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Ambitious managers looking to make a mark need to work on their strengths and weaknesses to enhance their careers. By Fiona Gillies
So you've got a great job and you're good at what you do. You hope to have a long and successful career in management. But how do you make sure you get the career you want?
In this time of low unemployment, finding just another job in management may not in itself be hard. But landing the job you really want isn't always so easy. How do you make sure that you're the person who stands out from the pack?
It's up to you to make the best of your talents and ensure that when the right job comes along, you're the one who gets it. Here are some expert's tips in six key career building blocks to help take control of your own destiny and make your mark.
While it's most definitely a buzzword, experts agree that networking is one of the most important ways to enhance your career.
At work, Management Consultant James Adonis recommends associating with managers two levels above you; hang out with them, talk to them, and try to get on projects they're involved in.
"If a manager resigns or goes somewhere else, stay in touch with phone calls," he says. "Have breakfast or coffee every few months just to maintain the relationship because most jobs are filled through word of mouth, not by advertising."
Outside the workplace, the best way to network is through associations. Become a member of your local industry association and attend events. Take it a step further and join the association's committee to forge stronger ties.
"The more involved you can get with your association, the more profitable it will be in the long term," says Adonis.
He warns that networking is more than swapping business cards. "It's not about saying 'hi' to as many people as possible. It's about having really good conversations with two or three people who you then stay in touch with. The key is to build relationships, not a big database."
Kate Durward, an Executive Manager at the Commonwealth Bank, describes networking as "the thing that gets you from job to job, from opportunity to opportunity".
"In my whole life (apart from my first job in banking), I've only ever applied for one position through a job ad. Every other job has been through my network. There is still an interview process, but if you are introduced to a role, you've kind of got a head start; so you find out about jobs before they're fully formed, before they're advertised."
Updating your skills
In order to remain competitive, it's essential for managers to continuously update their skills. But educating yourself doesn't necessarily mean studying for an MBA. There are hundreds of short courses on skills such as relationship building, negotiation, facilitation and presentation.
James Adonis says that while universities can teach theory and technical skills, 'soft' skills are often lacking.
"Managers will be infinitely more valuable if they can show evidence that they are a great facilitator or a master at negotiating," he says.
"It doesn't matter what course you choose, what senior managers want to see is proactiveness. If a resume shows a person will invest their own money in their education development, an employer will love it."
Adonis also recommends reading one management book each month as well as subscribing to management newsletters, magazines and industry journals.
"The more that a manager can read, the more interesting they will become," he says.
Kate Durward has just begun an MBA course at the age of 45, and believes that waiting until now was a wise move.
"Every unit I have done so far, I've gone back to work the next day and applied the knowledge," she says. "Some people I've met doing the MBA, I don't think have enough management experience. They learn the theory, but I don't believe they can apply it in real life. So I think it is possible to do something like that too early."
Career choices
Do what is right for you. Don't be afraid to opt for a small organisation if it suits you, and don't be afraid to make unusual moves, such as a step backwards or into something new.
Commonweatlh Bank's Kate Durward says experience with a small organisation can be very valuable. "There's a lot of opportunity to move around within a small organisation," she says. "It really does give you exposure to the way a business operates from one end to the other and it's very difficult to get that in a large organisation until you are in the senior ranks.
"Then again, I'm mentoring a guy who joined the bank straight out of uni on the graduate program and the best thing for him is to be with a large company, so there's no single answer for everyone."
Durward says it can be beneficial to step back in order to move forward or change paths slightly. She consciously did that twice when she was younger; once to improve her software and programming skills, and once to join a larger organisation.
"It's not something I would recommend too often, but when you're young, weigh it as a consideration. I know plenty of people who have done it and none of them regretted it in the long run."
Knowing when a job isn't right is another important skill. Durward says she became general manager of a software house in the early 1990s but quickly realised she'd made a mistake. "At a general manager level, it's incredibly important to be a very good salesman, but that didn't sit well with me. I recognised it wasn't a good fit and made a conscious decision to move out of that."
Mandy Scotney, now Executive General Manager Retail with travel company House of Travel, joined Flight Centre at a period of rapid growth, which she describes as "one of the best things that happened to me", while Durward got a job with a new bank, National Mutual Royal, when the industry deregulated in 1985, then joined IT service provider EDS in the late 1990s shortly before the Commonwealth Bank outsourced its IT operations to EDS.
Says Durward: "If you see an opportunity to be involved in major change, that's something I'd always say put your hand up for. It can only help your career."
Self improvement
Aside from formal courses, there are many other ways to improve skills, such as becoming a master at job interviews.
James Adonis says a woman he knew went to an interview every Friday. She was invariably offered the jobs, but didn't take them.
"She told me that one day her dream job would come along and she wanted to make sure she would be the best interviewee they'd ever seen," he says. "It's not the best person who gets the job, but the person with the best interviewing skills."
Another important way to improve is through feedback. "The higher people move up the corporate ladder, the less feedback they get, but the more they should be seeking it," says Adonis.
Managers should seek regular feedback from both their employees and their superiors, as well as from interviewers after unsuccessful job interviews to find out why they missed out and how to do better.
Dr Anne Junor, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales, says that awareness is a crucial self-improvement skill.
"Have your antenna out and be very aware of trends, developments and undercurrents," Junor says. "My sister calls it 'earwigging', which is keeping your ear to the ground, listening in and making sense of half-overheard conversations.
"Awareness also includes understanding how you come across to others and the impact of your behaviour and attitudes," she says.
Self-promoting behaviour
Don't be afraid to talk up your achievements and become known as a top performer. James Adonis suggests writing articles for industry publications to get your name known, or getting yourself on the speakers list at an industry conference.
"The benefit of this is that you'll be promoting yourself to potentially hundreds of companies at the one time."
Adonis also recommends behaving as if you already have the role you aspire to. You can do this by dressing the part and showing initiative. Let people know you're ambitious. Put your hand up for opportunities. And be flexible.
When Mandy Scotney started her career with Flight Centre in New Zealand, she made it clear she wanted to progress. Her first management role involved a move to the city of Dunedin.
"It's not the most glamorous location, but I was willing to do that to get on the management ladder; I was managing an agency within nine months of joining the business," Scotney says. "Had I not been willing to be flexible, that wouldn't have happened."
Junor, as a lecturer in HR, recalls a simple but effective act of self-promotion at a recent conference. "Someone had their photo on their business card. I thought, 'What a good idea. I will immediately remember the face to that name'."
Junor goes on to say that the aim of making yourself unforgettable to others should also be applied to your resume.
"In your CV, create a sort of pen sketch of yourself and what your objectives are, so you stand out from anybody else, and people can recognise you from the way that you've described yourself."
Adonis recommends listing your accomplishments on the front page of your resume, in place of the usual name, address and education. "Most recruiters don't get past the first page, so you really want to hook them in straightaway. If the first page is captivating, they will want to read on."
And make sure there are no grammatical errors or spelling mistakes, he stresses.
Any ambitious manager should have two mentors, according to Adonis: one within the company, two levels higher and preferably within another division, and one outside the company, in any position. Meet up every month or two to discuss where you are at and exchange ideas.
"There are two keys to finding a great mentor. First, the mentor must have achieved what you aspire to and, second, you must be able to get along with them."
Kate Durward agrees that personal rapport is essential. "There's no point choosing a mentor who is really important in the organisation if you can't actually talk to them," she says. "And that works both ways. When I'm mentoring people now, I will only mentor people I have a personal rapport with."
The less-travelled path
Undertaking a volunteer telephone counselling course to help people in crisis is not a regular career move for managers, but Mandy Scotney says it has been an enormously valuable step for her.
Last year, the 38-year-old single mother decided that becoming a volunteer counsellor with one of Australia's best-known welfare groups was a good way to combine learning new skills with doing something positive for the community.
"I would say, without a doubt, that I am a better manager as a result of doing that work, because I'm a better listener," Scotney says.
"Management, at whatever level, is about people and relationships; it's about engaging the people you work with. The skills you learn doing telephone counselling are all about listening to and acknowledging people. Apply that into the work environment and it's really powerful."
James Adonis applauds Scotney's decision to add telephone counselling to her list of skills, not only because it has made her a better manager.
"There's an increasingly bigger focus in the corporate world on social responsibility," he says. "In an environment where generation Y, especially, are becoming more and more critical of companies that aren't doing enough for the community, having a manager who obviously does it in her spare time is quite inspirational."
Durward credits a Toastmasters public speaking course she did in her early 20s with making a huge difference to her success.
She says she would recommend a similar course to anyone serious about management and urges managers to practise public speaking as much as possible.
"Once you are in management, even if you aren't standing in front of an audience presenting, you are actually always presenting," Durward says.
"You are always on show and people will always critically look at the way you present yourself, the way you speak, the way you run a meeting. And it does affect your credibility."


