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My brother-in-law bought me a Fitbit Flex because he's awesome like that. My fitness levels have been virtually non-existent for the past few months so this is exactly what I needed to jump-start a more active lifestyle. Not only because being active provides numerous benefits towards my mental and physical well-being, but because bikini season. I've been looking into a wearable activity tracker (FitBit, Jawbone Up, Nike FuelBand, etc.) as they're becoming increasingly popular and I felt it would help in providing accountability and motivation. The Fitbit Flex consistently has the best ratings and reviews across tech websites and I've found the price point at $99 to be friendlier than its counterparts.
The Fitbit Flex tracks steps taken, distance traveled, calories burned, hours slept, and your quality of sleep. In addition, you can monitor your calorie and water intake through the customizable dashboard on the Fitbit website. I think one of the best features of the Fitbit Flex is that you can wear it 24/7; it can be worn in the shower and when swimming as it is water-resistant. The Fitbit Flex syncs data wirelessly with PCs and Macs automatically via the USB dongle, and can communicate directly with iPhones and select Android smartphones. Fitbit also works with several popular health apps such as Lose It!, MapMyFitness, and MyFitnessPal that let you export your Fitbit data.
Unpacking the Fitbit Flex from the packaging and the subsequent set up was easy. The box includes two rubber bands to fit all wrist sizes, a removable tracker which slips inside the rubber strap, a wireless dongle which enables automatic syncing, and a charger for the tracker which I've read takes one to two hours for a charge that will last from five to seven days.
The Fitbit Flex is able to provide a slimmer and more stylish design in comparison to its counterparts due to the fact that it doesn't have a traditional display. Tap the module twice and the lights will tell you how close you are to your step goal. Each of the five lights represents 20 percent of your target number of steps (by default it's 10,000). When you reach the goal, the band will vibrate and the lights will blink to congratulate you. Tapping the module five times puts it into sleep-mode, and you tap it five times again when you wake up to start your day.
I'll provide an additional review once I have a chance to fully utilize the Fitbit Flex. In the meantime, I'm having fun playing around with it and trying to meet my short term daily goal of 10,000 steps.


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This is for the challenge that is currently going on. be sure and check it out if you haven't already
The challenge was summer traditions. I decided to take a different approach besides our usual swimming like fish. When the weather starts warming up we always plant new pretty colorful flowers around our trees in the front yard. This is the only color to my landscaping because i am a greenery type of gal. Less work :)
I used 9x12 canvas board (otherwise known also as art board), the kit and some ribbon. VOILA! 2 paintings for Melana's room that she is so excited to get.
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Interview with Don Byrd
Interview with Don Byrd
Interview with Don Byrd
Barzakh: What is the trajectory of your own poetics?
DB: I started very much involved with the poets of the Black Mountain School: Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, and
Ed Dorn. Duncan and Dorn were my teachers at the University of Kansas. And I wrote a PhD dissertation about
Charles Olson. So my whole poetics was saturated with that particular initiation. Which means that I was involved in
the notion of breath as a measure, and rhythm, and history. And the poem as a postlogical thing in the world, that
wasn't just about the world, but was actually an event in the world. And I wrote a book called Aesop's
Garden (published in 1976) that came out of that. I can see now that I had not quite paid my dues. I was still fairly
young at that time.
I started becoming interested in a connection with new media in the early 80s. I did a book called The GreatDime
Store Centennial (published in 1986). It happened to be the Centennial of the F. W. Woolworth stores. The thing that
interested me about the dime store is that it has everything in it—this collection of random stuff. When I was a kid, the
dime stores had these bins made of glass partitions, and you could change the size and shape of them. So I'd stand
and look at these toys when I was just tall enough to see over the edge of the counter, and there'd be these different
sized bins with different kinds of wonderful things in them. So I thought of a form where you have this kind of random
collection of stuff. It could be thrown into these bins, and shuffled around, and the forms could be reshaped, and so
on. I made some connection between that and dj-ing, sampling, and mixing, so that metaphor also came into play.
Then I randomly decided, having come across an old book about the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, that I
would write a long poem of 7 books, each having to do with one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. We
have had these two periods of monstrous growth—cancerous growth—in the ancient world and in the modern world.
Each would be about the length of an academic lecture (it would take about 50 minutes to read each one). I only
thought of the lecture as a measure of length. I was very happy with it. I think it was maybe the best thing I've ever
written. At the same time, I thought, "This is it. This is what I have to do." Poets would usually write a good book, and
then they'd go on writing the same book over and over again, and I didn't see any reason to do that. I said, "I took my
shot, and figured out what I had to do, and now I need to figure out something else to do." Obviously this a very bad
thing to do if one thinks of a poetic career or something like that, because, for that, you have to have a book coming
out every two years so that the public continues to pay attention to your name and work. But my feeling was that I'd
written this book, and I needed to understand what it was about better than I did. The interesting thing about poetry is,
when you're in a groove, you don't know what you're talking about. Certainly there are many things about that book
that were mysterious to me, and there still are.
So I thought then, suppose I really dig down and try to understand the theoretical and historical framework that led
me to write this poem. So I started a book called The Poetics of the Common Knowledge, and it was a monster—
almost 500 pages, or over 500, I think, with all of the apparatus. It began with the 17th Century, and covers roughly
the same historical period covered by Michel Foucault's Order of Things (from the Renaissance to the 20th Century).
It gives a very different picture of what that history is all about. Now you can check online and see how many people
are looking at your work, and you can find citations, and things like that. It's getting cited a lot more than I suspected it
So then I wanted to go back and write poetry. The thing about poetry, as I said, is that you're much more interested in
the process, than in the message or content. Poets are whores: they're willing to turn any trick they can in order to get
an effect. So I set out to write a poem that would satisfy me both as a poem and as a theoretical and philosophical
argument. I wanted to combine these two books that I'd written, the long poem and the theoretical argument. This
turned out to be a considerably larger task than I expected it to be. I'm not a fast writer, but I've been working on this
book for 15 years now. It's not a matter of writer's block (I've written more than 3,000 pages). The problem is figuring
out how to put it all together in some way that makes sense. I'd promised my wife I'd never write another book more
than 200 pages long. Trying to squeeze all that writing into that length has proven difficult. That's what I'm doing now.
It's a book called Abstraction. It's an attempt to write a poem about a world in which information is used in a really
different way than it is used in our world. It has a lot to do with the technology that's available. (I will say it that way,
rather than talking all night to make it clear.)
The dream of this other way of using information is why I am interested in various pieces of software. The whole
educational process should center on an information console. Kids should be confronted early on with this machine
that gives them access to all of digital resources. They should know that with this machine you can call down
anything you want for the net: make video, audio, you can write, you can draw, you can take still photographs, you
can combine these things, you can process photos or sound any way you want to. They should know that this is the
medium we live in. This is not artificial intelligence that replaces humans, but an artificial intelligence that expands
human possibility. We're to use these machines not as replications, but as tools. I have a version of that book that I
could wrap up and have to a publisher in a month, if there were any compulsion to do so. I'm still tinkering with it. I get
up and go for a walk every morning, and record things on the voice memo app on my phone, and transcribe it or do
something with it. So that's where I am now, trying to finish something that will satisfy me as a poem, and also as a
coherent philosophic and theoretical argument.
Barzakh: What has been the trajectory of poetics at SUNY Albany?
DB: It has very much to do with the people. When I came here in 1971 there were no other poets. There was a
novelist on the faculty, Gene Mirabelli who retired maybe ten years ago. In 1977 we hired a fiction writer named Gene
Garber, who'd been head of the Iowa Writer's Workshop at one point. I was interested in creating an alternative to the
Iowa Writer's Workshop, and Gene was too. He saw that the Iowa model had served its purpose. We had this Doctor
of Arts Program, which was, as it turns out, primarily a writing program. We understood that just giving people
degrees in creative writing was a kind of dead-end, because jobs for writers depend on their publications, not their
having a degree. Our scheme was to accept people who were primarily interested in creative writing, but to propose
to them that all writing was related, and that the beginning writer struggling to write the freshman composition is on
his or her level dealing with exactly the same kinds of problems that the poet or novelist is dealing with. Our scheme
was to let people continue with their work as poets or novelists, and also to give them training in teaching writing and
composition. All during the 80s and early 90s, people with PhD's from elite schools were not getting jobs, but our
people with a composition background were getting jobs, and were teaching writing, and going on with their own work
as creative writers. Many of them are very successful, like Michael Blitz, Derek Owens, Chris Funkhouser, Belle
Gironda, Yatie Yates, Lori Anderson Morseman, Christina Milletti, and Dimtri Anastasopoulos . Christina and Dimitri
are both teaching at SUNY Buffalo, and are now a solid part of their creative writing program. We have all of these
people out there, and I get books from all of them. We re-registered the PhD Program in 1993, and the writing
program, which had been the center of the graduate program, more or less disappeared. It has become more like
other programs in English. We still have some excellent poets and fiction writers finishing PhDs, and they are writing
interesting dissertations, but their work is closer to the standard academic form.
Barzakh: What does ecopoetry mean?
DB: I'm not sure, actually, what it means now, though it has become a huge field, and a specialized field. It's a field
I've become nervous about, because I consider myself an environmentalist, but when I look into ecopoetics, there
seems to be a real hostility toward technology, and many other parts of the ecosystem. Computers are part of a
nature too. What else can they be? People are part of nature and one of their natural processes is to make
I love wildernesses. I've done a lot of hiking in the Adirondacks and Catskills and elsewhere—like the Australian
outback. I get up in the morning and go for a walk, and look at the wood duck in Washington Park. The fact is, like it
or not, we have evolved as a species on earth that is dependent upon technology, and our survival depends even
upon technology that doesn't exist yet. In this sense, I think of the work that I'm doing as ecopoetics, though I say
nothing of the plight of endangered animals or the wilderness as a model of perfection. Last Sunday I was involved in
an event in New York City that involved walking the length of Broadway from 240th Street in the Bronx to the tip of
Manhattan. The idea was to understand Broadway as a kind of ecological core of the city. Iain Kerr and Petia
Morozov of the SPURSE collective conducted the discussion along one stretch, and they are very interesting people;
expert foragers in urban environments. They are publishing a book entitled Eat your Sidewalk. This kind of thing I
find interesting, though I doubt there is enough curly dock and chicory in the green spaces of New York to feed many
I was in India last August, and while I was there, a power outage occurred in the northwestern part of India that left
seven hundred million people without power. 10% of the world's population lives in that corner of India. In India, one
population is doing well—a population the size of the population of the U.S., say—and 1 billion people who have
nothing. The same is true in China. It's not that there is an environment these people can go back to. This is the
When it started ecopoetics was mostly a nostalgic American transcendentalism, with Thoreau and Emerson, and the
notion that there is a natural order or primal environment that could be recovered. That the transcendental form and
nature could be unified, of course, was just never true. In this book, Abstraction, that I am working on, I propose that
the human operating system (HumOS), while it didn't disappear in the 20th Century, was superseded by a neoplastic
operating system. We are neoplasms. Earthly creativity has always been unsponsored, if not cancerous. As
neoplasms we may also be benign, but non-genetic, nonorganic growth. What we have is a potential for wild
intelligent and creative growth and choice. Of course, we have to take responsibility for it. The only way we're going
to survive is by taking responsibility for ourselves, and not throwing responsibility off on nature or a transcendental
order of some kind. The environmental imperative is that we come to understand our environment and figure out how
to live with it, not because we are unnatural but because neoplasms are natural and earthly too.
Don Byrd recently retired from the University at Albany English Department, where he taught for over forty years. His books include Aesop's Garden (1976) and The Poetics of the Common Knowledge (1994).


