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Two people I respect have published books with the same title: Show Your Work. Austin Kleon is an Austin-based writer and artist who is the author of three illustrated books: Newspaper Blackout, Steal Like An Artist, and Show Your Work! Jane Bozarth is a writer for Learning Solutions magazine, a workplace training practitioner, and an author.
The two Show Your Work books have more than a title in common. Although they approach the topic from different angles, both touch on the value of sharing your knowledge.
In Kleon's Show Your Work! 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered, he encourages people to let others into their creative process rather than waiting until they have polished work. He encourages readers to be open, generous, brave, and productive.
Kleon's book is like a pep talk, and here are some of the tips that connected for me:
I also loved this Annie Dillard quote that Kleon shared:
"The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes."
Bozarth's Show Your Work focuses on finding ways to capture tacit knowledge. Her book provides examples and best practices for organizations, industries, and individuals. Bozarth says that share is the new save thanks to our newfound comfort with social sharing and social tools. According to Bozarth, there are two reasons people will show their work – altruism (the belief that it's right to pay it forward) and egoism (the desire to raise one's profile). Of course, some show their work for both reasons at once.
Bozarth highlights the benefits of this philosophy to organizations, workers, colleagues, and management:
Bozarth makes the following recommendations to organizations, managers, and individuals:
It's all about the right attitude, and putting out into the world what you would like to receive. Or, as Bobby Solomon is quoted in Kleon's book:
"Put yourself, and your work, out there every day, and you'll start meeting some amazing people."
Showing your work encourages those in your community to show what they're working on as well, which leads to a more collaborative and productive environment.
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Hi there, my name's Penny. I was the heritage consultant on the original Roker Pier and Lighthouse HLF bid, working with the Sunderland City Council team. On a beautiful day in August 2016 I sat on the cliff top at Whitley Bay watching the tall ships sail out to sea and thought to myself - I'd really love to have a go at that. So with Sunderland 2018 in my sights I set about booking a little high seas adventure that this saw me sailing out of Woolwich dock on Sunday 8th July on the Oosterschelde, a three mast topsail schooner bound for Sunderland.
Penny's Diary - Day 2
Rudely awoken from a deep sleep yesterday night by the most horrendous noise. My first thought was 'iceberg' ! Obviously seen Titanic one too many times. Then I wondered if we had run aground but thankfully nothing so dramatic. It seems that the anchor had accidentally been dropped, that's tantamount to pulling your hand brake on on the motorway. The ship lurched alarmingly and then stopped. For the next half hour we heard the ratchet on the anchor going up a few links at a time. Then the engine kicked in and we were on our way.
Tuesday morning brought the dreaded sea sickness. Seas were very rough as we were set against the wind. All too much for my poor inner ear to cope with and I spent much of the day holed up in my cabin or peering into the waves from the bulwark trying not to part with my breakfast (and failing). I wasn't alone, half the volunteer crew were feeling the same and the deck was like the Mary Celeste with just a handful of lost souls milling about.
Despite depleted number the ship did FINALLY set sail. Yes, a day and a half after leaving Woolwich we raised all the sails on the schooner which was very exciting. I stayed to see the last one set but then had to head down to my cabin and pray for sleep to take me.
I felt better around four and headed back on deck. There were only a handful of people up and about, many with grey faces. Still, we managed to tack the ship, turning into the wind to take us back in the direction of Flambrough Head. We had had to head out to sea that morning in order to set the sails as the wind direction was against us. It was great to finally get a chance to travel completely under sail. The engine is a necessary evil as it would have taken 2 weeks and multiple tacks to get to Sunderland but under sail the ship felt so different and you began to get a real sense of the majesty of the Age of Sail. Waves crashing on the bow, spray in the air, the roll of the ship as she corrected herself and thrum of the wind running through the rigging.
It's now 9pm and we are sitting in the ward room having a chat before bed. Most people seem recovered but there are still a few casualties. Tomorrow we head into Sunderland and should be approaching Roker Pier around 12.00pm. I better sign of now. Let's hope there are no rude awakening tonight!
Read Day 1 of Penny's diary here
Read Days 3 and 4 of Penny's diary here
Penny Middleton is a project manager at Northern Archaeological Associates (NAA), responsible for built heritage and conservation. She has worked on a number of projects in the North East including Roker Pier and Lighthouse, Hylton Castle, Seaham North Dock, St Mary's Island and Lighthouse and Miek Lighthouse. For further information check out the NAA website: https://www.northernarchaeologicalassociates.co.uk/

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Behind the Click: Evelyn Castillo-Bach, Founder of UmeNow
So here we are with another profile of Behind the Click! This series is actually the first and largest running living interview archive on African-American females in the technology industry. I'm happy to continue to select and spotlight my fellow colleagues in the industry so that we can continue to dispel myths and inspire action globally! As the series continues, you will find that I am re-defining what it is to be note-worthy in the tech industry. For too long the pool of talent has been much too limited. Ideas and contribution take many shapes and forms so it's about bringing a broad vision to identify powerati in all its forms – not just what the mainstream deems worthy. Evelyn Castillo-Bach falls into such a category. I've selected her because she is bringing a unique vibe to the tech game. She is an Afro-Cuban power player and just may be one of the only few women in the U.S. who is heading two digital start-ups simultaneously. She is also a champion for digital privacy, particularly as it pertains to teenagers. What follows is a snippet of my recent conversation with her:
Current Occupation: Founder and CEO of CollegiateNation.com and UmeNow.com
LdC: So you run the start-up called Collegiate Nation. Tell me more about (the mission) and how you got the idea?


