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The Vietnam War and the antiwar movements that it spawned have generated a vast number of books and films that have attempted to make sense of the war for younger generations of Americans. Although the academic and artistic output has been great, it has been dominated in recent years by revisionists who have sought to portray the war as just and in concert with the nation's democratic heritage. As a result, little attention has been paid to the emergence of VVAW during the height of the conflict and the organization's historical significance. VVAW has, however, recently become the focus of several academic studies and a documentary film by Denis Mueller entitled Citizen Soldiers: The Story of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
Mueller, who acted as producer, director and part-time cameraman for the documentary, showed his just-completed film at the 30th anniversary celebration of the founding of VVAW in Chicago. He intersperses film footage of the war, American political leaders, and VVAW actions such as Dewey Canyon III and the Last Patrol, with over a dozen members' reminiscences about VVAW and its development. What emerges is a comprehensive portrait of the VVAW from its founding to the present.
The use of the term "citizen soldier" in the title of the film provides a strong indication of Mueller's perspective. VVAW members are presented as patriots who spoke truth to the lies coming out of Washington and fought to safeguard the nation's democracy which had been undermined by the war. Veterans are portrayed as acting in concert with America's democratic heritage by lending their unimpeachable voices to the antiwar movement.
Citizen Soldiers opens with a shot of Jack McCloskey speaking at the 25th anniversary celebration in New York. Jack's assertion that "the rage, the frustration, the anger, and the alienation that we felt when we came home...are signs of sanity and not insanity" sets the stage for the first third of the film which uncovers the roots of this alienation and anger.
Having explored veterans' transformations from warriors to antiwar activists, the film then delves into the history of the organization. VVAW is depicted as an organization that not only played a significant role in challenging the Nixon administration's portrayal of the war but also offered a safe haven for returning GIs who had, for the most part, been shunned by those who had sent them to Vietnam. VVAW provided a context in which veterans could work out the traumas they suffered as a result of their experiences in Vietnam. VVAW members' antiwar work and their focus on aiding their former brothers-in-arms are seen as mutually supportive roles.
Finally, the film relates the historical significance of VVAW and its lasting legacy. VVAW members describe their pathbreaking work to gain recognition of PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) as a legitimate malady of the war. They also discuss the organization's work on discharge upgrading, Agent Orange, and other issues affecting veterans and their communities.
Denis Mueller, who previously produced The FBI's War on Black America with Deb Ellis, has done a great service for VVAW members whose struggles for peace and justice have been neglected by the majority of historians and creators of popular culture. What is more important, he has done a great service for younger generations of Americans who have been bombarded with revisionist accounts of the war during the past twenty years, and who have grown up in an era not unlike that of the Cold War that many VVAW members experienced at the same age. The hour-long length of the film is perfect for classroom use and should be used by anyone who is interested in providing a previously missing perspective on the war. The way in which war is remembered will have a decided impact on the reactions of young Americans to future wars. Citizen Soldiers provides further evidence of VVAW's continuing relevance to the antiwar struggle in the United States.
Richard Stacewicz teaches history at Columbia College in Chicago. He is the author of Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War.