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Are you a big fan of baseball? If your answer is a yes, then Jim Edmonds is a familiar name. Who is Jim Edmonds? Jim Edmonds is a former center fielder baseball player and broadcaster. He is popularly known for being a current Fox Sports Midwest broadcaster. This article will go into details about his early life, professional baseball career, broadcasting career and personal life. It will also unveil the net worth of Jim Edmonds in 2019.
Early Life & Biography
Jim Edmonds born as James Patrick Edmonds was born in 1970, 27th August. His place of birth was Fullerton, California in the United States of America. His early life was not that perfect because his parents had joint custody of him. The custody issue followed after his parents' divorce when he was still a child.
Jim Edmonds joined Diamond Bar High School in the Diamond Bar in Los Angeles.
Personal Life
Jim Edmonds started a romantic relationship with the late Lee Ann Horton. The couple later tied the knot but settled got divorced due to marriage complications. Ann and Jim welcomed two children. However, Lee Ann Horton recently passed away in 2015. In 2008, Jim married his second wife, Allison Jayne Raski. They later welcomed two children. The couple ended their marriage in 2014.
In the same year, Edmonds tied the knot with Meghan O'Toole King. She is the sister of Julie King, a popular soccer player. His wife Meghan began appearing in a reality television show called The Real Housewives of Orange County alongside Jim Edmonds. In 2016, the couple welcomed their firstborn daughter. Edmonds and Meghan recently welcomed twins into their lives in 2018, 5th July.
Career, Awards & Nominations
Jim Edmonds started off as a professional baseball player in 1988. He joined the Bend Bucks where he participated in thirty five games. In 1990, Edmonds joined the Palm Springs Angels team. While in the team, he took part in minty one games. He then played for the Midland Angels and later in the Triple-A Edmonton Trappers team.
Edmonds often played the center field part in most of his games. His best baseball season was the 2004 season. He made an exemplary record thanks to his excellent performance. He also received the Gold Glove Award and Silver Slugger Award. In 2005, he participated in a batting game to help raise money for a Breast Cancer Foundation. In 2013, Edmonds started working in Fox Sports Midwest as a broadcaster.
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Jim Edmonds has a net worth of $40 million. Jim earned this wealth from his multiple successful baseball games. He also works as a broadcaster in the Fox Sports Midwest. In addition to all that, Jim Edmonds has a successful restaurant business. All these ventures have contributed a great deal to his current net worth.
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As a veterinarian, there is one question I hear every day.
"Can dogs take glucosamine?"
In fact, glucosamine affects a dog's body the exact same way it affects a person's body.
In both a dog and person, glucosamine is found in healthy joint fluid and cartilage. When joint fluid is degraded by injury or wear and tear, a glucosamine supplement can help restore the damaged fluid and tissue.
And surprisingly, it is even safe for dogs to take human glucosamine supplements.
Glucosamine for dog arthritis is like clothes for an Eskimo or water for a fireman.
Because glucosamine is frequently used as a "first line" dog arthritis treatment.
You can buy glucosamine at any drugstore, or even Wal-Mart.
It is sold everywhere and is a common home remedy for arthritis treatment.
What kind of glucosamine should I give my dog?
Companies market many brands of dog glucosamine all with pretty packaging and with the promise of providing relief of your dog's arthritis symptoms.
Most of these products contain the same active ingredients – glucosamine and chondroitin – and are frequently mixed with other ingredients including Yucca, avocado, devil's claw and other phytopharmaceuticals.
Oral formulations of glucosamine-chondroitin come with contradictory scientific support.
Some studies support its use while others claim no benefit.
However, many veterinarians recommend these products to treat arthritis.
Whether or not you use glucosamine in your dog is really a personal choice.
What is the dosage of glucosamine for dog arthritis?
It depends on whether or not the product is oral or injectable.
Yes, glucosamine is available in both oral and injectable preparations.
Oral Glucosamine
- Dosage: Oral dosage is 500-1000 mg per 25 lbs of dog daily, depending on the clinical condition of your dog (you need to read the product label to make sure the appropriate dose for your dog is in the supplement).
- Pros
- Inexpensive
- Easy to obtain
- Easy to give at home
- Stimulates the cartilage to produce collagen
- Can be used by the body to produce the hyaluronic acid in synovial fluid
- May reduce the need for NSAIDs
- Cons
- Does not work as quickly as injectable glucosamine
- Does not work as effectively as injectable glucosamine
- Many dogs do not like to take oral glucosamine
Injectable Glucosamine
- Dosage: The dosage for injectable glucosamine is usually 0.02 mg per pound of body weight. A loading dose protocol of one injection every 4 days for a total of 8 injections is required initially. Then, after the loading dose has been completed, injections are given every 2-4 weeks. (This protocol is my recommendation based on years of experience using this medication and may vary from what some other veterinarians might recommend.)
- Pros
- Reaches the joint within 2 hours
- Supports the cartilage matrix repair process
- Diminishes joint and joint fluid damage
- Slows the disease cycle of non-infectious arthritis
- Reduces inflammation
- Works much more rapidly and effectively than oral glucosamine
- Stimulates the cartilage to produce collagen
- Can be used by the body to produce the hyaluronic acid in synovial fluid
- May reduce the needs for NSAIDs
- Cons
- Being an intramuscular injection, this product requires multiple trips to the vet clinic or the owner must learn how to give an intramuscular injection.
- Many dogs despise getting injections and will try to bite.
- The cost is much higher than oral glucosamine.


