IL. He has lived in Indiana, Illinois, Florida, and North Dakota, before moving to North Carolina five years ago.
He is survived by his beloved companion, Janet Mercurio of Hendersonville; four daughters, JoAnn Weller and her husband John of IL, Linda Queior and her husband Peter of NY, Nancy Kramer and her husband Detlef of CA, and Janet Schaefer of KS; three sons, Thomas Inman of IL, Paul Inman and his wife Mary of CA, and Lawrence Inman and his wife Audrey of MN; a brother, John Inman and his wife Charlotte of FL; fourteen grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Services will be private.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to: Wounded Warrior Project, 1111 W. 22nd Street #620, Oak Brook, IL, 60523.
An online register book is available for family and friends by visiting www.thosshepherd.com.
Thos. Shepherd & Son Funeral Directors and Cremation Memorial Center is in charge of arrangements.
M. Ann Davis, 82
M. Ann Davis, 82, of Fletcher passed away Monday, October 17, 2011.
Shuler Funeral Home will announce arrangements.
Paul Joseph, 72
HENDERSONVILLE — Paul Joseph, 72, died April 10, 2011 at Mission Campus in Asheville.
A memorial service was held Oct. 14, 2011 at the Western North Carolina State Veterans Cemetery.
To leave a condolence for the Joseph family, please visit "obituaries" at www.moore-fh.com.
Moore Funeral Home is caring for the family.
James E. "Ed" Inman, 80
HENDERSONVILLE — James E. "Ed" Inman, 80, of Hendersonville, died Friday, October 14, 2011.


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Originally posted on Raise the Jolly Roger! | Last updated 1/21/13
The Pirates are going to hold on to Francisco Liriano, according to Ken Rosenthal: Sources: #Pirates, Liriano have adjusted and finalized 2-year agreement. Liriano will assume risk due to injury to right (non-throwing) arm. — Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) January 21, 2013 If Liriano misses no time due to specific right arm injury, he still gets original $12.75M. First-year salary would reduce if he misses time — Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) January 21, 2013 That seems like pretty good news to me, although we still don't know the specifics of Liriano's injury–which is obviously a big factor. The lefty hurt his right am in December after agreeing to (but before signing) a 2-year, $12.75 with the Bucs, and the deal seemed to be in serious jeopardy. The key part of this new deal is that Liriano is assuming the risk of his injury, so the Bucs won't be paying for damaged goods. Once Liriano is ready to go, he completes the Pirates' rotation (along with Burnett, Rodriguez, McDonald, Karstens) and eliminates their need to rely on Jeff Locke or Kyle McPherson for the fifth spot. There's still plenty of uncertainty with Liriano, Karstens, and McDonald, but having Locke and McPherson as depth (plus hopefully Gerrit Cole and Charlie Morton later in the season) is a much better scenario than relying on them right away. As we've discussed, Liriano has not been very good in the last two years and is certainly a risk, but his high upside and strikeout ability make him a worthwhile addition. I still think it's very strange that we haven't heard any details on the severity of Liriano's injury (which occurred in December), and it's certainly possible that he could miss time this year, but given what we know today it seems like this is the best possible outcome–for now.
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The Jesuits of the Australian Province put out a fortnightly update on all their comings and goings. One of the recent editions had a wonderful little article on transitions and travel that seemed all too appropriate for the journeys we begin or complete in summer.
The link to the article can be found here. I've also pasted it below. It's by Father Chris Gleeson, SJ.
In transition20-MAY-2014
In early December last year, when returning from Auckland, I stopped at the Tullamarine airport's duty-free shop to purchase some spiritual sustenance for my Xavier Jesuit community. After discerning what spirit was most appropriate for my abstemious brethren, I went to the counter to pay for it. The young lady in attendance there greeted me with the question: Are you in transition, sir?' 'Yes', was my reply. 'Aren't we all?'
The young woman seemed stunned. So full of surprise was her countenance that I was reminded of the story of the American tourist in the late 19th century who went to visit the famous Polish rabbi, Hofetz Chaim. He was astonished to see that the Rabbi's dwelling was just a simple room with a desk and a chair. 'Rabbi', asked the tourist, 'where is your furniture?' 'Where is yours?' replied the rabbi. 'Mine?' asked the puzzled American. 'But I am only a visitor here. I'm only passing through.' To which the rabbi responded, 'Aren't we all?'