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Zach Biri (AKA Telebastard) bugs me from time to time to go see his band Nonreturner and/or their label mates on local co-op Yards & Gods. He's right. I should go see these bands as nothing he has ever sent my way was not good. That said, I bugged him to give me a list of the year's best. I can't vouch for the musicians on this list, but I can vouch for Zach and his taste. So, I guess that means I can vouch for the list. Anyway, read it, memorize it, and go buy this music to confirm my faith in young Zach. Also, despite his denial, he blogs.
It should also be noted that the opinions expressed in these posts are not those of comoprozac (a pseudonym) or of the owner of this blog. The lists are entirely attributed to the author identified above.
Disclaimer: I (Zach) am neither a writer, nor a blogger, and often times have trouble shaking the feeling that I am completely full of shit, or at least sound that way.
1. God Is Saying This To You? by Kurt Vile
Every year, a handful of my friends and I meet up to go camping and floating on the Huzzah and Bass rivers near Leasburg, MO. This is always a special event because some of us are spread out and there aren't many opportunities to get the lot of us together. This year when I returned home, I decided to make two "mix tapes" (in quotations because I neither own a cassette deck nor cassettes) based on the whole experience. One mix was called BEER KONG. I took my favorite dance/electro/hip-hop/upbeat songs, put them in a pleasing order, dumped them into Traktor to adjust the BPMs on a few, and transposed a few so that the key changes between songs weren't so jarring. BEER KONG was a memento mix interpretation of when we all showed up at the camp site and joyful celebration commenced. This spastic euphoria lasts well into the nine hour float itself, at which point people begin to sober up and enter a zombified state. The final paddle back is always both physically and emotionally exhausting, but the completely blown-out calm of returning to a fireside so worn out and listening to nature go to sleep around you is totally worth it. In a completely different way, this is also euphoric – especially if you are smoking drugs. Such was the inspiration for the second of the two mixes. I filled it with the most ethereal and hauntology-informed music I had around with a special thematic emphasis on water and being under water. One track that worked it's way onto the mix was "Red Apples" by Kurt Vile. In the great churning of acquiring, listening, sorting, and archiving all of the music I go through in a year, "God Is Saying This To You?" was lost to a casual listen while I was probably busy doing something insane like dremelling something for no good reason. I chose "Red Apples" after just randomly clicking through a whole bunch of songs in Winamp, and it sounded like it fit so I included it. After listening to the mix a few times, the whole aesthetic of Kurt Vile just jumped out at me. It was like a folkier Ariel Pink, and something about it reminded me of a wind up mobile I must have had above my cradle when I was a baby. That's still a mystery. I decided to listen to the song within the context of the album it came from and became instantly addicted. Addiction gave way to full on obsession, and there were weeks where I would listen to nothing but this album (specifically "Beach on the Moon" and "My Best Friends (Don't Even Pass This)"). Apparently I missed the KV hypetrain the first time when "Freeway" was what the blipsters were all going crazy about, but that's fine. I do enjoy "Constant Hitmaker" very much, especially the alternate version of "Freeway" shortly after "Classic Rock in Spring". I thought about including "Constant Hitmaker" and "Childish Prodigy" on this list, but instead I decided to pick my favorite of the three so as not to over saturate this thing with Vile.
2. Choral by Mountains
The first time I gave this album a spin, I'm not entirely sure what happened but it was one of two things. Either the music put me into a trance, or I went into one on my own and the music just happened to be the perfect thing to be listening to during it. I've used this album to meditate, to calm down, to enhance my mood, to pick me up, to make me sleep, to alleviate panic attacks... These days I've learned to really appreciate ambient-drone music, but this is something else entirely and I wouldn't be slightly shocked to learn that there's some kind of binaural-beat trickery going on here that allows this album to play me and my fragile psychic state like an accordion.
3. Logos by Atlas Sound
These are the reasons this album is awesome to me: "Shelia", Laetitia Sadier singing on the almost kraut-rock "Quick Canal", "Kid Klimax" - the whole song but especially the ending ("oh my-god oh my-god") - and it's counterpart acoustic version on the Rough Trade EP, and the joyous bloop-bloop synth bass on "Washington School" that I think I could happily play on repeat for an entire day. The whole thing is fantastic, but these are the parts that are the most important to me. This album has been talked about to death and I think I'd rather just leave it at that.
4. Here We Go Magic by Here We Go Magic
Something about Here We Go Magic sounds divorced from time. Sometimes it sounds like time travelers kidnapped Paul Simon, force fed him a bunch of drugs and made him sing over beats I swear I heard on the last Books album. Another strange synapse is misfiring in my brain as I listen, and suddenly it's 2001 again and I'm in my dorm room listening to the first Circulatory System album. It speaks volumes about an album that I've heard described as "conceptual" (?!?) that I can put this on around pretty much anyone and heads begin to bob. This album is grounded in some kind of unashamed joy (except maybe tracks 7 and 8) that appears to be contagious. Standout tracks: "Fangela", and "I Just Want To See You Underwater".
5. When We Parted My Heart Wanted to Die by Leyland Kirby
What a misleading title, eh? It sounds like instead of Leyland Kirby, the musician's name should be "My Tear Stained Diary". Then you hear the music. It sounds aquatic. There are minimal piano compositions played to no tempo or meter at all and drowned in reverb. There are whirling atmospherics that start off coma-warm like a blanket, and then burn white hot. Comparisons have been made to Brian Eno, and I can certainly hear that. I've seen a video posted on Youtube of a shorter edit of the title track, and the footage is several POV shots of a person walking the streets of Berlin layered on top of each other so the viewer seems to be seeing some awful drunken march through a cold black and white city. Where Mountains Choral was drone-ambient of an almost medicinal nature, this is instead something terrible in it's capacity to take you to a place you may not want to go emotionally, and beautiful and tearily nostalgic without ever uttering a letter from the horrible but somehow appropriate album title. Apparently this is the first album of a trilogy that was simultaneously released. I've still only heard the first one...
6. From the Ground by Heather Woods Broderick
Somewhere along the line, I became obsessed with Type Records. It probably had something to do with "Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill" by Grouper and spread from there. Type seems to include a lot of people that might fall under the banner of contemporary classical a la Max Richter or something. Some of this kind of music sounds like dreadful wankery to me, but not the artists on Type. Among them, Peter Broderick stands head and shoulders above the rest in my eyes. Between classical compositions, glints of pastoral and almost folk sounds peek through. Last year, Broderick released what was, in my opinion, his most folksy album, "Home". I'm not referring to folk in the alt-folk-fuck-whatever sense. Alt-country and this new folk thing is spreading mitotically towards crisis, and I'm pretty sure most universities now require you to join at least one folk rock band before they will consider giving you a degree of any kind. Broderick's music is something detached from Americana somehow. There are violins (not fiddles) and cellos. There is an acoustic guitar, but it's not clumsily strummed by a meat-fisted hand. Broderick's folk is just as well orchestrated and composed as his classical pieces, and when he begins to sing my heart just breaks apart. I spent a lot of time on the youtubes looking for live videos of these newer songs because it seemed to me that they would be much easier to pull off live with this particular sound. Most of the videos I found were of Peter in a quartet that included his sister Heather Woods Broderick. Several months later, I found out she had an album out, and Pete was all over it, so I had to give it a listen. Much of the music could have just as easily been on a Peter Broderick album (I'm guessing now Heather has just as much of a hand in his sessions as he does in hers). Here, her apparent familial talent for classical and folk composition sits comfortably beside each other. On the few songs she sings on, I hear Chan Marshall or Hope Sandoval in her voice. Last year, one of the most emotionally affecting songs I listened to all year was Maps by Peter Broderick (absolutely no relationship to Maps by YYY's). This year's Maps might be The Colours by his very own sister.
7. Fever Ray by Fever Ray
This is another album that's had probably too much said about it already. To me, this could have been a Knife album and I would never have known the difference. They both scare the shit out of me, and I can't wring either of them loose from looping in my head. I also read Black Hole this year by Charles Burns who did most of the cover art, and it was the perfect soundtrack. This must have leaked sometime late last year, because I feel like I have had it a lot longer than 2009. For a while, I was fairly obsessed.
8. All the Pleasures of the World by Crayon Fields
You know what? I generally hate twee. It's a dissertation for another time, but I'll put it this way: not only can I not bring myself to subscribe to such a precious and kinda childish worldview, but I think that this shit was the back door to our house that Starbucks and Mac commercials snuck in through. I'm only setting the scene here, and I'd be happy to go round and round with you on the topic, but this is neither the time nor the place. The point is, I think whoever described Crayon Fields to me in order to get me to check it out misled the shit out of me. Nobody ever said I'd have to confront my twee-mons. The singer's voice is so soft and Stuart Murdoch-ey, and the subject matter of the songs... *shudder*. I'm not sure why I didn't turn it off as soon as he started singing, but then something changed. The title track kicked in with a Spoon-esque bass line, and suddenly the voice seemed sexy instead of like that of an NPR correspondent. Somehow lines like "I mess up my collar / just to feel you correct it" didn't elicit the gagging response they should have. Some kind of soft faux-funk tickling guitar was moving around behind the words, and the so-sincere-it-hurts stigma that this song should have had if another band had written it and put it over french horns was totally absent. This is a microcosm of the entire album - twee singing over the gamut of styles. And believe me, the lyrics are twee-as-fuck, but the sentiments of some of the things he says are somehow beautiful to me. The biggest and best example of this is during the second to last track "Lucky Again". "I've been so happy / I'm almost ashamed". The song seems to be about apprehension with being happy and satisfied, and feeling sort of undeserving. It struck a chord with me as I was listening to this album the first time. I was weaning off of the SSRI Zoloft after over a decade of numbness, or muted emotions with pinhole episodes of total insanity interspersed. For the first time in half of my life, I could feel joy for more than a couple of moments at a time. I could also feel lower than I remembered possible, but it was so much easier to counter it with honest-to-jesus lasting happiness. It was an almost alien feeling to me when my reaction to sadness wasn't to drink myself retarded, but to find something I enjoyed and have it actually bring me authentic joy instead of a gross approximation. Maybe this red letter moment in my life is the beginning of me being able to appreciate this kind of music, and maybe this album just had pertinent subject matter to what I was going through at the time. Whichever the case, these songs are now imprinted on me, and permanently symbolic of an enormous positive change in my life. Phew...
9. Seek Magic by Memory Tapes
Weird Tapes and Memory Cassette are the same person. All year long either alias has been dropping short EPs that were delightful in different ways. Weird Tapes found it's way onto a lot of party/driving mixes, while Memory Cassette was the chilled out Ween-vocals counterpart I'd listen to while I myself was cold chillin'. While both projects are distinguishable by the moods they elicit, both owe a lot to a four to the floor disco beat, and both can weave in and out of the other's territory without totally ruining either mood. Enter: Memory Tapes, which is not simply a consolidation of both styles under one name, but more akin to mixing red and blue paint to make purple - something with hints of both but entirely unique. The softer songs are softer - like a strange Boards of Canada. The dancier songs are dark and also weirder than Weird Tapes. There's something markedly more psychedelic going on here. Every time I listen to Seek Magic, I like it more and more. If this year were six months longer, it would likely meander up this list.
10. You Will Never Know Why by Sweet Trip
When I first heard Sweet Trip, I forgot I wasn't listening to Stereolab. Yep.
Honorable, non LP mentions:
A. Warp20 Box Set
If you are a fan of Warp Records, this is a must have. If you are new to Warp Records, this is a fantastic introduction. Warp20(Chosen) is a two disc compilation of some of the finest singles and single tracks from the past 20 years of the label's existence. From the looks of the Warp20 website, these were voted in and ranked by fans. All of your favorites are there – "Windowlicker" and "Bucephalus Bouncing Ball" by Aphex Twin, "Red Hot Car" by Squarepusher, "ROYGBIV" and "Amo Bishop Roden" by Boards of Canada, "Drane" and "Gantz Graf" by Autechre. Newer Warp musicians like Flying Lotus and Battles are also present. Warp20(Recreated) is a two disc compilation of Warp artists covering other Warp artists. Your imagination should be going wild right now. Warp20(Unheard) is a collection of unreleased tracks, which can be understandably dodgy at times but is totally worth it for the Boards of Canada track. Warp20(Elemental) is an hour long nonstop mix by Osymyso. I haven't listened to it yet because I've been too busy with the other three - yes I am sort of ashamed of myself. The strangest part of the box set is Warp20(Infinite) which is a collection of locked-groove loops. If you aren't sure what a locked-groove loop is, I'll tell you. On a record, when a needle falls into a locked-groove, it can't get out and repeats along the same circumference of the vinyl forever. Most records are pressed with locked-groove loops of silence at the end so that the arm doesn't go flying off the side and damaging the needle when the songs are over. Occasionally someone will experiment with putting a locked-groove loop with actual music on it, and this can be pretty cool and hypnotic. This double record is fifty 1.8 second locked-groove loops from just about everyone on Warp. Idea for use: set it up to play the Polygon Window "Quoth" 1.8 second loop, turn the volume up all the way and leave the house. Your cohabitants will hate you forever.
B. Bay of Pigs by Destroyer
This was my number 1 favorite album of 2009, but I didn't include it on this list because I'm playing by the goddamned rules okay? It's an EP, and it's two tracks long, so that disqualifies it from any orthodox end of year list. Truth be told, I think I probably listened to this EP over 400 times this year, and that's probably a conservative estimate. It's not a secret to those close to me that I love Dan Bejar. His detractors have their list of reasons why he's not the greatest thing ever, but with me it's like arguing with a Grateful Dead fan - something about him hits me in a way that is impervious to matters of taste, career missteps, alleged formula, etc, and nothing anyone says can change that. Though it is a given that I am heavily biased towards his music, if this EP is any indication of the direction he plans to go in (and I have read that it is), his best work may be ahead of him. That's a pretty significant prediction when it is made about the man who wrote "This Night" and "Destroyer's Rubies", but decidedly less so when it is coming out of my Dan Bejar loving mouth. This EP has all of the things Destroyer fans already love about him: cryptic and wordy lyrics with strange phrasings, his unmistakable voice that makes him endearing to some and unlistenable to others, a collapsing-world sentiment prevalent in so many of his songs... But there are electronics here, and synthesizers, and a club beat. From the description, it could either be the best or worst thing he could possibly do, and somehow it ends up being the former. I can't get these two songs out of my head, and I doubt I ever will.


