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Opening from April are two pop-up shops in Quaker's Friars, Cabot Circus, Bristol. And yes, for those who know all about shopping independently, these are familiar faces: Paper Scissors Stone and Made in Britain return.
But, with a new hexagonal look on their joint flyer.
The design process, in this instance, began with a discussion with Bryony Morgan, the mind behind Made in Bristol, as to what the role of this flyer should be. We talked about how people respond to adverts, a flyer's longevity and whether it could have multi-purpose roles.
Previous joint flyers had advertised one shop on each side, which - while providing a dedicated space for more information about what each shop had to offer - the viewer would only ever see one side, when casually glancing at it, and may never realise the double-sided and double-advantage of going to the same area for both shops.
We also wanted to avoid a sell-by date on the flyer - i.e. including a date for a launch or specifying a time period the shops were open for. By removing any mention of a date, then all the printed flyers could be used to advertise the shops, the website and be placed in various locations or given out to customers, without them being veiwed as defunct promotional media.
Finally we wanted to create something that could be seen as a piece of artwork in its own right, maybe even something that a viewer would pin up somewhere. Conceptually, we wanted to hint at a working creative community. The interlocking nature and strength of a beehive honeycomb structure seemed to convey this idea.
Drawing on a colour palette, provided by fellow designer Dan Hayman, and working with hexagonal shapes, inspired by honeycombs, we developed a pattern that could be tweaked to create an eye-catching flyer front that doesn't give too much away.
Carrying over the hexagon shapes and colours to the back of the flyer, provided a link to the front. Information was kept to an absolute minimum, with the onus on the viewer to play detective and find out more.
The flyer is printed on matt stock card, softening the colours, lending a slight screen-printed aesthetic to the artwork and the white space - on the reverse - allowing and easy-to-take-notes surface.
The hexagon shapes and colours will also be used in the window displays and interiors of both shops, lending coherence to the whole brand.
I'll be knocking back a launch-night tipple on 2nd April - more details here - while checking out the world of handmade gifts and artwork from talented Bristol (and beyond) people. Come join.
Hexagon pop-up shops
Opening from April are two pop-up shops in Quaker's Friars, Cabot Circus, Bristol. And yes, for those who know all about shopping independently, these are familiar faces: Paper Scissors Stone and Made in Britain return.


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Neylan Architecture
At Neylan Architecture, we design built environments.
Our experience in work ranges from Macro scale urban interventions to Micro scale detailed design. Irrespective of job scale, the Neylan team aim to work one-on-one with each client in order to ensure we cater to their unique requirements.
As a constant in the Architectural Landscape of Brisbane City, Neylan Architecture continues to deliver tailored design solutions to our clients, time after time.
Our professional approach has four guiding principles :
1. Accessibility: We communicate with our clients in their own language
2. Pragmatism: We are not ideological. We design what works best for our clients
3. Sensitivity: Our design solutions respond directly to client's specific needs
4. Responsibility: Our work aspires to the enrichment of our physical environment
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Louis Roederer Cristal Brut 2008
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|France, Champagne, Reims
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Wine EnthusiastThis latest incarnation of the famous brand is a superb wine. It is on par with, maybe even better than, the already legendary 2002. Its balance is impeccable: Apple and citrus flavors working with the tight minerality to give a textured yet fruity wine. Produced from Roederer's own vineyards which are mainly biodynamic, the wine has its own intense purity and crispness. It has amazing potential and is likely to age for many years. Drink from 2020.
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Wine AdvocateLet's start describing the 2008 Cristal technically first. It is a 60/40 blend of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from 36 plots in seven grands crus: Verzy, Verzenay, Beaumont and Aÿ for the Pinot Noir and Mesnil, Avize and Cramant for the Chardonnay. Twenty-five percent of the wine was fermented in oak, and 16% underwent malolactic fermentation to moderate the fresh acidity of the 2008 vintage. The assemblage was bottled in May 2009. After 8.5 years on the second lees (longer than any Cristal before), the first release was disgorged in September 2017 with a relatively low dosage of 7.5 grams per liter. So, here is how it tastes as a "young" cuvée: The 2008 Cristal opens bright, super clear, fresh and pure on the exciting, absolutely fascinating nose with its fine, complex and elegant bouquet of gorgeously ripe and matured fruits, brioche and chalk expressions. This is the finest you can get from Champagne. The palate is pure, lean, fresh and filigreed but concentrated, highly complex, full of tension and enormously vibrant. This is a great vin de terroir, a dense and elegant Super-Cristal that goes straight and precise as a laser beam over the palate but also has texture in the form of sensually fleshy fruit. The dosage, however, is the lowest ever: just 7.5 grams. The endless and highly tensioned finish is complex, citrusy fresh, full of chalk and crystalline finesse. The 2008 Cristal is a vitalizing drug, "the Chevalier Montrachet of Champagne," as Jean-Baptise Lécaillon puts it. It is the most exciting 2008 Champagne I have tasted thus far (May 2018).


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It's Wine-Thirty
I won't even begin to bore you with the details of my long Saturday, except to say that H was pushing limits, didn't take a nap, and we are both grumpy. Oh, and S is out of town with The Guys. Here's what I want. Right now. With fancy pizza.
The Prisoner 2008 California
When no other zin blend will do. Excellent for when you feel like you are on the verge of breaking out of prison.
Hocus Pocus Syrah Santa Barbara County 2008 California
A Santa Ynez syrah? Pour me another, please.
Dancing Coyote Petite Sirah Clarksburg 2008 California
Okay, this one I have not tried, but I am eager to because I have loved other Dancing Coyote wines. And easy on the pocket!


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"Linked-In and You" with Constance Peters, John DeAngelis, Carl Gessman, and Tom Weibrecht. Linked-In, the world's largest professional network, can provide added momentum to your job search. Bring your laptop.
Connie Peters is a certified financial planner. Carl Gessman and Tom Weibrecht are members of the Westchester Project Managers' Institute. John DeAngelis, a fine arts photographer and senior graphic artist for PinkChairPrints, will provide free headshots.
Meet in the Edwards Room. Free headshots available before the meeting, starting at 6:45pm.


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Five Star Professional has named Jason Longtin as one of the Massachusetts recipients of the 2014 Five Star Wealth Manager award. The award winners appeared in a special section in the February issue of Boston Magazine. Five Star Professional partnered with Boston Magazine to conduct research to identify a select group of wealth managers who are exceptional in both their ability and their commitment to overall satisfaction. Approximately ten percent of the 6,600 licensed wealth managers in the Framingham area (including Bristol, Essex, Norfolk, Middlesex, Plymouth and Suffolk counties) were selected.
Jason Longtin, Financial Advisor, Northeast Investment Advisors (Photo: Business Wire)A survey was provided to approximately one in twelve high-net-worth-households in the Framingham area. Survey respondents were asked to evaluate wealth managers they knew through personal experience and to evaluate them based upon ten criteria. Both negative and positive evaluations were included in the scoring. Only wealth managers with a minimum of five years of experience were considered. Each wealth manager was reviewed for regulatory actions, civil judicial actions and customer complaints as reported by regulatory agencies. The final list was reviewed by a panel of local financial services industry professionals. Five Star Professional provides localized, independent client satisfaction research on the performance of service professionals. Five Star Professional conducts research with consumers, and industry peers and leaders, to identify service professionals who score highest in overall satisfaction. Award candidates also undergo a thorough regulatory review. Five Star Professional joins forces with city and regional magazines to make the research results available to consumers in more than 40 markets across the United States and now, Canada. Five Star Professional was founded in 2005 and is based in Minneapolis. For more information, go to: www.fivestarprofessional.com About Northeast Investment Advisors Jason Longtin is an Investment Advisor and Vice President of Investments with Northeast Investment Advisors, located in Framingham, MA. Mr. Longtin is also a registered representative of Investors Capital Corporation, Member FINRA/SIPC. He specializes in asset protection and investment management, retirement and income planning, tax efficiency strategies, as well as education and estate planning. Mr. Longtin may be reached at (508) 424-0686 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Please feel free to visit on the web at www.northeastia.com. About Investors Capital Corporation: Investors Capital Corporation (ICC) of Lynnfield, Massachusetts is the premier independent broker/dealer and investment advisor subsidiary of Investors Capital Holdings, Ltd. (NYSE MKT: ICH), a financial services holding company supporting a nationwide network of financial advisors. Our mission is to provide them with 5-Star Service sm and support, including advisory programs, strategic practice management and marketing services, and technology, to help them grow their businesses and exceed their clients' expectations. We are the recipient of the 2013 Broker/Dealer of the Year award. Business units include Investors Capital Corporation, ICC Insurance Agency, Inc., and Investors Capital Holdings Securities Corporation. For more information, please call (800) 949-1422 x4814 or visit www.investorscapital.com. Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available: http://www.businesswire.com/multimedia/home/20140313005966/en/


