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My girlfriend's old MacBook Pro 2009 (5,4) stopped working. I have tried several times to reinstall OS X, but could not do so. There appears to be something really really wrong with the OS.
Since she is not opposed to the idea of using Ubuntu instead of OS X, I am currently trying to transfer all of her files to my Linux machine using an ethernet crossover cable.
Since OS X does not work at all, I am using the Ubuntu 13.04 live DVD to access her files.
At first I thought the job would be simple. My plan was to set up network interfaces, plug in the crossover cable, set up an NFS share on the Macintosh HD, and
rsync all 150GB of her files over to my machine. Then install Ubuntu 13.04 as the sole operating system, and transfer the files back over.
But, alas, things are not that simple. NFS doesn't seem to like Apple's HFS+ filesystem. At least, I can not get it to work. I also can not find information about how to configure it. Since all of that takes time, I'm wondering if there's a simpler, better solution.
I thought of using an
rsync daemon, but since both computers are running Ubuntu (the client is using 12.10), and since I can mount the HFS+ hard drive in order to browse through her files, and since both computers can
ping each other, it just seemed like there would be an easier way to do this than trying to configure NFS.


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From picturesque valley's and beautiful alpine scenery to small towns and bright bazaars discover the stunning mountainous country of Kyrgyzstan on this tailor-made individual itinerary. Visit Tash-Rabat caravanserai - Kyrgyzstan's most remarkable monument constructed as a stopping off point for merchants on the Great Silk Road from Central Asia to China, pass by Lake Issyk Kul and explore the leafy capital of Bishkek.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
MORE DEMENTED LIBRARY REJECTS- The Children's Corner
Just when I start to get some foot traffic on this site, I neglect it like a senile uncle. Well, at least I'm posting in February. That's something. I had some lofty plans to do this once a week, but [insert lame excuses here] and you know what they say, [insert tired and/or inappropriate maxim here].
I thought it would be nice to revisit some of my kid's book friends, the ones unkindly marked "OBSOLETE" and cast to the fates of the junk store shelves. In truth, many of these books may in fact be harmful to the mental health of the children they were intended for, so if you're the librarian responsible for their expurgation, kudos.
Usually I'm especially happy to come across former-library orphans, because I can then add select tomes to my growing collection of crap. (Did I mention I'm moving in the near future? Is there an emoticon for an impending migraine?) The following books, however, just didn't make the cut -- and my standards are low.
I know it's the basic building block of life and a cold glass of it tastes great on a hot day, but this is not a book to be sought after. I like how the publishers tried to to find a painting that captures the drama, the dynamism, the awesome majesty that is WATER ... and just failed miserably. So, as an afterthought they decided to add some dubious semiotics to the bottom: trees love it, right? It turns the cogs of industry, yes? It, uh, comes out of the tap? Oh, and that mainstay of all kids books from the 50s to the late 70s, the atomic orbit icon. Even though a quick scan of the book's interior shows nothing in the way of atomic fun. (Believe me, it would have ended up in my collection if there was just one nuclear reactor inside.)
Instead the pages are filled with kids staring at ice cubes melting and tea kettles steaming. Including this demented illustration:
This almost has a certain deepness to it. The child inquisitively regarding the glass of water, perhaps regarding the origin of himself and the whole earth. But that notion dissipates, or should I say evaporates (ha!), when we see the very same kid, with the very same dull thousand-mile stare expression (like he's just back from mechanized combat) repeated three times further on in the book (it's a short book, too), with only the disembodied question changing: "How?" "Where did it go?" "What the *%#@ am I doing here on a Saturday just staring into a glass of water?" Dullsville.
Oh, but that's not the only book about water. This book was found at the same thrift store. Must have been a house-cleaning of some sort:
Now, in comparison to the previous book, this cover looks like an action movie, but in all fairness, it's just a kid entertaining himself by staring through a glass of water. I know that indoor plumbing was a relatively new process in the 1950s, but wasn't that also the golden age of television? This kid's expression is only mildly less doltish than the other kid's -- he actually seems to be enjoying himself. Which is just sad. I blame the parents.
And speaking of sad... I guess it's just the type of person I am that when I look at this cover I think two things: 1) something terrible is going to happen to these kids (and that bunny) by at least page 4, or 2) this is one of those "be obedient to god" books, for which I always have the suspicious feeling of some hidden government agenda. At any rate I didn't open the book to see why Sally (she's always named Sally) is so orgasmically happy. Maybe she just found out about television.
Imagine the debacle faced by this book's cover illustrator: Your assignment is to deliver a charcoal drawing that captures the drama, the dynamism, the awesome magic that is FOG. To which she muttered, "How the *&%$# am I supposed to illustrate fog? I know, I'll just throw in a Teutonic-browed Village-of-the-Damned-child (for mystery), a doe-eyed kitten (for maximum cuteness), a house, a sailboat, and trees (for more mystery) and some wispy shapes that look like someone set the water sprinklers too high. Voila! Fog magic, indeed.
Refused to die, huh? Disobedient mutt. At least we know that this book will be replete with sadistic violence towards dogs. And perhaps a good bit of revenge, he is one of those amazing dobermans, right? Or is he merely one of a large group of daring dobermans that seem so ubiquitous these days? Ah, what would the 1980s have been without dog movies on KTLA?
And speaking of imminent death to animals, it seems to be an all-too-common theme in children's books, at least the ones laying around thrift stores. Just what the hell did they do/ are they about to do to that pony? Damn Whitey, always ruining everything. Fight the power.
Now, I took this pic so long ago, I don't even remember the book it's from. Maybe it's the "Colt=Killer" from the previous volume. All I know is that kids get bad ideas. Lots of them. Some from the most innocuous sources. Like, "Hey, I bet I could jump off the roof of my house with an open umbrella and I'll just float gently to earth like Mary Poppins (yeah, I tried that one and it's a small wonder I didn't crack my head open... again). Another bad idea is target practice near an occupied crib. Yeah, I know this is some frontier kid, and to him blasting shotguns at rattlers is like a Sunday afternoon on the PS3 (or whatever, I've been out of the video game loop since SNES), and he's saving his little sister's life, but it just doesn't seem like the right image/ message to impart to your typically doltish 9 year-old, whose only other possible distraction is staring into a glass of water. However, I do love the doll on the ground, replete with smiley face and arms out-stretched in Guernica-like horror.
Okay, one more, because as usual it's 3 in the morning...
Unlike in the other books, in this one the animal decisively has the upper hand. And this little British kid -- it just occurred to me that for some reason I've logn held the stupid idea that British kids still dress this way -- anyhow, he's obviously about to be crushed. Why? Because he's British. Why British? Well, the elephant is clearly a potent symbol of anglo-imperialism, and the lad a symbol of the waning stature of England in the post-world war two geo-political scene, now confronted by the behemoth of 200+ years of brutal colonialism. Yes, he's "lost in the zoo," that of his own making and... sorry, 3:38 am. Time to hang up.
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As a staff member, you may need to book, edit, or cancel a Tee Time reservation on behalf of members. You can easily do so directly from the Tee Time Admin Dashboard.
Use Case(s):
This video contains highlights from a training Webinar given on How to Book a Tee Time (Members).
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To get started, access the Tee Times Admin Dashboard.
This will launch the Tee Times calendar, which mirrors the Member Tee Time Calendar.
The calendar will default to today's date. You may change the date by using the datepickers above the calendar.
Below the datepickers, there will be two click to edits for Daily Notes and for Proshop Only Notes.
Daily Notes are visible to members, and is typically used for course notifications.
Proshop Only Notes are only visible to staff members, and is typically used for communications geared towards staff.
Click on the click to edit to open the Editor.
Within the editor, you may add text, imagery, and hyperlinks. To learn more about editing content within the editor, please review our Editor Article.