In March last year we were given a new pope in Francis, a leader who has captured the hearts of the world. 'Person of the Year', as voted by Time magazine, Francis in his leadership has modelled for us the importance of simplicity, of doing away with the superfluities and excesses of life, of engaging with people's hearts before trying to win defensive battles over dogma and doctrine. He is simply a breath of fresh air, as Pope John XXIII was, blowing through our church and our world.
Transition comes with both gain and loss. In gaining the courageous leadership of Francis, we lost the inspiration of Nelson Mandela late last year. Our world is much poorer for this loss. Some fifteen years ago I devised a course on leadership for aspiring Year 11 student leaders, comparing the influence of two quite different men who had spent some time in prison— Pedro Arrupe and Nelson Mandela.
Prior to his becoming the General of the Jesuits in 1965, the charismatic Pedro Arrupe spent many years as a missionary in Japan, a month of which in 1942 he experienced as a prisoner in Yamaguchi for suspected espionage. He reflected later on this period in captivity: 'Many were the things I learned during this time: the science of silence, of solitude, of severe and austere poverty, of inner dialogue with the "guest of my soul". I believe this was the most instructive month of my entire life.'
On his release, he comforted the prison governor with the words: 'I am not resentful to you. You are someone who has done me good … You have taught me to suffer.'
It is well documented that Nelson Mandela spent 27 years or 10,000 days in the most brutal of prisons on Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town. While the prison bars might have constrained him physically, nothing could impinge on Mandela's spiritual freedom. In his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, he wrote:
As a leader one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come. There are victories whose glory lies only in the fact that they are known to those who win them. This is particularly true of prison, where you must find consolation in being true to your ideals, even if no one else knows of it.
That Nelson Mandela could walk out of gaol 27 years later, without a tinge of resentment or bitterness in his heart, is testament to his freedom of soul and the legacy of spiritual leadership he has bequeathed to the whole world.
I have often quoted from an article written by a parent at a French Jesuit school in 1975. The importance of his words remains with me today. In seeking to elucidate his expectations of a Jesuit school, he wrote:
One arrives at a fresh stage of life only by freeing oneself from the last; by a renunciation. The process of growth is a series of renunciations: renunciation of womb-life, of breast-feeding, of exclusive love of the mother; renunciation of the cushioned atmosphere of home in favour of the brisker one of school; renunciation of the self-satisfied comfort of intellectual sufficiency in favour of the adventurous one of the spirit. There can be no checks, no resting-places. Stop at any stage of the journey and you will find that you settle down, you make yourself a refuge.
Our personal transitions might not have the media focus of a Nelson Mandela or even a Pedro Arrupe, but they are significant times for us. Each time we come to the Eucharist at the Penitential Rite we declare our need for change and growth, for the Lord's mercy and healing. If we don't commit to this transition in ourselves, we will stultify and die.
The metaphor of the pilgrim, so much loved by St Ignatius Loyola himself, is a very helpful one for us journeymen and women in life. Somewhere in his prodigious writings, Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth, Jonathan Sacks, distinguishes between the pilgrim and the tourist. Pilgrims are those people who want to engage with the world and not be mere spectators, people whose goal is less to reach a particular destination than to be transformed in the journey itself. A tourist goes somewhere to see something new, while a pilgrim goes somewhere to become someone new. Indeed, tourism protects tourists from becoming someone new by insulating them from the unfamiliar or the uncomfortable.
For one of the pithiest comments on the need for personal transition in our lives, we can return to the 19th century and the memorable words of Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman: 'To grow is to change, and to become perfect is to have changed many times.' May 2014 be a year of constructive transition for all of us!


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Student or Learner
Dear teachers,
I find the following is extremely difficult. And I can't find reference books. Could you please help me? The following is from the textbook.
1. 1,200,000,000
1 billion and 200 million or one point two billion (the use of 'point') is difficult for me
2. a hundred billion
Could you please tell me if I can use the word 'point'? If I can how should I write it?