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Over 50 self-proclaimed avgeeks gathered last night at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh for Oshbash, a social media meetup designed to allow Twitter friends to meet in person. Developed by aviation writer Dan Pimentel, this year's Oshbash theme was centered on a "GA Power Collective" and featured a panel of industry experts. Its aim? Determining how industry groups can work together to grow the pilot population to one million certified pilots.
Pimentel is the editor of Airplanista Aviation Blog and is part of the popular "Blogging in Formation" group. He has organized two Oshbash events in the past, the first in 2011 and another in 2013. The 2011 event was a small social media meet up that included about 15 people, Pimentel said. But it didn't take long for the enthusiasm to spread; last year's Oshbash attracted a crowd of approximately 100 "avgeeks" – more people than could fit into the press tent.
"The event is about allowing people – avgeeks – who correspond on Twitter and other social media outlets an opportunity to meet each other at Oshkosh," Pimentel said. This year, Pimentel was inspired by his own blog post in which he laments, "My Christmas wish for 2013? One million active pilot certificates in the FAA database by December 31st, 2014."
Pimentel thinks working together as a GA Power Collective could help do this.
"All of these organizations- EAA, AOPA, GAMA, LAMA, WAI and others – we all have the same goal in mind, which is more pilots. But whatever we're doing separately isn't working. We all need to work together." Pimental said.
Last night's event included a panelist of industry leaders and influencers who fielded questions from Pimentel and social media users.
"It's been a good year for social media," Pimentel told the crowd at the event, adding that social media is one way we can continue to connect and ignite enthusiasm about aviation. He went on to introduce the panel members, which included:
- Dr. Frank Ayers, Chancellor, ERAU-Prescott
- Dick Kapinski, Senior Communications Advisor, EAA
- Dr. Peggy Chabrian, Women in Aviation International
- Brittney Miculka, Director of Outreach at AOPA
- Dan Johnson, President, LAMA
- Martha Phillips, President, The Ninety Nines
- Kathryn Fraser, Director of Safety & Outreach, GAMA
A panel discussion ensued about how to market the industry better, how to encourage women and grow the female pilot population, and what each of us, individually can do to help.
"It's doable," said Dick Knapinski, Senior Communications Advisor for EAA. "But it goes beyond introducing someone to their first flight. Each of us, individually, must make a difference."
Dan Johnson, President and Chairman of the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association (LAMA), said "We should start by not losing pilots, and then we can think about getting more." He added that at one point, there were 2.5 million people that had student pilot licenses and we should be doing more to retain students.
Audience members continued the discussion on Twitter, live-tweeting questions, panelist quotes and their own ideas with the hashtag #Oshbash, and it was live-streamed with support from otherpeoplesairplanes.com.
The event wrapped up with a few door prizes. Pimentel didn't cut any corners in the donations department, securing some pretty awesome giveaways, including a pair of augmented reality glasses by Aero Glass, Flying Eyes sunglasses, a Sporty's Radio, an aviator watch, t-shirts and books.
Reaching one million pilots by December 2014 is a lofty goal. Working together with this goal in mind can only help grow the general aviation industry, but it's really grassroots efforts like Oshbash and the enthusiasm of pilots like Dan Pimentel that will make a difference in the future of general aviation.


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Destiny Festival of the Lost is upon us, dear readers, and to ensure budding Guardians are up to speed on the limited time event, Bungie has rolled out a new blog post detailing everything you need to know.
Available across PS4 and Xbox One, the themed event brings with it spooky new quests, items, as well as new and returning masks. There's also a Broom Sparrow up for grabs, and YouTuber Arekkz Gaming offers up a step-by-step guide on how to acquire the festive item below.
- New Quests – There are new Quests available during Festival of the Lost. These Quests must be started while the event is active and should be completed before the end of Festival of the Lost to ensure players receive their rewards.
- New Festival-themed Items – There are several new Festival-themed items to earn through gameplay or purchase from the Eververse Trading Co. store. These items may only be earned or purchased while the Festival of the Lost event is active.
- New and Returning Masks – This year's Festival of the Lost introduces new Masks that can be received through gameplay or from purchasing Treasures of the Lost from the Eververse Trading Co. store. Several of the Masks introduced in Festival of the Lost 2015 are also available to earn through gameplay or from purchasing Treasures of the Lost. The Blue Skull Mask from Festival of the Lost 2015 is not available to earn or purchase.
- Holiday Item Collection – A new Holiday Item Collection is now available in Tower North near the Emblem Collection. Previously acquired Masks can now be reclaimed from the Holiday Item Collection. For more information, including information on the location of the Collection, please see our Item Collections guide.
Destiny Festival of the Lost will continue through until November 8 (1:00 AM Pacifc, 9:00 AM UTC). Will you be joining in on the Halloween-themed shenanigans?
[Sources: Bungie, Arekkz Gaming via VG247]


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From Jim Gilliam's blog archivesUpscale, Vaguely European Ambience
March 24, 2002 4:23 PM
David Shields talks with Howard Schultz, Starbucks Chairman.
"We want upscale, vaguely European ambience in which contemporary culture has been decontextualized, wrapped in a blanket of the dim past, made cozy, comfy, secure, palatable and attractive to the business class."
This is only nauseating because it's so damn true.
More from the archive in Business.
Upscale, Vaguely European Ambience (03.24.2002)
Next Entry: Halle's Oscar Night (03.24.2002)


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based on "The Secret Garden," by F. H. Burnett
"Oh! look at him!" exclaimed Mary.
The robin was evidently in a fascinating, bold mood. He hopped closer and closer and looked at Ben Weatherstaff more and more engagingly. He flew on to the nearest currant bush and tilted his head and sang a little song right at him.
"Tha' thinks tha'll get over me by doin' that," said Ben, wrinkling his face up in such a way that Mary felt sure he was trying not to look pleased. "Tha' thinks no one can stand out against thee-that's what tha' thinks."
The robin spread his wings-Mary could scarcely believe her eyes. He flew right up to the handle of Ben Weatherstaff's spade and alighted on the top of it. Then the old man's face wrinkled itself slowly into a new expression. He stood still as if he were afraid to breathe-as if he would not have stirred for the world, lest his robin should start away. He spoke quite in a whisper.
From Chapter 10, The Secret Garden
A few weeks ago, my little granddaughter was excited to show me her friendly hummingbird. She learned that if she sat very still, near the feeder, the hungry bird would come quite close. It's hard to be patient, but she lifted her hand and "froze" whenever he was near, and he hovered right there. The little birds are a wonderful brush with wild things, the "magic" of our own secret gardens, and so we love them.