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Cigna 5K….
Set a 'personal best' record at the Cigna 5K. Time: 27:47 which is almost 2 minutes faster than last year.
Unfortunately, in the last mile of the race, a lady about 20 feet ahead of me tripped on the sidewalk and fell, sliding forward. Another fellow and I came up alongside and helped her up, making sure she was OK. No cuts or anything! She was very lucky, especially that there was some space behind her and no one ran or tripped over her. The onlookers all clapped when she started running again! Good for her!
The heat was worse than last year and many runners had to take short walking breaks to avoid overheating.
It was impressive that the first place runner (Abiyot Warku) ran it in 14:07, but frankly I was more impressed by the folks who were still chuggin' along, giving it their all, even 45 minutes after the gun fired. They were determined to finish and they did. Hats off to them! That was me not too many years ago. (My first 5k was 43 minutes-ish).

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Thursday, 15 June 2017
Drinking and Divorce
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According to the article, a recent study showed that more and more marriages are breaking down because of the wife's excessive drinking. It's thought to contribute to as many as one in seven divorces.
I can see how that can so easily be the case, as I get so many e-mails from women telling me that their husbands have given them an ultimatum: either the booze goes, or I do.
Looking back, I see now that alcohol was the root cause of many of my marital arguments. There were a few spectacular ones, like the Finnish wedding.
Mr SM had known the groom since they were at school together at the age of ten. They also spent a memorable year, after they graduated, living in St Petersburg, where Mr SM learned to speak rather ropey, but extremely sexy, Russian.
The wedding venue was stunning - the bride's family summer house on the edge of a Fjord, in the height of summer when, that far North, it never gets dark. At about 2am the light would get a little dusky, but a couple of hours later the relentless bright sunshine would return.
We had a ball. Being just over a narrow sea from Russia, there was a vodka and caviar bar which we made the most of, then a lavish wedding feast of reindeer, washed down with endless enthusiastic toasts of unpronounceable finnish spirits.
At about three in the morning, the last coach was leaving for the hotel, half an hour away. Mr SM was having so much fun with the fins in the sauna that he refused to come back with me.
They were all sitting in the heat, naked and sweating, while Mr SM sang 'Fins can only get better' (that joke must have worn thin after a while). Then they'd run at full pelt down a wooden jetty and dive into the ice-cold fjord.
I lost it. We had a screaming row, and then I sat on the floor of the bus (there were no seats left) telling all the bemused (and rather concerned) passengers at great length how Mr SM had never truly loved me and it was all over.
Mr SM managed to get a lift back in the boot of someone's car about an hour later. We both woke up, terribly hungover, at around lunch time having forgotten most of the detail of our very public meltdown, and couldn't understand why everyone was looking at us strangely and asking if we were 'okay.'
The vast majority of our alcohol based arguments were, however, nothing like as dramatic as the Finnish one. Just the endless tetchy debates (when hungover) about who was going to feed the baby at 5am, or take the toddler to a party where you'd have to clap and sing and participate.
Then, after a few glasses of wine in the evening, the drunken fights (inevitably started by me) about who wasn't pulling their weight around the house, or with the childcare.
I'm sure that every married couple has these sorts of arguments, but the problems start when the majority of your conversations end up like this.
Marriage is like a piggy bank. Every time you do something nice, thoughtful or generous for the other person you put money into the bank, and every time you treat them badly, thoughtlessly or carelessly to take money out. If you're not careful, eventually the piggy bank is empty.
The other issue with drinking in a marriage is that excessive alcohol use leads to self-hatred, anxiety and depression, all of which make it very difficult to focus properly on your relationship, to top up that piggy bank.
Yet, even when we know we're destroying our relationships we carry on. Why?
Because we assume that life without booze just won't be worth living.
Well, that's where you're wrong. It's ten times better. So please, just do it. Before it's too late.
Love SM x
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I am reading Judge Judy's book Beauty Fades Dumb is Forever and it is a wonderful very short read that I just started.
I did not think anything could top this today in the reading department until I saw this.
Excellent - the drama of alcohol, the alcohol-is-making-me-honest-and-say-the-truth type of marital fight. What crap, what imbalance. The Finnish Experience is so funny - and yes.... the Russian element is very hot :)
Fantastic post - thank you so much
Michelle xx
PS: This was my relationship at the end:ReplyDelete
"She warns: 'Men can unwittingly act as "enablers", escalating their partner's alcohol intake. To persuade a wife to stop drinking could limit a husband's freedom. After all, if a wife is drinking she's less likely to be bothered about what time her partner is coming home for example, so he will often persuade her to carry on.'
That's a good article and great post SM. I think it's definitely true that alcohol can destroy relationships - but not necessarily true that sobriety can fix them. At least when you're sober you can face your relationship issues for what they really are. Good to hear these stories coming out though. There seem to be more and more items and articles about going sober making it to the mainstream press. I think your book is coming at just the right time!ReplyDelete
I've been married 20 years and from the start I drank regularly. Then five years into the marriage, I drank to get drunk more days out of the week then not. How my husband stayed with me through the craziness, I do not know. But in the past two years, with me trying to stop drinking, having some momentum, my husband knows I want to stop for good. In the past 12 days, while it has been hard, it has been best for our relationship. It can only get better, as I continue to stay alcohol free.ReplyDelete
I truly enjoy have you continue to share your story, but appreciate the added information you provide on the many awful influences of alcohol. It really is an ugly drug in so many ways.
Fab story!!! And very funny!!ReplyDelete
Omg I've had so many drunken fall outs with my hubbie over somthing that was so important at the time then you wake up and can't even remember what it was!!!! My problem was after a drink I couldn't let things go, I was literally like a jack Russell with a bone!!!! I know it drove my hubbie crazy. Now the sober me just says what I think ( as calmly as possible!) then I try to move on and mostly I can. Just feel calmer in general really. So that's all good!
And he definitely doesn't miss, picking me up of the floor, insulting people for no reason and refusing to go home at the end of the night! Cringe!
Happy sober sunny weekend hope you all get some sunshine! Xxxxxx
The hardest ones were arguments where I felt hard done by. I just never felt seen. Of course, that was because I was hiding behind so much fear and self anger.
Not anymore.
My marriage isn't great. Sometimes it was easier to cope when I was drinking but now I feel much more in control of what I'm saying and less likely to lash out and say things I regret. Or forget! I never have to worry about what I've said any more as I am either able to hold my tongue or be very careful about what I say. Many times I have taken responsibility for an argument because I couldn't remember what happened but we argue less now and I always remember my part in things. My husband always blamed me for picking fights but can't do that anymore. Any fights we have had since I stopped drinking have been started by him and I wonder how many years this was the case and i was just taking the blame.... not any more.ReplyDelete
Great post SM. Yes I concur - I'm much calmer sober - fewer unnnecessary arguments. The fact the Mr SFM put up with some of my drunken antics just shows quite how much he loves me. I know he did not care for that behaviour though. I feel sure that I would have driven the marriage to failure eventually if I had continued drinking. Well phew - I found SM's blog and my life and my marriage were saved!!!!! Hope you're well lovely lady.ReplyDelete
One of the best things about being sober is that we CAN have an argument without the screaming meltdown (always me). Now, the arguments are more like 'debates", they are not started by me throwing a tantrum, and I can say what I'm annoyed about without all the drama.ReplyDelete
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- Anonymous21 June 2017 at 19:44
My marriage has been tarnished by years of drinking. By both of us. We both have a long history of escalating arguments due to alcohol. Being the sober one in my marriage (last time and this time) is challenging, but my path is my own and his path is his. Or at least that's what I try to remember when I want to fix him instead of focusing on fixing myself.ReplyDelete