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Francois Turbot (pronounced "fran-swah too-boh") is a human character on PAW Patrol. He is Cap'n Turbot's cousin from France, and appears alongside his cousin often.
Francois and his cousin Horatio have been shown to bond well, with Francois assuming the role of the Captain's sidekick in various episodes. However, he insists that his cousin pronounces the family name incorrectly, with the correct pronunciation being "too-boh" rather than "tur-bit." Francois has been shown to enjoy taking photographs on several occasions, although his pictures have never come out well. It is also revealed that he has an interest in nature, which is often the subject of his photos.
Francois is chic and somewhat egotistical. He loves to be the center of attention and can come across as a showoff. Francois' high self-regard often clouds his judgment and gets him into problems that only the PAW Patrol can solve. He is shown to be relentlessly overconfident, almost always trying to impress others. Francois will try to trump Cap'n Turbot whenever he has the chance, no matter what he must do to look more skilled. Francois' attempts to outdo his cousin always end in failure, with the humble captain prevailing and Francois receiving comeuppance. This results in a rivalry between the two Turbots, which can be seen whenever they argue or disagree with each other. Despite his self-centered nature, Francois is by no means an antagonist; he never causes any trouble intentionally.
Francois Turbot slightly resembles his cousin. He has white skin, brown hair, and wears circular glasses with pink lenses. He also has a brown mustache with a goatee. In terms of clothes, he wears a beret (French-style hat), a red and white striped polo-style shirt with a blue neck tie (the colours of the French flag), and blue jeans. He also wears a pair of brown loafer shoes. His physical stature is also very similar to his cousin's.
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After the success of our rebranding of Toronto Film Studios, Compass360 was asked to create the identity for a new film facility in Toronto's Port Lands. Working with the facility's senior team we developed the Filmport name, and from there the complete visual identity.View the work.
To evoke the legacy of film and open the door for self-referential humour, the brand and the initial launch campaign contained deliberate retro elements.
While the Filmport campus was envisioned as the home of auxiliary facilities for production and supporting industries, the main offering would be large-scale studio spaces, which became the sub-brand Filmport Studios. We were responsible for creating the main selling tool, an immersive full-frame website that provided a virtual fly-through of the facility as well as specs and floorplans for pre-production and planning purposes.
In keeping with the brand and the business offering, our marketing strategy included the production of two short-form films. We introduced the first one as a teaser at the Banff International Film Festival. Postlaunch we released both films on YouTube and as a promotional DVD.


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If I used a sperm donor, I"d want to know the guy, says Aniston
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Jennifer Aniston plays a mom undergoing artificial insemination in her new flick, 'The Switch', to get pregnant.
Off screen too, Aniston said that if she were to ever require a sperm donor, she would "wanna know the guy".
According to The Daily Telegraph, the Friends star revealed this on Jay Leno"s Tonight Show, where she was present to promote her new movie and perfume Jennifer Aniston.
In 'The Switch', Aniston plays singleton Kassie who is desperate to have a baby.
Ignoring the objections of her best friend, Wally (played by Jason Bateman) she decides to go it alone.
Kassie chooses a handsome and charming donor but before she can complete the act of insemination, unbeknown to her, a drunk Wally swaps the sperm for his own.


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We trekked down some backwoods trails in search of the elusive Brown Bullhead
Brown Bullhead Adventure
Posted on June 29, 2007
I have been searching for a Brown Bullhead for a few years. I just have no picture of this particular fish for my lifelist, and the species contest was the perfect time to go out after them. Corey and I had found a lake full of them according to DNR reports, just a few miles down an old logging road from our outpost at Remote Lake. So, on a sweltering late June evening we took off in pursuit of the elusive Brown. Recent storms had downed many trees along the route, and maneuvering a truck with a kayak on top was a bit of a challenge. Just in case, we brought a chainsaw but never needed it. A few times, we drove under large Poplar trees hung up in the branches over the road and cleared by just an inch. So with the GPS we found our way on the trail, jumping puddles and going under trees that could fall at any minute. We got lost only a few times.
Once at the lake access, we found only a weed-choked backwater with a small channel cut by outboards. This was a duck-hunting slough choked with wild rice, frequented more by Labrador retrievers than anglers. We were skeptical at first, but since we were here we were determined to give it a shot and began fishing with nightcrawlers. At sunset, the lone cloud formation looked like some kind of predatory fish chomping on the horizon. It started as a pike, then became a bowfin before finally morphing into a grungy chinook.
Before dark , I got a bite and landed a large Bluegill. I was disappointed. After it got dark and we fired up the lantern, suddenly my lighted float began to dance. I let the fish take the bait for a long time, then set the hook. A fish throbbed on the end of the line, and sloshed in the darkness...........near shore I saw it was a Bullhead, and flipped the fish onto the bank. It was the Brown Bullhead I was looking for! We did a quick ID and put the fish into a bucket.
This was new lifelist addition for me, a species that I had caught many times but never taken a picture of. Man, was i happy to get one! I caught four more nice Brown Bullheads and Corey got one as well, and we kept them for a meal. We caught these fish in just two feet of water in a narrow channel of a duck slough. And there were ducks everywhere. Woodies, Ringbills, Mallards, Teal........we just may have to come back here in October. Anyway, you gotta love it when a plan comes together..........
|Andrew Geving, Roughfisher at Large
This report made me smile man, classic RF.
i CT (where my grandparents live) we use lighted bobbers to imitate a firefly much like how you would use a popping cork to attract small bass. the bullhead warily come up to the float and come upon a slice of chub dangling a few inches down. oh how delicious fried catfish are.


