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HIT Perspectives is POCP's account of top health IT trends, significant healthcare events, federal policies and industry activities.
HIT Perspectives is POCP's account of top health IT trends, significant healthcare events, federal policies and industry activities.
Each article provides analysis and insights based on POCP's unique views and indepth expertise on cross-cutting issues affecting payers, pharma, vendors and providers.
Download the December 2019 issue of HIT Perspectives by clicking on the thumbnail to the right. – PDF –
HIT Perspectives (December 2019) –
Four Reasons to Become a FHIRmacy | Five Key Ingredients for Successful Multistakeholder Initiatives | Digital Therapeutics: Transforming Care Through Technology
HIT Perspectives (September 2019) –
Lack of Training is Core Cause of Physician EHR Usability Complaints | ePA 2.0: Taking Electronic Prior Authorization to the Next Level | How Artificial Intelligence Is Poised to Transform Medication Management
HIT Perspectives (June 2019) –
Breaking Through Barriers to Advancing Electronic Prior Authorization | CDS Hooks Can Use FHIR APIs to Trigger Robust Decision Support in EHRs | Five Trends Leading the Digital Transformation of Specialty Pharmacy
HIT Perspectives (March 2019) –
CARIN Alliance – Multisector Coalition Strives to Connect Patients to Medication Costs | 8 Impressions from HIMSS 2019 | 10 Thoughts About the New Proposed Rules from ONC and CMS
HIT Perspectives (January 2019) –
Legislation, Proposed Rules and Part D Guidance to Affect Electronic Prescribing and EHRs | 14 Health IT Game Changers | What Version 4 of FHIR Standard Means for Adoption and Innovation
HIT Perspectives (November 2018) –
Connecting Patients With the Costs of Their Medications | High Impact: Opioid Legislation Effects ePrescribing, ePA and PDMPs | Looking Back at 2018 Predictions: How'd We Do?
HIT Perspectives (September 2018) –
Six Interoperability Trends to Watch | The Time Is Right for Electronic Medical Prior Authorization | Improving Drug Price Transparency: Progress and Opportunities
HIT Perspectives (June 2018) –
Improving Drug Price Transparency: The Case for Out-of-Pocket Drug Cost Information at the Point of Prescribing | NCPDP Forms Specialty Pharmacy Work Group |Thumbs Up at this ePrescribing Checkpoint!
HIT Perspectives (April 2018) –
10 Takeaways from HIMSS18 | The Da Vinci Project: Helping Payers and Providers Get the Most From Value-Based Care | The Impact of Cost on EPCS Adoption
HIT Perspectives (January 2018) –
Trends to Watch in 2018 | Fighting a Root Cause of the Opioid Epidemic: New POCP Report Examines State Responses to Opioid Prescribing | Virtual Visits: Now Coming to Your Home, Doctor and Pharmacy
HIT Perspectives (November 2017) –
Following What the Doctor Ordered: Addressing Medication Noncompliance | The Impact of New, Nonproprietary Naming Convention for Biologics and Biosimilars: 7 Key Findings | ONC to Significantly Scale Back EHR Certification and Enrollment
HIT Perspectives (September 2017) –
Five Health IT, Opioid-Related Trends Impacting Electronic Health Records | Interoperability
and Standards Will Be Areas of Focus Through Year End | Automating Enrollment for Specialty Prescriptions
HIT Perspectives (June 2017) –
HHS Moves Ahead in Personnel and Health IT | New Model Can Help Payers Realize Return on Investment From Electronic Prior Authorization | State Lawmakers Focus on ePA and Opioid Abuse
HIT Perspectives (April 2017) –
Eight Takeaways from HIMSS 2017 | FHIR Sets the Stage for Targeted Applications for Payers and Providers | Stakeholder Impacts of the AMA's Prior Authorization Reform Proposal
HIT Perspectives (February 2017) –
10 Trends to Watch in 2017 | What the 21st Century Cures Act Means for Health IT | PDMPs Take on Renewed Importance as a Tool in the Fight Against the Opioid Epidemic
HIT Perspectives (November 2016) –
A National Patient Identifier: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Again | Taking ePrescribing to the Next Level with the Structured and Codified Sig | Legislative Changes to I-STOP: Are They a Good Thing?