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Fashion film shot and produced by Lawrence Essex
Lifestyle Blogger Madina Serazhiyeva beautifully photographed by Stoyanov & Jones wears our Mohair Jumper styled with her own floral trousers and fedora hat, creating the perfect transitional outfit for Spring.
Where do you look for style inspiration? When I look at a piece of clothing, shoes or jewelry, I instantly create a look in my head and then gather the missing pieces. I have a confession: I really love grunge. Yet, I am not afraid to experiment with different styles in one outfit. My overall style was definitely formed by the places I have previously lived in, the people I met and the experiences I went through.
Favourite area to shop in London? Definitely Oxford Circus – it has so many options! I also do a lot of online shopping; I actually prefer it sometimes as it saves time.
How do you style yourself for a typical day? London style is very classy and chic. I love the prevalence of black, white and grey in street fashion. When deciding an outfit, I first think on how to make it warm, and then remember about keeping it stylish.
Your favourite thing about being a woman? My favourite thing about being a woman is the ability to be incredibly strong whilst appearing fragile and delicate.


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Bronwyn and Roy
Caravan Travels, Kayak and Cycling Adventures
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Bronwyn and Roy, Adventurers
About Bron and Roy
Miss Adventure Indeed
An Adventure to Te Ika-a-Maui, New Zealand.
An evening paddle up the Murray River
Bonnie Doon to Mansfield Rail Trail
Bronwyn's 60th Birthday
Central Tilba
Dartmouth Dam Kayak
Flight for Sight
Following My Leader
Geroa and Kiama
Great Victorian Rail Trail Yea to Cathkin
Helna's Birthday Paddle
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Kayak from Hume Weir to Albury
Kayak Lake Eildon from Jerusalem Creek
Kayak Metung to Lakes Entrance
Kayaking Lake Hume
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Lilydale to Warburton Rail Trail
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Noreuil Park to Wonga Wetlands
Rock and Roll kayak convention at Currarong Jervis Bay
Rock and Roll 2016, Jimmy's Beach
Splash and Dash
Termeil State Forest
Thank You Guide Dogs NSW/ACT
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Five years as friends. Three months together. Forever as husband and wife.
Before their session, I met up with Sam over lunch so she could tell me their whole story. I remember her eyes sparkling with the sheer joy of it all and how she just couldn't seem to stop smiling. Mike wasn't even with her that day, yet her love for him was so obvious.
Their engagement session was brimming full of laughter and fun, whether it was Mike ordering three coffees, the random guy with a parrot who showed up at the lake, Sam teasing Mike about his ardent love for beard oil, or recreating the latest memes. (Also, at one point I told them to whisper what they loved most about each other, but I'm 99.9% sure they just started quoting Elf. They win at life.) And man alive, I don't know that I've ever seen two people so sweetly and genuinely in love, like they are simply so grateful to have one another. I felt so honored to be able to witness it so closely.
Sam + Mike, thank you so much for giving me the privilege of documenting your story. You make love look so effortless.


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Lit up against the night sky, the glass facade of Autobahn Motors' showroom resembles a giant display case full of diecast toy cars. But the company did not start out selling cars this was. In the beginning there were traditional showrooms, but it eventually outgrew its early locations and needed to expand, a not-so-easy task given Singapore's limited space. "We needed to meet our requirement of storing a lot of cars. At the same time, we wanted to be creative and innovative," said Autobahn Motors' general manager Gary Hong.
Hong, 45, said he got the inspiration for the new showroom during a trip with his four-year-son to buy toy cars. "From there I realised that the Matchbox arrangement is a mini version of our inventories that can be displayed and arranged nicely."
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The Time is Now
There is a language that men use with one another that women generally are not hip to. I know this because my childhood and teen years were filled with interactions and observations of my father, a football coach, and his players. He had two daughters and a wife which meant that he tried to speak our language when he was home. However, given his temperament, something was always lost in the translation.
In the weight room, on the field, and in the locker room he spoke the language of men. This was a dialect that involved copious shaming, easy banter, and masculine praise. As a young girl, I loved to watch and listen to this give and take. Over time, I realized that there was something that my father had with his players that he would never have with me, and that I could never have with him. I came to resent that. I felt ghettoed by my gender.
He would say such things as, "Hey baby you sure look good-you're developing PopEye muscles," when talking to one of his players; or, "Darlin' you afraid of breakin' a nail? You're moving like a girl,"; or, "Hey baby you afraid your panties are showin'? Put some muscle behind the effort." When talking to women he could be heard saying, "Honey, I could stack your rack," or, "You're one hard body." My reaction to all these was to roll my eyes, occasionally laugh, and know that my father was crass.
So when the infamous tape of Donald Trump emerged in the fall of 2016, I had to revisit my perceptions of my father's crassness and male language. I can honestly say, having spent plenty of time in locker rooms as a youth, that Trump's talk was not typical locker room talk at anything above the high school level. Professional locker rooms are about men, not women; about their accomplishments and failures, their physical efforts, their strategies, the previous or up-coming game, etc. They are about things related to sport and physical prowess.
There is still a conversation to have about what is spoken about in locker rooms, spaces where women are typically excluded. If women are not included, these crass comments will not be corrected. There are many things that need to be changed about the way our society talks about women, especially in male dominated spaces. More people need to recognize this and not be afraid to turn the questionable moments into learning opportunities. Considering the issues regarding sexual harassment, in the context of a president that persists in making alarming comments, it is apparent that the time IS now to stop such behavior. This is why women march. THIS is why their voices, and the voices of women everywhere that face injustice, are important. The time is now.