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William Donohue is the face of the Catholic League. For years he's been saying something very offensive. His organization continued the tradition on Valentines Day. On a day for love, the Catholic League spread their vile hate instead. A religion that prides itself on forgiveness and unconditional love has an American face that judges homosexuality as deviant, yet this church based on love does nothing to stop the Catholic League from equating pedophilia with homosexuality
David Letterman recently was mocking the Pope saying that he was leaving his post due to neck problems from constantly looking away from the abuse. Of course this didn't sit well with the Catholic League so they had to respond to the comedian, because that's what serious organizations do. In the bit Letterman referred to the priests as "creeps". The Catholic League has this to say in response to calling abusive priests creeps: Link
(Though he didn't cite gays by name, we all know who he meant.) In fairness, just because most molesting priests have been homosexuals, doesn't mean that most gay priests are molesters. Moreover, when the homosexual scandal was going on (mid-60s to mid-80s), therapy and rehabilitation were sold by the liberal elite as the preferred means of redress.
The fact is that we all know that sexual abuse is based on power. We also know that priests spend more time with boys than girls. We also know that boys would be less inclined to report sexual abuse or be believed, especially at the times that many of these abuses occurred. So who do these priests have power over? It's no different in the Boy Scouts. Yet here is the PR face of the Catholic Church in the US claiming that homosexuality is the cause of priest abuses in the US and through out the Church. How in the world are they going to address the problem if they don't even understand it? How could the not be judgmental and loving if they really think that homosexuality leads to raping children? It's absurd. I'm straight so little girls are now a sexual object for me? Shouldn't we see similar numbers of incidents between priests and girls or at least a portion of the abuses being caused by the "straight" priests? We don't because it's a crime of power and opportunity.
The Catholic League is a defacto arm of the church itself. They are listed on the Official Catholic Directory. There is a degree of separation, but it's slight. The reality is that this view does not seem to be different from that of the official actions of the church legally and otherwise. The denial of reality. The separation of themselves from the actions of the few, which are in the hundreds if not the 1000;s all around the world. Catholics, you know homosexual people. Is there anything about a homosexual man that tells you that they are after your child? Maybe it's time you read the Bible again Mr. Donohue. If you could simply point out the place where it authorizes you to judge others, I would appreciate you pointing it out. If you find it, I may have to point to your gluttony, or blindness and balding as signs of the curse of Aaron the Priest and question your place as God's messenger.
"Whosoever ... hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. ... Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries." -- Leviticus 21:17-23
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Well Ray's comment about sums it up, at least as far as it can be without profanity.
I thought once this guy was some extremist yahoo with a small following. Then I discovered one day that this organization has a membership of over 100,000 -- that's based on my admittedly imperfect memory.
That, if anything, is even more disgusting than Donohue is. Extremists can be found (just look at Westboro Baptist Church) to defend anything. That there are this many people on this man's side is nothing short of horrific.
I just tried to verify the membership number on Wikepedia, and for some reason that page--and that page alone--won't load!
In desperation I went to the Catholic League's site. I still didn't find their membership figures but I did find this whine:
Absolutely. Harvard professor Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. once observed that prejudice against the Catholic Church was "the deepest bias in the history of the American people." Mount Holyoke College professor Peter Viereck commented that "Catholic baiting is the anti-Semitism of the liberals."
And today's brand of anti-Catholicism is more virulent and more pervasive than ever before in American history. While it is true that Catholics as individuals have made progress in securing their rights, the degree of hostility exhibited against the Catholic Church is appalling. Quite simply, Catholic bashing has become a staple of American society.
Waaaaaaaah! "appalling"? Shithead, that's a small down payment on what you deserve.
Yeah, the number one sect of the number one religion in the U.S. is being bashed! Of course they are never ever the bashers!
What "Ray R" said!
The problem with Catholic priests seems to be that 98% are making the other 2% look bad.
Heather, you got me laughing! They really should abolish the priesthood
And the problem with Catholic cardinals and bishops seems to be that 99.9% are making the other 0.1% look bad.
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Electronic and photography gear is always changing, but it seemed like Jim and I had a pretty good mix of electronics and photography gear when we did the John Muir Trail last summer (2016).
Here is our gear:
This was the photographic gear for the two of us. Not shown is the iphone 6 that I had, and Jim also had an iphone. We used the iphones and gopro for slider time lapses, and the camera for stills and time lapse from the tripod. These pieces are:
Sony a6000 camera, with the Sony 10-18 wide angle lens. The camera body, this lens, rubber cover, and strap and battery weighed 1 lb 8.4 oz. This camera rivals DSLR cameras, and has the same sensor as many DSLR cameras. It does time lapse, videos, 11 exposures per second, face recognition and registration, and lots of in-camera special styles.
Sony kit lens, 16-50 mm. Since camera has smaller than a DSLR size sensor, this a "crop sensor", 10mm on this camera = 18mm full sensor size camera, 18mm = 28, 50mm = 80.
Tripod is the Joby Gorillapod. It has a level, is about 12" tall, and weighs 6.9 oz. Its sturdy enough to support the Sony a6000 with the heavy wide angle lens. Photography was important for this trip, so we had more camera gear than most, and we tried to keep the weight down. This is not the actual tripod we took, but I'll take it next time. The tripod we took was the Sirui 025 carbon fiber tripod. It weighed 1 lb 14.9 oz, so the Joby is a big weight savings.
SPOT beacon, at 4.1 oz. We intended to take this but confusion at the start caused us to leave it in the car, much to my wife's consternation.
Suntastic sCharger5 Solar Panel: This panel worked great! I had it on the back of my pack near the top, and when we got to camp we set it up for good solar exposure. It recharged my camera battery, 2 iphones, and sometimes the gopro, each day! It was essential, as otherwise my camera battery was about at 30% at the end of one day. If I took time lapses with my iphone, it drained the battery pretty fast.
Anker 6700ma storage battery: 4.8 oz. The solar panel charged this battery and we used the battery after dark to charge the camera and iphone batteries. This combination worked like a charm.
GoPro with plastic case: 5.0 oz. We took movies with this, as well as with the iphones and Sony camera.
Cable to connect the solar panel and battery, battery and camera: 0.7 oz
We also brought a DIY camera slider which was sturdy enough to support the GoPro or the iphones, and weighed 26 oz. I'd like to leave it behind next time, but it makes some unique video clips. It was made up of tent poles, tent stakes, end blocks, and a camera dolly, all made of coreplast and styrofoam. The slider is shown in detail here. Some clips from the slider are viewable in the video Jim put together below.


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Game Credits
|Lost Within (2015)
|(Layout and Implementation Lead)
|Rune: Classic (2012)
|(Level Designers)
|Prey (2006)
|(Level Design)
|Dead Man's Hand (2004)
|(Level Design Lead)
|Rune: Gold (2001)
|(Level Designers)
|Rune: Halls of Valhalla (2001)
|(Level Design)
|Rune (2000)
|(Level Design)
|Defiance (2013)
|(Environment Artists)
|Batman: Arkham Origins (2013)
|(Special Thanks)
Developer Biography
A veteran game player with a knack for understanding the fine art of level design, Dave joined Human Head at the start of 1999 as a production assistant for the Rune team. He quickly moved into a level design role, creating stunning geometry and devilishly clever environments.
Source: Selected articles from Human Head Studios Official Company Website - Head Count - Dave Halsted
Last updated: Jul 26, 2003
Level Designer - Human Head Studios
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US carrier Southwest Airlines has apparently forced the shutdown of a service at the website Checkintomyflight.com, which enabled automated flight check-in for Southwest customers by submitting their flight details on the site. The site offered a shortcut for Southwest customers, who otherwise have to be be ready and vigilant to secure the most-sought-after boarding passes as soon as Southwest's online check-in opens, 24 hours before flight departure time.
The website has put up a notice announcing the shutting down of the check-in service as "Southwest is mad at" the site owner.


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Chakulapicha is my way of expressing the passion I have for a great meal experience. My husband and I go to restaurants all around the United States to acknowledge their service, food presentation, and tasteful creativity. Sometimes the restaurants simply impress us and at other times we are disappointed. These pictures are not edited and represent what you get when you visit the restaurant. I do alter the presentation of the plate to help it look appetizing for the photo, but other than that the food is unaltered. My husband writes a review on trip adviser (Cooper Flatoff) and I post my pictures on this site. It is an awesome hobby and we hope to turn it into a profession one day.
In addition, I photograph my own ingredients and recipes at home and arrange them according to color and texture If you have any suggestions for these or other photographs please don't hesitate to critique them. I want to continue to improve with my food photography skills, and you can help me learn what is working and what is not.
Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog. It means a lot to me.
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Most of the time I feel like I am "between the rain." It almost feels like a drought and I wonder if God remembers I am here; going about the business he has called me to but wondering if there is more in store for me. Then, the rains come. Showers of blessings in every way imaginable pour upon my life. It's an awesome place to be. I don't know how to make the showers come, but I know that for the past 40 days it has been raining.
It started with A Place at the Table: 40 Days of Solidarity with the Poor, by Chris Seay, and a small high school Sunday School class in Idaho. We decided to take this challenge and fast for 40 days. I had no idea where I would end up when we began this journey. Spending $150 on food for an entire month—and still eating well compared to the real poor of our world—brought us to a cross roads. Where do we go from here? Now that the official fast is over, how can we go back to the ways things were? Ah, perhaps that is part of God's plan… we don't.
Add to my life a Bible study on James and a sermon series on Acts and the early disciples, and wowza, look out for the flood! As a class, we are feeling led to call our church family to join us the 40 days prior to Easter for another fast. As a family, we have decided to continue to eat as the poor do for two weeks of the month and with that savings, we will obey Jesus by feeding those who need food, clothing those who need clothes, and loving those who need love. We are sponsoring more children through Compassion International, buying more Water for Life filters to provide a lifetime of safe drinking water, and open the door for the Source of water and life to be shared. As James says, "For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead" (James 2:26, HCSB). I am going to soak up these showers; knowing that the land needs to dry for the fruit to grow. What a blessing to be a small part in God's huge plan.
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|Blue barite from the Mine Hills near Shirley Basin, Wyoming
While conducting reconnaissance, I discovered jasper in several old mines at Tin Cup, in an outcrop near the south edge of the Rattlesnake Hills, and found jasperoid at Quaking Asp Mountain. Some of the Tin Cup jasper is extraordinary and found in masses weighing several hundred pounds. The jasper in the Rattlesnake Hills contained some fossil leaf imprints.
Nearly everywhere I explored, I followed trends and examined geology which lead me to other mineral deposits. I was curious enough to find out what some of the unusual minerals were that I picked up, and as a result, I identified more than a dozen minerals that had never been reported in Wyoming.