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Foursum Golf
Let us know how we can make Foursum better.
Vote or comment on existing ideas or post your own. When you do, we'll keep you in the feedback loop as we roll out new features & functionalities. Thanks in advance, your feedback is always appreciated.
Hay team. Love the app all the way from Australia.
I would like to see drops added to the scoring system. Also sand, water and ob would be great so you can review your errors after the round.
Great app, keep up the good work.4 votes
Android wear
Any chance of getting this Android Wear compatible?1 vote
We have talked about doing this but have a few things we want to finish first. Definitely something on our radar. Thanks for the suggestion!
Add home course hole statistics
It would be nice to see per hole stats for a home course. There's a suggestion for stats per par 3/4/5 which would also be great, but being able to see what you average for score, fairways hit, gir and putts per hole would very very insightful.1 vote
Good idea. We'll have a look at this!
2 votes
Scheduling app
Enable a player to enter their availability time period and days. Invite other players.option to lock to selected group or open to all club members. The aim would be to maximize the coordination of players availability.1 vote
Add the ability to keep a generic scorecard if the course isn't in the database
There's alot of courses by me that aren't in the app's database. Because of this i cant use the app when im there. There should be a way to keep a generic scorecard and manually fill out what the par is, distance, etc.7 votes
number of putt per round
add a statistic for the number of putt for a round and the average for the season13 votes
Add first putt distance as a stat we can track.
Proximity to the hole will help in determining cause of number of putts per hole.3 votes
Allow Manually Added Course
It would be great if users could manually as a course and submit to you for approval and verification.
Can you add Candler Park in Atlanta, Georgia. Very popular and historic 9 hole public golf course.
Thanks, great app24 votes
Crowd source GPS data
Allow users to submit GPS data for a golf course. The course I play on regularly doesn't have GPS data, but I would happily record it for you.7 votes
Hey Andrew, we'll have to look into this to see if it is possible. Thanks for the suggestion!
Tap instead of scroll
I'd like to be able to tap my score while finishing a hole instead of scrolling to it. I'm using the android version and tapping would be much more convenient. Also, if there was an option to turn off the score's auto lock that'd be wonderful. Thanks for the great app!3 votes
Hey Drew, thanks for the note. We'll look into this and see what we can do!
Tracking greens more in depth
An option to track missed greens more accurately. Bunker scrambling. Missing long, left, right, or short. It would also be amazing if there was a way to record what clubs you used so when you look at career stats you can see that your gap wedge consistently puts it closer than your 60.14 votesPlanned · AdminAdam MacDonald (Admin, Foursum Golf) responded
Hey Mike, this is on our radar right now as part of a much larger suite of stats tracking. A lot of people have requested this functionality.
Im guessing you posted one of our iOS reviews today…12a34s56d78f: Rest assured that Advanced stats tracking is coming soon.
Thanks for using Foursum. If you have any other feedback, please dont hesitate to reach out and let me know.
Build in the capability to add non members to a game
When starting a new game allow a single user of Foursum to add non Foursum member(s) to his/her game. In the process of adding those player(s) prompt for an email address so you can invite them to be added after the round. This allows us to play a game and they can sign on later to see the results.16 votes
Thanks Bill! We will look into this.
Can you possibly add sand shots and drops8 votes
Last round, season stats, career stats
After my first Season with foursum I love the app. I played about 17 rounds and love seeing my statistics improve and update. As the new season has started I'm a little disappointed I can't see my career stats, just the stats of my current season of 2 rounds - which doesn't say much.
I'd love a page of stats featuring Last Round, Season, and Career. The season page should also have the capability of switching through seasons - as well as a table format listing your stats from each year (similar to how career stats are listed on an NHL or NBA website)
Love the app, look forward to this improvement.
After my first Season with foursum I love the app. I played about 17 rounds and love seeing my statistics improve and update. As the new season has started I'm a little disappointed I can't see my career stats, just the stats of my current season of 2 rounds - which doesn't say much.
I'd love a page of stats featuring Last Round, Season, and Career. The season page should also have the capability of switching through seasons - as well as a table format listing your stats from each year (similar to how career stats are listed on an…27 votes
Edit saved game
Be able to edit a round after you have saved the game. This would be for times when you realize your score has been entered in error after you save.8 votes
Ability to export scorecard data
As a user, allow me to export data from the application into excel so I can do my own custom analysis. For example: I want to export all my cards from one particular course and do my own analysis such as average score on each hole, determine which hole(s) are the most difficult to hit in regulation, which hole I 3 putt the most, etc.25 votes
6 votes
Different Games
I see that you have 4 different game types (stroke skins, etc.) any chance to add some more? Being able to set up teams (2v2 for instance) and play low ball, best ball, or alternating shot would be pretty cool.9 votes
Driving distance statistic
Keep up with driving distance as a stat. Love the accuracy part but if distance was also kept up that would be sweet.30 votes
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Director / Producer Atin Mehra was born and raised in Varanasi, India and currently resides with his family in Los Angeles, CA. In 1999 Atin picked up his first camera and began taking photographs. Atin's uncanny ability to connect with individuals from behind the lens eventually led him into filmmaking. His own personal struggles with abuse and discrimination in India drew him to stories of underrepresented and marginalized communities.
One of the first films he worked on was about female victims of dowry burnings -- a project he was forced to abandon when he started receiving death threats. In 2002, Atin directed and shot his first short film, Mitti ke Jivan (The Cycle of Clay) about a potter from the Kumhar caste. Atin lived and worked in India until 2005, when he moved to the United States with his wife, Mae Thornton Mehra. In 2007 he started his own production company, Orange Kite Productions. Atin has worked as a director of photography, cameraperson, line producer, and/or production coordinator on numerous documentaries, TV series, music videos, short films, and commercials, produced by a wide range of companies, including Sony Television, MTV, Television Nacional de Chile (TVN), Essential Image - New Zealand, and New York University.
Co-director / Producer Mae Thornton Mehra is an oral historian and filmmaker who earned her MA in Islamic Studies at Columbia University in New York City in 2008. As a FLAS Scholar Mehra documented the life and poetry of Nazir Banarsi through her original translations and oral history interviews recorded within Nazir's weaving community of Varanasi, India. Mae went on to pursue advanced level Hindi/Urdu as an American Institute of Indian Studies language fellow in Lucknow, India 2009-2010 where she continued to document the lives of ordinary people through oral history recordings.
Mae has collaborated with her husband and filmmaker, Atin Mehra on documentary film and other media projects at Orange Kite Productions since its inception in 2007. Mae brings oral history, language and historical expertise into the collaboration with Atin's photography and film experience. Mae is motivated to work with others to share untold stories with the world.
Mehra spends her time between her home in Los Angeles, CA and her home in Varanasi, India as the proud mother of her six-year-old daughter.
Producer Ryan Brooks and his company develop, finance, produce and also distribute narrative and documentary films. Mr. Brooks produced Inocente which was honored with the 2013 Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short Subject. Brooks produced Hitswritten & directed by David Cross, which had its world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. Brooks also produced the feature length documentary Slam Planet: War of the Words, which won an audience award at the SXSW Film Festival. Mr. Brooks executive produced The Elephant King starring Academy Award® winner Ellen Burstyn, Dean, written and directed by Demitri Martin, starring Academy Award® winners Kevin Kline and Mary Steenburgen as well as Demitri Martin. Dean had it's world premiere opening weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2016, where it won the Grand Jury Award for Best Feature Film and was acquired by CBS Films which theatrically released the film nationwide. Brooks most recently executive produced the documentary film Kusama: Infinity which had its world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by Magnolia Pictures which was theatrically released in late 2018. Mr. Brooks serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for Aspen Film.
Producer Jessica Latham Brooks worked briefly for the Austin Film Festival, before launching her career in Los Angeles, working in celebrity public relations for PMK-HBH. She then moved into the world of event production and marketing where she produced numerous celebrity charity events, notable brand launches, premieres and galas for clients in film, television, philanthropy, publishing and fashion. After moving to New York, she continued her career at Vanity Fair, handling special events from 2007 until 2011, including working on the magazine's legendary Oscar campaign.
Jessica moved back into the film arena in 2011. She was part of the producing team of the 2013 Academy Award® winning documentary Inocente. Her other producing credits include Sequoia, starring Aly Michalka of the pop duo Aly & AJ, which premiered in 2014 at the SXSW Film Festival, Hits, David Cross' directorial debut starring Matt Walsh, Michael Cera, Julia Stiles and Dave Koechner which had it's world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and International Premiere at Sundance London, and most recently Dean, starring Academy Award® winner Kevin Kline, Academy Award® winner Mary Steenburgen and Demitri Martin. Dean had its world premiere opening weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2016, where it won the Grand Jury Award for Best Feature Film and sold to CBS films. It will be released in the spring of 2017. Jessica serves on the Soho House New York membership committee as well as the Aspen Film Board of Trustees.
Editor Kevin Klauber, ACE (b.1986) is most known for editing two Oscar®-winning feature documentaries: ICARUS and 20 FEET FROM STARDOM, for which he won an American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Award. Kevin's editorial debut, PEARL JAM TWENTY, came under the direction of Academy Award®-winner Cameron Crowe. Since then, he's contributed editorially on numerous feature documentaries and documentary series, including the 2016 Oscar®-nominated documentary WINTER ON FIRE (Netflix), ECHO IN THE CANYON, COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK (HBO), CROSSFIRE HURRICANE (HBO), BEAUTY IS EMBARRASSING (BRKLY / Tremolo Productions), HARMONTOWN (BRKLY / STARBURNS), CHICKEN PEOPLE (MOTTO Pictures / CMT), THE RUNNER-UP (Lightbox Entertainment / Esquire), and UGLY DELICIOUS (Tremolo Productions / Netflix). He studied film at the USC School of Cinematic Arts with an emphasis on editing and directing. In 2012, Kevin was nominated by the WGA EAST for the feature documentary he co-wrote and edited BEAUTY IS EMBARRASSING. He has been nominated twice for the Golden Reel Award in sound editing by the MOTION PICTURES SOUND EDITING ASSOCIATION. In 2012, he was selected to attend Werner Herzog's ROGUE FILM SCHOOL.
Editor Austin Flack After graduating from film school at USC, Austin has mostly worked as an editor on TV shows like Catfish and Top Chef. In between TV gigs, he has traveled to over 49 countries and made documentaries for inspiring non-profits in places like Australia, Thailand, Liberia, Bangladesh, and Mali.
Editor Martin Walter-Burch started off in London/UK as an assistant editor working on several BBC & Channel 4 Documentaries and moved to LA where he now edits Documentaries, Reality TV shows & Promos.
Advisor Vinay Lal is Professor of History and Asian American Studies at UCLA. He earned his Ph.D. with Distinction from the University of Chicago in 1992 after undergraduate and Master's degrees in literature and philosophy from Johns Hopkins University. He writes widely on Indian history, historiography, public and popular culture in India, the Indian diaspora, colonialism, human rights, and the architecture of nonviolence, Gandhi, and the global politics of knowledge systems. His seventeen books include the two-volume Oxford Anthology of the Modern Indian City (Oxford, 2013); Political Hinduism: The Religious Imagination in Public Spheres (ed., Oxford, 2009); The Future of Knowledge and Culture: A Dictionary for the Twenty-first Century, co-edited with Ashis Nandy (Viking Penguin, 2005); Of Cricket, Guinness and Gandhi: Essays on Indian History and Culture (Penguin, 2005); The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India (Oxford, 2003); Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy (Pluto Press, 2002); and, most recently, India and the Unthinkable: Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics I, co-edited with Roby Rajan (Oxford, 2016) and A Passionate Life: Writings by and on Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (Zubaan Books, 2017), co-edited with Ellen Carol DuBois. His work has been translated into Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, French, German, Spanish, Finnish, Korean, and Persian. Works in progress include two books on Gandhi, a political study of fasting, and a book on internet Hinduism. He also has the distinction of being listed among the "101 Most Dangerous Professors in America" in David Horowitz's book, The Professors, quite likely the only fifteen minutes of fame he will ever have in his life. He blogs at vinaylal.wordpress.com and maintains a YouTube channel at


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WWU to test alert system Wednesday morning
Western Washington University will test its Western Alert emergency notification system at 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, April 15.
The test will include voice messages over the campus fire alarm system, sending text messages to those who have registered for them, and emailing students and staff. The message also will be posted on the university's web page, Facebook page, Twitter feed and its emergency communication page, emergency.wwu.edu.
New for this test will be a desktop computer notification. The program has been installed on all university computers on campus. During the test, a message will come across the screens. Users will need to click the green "acknowledge" button to make the test message disappear.
The Big Ole steam whistle will not be used during this test to better measure the effectiveness of outside speakers, according to WWU officials.


