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ARSENAL are reportedly sceptical about giving injury-hit Santi Cazorla a new deal.
The Spanish midfielder has endured a nightmare on the sidelines since October 2016 that has included his foot almost being amputated.
Cazorla's contract runs out at the end of the season and El Confidencial are reporting that he wants to stay at the club.
However, due to his long injury lay-off, the report also suggests the club are debating whether to extend his stay at the Emirates.
Cazorla, 33, has undergone ten operations are suffering a series of infections on his Achilles tendon.
He revealed last year that doctors were debating whether to remove his foot to stop and further injuries.
Surgeons also used skin from his tattooed arm to cover the infected area.
But Cazorla has been determined to once again step out on the pitch for the team he joined in a £10million deal from Malaga in 2012.
ZIV CHASE Manchester United and Arsenal send scouts to track Benfica ace Andrija Zivkovic
Cazorla was at the Carabao Cup final loss to Manchester City in February and said he was recovering well and could be back soon.
He said: "Hi guys, the first thing I want to say is thank you for the support, and I will try and come back as soon as possible. Enjoy the game!"


text: Many sources give 1799 as his year of birth, but more recent ones have changed that to 1801. While there are still many discrepancies, the LC and several other libraries have adopted the more recent sources' year, giving it a question mark (this is how I have put it). In general, though, it seems a bit unclear which sources are being used where; more information, as always, would be welcome. KGill talk email 23:20, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

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Book Reception -- February 8th, 2006
Robert B. Payne was honored on February 8th for his new book on Cuckoos. The plates in the book were illustrated by Karen Klitz, MVZ archivist and artist, and the originals were on display in the MVZ Main Gallery at the reception.
Dr. Robert Payne, Professor and Curator at the Museum of Zoology and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, was also speaker at the MVZ wednesday lunch seminar (12 noon) on February 8th, 2006.
His talk was "The Cuckoos: Species, Phylogenies and the evolution of extremes in avian parental care, from cooperative group nesting to nonparental brood parasitism."
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Bluebells and Butterflies
Yesterday the people of the United Kingdom made a momentous decision- exercising their democratic right via a referendum to decide whether we, as a nation, remain in or leave the EU. After months of argument, debate, counter argument and what would seem a fair degree of contradiction it came down to each and every eligible one of us making a choice; the sum of our views resulting in a single, collective action that will have consequences for us all for decades, and generations, to come.
Here at Sebastian's Action Trust, we are privileged to walk alongside extraordinary people who live without choice. Through illness and disability their lives are, to some degree, determined by gruelling treatment regimens, a dependence upon medical intervention, the inevitable fragmentation of family life that comes with frequent spells in hospital and an often overwhelming sense of uncertainty about the future.
Just weeks before he died, our founder Sebastian painstakingly wrote out a quote from a much loved book (Lord of the Rings- the trilogy)- which read:
".....All we must decide is what to do with the time given to us".
Our charity is built upon this principle; our mission is to walk alongside families of children with complex health needs from diagnosis, through treatment and beyond. Our support ebbs and flows in keeping with what each and every family requires; they know we remain 'here' for them- always.
Over the past twelve years our work has evolved from realising Sebastian's wish and creating our flagship facility, The Bluebells, to providing emotional, social and practical support in a myriad of ways through an outreach service that spans five counties of the South of England. From the respite breaks we offer at The Bluebells we reach families from no less than 46 counties of England, Scotland and Wales- an incredible feat for one small charity started by one small boy.
We pride ourselves on continuing to evolve; always in response to identifying unmet need. We know that so many of our families consider our services a lifeline- from providing opportunities for families to build memories together, being a constant and offering solutions to seemingly impossible problems to becoming part of a community where peer support ensures no-one ever feels completely alone.
We know we cannot change a child's prognosis but we can make a difference to the way in which a family in such circumstances is supported. The Bluebells is a safe, private place where joy can be shared, memories created and family unity can be briefly restored. Ultimately our capacity is limited and we cannot possibly meet demand, especially where we want to also give ongoing support to families living with the heartbreak and devastation that comes with the loss of a child.
For these families, and we already support more than 85 who live with grief in their hearts, we plan to create a separate space within the grounds of our Hampshire idyll where they can retreat to grieve privately, seek the bereavement care we offer and take time together, or separately, to find a brief moment where they can talk freely of their fears, feelings and frustrations.
Although we are focussed on a year of consolidation we are committed to providing these additional provisions for our 'butterfly' families, knowing that we will be able to satisfy their desire to retain a connection with the Trust and our house, but that we will be able to give them the privacy, space and amenities they will need to allow them to grieve as they choose. As far as we can tell, there isn't anywhere in the UK that provides families with a private 'butterfly break 'and we hope to remedy this in the very near future.
In our next newsletter we will unveil our 'Buy for Butterfly'campaign, to which we hope you will donate. Until then, above is a photograph (taken by the wonderful Stuart Wood) from the grounds of our Remembrance Garden at The Bluebells, a special place where our Butterfly Families come together for our annual service of thanksgiving and where many choose to come throughout the year for quiet contemplation and a chance to remember happier times when their family was complete.
We are so proud of our collective actions that together enable hundreds of families facing incredible challenges to feel supported, included and considered. Thank you, our earnest followers, for sharing in our journey and for helping us to build our ever evolving' family of families'. Together, we have chosen to make a difference.


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Camp Our Time focuses on the performing arts. Campers aged 8 to 19, are boys and girls, racially and socially diverse, with two common bonds: an unshakable stuttering problem and the courage to go on stage anyway.
Most of the kids are the only stutterers at their schools and vulnerable to teasing. At the non-profit lakeside camp in the Catskill Mountains, where even the founder/director is a stutterer, acceptance is the watchword as the campers plunged daily into workshops and rehearsals for the self-written songs, rap routines and skits they'd perform at a gala week-ending show.
"I feel free here [at Camp Our Time]. At school it feels like a prison, But here I feel like I can achieve anything."