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Aquinnah is still feeling a little empty this week even though school vacation, a.k.a. the longest week in the world if you did not go someplace warm and sunny, is over. Thank goodness there were the Oscars to distract us (and then the MV Film Festival will be next week). I had so much fun watching the Oscars with Noni Smith, Juli Vanderhoop, Ella Mahoney, my family and some friends from down Island this past Sunday. Lupita Nyongo's dress was the favorite with Jennifer Lawrence's and Anne Hathaway's getting recognition as well. We ate and laughed a lot but I can't repeat any of the stories told here. So very glad that "Twelve Years a Slave" won best picture. it was hands down the best movie that I saw last year.
Sassafras Earth Education has many programs happening in March. This Saturday they will host, "Wild Families" from 1 to 3 pm. A program for the entire family, the theme will be fun with trees. Squirrels and Coyotes for kids 6-13 will be happening on Sunday, and on March 15 there will be an ancient fire workshop from 1 to 4 pm. You can sign up and get more information by contacting Saskia Vanderhoop at 508-645-2008 or via email at email@example.com.
At Pathways at the Chilmark Tavern this week, there are two events. On Thursday, March 6, Pathways will present: "Ecstatic Ekphrastic Arts," a multi-arts installation; the performance begins at 7 pm. On Saturday, March 8, at 7 pm there will be a performance titled, "Women LIVE: Inspiring Change" in honor of International Women's Day. This event is hosted by Natasha Taylor and features many wonderful women including Natasha's daughters, Claudia and Paige Taylor, and Aquinnah's own Saskia Vanderhoop. You can call 508-645-9098 for all the information.
On Wednesday, March 12, Slow Food Martha's Vineyard presents "Genetic Roulette" at the Chilmark Free Public Library at 5:30 pm. This film explores the health dangers of genetically modified food, the impact on our food system and on us. It provides compelling testimony to help explain the deteriorating health of Americans, especially among children, and offers a recipe for protecting ourselves and our future.
Now I know for sure that spring is coming: Daffodil Day will be on Monday, March 17. Bunches of fresh daffodils will be delivered to those who have placed orders, and bouquets will also be on sale for $10 at Cronig's, Edgartown Stop & Shop, and the M.V. Hospital. The M.V. Cancer Support Group, which provides support to Island residents struggling with cancer, is the exclusive Daffodil Day sponsor. All money raised from the sales of daffodil bouquets goes directly to benefit Island cancer patients and their families. For further information call Diane Ballay-Foley at 508-693-7115 or AnneMarie Donahue at 508-627-7958.
Congratulations to Ella Mahoney who made the Dean's List during her first semester at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Ella is in Aquinnah this week for her spring break. It was such a delight to see her: she looks fantastic and is obviously doing very well at school.
Happy Birthday to Ken Wentworth and Lisa Vanderhoop, who both celebrate next week on March 13. And a happy belated birthday to our librarian, Barbara Lampson, who celebrated a milestone birthday this past weekend. Speaking of Barbara, she will be teaching a "Planting Bed Design" class through ACE MV next Wednesday at 6:30 pm. You can register via acemv.org or at 774-310-1311. For those of you who only know Barbara as one of the librarians at the Aquinnah Library, she is also a fantastic landscape designer and gardener.


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The resignation early Sunday of "green jobs" adviser Van Jones says as much about the Obama White House as it does about Jones – marking the latest sacrifice to the political gods after a long summer of compromises and surrenders highlighted the limits of White House power.
The departure – nominally the choice of a still-defiant Jones, who said he feared distracting from important business – confirmed Obama's choice of pragmatism over confrontation and a belief that controversies sometimes are better solved by capitulation, a view that infuriates Obama's allies on the left.
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It confirmed that the real opposition party to Obama right now is the conservative grassroots that draws its energy from Fox News, talk radio and the Drudge Report, and often leaves Republican elected officials scrambling to catch up.
And it was a fresh reminder that the White House's vetting process didn't fall down only on high-profile nominees like Tom Daschle. It barely touched the lower reaches of the administration – a White House official conceded Sunday that Jones' past statements weren't as thoroughly scrubbed due to his relatively low rank. Jones' selection also was propelled by powerful patrons, who included the first lady and the vice president.
In his statement, Jones was defiant. "On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me," he said. "They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide."
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs cast the move the same way.
"What Van Jones decided was that the agenda of this president was bigger than any one individual," Gibbs said, agreeing with the show's host, George Stephanopoulos that Obama "doesn't endorse" Jones's remarks on race and politics, his apparent flirtation with the "9/11 Truth" movement, and his advocacy for the convicted murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal.
The logic of the departure was clear: A hope of keeping the national conversation where Obama wanted it this week ahead of his health reform speech to a joint session of Congress Wednesday.
"Between Cambridge cops; whether administration officials are or are not for the public option; right wing mobbing at town halls; and the back to school welcome contretemps, the White House has been forced to play defense and loose-ball control over [the summer]," said the former Clinton White House aide Chris Lehane, who noted that a "very important week" could have been consumed by " a discussion related to an obscure staffer who no one has ever really heard of."
Jones's departure resonated sharply, however, with the other topic on Sunday's television rotation: The public insurance option in the health care debate. There, too, the White House has responded to conservative opposition by pointing first to the outright distortions – and then running the other way.
To the outrage of the House Progressive Caucus, MoveOn, and other liberal voices, Gibbs and senior advisor David Axelrod said Obama this week will continue to advocate for a government-run plan to compete with private plans, but won't insist on it, as some foes have cast the option, inaccurately, as equivalent to a government takeover of all health care delivery.


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These four young women are influenced by their heritage as Haudenosaunee but have also sought unique ways to express their individual vision – incorporating music, three dimensional objects, castings, as well as traditional methods to bring their work to life.
Awenheeyoh Powless, a recent graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, has incorporated Iroquois music and traditional dance steps to create paintings with her feet on un-stretched canvas – using foot movements to apply the acrylic colors.
Leah Shenandoah, another recent graduate of RIT, has focused on three dimensional objects that are across between sculpture and painting. The objects are made of stretched fabric on a wire frame to which paint has been applied as a stain. They are exhibited hung from the gallery's ceiling in a grouping.
Lauren Jimerson, currently in her final year at RIT, uses pastel on paper to create portraiture.
Natasha Smoke Santiago, a self-taught artist who has been actively exhibiting her art since she was a teenager, casts the bellies of pregnant women and then forms the casts into sculptural objects incorporating traditional Haudenosaunee craft techniques. The bellies are turned into pottery or elaborate baskets with materials resembling splints.
Image: Pastel on paper by Haudenosaunee artist Lauren Jimerson.