The Admin Tee Times calendar will list all available tee times for the courses you may have.
Reserved times will list who the reservation is for, along with any details on the reservation like: guests and transportation type.
To book a tee time, click on any time that is open.
Note: you cannot make reservations for times in the past.
This will launch the booking window.
At the top left of the booking window there will be a counter, which is counting down. This shows the amount of time you have to make the reservation and holds the spot while entering in reservation details so another member, or staff member, cannot book this spot while entering in details.
At the top of the booking window you may change the date of the reservation, the course, the time, the starting tee, rounds, and party size.
Once you change the party size the Player section below will update accordingly.
Next, fill out the player section.
In Player 1, enter in the name of the member that you're making the reservation on behalf of.
To do this, type the last name of the member, then a comma, then their first name. Their name will then appear in the list.
Click on the member's name to add to the reservation.
Continue adding any known members to the reservation Player fields.
Next to each Player field there will be a checkbox which is associated with the Send Confirmations checkbox. When all checkboxes are enabled, members and guests with receive emails from the system for when the tee time is made, if edits are made, or if a cancellation occurs.
You may leave Player spots as TBDs if the other patron's are unknown.
To do this, you may leave the spots as 'Type Player Name', or using the dropdown within the Player spot click on TBD.
If a member is bringing a guest and you have the guest information, click on New Guest.
This will launch the Guest Information window where you may add information on the guest. This will store the guest's information so members can easily add guests next time, and so you can store the information in the Guest Manager.
Add the guest information as follows and click Add Guest.
If the member would like to leave a player spot open for another member to join the game, then choose 'Need Player'. This will allow members to join the tee time.
At the bottom of the booking window you will have options to leave Comments, Admin Notes, and set up a recurring tee time.
The comments tab is meant for members and any comments left here will be visible to the members on the reservation.
Admin Notes can only been seen by staff members, and is therefore used to leave internal notes on the tee time or any directions for staff.
The recurrence tab allows you to set up a recurring team time for the party.
Once you are ready to make the reservation, click Make Tee Time.
The page will refresh and you will now be able to see the reservation on the Tee Times Admin Calendar and on the Member Tee Times Calendar.
You can easily edit Tee Time reservations directly from the Admin Tee Times calendar within the Tee Times Admin Dashboard.
Click on the reservation you wish to edit from the calendar.
This will launch the booking window.
From here, you can make edits on any of the options within the booking window.
Click Update Tee Time once changes have been made.
To cancel from the booking window, simply click Cancel Tee Time.
You may also cancel a reservation directly from the Calendar by clicking on the arrow to the right of the reservation.
Then, click on the trashcan icon to remove the Tee Time.
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Labour has renewed calls for Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint, a former boss of the bank, to appear in person in Parliament to explain what he knew about the bank's failures to prevent suspicious transactions that have been condemned by a US Senate committee.
The Senate inquiry found that HSBC accepted more than $15bn in cash between 2006 and 2009 from Mexico, Russia and other countries at high risk of money-laundering but failed properly to monitor transactions.
Lord Green was chief executive of the London-based bank from 2003 to 2006 before becoming its chairman until 2010 and was made a trade minister last year.
The peer, who is also an adviser to the George Osborne on banking, has stayed away from the House of Lords in recent days and was absent again yesterday for a high profile debate about his own suitability for ministerial office.


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How much should people pay for donuts? Students use linear, rational, and piecewise functions to describe the total and average costs of an order at Carpe Donut.
How far away from the TV should you sit? Students use right triangle trigonometry and a rational function to explore the percent of your visual field that is occupied by the area of a television.
How can you make money in a pyramid scheme? Students learn about how pyramid schemes work (and how they fail), and use geometric sequences to model the exponential growth of a pyramid scheme over time.
How much do you really pay when you use a credit card? Students develop an exponential growth model to determine how much an item really ends up costing when purchased on credit.
Could Inspector Javert have survived the fall? Students use quadratic models to determine how high the bridge was in Les Misérables, and explore the maximum height from which someone can safely jump.
How much can you trust your memory? Students construct and compare linear and exponential models to explore how much a memory degrades each time it's remembered.
How much should you bid in an auction? Students use probability, expected value, and polynomial functions to develop a profit-maximizing bidding strategy.
How has the iPod depreciated over time? Students compare linear and exponential decay, as well as explore how various products have depreciated and what might account for those differences.
How can we improve our calendar? Students examine some other ways to keep track of dates, and use number sense and function concepts to convert between different calendars.
What's the best strategy for creating a March Madness bracket? Students use probability to discover that it's basically impossible to correctly predict every game in the tournament. Nevertheless, that doesn't stop people from trying.
Should you buy a camera lens with vibration reduction? Students interpret graphs and use right triangle trigonometry to explore the relationship between focal length, viewing angle, and blurriness.
Does the same sound always sound the same? Students come up with equations in several variables to explore the Doppler Effect, which explains how sound from a moving object gets distorted.
How much Tylenol can you safely take? Students use exponential functions and logarithms to explore the risks of acetaminophen toxicity, and discuss what they think drug manufacturers should do to make sure people use their products safely.
How has the urban population changed over time, and will we all eventually live in cities? Students use recursive rules along with linear and exponential models to explore how America's urban areas have been growing over the last 200 years.
When should NFL teams go for it on fourth down? Students use quadratic functions to develop a model of expected points. They then apply this model to determine when teams should punt the ball, and more importantly, when they shouldn't.
How much should Nintendo charge for the Wii U? Students use linear functions to explore demand for the Wii U console and Nintendo's per-unit profit from each sale. They use those functions to create a quadratic model for Nintendo's total profit and determine the profit-maximizing price for the console.
Which size pizza should you order? Students apply the area of a circle formula to write linear and quadratic formulas that measure how much of a pizza is actually pizza, and how much is crust.
How do noise-canceling headphones work? In this lesson, students use transformations of trigonometric functions to explore how sound waves can interfere with one another, and how noise-canceling headphones use incoming sounds to figure out how to produce that sweet, sweet silence.
How should pharmaceutical companies decide what to develop? In this lesson, students use linear and quadratic functions to explore how much pharmaceutical companies expect to make from different drugs, and discuss ways to incentivize companies to develop medications that are more valuable to society.
How much should companies pay their employees? Students graph and solve systems of linear equations in order to examine the effects of wage levels on labor and consumer markets, and they discuss the possible pros and cons of increasing the minimum wage.
How hard is it to pay off municipal fines? Students use linear equations and solve linear systems to examine what happens when people are unable to pay small municipal fines. They also discuss what can happen to the most financially vulnerable citizens when cities rely heavily on fines for revenue.
Do social networks like Facebook make us more connected? Students create a quadratic function to model the number of possible connections as a network grows, and consider the consequences of relying on Facebook for news and information.
Why are so many Americans dying from opiate overdoses? Students use exponential decay and rational functions to understand why addicted patients seek more and stronger opioids to alleviate their pain.
How have video game console speeds changed over time? Students write an exponential function based on the Atari 2600 and Moore's Law, and see whether the model was correct for subsequent video game consoles.
Why hasn't everyone already died of a contagion? And, if vampires exist, shouldn't we all be sucking blood by now? Students model the exponential growth of a contagion and use logarithms and finite geometric series to determine the time needed for a disease to infect the entire population.
Is higher education a good investment? Students write and solve systems of linear equations to determine how long it would take to pay off various degrees and discuss the pros and cons of different educational paths.
Mathalicious lessons provide teachers with an opportunity to teach standards-based math through real-world topics that students care about.
How do the rules of an election affect who wins? Students calculate (as a percent) how much of the electoral and popular vote different presidential candidates have received, and add with integers to explore elections under possible alternative voting systems.
In basketball, should you ever foul at the buzzer? Students use probabilities to determine when the defense should foul...and when they should not.