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Best Translator's Note Ever/
How cool is this? I got this note from the woman translating my book The Sum of Our Gods into Croatian (horror novelist Viktoria Faust, known in Croatia as "The Croatian Queen of Horror") :
"Just sending you few words so you know what's going on. I translated your novel and I love it soooo much! It's perfect. I knew I would love it because the topic was just what I like, but it's just so perfect, clever and funny, your characters, your writing style, your voice makes you one of my favorite writers ever. And I know lot of people here who will love you. Also I think you should write a script and send it to Netflix 😀"
I hope her translation is a big enough hit that I get to go to Croatia to thank her in person!


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Hugh Jackman height, wiki, net worth, age and wife
Hugh Jackman height, wiki, net worth, age and wife
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October 26th, 2016
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October 12, 1968
Net Worth
USD 150 million
50 Years old
Deborra-Lee Furness
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Fact, Bio, and Height
Hugh Jackman is a prominent Australian actor, singer and producer. Hugh Jackman is best receognized for his main role in The Wolverine and X Men. The bio of the very talented and handsome, Hugh Jackman is given below.
Hugh Michael Jackman was born on 12th October, 1968 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia to Grace McNeil and Christopher John Jackman. He is of Greek descent. Jackman went on to attend Pymble Public school, Knox Grammar School and Uppingham School. He joined University of technology and graduated with a degree in BA in Communications.
Career and path
According to wiki, Jackman began his career in acting in 1994 with an appearance in TV series, Law of the Land. He is mostly noted for his appearance in TV series like The Man from Snowy River, Punk'd, An Aussie Goes Bolly and more. Jackman came into the limelight in the movie arena with his role in X-Men in 2000 as character Logan/ Wolverine. Since then he has been credited for movies like Swordfish, X2: X-Men United, Van Helsing as Gabriel Van Helsing, Happy Feet, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Les Misérables as Jean Valjean, Pan as Blackbeard, Eddie the Eagle,and more. He will soon be seen in 2017 movies, Logan, The Greatest Snoman on Earth and Larrikins. For his exception work in the cinema, Jackman has received a nomination in Oscars, won a Golden Globe, a Primetime Emmy and more.
Married and personal life
Hugh is married to his wife, Deborra-Lee Furness. His wife, Deborra is a well-known Australian actress and producer known for her work in TV series, Falcon Crest. The couple couldnot have children because Deborra was having miscarriages, thus they decided to adopt two children named Oscar Maximillian and Ava Eliot.
Fact, Bio, and Height
Hugh Jackman's age at present is 48 years old but he looks younger than his actual age. Jackman's height is 1.88 m and his weight is 82 kgs. His height perfectly matches his weight to form a masculine body. Hugh is an advocate of regular exercise and healthy eating. Hugh Jackman's net worth is noted to be $ 150 million. His net worth is noted to have accumulated mostly from his work as an actor in box office hit movies like The Wolverine, X Men and more. The bio of the very talented and renowned, Hugh Jackman can be found on various social media sites like wiki, IMDB, Twitter, Facebook, and more.
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Fitbit Alta HR review: Waking up the wearables
Fitbit has improved on almost every aspect of the original Fitbit Alta, and created an impressive wearable for everyday wear.
- Excellent 7-day plus battery life
- Stylish design with interchangeable bands
- Detailed sleep tracking
Could be better
- OLED display hard to see in full sunlight
- Not enough personalised insights in the app
- Not water resistant
The latest Fitbit fitness wearable introduces detailed sleep tracking and seven day battery life.
It was only last year that Fitbit announced its fashion-friendly Alta wearable, a slimline device that offered basic step and sleep tracking with a narrow monochrome OLED display.
Just over 12 months later, the second generation of the device has hit shelves. Not only does it address many of the shortcomings of the original, but some redesigned internals sees the integration of Fitbit's 24/7 heart rate sensor.
By combining the additional sensor with some clever new software, Fitbit has introduced the ability to detect REM sleep, with updates to the Fitbit app including new sleep insights to provide a more holistic approach to tracking your health.
While a software update means the same sleep tracking is now available for both Fitbit Blaze and Fitbit Charge 2 users, the Alta also promises a superior 7-day battery life in a sleek, comfortable design.
Like last year's model, the Alta HR also offers interchangeable bands to account for both personal style as well as different situations, so you can comfortably accessorise your Alta HR to wear at both the gym or in a cocktail dress.
Fitbit Alta HR design
If you hold the Alta HR side by side with last year's Fitbit Alta, there are two notable differences. The first is the twin flashing green lights of the Alta HR's heart rate sensor, and the other is the new wrist strap which does away from the troublesome twin clip attachment in lieu of a more traditional watch clasp, which makes it significantly easier to remove and attach.
But the front of the Alta HR is the same – a shiny black screen with silver sides. The replaceable bands mean you can opt for a variety of bands to suit any fashion. While I only tested the default offering in black, the option to throw the actual tracker into a leather strap or even full metal bangle was definitely noteworthy.
The Alta HR ships with the option of two strap sizes, catering to wearers of all wrist diameters, and the tracker itself somehow manages to look appropriate on both large and small wrists.
Fitbit Alta HR Fitness Wristband from rebel SportView details
The small OLED screen is clear, and conveys almost all the information you need through a series of faces, which you tap the device to cycle through. The catch is that the screen can be almost impossible to read during the day in sunlight.
Charging is done through an included proprietary USB clasp attachment, similar to the one used by the Charge 2. It's easy to attach, though it's not reversible so does require some checking to correctly line up the metal prongs.
Unlike the Flex 2, the Alta HR isn't waterproof, so no taking it swimming. It can handle heavy sweat sessions, but best not to submerge it in water if you actually like your wearables to work.
Fitness tracking
For all intents and purposes, the Alta HR is a narrower version of the Charge 2, offering the same 24/7 heart rate monitoring and detailed sleep insights (more on that below). The big difference is the lack of a physical button to manually track workouts on the Alta HR. Instead, you have to either rely on the automatic activity tracking of your device, or manually start the activity monitoring via your smartphone app.
This functionality is probably going to be the biggest discerning factor for someone deciding between the two devices. For casual users looking to just add a level of accountability to their fitness activity, the automatic tracking works well. Every walk, run, outdoor bike, elliptical session, aerobic workout or sport you do greater than 10 minutes in duration will be picked up by the app.
It's not perfect. Mowing the lawns on a weekend will generally get picked up as an outdoor bike, for example, but it's still surprisingly accurate. It also doesn't track your location by default. If you want your workout mapped, you'll need to manually start the activity on your phone.
The heart rate component on the new Alta device tracks your pulse every five seconds, which gives a solid indication of both active heart rate and resting heart rate. Through the Fitbit app, this also allows deeper analysis of your overall fitness level, plotting you against other people of your gender and age bracket. This information is tied into weight loss goals, so you can visualise your potential fitness improvements with increased exercise. Which is, let's face it, the whole point of getting a fitness tracker in the first place.
You snooze, you win
While the detailed sleep tracking has made its way to both the Blaze and the Charge 2, the fact it launched with the Alta HR makes it a key selling point of the newer wearable.
Thanks to the inclusion of the heart rate sensor, the Alta HR is capable of tracking not just basic light and deep sleep like previous Fitbits, but also REM sleep. It's not the first wearable to offer the ability to track when you're dreaming, and there's a question mark over just how useful that information can be in terms of daily fitness tracking. While Fitbit has introduced a "sleep insights" function to try and convey the benefits of a good nights sleep to users, there's still plenty of room for improvement.
Every morning the app gives a graphed representation of your night's sleep, broken down into four stages: Awake, REM, Light and Deep. You can compare every night to your 30 day average, as well as the typical ranges for people of your age and gender.
Which is interesting information, to be sure, but what does it actually mean? That's where the Sleep Insights section comes in. Every day, Fitbit will offer some tidbit of information about sleep, along with a link for more information.
The problem is that the information isn't very personalised. After a month of using the function, the most personal tip I received was that I was going to bed too late to get my desired 7.5 hours sleep and getting up at 6am.
Most of the time, insights were more general, like the fact a chemical in your body called adenosine is what makes you sleepy. For two weeks, I also tracked my food and water intake, in the hopes for more detailed feedback. Despite having a few drinks one night, it was over a week later that I received a general insight that alcohol before bed could upset my sleep rhythm.
Interestingly, the science of sleep and its benefits to overall health is only just starting to be understood. Hopefully, Fitbit will be able to better leverage that research to offer focused, specific, individual tips to improve sleep patterns on devices like the Fitbit Alta HR in order to make the tracking much more useful.
The Fitbit app
While the Fitbit app is not a new experience for current Fitbit owners, newcomers to the Fitbit ecosystem will find it mostly comprehensive. The addition of deeper sleep tracking also sees a few tweaks in how information is displayed.
From the app's homepage, your activity is given prime position on the screen. Steps, distance, calories and active minutes are all represented as circular graphs, tracking towards your predetermined goals.
Below that, you are given the option to manually tack your exercise, as well as your sleep performance. With the Alta HR, the sleep graph is represented as a semi-circle, broken into four different colours highlighting the different stages of your previous night's sleep.
From there, you are given a semi-circular representation of occasions during the work day when you've taken more than 250 steps per hour, in an attempt to encourage you to be more active during your work day, alongside the heart rate module displaying your resting heart rate.
The final set of features track your food and calorie intake, your water intake, and your weight progress, although they require manual entry. This is probably the most disappointing element of the Fitbit app. The food library is comparatively weak, with the vast majority of items we scanned or tried to add not being present, and requiring a rough approximation to match it.
Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any real insights conveyed by tracking this information. I hoped that adding a few glasses of wine before bed or eating an excess of fatty foods would give me specific pointers that doing these things would impact my fitness and sleep goals, but no such custom, individualised guidance occurred.
Being able to deliver real personalised insights based on the information being tracked has to be the next big focus for Fitbit, otherwise the information lacks the cut through to help keep users motivated.
Fitbit Alta HR: The verdict
The passion for the wearables market may have cooled over the past couple of years, but Fitbit is still the manufacturer to beat. The Fitbit Alta HR is one of the best fitness trackers on the market, offering a comprehensive suite of features in what is, frankly, the best looking fitness tracker on the market right now.
The Alta HR isn't a tracker for super-active people looking to comprehensively track every aspect of their fitness regime, at least not exclusively. Instead, the Alta HR is designed to appeal to the general market, with a design that can suit almost everyone, and interchangeable bands to suit almost any occasion.
But regardless of its target audience, the Alta HR does a good job. Its seven-day plus battery life is pretty remarkable given the size of the tracker, and the Fitbit companion app is still among the best out there, despite its under-par food tracking component.
If you're looking for an everyday fitness tracker with some advanced sleep tracking, this is a great option. For those who want the ability to manually track activities easily from the device, the Charge 2 offers that function plus everything else the Alta HR brings to the table.
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What was unique here was not that the conversation was being had - frankly that conversation has been well-worn in public health and nursing environments - but it was being had in a conference where not thirty minutes on either end, investors were talking about Unicorns, returns, and multiples. Importantly, these conversations were integrated, not just being had in parallel. This is where disruptive innovation happens. In this space. Where finally healthcare is being understood as the holistic beast that it is - that "tech" in and of itself cannot solve it wholly, but it can have meaningful impact. That in the most expensive areas of healthcare, the unmet need is not an app, but access to food. And that ultimately, your zip code can be more important to your health than your genetic code.Read More