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NREL Helping Virgin Islands Cut Fuel Use
January 11, 2012
The U.S. Virgin Islands are a great place to visit, but you wouldn't want to pay energy bills there.
The tiny U.S. territory in the Caribbean has just 110,000 residents, all the beach, surf, wind and sun you'd ever want, but energy prices that are four to five times higher than are paid in the continental United States.
Like many islands on earth, the U.S. Virgin Islands are almost 100 percent dependent on imported oil for electricity and water generation. Residents pay about 47 cents per kilowatt hour to light their homes and run their appliances. Imported oil is even used to desalinate the water because there is so little fresh water available other than what residences catch on their roofs in the form of rain water.
But U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) Gov. John P. de Jongh Jr., working with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the U.S. Department of the Interior, has vowed to transform energy use dramatically. In January, at his State of the Territory address, he announced the goal of reducing use of fossil fuels by 60 percent in the next 15 years.
That's huge, and a great challenge, and just possibly a blueprint for how to achieve those similar reductions on the mainland.
"What we're attempting to do is integrate every large portion of renewable energy into our system," said Karl Knight, the director of USVI's energy office, who also is a board member of the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority. Think of it as a pilot for how to integrate renewables as a large proportion of the grid."
To get there, a half dozen different technologies need to be implemented, and energy efficiency will have to become a rallying cry.
A Recipe for Energy Savings
That's where NREL's scientists and engineers are helping.
The United States, New Zealand, and Iceland are partners in the international partnership Energy Development in Island Nations (EDIN), and for the United States, its Virgin Islands territory was a natural fit.
"We wanted to help USVI particularly because the governor was very committed to transforming the energy infrastructure, as was the CEO of their utility," NREL's Adam Warren, who heads NREL's EDIN program, said.
NREL has helped USVI — its government, utilities and public and private groups — to map the renewable energy potential, and to determine how to get to a 60 percent reduction by 2025. Early on, NREL produced a major technological report on grid integration, transmission and distribution.
"We think 60 percent is very realistic," Knight said. "The government established that goal in collaboration with NREL and the Island Nations global partnership. They challenged Gov. deJongh to be aggressive in his goal-setting and he took them up on it. We established the aggressive goal because we spend so much on energy. The only thing that people in the Virgin Islands talk about is the size of their electric bills."
The high rates have hurt low-income residents and have been a deterrent to economic investment, Knight said. "If the rate is going to be 40 cents a kilowatt hour or more, it shapes the type of business that's willing to locate in the Virgin Islands," he said. "Our total dependence on oil for power generation in an era of expensive crude oil is having a huge impact."
USVI burns 2.6 million barrels of oil each year to generate electricity and desalinate water.
The recipe to achieve a 60 percent reduction:
2 percent biomass
3 percent landfill gas
3 percent solar
6 percent wind
8 percent waste-to-energy
38 percent energy efficiency
NREL's Karen Petersen said the most cost-effective way to reduce fossil-fuel use — the low-hanging fruit, so to speak — is "to help the utility become more efficient in its operations." Simple measures such as turning off lights in buildings and lowering the air conditioning use in tourist hotels also will help immensely.
"We're working to create a whole cultural shift," Petersen said. "They're very conservative in their use of energy because of need, but it doesn't necessarily revolve around an environmental ethic."
Island residents "had a healthy dose of skepticism" when the plan for more solar, wind and biomass was proposed because past proposals haven't kept their promises, Knight said. "But we have tried to convince the community that we're not promising lightning in a bottle. This is a 15-year strategy," Knight said. "We're using tried and commercially proven technologies, gathering up the best practices and working in close consultation with energy experts such as the folks at NREL.
"This is not a developer selling some Star Trek technology that is going to save the day," Knight added. "It's is going to be a gradual build-up to what we believe is a successful achievement of our goals."
Energy Transformation Isn't Easy
Dramatically changing how an island, a state or a nation gets its energy presents enormous challenges, not the least being a shaking of cultural norms.
"That's why we work with the entire community," said Warren. "In the past, they've seen systems go in by these fly-by-night developers that don't work the way they're supposed to.
"You need everyone on board — government, the private and public sectors to get something that big," Warren said. "We set up working groups to attack different areas — efficiency, renewables, transportation."
That's been key, Knight said. "We've been able to secure some good partnerships that have really put some effort into helping us achieve the goal. Through the assistance of NREL, we've established local working groups, both public sector and private sector and the participation of non-government organizations."
Some 80 percent of the USVI's economy is dependent on tourism. Tourist hotels use much more electricity, especially in the form of A/C, than does the average full-time resident. "If you're not using A/C, most of the load is going toward heating water or keeping the refrigerator cold," Warren said. In all, the household usage is about half of what it is in the United States — 450 kWh per month compared to 900 kWh.
Moving Renewables onto the Grid
Virgin Islands Energy Reduction Plan
U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. John P. de Jongh, Jr., and other dignitaries and energy leaders traveled to the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory in February of 2010 to sign a memo of understanding that is the centerpiece of the plan to reduce consumption of fossil fuels on the islands 60 percent by 2025.
Here are some of the ways NREL and the Island government plan to pare the 2.5 million barrels of oil that were used in 2010.
Solar Energy: Photovoltaics and Solar Hot-Water Heating
Sixty-one thousand barrels can be saved if 40 percent of the USVI households take advantage of incentives to use the sun's energy to heat their water.
Another 100,000 barrels a year can be saved via capturing photons for electricity. NREL helped design a half-megawatt solar energy system on St. Thomas. "A half a megawatt is small from our standpoint, but is highly visible for the Virgin Islands," NREL's Adam Warren said.
In September, 27 different companies submitted proposals, and six finalists are hoping to be chosen to build a 10-megawatt or more photovoltaic system by late 2013.
Energy Efficiency
920,000 barrels of oil can be saved via better efficiency, including generation efficiency.
A crucial strategy is to switch from a distillation system to a reverse-osmosis system to desalinate the water.
Wind Energy
178,000 barrels a year can be saved with 22.5 megawatts of wind energy. The plan is to deploy a mix of small and utility-scale wind turbines.
"The southern shore has a good wind resource that would probably come in at about 10 cents per kilowatt hour, vs. the 47 cents they're paying now," NREL's Adam Warren said.
Biomass, Landfill Gas and Waste-to-Energy
380,000 barrels can be saved each year by turning biomass into fuel, capturing and re-using the gas that forms below landfills, and turning waste into energy.
"We are very much engaged in a very rigorous public discourse on waste-to-energy," Karl Knight, the director of USVI's energy office, said. "People are concerned about emissions, as well as its impact on promoting recycling and waste reduction. But we believe using the best practices available those concerns about emissions can be addressed."
One of the thorniest challenges is how to get so much renewable energy on the grid and still have it operate smoothly all hours of the day.
Solar and wind energy are variable — they surge onto the grid when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing, but trickle or stop when the winds calm and the sun sets, or even when a thick cloud passes by.
Happily for the USVI, the highest electrical use is when the sun is shining — and all those tourists want the air conditioning cranked up.
Still, the variability means that distributed systems make more sense. So, USVI likely will have small solar arrays on dozens of rooftops, and just a few of the larger solar projects; likewise, wind energy is likely to be distributed widely, with a mix of small turbines and some larger turbine farms.
Combining wind and solar energy with electricity generated from closed landfills and waste gives a nice balance of variable sources and so-called dispatchable sources — the kind that utilities can ramp up and down to match demand.
Tackling how to load a high rate of renewables onto the grid will help the mainland United States, too. "We as a nation want to figure out the problems associated with a high-penetration of renewables," Warren said. "We hope we can show that first in the islands like USVI and Hawaii.
Islanders Face Tough Choices
Virgin Islanders have heard horror stories about installed renewables that couldn't handle the load because the variability was too much, so part of NREL's job is to show how the proper steps with the right technology can make it a success.
Island residents are leery of overloading the grid with too much renewable energy, but they're faced with the reality of 47 cents per kilowatt hour. They're facing serious tradeoffs, Warren said. "Do I pay my electricity bill or do I buy my medication?' is a real question that is forced on many."
"They're motivated to bring renewables on board and to conserve as much as possible because they need to," Petersen said. Businesses are closing daily because of the cost of electricity.
Optimism Grows from NREL/USVI Partnership
Knight is confident, and says NREL's participation has been crucial. "First, it has given the policy-makers the confidence that they're making the right decisions," Knight said. "To have a neutral party to discuss decisions with, to make sure that we are doing what is in the best interest of the population and the governor's goal, gives us and the policy makers credibility. We're able to say to the public, 'this isn't pie-in-the-sky.'
"We've sat down with the greatest experts in the nation out in Golden, Colo., and discussed our plans — and they've endorsed them fully. We can tell the most passionate members of our community that we've had conversations with NREL and, yes, they've endorsed the proposed projects."
"Our first and foremost goal is to assist other small island nations to curb their appetites for fossil-fuel-derived energy and to provide a model on the cost and investment return on the latest technologies."
"We're hoping there's a lesson to be learned here to benefit larger systems. Hopefully, we can be the test bed for the rest of the nation and the globe."
Learn more about what NREL is doing to move clean energy technologies into the marketplace.
— Bill Scanlon
—William Scanlon


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President Obama denied that the NSA or any other agency of the Government is listening in on American citizens phone calls. But as is Obama's style, he is answering a question not asked. The report was that the United States Government is collecting data on every American.
Obama wanted to make sure that everyone knew that "every member of Congress has been briefed." I guess we can name Congress as co-conspirators of violations of the 4th amendment.
President Obama on Friday offered a robust defense of the government surveillance programs revealed this week, and sought to reassure the public that his administration has not become a Big Brother with eyes and ears throughout the world of online communications.
"Nobody is listening to your telephone calls," Mr. Obama said, delivering a 14-minute answer to two questions about the surveillance programs at an event that was initially supposed to be devoted to the health care law. "That's not what this program is about."
The president's remarks, during a four-day trip to the West Coast, were his first since the revelations this week of programs to collect information about phone calls and Internet traffic. Mr. Obama said the programs help prevent terrorist attacks and they are kept in check by rigorous judicial and Congressional oversight.
The National Security Agency's data surveillance programs discussed in recent media reports "help us prevent terrorist attacks," President Barack Obama said Friday in San Jose, California. He added that "modest encroachments on privacy that are involved in getting phone numbers or duration … without looking at content" are worth the result.
"Nobody is listening to your telephone calls," Obama said in his first public remarks on the controversy. "What the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers and durations of calls. They're not looking at people's names, and they're not looking at content, but by sifting through this so-called metadata, they may identify certain leads that" might help authorities disrupt potential terrorist plans.
Obama said the programs are not secret in the respect that "every member of Congress has been briefed" on the phone data program, and the relevant intelligence committees have been briefed on a ll the programs.