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Official Press Release
BALTIMORE, MD -- The Baltimore Comic-Con is proud to announce that noted comic pioneer Jerry Robinson has agreed to serve as Keynote Speaker for the Harvey Awards, to be held the evening of Saturday, September 9, at the Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards.
Jerry Robinson is credited with naming Batman's partner Robin and creating the concept of the Joker during his early work on Batman comic books. He wrote The Comics: An Illustrated History of Comic Strip Art and founded Cartoonists & Writers Syndicate. Robinson is a past president of the National Cartoonists Society and received their Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. He was added to the Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2004.
For those interested in hearing his speech, Harvey Awards tickets are still available. There will be a VIP cocktail reception from 6:30 - 7:30 PM, followed by dinner from 7:30 - 8:30 PM. Admission to the reception and dinner is available at $50 per ticket, and a full cash bar will be available.
The awards presentation will open to the public at 8:15 PM and is scheduled to run until 11:30 PM. Tickets to attend the awards ceremony only are available for $10, or admission is free with a two-day pass to the convention. Dinner and ceremony tickets may be purchased until Tuesday, September 5, by calling Cards, Comics & Collectibles in Reisterstown, Maryland at (410) 526-7410. Major credit cards are accepted for payment, and tickets may be picked up at the Convention Center on Saturday, Sept. 9. (Tickets will not be available at the door.)
The two-day Baltimore Comic-Con runs 10 AM to 6 PM on Saturday and 10 AM to 5 PM on Sunday at the Baltimore Convention Center. Tickets are available at the door or from Ticketmaster at the convention website.
For more information about the Baltimore Comic-Con, visit their site at http://www.comiccon.com/baltimore . For more information on the Harvey Awards, visit http://www.harveyawards.org .


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What I Learned from Studying Writing in Greece (+5 Things You Need for Magical Literary Productivity)
The most productive time of my writing life was spent on a rural Greek island as part of the Writing Workshops in Greece program in the summer of 2014. I jumped off rocky cliffs into the Aegean Sea, ate fish I'd caught hours before, ghost-hunted in ancient ruins, sprinted down the middle of the highway barefoot under the full moon with amazing friends, our evening gowns clutched in our linked hands. Most importantly, I wrote. I filled an entire Moleskine with stories in three and a half weeks. (Before Greece, this amount of writing would take me a year).
If I could abandon everything and go back, I would. I'd relearn how to be a mermaid in the Aegean. I'd hold fire rituals every night. I'd climb down into the belly of the peninsula - where the indigenous wives sacrificed their sons - and discover what treasures it held. I'd write.
What happened in three short weeks on that beautiful island was nothing short of magic. There is a certain crazy, unexplainable thing about that island that cannot be replicated anywhere else in the world.
But I let it steal my heart too intensely, and when I came home, my writing suffered. When I returned from Thassos, I missed the incredible gift I was given. I was unbelievably homesick for a place I'd only lived at for a very short time. I believed in the magic of the island; I believed something incredible had happened to me - and both of these beliefs were very, very true. But I also believed I could never achieve this amount of literary productivity again. And this very last piece was a terrible lie.
At home I could revise my writing, but I couldn't produce anything new for a long time. I felt like a piece of me was missing, a piece that was the key to writing productivity. I yearned for Thassos, for literary productivity, for the Aegean wind.
What I didn't understand at the time was that it wasn't the island of Thassos I needed, but something else entirely. The island stole my heart, sure, but I must confess—what I was craving to recreate wasn't actually a meal of gavros and tsiporo, but something else, some way to achieve productive literary magic.
I needed a structured freedom to write, a life inspiring enough to write about, time to let my brain be free, good books to study, and a community to guide and inspire me. These are the necessary ingredients to a productive writing life. These were the elements my writing life was missing. These were the reasons my writing suffered. And these are what YOU need if you want to make a productive writing life for yourself.
The 5 Things You Need to Create Magic Literary Productivity at Home
1 | Structured freedom to write
In Greece, we had a nice routine. In the mornings, we'd wake up and have breakfast, we'd go to class/workshop until lunch, we'd have the afternoons to read, write, go adventuring, we'd reconvene before dinner to listen to readings, then we'd dine, drink, dance until bed time. It was perfect.
In normal life, I didn't have this luxury, and you probably don't either. We all have jobs, families, whole lives outside of writing. We have other responsibilities, commitments, goals, desires. We do a lot of other things besides write. This can make it hard to get a lot of productive writing done.
But that doesn't mean you can't fit writing into your life. Instead of thinking writing and your life as two separate things, you have to fuse the two together into a life you love.
The reason I was so productive in Greece was because I had a structured freedom to write, and I had made a vow to myself to write while I was there. The program gave me a given period of time to write each day, but I still had to CHOOSE to write each day. And since I chose to, I wrote a lot.
To do this yourself:
Give your writing a structured schedule. Schedule writing into your calendar. Give it the same amount of weight and importance as everything else in your life. If this means you write every morning from 8-9 a.m. then that's what you do every morning. If this means you only write on Tuesday nights before you go to bed, then that's what you do every Tuesday night before you go to bed. If this means you find 10 minutes every day, at various points in the day, then that's what you do for 10 minutes every day. Your writing life doesn't have to be writing for 5 hours each day. It can be small. It can be infrequent. But it has to be SOMETHING. Find yourself a good schedule and stick to it.
Then, vow to commit to it no matter what. You have to CHOOSE to write. You have to CHOOSE to get it done. Just because you put it on your calendar doesn't necessarily mean it will get done. This is a good tool to get started and help you discern the importance, but you still have to consciously decide, consciously choose to write. You are in control of your life. Choose to make writing a priority and get it done.
2 | A life inspiring enough to write about
When I was in Greece, I did a lot of adventuring. And I mean, CRAZY adventuring. I swam out to a big rock in the middle of the sea, maybe a couple football fields away, and sunbathed on it. I jumped off rocky cliffs, diving into the water, swimming like a mermaid. I hiked through the rocky forest, walked through the marble quarry. I searched for ghosts in ancient ruins (literally, there are legit ghost stories). I participated in fire rituals on the beach. I splashed in phosphorescent water. I went out on a boat to catch fish I'd eat that night. And of course, I swam, I lounged in the sun, I drank a lot of delicious homemade wine and tsiporo.
This crazy adventurous stuff made for good writing material. I was living a life that was worth writing about. It was fun. It was life-changing. It was so fantastic that simply telling you about it doesn't do it justice.
What's interesting though was that while I was adventuring, and of course, documenting my adventures, my most interesting writing came from very domestic places. Something crazy would happen, some awesome adventure would lie before me, or someone would say something (anything!), and I would be reminded of something else.
I wrote about families. I wrote about the "woods" behind my childhood home. I wrote about relationships, moments with my significant other. I wrote about body image. I wrote about ghost stories from where I had grown up. I was documenting Greece, but I was writing about things I knew, things from elsewhere, things I hadn't expected to write.
By being inspired by my environment I was living in and the life I was living, I was able to write about everything. It wasn't as if I could only write about the adventures that lie before me; and it wasn't as if I needed these particular adventures in order to write a story. But I needed to be living to the fullest possible extent in order to inspire me to write. My Greek adventures inspired me to write anything and everything.
When I returned to Greece, I returned to a fairly boring life. I did a lot of sitting around, watching Netflix. That was pretty much it. When I went back to school, I fell into a fairly boring routine of class, food, homework, work. I wasn't doing anything interesting, anything inspiring, anything worth writing about. After I graduated this boringness continued. Again, a lot of work, eat, Netflix, repeat. I got stuck in routines and stuck in the mundaneness of them. I didn't feel like writing because I wasn't doing anything worth writing about.