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High tides make backwaters accessible, camp owner says
Posted June 8, 2017
Photo courtesy Louisiana Sportsman
By Andy Crawford
Louisiana Sportsman Editor Emeritus
Everyone knows a falling tide is the best-case scenario to catch quick limits of redfish. So what do you do if the forecast calls for an extended period of daytime rising water levels?
As is the case right now if you head to Pointe-aux-Chenes you can still find plenty of action. And it might even be a benefit, especially if you don't have a flats boat.
"High water is a a good and bad thing," said Denham Springs angler Darren Cooper, who owns a camp minutes from Pointe-aux-Chene Marina. "It allows you to get into areas you normally can't get into with deep-draft boats, but it also means fish can get back into the grass where you can't get to them."
The key to rising-tide success at Pointe-aux-Chenes is to understand the hydrology of the area.
Cooper said anglers can find two different situations, depending on whether they are north or south of the marina.
South of the marina, water will leach deep into the cord grass and allow fish to root around and feast on crabs and snails. So, while deeper-draft boats can move into the ponds, fishing can be tough.
But the waters north of the marina stay out of the grass until the tides are at their highest.
"You have a bank up there, so fish can't get back into the grass as much," Cooper explained.
He surmises that's largely due to the fact that water is funneled through Cutoff Canal, which joins Bayou Pointe au Chien at the marina.
"The water cannot run out of that bottleneck fast enough," Cooper said. "You always have water movement because of that bottleneck.
"You can go south and the water will be coming in, but at the marina it could still be moving out."
So the angler, who fishes out of a customized Gator Trax capable of slipping into shallow flats, will head to ponds north of the marina during rising-tide periods.
Cooper's success generally comes on paddletailed plastics on jigs.
"I've tried spinnerbaits, but I haven't had the success I've had with those (jigs)," he explained.
That being said, the author caught a number of redfish over the weekend using a gold-bladed ChatterBait.
How good can the action be? Cooper and the author caught their 10-fish two-man limit by 8 a.m. Saturday morning.
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My partner Bill and I set off for our annual week long expedition to the San Juan on Sept 6th. We fished daily from the mouth of Neskahi Bay to the Northern reaches of Zahn Bay. We never encountered a group of surface feeding Stripers. The surface feeding we did see were small bands of Stripers and SMB trapping shad against the walls in the backs of canyons. SMB fishing was spectacular. All the fish you could reel in were there for the taking. Our best lures were Ghost Shad Sammys until the sun hit the water, then Yamy Shad Shaped Worms (color 208) on a drop shot scored almost every time down. We caught a few nice LMB each day, but SMB were the show. Fishing was best on shorelines and reefs where the water dropped off into about 30 feet. Large shallow areas didn't seem to hold the fish. Islands in Neskahi held bigger fish as did the sunken reefs in Zahn.
The down side of the trip was heading home on 9/15. My partner Bill and I headed toward Hall's in our 40 ft houseboat about 10 am. Just past the Rincon, we were caught by the big storm. At Dangling Rope the day before it was forecast as PM thundershowers, however, it turned into much more. We were hit by one microburst after another for the next five hours. We had waves easily clearing the top rail on the houseboat, crashing into the front doors. We were pulling my 19ft Crestliner and I was sure we would loose it from running the nose too deep or the rope snapping. I could see the auto bilge pumping away to keep up with the wash over the front and sides. Trouble was, there was nowhere to get out of the storm with 6-8 ft. waves breaking in the mouth of the canyons. At 5 pm, we got to our slip at Hall's just as the storm subsided. We both had a cocktail.
I have fished Powell seriously for about 45 years (yea, I'm old). We have continuously had our houseboat in the water at Powell for 35 years. I have never experienced anything like the storm of 9/15. Thankfully, the old tub got us through, thanks to good maintenance, dependable motors, and chugging along into or along with the waves. We always rig for wind, this time it paid off. Everything was secured on deck and we didn't loose a thing. Thankfully, i had just replaced my tow rope with a 50 ft tube rope (which is much heavier than a ski rope). It did the trick and held.
Don't think you'll ever need your lifejacket on a houseboat? Wrong. Make sure you know where they are. They were on us the whole time.


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The ELCOVISION 10 Forensic Plugin enables the simple and accurate measurement of blood spatters and their place of origin. A simple example shows the workflow for blood spatter analysis. First, the crime scene is photographed with a preferably calibrated camera and these images are oriented with ELCOVISION 10:
The orientation of the images can be done either manual by an operator or fully automatic by ELCOVISION 10. The orientated images, the so-called ELCOVISION 10 project, is loaded into the AutoCAD environment of ELCOVISION 10. Here we can create a detailed drawing of the crime scene with our photogrammetric evaluation tools if needed.
However for the crime scene analysis task the most important ELCOVISION 10 function is the digital rectification of surface textures containing blood stains directly into the drawing. This generates a true to scale drawing containing rectified textures of the scene at the true 3D position, a tedious measurement of the individual blood spatters is no longer necessary.
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There are also powerful editing tools to adjust the ellipses precisely over a bloodstain by tilting the impact angle or adjust the ellipse axes or origin.
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After a number of ellipses are drawn the trajectory-calculating tool is used to select a number of bloodstains and calculate their trajectories. The software detects the bloodstains belonging together and calculates the 3D position area of origin and also the volume of this area which is a measurement how precise the origin is estimated.
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Good news, everybody! There's another remake coming! You were probably a little scared that remakes were on the decline in Hollywood considering we haven't reported on one in about three days but that couldn't be further from the truth. Fasten your strap-ons, boys and girls, because a DIRTY DOZEN remake is on the way! That's not exactly the big news, however, since a DIRTY DOZEN remake was announced a while back. The news is that its chirographic fate is now in the hands of go-to comic book adapter Zak Penn. That's right, the X-MEN: THE LAST STAND and FANTASTIC FOUR scribe has been contracted by Warner Bros. and uber-producer Joel Silver to rewrite the remake of the classic 1967 war dramedy. The moral of the story? The next time you find yourself doubting whether a stalled remake won't make it to the screen, have faith, there's always someone willing to throw a whole mountain of cash at someone else to make it happen.
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These beautiful handcrafted earrings feature 8mm oval rainbow moonstones set in sterilng silver with an intricate bezel setting. The dramatic deep blue color is enhanced by setting the stone on a blue background. The stone gives of bright blue shimmers that change with the movement of the earrings. It is stunning. The earrings are about 1 1/8" long including the earwires.