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Balancing the Books Workshop
This one day workshop will cover the key essentials of budget management and control. It is designed for budget holders and for those who deputise for, or are likely to become budget holders in the future. No prior knowledge is assumed. Engaging practical exercises will be backed-up by simple theory to ensure all the basics are covered. This will be no nonsense, jargon free, introduction to financial management for non-financial managers.
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The classroom was hot and dirty and nearly a hundred high school students had packed into the room to listen to what I was about to say.
I had nothing written down to help me, but I had remembered a song with all the information about the ship. I had their full attention and without a microphone I managed to project my voice in order to tell them all about the ship, it's people and it's purpose in five minutes. I was part of a team of five from the ship who visited a local high school to present a one hour gospel program. One person shared their testimony and one gave a sermon. Others played some songs and I played a part in a drama.
The students were very interested in what we had to say and many came to talk to us afterwards. Some appeared to be very touched by the message we gave. I also had the opportunity to chat with one of the students before the program and paint a picture of having a relationship with Jesus. It was a short conversation but I think I may have planted a seed at least.
Later in the week we had the opportunity to provide an all day program for people waiting in line to get onto the ship. We put a stage up outside the day before with some help. On the day we hauled all the speakers and sound equipment from the store room to the quayside. It took us half the day to figure out how everything connected together but it was very worthwhile when we had it all together. There were mimes, jesters, dances, dramas, testimonies and more happening on the stage and the people in line really enjoyed it.


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Hamish McIlwraith is an international education specialist who has 30 years of experience as a teacher, lecturer, trainer and consultant in Asia, North Africa and the Middle East and Eastern and Central Europe. He advises a wide range of public and private educational institutions as well as government departments on education policy and its implementation. He is particularly interested in language policy, helping to create education systems in developing countries, trainer training and in multilingual education.
He first worked as a teacher at Amentego Girls' Higher Secondary School in the Northern Province of Sudan in 1984 before taking up a position as a lecturer at Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1986. In the early 1990s he was a lecturer and teacher trainer at Jilin University and Tangshan Institute of Science and Technology (now Hebei Polytechnic University). He was then a lecturer for three years in the Department of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Brunei before moving to Bulgaria as Peacekeeping English Project (PEP) Manager. He developed language and testing systems for interoperability of the Bulgarian Armed Forces with multinational forces in a context of Armed Forces reform and NATO/EU accession. He later helped form an international testing group across NATO accession countries, which involved postgraduate training at Lancaster University. He was also Regional Co-ordinator for South-East Europe (Bulgaria, Macedonia and Romania) and managed the PEP Summer Schools programme (covering 24 countries in Central Asia and Central Europe).
Hamish lectured for three years on the MSc TESOL programme at the University of Edinburgh and supervised students completing their dissertations. He founded McIlwraith Education in 2004, and has steadily built the company's client-base to include UNICEF, DFID, the British Council and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and partners such as the African Academy of Languages (ACALAN).
He has a background in editing and writing. In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, he wrote for national newspapers including the Guardian, Telegraph and Scotland on Sunday. From 1989-91, he was a sub-editor on New Horizon, the Sudanese government's national weekly English-language newspaper. From 2006-08 he wrote monthly e-lessons for Macmillan Publications' 'Campaign News Digest' which accompanied the 'Campaign' series of English language textbooks. Between 2000-09, he edited the British Council PEP Newsletter. This quarterly publication was funded by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Ministry of Defence and was distributed to over 50 countries including the USA, Russia and China. He has edited three collections of conference and research papers: Perspectives on English in the Middle East and North Africa, Multilingual Education in Africa: Lessons from the Juba Language-in-Education Conference and The Cape Town Language and Development Conference: Looking beyond 2015 as well as articles in books including Managing Change in English Language Teaching and journals such as Modern English Teacher. His other books include Coping with Bereavement and Island Echoes: Voices from North Uist, an oral history of the crofting community in the Western Isles.
Alistair Fortune is a hugely experienced consultant, trainer and project manager with extensive qualifications and a sustained record of achievement in the field of English language education particularly in teacher training and testing.
After working for three years for VSO in China as a lecturer and teacher trainer in the early 1990s, he was appointed Senior Lecturer in English Language Teaching at Sofia University in Bulgaria, and then as Methodology Advisor for Pre-Service Teacher Training in the University of Novi Sad in Yugoslavia. Between 1999 and 2009, Alistair worked as a Project Manager for the British Council's Peacekeeping English Project (PEP), firstly in Estonia and then in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Since 2009 he has worked as a consultant. Recent consultancies for the British Council have involved the development of a strategy for the introduction of English as a Means of Instruction (EMI) in universities in Afghanistan, a review of ELT in the state education system in Iraq and Kurdistan, and the evaluation of the UK's only education project in North Korea.
He has also worked for many other agencies such as the Scottish Qualifications Agency (SQA) where he worked on a project to benchmark SQA Modern Languages examinations to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). He also helped develop English language tests for the BBC Janala Project through BBC Media Action. This involved developing standards and criteria for test assessments, a test writers' manual and sample test material. BBC Janala is part of the English in Action (EIA) project, a major DFID-funded project (developed initially with the help of McIlwraith Education), which has an overall objective of improving English language skills for 25 million people through improved teacher training, mobile device materials, TV, radio, and adult learning. In the area of testing and assessment he has recently worked as a consultant and trainer in Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Mongolia and Serbia.
His publications include a series of practice test books for Sofia University and he is one of the co-authors of the British Council-EAQUALS Core Inventory for General English (2010). The aim of this book is to make the CEFR accessible to teachers and adult learners of General English and to provide support and guidance in what the CEFR levels mean in terms of classroom aims.
Alistair was awarded an MBE by Her Majesty the Queen in 2009.
Claire is an ELT consultant and trainer with over 20 years of experience gained as a teacher, trainer, project manager and consultant in countries in Central, East, and South-East Europe, North Africa, South and Central Asia, and Latin America. She holds an EdD in TESOL from the University of Exeter and is on the editorial panel of the ELTjournal. Her professional interests lie in blended learning, course design, teacher and trainer training, monitoring and evaluation, and research in language education.
Claire's career started as a summer school teacher in Cardiff, teaching general English to French teenagers. From there she moved onto teaching exam courses to adults at what was formerly known as Reading College of Arts and Technology. This whetted her appetite for overseas work and resulted in a posting with International House to the historical city of Krakow in Poland. Here she completed her Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (DELTA) before joining the British Council and helping them to establish a new teaching centre in the same city. After two years at the centre Claire moved onto the British Council's Peacekeeping English Project (PEP) initially as a trainer in Ukraine, then as a trainer in Uzbekistan and finally as a manager in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Her time in BiH led her to write a chapter for the British Council's publication: Managing Change in English Language Teaching in which she gives an overview of the redesign process of a range of blended learning English language courses in the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina (AFBiH). On moving back to the UK, after 12 years overseas, Claire took up a post with Bell Cambridge as the Learning and Teaching Manager before re-joining the McIlwraith Education team.
Claire is committed to professional development and to that end has questioned and investigated her working practice with the theory derived from MA and EdD qualifications. Her doctoral thesis was on blended learning course design (blended learning is a mixture of face-to-face and online course delivery). She has used her experience to co-edit the British Council publication: Blended Learning in English Language Teaching: Course Design and Implementation, which includes twenty case studies from around the world describing blends being employed on EAP, ESP, Teacher Development and general EFL courses. She has a chapter in Using Technology in Foreign Language Teaching called Blended Learning in EFL: Adopting a Principled Approach to Integrating Technology. She has also has written an article on using the E-Delphi Technique in ELT research, which is a method for building consensus between professionals, for the ELT Research journal.
Rob Buckmaster is an education specialist who has over 20 years of experience as a teacher, trainer and consultant in Eastern and Central Europe, Central Asia, North Africa and the Middle East. He works as a lecturer at the University of Latvia as well as being a consultant for McIlwraith Education.
He started teaching English as a foreign language in Warsaw, Poland in 1991 and he took his Certificate in Teaching English at International House, Poznan in 1993 with an A grade. He taught at the British Council Studium, Warsaw University of Technology and at the British Council Teaching Centre for the rest of the nineties. During this time he also taught at the University of Edinburgh as a teacher trainer, trained school teachers in Latvia and began consultancy work with two visits to Uzbekistan for the British Council and World Bank. He gained his RSA Diploma in 1997 and followed that with the Advanced Diploma in Language Teaching Management in 1999. In 2001 he moved to Estonia to take up the post of Justice and Home Affairs consultant for the British Council Peacekeeping English Project (PEP).
In the five years he managed this project he worked with and trained police and border guard teachers from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland as well as elsewhere in the PEP network. He advised the Ministry of Interior on language policy and enabled the transformation of language teaching operations at the Ministry's educational institutions. During this period he completed his MEd in E-learning.
More consultancy work followed in Libya, Croatia and Slovenia, and also work training Iraqi police teachers for McIlwraith Education. He has carried out scoping studies and trained teachers in all aspects of language teaching and run specialist courses on materials development, both face-to-face and online.
He was the Director of Studies at International House Riga for five years to 2013, managing and training a large teaching staff, before leaving to concentrate on his PhD in Applied Linguistics.
He is an examiner and examiner trainer, and regularly presents at conferences in the Baltic regions and invariably provides the closing plenary at the Latvian Association of Teachers of English annual conference. He has also trained teachers for Macmillan and Cambridge University Press.
He has written extensively on English language issues with articles in the Guardian, EFL Gazette, Modern English Teacher, English Teaching Professional, the British Council PEP Newsletter and was the first columnist for the British Council's Network News. In 2017 he published Teaching English Being the Best and in 2018 he published the Ideas of English Grammar, which is a reimagining of pedagogical grammar.