Eventually I snapped out of the habit of mundaneness and decided to live a life worth writing about. Recently, I've done a lot of living. I've gone out with friends, swam at the pool, tried new restaurants, played some Call of Duty Zombies (when I list it out like this it sounds way less exciting, but it's been good, I swear). By creating a life around me that is interesting, my mind has been emotionally stimulated. I have things to write about, and they may not be what I'm doing exactly, but I'm inspired to capture the world because I've been living in it.
to do this yourself:
Go do something fun. Take a walk. Take a hike. Go canoeing. Try a new restaurant. Go to the zoo. Go to an amusement park. Go ghost hunting. Go eat a new food. Go do ANYTHING. Just be out in the world, and be present in the moment.
If you quarantine yourself in a room and expect writing to happen, it might work once or twice. If you do this every day, day in and day out, you will end up uninspired, bored, and frustrated. You have to fuse writing with your life, but you have to still have a life to live too. Go live it!
3 | Time to yourself
Every day in Greece, walking to and from the beach, I had an uninterrupted 10 minute time to be alone with my thoughts. I didn't have a phone to distract me. I couldn't check email or scroll through Facebook. I couldn't do anything but walk and think. So I let my mind wander. I let my thoughts do whatever they wanted. I noticed the air, the way it smelled like woods and saltwater at the same time. I noticed the hot sun on my back. I noticed the trees, the stony road, the little flowers, and admired them.
I'd get to the beach and let my mind be empty. I'd become a witness to the world. I'd watch the waves, the people doing their people things, the birds. I'd watch nothing. I'd become an non-judgemental observer to my thoughts, and then I'd document them. I'd give up the need to write "something good" about something specific, and simply allow the world to wash over me, capturing it through whatever words seemed appropriate at the time.
This summer I've been spending a lot of time at the pool. The walk to the pool in my apartment complex isn't far, and it doesn't look or smell like Greece, but it reminds me of walking to the beach in Greece. I carry the same bag I carried in Greece, the same beach towel, and this instigates the same mindset.
(In fact, it was this walk, that was so eerily familiar, that inspired this post.)
The similarities aren't just physical, but mental. The walk to my apartment complex's pool gives me an uninterrupted time to let my mind empty and become a witness to the world, just as the walk to the beach in Greece did. I arrive at the pool with a mind ready to document things, think about things, and be free to write. This isn't a purposeful, intentional walk with a destination in mind. It isn't a walk full of talking to others or absorbing social media stuff. It's easy, relaxed, free. It's some solid "me-time" that allows my mind to consider the world and appreciate it.
This is an AMAZING thing that I hadn't realized I'd been missing until it showed back up in my life again.
We often get so busy in our lives. We absorb Facebook. We absorb email. We absorb TV shows. We are constantly receiving information that our brain has to process. Then we have to output. We have to write this certain thing by this certain deadline. We have to complete this project for work by Friday. We have to cook dinner and have it ready before everyone gets too hungry. We force ourselves to have a highly productive output in a condensed amount of time. The high-frequency of these inputs and outputs doesn't allow any room for our brain to just be. And for writing, the "just be" phase is essential for magic to happen.
By finding a way to let my brain just exist, I gave my brain the freedom it needed to be inspired, to get excited, to get moving. In my most recent trip to the pool, I went without any expectations, no intentions, except to lay in the sun. I had a book to read and a notebook to write, but I didn't give myself any pressures to do something. On my walk there, I emptied my mind. I admired the trees, the road, the hum of air conditioning units. When I got to the pool, I watched the people, the water, and nothing at all. I let my brain turn off and simply asked it to exist.
With the freedom to think and the removal of expectations, I came up with four different story ideas, wrote six pages of various notes, and read over 100 pages in my book. If that's not productive, I don't know what is.
To do this yourself:
Give your brain some room to breathe. Take a walk (yes, a physical walk) with no end goal in mind. Turn off your phone, release any intentions. Let your mind and body wander freely throughout the world. Then, take a seat in nature - at the pool, in the woods, at the beach, in a park, doesn't matter where exactly - and just watch the world around you. Quiet your internal dialogue, and let yourself just be washed over the contents of the world. Become an observer, become a witness. Simply ask yourself to exist.
If something interesting comes to mind, write it down. If it doesn't, that's okay. This is an excellent recharging system for your brain that is sure to get it going later. The goal here is to let your brain be free.
4 | Good books to study
There simply may be nothing better than lying on the beach with a good book in your hand. It's so simple, so relaxing. It's something we all want to do and we'd love to do it all the time.
But how often do you actually do it? Seriously?
With our busy lives, reading can get pushed to the wayside. With such high input and output variables, we have to prioritize what we choose to do. I know for me, reading an awesome book gets devalued in favor of creating something new or working on my WIP or writing a blog post or sending an email or a million bajillion other things. But this isn't fair.
Whenever I get stuck with my writing, I try to sort it out in my head. I try to think logically, then I try to think emotionally, then I try to reason my way to the "right" answer. This doesn't work. Whenever the writing stops and I feel uninspired, I try to force myself to write. I ask my brain to give me inspiration, discipline, high output. This doesn't really work either.
The best medicine for a struggling writer is to read something.
In Greece I read a lot, of course. I read quite a few short stories and essays and craft lessons for class every day, but I also read a few short story collections. I was feeding myself quality writing every day, and my own writing thanked me for it. I found inspiration for my own work. I sorted through problems by seeing how other writers handled similar things. I had a stimulating input.
This is such a simple thing, such an enjoyable thing, and yet we seem to push it to the wayside. We mustn't do that.
Now, whenever I get stuck with my writing, I turn to a good book. I let the writing marinate, I let my thoughts develop, and I focus on the masters. This is seriously the best medicine. I also try to make reading quality stories a habit. You can't produce Real+Good Writing without reading Real+Good Writing. Plus, this is probably why most of us are writers anyway - because we just love books!
Make sure you have something to read and study. Read things that interest you, inspire you, encourage you to write your own stories. Make the time to read something. And when you read it, make sure you read as a writer. Don't just let everything wash over you, but pay attention to how the writer wrote the story. Pay attention to what's working and what isn't working. These are the lessons your brain will remember that will help you problem solve at a later time. Go read something!
5 | A community to encourage and inspire you
I made such good friends in Greece. We wrote together, adventured together, critiqued each other, inspired each other. During workshops we took the time to read each other's work and help each other make it better. This is SO important and necessary. Writing is a solitary activity, but you don't have to go it alone. You have to find your writing buddies: people who get you, who can critique you, who can talk you through your writing struggles, who know what it's like to be a writer, and you can just vent to.
In Greece, we held workshops every day. We talked about craft, edited each other's stories, and grew as writers from being around and working with other writers. This is awesome. You can get this in a classroom workshop setting as well. And I enjoyed this aspect (much more than I realized) throughout my undergraduate career.
But when you're not in school or on a beautiful rural island, you still need this community. You still need people that get you, that work with you, that inspire you.
Sometimes you get so close to your work that you can't see what it's missing, what isn't working. Finding an outside pair of eyes can do amazing things for you work. This is where your writing buddy comes in.
Sometimes you just get so frustrated with writing in general. Sometimes you just want to give up. Sometimes you don't know if what you're doing matters at all. This is where your writing buddy comes in.
Sometimes you can't figure out what should happen next in your plot. Nothing you've thought of seems to work. Your friends, who aren't writers, try to help you, but you need someone who gets the art of the story. This is where your writing buddy comes in.
Sometimes you don't know enough about voice, or setting, or plot, or characters. You need to talk through some craft elements. This is where your writing buddy comes in.
Sometimes you need a new good book to read. This is where your writing buddy comes in.
Sometimes you write something that's so unexpected and out of the blue, that you're not sure if it's the best thing you've ever written, or not at all like what you were going for and not at all like your writing style. This is where your writing buddy comes in.