HIT Perspectives (September 2016) –
Taking Electronic Prior Authorization to the Next Level | Using Health Information Technology to Improve Patient Engagement | Surescripts Issues Its 2015 National Progress Report
HIT Perspectives (June 2016) –
New Proposed Regulation Rebrands and Retools Meaningful Use | Real-Time Benefit Inquiry: A New Kind of Clinical Decision Support | Top 10 Themes at Health Datapalooza 2016
HIT Perspectives (April 2016) –
Ten Takeaways from HIMSS16 | Integrating EHRs and PDMPs: How Vendors Can Get Ahead of the Curve | Alerting Prescribers for Biosimilar Substitution to Protect Patient Safety
HIT Perspectives (February 2016) –
Top Ten Health IT Trends for 2016 | Meaningful Use: Not Entirely Gone But Certainly Not Forgotten | Cutting Through the Confusion Surrounding Electronic Formulary and Benefit Checks
HIT Perspectives (September 2015) –
Taking Clinical Decision Support to the Next Level: A Standards-Based Approach | Paving the Way for Specialty ePrescribing | Better Formulary and Benefit Information Pay Off for Payers
HIT Perspectives (June 2015) –
Information Blocking: A Hot Potato in Washington | DERF-a-Palooza at May NCPDP Meeting Yields Results | Surescripts Issues 2014 National Progress Report
HIMSS15: On FHIR and 6 Other Key Takeaways | The Impact of MU Stage 3 on Patient Engagement | Meaningful Use Stage 3: What Does It Mean for EHR Vendors?
HIT Perspectives (February 2015) –
At Last! A Compelling Business Case for Interoperability | Exciting Changes Ahead in 2015 for HealthIT | Interoperability, Value-Based Care and the War on Painkillers to Drive E-Prescribing for Controlled Substances
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B2B Go to Market Resources
These B2B go to market resources are a must read for all B2B marketers.
- Best Blogging Tools to Get Your Content Viral
- Social Listening Tools for eCommerce Marketing
- Must Reads for technology, Start-ups and VCS
- Best Practices in Telemarketing
- The Best Online Resources for Digital Marketing
- B2B Market Research – B2B Buyer Behavior
B2B Go to Market Resources – The Best Blogging Tools to Send Content Viral
Jeff Bullas is a blogger, author, strategist and speaker and works with companies and executives to optimize their online personal and company brands with digital, content and social media marketing.
As a blogger, Jeff know the issues and benefits associated with blogging-coming up with a topic, keyword research, the actual writing, images, alt tags, etc. In this post, Jeff shares some of the best blogging tools available to help your blogging efforts.
Jeff Bullas classifies the top blogging tools into these categories:
- Research
- Blog management
- Social media
- Graphic design
- Content
- Traffic and marketing
- Landing pages and pre-launch tools.
Read the full post 17 Top Blogging Tools That You Ignore At Your Peril
B2B Go to Market Resources – Social Listening Tools for eCommerce Marketing
The market research states that approximately 70% of a buyer's journey is complete before they even reach out to your business. So, it's critical to make sure that you have the right content, at the right stage in the buying process and in the right format to maintain a healthy sales pipeline.
Yulia V. Smirnova is an ecommerce entrepreneur and he says this comes with 3 main challenges:
- Being creative on demand.
- Coming up with topics for your marketing campaigns often.
- Do so at a volume that makes a difference and works for an ecommerce business. It has to be scalable in volume to bring home the bacon, so to speak.
Like any integrated demand creation and management plan, it should be based in validated research and the research should be performed before the initiative is launched to ensure that their is a needs that aligns with you offering and that you have content that is meaningful and relevant.
Yulia lists a set of 26 social listening tools he uses when conducting his research. He feels that the tools are valuable for both enterprise size organizations and startups. He grouped the social listening tools into 5 categories based on the key set of functionalities: competitive analysis, content/influencer discovery, campaign management, publishing automation and conversation listening.
Read the full post 26 Social Listening Tools to Infuse Your eCommerce Marketing with Awesome Intelligence
B2B Go to Market Resources – Staying Current on Technology, Emerging Industries, M&A and Venture Capital
CB Insights provides these resources to new teammates when they join as the most efficient and effective path to understand and follow technology, emerging industries, M&A and venture capital.