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Susan Perlman is one of the co-founders of Jews for Jesus. Susan is the associate executive director of Jews for Jesus and also director of communications for the organization. She also serves as the editor in chief of ISSUES, their evangelistic publication for Jewish seekers. She left a career track in New York City to help launch Jews for Jesus in San Francisco in the early 1970s. See more here.
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88% of the money that supports Jewish Evangelism comes from donors like you.
Jews for Jesus is a not-for-profit, 501(c)3 organization. We trust God for the funding of Jews for Jesus, and He has provided through caring Christians. Each missionary raises his or her own support. We ask our Christian friends to support their local churches first. Then we ask people to prayerfully consider giving to our ministry as well. We welcome the support of all Christians, though we particularly appreciate those who include our ministry in their regular missions giving.
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L-R: Wendy Moore, Starry Night at Sea | Ruth Kaldor, A Grand Manan Adventure | Judy Stone, Tres Amigos
Fifth Annual Square Foot Art Show and Sale
AUGUST 4 to 16, 2018
PLEASE NOTE: These 2018 dates reflect a change in the usual month/time compared to our past shows
How much creative punch can you pack into one square foot?
The images above illustrate work by three of the artists who took on this challenge last year. Our 2017 show was very popular with both artists and gallery visitors, and we exhibited work by 58 artists from Grand Manan, mainland NB, Quebec, Ontario, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maryland.
We invite you to be part of this year's event. It will feature a variety of artwork — paintings, photographs, drawings, ceramics, wood, and mixed media. All work is welcome, and there is just one stipulation. The outside dimensions of your piece (including any frame) must measure 12 inches By 12 inches.
All the artwork will be for sale at a fixed price of $200. The gallery will raise funds with an entry fee of $25, and a 25% commission on sales. People's Choice Awards of $200, $150 and $100 will be given again this year to the three most popular works in the show.
Click on the link to the right for a PDF with more information and the entry form.


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People seem to be going
bananas over BB creams lately. To be honest, when I first heard of them I had to google what BB stood for. For those misinformed beauty bloggers like myself, it stands for 'blemish balm' or 'blemish base.'
Let's get into it…
What is BB Cream?
BB cream is kind of like an all-in-one beauty product that can replace moisturizer, serums, primer, foundation and even sunblock for your face. Worn alone or under your makeup, it is great for coverage.
The original BB cream was created in the 1960's by a German dermatologist. It was meant to help heal patients' skin after surgery.
Some twenty something years later, the cream was introduced to Korea where it blew up in popularity. Asians prize healthy-looking skin so it's no wonder that this cream became such a hit.
What's So Bad Ass about Them
Of course there are fad products, but when something has been kicking around for nearly 50 years and maintains its popularity, there has to be a reason why.
The all-in-one formula for BB creams makes it the perfect tool for healing and concealing acne, evening out your skin tone, moisturizing, fighting the signs of aging, protecting skin from harmful sun damage and soothing the skin from inflammation or redness.
This makes it one pretty impressive skin care product and best of all you can make your own homemade BB cream without too much wahala.
Here's what you'll need:
1. Your favorite sunscreen: Sweat and water resistant is best, try to find something that isn't too greasy so there's less chance of it clogging your pores. Plus, your BB cream will stay on forever if you use a water resistant sunscreen.
2: Your favorite moisturizer:
if you have dry skin, use a creamy one; if you have oily skin, try an oil free lotion.
3: Your preferred foundation:
You'll have the best luck with liquid/cream foundation. Powder is hard to mix and does not blend well.
4: Monistat chafing gel:
This sounds crazy, I know! But its main ingredient is the main ingredient in several makeup primers, and it makes your BB cream go on smooth and stay nice and matte. A warning about this – I have heard of this causing breakouts in some folks. If you're breakout prone, go a little lighter on it or leave it out. Others haven't had any problem but I can't promise it will be the same for you.
5: A bottle to put it in!
IToo much sunscreen makes it oily and it never dries properly – too much gel makes it dry too fast and it gets splotchy. Too much foundation made it too dark for my skin! The ratio below is what I advise you to follow.
The amounts:
1/3 foundation
1/3 moisturizer
1/6 chafing gel
1/6 sunscreen
That way it can be easily scaled. So, for example, it you did two teaspoons each of foundation and moisturizer, you'd do one teaspoon of chafing gel and sunscreen.
Combine these in whatever container you'd like and shake or stir until thoroughly combined.
My advice is that you use the same amount of foundation and SPF cream as your base mixture. So in other words, if you use one teaspoon of foundation, you must also use one teaspoon of SPF cream. Then add half a teaspoon of serum and another half-teasepoon of illuminator.
If you're using powder foundation, use only half the recommended amount.
If you want heavier coverage, use more foundation. If you want to fill in your pores better, add a touch of silicone primer.
Then, mix everything together until the consistency is smooth and free of lumps or bubbles.
Try it out and lemme know how it goes.
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"We've got to fight dangerous climate change". A little sound bite from Hilary Benn, Secretary of Status in the UK on the TV programme Dispatches tonight when asked whether incentives for biofuel production was a good idea given rising food prices. Who are we fighting exactly? It takes two to start a war and I don't think the climate gives a toss about us. But clearly climate is 'dangerous' and what we do when things are dangerous? We fight!! This piece of misdirection avoids laying any blame and implies there is an enemy somewhere to be afraid of but this government is on our side and we are going to fight together. Hurrah!
I see no reason to use such emotive language. Climate change is a massive problem that requires us all to engage and find out how it affects each of us. What does it mean for me and my family? What can I do, individually and collectively? The qualities that will see us through this are ingenuity, leadership, creativity and collaboration. Qualities not inspired by fearful citizens ready to fight off the invaders, which is the image that comes to my mind by this sound bite.
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The Positive Effects of Strong Customer Service
Most businesses look at the customer as a way of making a sale, the most successful businesses look at the sale as a way of earning a lifelong customer. In looking at the different ways that you can increase your profits and sales do you know the cornerstone of building long term customer relationships? The answer is applying unbelievable customer service. People do not expect you to get everything right all of the time, but they do expect … [Read more...]
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Do you know what the difference of brand marketing and direct marketing? In this article, I'll compare brand marketing to direct marketing and them I'm going to give you example of each and how you can incorporate both types of marketing into your business. Brand Marketing First let's look at the definition of brand marketing. The American Marketing Association defines a brand as a "name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that … [Read more...]
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During my high school years, I was a sprinter and my favorite sport was track. Little did I know how fate would play such a crucial role in my life. My freshman year, I had the privilege of having John Dolan as my algebra teacher. After getting to know him, I learned that he was the sprint coach for the high school track team. As the year progressed and the track season started, I soon learned that he had invented the machine called the … [Read more...]
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These images are from a photo shoot I did at the end of the year. The image above is something I have had planned for a while after meeting with a potential client and hearing more about what they were looking for. I'm not sure this is exactly the right direction (for the potential client) but I'm happy with the outcome. My goal was to do something a little less processed but also a little more towards the environmental spectrum of portraits.
Amazingly, it was fairly simple to achieve. I knew I wanted to kill all the ambient light (which for those of you who aren't photographers or just starting out is the existing light) and just use my lights to create the scene. I wanted to create a spotlight effect as if Chris were the last person in the gym and almost all the lights had been shut off. So, I took a 30 degree grid and put the light just behind the basket about 9 feet up and shot it to hit a few feet in front of Chris. The court acts as sort of a reflector and produces all the front light that I need.
Next, I wanted to have a rim light to separate Chris from the background so I placed another light with a 15 degree grid behind him to hit his back. Initially, I had two lights hitting his back both at 45 degree angles from his back but after taking the initial I forgot that I needed something to light up the basket. So, I placed the rim light directly behind him and then used the last light with a 15 degree grid to light up the basket. I took two shots to get the look that I wanted. The first without the light on the basket and the second with. From that point on, I was dialed in with my lights and the setup and it was a matter of letting Chris go through some different poses to get the exact look I was going for.
In post, I added a some bleachers and lights to give it more of a stadium feel. It'll be hard to see it on the blog since background color is white. If you go check this image out at www.zachancell.com and view it in a darker room, you'll be able to see the faint background elements. I've been asked why you have to go through all these hoops to even see the background elements and why don't I just make them brighter. The fact of the matter is I can't make the image look good on everybody's monitors. My monitor is calibrated and for the most part I think people have the brightness way too high on their computers and that makes it difficult to see these "hidden" elements in the image.
I took this shot with my Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L at 160th, f/8.0, and ISO 100.
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Veere Di Wedding
'Veere Di Wedding' helmed by Shashanka Ghosh has finally hit the theatre on Friday. It is a story of four liberal thinking friends, very openminded and bold in their approach. The four belongs to a high-class society. The film is loaded with glitz and glamour. No poor factor is seen in it. The four thick friends belong to a rich family and they can afford anything in their life. 'Veere Di Wedding' is a multiplex product. Their open-mindedness conflict with the conservative society.
The four 'veeres', Kalindi (Kareena Kapoor), Avni (Sonam Kapoor Ahuja), Sakshi (Swara Bhaskar) and Meera (Shikha Talsania) are high school BFF. They understand one another and handles each other's problem very well. The four girls grown up to be independent and liberate. They are free birds and do not like to be captured in a cage. Establishing new relationship are a terror for them. They can't take the burden of a new relationship.
Kalindi has commitment phobia. She is committed to her three-year-old boyfriend Rishav (Sumeet Vyas) but she fears to take saat phere with him. She is frustrated with the preparation and expectation of her in-laws. Avni (Sonam Kapoor) is under burden as her mother Neena Gupta wants her to settle down. Sakshi (Swara Bhaskara) suffered a failed marriage and she is struggling with her life. Meera (Shikha Talsania) is leading a happy married life with an American but her 'bade papa' cannot her life partner a she is a foreigner.
Kalindi agreed to marry Rishav and after several years the girls reunited and relived their past life. They are bold, independent and liberated and call themselves 'Veeres'. After the girls reunite what happens in their life forms the rest of the story.
The beauty of 'Veere Di Wedding' is the girls are cool and least care of the society. They live life on their own terms and leads a bindaas life.
Speaking about the performance of the Veeres, Kareena Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Swara Bhaskar and Shikha Talsania are top-notch. The four of them are free-flowing and do not hesitate to portray bold scene and use the 'f' word.
Shashanka Ghosh's direction is appreciable. Set design by Achala Mirza is marvellous. Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla's costume are trendy. Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti's camera work is eye-catching.
In the nutshell, 'Veere Di Wedding' is an enjoyable movie. It is worth the watch and poora paisa wasool.