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My big race this season was the Scottish 6 Day event which turned into 8 days because I signed up for the two sprints as well. That meant 8 days of racing with no rest, man did I feel tired at the end. The day after I was done racing I was in Edinburgh trying to go up the stairs to Calton Hill and I had to stop and rest because I was so tired and sore. I also learned that when you come to these big events, you need to remember to pack a Canadian flag and a stool!
The first race for me was the sprint in Nairn, which was right after the WOC Sprint Relay. It was really exciting to spectate for this race, the organizers put a lot of effort to make this race spectator friendly and I think they did a pretty good job. After the WOC racers were down we got to go out on the map in a shorter version of the race. We ran through sand dunes, a really fun part of the town and park. We even got to run the same spectator and finish shoot as the WOC runners.
The first official Scottish 6 days was on a map called Achagour. When you look at this map it seems like a mix of different terrain but it is all WET and MARSH! I forgot how marshy it can be in the U.K.. I also found that if it is yellow on the map it is not nice and clear open like I am used to, it's open from you waist up with lots under your feet. Also if you are going to try and run along or through a marsh be prepared to fall in waist deep at any moment. My race was pretty good, just slow trying to get use to the terrain. One thing I remember from the race is on the last half everyone had at least 20 black flies flying around their heads, which was fine if you kept running.
Day 1 map
Day 2 was at Strathfarrar, man was that a hard day. I had a horrible race that day, I didn't finish. I spent almost 30 minutes trying to find my 4th control and probably the same time on the 5th until I gave up. I am not good at orienteering on precision compass and I definitely needed it for this race. It's really hard to see contours or features when it is just covered with chest high bracken (tall ferns) the whole time, I was surprised I wasn't covered in Ticks.
Day 2 map
Rest Day was a rest day for some and a sprint day for others. The sprint took place in Forres. This was a really fun sprint race. There were little traps and you had to make sure you stayed in contact with your map. I thought the course planner was a little mean with the last 5 controls. They put 4 controls on this big hill that was very runnable if you weren't tired or not slipping around because of all the dead leaves on the ground. Afterwords I went to spectate the WOC middle and cheer on the Canadians.
Day 3 and 4 were at Darnaway. I really enjoyed this map! It was closer to what I am used to, lots of runnable forest with negative topography. I had a pretty clean race on day 3 and made two very stupid errors on day 4. It really takes it out of you when you run one of your long legs and a half. The WOC Relay was also in the same area on Day 3 so it was really easy to cheer on team Canada!
Day 3 at Darnaway. I couldn't get all the cars in and even kept flowing in.
Day 3 map
Day 5 and 6 were at Glen Affric. So this was kind of in the same area as day 2 and I let it get in my head on day 5 and it effected my race. I did better then the second day but I had another unfinished race. At the end I had 3 controls left and I just couldn't find my 22 control. I kept relocating and it just didn't work. I finally threw in the towel because nothing was making sense andI was getting really dehydrated. The last race was the longest with the most climb and I was feeling pretty nervous because of the previous day but then I decided to race how I like to race and enjoy it and I finished!!! I also had a pretty good time during this race.
Day 6 map
I had a great time at Scottish 6 days. I got to see some orienteers I haven't seen in awhile. I got to race in new terrain and learn some valuable lessons in my opinion. I learned if you sign up for W21E you are going to get your moneys worth and as I mentioned at the beginning bring a stool and a Canadian flag. I also learned that I really like 1:15,000 maps more then 1:10,000.
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Meet sweet Addison...
September 27, 2011
Connecticut Children Photography | Beautiful Addison...
This is one of my favorite type of sessions - an hour long session with one child...Multiple outfit changes, a gorgeous location, and one beautiful little girl who is full of personality = a super wonderful session!
Meet sweet Addison...
Meet sweet Addison...
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September 21, 2011
...Eva Grace...
Where to start with this blog post...My heart is so full of gratitude at having had the opportunity to meet such a sweet little person.
Miss Eva Grace is eight months old today - she has spent many of those beautiful eight months fighting SMA Type 1. As her daddy said today, "with an SMA type 1 baby, you don't celebrate the years together, but the months together." And celebrate they have...
I was asked to do this session by one of my dear clients Joy as the family didn't have any formal-ish family portraits together and they really wanted some of them all and of little Eva. I am so very honored that they trusted me to capture them as they are right now...Full of hope, life and lightness.
Eva the Diva as she is so awesomely nicknamed loves music and she loves to sing - I got to hear her sweet little voice while I was photographing her - soooo indescribably cute!! She is known for her bright smile and is loved by so many people - her group page is 700+ strong with daily thoughts, prayers, and love being posted by her supporters. The medical staff that helps her is just wonderful - they clearly adore her, which is a given once you meet this little princess.
She clearly loves her big brother Noah, displaying that signature smile when he is close to her. She also loves Mickey Mouse clubhouse and anything Disney. As her mother says, "there really isn't much that she doesn't love."
This is a difficult blog post to write, but I want to say that Eva Grace is a little fighter and we are all praying that she continues to fight as hard as she has been against SMA. I have thought about her pretty much constantly since hearing her story and meeting her and I know everyone that hears her story does the same. I hope that these images do justice in representing her sweetness, beauty, and will to live, to fight, and most of all to love.
Life is short, fleeting, but also so very beautiful...
To follow Eva's story and to get updates, you can join her group of wonderful fans at: www.facebook.com/groups/EvasMiracle
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September 15, 2011
What to Wear - Early Fall 2011
It's that time again! Here is the latest what to wear post for your early fall sessions! Enjoy!
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Grantham Journal column: I welcome council's plans to invest in bold new initiatives
For many decades, our corner of Lincolnshire has lacked local leadership.
Our district council has done a decent job of delivering services and managing the status quo but it has failed to drive change or invest in the future.
It stood idly by while places like Newark and Peterborough were transformed for the better and attracted new businesses and extra visitors to boost their local economies.
We have missed out as a result.
But the council's new leader, Matthew Lee, is grabbing the bull by the horns and planning to invest in some bold new initiatives which should make south west Lincolnshire an even better place to live, work and run a business.
In Grantham, this means a new cinema and the redevelopment of the council offices to create office space for the growing businesses that currently have to leave town to find suitable space.
In Stamford, we will see a new digital hub on the site of the old cattle market car park, so that we can begin to attract exciting start-ups that cannot afford the rents in Cambridge.
The council will also build the new leisure centre that Stamford residents have long been crying out for.
In Bourne, they plan a new set of serviced offices for microbusinesses so that more people use the town centre.
They also identify our local heritage as a crucial asset – and a potential magnet for new investment.
With Burghley House, Belton House and Grimsthorpe Castle, we are blessed with three of the most magical stately homes in the country.
Yet how many people in London, Birmingham or Manchester know that this bit of Lincolnshire boast such treasures?
The council is uniquely well placed to coordinate the promotion of the area to both British and international tourists.
Government cannot deliver prosperity by itself. Only businesses can do that.
But Councillor Lee and his colleagues have understood the vital role that a switched-on local council can play as the facilitator of enterprise and investment.
Their energy and ambition is tremendously welcome.
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Check out the videos for all the MMA award winners here. We are so grateful to everyone on the Rapid-Line team. They make us proud! Also many thanks to the MMA for the recognition and support!
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Outdoor Furniture Trends at Casual Market ChicagoAugust 30th, 2017 by Rapid-Line Staff
Rapid-Line is gearing up to take the Chicago Leisure Furniture market by storm during the "Casual Market Chicago" exclusive outdoor furniture show at the Merchandise Mart Sept. 12-15. The employee-owned company will be launching MyLine – its lineup of customizable, commercial grade aluminum furniture that can be powder coated, upholstered, and cut with custom logo, family signet or design. Read the rest of this entry »
Rapid-Line Set to Launch MyLineAugust 30th, 2017 by Rapid-Line Staff
For the last nine decades, Rapid-Line has been a key supplier to the OEM office furniture industry. For the last nine months, it has nurtured a plan to expand operations with its own "bespoke" furniture line. Fresh on the heels of becoming a 100% Employee-owned company, Rapid-Line is poised to join the market for commercial-grade, custom indoor/outdoor aluminum furniture.
"It's exciting to be putting our manufacturing experience to work on our own product," said Athena Sobczak, account rep and co-lead on the development team.
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The all-aluminum chair and loveseat can have any logo or custom design cut into the backs or can be ordered without specialty cutting. The oversized, high-quality aluminum table was designed for spacious appointment. All pieces can be powder coated in Rapid-Line's facility and can include upholstered seats or custom wood seats for indoor use.
Rapid-Line will unveil MyLine this fall in Chicago at the upcoming Merchandise Mart that focuses on outdoor furniture. Casual Market Chicago runs from Sept. 12-15.
Roundtable Explores Office Furniture MarketAugust 30th, 2017 by Rapid-Line Staff
Rapid-Line President Rick Van Dis was featured as a roundtable participant in a recent MiBiz article entitled "Office Furniture Supplier Roundtable: Supply chain focuses on fundamentals amid volatile office furniture market."
Despite growing operational complexity and a period of industry-led change, office furniture suppliers say they remain optimistic.
Neither a move to short-run mass customization, a "mix shift" of product types, talent shortages in an era of near full employment nor the effects on trade from domestic political upheaval can faze the battle-tested supplier executives who weathered the Great Recession. Still, they're focused on improving their operations, further diversifying their customer base and embracing new challenges in data management, to name just a few.
Prior to the annual NeoCon trade show, MiBiz convened an executive roundtable, sponsored by The Right Place Inc., to discuss issues and trends in the office furniture industry and how they're affecting the supply chain.