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Evleaks has revealed yet another smartphone, albeit from a little known manufacturer. The Alcatel One Touch Idol Mini is the subject of this new leak and it appears to be a small sized replacement to the One Touch Idol which was launched earlier this year. It's hard to speculate as to which markets will get to see the new smartphone.
There's no word on the specs either. The One Touch Idol Mini is slated to arrive later this year for an undisclosed price. The original One Touch Idol isn't a specs heavy smartphone, so we can't expect any better from the mini variant.
It's hard to show any interest with low end smartphones and the One Touch Idol Mini merely reiterates that point. With little to no excitement from the global smartphone arena, we won't be surprised if the smartphone gets lost in the sea of mid-ranged Android handsets in the coming months. Unless of course, Alcatel has something very unique about this handset.
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Plum grad McGough gets boost from fall league performance
From September to November, Scott McGough took advantage of the opportunity to play in Major League Baseball's Arizona Fall League for top minor league prospects.
The 2008 Plum High School graduate said the experience gave him a boost going into offseason training as well as spring training this month.
"In the fall league, you're facing a lot of the guys who are future big leaguers," McGough said. "Doing well there is a big confidence booster. The organization thinks you deserve to be in the fall league. It is always an honor to be a part of the fall league, and doing well was a big boost for me.
"It gave me a little more push and drive into the offseason. I just want to pick up where my fall league season left off."
He finished the fall league with a 1.13 earned-run average over 16 innings. It was the second-best ERA in the AFL for the 2012 season.
McGough began preparation for the 2013 season earlier this month and is working in the Miami Marlins' minor league camp.
A midseason trade that involved All-Star infielder Hanley Ramirez sent McGough from the Dodgers organization to the Marlins last summer. He finished the 2012 campaign on the pitching staff of the Marlins' High A club in Jupiter, Fla.
Minor league spring camps are separate from their major league counterparts. McGough works out in the morning and then waits to see if the Marlins call up any players for their Grapefruit League games.
He didn't get in any games through the first week in Florida.
"As the rosters dwindle down toward the end of spring training, they ask more and more minor league players to come over and get in some innings," McGough said.
McGough returned to his collegiate alma mater, the University of Oregon, the second week of November to begin offseason training with some of his former Oregon teammates and current Ducks players and coaches.
"I was able to throw bullpen sessions and work in game situations," McGough said. "It is a really great place to work out, stay in shape and get ready for spring training. We're blessed that the players there now don't mind us coming back."
McGough isn't sure if he will return to the Jupiter Hammerheads to start the season or get called up to the Class AA Jacksonville Suns.
"I don't look too far ahead," McGough said. "I just try to come in every day and get my work in. I am just having fun playing the game of baseball. Wherever management sees fit to send me I will be happy with it. Wherever I am placed, I just want to work hard and move up as fast as I can."
The Marlins made headlines in the offseason by trading away several of their top major league players. The payroll was reduced drastically to one of the smallest in the league this season.
"At the very first day of spring training for us, our farm system director came out and said it is a rebuilding year," McGough said. "He hated to use that term, but there will be a lot of opportunities, and that is good for a minor league player to hear. It's just a great opportunity for me to move up, and I am not complaining."
The Marlins open their season April 1 at Washington. Each minor league team begins its season a couple of days later.


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Friday, February 19, 2016
Definitions for cosmology
- the branch of philosophy dealing with the origin and general structure of the universe, with its parts, elements, and laws, and especially with such of its characteristics as space, time, causality, and freedom.
- the branch of astronomy that deals with the general structure and evolution of the universe.
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In these works, [H.G. Wells] explored the implications of recent discoveries about evolution and cosmology in thrilling yarns which tapped into deep sources of anxiety and wonder in the collective unconscious.
An alternate cosmology presented itself to me as I stood there trembling: before Creation, when Hashem was nothing but a perfect mind, something funny occurred to him. Like a baby letting out his first guffaw, he cracked himself up, burst out laughing, and exploded into the physical world.
Origin of cosmology
Cosmology stems from the New Latin cosmologia, which in turn derives from the Greek kósmos meaning "cosmos" and the combining form -logy, which is used in the name of sciences or bodies of knowledge.


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*Present day*
When I found out that Eden was sentenced to nine months, I was relieved. I thought that nine months would be easy, that the time would pass quickly. It was better than a year or more, right?
Two months into it and I'm feeling quite depressed. Nine months doesn't seem to be passing quickly at all. I miss him so much. I hate that our contact is limited. I hate that I have no control over it.
I just wish he was here with me.
I just wish he was here with me.
My mind bounces back and forth... while he's locked up, we're really bonding. This is a wonderful opportunity to re-establish a friendship. But what if the SOLE reason we are bonding is that he has no one else to talk to? If his feelings are amplified by those four walls? What if I'm just a prop to help him through the nine months, and as soon as he's released back into the big wide world he'll dive in to discover that he's more interested in all of the other fish in the sea?
"There's no one else." He said to me at one of our visits, without me even having asked a question. Sometimes I honestly think he can read my mind.
I'm confident that he'd never lie to me, and the fact of the matter is that right now there isn't anyone else, but that doesn't mean there won't be in the future... I've felt like this before, the last time we were together. I was constantly afraid that he would find someone else, completely aware of how hypocritical that was, considering I have always had someone else.
The other week I received a phone call from another inmate, someone I didn't know. Eden had asked him to call me to let me know that he was locked in and wouldn't be able to call me for a few days. It was a really sweet gesture, it showed his thoughtfulness, he didn't want me to think that he just wasn't calling me. When I visited him that following weekend, he asked me:
"Did he tell you what I said?"
"Just that you were locked in because they found something in your cell." I replied.
"Haha, he didn't say it! I said to him tell her I love her!"
"No, he didn't say it."
I've been kicking myself ever since. Rather than have the courage to discuss the fact that he had just tried to tell me that he loved me, I brushed over it and kept on talking. I think part of me was annoyed that he'd chosen such a sneaky way to say it, instead of just telling me straight out. The poor man can't win.
Mostly, I wonder what would have happened if he wasn't in jail. If he didn't get locked up, then where would we be right now? And I think that's the scariest thought of all.
Mostly, I wonder what would have happened if he wasn't in jail. If he didn't get locked up, then where would we be right now? And I think that's the scariest thought of all.


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Title: Give A Girl A Break!
Date: 2011 & 2013
Size: 18" X 24" (45.7cm X 60.9cm) Deep Edge Canvas - No need for framing. Sides painted in Deep Black.
Medium: Oil
Artist: L. E. Gav Thorpe
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I like the idea in this painting of the black court shoes. I thought about this and wondered maybe the woman in the image was resting and wearing her Ugg boots now, because she had already spent the best part of the day walking around in those heels.


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Agencies Can Drive the Next Wave of Digital Innovation
Four factors executives should consider when evaluating their technology plans.
For years, large, established enterprises have been on the losing end of digital disruption as smaller, more nimble players have upended entire industries (think newspapers, video rental stores and music shops). Although many government agencies have adopted technologies to improve the way they operate and deliver services, we've identified several factors executives should consider as they determine how to put digital technology to its best and most effective use:
Put information into broader circulation. Data technologies are evolving rapidly, but most have been adopted in a piecemeal fashion. Only one in five organizations integrate data across the enterprise, which means that data is vastly underutilized. To truly unlock data's value, enterprises must treat information more as a supply chain by enabling it to flow easily throughout the organization.
One example: When the U.S. Government wanted to provide information to veterans, family and friends about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the Department of Veterans Affairs developed an easy, accessible mobile application called PTSD Coach that provides quick access to valuable information. The application links to information in English and Spanish on topics from professional care and self-assessment to support services and stress management tools. To date, PTSD Coach has been downloaded more than 100,000 times in 75 countries.
Pay attention to hardware. Hardware is a hotbed of innovation. Advances in power consumption, processers, solid state memory and infrastructure architectures are giving enterprises new opportunities to increase efficiency, drive down costs and enable their systems to perform at higher levels. As government digitizes more of its operations, state-of-the-art hardware will be essential to enabling the next wave of growth.
Treat software as a core competency. Many large organizations are using apps to push operational agility. Our research shows that more than half of the highest-performing IT teams have already deployed enterprise app stores, allowing for simple, modular apps for employees. Government entities should consider ways to source new apps to make life easier for their constituents while also streamlining operations for their workforce.
Your workforce may be larger than you think. Thanks to almost-ubiquitous technology in the form of Wi-Fi and mobile computing platforms (laptops, tablets, and even smartphones), the workforce can be expanded beyond employees and borders to anyone with access to the Internet. Crowdsourcing or using cloud capabilities to collaborate beyond the employee base is one way to tackle difficult problems. Agencies can drive more collaboration by taking advantage of cloud and digital connection platforms, videoconferencing, instant messaging, blogs and virtual communities.
The ongoing digital revolution provides organizations of every size with great opportunities to transform their operations and significantly improve their chances for success. By making the most of the resources they already have in place and adopting digital technologies that can help strengthen their processes, increase productivity and better engage their workforce, government enterprises will be well positioned to provide their constituents with the breadth and depth of services they demand.
Tom Greiner is the technology lead for Accenture Federal Services. The trends described here can be explored more fully in the new report, Accenture Technology Vision 2014.
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Christmas is a time for family. But what if your family had been torn apart by domestic violence?
Sadly, it is a reality which will be faced by many women and children fleeing abusive relationships over the festive period – but a newly-formed charity led by two Worthing women wants to help.
Best friends Jade-Shannon Patrick and Hayley Stoner co-founded The Daisy Chain Project, which gives free legal support to domestic abuse victims.
They have launched a hamper appeal to give to families staying in refuges across Sussex, and are working with charities which run them to make it happen.
Student lawyer Jade-Shannon, 24, from Tarring, said: "You are always hearing about the children's charities and the animal charities, but you don't hear about the men and women starting again from domestic violence.
"There is a spike at Christmas every year, whether that is because of the stress of the period or money worries, so that was why we wanted to start this appeal."
The pair and their fellow trustees, Faye Shippam and barristers Simon Spence and William Skjøtt, asked people to donate hats, scarves, tinned food, children's toys and toiletries and giftcards.
Full-time mother Hayley, 24, from Goring, will make the hampers before they are delivered by car to refuges across the county.
She said: "Any donation big or small will help. We have both said we couldn't imagine just walking out of our homes with nothing, no money, and literally just what's on your back."
So far, Sainsbury's has donated a £50 gift card to the cause, and Jade and Hayley said other supermarkets have expressed an interest.
Their families have also got behind the cause, with Jade's grandparents Tony and Linda Parsons visiting a refuge in Bognor dressed as Father Christmas and an elf, and Hayley's grandmother Trish Christensen getting The Meridian Short Mat Bowls Club involved.
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The Ascension
Study for an Apostle / The Spirit of Justice: Body of a seated Figure in ecclesiastical Robes holding a Staff and Book - Recto: Three-Quarter Length Standing Male Figure, Looking Up And In Profile To The Right. Right Arm By Side, Left Arm Raised Above His Head Shielding His Eyes. Dressed In A Robe With A Beard. Verso: Body Of Seated Figure In Ecclesiastical Robes Holding A Staff And A Book In Right Hand. Left Arm Held Towards Face But Neither Hand Nor Face Drawn In . Space Marked Off Bottom Right.
Item Details
- Accession Number: 1906P697
- Artist: Ford Madox Brown (Artist)
- Date: 1844
- Medium: Black Chalk On Paper
- Subject: Drawings (Visual Works) Pre-Raphaelite
- Place: Europe, France, Paris