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Army tells Egyptians: 'Get back to work'
Egypt's military rulers on Monday called upon disgruntled workers to stop striking and return to their jobs. Employees in a number of key sectors want better pay and conditions. The country's economy ground to a halt during demonstrations that toppled former president, Hosni Mubarak. In a statement on state television, military spokesman General Mohsen el-Fangari said strikes and disputes would threaten Egypt's security and damage its economy. He called on all citizens, professionals and labour unions to be responsible at this crucial time. Egypt's stock exchange has been shut since January 27 because of the political unrest. Banks are not expected to reopen until Wednesday. The tourism sector, which accounts for six percent of GDP, has also been hit by a drop in revenues. Copyright © 2011 euronews
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On behalf of the SIGNALS executive and network, I would like to extend our gratitude to the Chemical Industry Association of Canada, who has been a long-time supporter and platinum sponsor of the SIGNALS Network and annual banquet.
We would also like to thank Stratos for their contribution and support.
Without the support of these generous donors, we would not be able to reach our goals. We look forward to continuing our partnership.
Christopher Ling
SIGNALS President
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Elton Brand left behind all those power forward battles in the Western Conference for some new tough ones in the Atlantic Division.
Brand signed with the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday, the biggest move on the first day NBA deals could be completed. A power forward was the Sixers' biggest need in free agency, and they got perhaps the best one available.
"I'm prepared to do some big things this year," Brand said. "They were one of the best teams in the second half of the season last year. I've been following them for a while and I see myself fitting in on the court."
Teammate Corey Maggette was set to join him in leaving the Los Angeles Clippers for an offer with the Golden State Warriors who had previously targeted Brand. At least the Clippers had some success in free agency, getting Baron Davis to head home from the Bay Area.
After years of matching up with the likes of Tim Duncan and Dirk Nowitzki out West, Brand landed in an Atlantic Division that now features a Jermaine O'Neal-Chris Bosh tandem in Toronto, with Kevin Garnett already in Boston.
A conference that just two years ago sent three .500-or-worse teams to the postseason looks much tougher now.
"Everybody's been talking about how the East hasn't been strong," Knicks president Donnie Walsh said. "Well, one thing I know, that changes. They get strong."
Walsh recalled that the West wasn't as deep early in his tenure with the Indiana Pacers, but that has clearly changed.
"There were a lot of bad teams," Walsh said. "Look over there now, that gets corrected real quick. They go out and get players and they rectify that. So the same thing's going to happen in the East."
The 76ers were able to sign Brand to a big deal because they sent forward Rodney Carney and a future No. 1 pick to the Minnesota Timberwolves as part of a trade that cleared an additional $2 million in salary cap space.
O'Neal went from the Pacers to the Raptors in a deal that was agreed upon before last month's draft. Toronto sent point guard T.J. Ford, center Rasho Nesterovic, forward Maceo Baston and the draft rights to center Roy Hibbert to the Pacers for O'Neal and the draft rights to forward Nathan Jawai.
Moving Ford cleared the way for the Raptors to re-sign Jose Calderon and make him the starter after he was mainly the backup before Ford was hurt last season.
With O'Neal joining Bosh, Toronto should be one of the league's strongest interior duos and O'Neal doesn't care what his role in it is.
"This is Chris' team," O'Neal said. "I'm here to help him lead. He's been a centerpiece for quite some time and he's a hell of a talent. I'm not into whose team this is, I'm into success. I've been through some rough times over the past four years and to get this opportunity, it makes you want to do whatever is necessary for this team to be successful."
Walsh brought in a new point guard, signing Chris Duhon to either compete for the starting job, or inherit it if the Knicks part ways with Stephon Marbury before next season.
In other free agent moves:
• The Sacramento Kings re-signed point guard Beno Udrih, keeping Mike Bibby's successor with a five-year deal.
• James Jones signed a five-year contract with the Miami Heat, one that'll pay him $4 million next season and could be worth more than $23 million over the life of the deal.
• Center DeSagana Diop returned to the Dallas Mavericks, who traded him to New Jersey in the Jason Kidd deal. Diop signed a five-year, $31 million deal.