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School of Rock Reviews
September 27, 2018
Black turns it up to 11 in every scene, throwing shapes, striking poses and zealously preaching the healing power of rock, never once selling-out to the threat of cute, kiddie-friendly fare.
August 24, 2017
It's genuinely good hearted, and features child actors that look like real kids, all permeation of geeky, fat, skinny, sullen and silent in that way that only actual kids can be.
August 21, 2012
It's great fun. It's like one of those inspirational sports movies where you want to stand up and cheer at the end.
Full Review | Original Score: 7/10
December 28, 2010
Standout Jack Black in nerd-becomes-cool comedy.
June 13, 2009
Jack Black is a one-man rock 'n roll powerhouse in this infectious musical comedy directed by Gen X wunderkind Richard Linklater...
Full Review | Original Score: A-
April 29, 2009
Not only will your kids love this movie, but, hey, they'll learn what real music is.
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November 1, 2007
School of Rock made me laugh harder than any movie I've seen this year.
August 18, 2007
It's another case of independent film artists beating Hollywood at its own game.
July 14, 2007
As Dewey Finn, Mr. Black gets to capitalize on everything he does best -- basically being Jack Black. And loudly.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4
June 21, 2007
The film that rocks your prep-school socks off.
Full Review | Original Score: A-
Top Critic
June 24, 2006
A cathartic class comedy for kids of all sizes, it's Bugsy Malone in rock pomp, Slacker meets Spy Kids.
July 5, 2005
The best comedy to come around in years.
June 26, 2005
One of the best comedies in years...the film never sells out to itself.
Full Review | Original Score: A
January 15, 2005
Despite Black's reputation as a comedy anarchist, the movie has a big heart, avoids crude indulgence, and gives viewers of all ages something to enjoy.
Read More | Original Score: B-
October 7, 2004
Good cast, good acting, good script, ridiculous premise, good music (if you like rock) equals entertaining movie.
Full Review | Original Score: 7/10
August 13, 2004
It's funny, it's heartfelt, and it just rocks!
Top Critic
August 7, 2004
It would be a shame if only kids went to see this film. Adults who can still plug in to their inner rocker, if only to play air guitar, will love it, too.
July 20, 2004
It's one of those films that'll require you to be in a good mood to enjoy, but if you are - you definitely will.
| Original Score: 70/100
May 14, 2004
A raucous crowd pleaser with a pumping soundtrack, some awe inspiringly talented kids, and perfect comic performances.
March 15, 2004
The bus to the School of Rock runs on one source of fuel, and that is Jack Black.
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Christmas Eve at National Presbyterian Church
Monday, December 24
5:00 p.m. // Family Nativity Service
Kids, teens, and adults bring the Bible's nativity story to life in this music-filled narrated reenactment. Families of all ages are invited! Childcare is also available for infants through age 4.
8:00 p.m. // Candlelight and Communion Worship
Carols will be sung and Communion will be served as we celebrate the birth of our Lord.
10:00 p.m. // Candlelight Worship
This beautiful evening candlelight service reverently ushers in Jesus' birth.
Events this Advent
Advent Family Night
Sunday, December 2, 4:30–6 p.m., Chapel and Stone Hall
Families are invited for an evening of family worship, Christmas crafts, and pizza dinner! We will begin with worship in the Chapel and then move to Stone Hall for dinner and crafts. $5/person or $25/family max. RSVP to reserve your Advent wreath craft. Help set up, or lead a craft for families! Contact Cate McCrory to volunteer.
Advent Vespers Service
Wednesday, December 5, 7:00 p.m., Sanctuary
Our Advent Vespers service helps us prepare for the season. We'll sing Advent and Christmas carols, receive Communion, be inspired by our choir, and follow the themes of "Jesus, Son of David" from the Old Testament into the New Testament. Please consider making this service a part of your spiritual preparation for Christmas as the busyness of the season picks up steam.
Handel's "Messiah" Concert
Sunday, December 9, 5:00 p.m.
Make plans to bring your family and friends to NPC Festival Choir, Soloists & Orchestra's performance of Handel's beloved masterpiece. No tickets are required; an offering will be received. Childcare (age 4 and under) available with RSVP to: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Mission Gifts for Christmas
Sundays, December 9 & 16, Stone Hall
The seasonal emphasis on gratitude reminds us that God has given us gifts in abundance. Mission Gifts for Christmas provides an opportunity to give to organizations serving those in need in honor of a friend, family member, teacher, or coworker. Visit the market or shop online!
Advent Worship
Sunday, December 16
Special music in the 9 & 11 a.m. Sanctuary services, and a candlelight creche in the Jones Hall 11 a.m. service.
Sunday, December 23
ONE service at 11 a.m. in the Sanctuary with the Christmas story told for the young and the young at heart.
Sunday, December 30
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Open Before Christmas When you were young, were you allowed to open even one Christmas present before Christmas? As children we could hardly wait to see what lay beneath the tree and for some very lucking children, family tradition gave them the right to some presents early. In this holiday series, Pastor Michael will invite […]


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Here is yet another lovely sample from Convention! This was done using the Bigz Two Tags Die. I was so thrilled when I completed this make-n-take as I learnt something new about the die. I had bought this die purely based on the longer tag. I loved the shape of it, but I still wasn't sure what exactly I was going to do with it. I never realized that the scallop circle punch fit so perfectly into the end section of it. Nor did I realize that the other tag, the adorable one that folds in half, was going to end up being my favourite! I think that this is one of the things that has definitely made me appreciate being a demonstrator more and more. Not only have I had the opportunity to go to Convention etc. and learn about the new products, but on a very regular basis, Stampin' Up releases tutorials to their demos as well as class samples that make me view products in a whole new light. The stamp set used in this particular make-n-take was Sweet Season from page 29 of the new catty.
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New Telephone Services
The National Prescribing Service (NPS) has launched a telephone service for health professionals wanting independent drug and therapeutics information. The Therapeutic Advice and Information Service (TAIS) will give immediate access to information and respond to patient-related enquiries such as:
- interactions with other drugs, foods or complementary therapies -and how to manage these
- adverse effects, especially unusual ones not included in the product information
- use of drugs for unlicensed indications - is there good evidence to support use?
General practitioners, community pharmacists and other community-based health practitioners are expected to be the main users of the service.
Contact the Therapeutic Advice and Information Service for health professionals on 1300138 677, or the NPS on (02) 9699 4499.
The NPS is planning a parallel service for the general public, to be launched later this year. This consumer service will provide information about medicines in lay language, and aims to promote communication between patients and health professionals.
The service will not replace the counselling role of a health professional who knows the patient, however it may help the patient to identify issues that should be discussed with their doctor or pharmacist.