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The Advice Fair-EE: "What if I get bored in my marriage?"
Welcome to The Advice Fair-EE'slove/sex/relationship advice column!
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Dear Advice Fair-EE, I just recently did the test and found out that I am an ENFP. I noticed the "portrait of an ENFP" is spot on for me but this part about ENFPs in relationships has me a little worried: "ENFPs who have not learned to follow through may have a difficult time remaining happy in marital relationships. Always seeing the possibilities of what could be, they may become bored with what actually is." Being a single woman, I think about marriage quite a bit and I truly want a partner in life but then I worry that I'll get bored being with the same person for the rest of my life. And knowing that you're a married ENFP, I'm just wondering if you can give me any insight/wisdom about this. --Worried ENFP
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Dear Worried, First of all, be not afraid. The fact that you are aware of this is half the battle. A healthy ENFP has a strong sense of values--values which are essential in helping us maintain our commitments. So, my first tip is: make sure you have a set of core values by which you live your life.
As a young ENFP, I dreamed grand, romantic dreams for my future mate. Everything in my dreams was glorious and forever-after beautiful. Unfortunately, real-life is not always so glorious. Real-life requires things like scrubbing toilets and washing sweat-stained clothes.
The key for me has been two-fold:
- Marrying a man I admire
- Consciously focusing on the good things about him
Our marriage has been far from perfect. But through all the difficulties of life, I've only found more things to love about my husband. And when you admire someone, it's very difficult to get bored with him! :)
We didn't really start out as "soul-mates" and the grand, glorious dreams I dreamt for us seemed laughable in the face of real-life trials. But by growing and cultivating our relationship (it takes both of us doing that!), we are realizing some of those dreams--they just look different than I expected!
Ultimately, my advice is to dream and dream big. But also learn to embrace the unexpected ways those dreams come true.
With best wishes for finding a man you admire, The Advice Fair-EE
***disclaimer: I'm not a licensed therapist, I'm just a woman who has been with the same man for 16 years.** **addendum to the disclaimer: I'm just a chick with an Internet connection and these, my humble opinions.**
If you have a love/sex/relationship/friendship question, please email me with the subject line: ADVICE FAIR-EE. (All identities kept anonymous and I also bequeath you with a pseudonym for extra privacy).
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When most New Yorkers think of Italian food, they think of pizza, lasagna, and spaghetti and meatballs: dishes with strong dominantly red sauces. And with good reason. These southern Italian dishes originate where the majority of New York's Italian immigrants came from. At the turn of the 20th century, New York was the single largest nerve center for Southern Italian immigrants coming over from Naples and Sicily. As a result, Southern Italian cuisine is vastly over-represented in the big apple (which I'm definitely not complaining about). But with this disproportional representation comes the omission of the wonderfully light fish dishes from the coastal cities of Northern Italy. This is where Marea comes in. As sister restaurant of New York's other Northern Italian gem, Alto, Marea's menu is rife with raw seafood. Over half of the menu, in fact. At times some of the plates look Japanese in simplicity and presentation, that is until the golden dab of olive oil shines through.
Marea occupies the former space of San Domenico, which other than perhaps Del Posto, was the most expensive Italian restaurant in the city. In this respect, Chef Michael White's cuisine is similar: it's expensive. But the restaurant space has been completely renovated and no longer feels like a scene from CSI Miami. Its reflective hard lacquer surfaces and focused halogen lighting put the food on a well-lit pedestal.
The first glance of the menu brought a huge smile to my face: raw scallops, prawns, sea urchin. This menu read like happiness on a page. Dishes appeared fresh, clean, crisp, and simple: almost as if an Italian and Japanese chef had shared their mutual cultural secrets. I was literally ready to book a second reservation, as getting a table can be difficult, before any of the dishes came to the table. But that sentiment quickly changed.
AMUSE BOUCHE - A white fish soup, olive oil, with a fried crisp of bread. The texture was salty and grainy, much like watered down mashed potatoes. Still, the textures were nicely balanced, and I was starving.
RICCI - sea urchin, lard, sea salt. This was a room temperature slice of sea urchin served atop a slice of toasted baguette and encased in a thin film of lard. The warm urchin was shrink-wrapped by the clear layer of lard, preventing it from dripping off the toast. This was an interesting combination, particularly the salty cured flavor of the lard mixing with the sweetness of the urchin. I like sea urchin for its clean sweet flavor; I did not like how the lard's saltiness made it taste a few days old. The lard masked the freshness of the fish. This was an interesting combination of two ingredients I like separately; but together, they felt forced. Quite simply, this just didn't taste good.
SEPPIA - cuttlefish tagliatelle, soffrito crudo, bottarga di muggine. Another dish that sounded great on the menu. Extremely fresh cuttlefish develops an addicting chewy crunch with a hint of elasticity. The texture of this fish definitely had that. But there was so much bottarga on the plate that everything tasted like sour salt. I could not figure out why someone would pair a very fishy tasting bottarga to a sweet and fresh tasting fish. The bottarga seemed out of place and overwhelming; by flavor alone, it was impossible to connect with the freshness of the fish. The fish could have been 2 hours or 2 days old, and would have still tasted a week old. Bottarga has its place by itself and in small quantities; but in this case, completely dominated the subtle flavor of the cuttlefish.
SPARNOCCHI - sweet maine prawns, lemon, black lava salt. This dish sounded fantastic on the menu. Large sweet prawns lifted by a little lemon and salt. In reality the prawns were bitter in taste and the sweetness never came through. I wasn't sure why the dish was layered with slices of flavorless cucumber. Since the ingredient was not listed in the menu, it was likely more a thoughtless garnish. But why slice them thinly in edible slices if not to be eaten? This seemed too academic without any thought that the watery cucumber offered nothing to the dish, except for the color green. The cucumber skin made the shrimp taste terrible and the overall dish appear lazy.
FUSILLI - red wine braised octopus, bone marrow. This was another dish that just sounded incredible. I'm pretty much always in the mood for L'Os a Moelle, the smell of which immediately brings me back to my two years living in Paris. Its combination with fresh octopus also sounded intriguing. But the red wine sauce was just too sweet and too sour. Each bite of the fusilli left an aspartame-like chemical tingle on my tongue. And the strong sour smell, similar to orange juice, really put me off. The sauce was so thick and abundant that at times this seemed more like a stew as the pasta became pasty. This dish has so much potential; but the night I went, it was the most disappointing of the evening.
TARALLI - nantucket bay scallops, mussels, tomato sauce This was the highlight dish of the night. While I did find this sauce too sweet as well, the texture of the pasta combined with the briny scallops and mussels kept me distracted. But frankly this dish stood out merely because it was the least offensive of the other dishes. This dish has no offensive ingredient combinations.
UOVO - slow poached egg, black truffle, marsala ragu, polenta cream. A rich and creamy poached egg buried in a bed of polenta cream touched with black truffle. A weightless polenta cream that held together the black truffle and egg, contributing an earthy touch of silky-smooth cornmeal, which tied everything together. This part of the dish was exceptional. However, layered in there was also a marsala "ragu". The ragu was both sour and sweet, like a red wine sauce that had been sitting on the stove too long. Like the bone marrow fusilli, it smelled like orange juice. The texture of this sauce was thick, clear, and starchy. It was too similar to gooey Americanized Cantonese sauces, and completely offensive to the rest of the dish.
Our waiter brought us a small dish of chocolate petit fours, which were delicious -- paper thin layers of chocolate encasing a full spectrum of fruits. We chose to skip dessert.
Aside from the occasionally distracting across the room chant of "ándale güey" (Mexican slang for "Go ahead, man"), the service was excellent. The restaurant was packed and at no point did we feel rushed, particularly with the extended amount of food we ordered. That's no easy task.
But at the end of the day, the dishes felt forced and unnatural, and did not taste good. Creativity should never be at the expense of flavor, and every chef must at some point step back, look at his dishes, and do a taste test to make sure that they actually work. Nearly every dish we ordered had an offensive ingredient or flavor that tasted like it didn't belong. But the menu still reads really well, so perhaps the restaurant just needs some more time to settle. I'll probably re-visit; but not anytime too soon.