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Lazy Green was started in 2009 as a thesis project by founder James K. Yang when he was attending the MFA Design program at School of Visual Arts in New York. It was a few years after Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" came out, and most of the general public was acknowledging climate change is the biggest challenge facing our planet.
James kept on asking, "Everyone in an industrialized society was contributing to climate change but what are we doing in our everyday lives to curb it?" There are of course environmental activists, politicians, corporate leaders, and others who are making a difference but they are only a few. How about the rest of us? James was startled to realize that the majority of us was doing absolutely nothing except for maybe recycle. But why? Are we all void of conscience toward the environment? That's probably not the case if you talk to everyone around you.
the status quo
Millions of campaigns, organizations, and movements ask everyone to join the fight in tackling climate change by protesting, organizing, writing a letter to your representative, and many other forms of activism with the intent of trying to encourage as many people as possible. Also, some materials give energy saving tips in the form of a 2oo page book or an endless scrolling text-heavy website, but reading through everything is time-consuming. For the rest of us, the so-called lazy environmentalists, both are asking way too much dedication. It's like asking a person who's not keen in exercising to run a marathon every month.
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So Lazy Green was born. We care about climate change, but we're going to curb it the easy way. Innovative clean technology and environmental policies could help immensely to fight climate change, but the reality of the situation our planet is facing is it has to be all hands on deck, including the hands of lazy environmentalists. So here are Lazy Green's 20 easy energy saving tips presented by 20 animals threatened by climate change. Small things that we could do that doesn't require us to go out of our way but to realize in ourselves that we do care.