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The SharePoint Foundation 2013 Preview has been released!
SharePoint Foundation 2013 is the essential solution for organizations that need a secure, manageable, web-based collaboration platform. SharePoint helps teams stay connected and productive by providing easy access to the people, documents, and information that they need to make well-informed decisions and get work done. Use SharePoint Foundation to coordinate schedules, organize documents, and participate in discussions through team workspaces, blogs, wikis, and document libraries on the platform that is the underlying infrastructure for SharePoint Server.


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I think my current favorite color scheme is black, white, and grey with copper accents. I find myself wanting to make more and more projects with those colors so I've finally decided to give into temptation. Next semester, my dorm will be black, grey, white, "minimalist pink" and copper which means I basically need to completely redo my dorm (meaning more diys! hooray!). these vases were an easy start.
glass bottle
foam paint brushes
matte black paint
metallic copper paint
white nail polish
masking tape
step 1. paint your bottles black.
step 2. cover the parts you don't want to be marbled with masking tape.
step 3. fill your tub with water and drip white nail polish into it (it should float on top.) swirl the nail polish around with a toothpick or whatever (if you need a tutorial, shimmy on over here). make sure to let this dry - sometimes the water does weird things to the paint.
step 4. make a space for your strip of copper paint by adding masking tape a little above or below your marbled section.
step 5. paint in between the tape sections with copper paint.
step 6. remove the tape. if your tape peels some of the black paint off (mine did), do a quick touchup.
I'm super pleased with how they turned out, but I think I'll put them on different sides of the room since the copper paint strips don't line up perfectly.
(I'll be posting more since school's out so stay tuned!)


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|Paris - a rainbow over the Bastille monument
(in fact a double rainbow if you look askance)
Scientific, Skeptical and Secular (and even anti-theistic)! These are the adventures of an ex-scientist, working as an engineer in energy research, and living in a world that is not secular enough.
Monday, 12 November 2012
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Normally, life as a dog can be pretty good. And it's not that stand-up comic Paula Poundstone doesn't pamper her lone pooch. It's just that, well, there's competition.
Try 14 cats.
Yes, 14.
"I've always had cats. Life would be strange without them. Who else are you going to curse at?" says Poundstone.
It's mid-afternoon Monday as Poundstone took a deep breath from a schedule that takes her constantly on the road. Gratefully, that typically means Thursdays through Saturdays. This week, it's off to Maine for shows Friday and Saturday. Next week, Poundstone works the Golden State Theater in Monterey on July 13 and stops in at the Uptown Theatre in Napa on July 14, the former San Franciscan's final California appearance this year.
Having done this stand-up thing more than 30 years, it's gotten so Poundstone has seemingly visited every state, if not city, in America.
"I thought I hadn't been to Charleston, N.C., until I was in the lobby after the show and was, 'Oh yeah, I remember this.' I do think that I haven't been to Bismark, North Dakota," said Poundstone. "I am lucky to get to go all over. There are people I know in certain places, which is fun."
The regular on NPR's "Wait, Wait …. Don't Tell Me!" and past winner of the American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand-up Comic probably spends as much time at airports as she does home in Santa Monica. Though Poundstone is wary of her TSA pre check-in status, it does save time.
"When the government really turns on us, I want to make sure they have all the information about me they need," she said. "I'm thinking, 'Is it worth not taking my shoes off and my computer out' and I decided, 'Yeah, it is.'"
Though airport security may get monotonous, Poundstone's act certainly isn't — if one has the energy to stay focused for a long night out from the queen of self-confessed Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
"The shows are about two hours, though not by design," Poundstone said. "At about 40 minutes I feel like I've got nothing to say and I'm in a panic. The next thing I know, it's two hours. I don't have a specific act so it's hard to tell how long I'm on."
Poundstone makes it a point to require a visible clock at all venues, recalling a show that was actually in a converted barn. And the hosts failed this whole "I really need a clock" edict.
"I did 2 1/2 hours," Poundstone said. "The following night there was a big, shiny clock that I couldn't miss."
It's that darn OCD.
"Everything I say reminds me of one more thing," Poundstone said, laughing that "nobody's happy to get a phone call from me."
Then there's her opening act. Actually, lack thereof. Poundstone won't have one.
"Part of it is I don't want to share," she said. "And what if someone opens and the crowd loves him? It is an area where I feel very selfish."
When it comes to her act, don't expect a cookie-cutter performance. Some comics roll out word-for-word the same act for years. Not Poundstone.
"My act is largely autobiographical. I have a tendency to talk about what I'm thinking about," she said. "I try to keep up with what's going on in the world."
This week, Poundstone's into books about World War II.
"I'm trying to understand why it happened," she said. "And my next book, 'Good Grief, Charlie Brown.'"
"I'm trying to make up for the fact I didn't reach out and grab a perfectly good education when I had the opportunity," Poundstone said.
Along the nonfiction front, she recently read a book about the history of man's relationship with water. The book is called "Water."
"Ironically, it's very dry," Poundstone said.
She does carry a book with her on the road "because I don't know how to turn on the TV" at hotels.
"There will be five remote controls. I have no idea what operates what," Poundstone said. "I know there's a VCR in there somewhere."
Since Poundstone's upcoming appearance is in Napa, she contemplated the sacred wine tour concept and how some marijuana-legal states have tried to transition it to a "dispensary tour." NPR followed one woman around during such activity. The subject lasted one stop, laughing uncontrollably with the reporter.
"Napa needn't fear their business model is jeopardized or their great find is being encroached upon," Poundstone said.
Though Poundstone hasn't mentioned for years that she likes Pop Tarts, people still drop a box on stage for her occasionally.
"I don't eat them anymore," Poundstone said. "I realized a few years ago I was sporting a little more flesh than I needed. I'm still eating Butterfingers. But only the 'fun size.'"
As for exercise, the comedienne participates in tae kwon do close to her home.
"I want to get fit, but I don't want to walk that far to do it," she said.
Paula Poundstone is at the Uptown Theatre, Napa, Saturday, July 14, 8 p.m. For more, visit uptowntheaternapa.


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Good post from Up on the Woof that goes along with the blog I published a couple days ago.
Last week, I saw a video on Facebook that a lot of people were outraged over — it was of a woman beating her dog with a frying pan — and I wasn't horrified.
I watched the video three or four times, because there was an unevenness in the filming that made it appear like it was cut and looped. The first place my mind went as I watched was the weapon. I don't think it's all that unusual for a dog owner to smack a dog with a rolled up newspaper or perhaps a chewed up slipper. But what on earth made this woman grab a frying pan? I could only conclude that by grabbing something metal to hit the dog, clearly, she wanted to hurt the animal, not correct a bad behavior.
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I started working on card number 3.
The card is going to represent my love for travelling. I wanted to incorporate text into a shape of a plane as it is the most obvious symbol of travelling. I experimented with the word 'Travel' , but decided to go for a longer saying 'Come fly with me'.
I wanted to use a font that would allude to a sense of freedom and spontaneity. I worked on trying to fit the text into the outline on paper and then I traced it in Adobe Illustrator.
I wanted photos that I took on my travels to be a part of the card. A picture of a street taken at night in Tokyo suited the purpose as it is full of lively colours. My first idea for background was to use a picture of the sky with crossed vapour trails, but it made the card a little too busy.
I decided to go for a plain blue background that has a gradient of white towards the centre.
I also like the text filled up with a picture of a skyscraper in Tokyo on white background.