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Article One
From my first breath, I have tried to figure out what I am doing here. I do not mean in my home in Vancouver, Washington, but a deeper sense of who am I? What am I? What is my purpose? There are plenty of people who claim to know the answer to that question, but each time I looked into what was promised it was always in the hereafter, and I simply must endure, follow the arbitrary rules, and hope that I am found worthy to ascend to the next level of consciousness after death.
I decided to leave the religion I was raised in and focus on building a career, have fun, and figure out the heavy life stuff when I was older. I suppose now I am older, and the questions have returned with greater force. Who am I? What am I? What is my purpose?
When I have a question, my favorite place to search for answers is in books. My search led me to the book set The Way of Mastery. In this triple combination, there are thirty-five lessons, which are intended to awaken my mind and bring eternal happiness to me NOW! The introduction explains the reason that I am here is, I had a thought which boils down to, I wonder what it would be like to feel separate, small, and like I must do everything alone? The answer to that question is the Earth and everything I perceive through the eyes of my body.
That blew my mind, and it was different from anything I have ever read before, so I continued reading. I was promised that I had nothing more to learn what I needed was the process of unlearning. We all made it to the Earth in some form or another and have gotten so involved with our forms that we have forgotten who we really are. The introduction continued that I am never alone, and that I will be guided each step of the way. I am no different from anyone, including Jeshua (the name The Way of Mastery uses for Jesus), and together we will infuse the world with happiness for those who want it.
Sounds like a bargain to me, read a book, follow the exercises, and then perfect happiness! I turned to the first lesson: The Way That Calls You Home. The words leap off the page like a disembodied voice is speaking to me from another dimension. I see phrases like, "Your experience is always the effect of where you choose to focus the attention of your consciousness" and "you are not a victim of the world you see."
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Internal arguments erupted as I thought of experiences where I felt I was a victim, or I was certain someone else was a victim. I have learned from previous books that resistance is a body signal to pay close attention to what is being taught. I continued reading in the section: The First Step In Awakening. The idea of everything I see being something I called to myself kept repeating. I started to become worried that I was reading something that was going to castigate me for thinking "evil thoughts" or not thinking enough "good thoughts." Then I read "I have no idea how I did this. Therefore, I must surrender to something else."
It was the ultimate get-out-of-jail-free-card that I have ever read. I really don't know how I created everything up to now. Some of what I have created is wonderful, and some of it is a mess. The section moves on and explains that I believe that if I had more money, more popularity, and more drama then my life would be wonderful.
When I was in high school (before GPS and cell phones) one of my favorite things to do was to drive my car down unfamiliar roads and get lost just so I could find my way back home by an inner sense of direction. In The Way of Mastery, it is very much the same. We have turned down all kinds crazy roads until we have no sense of direction and no idea of how to return home. In this moment, we have a chance to choose to follow an inner guide instead of doing what we always do and still feeling unsatisfied.
This book was starting to get interesting. I quickly read on to the section: The Way Of The Heart Calls You Home. In this section I was compared to a wayward sunbeam who thinks it is separate from the sun. It can never be separate from the sun because the sun extends through it. I could feel the internal struggle again because I want to believe I am separate from those who I do not especially like in this world. I pressed on because I wanted to know what else this first chapter had to say. Luckily, it seemed like the roughness was over, and I was alerted that I would be given certain exercises, meditations, and energetic practices that would begin the unlearning and awaken me to who I truly am.
The last few paragraphs encourage me to feel the lessons and avoid filtering them through my intellect. According to The Way of Mastery, my intellect merely allows information in and can only parrot what I have already learned and has not led to happiness in the past so why keep insisting on my way? Then finally I am invited to release all the blocks to my peace and happiness, which has kept them at arm's length until now. I am further invited to invest in that which is eternal rather than what is only in the dimension of time.
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That was only the first chapter in the book, and already my head is spinning! I am going to continue to study each lesson and write about my experiences and thoughts. I encourage you to read along with me and share your own experiences in a comment.


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I am hurting in my mid bottoms, the sciatic nerve area. I'm having a hard time getting around it's such a nusisouse. I have took all my my meds earlier, I usually take my meds between 10 11 pm. I did take my shower I was able to get rid of this painful pain behind my left ear really hurt it was akward wearing my eye glasses in a strange a way
Taking a shower did loosen up the tightness in my lower back I have a hard time finging the right position. I've been doing light exercises it's real simple... just stretch your arms and do the same with your legs. I does help it takes the edge off it.
I feel real crappy since I threw my back I finally found out what I did. Does anybody have an suggestions?
I need to find something that keeps me occupied. I use distraction.
I better get off here or this keyboard to find a flying leap out the window... lol