Is it correct to write so 100,000,000,000?
3. 3,650,000,000,000
three trillion and six hundred 50 billion
If point is used how should I write the number?
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Thank you in advance.
Point indicates the decimal point in numbers. For example one half would be written 0.5 or zero point five.


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Asia › Vietnam › Hanoi › Hanoi Hotels
Classic Street Hotel/Pho Co Hotel
41 Pho Hang Be, Hanoi, Vietnam
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The right hotel if you want a strategic location in Hanoi Mar 25, 2009
The hotel is situated inside the Old Quarter in Hanoi, Vietnam. So, it is very strategic. All you have to do is just preparing your legs for walking around the area, buying from shops that are hundreds there or trying many varieties of foods if you are classified as a taste adventurer.
I chose this hotel because it is in a walking distance to Thang Long Water Puppet, the theatre where we will go tonight.
Beware that there are several Classic Street Hotels. In Vietnam, there is no regulation for giving the same name on the same business. Even if the regulation does exist, people just ignore :) So, you should have the address with you and also a map to point at the exact Classic Street Hotel you want to stay.
The hotel is very small if you see it from the front. Like most of hotels in Hanoi, its width is only around 6 metres. So, to go to your room you have to climb steps, many steps and they are steep. One room per floor. There are 3 locations of staircases and it goes to different rooms and different floors. It is just the characteristic of hotels around Hanoi because as my friend told me, the land there is very expensive (around USD 30,000 per m2). Imagine, a developing country but with that high prices for land and buildings. So, they have to figure out how to make a hotel with such a limited space like that.
When you see the room, the bed almost hits both of the walls and it is hard to go from one side to another side of the bed. Even to put and open your luggage needs a specific skill :)
Television size is only 14" inch, but it has colours, at least (not black and white, hehehe...)
The bathroom certainly has the same situation. It is very small. But everything is okay because we don't stay at the hotel for the whole day like we used to do when we stay in a holiday hotel/luxurious one.
What I really complain is that there is a noise coming from the wall at around 11 pm when we are sleeping, very tired after the flight and the show. Seems that somebody in the process of doing some renovations on the wall, but why the hell he does it in the middle of the night like that?
Because we are so tired, the busy noise can not stop us for sleeping at that night.
The breakfast is Pho! Actually, we can choose, whether has a western one or Pho. Of course we choose Pho because it looks similar with our noodle and we used to eat noodle as our breakfast back in my home country. The hotel staff has to buy the Pho outside (they don't make it by themselves) and the Pho is very delicious. I think it is more delicious than the one we took at Pho24 :)
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A two-energy equation model for dynamic heat and mass transfer in an adsorbent bed using silica gel/water pair
Solmuş, I., Rees, D. A. S., Yamali, C. and Baker, D., 2012. A two-energy equation model for dynamic heat and mass transfer in an adsorbent bed using silica gel/water pair. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 55 (19-20), pp. 5275-5288.
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In this study, the influence of the adsorbent bed dimensions, convective heat transfer coefficient between the cooling fluid and adsorbent bed and the thermal conductivity of the solid adsorbent material on the transient distributions of the solid and gas phase temperature difference, differences in the adsorbate concentration predicted by the instantaneous equilibrium and linear driving force (LDF) models, solid phase temperature, gas pressure and adsorbate concentration inside the adsorbent bed of a solid sorption cooling system have been investigated numerically for a nearly isobaric adsorption process. Silica gel/water is selected as the working pair. A transient two-dimensional local thermal non-equilibrium model has been developed that takes into account both internal and external mass transfer resistances. The local volume averaging method has been used to derive the macro-scale governing conservation equations from the micro-scale equations. It has been found that generally, the effects of the parameters investigated on the transient distributions of the temperature difference between the phases, difference in adsorbate concentration between the instantaneous equilibrium and LDF models, and gas phase pressure gradients are negligible small. The thickness of the adsorbent bed for the given adsorbent bed length and thermal conductivity of the solid adsorbent material have a large influence on the transient distributions of the solid phase temperature and adsorbate concentration. On the other hand, the transient temperature and adsorbate concentration distributions are only slightly affected by the variation of the adsorbent bed length and convective heat transfer for the conditions studied.