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Newsletter - 1 June 2017
Asia Pacific Championships Seoul May 27-Jun 7, South Korea www.abf.com.au
Three of our club members are in the Women's Team representing Australia. We wish them all the best. They are Margaret Bourke, Marianne Bookallil and Jodi Tutti.
Arjuna De Livera is in the Senior's Team.
Four members playing from the CBC is a major achievement.
Christy Geromboux is the Non Playing Captain of the Girls team.
Upcoming Events
Danish Pairs Thursday Evenings 8, 15, & 22 June - This is a Swiss Butler Pairs event allowing pairs to play each other on more than one occasion. The only restriction is that the Pairs cannot play each other on successive rounds. Red Masterpoint.
Danish Teams Tuesday Evenings 13 & 20 June – This is a 2 week event featuring short matches of between 6 & 8 boards. Teams can play opposing teams more than once during the event, but can't play the same team twice in a row. They can, however, play opposing teams twice in the same night. Red Masterpoints
Southern Tableland Teams Day –
1st A Powell, E Dudley, P & R Crichton
2nd D Hoffman, B Waters, S Mendick, G Kozakos
1st S Hegarty, D Uzubalis, M Waight, M Robbie
2nd C Hughes, C Hassall, C Bywater, M Hyland
Eclectics for May
Thursday Blue Gordon McAlary, Jeanette Harper
Thursday Butler Denis Grahame, Bill Tutty
Friday Lance McDougall, Harold McCormick
Saturday Martin Holmes, Kerry Holmes
Monday Red Emlyn Williams, Val Brockwell
Monday Blue & Yellow Rasma Bandle, Ines-Maria Hodgkinson
Monday Evening Tamara Cutcliffe, David Clarkson
Tuesday Claudia Whitty, Arjuna De Livera
Wednesday Red Sue Doyle, Jim Murray
Wednesday Blue Rasma Bandle, Ines-Maria Hodgkinson
Wednesday Evening John Hempenstall, Clem Davis
15-27 July 2017
Thoroughbred Park Function & Convention Centre, Randwick Road, Lyneham
You have a once in eight years opportunity to play in this tournament at home.
Events range from one-session pairs to two-day or longer Butler pairs; with categories including Novice, Restricted, Open, Women and Seniors. We look forward to seeing you there.
Brochures are available on the table in the upstairs foyer.
The website is http://www.abfevents.com.au/events/anc/2017/
If you have any questions, please ask
Master the Basics
These lessons start at 9.15am sharp. The next lesson is Wednesday June 7, with Barb Toohey. The topic is Declarer Play-NT "Plan the Play-Sure tricks, Establishing tricks". Stay and play in the session starting at 10.00am.
Supervised Sessions
Supervised sessions, with a lesson preceding the play, are on Monday nights at 7pm, and Thursday mornings at 9.30am.
Barb and/or Jeanette & Anne look forward to seeing you there.
Topics for June-
5th and 8th June - Pre-empts. 12th and 15th June - Weak two openings. 19th & 22nd June – Strong 2C opening.
During the month of May, one of our club stalwarts – Liz Van der Hor – accepted the task of managing the mentoring programme. Which we have conducted over May for the last couple of years. Altogether we had 40 requests for mentors and 31 volunteers to look after them. A particular feature of the programme this year was the high number of new players from the supervised player group who participated.
It is fair to say that the programme is a success and that we are very lucky as a club to have some of our top players willing to act as mentors.
When we offer the programme next year, I strongly recommend it to you. It offers a wonderful opportunity for beginners, novices and intermediate players to obtain tips from better players.
On your behalf I extend sincere thanks to Liz and the mentors. Liz, you did a fabulous job and it is appreciated by all.
This is an annual event and was run very successfully last Sunday. The event attracted 20 teams, the members of which enjoyed the play and the excellent lunch and morning and afternoon teas and post play nibbles and drinks.
Again, on your behalf, I extend our thanks to the team of helpers led most ably by Mary Tough. The rest of the team included, Claire (creator of the Chicken, Corn and Bacon Soup) and John Hughes, Cathi Bywater, Pam Crichton, Rosa Ferranda, Julia Hoffman, Lisa Westwood, Susan Walters, Kerry Holmes, Peter Andersson, Ella Beer, Bev Crossman, Val Carmody (Lentil Soup), Kerry Butcher (Pumpkin Soup) and Lesley Gunston (Vegetable and Ham Soup), Niek Van Vucht who managed the bar and the many members who cooked up a storm and provided cakes, slices and biscuits which were consumed with gusto by the players.
I also say thank you to Richard Brightling who for two years has mown the footpaths and has now decided to call it quits.
At the time of writing the Australian teams are competing in the Asia Pacific Bridge Championships in Soeul. The Australian Womens' Team includes three of our club players – Margaret Bourke, Jodi Tutty and Marianne Bookalil. The team is coached by John Yoon a local youth player of Korean descent who speaks the local language and the Non Playing Captain is David Appleton. Both of these are also CBC members. Arjuna Delivera is also in Soeul as part of the Australia 2 Senior's Team.
I have sent a message of support to the whole team on your behalf.
Happy bridging
Perelle Scales, President