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When I read that John Edwards is pulling out of the Presidential campaign, I had a few thoughts. These possibilities seem remote, but not entirely unimaginable.
Hillary or Obama gets elected. They do a good job, but faced with a ton of problems (peak in oil production, ailing economy, global warming, nuclear war, etc.), don't quite make things perfect. So the American public gets desperate. Edwards comes back. Rises to power. Ushers in Armageddon.
This theory is mainly based on the similarity between Edwards' appearance and that of Sam Neill as Damien Thorn in "Omen III: The Final Conflict."
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
John Edwards Bows Out, Bides Time
When I read that John Edwards is pulling out of the Presidential campaign, I had a few thoughts. These possibilities seem remote, but not entirely unimaginable.
Posted by Guy at 3:16 PM 0 comments
Monday, January 28, 2008
Bush vs. The Economy
I saw on "The Daily Show" that hours after George W. Bush announced an economic recovery plan, the stock market fell a few hundred points. I'm somewhat doubtful a quick fix will be enough to dig us all out. There was an episode of Saturday Night Live a long time ago when a guy impersonated Bush, and some of what he said seems incredibly relevant today. It was along the lines of, "That's why I keep lowering taxes. Money going out, no money coming in, and it all evens out!"
I think the President has been operating under a similar process. Lowering taxes means the government has access to less cash, so it borrows to spend more and more. The American government is like a teenager with a credit card, no job, and an expensive appetite. Pretty soon that teen goes bankrupt.
I feel like even if we all get $1000 as part of the Recovery plan, we'll hoard it due to continued fears and doubts regarding economic recovery, and it won't do any good.
Posted by Guy at 4:28 PM 0 comments
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Hillary vs. Obama
For a while, in some circles, the idea was (and is), "We need a black President."
In others, it was (and is), "We need a lady President."
I haven't heard too much of either goal in the media lately, though I'm sure many groups and individuals still hold onto them. I think what the media has been doing is taking each candidate as the sum of their accomplishments and capabilities (i.e., "We need a good President"), and not as someone defined by race or gender. However, it is still put forth that those two issues do carry some sway in the public consciousness (of course), both here and abroad.
Now, we've got two candidates, both highly attractive and capable, who fit the respective bills. And they're at war with one another? Weird...
I heard that some people are against the Hillary vs. Obama feud because they foresee the possibility of a Hillary-Obama joint ticket.
Could negative tactics on both sides weaken their power over voters, so that John Edwards and the Republican candidates get a better shot at victory?
Posted by Guy at 2:24 PM 2 comments
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Yahoo Being Censored By Government?
About an hour ago, I read an article at this link that has since been changed.
At the time, the article seemed very scary, because it included the words "secret court" in both the headline, and the first paragraph. It was about how the Senate decided not to expand a secret court's power to keep sure the government doesn't overstep its bounds when surveilling U.S. citizens. Now the whole feel of the article is different! Why?
Could Yahoo! have offended someone from the government? Sure, you might say, "They were just doing a simple update." Well, I'm pretty sure the timestamp for when I originally read the article said, "2 hours, [?] minutes ago." Reading it a few minutes ago, it says, "1 hour, 3 minutes ago." If they wanted to post a new article, why use the old URL? Why the change?
Posted by Guy at 4:48 PM 0 comments
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Fred Thompson Is Out
Who is he endorsing?
I think it was the "Colbert Report" last night when I learned that Fred Thompson told one newscaster he would make an important announcement, and then failed to deliver. One theory as to what the announcement was had him declaring he's out of the race for President, and that he supports McCain.
Well, today we know that he is out, but he has yet to declare support for any of his former rivals. With him gone, maybe things will start to get a little more clear cut, as far as the Republican candidates are concerned.
Posted by Guy at 4:21 PM 0 comments
Saturday, January 19, 2008
How To Solve Campaigning Budget Woes
Right now, the campaigning tactic seems to be: go to each state, and appeal to that demographic's voters. Change yourself from state to state, to suit each group of people's interests and attitudes. This takes a lot of money to do effectively, as it entails a great deal of travel, paraphernalia, and tons of in-person meetings.
Then, when the President is elected, he/she addresses the nation as one, on camera.
So here's my thought: A candidate could save money, and make contact with far more voters, by making daily video logs. He could say, "Greetings America," in one, and in another, focus on South Carolina, or New Hampshire, or whatever. It would be fairly inexpensive to add this tactic to a campaign, and yet it has the potential to produce massive results.
A poor candidate might focus solely on video campaigning. A wealthier one could simply add it to his/her arsenal. I'll bet this will be standard by 2012.
Posted by Guy at 3:43 PM 0 comments
Thursday, January 17, 2008
The Economy And The Toilet - A Losing Combination
And yet, it seems you just can't separate the two. Or won't be able to pretty soon.
Every day I see ads for loans on TV. It makes me sick. With all the woes to our economy brought on by loan and mortgage scams, how can these people keep advertising this stuff? The people who go for it have already proven that they won't be able to make up the debt, what with the huge interest being charged. So the Fed will slash rates again. But for the benefit of what group? The middle class? Probably not.
What happens when we keep devaluing our currency? Will the Euro become the new world standard?
Posted by Guy at 7:51 PM 0 comments
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Too Late To Enter The Presidential Race?
I think so.
I heard about Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg's possible bid for the White House, and it seems like a perfect waste of time and money. My mind's already set on a clique of candidates, and I'll bet that most people are in the same boat. Even if they're undecided, I don't think a new guy would have that big a chance. The current candidates are just too appealing to give a stranger a shot at mega-popularity.
But, to his credit, Bloomberg is said to have no plans whatsoever to run. Wikipedia says, "He has repeatedly denied any plans to run and says the news media has concocted his possible presidential bid."
Posted by Guy at 4:17 PM 0 comments
Friday, January 11, 2008
Is Change Really A Good Thing?
All the candidates are touting how capable they are of creating change. Anyone can change something. The trick is to make a good change.
George W. Bush changed a lot of things. Look where we are now. It took change to get us here!
We want a change from the way things are. Most American's feel we're on the wrong track. Let's change that. Let's change -- Presidents!
Candidate X could be elected, and then institute wide and sweeping changes that we all blindly asked for, simply because they are making things new and different. Trouble is, those changes might include implanting chips in everyone so the government can track us at all times. That qualifies as a massive change.
But in this case, a bad one. So do we want change? Or do we want good change?
Be careful what you wish for...
Posted by Guy at 3:37 PM 0 comments
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
No One Supreme Candidate
I've encountered the sentiment that if one particular candidate is not elected, the world will go to Hell. I don't believe this is the case. Voters lose hope, faith, and the will to vote when there is no one "good" enough. If we had just one candidate who was good, and the rest were not, then it might be appropriate to put that one on a pedestal. But really, I think they're all good. All the headliners, anyway. The frontrunners, and silver and bronze guys too.
Then, when you go beyond that, you might be reaching. But the top-tier candidates aren't alone in their excellence. I think each could do a good job. They all know what's wrong, and they've got definite ideas on how to fix things. So to say "If you all don't vote for my candidate, we're screwed," I think is faulty.
Posted by Guy at 5:57 PM 0 comments
Monday, January 7, 2008
Tamper-Proof Biometric Documents
When I first heard, "tamper-proof biometric document," it was in reference to dealing with illegal immigrants. My first thought was, "Chip in your hand." But a quick search on google revealed that the phrase is being taken far more seriously that I thought. It looks like we're going to have to deal with chips in humans no matter what. Bummer.
I guess the idea is to catalogue all people, and track them with satellites. Once you do that, you can easily find lost hikers, kidnap victims, escaped convicts and illegal immigrants. But isn't it a fascist technique?
Posted by Guy at 1:53 PM 0 comments
Friday, January 4, 2008
Obama's Campaign Smothers Me Into Not Voting For Him
Maybe. Talk about backfire!
In the past, I've spoken with Obama supporters in person. They came a-knocking. And I've spoken on the phone. They came a-calling. A few days ago, one of them called again.
At 9:00 at night.
The young woman sounded like she was in college. She said, "You're an Obama supporter, is that correct?"
I said no, I'm not sure who I'm supporting.
She said, "Oh, well we must have you on the wrong list. What's your #1 issue?"
I said I didn't have one. No one issue matters most to me. There's a lot of them that are important.
She said, "Ok, well do you plan on voting in the Democrat Primary?"
I said I was undecided as to whether to vote Democrat or Republican.
She said, "All right, well one of the things I like most about Obama is that he's bipartisan, a uniter, and he can bring lots of different groups of people together."
That's the exact thing the previous caller had said, word for word. I'm paraphrasing what she said, but hearing it on the phone, it was apparent that the callers are instructed to read from a script. And here I thought the first conversation (that occurred a week ago during the day, and not at 9:00 at night) was legit. Guess not. How foolish of me...
Then she said, "Be sure to check out our website and let us know your questions."
And we finished up the call.
I had already been focused more on other candidates. After seeing Obama in the Democratic Debate, I decided he wasn't a powerful enough communicator to provide good representation on behalf of the U.S. in the eyes of foreign nations. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe what we really need is good ideas, and he seems to have plenty.
But now I've got something new to consider, and it hurts his campaign in my eyes.
It's the solicitations I've been getting. This last phone call really did Obama a disservice, because it happened late at night, and it was redundant. Absurdly redundant. I feel it was a waste of time, for all parties involved.
The Obama campaign is like a monster with a stick. You're trying to sleep, and every so often it creeps out from the shadows and pokes you. "Hey, don't forget me."
If Obama can't coordinate the lowest levels of volunteers on his campaign to do things right (and not be annoying and pointless), then how can we expect him to coordinate the lowest levels of government not to make our lives a living Hell?
People say, "It's not his fault. He's high up in the food chain, too high to make a difference."
Too high to make a difference? All he needs to do is delegate to good people, who delegate to more good people, right on down the line, until the bottom rung realizes that it is inappropriate to call at night, and it is inappropriate to pretend to be genuine and sincere when really you're just reading from a script.
Maybe the other candidates have this going on too, but they haven't made it apparent for me, so I say kudos to them.
Here's another theory. They say the more money you have, the more you'll fight to get elected. Well, what if some candidates respect us citizens enough to leave us alone and let us think for ourselves? I think (half-serious) that other candidates believe in me, and trust me to make the right decision. Obama just won't leave me alone, which means he doesn't trust me, and doesn't respect me. Why would I vote for someone like that?
It's like the unpopular kid wants to break into the cool clique so badly that he just keeps pestering everyone to let him join. "I can be cool, see? Look at me!" And it backfires. "Get lost, crazy."
Another theory I had was that I was too positive in previous encounters with Obama supporters, and they marked me down on their neat and tidy lists as being myself a supporter. I was just being polite. You've taught me a good lesson, Obama campaign. It pays to be rude.
Or how about this. Maybe they've got this plan to "go viral," and they hamper and pester whoever they think is trendiest. I don't know why they would think I'm trendy, but if that's the case, I'm honored, flattered, and disgusted. As William Shatner says, "Leave me the Hell alone!" I think political telemarketing should be made illegal.
Here's yet another theory. Maybe they think any press is good press. Here, see, their efforts to annoy (perhaps that was their intention after all) have caused me to write this post all about Obama! That's free publicity! Gee, I guess now that you've read this, you'll keep thinking about Obama until you forget the negatives and decide to vote for him. It's genius! No wonder he won Iowa. The mastermind... (Actually he does seem like a decent guy, I just hate the pestering).
Ok, all that aside, here's the oddity that I've been wondering about from the start. Is it cosmic irony?:
Obama B.
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Barack Obama
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Osama Bin Laden
Obama Barack
Posted by Guy at 1:55 PM 0 comments
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Vote For The Underdog
If you like Candidate A, and you like Candidate B,
and Candidate A is powerhouse, a sure bet,
and Candidate B is great, but seems to be overlooked,
why not vote for Candidate B?
Vote for your favorite underdog. A vote for the candidate whose victory is a foregone conclusion has less potential impact than a vote for an underdog.
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The District Chief Executive, Mr. Emmanuel Ofori Atta led the team made up of security officials in the district in the exercise code named "Operation Cow Leg". They visited Nt?m?m, one of the hardest hit areas of the Fulani menace.
In conversation with Ghanadistricts.com, the DCE stated that one of the most pressing issues confronting farmers in the Kwahu area is the invasion of farmlands by Fulani cattle herdsmen with their cattles.
He stated that these nomadic from the Sahel countries have caused huge loses to them already leaving a lot of them impoverished because they keep destroying their crops and sometimes maiming them.
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Your wedding photos should tell your own personal love story …… they should capture what's special between the two of you, the heart of you …….. XO
I absolutely love capturing the true heart of the day, which means I love to photograph it all without being too obtrusive while hopefully making you feel as relaxed as possible.
My hope for all my clients is that they really take part in their day fully , so laugh , so cry , or sing , whatever it is you want to do and I will capture it naturally.
I always love to talk to my potential clients so don't hesitate to contact me for a catch up over coffee to discuss it all further and run over some ideas about how I could capture your day.