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Comedian Reggie Watts is not only great at making us laugh, but is a genuine musical talent as well. In this video, his voice serves as the background music that he lays rhymes down over.
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RJS and Terry Richardson defeated Godin and Shallmen as Cass Tech beat Catholic Central 49 to 13 earlier today.
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Wilson repeats opposition to Interstate 95 tolls
WILSON, NC (AP) — The Wilson City Council is repeating its opposition to tolls along Interstate 95.
The Wilson Daily Times reports the council revisited its 2006 vote against toll booths, taken when the North Carolina Legislature was just considering charging people to drive on I-95.
Earlier this year, the state Department of Transportation announced it would spend more than $4 billion widening and improving the 182 miles of I-95 in North Carolina, then charge tolls along the entire route to pay for the work.
Officials in Wilson say tolls would hurt locals who use the interstate and reduce the amount of tourism in the area. Wilson City Manager Grant Goings says other cities along I-95 are also planning to oppose the new tolls.
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"Paul Pierce said the Nets are gonna take over the city," the Knicks point guard said with a smirk Sunday. "It's hard for you to take over the city when we've got 'New York' on our chest and you've got 'Brooklyn' on yours. It's been this way since long before he started playing."
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Mapo Tofu Recipe
I made a variation of mapo tofu using ingredients I had available in the kitchen today. Instead of using fermented black bean sauce, I prepared a thick and spicy sauce with tomatoes, chili bean sauce and dried red chiles. I also added diced carrots and peas to the traditional silken tofu for a bit more nutrition. If you want to tone down the spiciness, you could replace it with sweet and sour sauce instead.
This is a quick and easy vegetarian meal when we're running out of ingredients and I'm just too lazy to run to the grocery store. Onions, carrots and frozen peas are always on hand in our kitchen and they go great together, so I often use them when I make mapo tofu. You can use pretty much whatever veggies are in your pantry though, so be creative!
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Soybean Soup with Gingko Nuts (Healthy Soup Recipe)
Soybean soup is my vegetarian version of Vietnamese crab soup, called "súp cua chay". I use instant soy meal that I buy at the Korean market. Once the soy meal mixture is cooked, the appearance of the soup is very similar to crab meat.
In addition to the "fake crab", I add fresh gingko nuts, sautéed shiitake mushrooms and enoki mushrooms to give the soup a meaty texture. The soup is light and healthy, so I serve it often as a first course.
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Pineapple Tofu Recipe with King Mushrooms
Pineapple tofu with king mushrooms is a great dish for both vegetarians and "meat-atarians", as my little munchkin would say. King mushrooms, also known as "abalone mushrooms", have a very meaty, chewy texture that I love. They complement the pineapple really well. If you can't find fresh pineapple, canned crushed pineapple will work fine. I made a sweet and sour sauce using canned pineapple and dipped the fried tofu in the sauce with the mushrooms.
Even if you are a "meat-atarian", it's worth working some vegetable dishes into your diet. It's good for your health, and if you try recipes like this one, it will be good for your tastebuds as well.
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Vietnamese Fried Bean Curd Soup (Hu Tieu Chay)
Lulu calls hủ tiếu chay (fried bean curd soup in Vietnamese) the ultimate Asian comfort food. The hearty broth is flavored with bold Asian ingredients, such as ginger, garlic and mushroom seasoning salt. There are a couple of uncommon elements; I used Fuji apples and rock sugar to add a touch of sweetness to the broth, and a Vietnamese variety of cured daikon radish (củ cải khô) that provides the signature flavor of hủ tiếu broth.
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NEW YORK He's been "in" the race for less than a week, and already faux-pundit Stephen Colbert has surged ahead of longtime candidate Gov. Bill Richardson in one national poll gauging the race for the Democratic nod for president. And watch out Joe Biden!
The Public Opinion Strategies poll this past weekend of 1,000 likely primary voters that included Colbert's name — as both a Democrat and Republican, as he wishes — found him drawing 2.3 percent in the Dem race nationally (though he is threatening to run only in his native South Carolina).
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But isn't Colbert a Republican? 😉