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POP-UP exhibition by Yvonne Krystman "Raku on paper" – Saturday, June 9th, 4-7pm
Join us for a POP-UP Exhibition at the Caetani Centre Studio Gallery
Featuring Artist in Residence Yvonne Krystman
Yvonne Krystman holds a degree in commercial art from St. Clair College in Windsor, Ontario, and has been creating work and learning new techniques for over 20 years. Yvonne is mixed media artist, potter and photographer. She is a Polish – Canadian artist, living in Florida and is currently a self-directed artist in residence at the Caetani Cultural Center.
Raku is a Japanese word that loosely translates into "happiness in the accident" and is usually used to describe an ancient technique of glazing pottery. In this case, artist Yvonne Krystman presents works on paper that follow the same principles, of turning accidents using different media into visually pleasing artwork on paper.
source: https://www.caetani.org/2018/05/yvonnekrystmanrakuonpaper/


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The Civil Justice Clinic recently secured a significant victory in court for its client, a certified nurse assistant who had her state certification revoked after charges of patient neglect were substantiated against her by the N.C. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Ben Wasserman '17 initially handled the matter as an advanced clinic student in the spring 2017 semester, and Director of Externships Anne Gordon volunteered to try the case before an administrative law judge in Statesville, N.C., in July.
The client was charged with failing to use a prescribed mechanical lift to move a patient who was injured in a fall as a result. The Clinic assisted the client in appealing the revocation of her certification to the N.C. Office of Administrative Hearings, which was represented at the de novo trial by an attorney from the N.C. Department of Justice.
Gordon, who is also a senior lecturing fellow, successfully argued and presented evidence through direct and cross examinations of witnesses at the trial that the client had exercised her best judgment in deciding that a mechanical lift posed a greater danger to her patient under the circumstances than the manual lift technique she used, that the patient did not, in fact, suffer a fall, and that the minor injury noted later could have occurred as long as 12 hours prior to the transfer in question. The judge agreed with Gordon's assertion that the conduct in question did not constitute neglect, and overruled the revocation, allowing the client to return to work in health care and proceed with training to become a registered nurse.
"This is a wonderful outcome for our client, who can now enroll in nursing school" said Clinical Professor Charles Holton '73 who directs the Clinic. "Ben Wasserman did a good job in initially preparing the case, and Anne Gordon conducted a terrific trial. We are grateful to her for volunteering her time and energy in handling this case following Ben's graduation."


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Know your needs before deploying telematics/
Buying the right system and utilizing its full capabilities offers the best return
The upcoming electronic logging device (ELD) rule is a great example of the type of mandated technological change coming to the trucking industry, and yet it serves as a great reminder of the importance to perform due diligence before adopting such technologies.
That due diligence, Chris Hayes, 2VP, Risk Control, Transportation, Travelers, tells FreightWaves, could potentially lead to an overall boost in fleet and driver efficiency. Or, it may just lead to better hours-of-service compliance. Whichever approach a fleet takes, he says, it's important to first understand what you expect from a telematics solution.
"It depends on what you are using that device for," Hayes, 2VP, Risk Control, Transportation, Travelers explains. "If you are capturing data on the vehicle, you are really capturing driver behavior data that you can use to coach drivers or to reward drivers."
Roughly 3 million drivers will be affected by the ELD regulation, which mandates the devices inside truck cabs as of Dec. 18, 2017, to track driving hours and hours-of-service compliance. Many fleets, especially larger ones, already employ ELDs, but many in the industry still do not have the devices.
What kind of success any fleet has with ELDs, like all telematics systems, will vary based on the fleet's needs, the type of system it adopts, and what it chooses to do with the data telematics systems capture.
In the case of ELDs, companies could choose to equip drivers with smartphone-based systems that simply record driving hours. Or, they may choose more robust systems that connect directly into the vehicle's engine and collect thousands of data points.
"There are some that are directly tied into the vehicle and there are some that run off GPS devices or accelerators," Hayes notes. "As we move towards electronic logging, the question is are you going to invest money into just capturing what is required or are you going to invest [in something more]?"
Mobile devices do not typically include many advanced features. Also, Hayes says, if the device is embedded into the truck, the data capture is immediate whereas mobile devices sometimes have a gap in data capture. "So there can be a loss in accuracy or data," he says.
While the mobile-based systems tend to be less expensive, their drawback is less data and functionality.
Finding a solution that fits your needs
"The market is really starting to coalesce around solutions for large fleets, solutions for small fleets, and solutions for owner-operators," Hayes notes. "So as customers go looking for solutions, they should be able to find one that fit their needs."
Just deciding on a system is only the first step, though. Next is asking yourself what do you want to do with the data, and fleet size does not need to be a deterrent to adopting more advanced data-collection systems, Hayes says. "I've been pleasantly surprised to see very small fleets run very robust data programs," he says.
An example of using more data is the recording of harsh braking, which is really recording driver behavior. With this data in hand, a fleet can better coach that driver in how to avoid situations where harsh braking may occur. This leads to less tire wear, less brake wear, less maintenance and better fuel economy, Hayes says.
"Once you are starting to capture information like that, it's only as good as what [management does with it]," Hayes explains. "But technology continues to evolve, so what is available today may be different six months from now."
Hayes advises fleets not to forget the most important part of any telematics system – the human element.
"Very often we see companies invest in technology and not get the return on investment [they are looking for] because they are not using them [to their fullest extent]," Hayes explains. "You need to put as much thought into the rollout and training as you do the technology."


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India's ranks of US dollar millionaires are expected to swell to 358,000 by 2018, an increase of about 40 percent from the level in 2013, according to a report.
The number of dollar millionaires in the south Asian nation last year has been estimated at 248,000, up from 193,000 in 2009, the Wall Street Journal said, citing a report from WealthInsight, a company which tracks the world's rich.
While India is home to some of the poorest communities in the world, it is also home to thousands of new dollar millionaires.
By 2018, the country is expected to have 80 dollar billionaires, up from around 60 at present.
High net worth people control close to 65 percent of India's US$1.3 trillion in individual wealth. That is much higher the rest of the world where the richest control only around 30 percent of total individual wealth, the report noted.
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Severe thunderstorms spawned hail and tornadoes in southeastern Nebraska Sunday night.
The National Weather Service confirmed tornadoes along the Nebraska-Kansas state line. The severe storms stretched for several hundred miles.
There were no reports of injuries or serious damage.
The NWS office in Hastings reported a tornado touched down in Nuckolls County, which borders Kansas. Officials in Munden, Kansas reported some structural damage. At least two people suffered minor injuries.