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BANOROB: Bosnian–Norwegian research based innovation for development of new, environmental friendly, competitive robot technology for selected target groups
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Western Balkan has important challenges regarding industrial growth and compliance to the working standards and regulative established by in the western part of Europe. To adapt to a modern, competitive, environment friendly industry in Western Balkan, high effort has to be put into the development of especially small and medium sized companies (SME).
The University of Banja Luka (UBL) offers highly qualified education within basic engineering courses, however, there is a missing link between the university and the industry causing that the industry in a limited extent is able to utilize sufficiently the people being graduated from the university. This unfortunately, causes a leak of highly qualified people to other European countries.
The BANOROB project is intended to establish a high level industrial related education within production engineering at University of Banja Luka. There will be a special focus on robotics and automation because this knowledge is essential in a long term perspective, but in addition, includes methodology which automatically leads to efficient companies even though manual work force is used as a first step.
BANOROB will transfer the knowledge from the Norwegian university models at Narvik University College and The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, integrate it with the high industrial research competence at the high tech robotics company in Trondheim, PPM AS, and build an education program integrated with the basic study courses at University of Banja Luka. A part of this will be a study exchange program between the partners.
The cohesion in the BANOROB project is a virtual, joint laboratory where the partners can share laboratory resources between each other, and with other universities worldwide. This offers access to huge laboratory facilities with only needing to invest a limited amount of resources locally.


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A Closer Look at Gluten
See and feel gluten with this simple kitchen experiment.
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Gluten—an elastic protein that has the ability to trap air, much like a balloon—is formed when two important proteins in wheat flour, glutenin and gliadin, bond together in the presence of water. Whether we are trying to create more of it in rustic bread or pizza dough or working to limit its development for tender baked goods like cakes and muffins, there's no denying gluten's importance. But beyond our conceptual understanding of it, is there a more tangible way to see and feel gluten? We ran a simple experiment to find out.
We made two basic doughs by mixing flour and water in a food processor until a smooth ball formed. For one dough we used cake flour, which contains between 6 and 8 percent protein, and for the other one we used bread flour, which usually runs from 12 to 14 percent protein. After making the doughs, we placed each in a mesh strainer and massaged them under running water to wash away all of the starch. Once the water ran clear (a sign that the starch was gone), we were left with two piles of essentially pure gluten. The differences in the appearance and texture of the two doughs were a dramatic confirmation of the profound impact of gluten.
CAKE FLOUR: Low-protein cake flour formed a very small amount of sticky, weak gluten. This characteristic is a boon to cake and muffins, in which too much gluten can turn the crumb unappealingly tough.
BREAD FLOUR: High-protein bread flour formed a large ball of highly resilient, rubbery gluten that could be stretched very thin without tearing. This structure traps air in breads, providing high rise and good texture.


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Review: Brooklyn's Finest
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The opening scene involves a Brooklyn cop, Sal (Ethan Hawke) shooting a man (Vincent D'Onofrio) and then proceeding to steal the dead guy's wad of cash. It turns out his cop salary isn't cutting it. His wife is expecting twins and he is trying to buy a bigger house for his family. (Oddly enough, the basement in his home is used as a poker room for him and his fellow cop buddies.) Full article
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by Kerry Lengel
"Brooklyn's Finest"
The camera creeps up on a dark car, quiet street. In voiceover we hear a peculiar New York accent telling how he got off on a DUI arrest because he had been fleeing from Mob thugs.
"That's a true story," he insists.
Inside the car, the accent is Vincent D'Onofrio, in one of those great character bits he used to do before he started his
It's a short role. As soon as he gets to the punch line, he takes a bullet to the head from dirty cop and lapsed Catholic Ethan Hawke, who scoops up a bag of cash and scurries away. Full article
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Is Sony Undermining Their own E3 Conference/
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On this episode of the Trophy Room: A PlayStation Podcast, hosts Joseph and Kyle talk about the end of the PlayStation 4 cycle. Did Sony, make a mistake by announcing that the end of the PlayStation 4's life cycle is near? Is Sony, undermining their own E3, by telling everyone what to expect before the show even starts? Lastly, should gamers be concerned for PSVR?


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Huskers Claim First After Momentum From Bye
Colorado Springs, Colo. - The mountains may have shaken as "We Are The Champions" blared out of the Nebraska men's gymnastics bus after their first-place finish at the Rocky Mountain Open (RMO). The victory is sweet for the No. 6 Huskers as this is their first time winning the RMO since 2000. At their season opener, Nebraska finished with a team score of 407.700. No. 3 Ohio State scored 404.450, No. 15 Arizona State scored 390.950, No. 11 Air Force scored 389.950, United States Olympic Training Center* (USOTC) scored 386.450 and No. 18 Washington scored 370.600. NU claimed three event titles and had a number of career-high scores. Kyle King won both the floor and vault title, while Antonio Castro claimed the high bar title. Andrew Zymball, Josh Martin and Austin Lober also led the Huskers by setting career-high scores. After a slow start on the first three rotations, Nebraska came off the bye fired up and hungry for a win.
Rotation One
Nebraska started off the night on parallel bars, posting a team score of 67.60. Daniel Leal led the Huskers with a score of 14.10. Zymball had an impressive night on parallel bars, scoring a career-high 13.60. Griffin Kehler and Lober each added a score of 13.40, while Alex Magsam added a 13.10. Martin finished with a 13.00. At the end of rotation one, the Huskers led the meet with a score of 67.60.
Rotation Two
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Rotation Three
Rotation Four
After the bye, the Huskers competed on pommel horse. Castro finished on top with a score of 13.80. Martin also led the way for the Big Red, setting a career high 12.90. Adamsick followed closely behind with a score of 12.8. Gollott and King finished with a 12.30 and 12.10 respectively, while Chris Stephenson added a score of 11.70. At the end of rotation four, the Huskers finished with a score of 63.90.
Rotation Five
After a slow start, Nebraska performed
Rotation Six
On their final rotation, NU dominated the vault, scoring the highest in all six events. King scored on top with a 14.85. Magsam and Bonnay followed closely behind with a score of 14.25 and 14.20 respectively. Peters finished with a 14.15, while Martin notched a 14.05. Adamsick added a 13.8. At the end of rotation six, Nebraska finished with a score of 71.50.
Up Next
The Huskers take on Ohio State in their first home meet of the season. The meet will take place on Saturday, Jan. 20 at 7:00 p.m. in the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
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Before we begin let me bore you rather quickly about me. I feel that it is only fair you know something about me before we start this journey together. I have been happily married for nearly 20 years and yet I am only 36 (soon to be 37 but more on that later) We have 3 teeneagers ages 19,17 and 14. Yes, I was a teen mother. Funny, teen mother to mother of teens, fate is a cruel, cruel mistress. I'm sure it would bring some much satisfaction to know that for all I put my own mother through I am being paid back ten fold, my friends. Okay, enough background, let us begin......
As a result of a car accident 3+ years ago I have been home from work for going on 5 weeks now (read: surgery required). Staying home from work for a extended period of time is one of those things that looks good on paper. Now, I know myself, and I know that once I go back to work I will long for these days of no alarm clocks or schedules but (and you will learn this in time) I feel a constant need to want what I don't have and so these days off have become insanely boring and monotonous.
One week before my surgery I went to my hair dresser, Lesley, so that I could start my convolesence with bright new highlights and a haircut that would not require too much of my time. After I left the salon I went ot work. I was greeted with "nice hair Dawn", "hair looks great, very classic" and more. Proud of my forward thinking and imagining myself lying in bed post-surgery with my books and magazines, my bright high-lights and my "classy" haircut I smiled, secretly thinking that I would look like a patient from a soap opera. You see, I constantly have 1 of 2 things on my mind. First, that there is a chance that I could be killed in the night and when the police came to to scene they would see dishes in the sink or some other mess and that is how they would refer to may case " You know, the one where both sinks were full and no one bothered to clean the litter box.." And secondly, that I could be "discovered" at anytime. Now, I don't mean the sane thought of "Oh, I might be discovered because I'm walking down 5th Avenue shopping in those smart shops and someone might ask me to be their spokesperson (although those thoughts do cross my mind but instead of 5th Ave it would be Generic Mall USA) I mean that I sometimes think that perhaps for some crazy and unable to explain reason I will be lying in bed (or on the sofa, or in the sunroom, you get the idea) and someone will come into the house and say "My God, you are perfect for this modeling job, TV show, movie etc. that I have been planning!" And so you can see why I was so proud of myself for taking steps to make sure that, even while in a haze of pain killers, I would be camera ready. Alas my friends, it was not to be. You see, the day I went to work and got all of those compliments my hair had been fixed by the talented Lesley and not by yours truely. The next day was quite different. "Dawn, your hair looks great!" was replaced by "What happened to your hair?" My hair is the bane of my existence. I try to let it do what it wants so as not to anger it but it has not worked thus far. I have quite a bit of wave which requires Herculean efforts to dry and straighten so that it isn't all sticky uppy all the time. I'm not sure what happens between my bathroom and my drive to work but it is not pretty. Honestly, all the drying and straightening, brushing and serum and hairspray and 25 minutes later it looks like I just woke up. I'm going to start taking my picture before I leave the house and I'll hold the days paper next to my face so that people can see the date and know that no, I didn't oversleep and run out the door with only time to change my clothes! Let me share with you a true story about how my hair has betrayed me...We went to Universal Studios this summer and one of the "rides" was a sort of thing where there is audience participation. They had us all huddled in a room and were asking for a child, a muscle man (to which my husband refused to raise his hand, he, does not, aspire to be "discovered) and the like. And then my friends it happened, they asked for 2 men and a woman. Let me preface the following by saying that we had the unfortunate luck of being in Fla during hurricane Flo and so consequently our trip to Universal was peppered with gale force winds and heavy rain. Weather be damned I rose my hand (actually jumped and waved like a fool) and was chosen!!! As I made my way up to the front of the crowd to at last take my spot on stage I remembered what happens to my hair in the humidity above 5% not to mention hurricane conditions. No matter, I thought, there will be make-up and hair styling involved. Why I thought there would be time for all of this on a "ride" that lasted all of 15 min is beyond even me. We all went into another room and the audience took their seats and we "actors" were given our places on the stage and then instructions as to what we were to do and when. After we all played our assigned roles we were permitted to reunite with our families and proceed to the next leg of the "ride" which was to sit in a subway car and watch our "movie" on small televisons throughout the car. The kids said I did great but I was unable to focus on anything other than how fecking bad my hair looked!
I hope your fall has had a great beginning and that even in these budget crunchy times you have been able to treat yourself to something new for the season.
About Me
- Dawn
- Kent Island, Maryland, United States
- I am the mother of 3 teenagers and by all rights, I should have been discoverd years ago. I am always adding new content so bookmark me and you'll stay "in the loop."
Friday, October 3, 2008
And they're off!
Posted by Dawn at 1:29 AM
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Oh- It just dawned on me. John wants to see your hair!
- October 3, 2008 at 8:40 PM
dawn, you are such a nut! Where do you come up with this stuff at? I'll call you after we sell our cub scouts popcorn!
- October 4, 2008 at 8:04 AM
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Concrete Timelines & Why I Don't Need Them
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To live in a world with no solidified timelines? It's a concept completely foreign in all senses of the word. The expectation that your return "home" is imminent, and the idea that you may have formed a new kind of home somewhere else will flip minds, tables, people – all over the place.
Staying in Syd
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I was hoping to wait until my Visa information was more solidified to announce this, but due to some extenuating circumstances- its coming out now. So here it is: I'm staying. I'm staying in Sydney, in the city that's stolen my heart, my soul, and a small portion of my tastebuds. About a month ago […]
Like Jamari Loves Reese's
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I've always been told not to measure my wealth in what a man says. And everyone knows that money isn't everything. But what about your value as decided by your friends? Oftentimes, they do more to define us as people than anyone else. Family will always be there for you, but your friends are the […]
Au Pair Prep: 24 Days & Counting
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The countdown has officially begun. My visa was granted in only five days, my plane ticket has been purchased, and I am nowhere near ready to go. Today mom and I went through all of the books on my shelves and tomorrow I will go through knick-knacks and get started on sorting Laundry. The list […]