A challenge for every company in every industry is the successful onboarding new employees. There usually is not a formalized "university" to indoctrinate employees (the IBM, HP and Xerox models are in the Smithsonian) that actually transfer knowledge at a rate and in a manner that truly changes behavior. CB insights have pursued a more go at your pace, drip model for employees to onboard that includes newsletters, blogs and websites.
Fortunately, CB Insights decided to share their information below.
The resources are broken into the following sections:
- Blogs by VCs
- Tech sites to read (and some newsletters to get)
- Understanding venture capital & angel investment
Read the full post, Onboarding Reading List – Staying Current on Tech, VC and Startup
B2B Go to Market Resources – Best Practices in B2B Telemarketing
This B2B Telemarketing SlideShare presentation includes 10 key facts and statistics that will impact the success of your B2B telemarketing campaign.
The presentation is divided into 3 sections:
- Why telemarketing should be your preference
- Improving preparation before the campaign
- The positive effects of B2B telemarketing
Key Findings – B2B Outbound Calling
- B2B and B2C buyers view telemarketing differently
- Improving preparation (rich, accurate, relevant data) will yields better result
- Relevant conversations that are insight-led can increase response and conversion rates
View the SlideShare presentation, 10 Must-Know Facts For Better B2B Telemarketing
B2B Go to Market Resources – The Best Online Resources for Digital Marketing
Digital marketing is in a state of a constant evolution, with industry standards and best practices advancing daily. The marketing community is effective at sharing online resources for digital marketers to keep abreast of all the tools available. However, it can be a full-time job to try and keep up with each and every tool, product and or service. To that end Intechnic provided a list of picks for 20 great online resources for digital marketing.
Read the full post, The Best Online Resources for Digital Marketing
B2B Go to Market Resources – Timing is Everything: Understanding B2B Buyer Behavior
B2B buyer activity and research peaks at different times of the day, week, quarter and year. Software Advice conducted a study gathering data from six million visitors to their site. The goal was to learn when B2B buyers perform research on the website, when they convert on the website and when a live connection was mode via the phone.
For buyers that request product information directly, faster lead response times are directly correlated to higher qualification rates.
Seasonality is alive and well and impacts the qualification rates that your sales development, business development and inside sales teams will experience. It's a best practice to adjust capacity based on the season or to reprioritize tasks from outbound calling to research, list building and intelligence.
In general, B2B buyer activity is highest Tuesday (traffic) through Thursday (conversion). There is variation by title and weekends are often times the most effective time to reach executives.
Time of day is a huge factor as it relates to connecting with B2B buyers. In general, early morning hours have been more effective for qualifying while the later afternoon hours have been strongest for conversion.
Read the full post, B2B Market Research – Timing is Everything: Understanding B2B Buyer Behavior
For additional B2B Go to Market Resources, free marketing PowerPoint, Excel and Word downloads and a marketing slide library visit www.fourquadrant.com

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1. Re: Conditional Format based on increase/decrease from previous col, over 25 measureshannah.johnson Jul 28, 2016 3:03 PM (in response to Scott Schneider)
The thing that makes this difficult is using Measure Names and Measure Values since Measure Values can not be used in a calculated field.
There are a few options:
-If you are using the same conditional formatting logic for every Measure
1. Use Measure Values on Color. Double-click on the Measure Values color legend and change the colors to one of the "diverging" color gradients. Click on the stepped color option and use 3 steps. Click on Advanced and set the center value to 0.
2. Pivot the data and use "pivot field values" in a KPI calculated field. Use "pivot field names" on Rows instead of Measure Names. Pivoting must be done before connecting to data in Tableau Desktop unless the data source is Excel or Text based (there is a pivoting function within Tableau Desktop for Excel and text files).
-If you are not using the same conditional formatting logic for every Measure
3. Use multiple, separate placeholders for each of those measures on Rows, instead of using only Measure Names on Rows. The following Tableau Public Viz is a great resource for learning how to conditionally format separate cells/columns:
Crosstab of Many Colors
Workbook: conditional formatting v4
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7 Causes of High Triglycerides
Let's shed some light on what the triglycerides are and what the main causes of high triglycerides depend on.