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I'm in a bit of a discussion with some other developers on an open source project. I'm new to python but it seems to me that site-packages is meant for libraries and not end user applications. Is that true or is site-packages an appropriate place to install an application meant to be run by an end user?
Once you get to the point where your application is ready for distribution, package it up for your favorite distributions/OSes in a way that puts your library code in site-packages and executable scripts on the system path.
Until then (i.e. for all development work), don't do any of the above: save yourself major headaches and use zc.buildout or virtualenv to keep your development code (and, if you like, its dependencies as well) isolated from the rest of the system.
We do it like this.
Most stuff we download is in site-packages. They come from
pypi or Source Forge or some other external source; they are easy to rebuild; they're highly reused; they don't change much.
Must stuff we write is in other locations (usually under
/opt, or
c:\opt) AND is included in the
There's no great reason for keeping our stuff out of
site-packages. However, our feeble excuse is that our stuff changes a lot. Pretty much constantly. To reinstall in site-packages every time we think we have something better is a bit of a pain.
Since we're testing out of our working directories or SVN checkout directories, our test environments make heavy use of
The development use of
PYTHONPATH bled over into production. We use a
setup.py for production installs, but install to an alternate home under
/opt and set the
PYTHONPATH to include
The program run by the end user is usually somewhere in their path, with most of the code in the module directory, which is often in site-packages.
Many python programs will have a small script located in the path, which imports the module, and calls a "main" method to run the program. This allows the programmer to do some upfront checks, and possibly modify sys.path if needed to find the needed module. This can also speed up load time on larger programs, because only files that are imported will be run from bytecode.
Site-packages is for libraries, definitely.
A hybrid approach might work: you can install the libraries required by your application in site-packages and then install the main module elsewhere.
If you can turn part of the application to a library and provide an API, then site-packages is a good place for it. This is actually how many python applications do it.
But from user or administrator point of view that isn't actually the problem. The problem is how we can manage the installed stuff. After I have installed it, how can I upgrade and uninstall it?
I use Fedora. If I use the python that came with it, I don't like installing things to site-packages outside the RPM system. In some cases I have built rpm myself to install it.
If I build my own python outside RPM, then I naturally want to use python's mechanisms to manage it.
Third way is to use something like easy_install to install such thing for example as a user to home directory.
- Allow packaging to distributions.
- Allow selecting the python to use.
- Allow using python installed by distribution where you don't have permissions to site-packages.
- Allow using python installed outside distribution where you can use site-packages.
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I have flown in to and out of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport often: 71 times, since I started keeping careful track, 11 years ago. But I have not been able to say I have visited the City of Chicago, as until now I have not left the terminals to do that. This week and last I finally had the chance, working in the Central Loop of the "Second City."
The first thing I discovered, while leaving the airport itself, is that one of Chicago's sister cities is Kyiv. Here's the flag of Ukraine, in the concourse of the transit station at O'Hare. It's appropriate that Chicago and Kyiv were twinned in 1991, the year that Ukraine became independent. Next past the Ukrainian flag is the Lithuanian flag, as Vilnius is also a sister city.
Here's a more conventional tourist photo: the Chicago Board of Trade Building. It's right around the block from where I'm working and where I'm staying. This Art Deco building was constructed in 1930, and is today a U.S. National Historic Landmark. When I first saw it, I thought of the movie "The Untouchables." The Board of Trade Building and the Lasalle Street "canyon" in front of it have not changed since the days of gangster Al Capone and G-Man Eliot Ness.


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I've been reading a fascinating RPGnet thread about the notion of 'System Matters' as coined over at The Forge about 18 years ago. As frequently happens with discussions about The Forge and their approach to RPG mechanics topology, GNS theory came up. Now, I've considered turning my reflections on GNS into an article at Cannibal Halfling, but the theory, while useful, is so reductive that posting an article that isn't an editorial runs the risk of endorsing it, which I don't want to do.
Still, George Box's quote comes to mind: "All models are wrong, but some are useful." The three poles of GNS, imperfectly aligned as they are, help people consider what they aim to get out of a game and why. The major thing wrong with GNS, as Vincent Baker has identified in post-Forge blog posts, is that the categories are not discrete and neither games nor players fit into these three boxes neatly. While some games that Edwards criticized, like "Vampire: the Masquerade", clearly had issues, it's not clear that attempting to cater to multiple playstyles was what caused them.
Before I go too far, let's set down terms. GNS refers to three notions of play in RPGs: Gamism, or the desire to mechanically succeed or "win" the challenges delivered in the game, Narrativism, or the desire to participate in and create an engaging narrative/story, and Simulationism (likely more accurately called immersionism), the desire to get into the head of a character and experience the world. The primary reasons why GNS has to be approached carefully as a model are that a) there's overlap between these elements in both players and games and b) there's no empirical way to determine what attributes make something Gamist, Narrativist, or Simulationist/Immersionist.
Let's take a typical "power gamer" as a broad example. This is a person who, when building and advancing his character, will make mathematically optimal choices in order to have the best chance at "winning" encounters. At the same time, combat is a thrill to this player, who relishes in using the abilities their character has, and gets into the events very deeply. At the end of the day, they're also motivated by understanding why it's so important for their character to keep on fighting, and part of the set of "winning" as they've defined it involves finding a satisfactory conclusion to the narrative their character is part of.
It might be a little contrived, but that example brings G,N, and S under one heading. In terms of players I know who fall under this heading, I've seen them enjoy Exalted (heavily Gamist), Apocalypse World (heavily narrativist) and GURPS (heavily immersionist) equally. So what gives?
I can find the most intersectional examples of my players and cherry-pick them, but my groups can lean one way or the other, and they definitely engage different sorts of games differently. I have players who are all about engaging the story, and some who are inveterate optimizers. I also have players who stay with consistent character types and try to build that fictional space around them. If my group has different motivations, then I as a GM should investigate different ways to engage them.
I've been using GNS as a rough framework to investigate different systems my group may like to try. Recently that means an immersionist tack, as that's one element of play that I feel I haven't done effectively, and that I enjoy. I mean, I'm a GURPS-head, and the way I approach worldbuilding should make it unsurprising that I like the notion of creating a world to be immersed in.
My recent idea has been to look for narrower immersive systems. GURPS is probably the best "universal" system I know, but at the end of the day "universal" is likely not what I need. When it comes to immersive gaming, I'm most interested in fantasy. My modern, sci-fi, and post-apocalyptic games run well with story-focused systems, because the characters and interactions are what matters. In fantasy, I feel that the world is also a character, and the only way I'm going to succeed in my goals for the genre is by making the players feel like they're there.
D&D is not an immersion-driven game, at all. The implied setting isn't internally consistent, the mechanics are based on gamist "ability buying" rather than any reflection of how experience and improvement work in the real world, and the encounter and campaign design is built off of a treadmill I feel I can't escape from. Zweihander is a game I've kickstarted, and while I'm still anticipating it eagerly, the heavy basis on Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay has given me more pause since I've been playing Dark Heresy. I've looked at GURPS again, but I'm just not sure tuning it correctly is going to be worth the effort. There are others out there. I've cast an intrigued eye to Mythras (The Game Formerly Known as Runequest 6e), because it seems to be the level of depth I'm looking for and has finally shed much of its baked-in setting. Rolemaster is another one that people have recommended, but I bounced hard off Cyberspace so there's no way I'm going to be able to put up with the design. And there is Burning Wheel…while heavily narrative it does have lots of chewy details and neat subsystems. Actually running it, though, is likely a pipe dream so long as there aren't PDFs. Torchbearer is a tantalizing compromise, but is very narrow, even if it's arguably still immersive.
So yeah. I'm not giving up PbtA or Fate or any of my other story-driven ideas, but I'd like to take a different tack for approaching immersion than just GURPS. Some time in the future I'll have a chance to read Zweihander. And who knows, maybe I'll buy Mythras on the same sort of lark that caused me to buy Victoriana.


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Suit of Change
Suit of Change is a social initiative founded by Mark Ferguson. Mark has seen first-hand the effect clothing has on a man's confidence. Suit of Change collects and distributes suits, business shirts, trousers, ties, shoes, belts and cufflinks to non-profit organisations to create ideal wardrobes for their male clients. Wil Valor also trains charity volunteers on the ideal fit and how to best combine colours, patterns and styles.
Many disadvantaged men don't have the clothing to look good for a job interview that could change their life. A job can deliver a huge confidence boost and it can help society to better combat issues of depression, suicide and domestic violence.
Good clothes will not immediately change the lives of these men but it's one of the many important steps that propel the unemployed or refugees down the path to a new life.
Suit Of Change has been created to bring attention to this important fact – and to encourage men to donate their pre-loved attire to a new generation of jobseekers.
Sometimes the clothing needs to be altered so we take care of this as well as organise grooming and a professional head shot for their resume.
Help us change a man's path by donating clothing and spreading Suit of Change. For more information go to www.suitofchange.com
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