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Jessica Norwood
is founder of the Runway Project. She is also the executive director of the Emerging ChangeMakers Network, an organization dedicated to working with inspiring leaders and innovative ideas that end economic inequality. As a leading social entrepreneur in her region, she supports strengthening social enterprise and social investing as a way to build community resiliency. Jessica previously spent years in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere, as a political fundraiser and consultant, raising millions of dollars for various campaigns. Jessica is a past member of the board of directors for the Highlander Research and Education Center, a former Emerging Leaders Fellow at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, and the Political Power Fellow with the Hip Hop Archive at the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University.
Konda Mason
is a social entrepreneur, earth and social justice activist and spiritual teacher. She is the Co-Founder and founding CEO of Impact Hub Oakland, a beautiful inspiring co-working space that supports and connects socially engaged change makers and social entrepreneurs. She is the Project Director of the Runway Project Oakland, a micro-lending fund for African American entrepreneurs intended to close the "Friends & Family" gap funding that is often unavailable to them. Additionally, Konda is the co-founder of the annual COCAP (Community Capital) conference in Oakland, with a focus on "Building the We Economy".
Working alongside Michelle Long, she is one of the co-founders and co-facilitator of The Well-Being In Business Lab - Oakland, a cross-sector initiative guiding prominent business owners, non-profit leaders and government officials to a deeper level of intention within themselves and their businesses.
Ms. Mason, along with her partners actor Woody Harrelson and Laura Louie, owned the first home delivery service of organic food in the Los Angeles area and were the first to negotiate an organic food section in a major grocery store in 1997. Along with other "firsts", Konda, working with a small cadre of activists, managed to stop a coal-fired power plant from being built in Borneo, Malaysia in the world's precious Coral Triangle. Additionally, Konda leads annual eco-tourism trips to the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador in order to wake people up to become active stewards of this vital earth ecosystem that is being threatened by the extractive oil industry.
Konda is an accomplished filmmaker and artists manager and the recipient of an Academy Award nomination and a Grammy Award winner. Konda holds a Permaculture Design Certificate, is a certified yoga teacher and a meditation teacher. She sits on the Board of Directors of The Good Work Institute, Krista Tippett's On Being, United Roots/Youth Impact Hub, and Spirit Rock Meditation Center where she is in a four-year Dharma Teacher Training with Jack Kornfield as her personal mentor.
Konda is also a co-founder of Jubilee, a new business of wisdom keepers and wealth holders, focused on joyfully preparing the next generation of investors to meet this moment and align their capital with their deepest values.
Konda's work is fueled by a passion to witness in her lifetime a world that is environmentally regenerative, spiritually fulfilling, socially just and economically equitable.
Rani Langer-Croager
founded Uptima Business Bootcamp to address the challenges of traditional entrepreneurship programs and business accelerators in providing accessible education and mentorship to a diverse group of entrepreneurs. Rani has drawn on more than 15 years of experience advising organizations on strategic and financial planning, capital raising and mergers and acquisitions to develop the model for Uptima. Prior to co-founding Uptima, Rani was a member of the founding team and vice president at Altius Education where she raised over $30 million of capital to fund development of the company's educational ecosystem.
Rani began her career as a successful investment banker and has led and participated in over 30 financing, merger, acquisition and joint venture transactions, representing over $15 billion in value, for leading technology companies. She has extensive experience supporting very early stage entrepreneurs as an organizer, coach and judge for numerous hackathons and startup challenges.
Rani also co-hosts Envision Radio Show on Voice America Internet Talk Radio, where she features guests who are accelerating the shift towards building an inclusive, just future. She serves as a Board member of the California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity (CAMEO) and on the advisory boards of the Alliance for Community Development's Bay Area Entrepreneurship Alliance, Oakland Grown, and Project Equity. Rani received her Bachelor's degree with a double major in Mathematics and Economics from Duke University, was a recipient of the university's prestigious William J. Griffith university service award and was selected as a semifinalist for Young Trustee on the university's Board of Trustees.
Nish Evans
leads product development, market research and partnership initiatives for the Runway Project.
Nish brings over ten years of financial services experience to The Runway Project, including roles in venture banking, community banking and insurance. At Square 1 Bank, a leading provider of commercial services and products to entrepreneurs and their investors, Nish performed due diligence, underwriting and financial modeling/forecasting for early, expansion and later-stage technology and life sciences companies.
Prior to Square 1, Nish was a financial planner, supporting statewide initiatives to promote financial education and wealth building resources for state and local government employees throughout North Carolina.
Nish is passionate about bringing attention to startup ecosystems outside the Bay Area. She serves as Program Manager and Co-Disruptor with Black Wall Street, a Durham-based nonprofit focused on providing minority entrepreneurs building scalable businesses with access to capital networks. She is also treasurer and board member of Urban Ministries of Durham, where she co-leads social entrepreneurship and workforce initiatives to foster employment opportunities for permanent housing.
Nish is an avid wellness junkie, and outside of all things startup related, enjoys spending time with her husband and two sons.
Nina Robinson
is the Oakland Project Director. Nina is an impact capital convener with over 10 years of experience working with mission-driven entrepreneurs and innovative investment models including The Runway Project Oakland, Buen Vivir Fund, Homestake Ventures, and as a RSF Integrated Capital Fellow in 2017-2018.
Nina has advised numerous small businesses on strategic growth, capital raising, impact and organizational development which has resulted in creation of 400+ local good jobs, and the facilitation of over $10M in capital investments. At ICA Fund Good Jobs, Nina managed a $2.2M investment portfolio and provided consulting, capital raising support, and board participation to portfolio companies. Nina is experienced with raising Integrated Capital stacks including philanthropic, and non-extractive equity investment, via private placement, crowdfunding and Title III crowd-investing platforms.
Nina received her MBA from the Lorry I. Lokey School of Business at Mills College, and holds a Bachelors degree in High Technology
Management from California State University. Nina holds a Certificate for Board Directorship from the Anderson Graduate School of Business at UCLA. Nina sits on Credit Committee of The Runway Project, and Advisory Board for JustBe a Black women entrepreneur collective. When she isn't working towards economic justice, you can find her DJing around the globe as Nina Sol.


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[Locative Media] The added value of pointing: geovector
It's good to see enbodiment in computer science. Relying on deictic acts is an interesting way to interact with objects. This is the point of geovector. They havedeveloped "a number of applications that show the potential and actual benefits of pointing in real world situations." Among all the applications (there is of course a "point of buy" app but I am not really fan of it), the "Real Doom" seems pretty cool (even though it reminds me the ARQuake but with less augmented reality spin). The features of this Real Doom are:
- Using positioning to allow the user to move around and the heading sensor to point their weapon
- Real Doom turns the real world into a gaming environment. Any location can be turned into a gaming area. Easily create game maps with your friends or go online and download the latest map for your location.
- With communications via CDMA, GPRS or WiFi Real Doom is multi-playable, with the ability to play against other real world competitors or even play against console or pc opponents!
- As Doom created the FPS genre, Real Doom is creating the Real Gaming genre. Soon we will see other exciting 3D titles for the Real World.