Clearly, triglycerides and cholesterol are necessary for our existence as they contribute to cell membrane formation, hormone synthesis and production of energy necessary for our organs to function. Triglycerides, in layman's terms, are simply a form of fat and the main ingredient of the fatty tissues stored underneath our skin and around organs.
Triglycerides and cholesterol usually come from foods and are also synthesized by our bodies if the food sources are scarce. Liver is responsible for processing cholesterol and triglycerides and supplying them via the bloodstream to all the cells in our body. The excess triglycerides that have not been used up get sent for storage as body fat.
Once the levels of triglycerides are too high it puts an individual at a very high risk for atherosclerosis, or fat plaque build up in the arteries that can cause heart attacks and strokes.
There are various causes and contributing factors to triglycerides too high in our bodies. Some we have control over like diet, exercise, while others we can not control like genetics, age, gender and ethnic background. Metabolic syndrome disorder is another one of causes of high triglycerides that involves high blood triglyceride levels, high insulin and obesity. So, treatment of high triglycerides often comes within a course of measures addressing all these conditions.
Here is a highlight of the 7 major causes of high triglycerides:
1. Genetic factors.
2. Age, gender and ethnicity.
3. Major underlying medical conditions like diabetes, thyroid dysfunctions, liver and kidney diseases, high blood pressure.
4. Poor diet rich in sugar and simple carbohydrates.
5. Lack of movements and exercise.
6. Prescription steroid and hormonal medication therapy side effects.
7. Smoking and alcohol consumption.
It's essential to maintain normal triglyceride level in our bodies through healthy diet, exercise, relaxation techniques and achieving an overall well-being.
While certain causes of high triglycerides are out of your control like genetics and age, the best way to reduce triglycerides is still to maintain insulin balance in your body, reduce intake of sugar and carbohydrates, get involved in a regular exercise regimen and eat plenty of fresh and unprocessed ingredients.


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One tutor. One child. Infinite possibilities.
Reading Partners pairs volunteer tutors with students to help close the reading gap
"The more that you read, the more things you'll know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." – Dr. Seuss
Whether it's Green Eggs and Ham, Harry Potter or another all-time favorite, reading can empower kids to reach their full potential in school – and in life.
Yet only about 35% of fourth graders in the U.S. can read proficiently. For students from low-income families, that number drops to 18%. Once students fall behind in reading, their confidence level often drops, making it even more difficult to practice their skills.
Brad Creswell, a Thrivent Member Network – Northwest Region board member, can personally relate to this feeling.
"I didn't come from an underprivileged background, but I never really mastered reading until later in life," says Creswell. "That made school a struggle for me early on.
"I saw from my personal journey how you could liberate a kid by teaching him how to read," he adds. "That's what really drew me to get involved with Reading Partners."
"I saw from my personal journey how you could liberate a kid by teaching him how to read."
Unlocking kids' potential
Reading Partners is a nonprofit organization working in under-resourced schools. They pair volunteer tutors with K-4 kids who read below their grade level. A volunteer provides one-on-one tutoring to the same student each week, helping close the reading gap before the child enters fifth grade.
According to Creswell, who is also a member of Reading Partners' national board of directors, third grade is a critical dividing line, when kids move from learning to read to reading to learn. Studies show:
- Kids who cannot read at grade level by the start of fourth grade are four times less likely to graduate on time than their grade-level peers.1
- 60% of America's prison inmates are illiterate.2
- 85% of all juvenile offenders have reading problems.2
Volunteers help kids make the grade
Reading Partners Interim Executive Director Cassy Charyn, says much of the program's success can be attributed to the structured curriculum – and the volunteers who partner with kids to make a lifelong difference.
"Having a caring, positive adult show up for students every week is so important to our students," says Charyn. "We not only see kids grow in their reading skills, we also see their confidence level grow. And that's so important for success in reading and in life."
Thrivent member Barbara Cropp is a volunteer reading partner at Madrona Elementary School in Seattle. As a tutor, she's seen the positive impact the program can make on students – and volunteers.
"Working one on one with my student and seeing how he progresses throughout the year and gets excited about what he's learning is really gratifying," says Cropp. "You can really make a big difference in the life of a child – for the good."