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Many of you are going to sit. iPhone 6 This new version will have a larger screen. There are two sizes and two versions or not. But recent reports say that the iPhone 6 will use a 4.7-inch screen model called the iPhone 6 Air 5.5 inch screen version will be called iPhone 6 Pro.
This report comes from Nomura Securities expects Apple to sell iPhone 6 release in the country of 46.5 million units in the fourth quarter after launch. To eat and share 73% of all iPhone sales in this period.
The source also stated that the iPhone 6 release version of the 4.7-inch, Apple will be called the iPhone 6 Air and the 5.5-inch will be called iPhone 6 Pro Model Air is priced in a foreign country, starting at $ 650 approximately. 20,800 THB Thailand the 5.5-inch version will cost more than $ 100 to $ 750 or about 24,000 baht in foreign countries.
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Hi guys. This is my very first submission. Weak, I know. But, what the hell!
I realise that most assumptions are foolish. Both for the assumer and the assumed. However, I'm putting myself out on a limb and assuming that most enjoy eating...and in this instance, chicken.Years ago, upon having spread my wings and flown the comforts and security of home, I realised that taking girls out to eat was an extremely costly excercise. Not that I was, or am miserly. But hell, just how long did relationships last in those wild and woolly days? Not too long. So, having to spend hard to come by bucks to feed a lady for say, two or three outings, was a waste.
Therefore, I began to cook for my invited ladies at my tiny rented room, cum kitchenette, cum lounge/bedroom. The rest is history!
The following, I'd like to share with you and I call it, "Aphrodizzy Chicken.'
Use (chicken portions). Amounts vary according to demand. Trim fat off thighs. Skin and debone the breasts.
Place in a large mixing bowl. Add dark,thick soya sauce. (Enough to generously coat.) Add ground black pepper. Plenty of brown sugar. Peri-peri sauce...tobasco or chili is similar. Dash of lime juice. Marinate for at least 2 hours, turning it over periodically.
I use a Weber barbeque.
Over very hot coals, sear and seal the pieces. As they blacken, pick them up with tongs and dip the pieces into the marinade and place back on the grille. Barbie the breasts (Which have been divided in half, to make them thinner) fairly quickly, so as not to dry them out. 3/4 done is OK, as they will sit in the warmer.
Take the pieces off and leave in the marinade until the coals turn grey and have cooled down somewhat.
Place the removed skin in the centre of the grill...the pieces around the perimeter of the barbie...put the lid on, with the vent open a 1/4 of an inch. Leave for approximately 45 minutes. The resultant smoke from the skin & fat gives the chicken a smokey flavour.
Naturally, time will hone your skill at acquiring your own particular tastes regarding the different volumes of the ingredients. In any case, recipes are meant to be amended and fiddled with by the person doing the cooking...so play around by adding in some of your own favourite spices and herbs. Remember, the heat & flames, drive off a lot of the burn in the chili. So, don't be afraid if you think you have been heavy handed.
I more often than not, place the left over marinade in a saucepan and thicken it on the stove with a dash of orange juice and chutney...then pour over the grilled chicken before serving. It's great with potato salad, french salad, three bean salad and pickled beetroot salad. You will never be satisfied with chicken on the barbie done any other way!
Bon appetit...it's been my pleasure to share.
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Sunny Day Eats: Peanut Butter Pie
You know what's better than pie? I'll let you think about it for a minute...can't come up with anything can you? How about a no-bake pie that doesn't heat up your house at the peak of summer? Or involve smashing together berries or praying that your pie crust doesn't burn at the edges or become paranoid that there are worms in the cherries that you freshly picked and you're going to give your family intestinal parasites. All I'm saying is pie can get complicated. I'm not directing this to your pie gurus who pop out a beautiful Martha Stewart worthy pie every time you waltz into the kitchen (I'm lookin at you Natalie, Jason and Alyssa) I'm speaking for the rest of us normal folks who just want to please people with something delicious without having a mental breakdown from the process.
Well, for all you fellow normal folks, I've teamed up with the wonderful Emily of Emily Ann Photography who took all of the beautiful pictures you see here today, to bring you a recipe that is short, simple, sweet (but not too sweet) and will please your families discerning taste buds and won't leave you emotionally crippled. *Also please note this is literally a peanut butter pie recipe so if you or anyone you know and love has peanut allergies please refrain from using peanuts and try nutella or something instead. Darn it, why didn't I make a nutella pie?!
First, gather all your ingredients. I know that I have a hard time measuring out specific amounts (I'm more of an eyeball type of gal) but if you have a jar of peanut butter, a large tub of cool whip, a package of oreos, powdered sugar, a stick of butter, some vanilla and some cream cheese you're good to go just let them sit out at room temperature for a while so everything isn't frozen and/or solid. If you're like me and you basically only purchase sugar and dairy products from the grocery store you already have plenty of this just lying around.
Next smash the crap out of about 25 oreo cookies. Get mad as hell. Think about that ex that broke your heart, think about that $40 you lost that one time you were drunk in the city, think about Donald Trump as a viable presidential candidate.
Once you're good and angry at the world, melt the butter and mix it all up.
Then pour it into a pie plate and shape the pie crust with your hands.
Place it in the oven for about 5 minutes at 350 then remove and let cool. *disclaimer 2: I know I said this was a no-bake and it still technically is, you can be even more direct and just buy an oreo crust from the grocery store if that's your bag. I'm not here to judge.
Now throw the peanut butter, powdered sugar, cream cheese and half the cool whip into your mixer. Mix slowly unless you want a blizzard of powdered sugar in your kitchen. Slowly add a touch of vanilla. Pour this delicious mixture out onto your cooled pie crust.
Just a heads up, this stuff is delicious, you can just top anything with it: apples, graham crackers, a spoon. Whatever.
Next Take another glob of peanut butter and beat it on high with the remaining half of cool whip. Add a touch of vanilla and top your previous peanut buttery pie with it.
Now at this point you're really done. But when have I ever been known to just let things go? If you have some reeses peanut butter cups, chop em up and throw them on top...
Then take some dark chocolate chips and stick em in a bowl with a little bit of heavy cream or milk and microwave for 30 seconds and drizzle that on top of the pie.
Ta da! You just made pie! Now I like to refrigerate this guy for a couple hours to let it set.
Look at that beautiful hunk of chocolate/peanut buttery goodness! I would show you a slice picture, but I typically end up taking a spoon directly to the pie plate! Also, for people that follow directions and like structure, here's the recipe.
1 1/4 cups of peanut butter
1 8 oz container cream cheese
25 chocolate sandwich cookies
4 tbsp melted butter
1 16oz package frozen whipped topping
1 1/4 cup confectioners sugar
2 tsps vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350.
Crush oreo cookies in plastic bag with rolling pin, pour into a bowl with melted butter.
Pour into pie plate and shape with hands, place in oven for about 5 minutes
Place 1 cup of peanut butter, 8 oz (or half) of frozen whipped topping, cream cheese and 1 tsp of vanilla extract in mixer. Mix on high, lower speed, add confectioners sugar slowly, increase speed and beat on high until well blended and slightly fluffy. Pour this into cooled pie crust.
Add 1/4 cup peanut butter, remaining whipped topping and vanilla extract to mixer. Mix gradually increasing speed and beat on high for a couple minutes until this is fluffy and incorporated. Pour on top of 1st pie mix in the crust.
Adorn with your favorite chopped peanut butter candy, drizzle with chocolate sauce, top with whipped cream, chocolate chips etc. Whatever you have laying around. Or just eat it and enjoy!


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As this year is drawing to an end, this is my last mandatory blog.
I wanted to take a second and thank all you have read my blog through my year in this class, but this isn't the last of me.
I plan to be blogging this summer through whatever adventures I may encounter, but I will be back regularly in a few months.
Many of you have enjoyed my poetry or sports stories this year so I will leave you with one last poem.
Thank you for bringing traffic to our site, and please spread the word.
As it draws to an end so does this journey.
Another year, going nowhere, sitting in the same spot we were in, when the first day started.
The same spot we were in the first time my eyes met yours.
As I prepare to take my final walk out on stage, I would like to think I'd see you in the audience.
The applause resonate through the building, and I stand behind closed curtains.
Shaking, nervous as could be, hoping you'll be there, but when they open and I take my final bows, where the applause once were, lay and emptiness.
My heart drops, and once again I feel alone.
Just as I did when this show began.
This is the kind of show I never want to see the end of, but you hold my head towards the screen.
I would like to live in the illusion I have created of how our show ends, but instead you put me in front of everyone, only to find myself standing alone, and you aren't even there.
I take my bow to an empty room, but it does not stop.
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Not at all what I expected. The Tower is more like Heritage Park in Calgary than a historical fortress. That said it was pretty cool. We saw the Crown Jewels and the Fusileirs museum. But not much else because we came too late in the day. I would have liked it better if the road ways were not paved over and the walls were not whitewashed and there wasn't the projectors showing movies about the inhabitants. It's all very well and good that So and So did this that and the other thing and the Tower was important. But could you act like it is an old fortress not a museum? I mean I understand reinforcing walls that are going to fall down, I understand putting in railings as as long as you try to replicate the old style. But honestly I could go back to my hotel and see white washed walls I can go to another museum and see historical objects in glass containers. But what I can't see is a ruin that has been here for hundreds of years. And to see it unimproved would have been amazing.
None of this is to say that you shouldn't go see the Tower just don't expect a ruin because you get a museum.


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Intel Corporation and ZTE Corporation today announced plans to jointly deliver global broadband wireless solutions using WiMAX technology. WiMAX is an emerging wireless standard that promises to provide high-speed broadband connectivity for both fixed and mobile wireless networks.
As part of this agreement, ZTE will develop and deploy infrastructure and customer premises equipment using Intel's silicon for WiMAX solutions based on IEEE 802.16-2004 (previously known as IEEE 802.16REVd), and the upcoming IEEE 802.16e standards for mobile networks. "Rosedale" is Intel's first "system-on-a-chip" solution for cost-effective customer premise equipment (CPE) supporting 802.16-2004.
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My Super Healthy Melbourne Finds
Planning a trip to Australia some day? Well, save this article and make my healthy finds part of your itinerary. They are sure to impress! In this blog post, I am focusing on my favorite neighborhood in Melbourne, South Fitzroy. It is ultra trendy and cool, with a great selection of boutiques, cafes, bars and restaurants. Read on to learn what I discovered...
Stay like a local by booking with Airbnb and getting around on foot, by Melbourne's amazing public transport system, or via Uber. The best thing about South Fitzroy is it is conveniently wedged between the bustling CBD, upcoming Collingwood, and funky Fitzroy. I personally think that Gertrude St is the heart and soul of this neighborhood.
Get physical by exploring this happening city on foot (note: there are two tranquil parks nearby: Carlton Gardens and Fitzroy Gardens which are both worth checking out), or by doing a fantastic yoga class at the charming Gertrude Street Yoga studio (the lovely owners and skilled teachers are all wonderful people sharing what they are passionate about).
THE BEST coffee + food by day = Archie's (on Gertrude St) and South of Johnston (a short stroll into Collingwood). Both of these places are super cool to hang out at, serve ridiculously delicious food, and in my opinion make the best coffee in the city (TAKE NOTE: Melbournians are extremely serious about their coffee)! BOOM!
Shop for the best quality produce and health foods at Aunt Maggies. This is the kind of place that I get giddy over, could explore the isles for hours, and literally want to buy everything. Yep it is my little slice of heaven on Earth (I'm already having withdrawals).
Wine + dine in style at the hip restaurant Cutler & Co. This place is super sleek and romantic. The service is great, the ambience divine, the wine top notch and the food is YUM! Take your time, soak up the atmosphere and savor every dish. Hot tip #1: when you book or as you order, inform the staff of any food sensitivities you may have, as they were very accommodating of mine. Hot tip #2: be sure to book your table well in advance (Melbourne is kinda like NYC, swarming with lots of eager foodies that tend to make reservations a couple of months ahead).
ENJOY the very best of my home city Melbourne with wellness, happiness and style! AND be sure to sign up for my monthly newsletter with even more hot travel tips and wellness secrets.