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Hollywood isn't afraid of taking sex out of the bedroom. From streets to the car wash, here are 10 randy spots movie characters have knocked boots.
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The rise of video games has had a bigger effect on Hollywood than just direct adaptations. Here are our favorite movies influenced by gaming.
Review: Crank
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
Short version: An insane, bloody, gratuitous, funny rollercoaster of a movie that doesn't pretend to be anything beyond that
Going in, the one thing I didn't expect this movie to be was funny. I had more laugh out loud moments during Crank than I did while watching the supposed comedy Clerks II. Before you decide to go see this, be aware that it earns its R-rating on every level: content, situations, language, violence, gore, sex and nudity. (Fine, now everyone will rush out to go see it.)


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Lambs! Four of them, scattered around the barnyard.
But that can't be, I argued with myself.
October, September, August, July, June...
Counting the months backwards finally rouses me awake. But it took me a few more minutes to settle from the nightmare.
I love lambing season--but I also am reveling in these carefree November days.
We are in that sweet spot of the year when our livestock numbers are down--and I'm carrying very little hay and water.
The lambs went to market last month, and we sold the two rams earlier this month. No longer do we deliver water to the lamb pasture, the breeding ewe pasture, the ram pen, the dry ewe pasture.
The 15 remaining ewes and the llama all hang out together. With pasture still available and a warmer-than-usual fall, that means I deliver one five-gallon bucket of water to the sheep daily.
The winter flock. No, the one playing the wheelbarrow game is not a ram; she's a ewe. I checked--multiple times.
The horses, too, are able to graze the pasture at night. During the day, they receive only one flake of hay each.
Earlier this fall, we sent the young roosters to the butcher and merged the young chicken flock with the old chicken flock. We're only delivering food and water to one group.
That means chores take 15 minutes, morning and night. And most of that time is spent playing with the barn kitty.
These carefree days will end soon, when freezing temperatures arrive and I become the ice breaker. Eventually pastures will be grazed down and I'll become the hay hauler. And the 15 minutes will become 20, then 25 and 30.
For now, though, I'll enjoy it--and try to avoid those sheep dreams.


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Funny, very funny.
**holding side while giggling**
that is funny! thanks for sharing!
Hummm Batman to the rescue!
Just jump in my mouth, I will save you!
OMG, that is funny!
My Batman – never…
Too funny hon..
My computer is old school and not so great with color, at first I didn't notice the shadow. I kept looking at the fish thinking…Batman sperm? *sighs*
LOVE this! I really needed the laugh too, thanks 🙂
Hee hee!
The whole family just love I can has cheeseburger.
Thanks for the giggle…. even got a chuckle out of Matt 🙂
I'm glad you all liked this one. It has to be one of my favourites. *g*
Tam: It is.
Cecile: "Just jump in my mouth, I will save you!"
*snort* Boris Boy would probably want to get into the water to play with the prettie swimming things.
Val: It still makes me laugh.
EH: You should try it with your Batman to see what happens and report the results of the experiment back to us. 😀
KC: Batman sperm?? You're so reading to much fan fic.
Mariana: I'm glad that it gave you a giggle and brightened your day. Job done!
Chris: *gigglesnort*
Tish: I made Matt laugh?? My life is complete. 😛
That's way too funny! Love it.
Very funny! I might have to steal that.
Amora: You can just picture it can't you. LOL.
Eyre: I have appropriated so many of the pics from your tumblr account so I think it's safe for you to go ahead with the stealing. 😉
LOL, too cute!
Lily: Very. 🙂
Tracy: Yep. Some of the people who come up with the captions etc are very, very witty.
This is incredibly embarrassing, but initially I read the caption and was like WTF? Huh? And then I saw the shadow…brilliant! Am now going to hide my head in shame 😦
I keep telling people I have no sense of humour!
Orannia: What do you mean you don't have a sense of humour?? You got it and laughed, didn't you. Nuff said. *g*
*nods* Yes, Batman can be scary sometimes, Lea. Very scary.
You got it and laughed, didn't you.
Well, eventually 🙂
See. There you go. 🙂


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I am very thankful that I was able to spend this day with my family, in a warm house, preparing delicious, nutritious food.
I am thankful that I was surrounded by cuddly, furry friends who seem to embody love.
I am thankful for the wonderful people in my life, who although they send me love and appreciation always, took the opportunity today to reaffirm this.
I am thankful that today exists as a reminder to be grateful and thankful, to think of others, and to offer compassion and assistance to those who are in need.
Happy Thanksgiving.


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Interview: Giuseppe Santamaria
With images shot for Mr Porter, GQ Australia and Harper's Bazaar, a recently released photographic book and the much loved website 'Men in this Town' under his belt, Giuseppe Santamaria is a street fashion blogger paving the way for Aussie style snappers.
With Giuseppe's images now appearing in numerous campaigns around the world and the launch of a sister website 'Women in this Town' a little over a year ago, Santamaria has certainly established himself as a true triple threat in the online world.
Last week, Makers of Melbourne met up with the Canadian born, Sydney based lensman, as he celebrated the Melbourne launch of his style bible 'Men in this Town' at Henry Bucks' flagship Collins street store.
According to Santamaria, 'Men in this Town' was originally inspired by a personal need to develop his skills behind the camera. The softly spoken Giuseppe made the clever decision to start a blog in his adopted hometown of Sydney, a city lacking in sartorial snappers.
Santamaria: "There were older photographers like Saul Leiter, who had always inspired me and I loved seeing the romance in his shots. I always wanted to get into photography, although I wanted something solid to focus on. Menswear was something that I was interested in and street style was just starting to emerge and become popular in 2010, so I decided to go with that. It made sense to start in a city that didn't have much of that going on. It was probably something that was unique at the time, and very niche focussing on men. It just took on a life of its own."
With a background in Graphic Design, and (until recently) a full-time gig working as the deputy art director for Good Weekend Magazine, Santamaria immediately saw the value in creating his own "personal style column" and although there were many days spent out on the streets only to return home without shooting a single frame, he found the thrill of the chase was motivation enough to keep going.
Santamaria: "It was the challenge that I liked about it. I could walk the streets for a whole day and not get a single image. But it was nice to have the chase to go along with it. I did Sydney for the first 2 years solid and I managed to get a lot, it was about being persistent and as the menswear scene has grown there's been a lot more to photograph."
Once 'Men in this Town' began to attract serious attention, Santamaria made the tough decision to quit his day job and focus on building a personal brand. There was a book deal pitched to publishing house Hardie Grant and only 2 weeks before he was due to leave his job at Fairfax, he was advised that his work would be printed in hardcover.
Santamaria: "I just needed to take that leap. There were more opportunities coming in and it seemed like the best time to do it. It was hard to choose the images for the book. There are a lot of old pictures in there that I wanted for sentimental value, but at the same time there's only so much that you can print. I don't think a lot of photographers necessarily know how to edit, but being from a design and editorial background I know how to kill a photo."
With a second book, 'Women in this Town' due for release in mid 2015, Giuseppe is about to jet off on a whirlwind trip around the globe to find and shoot subjects for the new tome. Although 'Women in this Town' initially started life as a side project, the astute snapper can see the value in putting his own unique spin on women's street style.
Santamaria: "When I'm looking for women [to photograph], it's the same as when I'm looking for men. It's a confidence and an almost masculine energy. It's a bit of a challenge, because of my natural instinct, so it'll be interesting to see what shots I come away with, and if they [his subjects] are more masculine or feminine."
Starting in March and with only a month and a half to shoot, Giuseppe will be covering six cities including London, Paris, New York, L.A and, Makers is pleased to hear, Melbourne.
Santamaria: "What's great about Melbourne is that it's more expressive, more creative. There's a bigger artistic community and it's more, for lack of a better term, New York like, where Sydney is more L.A. The cultures are very different, and there's more of a buzz, more experimentation here, whereas Sydney is more laid back."
Santamaria: "It's an intense schedule, but I work best under pressure. You know, at first I was scared about trying to make a living from my passion, trying not to loose the shine of the task, but if you do it your own way and be true to yourself it can work. I don't have ambitions to create something massive, I'm happy for it to be a nice small project. I get to travel and money's not an issue - not that it's something that was a great concern for me - As long as I can make a living and I get to travel too, what else do you want? Money can't buy happiness. Be surrounded by good people, be a good person, that's what I care about."