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Commercial Ins Producer, Construction Focus – National Broker (AL, GA, TX locations)
The Rogan Group, Inc. a Risk Management and Insurance Recruiting firm is assisting a national insurance broker client in identifying senior commercial insurance producers with experience in the construction vertical. Our client has tremendous resources to assist producers and a very aggressive compensation package.
Client Profile:
• Founded – 1886
• Offices – AL, CO, GA, LA, MO, NY, OR, PA, TX and WA
• Middle market and large account broker
• 300+M in revenue and owned by 1.6B revenue insurance broker (also #1 Wholesale Broker)
• Overall parent is Top 10 U./S. Financial Institution
• Niches – Aviation, Energy/Marine, Financial Institutions, Healthcare, Builders/Construction (Surety), Manufacturing, Real Estate, Public Entity and M&A/Private Equity.
• Added Value Resources –Actuarial, Captives/Alternative Risk, Claims, Loss Control, International
Position Outline:
1. Commercial Ins Producer – Construction expertise desired
2. Needs solid understanding of large accounts and CIP's
3. Looking for proven sales history or book of business
4. Unit resources: Captives, Alternative Risk, Surety, Claims, IT, CIP's
5. National Construction Unit has 95 EE's and 500M of Construction Premium
a. Example of target accounts include: Healthcare, Pipeline, Schools, Large Projects
Reasons to consider:
• Ability to further build your book using national resources
• Aggressive compensation package with top splits, deferred compensation and other perks
• Stock grants for top performers
• Agility of a regional broker, with the backing of a national broker/financial service parent
To discuss this position further, please contact Brandan Wassel, Recruiter and SE Manager, The Rogan Group, Inc. – Risk & Insurance Management Recruiting. 443-394-7044 or email@example.com
The Rogan Group, Inc. - is an Executive Search firm that specializes in the Insurance Industry. With offices in Arizona, California and Maryland we are able to conduct projects on a Local, Regional & National basis. This work covers both the P&C and L&H sides of the business. To review all of our insurance job openings, please visit our website at www.rogangroup.com
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January 20, 2010
Atomic Books Comics Preview - January 20th, 2010
In the Atomic Books Comics Preview, Benn Ray highlights several new comics and graphic novels released this week.
Benn Ray is the owner of Atomic Books, an independent bookstore in Baltimore. His blog is The Mobtown Shank.
Black Jack Volume 9
by Osamu Tezuka
One of the godfather of manga's masterworks, from the '70s, is now collected and released in a beautiful modern (but still non-flipped Japanse) format. And it's a medical drama! Black Jack collects smaller, episodic tales that are based on Tezuka's own knowledge as a physician. As with everything Tezuka did, the details are mesmerizing.
Joe The Barbarian #1
by Grant Morrison / Sean Murphy
The first installment of a new Vertigo 8-issue mini-series by master writer Grant Morrison. Joe has a lot of problems - in fact, Grant Morrison throws everything but the kitchen sink at this kid - he doesn't fit in at school, his dad was killed in Iraq and oh yeah, he has diabetes. But he also has an overactive imagination. And this leads him to a faraway land inhabited by his toys where he fights for their freedom from a nefarious oppressive force. Or perhaps he just needs to take his meds.
Oishinbo: Izakaya Pub Food
by Tetsu Kariya / Akira Hanasaki
If you consider yourself, in any way, a "foodie" (there has got to be a better word for this), you have to check out this manga series that explores the world of cooking and food in Japan. This volume (so far, this is the seventh released in America) focuses on Japanese-style pub food like edamame and yakitori. Funny, informative and wonderfully illustrated. If only it came with a food sampler…
Thirteen Going On Eighteen (The John Stanley Library)
by John Stanley
A gorgeous archival collection of John Stanley's teen comics from the '60s. Stripped down and darkly satirical, Stanley delivers one part character study, one part sit-come and a lot of laughs.
Young Liars Vol. 3: Rock Life
by David Lapham
The final volume collecting David Lapham's short-lived urban rock/scenester Vertigo series. Nothing is as it seems, and the breakneck adventures may not be real. Lapham has a gift for action, and in Young Liars, he lets it all loose.
Questions, concerns, comments or gripes – e-mail email@example.com. If there's a comic I should know about, send it my way at Atomic, c/o Atomic Books 3620 Falls Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211.
also at Largehearted Boy:
other Atomic Books Comics Preview lists (weekly new comics & graphic novel highlights)
Antiheroines (interviews with up and coming female comics artists)
online "best of 2009" book lists
Book Notes (authors create music playlists for their book)
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
guest book reviews
musician/author interviews
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All that stands between 14-year-old Meghan Kelley of Falmouth and a berth in the U.S. Open Tennis is four tennis matches.
Kelley begins play noon Wednesday in the U.S. Open National Playoffs, a mixed doubles tournament at the Connecticut Tennis Center in New Haven. She is the youngest participant among the 12 teams, each of whom qualified by winning a sectional tournament from a different region of the country.
"I'm the underdog, I guess," she said by phone from Connecticut, where she's been watching pros compete in the concurrent New Haven Open, a Women's Tennis Association event.
Kelley and Daniel Quiceno, a 32-year-old teaching pro from her club in Massachusetts, won the New England mixed doubles title in late June. Their first match in New Haven will be against Midwest champions Lilia Osterloh, 34, of Ohio and Josh Osswald, 37, of Kentucky.
Osterloh is a former pro ranked as high as 41 on the WTA Tour with more than $1 million in career earnings.
Kelley, meanwhile, has yet to enter high school.
The winners advance to a quarterfinal match against the top-seeded tandem of Hilary Barte – a 2011 Stanford graduate and a two-time NCAA doubles national champion – and Nicolas Meister – a recent UCLA grad and fellow all-American.
Whoever wins the tournament receives a wild-card entry into the main draw of the U.S. Open mixed doubles championship, that starts Aug. 29 at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y.
"It's really tough competition," Kelley said, "but we're in the draw, so we'll see."
Kelley's summer has been a whirlwind of tennis and travel, with only six nights spent at home in Falmouth. She represented New England at national team tournaments in Louisiana (Intersectionals) and California (Junior Fed Cup) and, with partner Ellyse Hamlin of Fairfield, Conn., won the girls 16-and-under doubles title at the USTA National Clay Court Championships in Virginia Beach from an initial field of 128 teams.
Kelley, who won a gold ball to commemorate the occasion, is ranked 22nd in the country among girls 16-and-under. Although eligible, she hasn't entered a 14-and-under tournament since December. Instead, she competes in 16s and often 18s, which was the case for the Junior Fed Cup.
Regardless of this week's results, Kelley plans to join four other promising junior players for a series of international tournaments this fall in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Bolivia and Peru. Those will give her a world ranking.
"I'm super excited," said Kelley, who has taken Latin and French classes but none for Spanish. "Everyone's telling me that they're going to make me fluent, so we'll see."
Her first semester of high school will consist of online courses, with tentative plans to begin classes at Falmouth High in January. She said it's unlikely she will play next spring for the school team, which has won five straight Class B state titles and has a 77-match winning streak.
"I'm going to see how this goes," she said, "and then we'll see what happens next."
Staff Writer Glenn Jordan can be contacted at 791-6425 or at: [email protected]
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Nashville, TN -- Rural Rhythm Records is proud to announce two new titles in its archival Heritage Collection series. The Rural Rhythm Heritage Collection Series will help keep traditional roots music alive and preserved for future generations. The Rural Rhythm Heritage Collection Series includes authentic Old-Time Country, Bluegrass, Folk, Country Waltzes, Fiddle Tunes and Gospel music performed by many legends & pioneers. Titles are mastered from the original master tapes, with original cover artwork and include many albums never-before available on CD.
Since the initial release in late 2013, thirty titles have been released to date in the Rural Rhythm Heritage Collection Series including titles by Mac Wiseman, Don Reno & Bill Harrell, Hylo Brown, Red Smiley, J.E. Mainer, Curly Fox, Dale Potter, Earl Taylor, Mac Martin, Buck Ryan, Lee Moore, Raymond Fairchild and Jim Greer.
Rural Rhythm has now released two more titles in the digital format from their Heritage Collection Series; Hylo Brown – Folk Songs Of Rural America and Hylo Brown – America's Favorite Balladeer.
Frank Brown earned the nickname "Hylo" because of his considerable vocal range that became his trademark. Born in 1922 in Johnson County, KY, which also became the birthplace of Loretta Lynn, Brown had thoroughly absorbed the music indigenous to his Appalachian home.
In 1957, Brown joined Flatt & Scruggs, becoming a featured vocalist with the duo's Foggy Mountain Boys. Hylo Brown released his first album in 1958 on Capitol Records and it remains a traditional bluegrass classic.
Hylo Brown recorded seven albums for Rural Rhythm Records in the late 60's with Lee Sutton as producer. Available for the first time as a digital download album, Folk Songs Of Rural America was the second of the seven albums and was originally released in 1967. Musicians on the album include Hylo Brown – lead vocal, guitar; Jack Casey – lead guitar; John Maultteay – fiddle; Ross Branham – banjo; Dan Milhon – dobro guitar; Dick Brickles – acoustic bass.
Uncle Jim O'Neal, creator of Rural Rhythm Records, was the architect behind Hylo Brown performing all the standard traditional songs that have been handed down through the generations on these seven classic albums.
Folk Songs Of Rural America Tracks:
Produced by Lee Sutton and available for the first time as a digital download album, America's Favorite Balladeer was the sixth of the seven albums and was originally released in 1968. Musicians on the album include Hylo Brown – lead vocal, guitar; Clarence "Tater" Tate – fiddle; Billy Edwards – banjo; Dan Milhon – Dobro guitar; John Palmer– acoustic bass.
America's Favorite Balladeer Tracks:
Hylo Brown – Folk Songs Of Rural America and Hylo Brown – America's Favorite Balladeer are available to DJ's on AirPlay Direct along with the other thirty titles currently released in the Rural Rhythm Heritage Collection series. In addition, these two titles are now available on Amazon, iTunes and wherever digital music is sold. Watch for more titles coming in 2017 from the Rural Rhythm Heritage Collection Series.
Rural Rhythm Records released a long line of Old-Time Country; Bluegrass & Gospel albums during the label's first two decades after Uncle Jim O'Neal started the label in 1955. Many of these vintage classic albums are still in Rural Rhythm's active catalog available on CD and digital formats. Many songs are still available in the various artist collection titles found in the Sound Traditions series. Many tracks were previously released only on vinyl records and will come back to life through the Rural Rhythm Heritage Collection Series.
Many legends and pioneers released albums during this period including Mac Wiseman, Hylo Brown, Don Reno & Bill Harrell, Red Smiley, Jim Eanes, Vassar Clements, J.E. Mainer, Earl Taylor & Jim McCall, Raymond Fairchild and many more. Bringing the traditional "retro" vintage sounds from the past preserves, protects, promotes and presents the ageless music of these artists for current and future generations to enjoy and appreciate using the technologies of the 21st Century.
Rural Rhythm's Sound Traditions collection titles have helped keep the traditional Bluegrass flame burning for decades and will continue the steady flow of available Old-Time Country, Bluegrass & Gospel titles culled from the treasure trove of masters in the Rural Rhythm Records vault. Sound Traditions from America's Heartland!
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Almost a year ago I started out on an epic journey, the journey of my first commission!!(whhaaatt?? someone wants me to make them a quilt, for money??) I was rather apprehensive as up until now I had only ever made things that I wanted to, blocks or patterns that appealed to me in colours and fabrics that called to me. Most of them end up as presents for other people, but still if you're going to spend hours on something its got to spark your interest right?
Suddenly to be faced with a very specific criteria put me in a flat spin, it wasn't a style I would naturally be drawn to, nor was the colour palette something I had worked in before but you know me, I love a good challenge!! You can read about the start of my African Adventure here.
Having made a sprinting start with lots of ideas and creativity flowing it got to around August/September time and I totally stalled, it was so sunny and bright, love was blooming (swoon Mr Keeble) and I just had no motivation to sit in doors sewing bits of fabric in brown and muted shades together. The more I knew I had to do it and was running out of time, the less I seemed able to motivate myself to do. I got a bit tangled up with it all, tried out a few experimental blocks that really really didn't work, so with my motivation and now my confidence totally down the pan I stopped altogether. I had a month off where I didn't even look at it, and then started doing lots of research into all the other projects I had seen being done by the wonderful people I follow on Instagram (you can find me on there as thatssewkerry) and that 1 month suddenly became 3 months - more on that later. Now it's January and I've got less than 7 weeks to get this monster done and dusted....panic mode!!
Having spent a huge amount of time researching all sorts of blocks, designs, quilts you name it really over the last few months I went back through it all and found this particular block called 'Capital T'.
Originally 6" I scaled it up to be the 18" I needed and set to work finishing off the African Star. You can find out how I made this block by having a look at my new Tutorials button at the top of the home page or by clicking here.
Having spent a huge amount of time researching all sorts of blocks, designs, quilts you name it really over the last few months I went back through it all and found this particular block called 'Capital T'.
Originally 6" I scaled it up to be the 18" I needed and set to work finishing off the African Star. You can find out how I made this block by having a look at my new Tutorials button at the top of the home page or by clicking here.
Originally I made 4 of these blocks, 1 cream, 1 tan and 2 red with the intention of having them alternating along the bottom row, rather irritatingly 4 turned out to be to wide and would have resulted in me having to cut them in a funny position in order to get them to fit and as such the repeat pattern would have been lost, but of course 3 wasn't wide enough to complete the row ggrrrrrr!!! So back to the old faithful 2.5" strips to fill up the extra space, not a total loss as it reflects the top row where a similar totally planned design feature had happened!!
Due to the size of these blocks there were several large areas of empty space so I tried to be more adventurous with my quilting, mostly just echoing the shapes being quilted such as squares and triangles but still and adventurous step for me.
One of my New years quilting resolutions was/is to be braver when quilting my blocks and to try to add in more quilting opportunities to the blocks or quilts I am choosing to make. It's a baby step I'll grant you but I'm proud all the same.
The next stage is slightly less exciting but with all the blocks now done they had to be joined together, I opted for my old favourite quilt-as-you-go method, although I do now have the machine space and the table space to attempt whole quilting projects it's still not something I feel brave enough to attempt. Plus I really like the idea of working on smaller bits and then suddenly having a huge quilt to put together, there's a real sense of achievement in that somewhere for me - usually mixed in with a whole lot of madness.
Blocks become rows and then rows become quilts, soon there after there is a flourish of furious hand stitching to get all the back bindings attached and all those raw edges covered, all the while a lot of swearing and stabbed fingers is going on - I've never been able to get on with a thimble! Finally arriving at that very satisfying moment when that last stitch goes in and months and months of work turn into this......
Thank you to everyone who has offered me there thoughts, opinions, ideas and just general support throughout this epic adventure, it really means very much to me and I don't think I would have believed in myself enough to get it done without you all. Lets start the next one......
Happy Quilting