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Due by May 10, 2019
SITI Alumni have the opportunity to apply to this year's SITI Lab, a 4 month residency designed to support SITI Alumni who make self-produced ensemble-based theater work. Each SITI Lab group will receive 25 hours of free rehearsal space over the course of the program. After a group uses its 25 hours, SITI Company will offer a discounted rental rate for the duration of SITI Lab. SITI Lab will culminate in an invited work-in-progress showing on October 4, 2019 in our Zeisler studio. The goal of this showing is to receive creative feedback from SITI Company Members and invited guests in support of further development.
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● October 3, 2019: Dress-rehearsal with tech in the Zeisler Studio.
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HH Architecture designed the Governor James G. Martin Building, a 9,500 square foot meeting facility at the NC State Fairgrounds. The building was designed to serve a multitude of purposes, with a large daylit porch adjacent to an indoor meeting space that increases the rentable area. The Martin building is a "gateway" to the main fairgrounds campus, recognizable as a landmark for those entering the Fairgrounds and for lost families during the Fair itself.
The design process included analysis of pedestrian traffic at both fair and non-fair times. The porch becomes a central nexus—both a gathering place and a respite from the crowds.
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By now, even your grandmother probably knows what a bitcoin is. If that's not a sign of something going mainstream, I don't know what is.
As a financial advisor, I've found it interesting these past months to talk about bitcoin in a professional setting. When I do, I always explain that, no matter how exciting the "crypto-hysteria" may seem, it is speculative. Ultimately, one must remember the intimate relationship between risk and reward. Ignore it, and you could find yourself disappointed or, even worse, broke.
Most of my clients don't know this, but I've personally owned bitcoin since 2014. My stash sits securely in my digital wallet, untouched since the day it was deposited there. Back then, I split the cost of a glorified computer — called a "miner" — with a childhood friend, and this machine generated us a finite amount of digital money. So long before your grandma knew what a bitcoin was, I've been riding this roller coaster.
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However, I've been keeping mum about my position in bitcoin for two reasons. First and foremost, from both an advisory and compliance standpoint, this subject is under strict regulatory scrutiny; it's a bad look in either department to rant and rave about speculative trends. Second, I had not quite figured out how to use my bitcoin experience in a way that would be constructive for my clients. The last thing I'd want is for my story to unduly color their biases. But now, more than a few years in, I think I've extracted the lesson to share with them and everyone else.
From the beginning, I thought about our miner as form of entertainment — never as an investment. The cost of the machine was something I could afford, and I was excited to embark on another adventure with an old friend (who happens to be a neuroscientist with a knack for these things). I cut the check like I had just left an ATM in Vegas, prepared to hand over my money to either hit it big or crap out. I'd be lucky to come out on top, but most importantly, I never play with more money than I am willing to lose.


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So I know what you're thinking. If you're a child of the 80's like myself you are wondering if I photographed Sylvester Stalone as the troubled Vietnam Veteran that was John Rambo in the Rambo film series. Let me clear that up by saying absolutely not. That would have been cool, but this story is much more interesting in my opinion.
I photographed a remarkable man named Ron Rambo for a story in USGBC Magazine. Besides having a wicked cool name, Ron is a wonderful man. I rarely say that about someone I have only spent a few hours with, but Ron left an impression on me. He has what I can only describe as "good vibes" and it's apparent by the people he surrounds himself with.
Ron was born with cerebral palsy which limits his speech and body movements. He uses a wheelchair and has 2 aides that help him around the clock. He faces mobility challenges on a daily basis, including moving about in his own home. He is an advocate for the disabled community and is well known in the city of Lancaster, PA. Ron had an idea to create a totally independent and fully accessible home on a piece of property owned by his mother in Lancaster. He nicknamed the project "Ramboland" and it has since attracted the attention of Jesse Pellman of Longview Structures and Max Zahniser of Praxis Building Solutions. His project has also gained the support of Mayor Richard Gray of Lancaster.
I had the opportunity to meet and photograph all of these people on a mild February day in Lancaster. I love shooting these kinds of stories because I get to meet amazing people and learn about inspiring projects. Ramboland is in the planning stages, but this home will be cutting edge in every way. Not only will it be fully accessible for Ron, but it will also be totally energy and water independent. This is why the USGBC (United States Green Building Council) sent me to photograph this project.
The scheduling for this shoot was challenging because I was trying to coordinate with so many people for one day of shooting. All were very accommodating and I was able to shoot this story over the course of a few hours starting with the Mayor. I photographed the Mayor in his office and then met with Jesse Pellman at the building site. After photographing Jesse I met with Max Zahniser who was traveling from Philadelphia at a coffee shop where Ron hangs out on a regular basis. I photographed Max in the back courtyard and when Ron arrived I photographed the two of them together. Once Max hit the road I had some time to get to know Ron. We spent a few hours at the coffee shop and around the streets of Lancaster.
Making portraits of people can be such a daunting challenge if you let it. It's difficult to capture a person's personality in one frame after only spending a few minutes with them. For every assignment I shoot there are different goals with how the images should be used to tell the story. Sometimes I have the freedom to put my own spin on how I feel about a particular topic. Other times I am hired to merely make someone look good on camera. Most of the time, my job is to discover the true essence of the person in front of the lens and to show at least a little bit of that essence on camera.
If you'd like to read the entire story, you can find it online HERE.