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152 Heath Place, Donnelly
Stunning parcel approximately 1.5 miles from Boulder Creek State Park. Beach & boat access at Cascade Lake. Great views and some trees for added privacy. Developer may finance.
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Ableton Live 6 - Have it your way with Live's mixer
Objective: Configure Live 6's Session View mixer to your specific needs. Background: In version 6, Ableton made the Session View mixer far more configurable, as well as capable of showing more information about a channel. As this configurability can take up more screen space if used to the fullest, Live includes several customization options.
- To change channel width, click on the line to the right of the track name; the cursor turns into a bracket. Drag left to decrease width, right to increase. To change channel height, click on the splitter line above an audio channel's fader (or a MIDI channel's meter). The cursor turns into a double arrow. Drag up to raise the height, drag down to lower. When set to its narrowest width and height (as shown), all you see is a short fader and three buttons (channel active/inactive, solo, and record).
- Making the channel strip one step "wider" reveals the pan control (the numeric field to the fader's left).
- Widening the channel strip further shows a channel peak indicator, which turns chartreuse to indicate when an overload has occurred. Click on the overload indicator to reset it.
- Dragging the channel to its maximum height extends the height of the fader and meter — good for precise level adjustments.
- Increasing a channel's width after increasing its height shows a numeric value in the peak indicator. This indicates how much the track's highest peak is above, or below, 0. Also, a rectangular field opens up to show a numeric value for the fader setting.
- Widening the channel even more turns the pan field into a knob; rotating the knob displays its numeric value in the lower left part of the status bar.
- Extending the width further shows meter/fader calibrations.
- Use the buttons toward the mixer's lower right to show/hide various sections (sends, delay, crossfader, etc.).
- The narrow width in step 1 allows parsing level/pan settings quickly, and lets you fit lots of tracks on the screen.
- Changing width also affects the send controls. With a strip at its narrowest, the send controls aren't visible. Increasing the width shows the sends as fields with numericals, and increasing further turns the fields into controls.
- When the overload indicator circle is white, the signal has not gone above 0 for that channel since playback began.


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Midweight Graphic Designer
- Recruiter
- University of Salford
- Location
- Salford, Greater Manchester
- Salary
- £24,029 - £27,025
- Posted
- 11 Apr 2019
- Closes
- 09 May 2019
- Contract Types
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Design Disciplines
- Graphics
- Job Functions
- Designer
Midweight Graphic Designer
£24,029 - £27,025 Ref: 1796598
This is an exciting time for the University of Salford; in line with ambitious plans, we are currently seeking a graphic designer to support the marketing campaigns and plans of the University's internal clients, with emphasis on creativity, innovation, efficiency and ROI.
Working as part of a team of design, digital and content specialists, you will ensure the production of compelling and coherent marketing and communications materials. You will take responsibility for multiple projects, respond to creative briefs and ensure your designs are coherent, meet brand guidelines and remain on-brief.
The wider team within which this role sits also includes dedicated marketing and market research teams. You will recognise and embrace the need to drive internal engagement to achieve a shared understanding and ownership of student recruitment, professional services and school marketing agendas under the broader university marketing remit.
You will have relevant design and production experience across print and digital channels and a good understanding of the full marketing mix. You will promote creativity and innovation whilst ensuring quality, consistency and efficiency in all areas of marketing activity.
In return for your expertise, we offer a stimulating environment, competitive terms and the opportunity to make a real difference.
All appointments will be made on merit, and as an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons.
In recognition of our commitment to create a diverse team that draws from our widest talent pool we would particularly encourage applications from groups who are currently under-represented at this level, which in this case is our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) applicants.
We offer flexible working patterns, enabling our colleagues to accommodate work life balance.
To apply please click the Apply button.
Closing date: 9th May 2019


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By Gajan Tharmabalan
Pixar is one of the few companies that went from relatively unknown, to Oscar-calibre talent house. While there are many stories that document their meteoric rise to success, some of the best come out of the actual artists that work within the company. I came across this article by Leo Babauta that documents 8 creativity lessons from Bernhard Haux, a Character Technical Director at Pixar. Be sure to go through the entire list and see what really hits home with you. My favorite excerpt is as follows:
Art is your particular telling of reality. When we talked about letting go of preconceived ideas and drawing what you actually see, Bernhard compared it to a night out with one of his friends. While Bernhard might just recount that night by saying, "We went out and had some food and went home", his friend might have noticed a lot of interesting details that Bernhard didn't, and tell a story with those details in a way that's interesting and hilarious. Same experience, different interpretation, different details.
Original source found here.


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The Best Tech TED Talks
Short, powerfully influential and modern talks on every subject have become a staple in cultural learning and education. We explore the worldwide phenomenon of Ted Talks through the lens of tech.
With talks debating mental health, physics, travel, relationships, office life, and media, there are over 2000 talks available to view right now for the budding listener.
As a digital tech company, we utilise the world of the Ted Talk for our own personal development in the field. We never underestimate the power of information saturation, and the benefit that educating ourselves on topics outside of our peripheral can bring. However, when we're craving a bit of tech talk, Ted is our go-to for an industry debate, innovative discussion and new perspective on a digital update.
So today we're sharing our the Best Ted Talks for Tech today, for any budding tech enthusiasts, experienced engineers, or professional prototypers to get their tech chat fix.
How Better Tech Could Protect Us From Distraction
Tristan Harris
This Ted Talk is perfect for the procrastinator. Discussing how the tech we work on daily is actually the problem that keeps up procrastinating, Tristan Harris breaks down the way we approach distraction and value of information in the digital age. Building up on his own ideas of technology to prevent distraction, Harris describes the way in which we prioritise, agree to be distracted and force ourselves to not-work through the technology we have at our disposal.
10 Top Time Saving Tech Tips
David Pogue
Ted Talk legend David Pogue at his finest, spending barely 5 minutes very simply explaining the basic tech tricks that we ought to know but don't. From space bars to camera shutters, he covers every small tip that will save you time when browsing, working, shooting, or playing with your favourite form of tech.
The Anthropology of Mobile Phones
Jan Chipchase
A true fascination of Nokia research, Jan Chipchase, is the notion of 'carrying', and the role that our mobile phones play in our day to day carrying of objects. In his Talk on the Anthropology of Mobile Phones, he discusses the location of phones in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, the essentials of our daily lives, and the symbolic purpose that a phone has in our basic need for survival.
Computing a Theory of Everything
Stephen Wolfram
In a more tech-heavy Ted Talk, Stephen Wolfram shares his quest to make every single piece of knowledge computable, from everyday discussions, feelings, and plans, to the physics and dynamics of the planet. In his own words, he aims to achieve a 'computational universe', and highlights how tech is his key to doing so.
The Technology of Touch
Katherine Kuchenbecker
Describing the importance of her personal project, Haptography, in this Talk, Katherine Kuchenbecker talks about how the everyday interfaces we use could be improved by including the sense of touch. Using the example of untouchable museum exhibits, she describes how these, along with online retail and dentistry could be improved and become more engaging through Haptography.
Ted Talks are a great, modern way to keep up with the world of tech from the perspective of the professionals. So get online and start listening, we've got plenty more recommendations to come.