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Library Management Group
Meeting Facilitator: Trudi DiTrolio
1. LMS Committee
A number of the committee members would be going to Orlando on Tuesday and plan to narrow down the list from four to two or three. Those on the short list will give presentations in late February and early March.
2. Budget Status
Barbara Oliver reported that the library was on schedule with the budget in every area except for OPS. She said the OPS budget is looking at a large deficit and it is important for each department to not spend more than was allotted.
She said that the university divisions were mandated to encumber any carry forward funds by the end of the year. The lists that were presented for request were filled for the most part.
In the past, any salary savings was made into carry forward funds, but the governor is trying to change that so that the money goes back to the state.
3. Internship Program
Denise Bogart-Caballero announced that the decision had been made to create a student internship policy. This is a way to keep the Library Personnel office in the loop, rather than having each individual area handling their own.
4. Student Raise Guidelines
Denise handed out the current guidelines (http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/pers/develop/Salary.html). The policy hasn't been followed for the last three years. Dale said it wasn't fair if competition was created between the departments because some departments pay more than others. The group decided that student workers should receive raises based on amount of time worked and the duties they perform. Denise asked that department supervisors send her ideas of skill levels and appropriate placement of the skills in the job classification. She will put together a new set of guidelines with base salaries and have it reviewed by a task force. Dale also asked that Denise find out what the university's average student salary is. She also asked Barbara Oliver to determine what a cross-the-board student raise of 25 cents and 50 cents would cost the library.
5. University Update
Dale reported on the morning's Dean's meeting. She said President Young discussed the current happenings in the state government and how Senator Bob Graham's entrance into the Board of Regents fight is affecting the process.
She said Governor Bush's budget doesn't appear to be as bad as originally feared, but that the libraries and agriculture programs are hurt the most. She also gave a brief overview of the budget.
6. Mid-year Assessment of Progress Toward Goals
Dale asked that every chair look at the goals
posted on the website and send Dale an update of the progress their area has
made toward completing those goals. She would like the reports to follow the
structure of the goals document so that there is a uniform report
library-wide. http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/toolbox/goal0010.html
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The final version of Sprout, now called Sprout Ward. This piece will be included in an upcoming gallery show by the AZIF -- Arizona Illustrators Forum, at Artstagesound in Phoenix during the annual Art Detour the first weekend of March.
Friday, February 16, 2007
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Illustration Friday: Sprout
It's been a while since I posted on my blog, or participated in Illustration Friday! The months have flown by. I shouldn't be making any excuses (the holidays, etc.). But one of my resolutions this year is to post regularly to my blog. For this week's topic, the sprout ward in a vegetable hospital. I'll be doing the final painting for another project as well -- more on that later.
Stay tuned for the final piece ...
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Today, I thought
"Maybe I should start some posts on my trip to UK, since this blog is dedicated to my travels...."
One of the things on my to-do list in UK is to see The Shard.
The Shard is one of the most controversial and beautiful buildings in London. Its fairly new too..
I can't wait to see it right in front of my eyes.
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Akshay Kumar to perform at Wave World Kabaddi League
MUMBAI: The action king of Bollywood, Akshay Kumar, is set to take the entertainment quotient a notch higher with his dazzling performance on the inaugural day of the Wave World Kabaddi League (WWKL) at London.
Kumar will dance on popular title tracks of his recent movies as part of the inaugural program planned to kick start the matches of WWKL. A known sports enthusiast, Kumar has been closely associated with sports and is also the co-owner of Khalsa Warrior.
?I am quite excited about WWKL. My performance will be dedicated to all the Kabaddi fans who come together to cheer the teams. The League is a step to promote the Indian contemporary sport and bring it closer to the fans of the sport spread across the world,? Kumar said in a statement today.
Top players from across the world will be participating in the League which will commence from the O2 Arena. With a capacity of over 20,000 seats, O2 will surely see some high performance trailblazing entertainment in the form of dance and sport. ?The dedication being shown by Akshay to promote Wave World Kabaddi League is commendable. As a true supporter he is making himself available to us despite his busy schedule to promote Kabaddi,? said Wave World Kabaddi League commissioner Pargat Singh.
WWKL is the first international Kabaddi league coming out of India and is scheduled to roll out from August in a high profile event at London.
It is the first Indian sports league with an international footprint and a four month long calendar. Played in circle style, WWKL will see eight teams fight for the win as the League travels across three continents.
Additionally, Khalsa Warriors co-owner Gurdeep Singh said, ?It gives me immense pleasure to have an A-list actor like Akshay to be a co-team owner. His movies are eagerly watched internationally and am sure he can make Kabaddi look cool as a sport to play and follow. He has some very innovative winning strategies up his sleeve that he continues to share with me and my players. We will play to win and I am sure the fans will enjoy it thoroughly.?