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happylucky no.1 junebug music festival presents on June 16, 6PM:
Myk Freedman & the Mykfreedmans
Kenny Warren-trumpet
Patrick Breiner-sax/clarinet
Jason Vance-banjo
Adam Hopkins-bass
Carlo Costa-drums
Myk Freedman-lap steel/tunes
Nostalgic for a time that honestly wasn't very nice, Myk Freedman and the Mykfreedmans search for equilibrium. Rent parties, salons, NYC lofts, brothels, squeals and honks, musical feels, romantic melodicism - evocative beauty that can cannot be ignored. This band, led by Canadian lap steel player Myk Freedman, is in love with the memories of memories, but it is 2017. People have been playing guitars using their kids' broken dental appliances for decades. The music must take that into account, but Coleman Hawkins! Therein lies the circular mentality of the Mykfreedmans: they move forward, they move backward. They let a song out of their hearts, they scream down a well, think in cut-time, think out of time, joyfully get lost in the murk of innuendo.
Myk Freedman and the Mykfreedmans, is an adventurous mess. Using 11 short tunes the band pushes itself to the limits while squeezing into tight spots. Sticking their fingers in the warm pleasure centers of the mind, they caress with lush ballads, oblique genre gestures, klezmer melodicism, sounds of elsewhere - and not so gently with wails and whirls from the most non-idiomatic lap steel player from the North and a band ready to lead from the wings honking and squealing in tandem.


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Julie Anne Feinstein had overcome a lifetime of adversity when she began taking daily medication for pain 10 years ago at age 68, prescriptions that would eventually land her at the center of the nation's opioid crisis.
She had survived paralyzing childhood polio to become a skiing, mountain-climbing teenager near her home in Oregon. When post-polio syndrome struck at age 36, causing muscle weakness, fatigue and pain, and making her work as a classroom teacher difficult, the mother of four earned a degree in special education so she could work with visually impaired students, a job she could do while seated. When she was 62, a blind student accidentally knocked her to the ground, an injury that led to a spinal fusion — her second — and ended her career. Unable to manage daily tasks, Feinstein moved to an assisted living center in Portland and began using an electric wheelchair.
Opioids entered her life while she was undergoing chemotherapy and radiation for Stage 3 lymphoma. Feinstein felt pain so great she was unable to get out of bed.
Her doctor prescribed oral morphine to be taken three times a day and oxycodone "as needed."
For seven years, Feinstein took the same dose. It helped her lead a robust life in the assisted living center, she said. She organized a knitting group, learned Hebrew and studied for her bat mitzvah, which she celebrated at age 75.
For decades, the medical community viewed opioids with caution when treating chronic pain, which affects 25 million Americans and is defined as non-cancer daily pain that lasts longer than three to six months.
The country's first opioid crisis more than a century ago — when doctors freely prescribed morphine, laudanum and heroin for pain — had left 1 in 200 Americans addicted, according to the President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis. That eventually led to a backlash and a reluctance to prescribe opioids — a reluctance that persisted until about 30 years ago, the commission reported last year.
Then several factors, including a mischaracterization of the addictive nature of opioids for pain patients, pharmaceutical industry influence, pressure on physicians to address pain more aggressively, and a lack of medical and patient education pushed the pendulum back to medication, the commission said.
By the late 1990s, opioid prescriptions to treat chronic pain had escalated, driving a decade and a half increase in addiction and 200,000 deaths related to prescription opioids between 1999 and 2016.
With the nation now fighting to reverse a drug epidemic fed by prescription opioids, policies to curtail their use and supply come from multiple sources. New prescribing guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state legislation, medical board sanctions and policy changes by managed-care and prescription plans have been enacted to curb opioid abuse. But patients such as Feinstein say they feel the changes have ignored the treatment of their pain and have made it harder for many to find care.
The first sign that Feinstein's treatment was in jeopardy came three years ago, when her primary-care doctor told her she could no longer prescribe opioids for chronic pain because of a change in clinic policy. She would need to find a pain specialist.
It took six months "of hell" — pain, worry and several rejections — Feinstein said, before she found a specialist 20 miles outside Portland who would take her as patient and maintain her prescription. Now, she says, she is sitting on a time bomb.
"I could be given a 30-day notice of the closing of this clinic at any time," she said.
Her doctor, Gregory Gullo, said he is not worried about his ability to keep his practice operating. He said he follows recommended protocols such as random urine checks to make sure patients are not abusing drugs.
And there are advantages to stricter rules on prescribing opioids, he said, because now he is better able "to focus on function and lifestyle rather than on pills."
But he understands the anxiety of patients with serious conditions who are dependent on medication. Some primary-care doctors are restricting opioid prescriptions to five days of pills, he said, and others are refusing to prescribe them at all.
Patients with multiple sclerosis or post-polio syndrome, such as Feinstein, "are subject to exactly the same pressures as people with less serious conditions," he said.
A rehabilitative specialist in Pennsylvania who has been in practice for 25 years said she has stopped taking new patients and may drop current ones because of fewer options for treatment, more time-consuming electronic record keeping and more difficulty figuring out what's "by the book."
"If I am fed up and willing to give up, who is left?" she said, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of being audited.
The opioid epidemic is "scooping up and confusing the lives of people who have a real need for this medication with those who are abusing, and that is tragic and that is wrong," said Feinstein's daughter, Amanda Feinstein.
"She has a degenerative disease," she said of her mother's post-polio syndrome. Without pain medication, "everything stops."
Jim Shames says that when assessing the credit or blame for the tighter oversight by the Oregon Medical Board, which licenses doctors, a lot of people point the finger at him. Shames formed Oregon Pain Guidance in 2011 in response to the high rate of overdose deaths he reviewed as medical director of Jackson County Health and Human Services.
People were taking very large amounts of opioid medication, sometimes multiple drugs for pain from different prescribers, and "for whatever reason pushed themselves over the edge one night and nobody noticed, and they just died."
His group organized monthly meetings with hospitals, insurance companies, mental-health professionals and experts in chronic-pain care to push for local and state guidelines.
"As a public health person looking at populations, we have to reduce morbidity and mortality, and there will undoubtedly be some people who have a hard time in the process," he said.
But the situation has proved to be complex, Shames acknowledges. In January, his group held a meeting with 50 health-care providers and the director of the state medical board. The purpose was to address the frustrations of physicians treating patients whom they had inherited from other doctors or for whom they could not taper a high dose or switch to other medications, in part because patients feared withdrawal.
Patients need a medical home, Shames said. If physicians have a plan built around safety and continually assess the patient, "the board is unlikely to get you in trouble," he said. But even patients doing well with pain on high-dose opioids "are really not safe" from overdose, he said. They would do better on buprenorphine, he said, which can address pain and withdrawal symptoms but has a lower risk of misuse because it does not create the same level of euphoria and respiratory depression.
During their six-month search for a pain specialist, Feinstein's family turned to Myra Christopher, the recently retired director of the Center for Practical Bioethics, a nonprofit based in Kansas City, Mo. Christopher also directed the Pain Action Alliance to Implement a National Strategy, or PAINS, a group focused on implementing the goals of the federal government's plan to improve treatment of chronic pain.
She is "agnostic" on the use of opioids for chronic pain, she said, but concerned that patients such as Feinstein are "collateral damage" in the effort to combat the opioid crisis.
"I want people who have chronic pain to have access to comprehensive chronic-pain care, which may or may not include opioids therapy, interventional procedures, surgery, acupuncture, physical therapy, massage, biofeedback and behavioral health," she said.
For four years, PAINS members, including patients and their families, have tried to change what Christopher called unfair treatment of patients who are often considered "malingerers and drug seekers."
With Christopher's retirement, the Academy of Integrated Pain Management, an advocacy group for integrated pain care, will take over the PAINS website and continue its agenda, said Bob Twillman, the executive director of the academy.
But some pain-patient advocates and organizations are viewed with skepticism if not distrust because a number have received money from pharmaceutical companies. A report from the Senate's Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs found that opioid manufacturers "Purdue, Janssen, Mylan, Depomed, and Insys provided at least $8,856,339.13 in funding to 14 outside groups working on chronic pain and other opioid-related issues between January 2012 and March 2017."
The Center for Practical Bioethics and the Academy of Integrated Pain Management, along with the U.S. Pain Foundation and the American Academy of Pain Medicine, were among the organizations named.
Twillman said the Senate report is too broad and ignores how individual organizations used contributions from manufacturers.
Andrew Kolodny, co-founder of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, said policymakers misunderstood the opioid crisis for years because chronic-pain advocates told them, " 'Don't, in your effort to stop drug abusers, penalize pain patients. Don't take actions that involve less prescribing of opioids, because that would make the problem of untreated chronic pain worse.'"
The argument that there were two distinct populations caught in the opioid crisis was "phony," he said. "Thousands of people with pain have died from overdose."
Doctors are in the middle of a turnabout, said Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. For 20 years, physicians were told, often by bioethicists and patient-empowerment groups, to believe patients when they said they were in pain and to do what the patients wanted.
Now, he said, the bioethicists and others have a new role: to help "one side understand where the other side is coming from, that the opposing force isn't evil but coming at this with a set of values and preferences and priorities that need to be understood to find some sort of common ground."
New methods of treating chronic pain are being studied. Paul Chelminski, a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, is part of a $9 million study considering how cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing — helping patients figure out how to achieve their goals — might help reduce the use of opioids.
The aim, Chelminski said, is to "retrofit chronic pain management to what it should have been 20 years ago."
It will take more than five years to know the results.
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Ufly is a flight simulator based on the Boeing 737-800 Next Generation aircraft. With a fully replicated instrument panel system, it recreates aircraft flight for pilot training, entertainment purposes, or a combination of both. Ufly offers clients a chance to experience what it feels like to pilot a real aircraft. They can fly to over 24,000 airports around the world in 30 minutes. The whole experience is enhanced by realistic sound and 180 degree HD visuals as well as accurate replicas of real aircraft navigation and engine monitoring. This flight simulator depicts the process of flight as realistically as possible. It is considered to be one of the most successful applications of virtual reality software. Customers fly on business, executive, economy or first class. People with disabilities are encouraged to visit and fly in the simulator. Users are allowed to operate the aircraft themselves with the help of a flying instructor. Previous flying experience is not required. Ufly is rated for entertainment purposes only, although pilots can use the simulator to improve their flying skills and knowledge. Ufly uses the latest technology to trick the brain and induce the feeling of movement. The staff recommends customers to arrive 10 to 15 minutes before the scheduled flight. Each session can be tailored based on their individual needs. The flying instructors provide direction throughout and operate the secondary flying control. Customers over the age of 10 can enjoy this experience; all young pilots under 18 can operate the aircraft only under the supervision of an adult, however.