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Syd Bee is a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts. She lives and works in Seattle, where she can be found painting and drawing while surrounded by a library of fairy tales, comic books, and collected oddities.
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A Quick Guide to Film Production
Ivanhoe pictures are pioneers in their industry since they are centred around film generation and if you wish to gain a comparable position as a filmmaker, you should raise yourself to speed with the most exceptional systems. It is common to see huge financial budget films being advertised on billboards months to their release that has been produced by international production studios like Ivanhoe pictures which have used quite large amounts of funds. Such a colossal measure of a trade is gushed out to discover the most noteworthy quality staff and gear that are connected in the creation to evacuate any space for the blunder and deliver worldwide quality excitement content. Owing to their huge investments and advertisements that you cannot miss, they rake in millions of profits barely a month into the movie release. All in all, what is their creation procedure that influences them to make such an incredible progress rate? To make such big leaps and become a renowned market brand like Ivanhoe pictures, you must start slow and progress slowly upwards if you have the interest. If you wish to turn out like Ivanhoe pictures that are recognised internationally, you must take advantage of the resources you have at your disposal and work your way up the ladder of success till you reach the farthest region. You must start as a local producer and grow yourself into international standards and produce for a variety of markets.
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Cas Holmes is interested in the liminal 'in between' spaces connecting land, place and environment. Trained in fine art, her works combine mixed media with found materials and stitch and are best described as 'painting with cloth'. This is reflected in her publications 'Textile Landscape' (2018), 'Stitch Stories (2015) 'The Found Object in Textile Art' (2010), and co-written 'Connected Cloth.
Urban Nature:The stories and imagery to be found in the everyday and commonplace are a constant source of inspiration for projects and collaborations: 'Her work often contains snippets of text or discarded materials that have associations or conjure up memories. There is always a dialogue with the materials she uses. They bring their own history which is woven into the work. These collections of ephemera might seem meaningless but their apparent banality is open-ended. They are available to stimulate the imagination through the poetry of ordinariness. Everything has a connection and each viewer makes their own connections.'
Moira Vincentelli From an essay for the exhibition 'Reflections'
News Update: In 2018 Cas is a guest exhibitor at the Knitting and Stitching Shows, London and Harrogate with her collaboration Tea Flora Tales. Her installation, 'Trees' is also on show at the 'World of Threads' exhibition in Canada, and pieces are in 'Bloom' celebrating Leeuwarden as European Capital of Culture. She is currently working towards a one person show in 2019, 'Painting with Cloth'. Current information on workshops and exhibitions are updated on her blog and other links below.
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Early last month, scientists at the University of Bonn have discovered in tests on mice, that regular, low doses of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) – the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis – impaired memory and learning in young animals, but boosted the performance of old ones. To investigate whether it works in humans, the scientists plan to launch a clinical trial later this year.
"If we can rejuvenate the brain so that everybody gets five to 10 more years without needing extra care then that is more than we could have imagined," claimed researcher Andras Bilkei-Gorzo. Currently, Alzheimer's is the most expensive disease in America, costing more than cancer and heart disease. In 2017, the direct costs to American society of caring for those with Alzheimer's and other dementias will total an estimated $259 billion.
Writing in the journal Nature Medicine, the scientists describe how they gave a month-long course of daily THC to mice aged two months, one year, and 18 months. The mice were then tested to see how fast they solved a water maze, and how quickly they recognized familiar objects such as mice they had met before.
Without the drug, the younger mice aced the tests, while the older ones struggled. But infusions of THC had a dramatic impact on both groups. The performance of the younger mice plummeted on THC, while older mice improved so much that their scores matched those of healthy drug-free young mice. The benefits lasted for weeks after the infusions ended. None of the mice displayed the strange effects one might expect from doses of THC.
"These results reveal a profound, long-lasting improvement of cognitive performance resulting from a low dose of THC treatment in mature and old animals," the scientists write. The boost in brain function was linked to an apparent restoration of gene expression in the brain to more youthful levels.
The German team believes that the drug works by stimulating what is known as the endocannabinoid system, a biochemical pathway that becomes less active with age in mice, humans and other animals. "I'm sure that what we are seeing are the long-term consequences of normalizing the system," Bilkei-Gorzo said.
This type of science is imperative for an aging "baby-boomer" generation that is going to see the effects of aging and transition to medically-funded processes linked to aging to prolong their quality of life. Here's hoping the science pays off.