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The Smartest Chevy Yet
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Our cars are getting smarter and smarter by the year. Each new model that Chevrolet cranks out advances technology one step further than the last, and next year's Chevy Volt is no different. Already built with more technology than any … Continued


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|Grilled octopus served over potatoes all'amatriciana at Corsino.
by Erin Frankel
Summer is finally here! And that means it's time for some al fresco dining ... brunch, lunch, dinner, and drinks! For those that don't mind the incessant honking and congested sidewalks, here are some of my favorite downtown haunts equipped with large outdoor spaces, delicious and reliable grub, chilled cocktails, and, the best of people watching.
Five Points is an old-school neighborhood favorite set on a quiet cobblestone street in a once-sleepy NoHo. Five Points has been a brunch classic in New York City for years and cfef Marc Meyer's cooking still impresses. While the restaurant's interior is a large and open social meeting ground, an intimate outdoor seating area is available during the warmer summer days. Meyer's seasonal Nouveau American menu is always changing and never neglects a particular taste bud. However, I do suggest sticking with the brunch classics. Two favorites include the Eggs In Cocotte, which is a mixture of cooked Westfield goat cheese, root vegetables, mixed greens, and baguette toast; or the new healthy addition to the menu, a poached egg perched atop a mixture of fresh mushrooms and English peas. Meyer's food is organic and locally sourced and most everything is deliciously sweet, fresh and on point.
|Eggs In Cocotte. Cooked westfield goat cheese, root vegetables, mixed greens, and baguette toast;
|Poached eggs with mushrooms and English peas.
|Five Points
31 Great Jones Street
|Pulino's is Keith McNally's newest addition to his restaurant empire in New York City. McNally has a knack for finding the best intersections, and for Pulino's, he brilliantly chose Bowery and Houston, a bustling corner for any scene-seeker. The interior of Pulino's is extraordinary even though it mirrors all of McNally's other restaurants in the format of a classic French Brasserie (here it is Italian). In balmy weather, the large windows open to a spacious outdoor sidewalk seating area where majestic views of the busy intersection of Bowery and Houston (where NoHo, Nolita, The East Village, SoHo, and The Lower East Side all come together) await.
This is definitely the place for people watching of every kind but also for the inventive flavors of eggs and thin-crusted pizzas; and the combination of the two, aptly called "Breakfast Pizzas." Most recently, I opted for two new seasonal non-pizza additions to the menu. I started with a simple arugula and radish salad, which is topped with a zesty lemon olive-oil dressing and shaved parmesan. I moved on to the very tasty eggs in concote mixed with spicy roasted peppers, onions, tomatoes, and olives. That was it for this meal, but there are too many sweet and savory dishes on Pulino's new spring menu not to come back, especially now that the weather has turned.
|Eggs in concote mixed with spicy roasted peppers, onions, tomatoes, and olives.
|Arugula and radish salad, topped with a zesty lemon olive-oil dressing and shaved parmesan.
|Pulino's Bar & Pizzeria
282 Bowery
New York, NY 10012-3674
|Gemma. Set inside of The Bowery Hotel, one of the swankiest in town, Gemma offers a sophisticated take on familiar Italian food with a chic-y, bohemian vibe. Yes, the dining room is rustic and romantic, but the real reason to come to Gemma, now that the sun is finally shining, is for its large outdoor area set right on the busy but haute corner of Bowery and 3rd Street. Sit under the heated lamps at one of the farm-style tables made of distressed wood and order a bottle of rosé or Sauvignon Blanc to start your meal. The menu is fashioned after a traditional Italian menu with a section of antipasti, crunchy crostini, crudi, salume, a selection of Italian cheeses, pastas, and wood-fired pizzas.
I suggest starting with a selection of crostini, my favorites being the olive tapenade and goat cheese, the buffalo ricotta and pesto, and the burrata and prosciutto ... all meant for sharing. Then I would move on to the beets, mizzuna, goat cheese, and pistachios salad, and my all-time favorite here, the burrata caprese, which is made with one of the richest, creamiest burrata you'll ever have. All of the wood-fired pizzas and pastas are delicious, but my recommendation for a light and fresh starch is the penne alla norma, which is made with eggplant, ricotta salata, and tomato sauce. If you are looking for a trendy scene and comforting and fresh Italian cuisine, Gemma is your new outdoor spot.
|An assortment of crostinis.
|Beets, mizzuna, goat cheese, and pistachios salad.
|Burrata caprese.
|Penne alla norma (eggplant, ricotta salata, and tomato sauce).
335 Bowery
|Corsino. Jason Denton, owner of the famed 'ino, inoteca, and inoteca liquori bar, has opened yet another Italian tapas restaurant that is equal parts delicious and vibrant. Set in the old Frederick's space on the hot West Village/Meatpacking corner of Hudson and Horatio street, Corsino's large outdoor seating area is prime real-estate for the swankiest of people-watching on a warm summer night. Start with a bottle of chilled Sauvignon Blanc and then share any selection of the small, moderately priced dishes on the menu, such as the crostini. My favorite two are the olive tapenade and the radicchio and goat cheese.
|Olive tapenade and the radicchio and goat cheese crostini.
|I suggest the thick (yet delicate) Tuscan white bean soup or, if you opt for a salad, the reliable baby arugula salad with pears, walnuts, and red onion. For a nutritious choice, try the roasted beets topped with a delicious yogurt and balsamic encrusted pistachios. To more fully reap the rewards of the season, order the grilled octopus served over potatoes all'amatriciana. It is graceful, light and pleasing to the palate. If you can score a table, you'll have a front row to the nightly promenade up and down Hudson Street.
|Roasted beets.
|Tuscan white bean soup.
|Arugula salad.
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We live focused on ourselves, our lives, our families, friends and work. We get emotional when we see a television feature about someone who is less fortunate than us, but when the soap opera begins we've already forgotten the story that touched our soul for a minute. What if we looked around for a moment? What if we gave some of our precious time to others?
With this in mind I decided to become a volunteer. I had wanted to do it for a long time, but I lacked time, availability and a places to do it, something was always missing, or all of those were excuses precisely because I was too focused on myself.
Something changed this summer and I decided to give up two weeks of my vacation time to go volunteer with children with special educational needs. I spent two weeks at a holiday camp for children with a special sparkle in their eyes. The challenge was to make children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Cerebral Palsy and so many other syndromes whose names matter little or nothing play soccer, swim, dance, and above all, play!
Playing is something all children should do, because it is essential for the acquisition of skills that children need to acquire; it is through playing that children get to explore the environment and the world that surrounds them. Those who already know what occupational therapy is, know that this camp was in everything related to the ideals of the profession, although it was not the exact same thing. Just because of that correlation I can say I found myself super excited about this challenge!
The schedule was tough and the days asked for time spent on the beach, but I can say that it was the best experience of my summer and one of the best in my life. I was quite nervous on my first day, and the fear of failure was eating my insides. Well, maybe it was not just the first day, because of the immense responsibility and of the constant challenges.
The day would begin with the parting of the parents. As for any child, this was not easy and sometimes the first tantrum of the day would happen right then and there. But it was only the first! During the day, there were many more tantrums to manage: during meals, during trips to the bathroom and, worst off all, for no apparent reason. In those moments, I felt lost. But why? Why did he hit me? What did I do wrong? Why is he crying if we were both just singing and he looked happy? Many questions emerged in my head, but the days went by and it was necessary to continue giving those children everything they deserve. Opportunities to play, to jump, run and to be happy as any child should be.
Often this is what is missing in these children's life: we fail to stimulate these children, we fail to give them a little of our time, to be patient for and with them, and to realize that they deserve opportunities. I hope this post alerts you to this: before they have any kind of illness, they are children. Always look at them like that, children. They can play, they can communicate, they can be as adorable as any other child; it just takes some time to get them captivated, and they do not deserve for us to give up on them.
I can say, without taboos, that there were times when I was afraid. Yes, some of these children went through tantrums that frightened me, had aggressive behaviors that made me uncomfortable and afraid to reach them. But I quickly realized that if I allowed this fear to seize me, I would cut off any kind of connection that could be established with those children, I would prevent a lot of good times that we could spend together and, above all, I would be unfair to them, for we are all much more than our bad moments and attitudes.
I allowed myself to play, to hug, to kiss, to sing, to dance, to jump, and to genuinely be with them, without constantly thinking of something bad that could happen. And when something bad happened I had the camp coordinators and my fellow monitors there to help me and teach me how to deal with it. I learned so much! I really feel that it was essential for my academic career to have this experience, to the point where I was so fascinated with the field, that it may well become an option for my next internship.
I bring with me the smiles, the hugs, the kisses and the songs. I bring with me the tears on the faces of the mothers who thanked us for making their children happy over these two weeks. I confirmed, once again, that difference is not an obstacle for anything and that children will always be children, regardless of their condition.
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A Tale Of Beauty And MadnessBook - 2013
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I really enjoyed this book but I did find the plot a little bit confusing. Overall 4 stars!!
Nameless: A Tale of Beauty and Madness is truly, truly creepy. It's also not like the usual fairytale retelling YA stories that I've been dabbling in. It's truly dark (more madness than beauty) and starts in media res.
We the reader aren't given a handy cheat-sheet about the world- Lili St. Crow clearly just assumes we can keep up, read between the lines, and figure out the riddles contained within.
Man, I love when an author assumes I'm intelligent.
This one is a relatively quick read, set in a contemporary-with-magic-and-mutations world. Cami is a unique voice, a girl who is suffering from PTSD without knowing it (or why). I love that she stutters, and you can feel her frustration with this difficulty communicating.
I recommend it for fans of fairytale retellings, dark fantasy stories, unique YA books, old-world Grimm-style fairytales, and poetic narratives.
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Speaker: Govinda Datta Prabhu February 1, 2013 SB 1.3.44 — O learned brāhmaṇas, when Śukadeva Gosvāmī recited Bhāgavatam there [in the presence of Emperor Parīkṣit], I heard him with rapt attention, and thus, by his mercy, I learned the Bhāgavatam from that great and powerful sage. Now I shall try to make you hear the very same thing as I learned it from him and as I have realized it. Listen to...Read More
Speaker: HH Hanumatpresaka Swami January 31, 2013 SB 1.3.43 — This Bhāgavata Purāṇa is as brilliant as the sun, and it has arisen just after the departure of Lord Kṛṣṇa to His own abode, accompanied by religion, knowledge, etc. Persons who have lost their vision due to the dense darkness of ignorance in the Age of Kali shall get light from this Purāṇa. Listen to Recording:...Read More
Speaker: Dhanesvara Prabhu January 30, 2013 SB 1.3.42 — Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the son of Vyāsadeva, in his turn delivered the Bhāgavatam to the great Emperor Parīkṣit, who sat surrounded by sages on the bank of the Ganges, awaiting death without taking food or drink. Listen to...Read More
Speaker: Vidagdha Madhava Prabhu January 29, 2013 SB 1.3.41 — Śrī Vyāsadeva delivered it to his son, who is the most respected among the self-realized, after extracting the cream of all Vedic literatures and histories of the universe. Listen to...Read More
Speaker: Gaudacandra Prabhu (Los Angeles, California) January 28, 2013 SB 1.3.40 — This Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the literary incarnation of God, and it is compiled by Śrīla Vyāsadeva, the incarnation of God. It is meant for the ultimate good of all people, and it is all-successful, all-blissful and all-perfect. Listen to...Read More
Speaker : Narahari Prabhu January 25, 2013 SB 1.3.39 — Only by making such inquiries in this world can one be successful and perfectly cognizant, for such inquiries invoke transcendental ecstatic love unto the Personality of Godhead, who is the proprietor of all the universes, and guarantee cent-percent immunity from the dreadful repetition of birth and death. Listen to Recording:...Read More