Sometimes you feel really really alone. Sometimes you feel like no one gets you. Sometimes you feel like you're a crazy person for writing at all. This is where your writing buddy comes in.
You NEED writing buddies. And yet, it can be very hard to find this sense of community.
to find your writing buddies:
To find them, you have a few options: You can check out local writers groups in the place where you live. Or you can seek communities online. There are plenty of free and paid community websites where writers share work and discuss the craft of writing. But you can also find people through social media. Check out #amwriting on Twitter, or join a weekly Twitter chat, such as the @StorySocial on Wednesday nights at 9 p.m. EST. Join a Facebook group, such as Kristen Kieffer of She's Novel's Your Write Dream.
When you find somebody who seems to be a good writing buddy for you, reach out and say hello. The purpose of social media is to be SOCIAL, so you have to get out of your comfort zone and say hi. I know for us writers, who are often introverted, this can be difficult; but this is how you make friends. I wouldn't have met any of the great writing buddies I have right now if I hadn't had the courage to simply say hello to them. It's weird, scary, and probably awkward, but chances are, they're probably looking for another writing buddy too.
Go say hi to people and make some writing friends!
Creating an awesome and productive writing life may mean abandoning everything and moving to the island of Thassos to write and adventure all the time. If you can do this, GO DO IT! But if you can't, that doesn't mean you can't recreate some of the benefits in your own backyard.
to have a productive writing life:
- Give yourself structured freedom to write + vow to make writing a priority
- Live a life worth writing about
- Give your brain some room to breath + simply exist in the world
- Make the time to read
- Find a community of awesome writing buddies
This was everything I needed in Greece to make an amazing and productive writing life. This is what I use now to recreate the benefits of Greece in my own home. You can't bring the island with you wherever you go (and NOTHING will ever replace the magical life of Thassos), but you can live a writing life you love wherever you are.
Happy Writing!
When was the most productive time in your writing life? What do you need to have a productive writing life? Have you found one of these components more important than others? Have you ever had an intense and amazing literary experience elsewhere?


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I have planned to dress in "Snow White colors" for a very long time, because it is my favorite Disney character and also I got called Snow White a lot at school! I should probably have done it before starting to go to beach (despite not appearing, this is me, very tanned already!), and the apple is missing, but it isn't that so ordinary?
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Zorofi, F., Hojjati, Z., Elmiyeh, A. (2013). Effect of Yoga Exercises on the Body Composition of Fasting Females.
Journal of Nutrition,Fasting and Health
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Fatemeh Zorofi; Zahra Hojjati; Alireza Elmiyeh. "Effect of Yoga Exercises on the Body Composition of Fasting Females".
Journal of Nutrition,Fasting and Health
, 1, 2, 2013, 70-78. doi: 10.22038/jfh.2013.2136
Zorofi, F., Hojjati, Z., Elmiyeh, A. (2013). 'Effect of Yoga Exercises on the Body Composition of Fasting Females',
Journal of Nutrition,Fasting and Health
, 1(2), pp. 70-78. doi: 10.22038/jfh.2013.2136
Zorofi, F., Hojjati, Z., Elmiyeh, A. Effect of Yoga Exercises on the Body Composition of Fasting Females.
Journal of Nutrition,Fasting and Health
, 2013; 1(2): 70-78. doi: 10.22038/jfh.2013.2136
Effect of Yoga Exercises on the Body Composition of Fasting Females
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Document Type: Research Paper
Fatemeh Zorofi
Zahra Hojjati
Alireza Elmiyeh
Department of Physical Education, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Guilan, Iran
Department of Physical Education, Islamic Azad University, Rasht Branch, Rasht, Iran
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of one-month fasting along with yoga training on the body composition of novice female athletes. Twenty trained women were randomly assigned to experimental (n=10) and control (n=10) groups. The experimental group participated in yoga training classes for 4 weeks, two 60-min sessions per week; the control group did not participate in any regular exercise programs. This study was conducted on two fasting groups in the month of Ramadan, 2012. The study variables including body fat percentage, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) were measured in three stages: a week before Ramadan, the fifteenth day of Ramadan, and a week after Ramadan. The results showed that BMI in the fasting yoga group decreased; however the changes of BMI in the control group were not significant. Also, subcutaneous fat showed significant reduction in both experimental and control groups, though the changes were more significant in the exercise group; also, the results showed that waist-to-hip ratio significantly changed in the experimental group. As to the results, yoga exercises along with fasting can help overweight people to experience ideal weight loss; also for the athletes who stop exercising in Ramadan, yoga can be used as an alternative to maintain their weight.
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If culture has the most impact on business results, why do leaders still spend most of their time on strategy?
Article | Accountability Insights by Mattson Newell | Aug 2, 2017 | Reposted from Partners in Leadership with permission
Organizational leaders reported in a recent Global Workplace Accountability Study conducted by Partners In Leadership that to improve business results they spend seventy-four percent of their time on strategy and twenty-six percent of their time on culture. But when asked, "Which has the most impact on your Business Results, culture or strategy?" a whopping ninety-six percent of leaders said that culture has a greater impact.
If most leaders readily agree that company culture has a greater impact on achieving business results–or not achieving them–why do many leaders still spend more resources on strategy than on culture?
Unfortunately, too many leaders don't even know where to start when it comes to building culture. Instead, many default to strategy because, let's face it, at least we know what strategy looks like–how to create, communicate, and measure it. Other leaders take a superficial approach to culture, and as a result, culture work is at-risk of becoming a passing fad, a "soft-side" of the business phenomenon that is fueled by ongoing after work socials, team building exercises and a host of other well-intended activities focused on driving the right culture in organizations around the world.
But the best leaders do more. They actively shape their culture by asking three questions from time to time:
1. Is our culture producing the necessary results?
Simply stated, culture produces results. Your organizational culture is directly aligned to achieve the results you are achieving today. If you want to achieve new, better, different results, you need a new, better, different culture.
A common trap we see is that organizations try to tie culture directly into assessments and culture surveys. While those have their place, at the end of the day there needs to be clarity and a direct correlation between your culture and results.
After a global energy company missed their numbers year after year for five years straight, the CEO said, "We tried everything: re-did our strategy, spent much needed capital, re-tooled our marketing and none of it was moving the needle. Finally, we gave Culture a try." The transformation, and results, were immediate: six months after they started actively working on culture, the company hit their numbers for eight quarters straight.
2. Is our culture aligned with our strategy?
Does our culture and strategy seamlessly work together or is there a conflict and competition between them? If so, you are dealing with a credibility issue as people hear you say one thing, but your strategy says something entirely different. It's the old saying you are talking the talk, but not walking the walk.
If you are trying to establish a culture of quality, but your strategy is focused solely on quantity, it creates cultural friction throughout the organization and a belief that you aren't serious about living your culture.
Think of the tie between culture and strategy at some of the most well-known brands in the world. Disney's strategy is to create a memorable, world-class experience every time a guest visits one of their parks. It links this strategy directly to its internal culture of creating a memorable world-class experience for all of its employees. Apple strategically drives to lead the industry in innovation; to support these results, Apple has actively created a strong company culture of innovation.
3. Is our culture current and evolving?
We've probably all been there: walking past a "Cultural Values" poster on the wall that was created in 1948. Too often, cultural values become static, elevator music in the background that is present, but not impactful.
Culture is not something to be written in stone. If you want to get results, culture must evolve with strategy. A misaligned culture produces undesirable results. Amazon has had to evolve their culture with their strategy a number of times over the years, as they have moved from an internet bookshop, to expanding into DVDs and CDs to toys and electronics to the world's biggest online retailer. Their values have always remained the same, those are timeless, but their culture has evolved to match their evolving strategy.