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Meet Republican Deanna Maria Metzger
Hi there! My name is Deanna Maria Metzger and I'm running for Texas House of Representatives District #107. Our country, and more specifically our community values are at risk and if we do not heed the call to action that we've heard, we risk losing the fundamental rights of limited government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
I' m not your typical politician – I did not seek out this path – and I never knew that God would lead me in the direction of one day being a candidate. I'm running to be OUR State Representative and I'm asking for your support, your vote, and most importantly your prayers.
Deanna's Background
I grew up right here in Mesquite. I went to Shands elementary, Vanston middle school and graduated from North Mesquite High School. I received my BA from UTA and graduated with honors from the University of Denver College of Law a semester early. I will fight for our schools, as I'll be the first representative elected that went through this district's public educational system.
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I've been an active member of a local church for many decades. I'm a founding member and current President of the First Ladies Republican Women's Club. I volunteer every week at Agnew middle school because I want to give back to my hometown.
I've worked on numerous campaigns for many years, but I never knew that God would lead me in the direction where I would one day be a candidate. I ran because I know that the political climate today requires a new wave of honest conservative and accountable office holders to properly represent us!


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What We Are Doing
Amplifying voices in India 2 Sep 2015
Written by Bidisha Pillai, Director Advocacy, Campaigning and Communications, Save the Children India
Save the Children India's efforts on advocacy, campaigning and communications paid off last week as they built up momentum on child and maternal survival. Over the past few months, India's advocacy and campaigning team has been working very closely with the Indian Government and civil society partner organisations to take the agenda of maternal and child survival to the top.
25 August - Race for Survival
The week started with 2,000 children and youth from 200 schools come together for Race for Survival and raising a 'Call to Action' to ending preventable child deaths in the country.
On the 25th of August, a bright and sunny day, thousands of children collected at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi to participate in the unique race and demand better healthcare facilities for every mother, every child. Children from over 20 schools across Delhi participated in the race, which was organised by action/2015 partners Save the Children, Nine is Mine and UNICEF.
Ms Sunita Godara, who has run 71 full marathons and holds the record of running the maximum marathons by any Indian, was the chief guest at the event. We also had Ms. Caroline den Dulk, Chief, Advocacy & Communications, UNICEF India, Ms. Bidisha Pillai, Director of Advocacy, Save the Children, Amitabh Behar, National Anchor, action/2015 India and Brother Steve, National Convener, Nine is Mine address the crowd and educate them about the importance of the year - 2015.
The Race was held ahead of the Global Call for Action meeting, hosted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, wherein several commitments at a global scale were made for ending preventable child and maternal deaths.
Check out the photos on Flickr.
26 August - The Civil Society Consultation
On 26 August, Save the Children India convened an International Civil Society Consultation with over 100 participants from all stakeholders including the Government, development partners, CSOs and community based organisations.
We had top level representation from development partners including USAID Deputy Mission Director, UNICEF's Deputy Executive Director, Tata Trusts head of Partnerships; leading Civil society voices and the Health Minister of Zambia – who came to our platform and committed to taking specific measurable steps to end preventable, Maternal, Child and Newborn Deaths in her country. The Government of India representatives although unable to attend the event due to the Call to Action Summit preparations, expressed their support through a strong statement from the Additional Secretary and Mission Director NHM, Mr CK Misra who said,
"My sincere apologies for not being able to join you all this morning, although I had every intention of doing so. But circumstances beyond my control mean that I am unable to join you in person, However, I am very much present in spirit.
….But to ensure that we are inclusive, and get a diversity of voices and opinions, we thought that the idea of a civil society consultation a day prior to the Summit will allow for a richer and more varied set of comments and reflections to come through. We are very pleased that Save the Children has pulled this event together - I wish you a day of fruitful discussions and look forward to hearing the outcomes in our Summit on the 28th."
In support of our objective for political visibility on the new Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health, we engaged Emerine Kabanshi, Minister of Community Development, Mother and Child Health, Zambia to share closing remarks at the CSO consultation and she received the Race for Survival baton from youth delegates who participated in the Race for Survival, with a lobby letter focused on the new Global Strategy and specific recommendations from Save the Children in Zambia.
Recommendations from citizens shared through the 100+ Citizens' Hearings, held earlier in the year, were shared during the consultation, and Aparajita Gogoi of White Ribbon Alliance India used the consultation to demand for increased support for accountability platforms for the updated Global Strategy and the health SDGs.
The main Objective of the consultation was to discuss progress made (specifically by CSOs) and what needs to be done to address the unfinished agenda on MDGs 4 & 5.
Key outcomes:
a) A set of recommendations for governments to consider as they get set to agree development goals and targets for the next decade.
b) A set of recommendations that set out how governments could engage more with citizens and civil society in tracking progress on women's, children's and newborns' health.
Find the full set of recommendations here, and our asks on accountability, and a common reporting/ review framework also made it into the final Government Declaration document.
27-28 August: The Call to Action Summit
In 2002, the United Nations General Assembly passed the landmark resolution to build "A World Fit for Children." That historic act has helped to save and enhance the lives of millions of children around the world.
In 2012, Governments, civil society organizations renewed this promise to children, through the Global Call to Action which was co-convened by the US (USAID), Government of India and Government of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia in Washington DC.There was a follow up regional meeting in Ethiopia in January 2013 and in India in February 2013 and several national child survival call to action plans. A second anniversary event was held in Washington, DC in 2014.
Nearly 180 countries signed the pledge in 2012 that committed to ending preventable child deaths. Since then, countries have also committed to ending maternal and newborn deaths as well as significantly reduce malnutrition.
A third Promise Renewed event took place on August 27-28 in New Delhi, India – the Global Call to Action for Preventing Child and Maternal Deaths - hosted by the Government of India. This event came on the heels of the Financing for Development Conference and just ahead of the UN General Assembly. 22 countries with the highest burden of Child and Maternal deaths attended.
Save the Children India was represented on the Steering Committee for the Call to Action alongside USAID, UNICEF, BMGF, TATA TRUSTS, WHO etc., represented ably by Thomas Chandy, Save the Children India's CEO. In addition, we were present on two sub committees - Communications and Marketplace for best practices, which resulted in strong inputs to the communications plan, content for the Book launched at the summit - Born to BE, and 3 Save the Children case studies being selected as Best Practices at the Marketplace – Afghanistan (recognised for systems strengthening ), Nigeria (for demonstrating partnership delivering the Health Act), Nepal (convergence on ground to deliver results).
- The Coffee Table Book titled 'Born to BE' released by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi at the inauguration ceremony of the Summit had over 15 photos from Save the Children collection!
Save the Children obtained 3 speaking slots for Save the Children in the Main Global Call to Action summit including Robert Clay, Vice President for Global Health Save US, David Oot, Senior Adviser for Health and Nutrition and Thomas Chandy – who reinforced key messages and asks on maternal, child and newborn health, and presented our recommendations from the CSO consultation which have been shared with all 450 delegates and representatives of the 22 countries who attended the Summit.
The Health Ministers from Ethiopia and Afghanistan received Race for Survival batons with lobby messages asking for their commitment towards child survival. Robert Clay, VP for Global Health at Save the Children US met with the First Lady of Mali and the attending Health Minister, speaking for an hour about our work in Mali. The First Lady appreciated our efforts in Mali as an organisation and committed her support towards our work on child and maternal survival. The head of the delegation from Indonesia also received a Race for Survival baton, and discussed collaboration in New York regarding events in support of the Global Strategy and women's and children's health.
The last 10 day were a great example of campaigning and mobilisation, communications and advocacy around one of our key breakthrough areas – child survival – which we achieved working collectively with colleagues across the organisation.


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