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Over the weekend I had a little play with these Avery Elle stamps, I used a technique Jennifer McGuire (love her!) showed in a video (here) about dabbing the ink off stamps to get 2 tone images. I used it for the flowers then leaves and couldn't seem to stop so I did it on the sentiment too! I chose the colours to tone in with this gorgeous paper.
Its for this weeks Less is More challenge of Flowers, along with Avery Elle's challenge of Botanicals. I also used the current CAS(E) this Sketch. I hope you like it, thanks for looking!
Stamps - Avery Elle 'Thanks a Bunch'
Sentiments - Clearly Besotted 'Love Blossoms'
Paper - Carta Bella 'Hello Again'
Inks - Stampin' Up - 'So Saffron', 'Crisp Cantaloupe', 'Pear Pizzazz' & 'Old Olive'
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Valentine's Memo 2015 - 3 of 3
Note: This is the third installment in a roughly transcribed series of posts reflecting my remarks this past week at the Kitchn/Product Team Retreat in Florida.
The last thing I want to read from is a recent biography of Henry Luce, who founded Time Magazine with Briton Hadden in 1923. They were both 23 years old and just out of college. While Hadden died suddenly six years later, Luce went on to start Fortune Magazine as well as LIFE magazine, eventually growing the company to dozens of titles including Sports Illustrated, Travel & Leisure and even People. By the 1960's Time Inc. was the largest and most prestigious magazine publisher in the world, influencing the language of the day as well as presidential elections.
But what I like are the early days, when the magazines were very much living ideas and not yet overwhelmed advertising platforms. Listen to this description of Luce's planning for a new magazine, Fortune:
Luce's idea for what became Fortune had come in part out of his own longtime and growing curiosity about the world of business and the people who led it – and unsurprising interest for someone who was himself a young businessman working in the booming economic climate of the late 1920's. Seldom in American history had there been more interest in and enthusiasm for the corporate world and its leaders, and enthusiasm epitomized by the laconic Calvin Coolidge's claim that "the business of America is business." Luce echoed Coolidge's' view. "Business is essentially our civilization… Business is our life," he said in a March 1929 speech.
Now this is not the same as our project, and he is planning a very much high end magazine here, but see how big he is thinking? This is where I want us to go and this is what I want us to envision when we are putting out our work each day.
And he too was thinking hard about the form factor this new magazine would take, just as we have been doing with our product team.
Luce's almost passionate commitment to Fortune – his "real love among his magazines," Peter Drucker, briefly a Time Inc. writer, once observed – began to pour out of him once he threw himself into the planning. Among his first decisions was to emphasize design – to make Fortune "a beautiful magazine, if possible the most beautiful in the world." It was certainly among the most elaborately and lavishly designed publications of its time. Luce hired "one of the finest typographers and art directors in the country, Thomas Maitland Cleland, who revived an elegant eighteenth century typeface, Baskerville, for the magazine. Luce also chose unusually expensive paper that would not have the shiny look of conventional coated stock but could still accommodate high quality photographs. He commissioned eminent artists and designers – among them Rockwell Kent, Diego Rivera, Charles Sheeler and Fernand Leger – to create elegant, complex covers. (The first issue bore a striking black and bronze image by Cleland and an almost abstract "wheel of fortune," symbolizing not jut the magazine's title but industry and progress more broadly.) Fortunes' aesthetic represented, among other things, Luce's own new attraction to modern art and design.
Only one printer in the country could handle Fortunes' exacting demands, the Osborne Chromatic Gravure Company in New Jersey. It was necessary to print each side of each page in a separate run. Covers sometimes had to go through seven different print runs to handle the complex coloring. Fortune was not only expensive to print. It was also, unsurprisingly, expensive to buy – one dollar an issue, an astonishing price in and era when most magazines sold for five or ten cents, but one that Luce correctly predicted would give Fortune a kind of status that would attract the affluent readership he was targeting – ""those active, intelligent and influential individuals who have a relatively large stake in U.S. Industry and Commerce."
But what goes inside this magazine? Even Luce didn't know at the beginning. He had to work it out and he did so by outlining articles by title. This is what we do when we plan our editorial calendar a month ahead – we map out the landscape of our aspirational message – your home can be better through connection to resources, information and one another - in post titles, each one of which represents a facet of our thinking.
"And now the question," Luce wrote in a crude early prospectus. What's going to be IN this magazine?" Luce, Lloyd-Smith, and the few others who worked on the creation of Fortune spend days, even months, proposing and testing story ideas. Luce himself used his few idle hours – sitting in hotel lobbies, riding on trains – listing potential topics on scraps of borrow stationery: "The Rothschilds," "Inheritance-The Family Business," the "Biggest Farmers in the World, " "Total value of artworks in the U.S.," "Sleep - how many hours," the "Power Trust," "Sewage," "Why Jews in the clothing business?" According to another early prospectus Fortune would be "not simply a magazine to look at or through." Like Time it would a "a magazine to read from cover to cover."
We are now ten years old and moving into the next phase of our life. Our challenge is to become not simply two websites that readers come to, surf and leave, but something they read end to end. We already know our most loyal readers do this, but we have a great opportunity in front of us to go further.
As Ingvar Kamprad said, we are endeavoring to communicate a lifestyle and a new approach to living in the world. One that is unfolding every day around us through this generation of readers. You are the messengers whose task it is to capture all of this and give it form through words, pictures, graphics and web design (even page load! Did you know that in 1963, recommendations from Time Inc. based on how it delivered magazines led to the introduction of ZIP codes by the United States Post Office?).
Time Magazine was, at it's height, the largest weekly news magazine in the world, with a circulation of 25 million. We currently have a monthly readership of 27 million. This is A LOT of readers. We touch and influence many, many people. What we say matters and what more we can say, teach or show is far beyond where we are right now.
As great as Time Inc. was, they are dying right now, and I don't see it ever living as fully again. I had lunch last week with a friend working there, and the mice are already leaving the building literally and figuratively (Time Inc was spun off in 2013 and all the titles are moving to the World Trade Center this year).
I think this decline is going to be similar for all the major publishing houses from Hearst to Meredith to Conde Nast to Time – and this is our current competition. While magazines will never disappear, a. they will not be the primary way of reaching readers in the future and b. these companies cannot and will not be the ones who do it digitally. These brands are old. The voices are old. The advertising integrations too heavy.
NOTE: Just today I was reading about the new New York Times Magazine, how groundbreaking it is meant to be, and then I read it online. Couldn't tell the difference. Typically, most of the changes are for the print edition. The writing and the voice and the whole thing failed to grab me at all. To me this is a project with a voice that has no clear readership or purpose OR anything of importance to communicate.
Which means that the time for us is now. The last ten years were too early, but this next ten is not. As I said at the beginning, I am risk averse, but I'm already moving more aggressively this year to speed up our growth. We are more stable now, we have the money, and growing ourselves now, like Time Magazine in the 20's, is essential if we want to become a dominant voice and company in the future. This is not a risk. This is what is being asked of us.
You all have another day and a half together. Use is wisely. Faith and Scott fought hard for the finances for this retreat as well as one other one later in the year. They are a good idea, particularly for teams that all work remotely, and I think it's incredibly valuable for you all to be working together in one place right now. Make good use of this time for it is very precious. That is your responsibility, and I look forward to seeing what comes back from you all in the weeks to come.
Maxwell Ryan
February 19, 2015