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"Lucifier" is a term that is often applied to the Devil. Is "Lucifer" Satan? Why doesn't my Bible use the term "Lucifer"?
"Lucifer" in our English Bibles
The word "Lucifer" is found only in the King James Version of the Bible in (Isaiah 14:12). The passage reads,
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! (Isaiah 14:12 KJV).
As mentioned, the King James Version is the only English translation that uses this term, in other translations it is rendered "morning star, son of the dawn!" (NIV), "O Day Star, son of Dawn!" (ESV), "O star of the morning, son of the dawn!" (NASB) and "O day-star, son of the morning!" (ASV).
Background and Definition
The word used in this passage is the Hebrew term "helel", which literally means "star of the morning" as translated by the NASB. When the King James Bible was formed in the 1600's, the translators employed the Latin term "Lucifer" which also means "light bearer" or "morning star" which is most likely in reference to the planet Venus.
The word "Lucifer" is not a good translation, nor even a transliteration of the Hebrew term. All of the more accurate versions of the Bible since the KJV have corrected this error.
Who is "Lucifer" or "The Morning Star"?
The idea that "Lucifer" is the name of the Devil in (Isaiah 14:12), comes from a misunderstanding of what the prophet Isaiah is discussing. In (14:4) the reader will note that the audience of this declaration is "the King of Babylon" (possibly Nebuchadnezzar). The Babylonian Kings thought very highly of themselves. They would have thought they were great like the "star of the morning", but they were no match for the power of God. God who is above all the stars and the heavens has the power to destroy even the most powerful kings. For Isaiah writes in verses 22-23 of the same chapter,
"I will rise up against them," declares the LORD of hosts, "and will cut off from Babylon name and survivors, offspring and posterity," declares the LORD. I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," declares the LORD of hosts:"
Lucifer is the Latin word for "morning star" which in the context of Isaiah 14 is in reference to the King of Babylon and not the Devil.
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Hoist Up The Lincoln Flag Hear The Red Imps Sing!
The Rise of The Imps is at hand for Lincoln City fans, the faithful congregation of the Church at the bottom of the Hill. For Sincil Bank aka the theatre of the Absurd is our church, Simmo is the Messiah and we will channel this optimism to drag our club back from the brink.
Thanks for reading Neil Gentleman-Hobbs
Oh come all ye faithful for these are some words to inspire
and good luck with the Flag Billy!
No one fancied us to come back from the dead in 2002/3
Crowds grew the coffers swelled and 15,000 turned up at the Millennium in May.
We may not be going there but dare to be there (or thereabouts)
Get a season ticket 6 six-pack or pay on the day
But keep the faith
Be there or be square Dare to share the the Simmo dream
Join a crusade to finish something for Keith, Butch and every living Imp.
Sincil Bank's Bouncing Back!
Simmo's Six-Foot Sincil Soldiers are coming to the Conference.
So sharpen your horns, shine your hooves
Hoist up the Lincoln flag
Hear the Red Imps sing
Because the Rise of the Imps
Could be one of the best or even the last trips we ever go on.
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Coral Surveys in Tun Mustapha Park
Borneo, Malaysia
Tun Mustapha Park (TMP) is Malaysia's largest marine park located in northern islands of Sabah just south of the Malaysian and Philippine border. I joined Jennifer McGowan (University of Queensland) and Dr. Maria Beger (University of Leeds) on WWF Malaysia survey of the park. Jennifer and Dr. Beger were instrumental in the zoning of TMP using the spatial planning tool MARXAN and joined the first expedition in 2012. See the video of the 2017 expedition below!
the mission
Marine spatial planning is plaqued by a paucity of data over the areas typically of interest. TMP was zoned using remotely sensed coral habitat maps and the goal of this field trip was to do rapid assessments of coral reef diversity and health at the broad scale of the park.
My Role
I was responsible for estimating benthic composition of the transects and recording impacts on the transect including disease (black band disease pictured), bleaching, other physical damage (i.e. anchor damage), overgrowth by other organisms etc.
coral bleaching
Corals are animals with tiny, one-cell algae living in its tissues. The coral provides a safe home for the algae in return for food the algae photosynthesize. When corals become stressed, most commonly because of warmer than usual water temperatures, the partnership between the corals and algae breaks down and the algae leave the coral tissue giving the coral a white or 'bleached' appearance. We surveyed one site in TMP with a lot of bleaching which is a concern.
Blast Fishing
The effects of blast fishing were prevalent on our surveys and we could hear the bombs detonating an unknown amount of kilometers away while underwater. It is seen as another method of fishing, although clearly very destructive. Managing this threat is a major challenge for conservation.


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Release Date: 10/16/12
Be careful what you search for...
Emma Guthrie expects this summer to be like any other in the South Carolina Lowcountry--hot and steamy with plenty of beach time alongside her best friend and secret crush, Cooper Beaumont, and Emma's ever-present twin brother, Jack. But then a mysterious eighteenth-century message in a bottle surfaces, revealing a hidden pirate bounty. Lured by the adventure, the trio discovers the treasure and unwittingly unleashes an ancient Gullah curse that attacks Jack with the wicked flesh-eating Creep and promises to steal Cooper's soul on his approaching sixteenth birthday.
When a strange girl appears, bent on revenge; demon dogs become a threat; and Jack turns into a walking skeleton; Emma has no choice but to learn hoodoo magic to undo the hex, all before summer—and her friends--are lost forever.
My thoughts on the book:
Conjure is a unique read that you won't want to miss. I'll admit the characters are a bit young for my tastes, but the leading character was not annoying. I still enjoyed this book immensely. The characters were well-developed and progressed along with the story, the plot was intriguing, and the pacing was perfect. This book will suck you in.
Emma was a terrific leading character. The book was told from first person POV, and I never got tired of hearing from Emma. She wa brave and selfless and everything a leading lady should be. I really enjoyed watching her grow over the course of the novel. Her twin Jack, however, was a jerk. I really didn't like him very much. He was extremely bratty and what I was afraid Emma would be like (with them both being 14). While Emma pleasantly surprised me, Jack pretty much fit the bill of what I expected. Luckily the book wasn't told from his POV. Cooper was a bit of a goody goody, if you ask me, but he was a decent guy. His "goodness" just got on my nerves. I know he will appeal to a lot of readers, though. The other two supporting characters, Maggie and Miss Delia, were also intriguing, and I enjoyed reading about them.
The plot was unique, and I liked the gritty details Nolan included about the Voodoo religion. I was kept guessing throughout the story, and I never got bored. The pacing was perfect, and the ending left me wanting more. There was action, adventure, and secret love. What else could a person want?
Overall, I'd recommend this book to anyone who is looking for something new in the YA genre, but doesn't mind younger leading characters. I'd say most YA readers will enjoy this one.
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Top 5 Winter Olympic Sports
*Note: No sport involving judges or a scoring system based on subjective observation were considered for this list.
#5 Curling
Ultimate game of shuffleboard. Curling is likely the only Winter Olympic event with spectators who falsely presume they could jump off the couch and be just as proficient at gliding the granite across the ice. Curling requires finesse and teamwork. Watching folks passionately sweep ice to alter the stone's path is one of the marquee events in the Olympics.
#4 Biathlon
(Learn about the biathlon here: Top 5 Most Challenging Sports) In addition to being the Winter Olympics most difficult event, the biathlon holds the title of most diverse. Athletes are required to cross country ski, stop and shoot rifles, continue skiing up mountains, stop and shoot rifles again using a different body position, then ski even more. Biathlon looks exhausting because it is. For this reason, biathletes have the greatest recorded VO2 maxes in the world.
#3 Alpine Skiing
What a sight to see. Though, like grand prix, downhill skiers whiz by in a barely detectable blur. Alpine skiing involves four different ski disciplines: downhill, super-G, giant slalom, and slalom. While the downhill and super-G races focus on speed, the slalom and giant slalom races target precise turning ability. Watch the clock because these races are separated by hundredths of a second.
#2 Speed Skating
Round and round they go, where they stop...nobody knows. Okay, maybe we know where they stop, but watching the journey is no less exciting. Unlike a book or a movie, the end of these races cannot be spoiled. Speed skating is even less predictable than the weather in south Florida. The skaters fly around the track at speeds often reaching 40 mph. For perspective, 40 mph is nearly twice as fast as the fastest hockey players who also spent their entire lives on the ice. Watching skaters turn with one blade on the ice and maintain these breakneck speeds enhances the excitement of speed skating.
#1 Ice Hockey
As described in Top 5 Most Challenging Sports, Ice Hockey is fiercely competitive and even more impossible to pick up as a hobby unless someone spent a lifetime on ice skates. Hockey represents the ultimate team sport. Teams compete with multiple rotations of five. This constant rotation keeps the skaters fresh, making sure fatigue never interferes with effort or skill. From skating 25 mph with sticks, stopping on a dime and shooting at guarded nets to skating 15 mph backwards, hockey games are jam packed with excitement. There's a reason this event concludes the Olympics – it's that special.


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The Power Of Communication
Communication can make or break a conversation or business transaction. But many executives aren't fluent in effective communication skills. That's why solution provider Acolyst recently held its first-ever Communication Transformation business workshop in October led by Executive Vice President and bestselling author Valeh Nazemoff.
In addition to running a successful solution provider business with her mother, Nazemoff has a passion for neuroscience and psychology that has led her to help clients as an adviser, teacher and even as a writer. She has coached many IT executives at vendors and partner organizations on how to improve their communication styles.
Nazemoff sat down with Women of the Channel Online and shared seven tips that can help executives boost their own communication skills through listening, greater self-awareness, and the power of confidence. Here's what she had to say.