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Volunteer Engagement 2.0:
Ideas and Insights Changing the World
Volunteer Engagement 2.0:
Ideas and Insights Changing the World
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Volunteer Engagement 2.0: Ideas and Insights Changing the World explores the innovative volunteer engagement approaches that are reshaping nonprofits and their communities, and shows how you can bring these approaches to your own organization.
Curated and edited by VolunteerMatch, this insightful collection contains actionable advice on strengthening volunteer programs, as well as broader explorations on the nature of volunteer engagement. Contributors include 35 experts in the volunteer engagement field, from organizations such as DoSomething.org, NTEN, Realized Worth, LinkedIn and the Corporation for National Community Service.
The world of volunteerism is changing. How will your volunteer program grow and thrive? Volunteer Engagement 2.0: Ideas and Insights Changing the World gives you the innovation and inspiration - you just need to supply the action.
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The NCAA headquarters, located in Indianapolis, runs a museum dedicated to all of college sports.
They reached out to VisionThree to help them revamp and revitalize several existing exhibits within the museum that had not been updated in years.
VisionThree redesigned and rebuilt their entire kiosk management system that includes 23 individual sports kiosks and a brand new map-based interactive experience that helps visitors learn more about NCAA schools around the country.
VisionThree also collaborated on the creation of an interactive bench, an experiential exhibit where visitors interact with a sports bench in a fun and unique way. These updates, and additions, have helped increase visitor interest and engagement within the Hall of Champions.
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26 interactive stations across 3 areas
Complete CMS and database overhaul
Remote kiosk management capabilities
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Are you familiar with Choice of Games? If not, you should be; they make light choose-your-own-adventure style interactive fiction for web browser and mobile device. It's a fun and timely concept, and I aspire to write a ChoiceScript game as my next indie personal project. (Full disclosure: One of the team members, Dan Fabulich, is an old friend of mine and a fellow Cloudmakers moderator.)
Thus far they've only done a couple of games in-house. In Choice of the Dragon, you get to live a titular life of treasure-hoarding and wizard-eating; in Choice of Broadsides, you're a young commanding officer aboard a naval vessel.
Their approach to gender in their games is very, very interesting; in Choice of Broadsides, they essentially created two separate versions of the game -- one with a traditional patriarchal structure for men to play, and one with a gender-flipped matriarchal society for women. It's well-intentioned, to be sure, but the idea ultimately leaves me a little uneasy.
I'm Not a Man But I Play One on Xbox
Here's the thing; in Choice of Broadsides, the male half of the game happens in... let's face it, in the real world, or in an historical variant thereof. The female universe is fictional. Never existed, never will. So the woman's version becomes a work of fantasy rather than historic fiction right off the bat. But more, swapping the gender roles and power dynamics to put the female in the more powerful position is... well, in a way, it's denying me a legitimate female experience in that world. This makes me sad.
A lot of games -- I am looking at you, Fable 2 -- give you the choice of playing as a female character in the same exact world. But that choice is basically a choice of avatar, and for the most part, the world doesn't react to your female-ness in any meaningful sense. You might as well be a man with breasts strapped on.
You may all be tired of hearing me talk about Dragon Age by now, but one of the things I found so captivating about that game was the overt sexism of some characters. It was incredibly satisfying to me to have a character take a dismissive attitude of me in the game, because I was a woman -- as in real life -- and have the power in the game to rise above it and prove them wrong, in a way I don't always have the courage or capacity to do in real life.
It bears noting that historical romance is a very popular genre. I speculate that part of the reason is the underlying power dynamic, where a woman in a position of relatively little social power nonetheless manages to get her heart's desire in the end. This is a very powerful fantasy.
Socially Just Fiction
Well then, what's the right way to do it? There are three basic approaches to dealing with sexism in fiction.
1. Telling your story in a sexism-free, utopian society.
2. Mirroring the gender-soaked world we live in.
3. The novel Choice of Games approach of reversing gender roles.
Each of these has a terrible disadvantage. The utopian society won't feel true and can't address difficult issues; mirroring our world supports the notion that our current state of gender affairs is just how things are, and how they will be. And reversing gender roles can ultimately leave you with a series of games where you never really get the experience of playing as a woman, because the world never really lets you be a woman; it lets you be a man with some hand-waving around babies and pronouns.
It's not easy to be an activist and put yourself on the hook to speak out when you find injustice. But as difficult as that is, it's a lot harder to try to write good interactive content when you're trying to do the right thing, because there is literally no decision you can make that will leave you free of criticism -- well, short of just not making anything at all. And who wants that?
Walk a Mile in Someone Else's Shoes
There's a compelling counter-example to my criticism in the upcoming Choice game, Choice of the Consort. As I understand it, the default experience of the new game is actually the woman's experience, specifically as a woman who has attracted the attention of a philandering king. And so the flipped universe is the reverse of the Choice of Broadsides situation -- men are being placed in the shoes of the less-powerful sex.
It definitely takes the tooth out of a lot of my criticism, because creating games where the initial or intended play experience is that of both genders is way less problematic than creating games where the default is always for men. Does the switch rob the men of the experience of playing as a man? Yeah, kind of. But at least both genders are getting the shaft in equal measures.
I find that far more interesting than building a matriarchal navy, in terms of ingenuity and ambition. As with the controversial FPS Hey, Baby, by putting a man in a woman's shoes and stripping him of gender privilege, it may shed light on something he never thought of that way before. Maybe it'll even subtly change a few hearts and minds against casual sexism. Stranger things have happened.
And finally: Kudos to Choice of Games for taking steps to address gender concerns in the first place. Indeed, they go a mile further, and are working hard to account for gay relationships, as well, which require additional layers of thought and world-building in their historical settings.
And all criticism aside, every time we have this conversation, it helps a little more, and we all get a little better. I'm glad they're out there and taking this stuff seriously.


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Victoria has had a mouthful of big editorial job titles by weekday. By weekend, she's the voice of Sail Me Om, as well as Scallywag's co-captain, voyage planner, chef, provisioner and reluctant varnisher.
Jon Vidar
Jon is a digital strategist and a big deal sometimes at a NYC PR agency. But let's be real -- he only feels accomplished when he's teaching himself how to rewire the boat, installing a fancy new gadget or pumping up the dinghy. Again.
Honey Dog
Honey Dog is the best worst dog ever, and accidentally landed a permanent home with us as a foster dog when no one else would adopt her. She might be around 6 years old. If you have a good guess as to what breed she is, let us know!


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Performance indicators
Research area: Performance indicators
The 1997 White Paper on Higher Education Transformation and the 2001 National Plan for Higher Education indicated that the South African government would develop steering mechanisms to assist with the transformation of the public higher education system. For this process to function effectively, it is crucial that university councils understand how performance will be measured.
CHET´s experience has been that this will not be an easy task for many university councils; currently very few institutions produce emperically-based data sets which enable council members to engage meaningfully in discussions about the performance of their institution.
CHET has therefore been working on developing relevant performance indicators and on collecting the data. CHET has published several books and reports on performance indicators, and has also made the data available on-line. In 2012, CHET will also make the performance indicator data from seven African universities available, as well as data on the South African post-secondary education sector.
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