Creating Results and Shaping Change
Peter Drucker said, "Culture eats strategy for breakfast." Shape your culture to align with strategy, and you'll feast on exceptional results. The first step is to assess if you have a high performing culture by asking three questions: 1) Is your culture helping you produce your desired results? 2) Is your culture aligned with your strategy? 3) Is your culture current and evolving? Use these answers as a roadmap: check, adjust and align your culture – and be well on your way to achieving desired results.
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Fait Accompli: On Life Lists/
I wasn't going to post my life list online because, well, everyone is doing one these days. It's really in danger of becoming just another internet meme. But the truth is that I've always made life lists -- I don't always write them down, and I certainly haven't always had a little slice of the internet to post them to, but I've always had a running to-do list for my life.
I make lists because I've always instinctively believed that if I plan on something it's more likely to happen. I don't think it happens because of magic -- I just think that when you know what you want out of life, you live your life in a way that makes what you want possible.
It makes sense to me, anyways.
For instance, I once was a psychobiology major. Until one day, when I decided that what I wanted to do in life was to work in marketing in the cosmetics industry, organic chemistry coursework be damned. So instead of studying for the MCAT or looking for work in a lab what I did a few weeks after graduation is open up the classifieds (the classifieds! That's a vintage story right there!) and look for a job in the beauty industry. Sure enough, there was a want ad for a cosmetics company. They were only looking for an assistant, but still. I applied, got the job, and within six months I was working in marketing. And the item got checked off the list.
I've also wanted to dance with Madonna. Live in Europe. Get a master's degree on a full-tuition fellowship. Ride a camel through the Sahara desert. Fanciful things all, and all things that have been accomplished.
Did it hurt that they were on a list? I don't think so.
So, to this list I'm posting online: I'm posting not only because I was inspired by John Goddard and countless
others, but because lately the internet has made
completing things on my life list infinitely more feasible.
The list is a dynamic thing. I will be adding things as they occur to me. But for now, here is what I want to get done before I go:
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The LG G Watch and Samsung's Gear Live are the first Google Android Wear smartwatches and they push the boundaries of how useful a smartwatch can be.
With Android Wear, Google is trying to build a uniform platform for wearable devices to create a convincing reason to buy and keep using another £170 gadget as well as a smartphone.
With the G Watch and Gear Live, Google has only partially achieved that goal.
Wearing them
Smartwatches have always been bulky. While slimmer than some of their predecessors, the G Watch and Gear Live still fit the big watch trend – better suited to a decent-sized man's wrist, and dwarfing the more slender or typical woman's.
The G Watch's metal case feels cool, but sits flat across the wrist – it's not curved. The Gear Live is curved, but doesn't have a traditional watch strap, and uses pegs locked in holes instead of a buckle.
It's a watch, too
Android Wear can actually be a watch – something the (non-Wear) Pebble, which got its start via Kickstarter, is good at but which others such as the Sony Smartwatch 2 and Samsung Gear 2 aren't. The screen is on all the time by default, which hits the battery life badly, though you can turn it off.
There are 25 watch faces to choose from on the G Watch, with more coming in the form of app downloads from Google Play. When the watch is not active, notifications show as a small banner across the bottom of the face, like the top of a card peeking up.
Android Wear
After waking the watch (by lifting your wrist or tapping the screen), a swipe up from the bottom reveals the first information card.
Each card can be a notification, a step count, information from Google Now, calendar alerts, music playback controls or anything else an app wants to show you. The cards are only displayed when they have something new or are actively doing something, and can be dismissed by a left-to-right swipe.
The cards come with an applicable background – album art for music controls, a person's face for an email (or just the first letter of their first name for those without avatars), and so on.
Swiping up and down moves between cards; right-to-left expands the card's options for things like replying, dismissing or opening on the connected (Android-only) smartphone. Each transition is smooth and fluid, in stark contrast to most Android Wear predecessors which can lag and stutter.
More advanced functions must either be accessed by speaking to the watch: "OK Google, set a timer for 30 minutes" for instance, or by scrolling deeper into the menus from the voice search page. The LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live screens are large and detailed enough to display a decent amount of text, but longer emails will require a lot of scrolling.
Google Now
Android Wear's killer feature is Google voice search and the intelligent digital personal assistant Google Now.
Searching for things and doling out commands for actions works very well via voice – often better than on a smartphone. If it doesn't get it quite right the first time, perhaps hearing "car" instead of "bar", you can correct it by saying "No I said bar" and it will identify the wrong word and perform the right search or command.
You still feel like an idiot talking into your watch, though.
Smartphone notifications
Android Wear has the best handling of smartphone notifications I've seen yet. Any app that appears in Android's Notification Shade on a smartphone will also show up on the smartwatch, although you can limit the apps that can send notifications to your wrist to avoid overload.
Those developers that put in a bit more effort can allow greater interaction with the app on the wrist. Gmail, for instance, you can reply via voice, archive an email or simply dismiss a notification.
Heart rate and fitness
The Gear Live has a heart rate monitor, which generally works well. If it struggles to measure the rate it helpfully suggests tightening the strap so the sensor underneath can fit more snugly against the top of your wrist, which can get a bit sweaty.
Both watches count steps like a fitness tracker, but couldn't match the accuracy of the Misfit Shine I wear every day.
Battery life and charging
The LG G Watch will just about squeeze out two days of real-world use; I would often go to bed with the watch displaying just over 50% charge remaining. The Samsung Gear Live lasted around a day and a half of use. So it's another gadget to charge every night (and won't be useful until you put it on in the morning).
LG's G Watch charges via a magnetic dock, which works well – but the watch cannot charge while turned off. At night it shines a beaming light keeping you awake. I took to hiding it under my bed. You might want to charge it in another room.
The Gear Live has a snap-on module that provides a micro-USB port for power, which is slightly more fiddly. Wireless charging would have been better.
Apps coming, slowly
The app selection for Android Wear is limited, but expanding as developers update their Android apps. The Evernote app, for instance, allows users to pull up recent notes on their wrist and record audio notes straight from the smartwatch.
Google Maps can also give you walking directions to your wrist, vibrating when it's time to make a turn, which works well and avoids having to pull your phone out on the street and become a mugging target.
The LG G Watch costs £160, the Samsung Gear Live £170. You can buy a complete smartphone like the Moto G for much less than that.
Should you buy one?
The times when a smartwatch is indispensable is still quite small, mainly around notifications. Android Wear enabled me to keep my phone in my pocket for longer and avoided a lot of wasted time peering at alerts that I really didn't need to know about. It's a lot easier to glance at a watch and ignore them.
Google's Android Wear offers a lot of potential; controlling music is useful, as is seeing incoming calls. Directions to your wrist worked better than I anticipated and I would use it all time while walking around London.
As the best smartwatches to date, I would recommend the G Watch over the Gear Live unless you need the heart rate monitor. Both could be overshadowed by the incoming Motorola Moto 360, which promises to be the king of smartwatches with a round face and pretty case that looks a lot more like a high-end watch than a gadget.
So unless you must have a smartwatch right now, wait. I'm not sure either would replace my clockwork watch. And that's the biggest issue with smartwatches for many.
Pros: keep your phone in your pocket, Google Now on your wrist, directions, custom watchfaces
Cons: one more thing to charge, big, expensive accessory, limited app selection (at the moment)
Other reviews
• Samsung Gear 2 and Gear Fit review: smartwatches on the up
• Sony Smartwatch 2 review: a second screen for your Android phone
• Pebble smartwatch review: doesn't try too hard, but does what you need
• Adidas miCoach Smart Run review: a personal fitness trainer on your wrist


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Our roots are showing here at St Brigid Press. From our name to our green-themed color scheme, we don't mind sharing a bit of our Celtic lineage. Which is why we were honored to accept a commission for notecards featuring this ancient Irish blessing. From occasions of joy to expressions of sorrow, the gift of peace is always welcome.