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One of the main features of Pichon Longueville Armagnac is the distillation method which takes place with a wood-fired Alambic SIER from the early 1900's. Distillation lasts about one week, 24 hours a day, and produces around 15 barrels (casks) of 420 litres each. This heating method is less linear than those obtained by classic gas-fired systems, and allows for distillation that is richer, and provides a more unique personality. Armagnac starts the first three years of aging within barrels (casks) made from native Gascony oak, before then being poured into older casks to prevent over extraction of tannins. This is an important phase, where the spirit transforms from wine into Armagnac. It's particularly striking to taste an Armagnac following a wine and to realize that it is not at all the same thing. We marvel at the aromatic transformation: wine on the nose reveals white fruit and grassy meadows; while very sour on the palate. Armagnac is, for a little while, red summer fruits with vegetal notes that are extremely varied and confusing, the palate is full, fresh and powerful in spite of the high level of alcohol. It's rewarding and a great relief after years and years of waiting, of patience, of hope and surprises. The only matter of importance is to ensure that the temperature remains as stable as possible, and that new barrels are securely placed, and labeled (precise variety and cask number).
Ageing of our armagnacs lasts from 3 to 5 years in new Gascony oak barrels, and then for the remaining time until it's put into bottle, it is transferred into older barrels (those which have already held our older vintages).
With neutral wood tannins, these old barels carry a whole history of flavour and caracter. The armagnac will gain in maturity in the shade of our humid, earth-floored cellar until they are ready to be bottled.
These two successive ageing processes, will define our armagnac's base character, strength, and typical amber-toffee color. Then we decide to blend or not some barrels of the same vintage depending on their grape variety. We also blend different vintages to produce XO, Hors d'age and other series.
Within the same vintage, some barrels are blended, while others are not, enabling us to offer pure Folles Blanche, pure Baco, or colombard. At Briat, both 'ulling' and topping up the vintage with water are prohibited, favoring natural aeration within the humid environment of our old "chais" built in 1724. Armagnac does not age in the bottle, but in the barrel hence each bottling is dated, and youl'll have to substract the bottling date to the vintage to figure out the age of the armagnac
Briat's vineyard has 9 ha of vines. Yield strictly limited to 80hl/ha to have a better wine concentration, that will produce after distillation about 11000 litres of white armagnac at 54°
Grape Varietals:
- Baco 1.41 ha planted in 1963-1964, 1ha planted in 2016, 1ha in 2018. It is a strong and resistant varietal, whith earty aromas, impressive matter, gentle and sultry palate feel.
- Folle Blanche: 3.02 ha planted in 1993 to 1999, the most elegant and fine grape varietal, aromas are in the air and vegetal. Tricky to grow, catch every diseases, some years we don't even have wine.
- Colombard : 1.30 ha in 1963-1964, 2 ha in 1993, Very fruity and round. Fairly good yield.


text: Share: Comments Print April 6, 2009 at 8:26 AM Some Sounders FC material to see Posted by Jose Romero First is my story on Fredy Montero's agent coming to his defense, which ends with a good Kasey Keller quote about team chemistry. Next is this story from today's Globe and Mail, Canada's version of USA Today. While I can't link to it, I will summarize. The headline says "TFC coach calls out his players." Toronto FC coach John Carver branded his team's effort against Seattle "a disgrace." He said he is concerned and that if the team performs as it did in a 2-0 loss to SSFC every week, it will finish at the bottom of MLS again. "We had our backsides kicked, I've got no excuses, [we were] beaten by the better team and now I've got to roll up my sleeves with that lot in there and put it right." And just in case you want to relive Saturday's win…here's video of Freddie Ljungberg's first MLS goal. Comments


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Employer wellness initiatives have become increasingly popular, but Marty Jaramillo says he sees a flaw with many of the programs: They're delivered in a way that's too fragmented. Companies offer their employees perks, like a free gym membership or onsite physicians to encourage healthy behavior, but there's typically no blueprint for workers to navigate and leverage all the available resources.
Jaramillo, a former physical therapist, said he's developed an app to help fix the problem. He's the CEO and founder of tech startup Health Connections, which has developed a mobile app and web platform that connects the various healthcare resources that companies and insurers offer employees and customers.
The platform acts like an intranet and aims to integrate the health and wellness resources, care teams and programming provided by employers and delivered directly to employee's computers or smartphones.
The company, based in the Weatogue section of Simsbury, has raised $ 1 million in startup funds, including an investment from former Priceline.com CEO Richard Braddock, who chairs Health Connections' board.
Braddock was actually one of Jaramillo's patients. Ironically, it was Jaramillo's two decades of physical therapy experience, in which he worked with clients' physicians, nurses, chiropractors, and nutritionists as part of an integrated care team, that gave him the idea for Health Connections.
"It's about balance and harmony, or Yin and Yang," said Jaramillo.
Braddock said he believes the company's web platform is "another area where the Internet could transform an industry, in this case wellness."
"The market potential is here and ready to be made," Braddock said.
Although miniscule when compared to the size of the entire healthcare market, the opportunity for mobile health apps is growing. A report from Research and Markets estimates the industry could reap $26 billion in revenues by 2017.
Despite the countless programs, providers and vendors available, Jaramillo said delivery of wellness programs to employees isn't effective because they are disconnected and siloed.
"Our platform connects the wellness teams and resources a company already has in place, and delivers it in a very personalized way to the employee," Jaramillo said.
Health Connections' platform is a white-label product, which allows companies to customize, re-brand and offer it as their own.
Here's an example of how it works: When an overweight and hypertensive employee who travels a lot for their job visits their company's onsite nurse, the nurse will deliver to the employee's smartphone what's dubbed the "Hypertension Health Circle."
It provides access and information to all the resources available at the company to manage hypertension, such as exercise, stress reduction, and diet modification plans as well as healthy eating options available on the road.
"We offer the technology solutions that connect the dots within the wellness ecosystem at the enterprise," Jaramillo said. Health Connections also connects the various individual providers and vendors, to create a healthcare team for the employee. An employee looking to quit smoking, for example, could log onto the "Smoking Cessation Circle" to find out what programs and onsite vendors or providers can offer help.
Health Connections' revenue model is volume-based. The company charges a subscription fee per month based on employee usage.
"Today, a company spends more than $50 per month per employee on health," Jaramillo said. "Our platform costs less than a dollar per employee per month."
Jaramillo said Health Connections currently has 10 clients, mostly businesses including pharmaceutical, medical device and insurance firms. Health Connections also wants to enter the wearable sensor devices market with products that can capture health data such as blood pressure, Jaramillo said.
In 2013, Health Connections was selected by StartUp Health to participate in a prestigious three-year business accelerator program that helps health and wellness companies. Generally StartUp Health, which is chaired by former Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin, holds up to a 10 percent equity stake in each firm.
"We are excited to be a strategic thought partner to Health Connections as they scale and grow their business," said Unity Stoakes, StartUp Health's co-founder and president. "Building a successful business in health care comes with many challenges including long sales cycles, regulation, and privacy issues, to name a few. It can be difficult to sell big, new ideas into the system. But Health Connections has an advantage because they not only have many years of healthcare expertise, they look at everything with a fresh innovative lens."
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