Letterpress printed on our 100-year-old foot-treadled presses, these "Deep Peace" cards are made of thick, 100% cotton Holyoke Paper. The typeface is the beautiful "American Uncial," which was first designed in 1943 by Victor Hammer, and is resonant of millennia-old scripts. We hand-set each metal letter and space, and added lovely penline flourishes from the Dale Guild Type Foundry for ornament. Inks are oil-based and color-fast.
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Inspection of Construction of WOU Main Campus/
Energy, Water and Communications Minister and WOU Council Chairman Dato' Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik made a site visit to the Homestead to check on the progress of the construction work for the WOU Main Campus.
Bird's eye view of the construction at the Homestead… 30% completed (21 November 2006) and scheduled to be ready by July 2007.
Lim (centre) inspects the work progress. WOU Deputy Vice Chancellor Prof Wong Tat Meng (left) and General Services and Administration Director Andrew Joseph (foreground, 2nd from right) led the site visit.
Lim responds to questions at the press conference.


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Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: "Hip Hop, Education, and Expanding the Archival Imagination"
Submission Deadline: April 23, 2012
Meeting: September 28-29, 2012 Atlanta, GA
The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library and the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation (TASF) present the first annual Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: "Hip Hop, Education, and Expanding the Archival Imagination." In the fifteen years since Shakur's passing, the TASF has continued to cultivate the legacy and sociocultural impact of his life and works. As part of this effort, the TASF and Shakur Estate partnered with the AUC Woodruff Library to collect and curate the papers, letters, images, and other archival materials of the hip hop artist. In 2011, The Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection, housed at the Library, was opened to the public to promote scholarship and research of a multi-dimensional artist who helped define a musical genre.
To commemorate the opening of the historic collection, this two-day academic conference will convene scholars, educators, and students to present papers on themes related to the life and works of Tupac Shakur, education, and Hip Hop culture more broadly. The following are some suggested (but not required) sub-topics:
• Tupac and education, pedagogy, and/or epistemology
• Hip Hop in college curriculum
• Hip Hop Studies and authorship (i.e. who counts as an author?)
• What counts as an archive? How do we preserve Hip Hop culture?
• Hip Hop as literary genre (autobiography, drama, poetry, etc).
• Hip Hop as history
• Hip Hop and information literacy
• Scholar Advocacy for Hip Hop archives
• Archivists as partners in teaching, learning, and scholarship of Hip Hop Studies
Submission of paper abstracts should be approximately 300 words. Panel proposals (of either 3 or 4 papers per panel) should be approximately 500 words. All proposals should address the themes of this year's conference "Hip Hop, Education, and Expanding the Archival Imagination" and include presenters' institutional affiliations, a 50-word biography, and appropriate email address. Please e-mail all proposals to firstname.lastname@example.com by April 23, 2012. Accepted papers and panels will be announced by/on June 15, 2012, and the conference will take place on September 28-29, 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia.


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In our last blog, Tuning The Bow and Hunter, we talked about the athletic and physical requirements bowhunting demands in order to see success and consistency in your hunts. Today, we are going to hone in on a bowhunting non-negotiable - Mobility!
As previously mentioned, bowhunting is very much an athletic endeavor. It therefore requires specific training to meet the specific demands. This extends beyond strength training and practicing your shot. Adequate mobility is a precursor as you will never be as strong as you could be nor will your shot be as accurate as it should be if you do not have full range of motion and freedom of isolated movement.
The strength and precision required to handle the bow and deliver a clean shot depend very much on adequate mobility. Meaning, can you achieve the shoulder position necessary for a full draw? Can you isolate rotation of the upper body on the lower?
There must be adequate mobility of the upper body and shoulders as the position for the draw and load is quite dramatic. The bow arm must be able to extend forward while the drawing arm reaches a position of nearly maximal horizontal abduction (which, when combined with extension and internal rotation, is extremely demanding!). Not only does the ability to reach a full draw position allow for optimal alignment of the bow, but it also reduces the risk of shoulder impingement.
Here's How To Get It!
Shoulder Releases:
Lacrosse Ball Pec Release:
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Doorway Pec and Bicep Stretch Bilateral (Static):
In order to maintain an optimal draw and load position, the hips must remain stable while the upper trunk rotates toward the draw side. This is dependent upon lumbar and thoracic spine rotation.
Thoracic Rotation:
"Thread the Needle":
In addition to rotation, the thoracic spine must also be able to extend. This allows for clearance of the shoulder joint without compromising stability as the ribcage must remain drawn down against the abdomen (key element to core strength).
Self Mobilization:
In summary, the body must be able to maintain proper alignment and a steady position without compensating or impinging upon itself. Adequate shoulder and spinal mobility ensure freedom of movement without loss of performance or risk of injury. Now that proper mobility has been achieved, strength can be applied.


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Nepal's central bank has reportedly banned the exchange of India's new Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 notes.
According to a Hindustan Times report, the Nepal Rastra Bank said the new Indian notes cannot be exchanged until the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issues a new notification under the Foreign Exchange Management Act.
Ramu Poudel, the Nepal Rastra Bank's chief for the eastern region, told members of the business community in Biratnagar that the new Indian rupees are considered " illegal" and cannot be exchanged until new arrangements are made by the Indian side.
"As of now, our understanding with the Reserve Bank of India is that a Nepali citizen can hold up to Indian Rs 25,000 (in the) old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes. Even the fate of those old notes is uncertain, how can these new Indian notes coming into the market be considered as legal?" Poudel was quoted by Hindustan Times.
Nepal's central bank, as per the report, will also not allow any over-the-counter exchange facilities to Nepalese citizens holding the demonetised Indian currency as there is no proper expertise and technology to identify fake currency.
Earlier, Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' and finance minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara had requested their Indian counterparts to provide exchange facilities for Nepalese citizens.


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Banjo #308
This is an 11" 16 shoe Spartan model with a 1/4" brass tone ring. It has a walnut neck and a dyed maple rim. This is one of my simplist banjo models, but one of the best sounding. This banjo went to a customer here in Portland, OR.
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A few weeks ago we announced that Atlassian is hosting its first-ever Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner. Well, the night has finally arrived and we couldn't be more excited! The swag has been ordered, the caterers are set and our panelists are primed to talk about some of the most controversial gender-related topics in tech.
Nearly 250 women in 33 countries completed our Girl Geek survey (read more about the results here), and more than 500 signed up for a chance to attend our inaugural event. Tonight, we'll be welcoming 250 of them to our office in SOMA for refreshments, networking, and what is sure to be a spirited night of conversation!
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Basically we have KQI agent V730 FP2 and we have followed the instructions given here: https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/258730/message-broker-agent-v730-fp1-is-not-able-to-conne/ Now, even if the broker is discovered and the workspace tree is created, all the workspaces remain grey.
Answer by WalterPietroni (6407) | Jun 25, 2018 at 03:46 AM
There is a chance that you are using the wrong kqi agent binary.
The binary kqiagt10 is for the broker without queue manager, but your broker may use a queue manager and if this is the case, then you should use the original binary kqiagent to monitor broker.
Refer to 7.3.0-TIV-XEforMsg-FP0001 Readme file.
Please perform the following steps.
Stop QI agent if it is active.
Run the commands:
cd < ITMHome>/< arch>/qi/bin
mv kqiagent kqiagt10
mv kqiagent.bak kqiagent
Start QI agent.
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Rebel offers personal training as well as a variety of classes for all ages. Our kids classes are guaranteed to develop athletic and fitness fundamentals, along with mental focus and camaraderie.
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Melissa Allison follows the world's biggest coffee-shop chain and other Seattle caffeine purveyors.
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Weekend Wrap: Victrola Coffee starts weekend cuppings; Italian barista knocks U.S. espresso; starting conversations in cafes
Posted by Melissa Allison
- Seattle has a lot of free, public coffee tastings, also known as cuppings. But few are on weekends. Victrola is filling the gap beginning this weekend, with a regular cupping every Saturday at noon at its Beacon Hill cafe, 3215 Beacon Ave. S., and cuppings on Sunday afternoons (no specified time) at the Roastery, 310 E. Pike Street. The cafe at 411 15th Avenue E. will hold Friday cuppings at 1:30 p.m.
- While the Specialty Coffee Association of America and Coffee Fest duke it out over territory, and the National Coffee Association wanders around the country with big corporate players, the National Automatic Merchandising Association has decided there should be yet another coffee trade event. Its CoffeeShow 2010 will run October 20 to 22 at Bally's Resort in Las Vegas. Here's the line-up. Its niche appears to be business advice with a hint of coffee.
- Italian barista and blogger Giorgios Milos riled New York and other U.S. baristas in a Salon article ripping American espresso. Here's one
U.S.Canadian take and one British take on the matter. (Thanks, @SmooveBCoffee and @Espresso911.)
- Starbucks indefinitely postponed opening in Croatia after saying it would debut in Zagreb in October, the Croatian Times reports. Interesting, given that Starbucks has picked up international expansion.
- .... Although not as much as Dunkin' Donuts, which bills itself as a coffee chain despite the name and opened 338 new shops in the first half of the year, including 75 in the U.S., Business Week reports. Starbucks opened 22 new stores in the first six months of this year. Canton, Mass.-based Dunkin', which is privately owned, has more than 9,000 restaurants in 31 countries.
- The International Women's Coffee Alliance wants to raise $350,000 by the end of 2011 to improve the lives of women in the coffee industry, including growers. Its next bi-annual conference is scheduled for October 2011 in El Salvador.
- Finally, in an area of coffeehouse culture that I don't write about enough, Jason Simon has launched an experiment. The Caffeinated Conversations.com blogger, Tweeter and social media expert is hanging out at Seattle-area cafes wearing a shirt that says, "Hello, my name is Jason" on the front and, "Tap me on the shoulder if you'd like to chat" on the back. How cool is that? I sometimes think this guy could single-handedly melt Seattle (N)ice.
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Timeline Event
Erendis of Númenor born
Event Type: Genealogical
Age: 2nd Age - Pre-Rings
Year: 0771
Erendis is the daughter of Beregar, 'dwelling in the west of the Isle.' Her family 'came of the House of Bëor by ancient descent, though not of the royal line of Elros, and Erendis was dark-haired and of slender grace, with the clear grey eyes of her kin.'
Unfinished Tales, Part 2, Ch II, Aldarion and Erendis,
There is contradiction about her descent; according to the notes in Unfinished Tales:
'Note 10 Cf. The Silmarillion p. 148: "The Men of that House [i.e. of Bëor] were dark or brown of hair, with grey eyes." According to a genealogical table of the House of Bëor Erendis was descended from Bereth, who was the sister of Baragund and Belegund, and thus the aunt of Morwen mother of Túrin Turambar and of Rían the mother of Tuor.'
Unfinished Tales, Part 2, Ch II, Aldarion and Erendis, Note 10
However, Christopher Tolkien mentions in HoME Vol 11 that the name of her ancestor was an error:
'A few changes were made subsequently, at different times, to Beor table II, as follows:
- a remote descent from Beleth, sister of Baragund and Belegund, indicated, leading to Erendis of Númenor;…With the descent of Erendis of Númenor from Beleth daughter of Bregolas cf. Aldarion and Erendis in Unfinished Tales, p. 177, where it is said of Beregar the father of Erendis that he 'came of the House of Beor': in my note on this (p. 214, note 10) I referred to her descent as given in the present genealogical table, but gave her ancestor's name wrongly as 'Bereth'.'
The War of the Jewels, HoME Vol 11, Part 2, Ch 14, Of the Coming of Men into the West, (I) The House Of Beor
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Academic Writing Now : A Brief Guide for Busy Students
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Academic Writing Now: A Brief Guide for Busy Students is a rhetoric designed to cover the basics of a college writing course in a concise, student-friendly format. Anything inessential to the business of college writing has been excluded. Each chapter concentrates on a crucial element of composing an academic essay and is capable of being read in a single sitting. The book is loaded with "timesaver tips," ideas for making the most of the student's time, along with occasional warnings to avoid common errors made by student writers. Each short chapter concludes with questions and suggestions designed to trigger class discussion.


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The ABA Journal is working on its annual "Blawg 100" list. If you're a regular reader of this blog and like to show your support by giving us a vote or nomination, we'd certainly be delighted (and grateful).
Over the past five years, we've published over 500 updates. The growth of our readership over the years has been very rewarding to see... but there's something nice about making the list. Nominations are due August 8th and can be submitted at the ABA's Blawg Site. Thank you!


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TRENDnet TEW-691GR 450Mbps Wireless Router (Page 5)
We used PerformanceTest 6.1 by PassMark which you can find out more information about here. It has a handy Advanced Networking section which is perfect for our testing.
Doing our best to emulate a real-world performance scenario, I setup a server running Windows 2008 R2 (x64) Server, (2x Xeon Quad Core 3.0 GHz 1333MHz FSB, 4GB DDR2 FB-DIMMS, 2x 146GB SAS drives in RAID 1) and the client PC was an MSI Wind 200 With built-in Intel 802.11n (Intel WiFi Link 5100 AGN) adapter. The results were gathered by sending data from the MSI netbook to the server at different distances with the built in adapter, a TPLink TL-WN821N and then a TRENDnet TEW-644UB adapter. Average transmission speeds were recorded for each.
* As we did not have any network adapters that support the full 450Mbps yet, we did our best with the adapters we had on hand. If you can find it, the Intel 5300 wireless chip does support this new speed and is being integrated in newer laptops.
Connection Speed
Our connection speeds were around what we expected them to be. With the Intel WiFi we had connection speeds of 135Mbps. Now, with the TRENDnet TEW-664UB we saw these skyrocket to 270Mbps as you can see below.
Of course, this connection speed did not seem to convey as far as actual speed goes.
* signal travelling through wet wall and main house electrical panel
Our testing shows that while the speed on the TEW-691GR is good, it is not too much better than the typical n series router. At least it won't be until we see the next generation of adapters hit the market in larger concentrations.
Our gaming and media testing showed that the TEW-691GR is excellent for media transfer and streaming, but it is not exactly the greatest at gaming. After testing three popular online games we found it to only be average in terms of ping and response. Although this was disappointing, we are also pretty sure this is due to the adapters we used, not fully supporting the full speed of the TEW-691GR. We do hope that we can get the Intel 5300 adapter or another adapter that supports the full 450Mbps soon so that we can test the full gaming potential of the TEW-691GR.
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Romney Targets S.C. Social Conservatives With Robo-Call Blitz
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Mitt Romney's campaign is blasting out robo-calls explaining his stance on abortion to voters in the most socially conservative swath of South Carolina.
Mr. Romney says he opposes abortion, but his opponents have jabbed at him for shifting his position over the years. Newt Gingrich is running an ad in South Carolina calling his rival the "pro-abortion" governor of Massachusetts.
Now, voters in the upstate region of South Carolina are receiving calls with a recorded testimonial by a woman, who identifies herself as an anti-abortion leader in Massachusetts. "I know you have heard a lot of folks talking about Mitt's record on life, faith, and marriage while governor of Massachusetts," the woman says. She adds that Mr. Romney "worked hard to protect the sanctity of life in liberal Massachusetts" and that he faced down "hostile lawmakers every time they tried to push their pro-choice agenda."…


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