Thrivent Member Network gets bookin'
When the Thrivent Member Network – Northwest Region learned that Reading Partners in King County, Washington, needed tutors as well as books, they jumped into action.
In February 2017, Thrivent members, businesses, churches and financial representatives collaborated to organize a book drive. Book shelves were placed in Thrivent Financial representatives' offices throughout King County with signs that read, "Add a book."
Another drive was held in October. In total, 2,167 books were collected for the Take Reading Home Library. The library lets students choose a book they can keep. Kids can then write a book report – their "ticket" to bring another book home for their personal library.
"We are so grateful to Thrivent for their support through the book drives they've held, and the support members provide through volunteering and directing Choice Dollars®," says Charyn. "It truly makes an impact in providing programs for kids who really need it."
How you can help a child read better
Reading Partners has locations in 11 states across the country. The combination of one-on-one tutoring and a structured curriculum produces remarkable results. According to Charyn, 83% of students in the program meet or exceed their primary end-of-year literacy goal.
If you'd like to make a difference in a child's life, here are some ways you can help:
- Volunteer to become a tutor if you live in one of the locations served by the organization.
- Support Reading Partners by making a personal donation.
- Eligible Thrivent members can support the work of Reading Partners by directing Choice Dollars® or applying to lead a Thrivent Action Team to organize a book drive or fundraiser.
Not a member? Learn more about Thrivent and what makes us different.
1 Reading Partners.org
2 U.S. Department of Education


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New Shoes For Modshoes Autumn 2016 – Brogues Boots & Shoes
Here you can see the Alfie, Charlie & Harry
All brand new to Modshoes. From a tiny family run factory in southern Spain these shoes are made to high quality.
The Alfie is the white shoes, which we think are very Marriott Small Faces 65 period. In the video you can see them teamed up with Chequered trousers, which give a great look
The Charlie are the boots, in a very soft leather, colours, caramel and chocolate.
The Harry are the Brogues, in black and oxblood. Brogues go with lots of outfits, but these are more smart than casual.
All the shoes are full leather, in sizes 6 – 12.


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Social Media Marketing Doncaster
Get your Doncaster based company on the social media map with Social Media Marketing Agency.
Situated close to both Sheffield and Wakefield, the town of Doncaster can sometimes be overshadowed by the large and somewhat prosperous cities surrounding it. A beautiful town full of history and greenery, Doncaster has plenty to offer with unique museums and a convenient nightlife for the young adult or over. As a Yorkshire based company, Social Media Marketing Agency welcomes you to give us a call for any help that you may need with your social media presence. Whether you're a large or small business or an international or national company, we'd love to work with you in your goals of becoming one of the best businesses in your field.
Why do we specialise and offer such a service as social media management?
At Social Media Marketing Agency in Doncaster, we believe that social media is one of the most important forms of marketing in contemporary society. This is due to so many people being a part of the online communication phenomenon of social networking. Dominated by ages old and young, each social media platform has a mass of users that your company could do with reaching out to. Looking at just a few of the top social networking sites, the list below shows the number of people signed up with each one:
LinkedIn: 300 million subscribers
Facebook: 1.65 billion subscribers
Instagram: 400 million subscribers
YouTube: 1 billion+ subscribers
Twitter: 320 million subscribers
It can be gathered from this information that these websites are a breeding ground for customers and that those who are already on these platforms are more than likely seeing the difference that it makes each day. Ultimately, not taking advantage of social media puts you behind your competitors by a long mile whilst also making your organisation look like a dinosaur. Most people these days use the internet as a way of finding out about certain companies so for you to not have much of a presence is company suicide in a way. If people can't access a lot of information about a company then they won't bother with it at all. Not all mystery is a good thing.
What do we do that makes us so special? That's easy to answer!
Social media as a whole can be scary sometimes, especially if you're a new company or someone that has never used social media before. The planet of online marketing is a fast-paced all day job that needs constant supervision in order for any company's account to flourish. You cannot simply have a quick once over when it comes to checking your accounts and expect your followers and shares to improve. Someone has to man the digital desk in order for people to remember that you are still around. It is because of this then, that we advise any brand to opt for an outside agency – whether it's us or another company – to work your social media campaigns. An outside agency is cheaper and they know how to treat consumers on these platforms without upsetting anyone or ignoring them. Trust us, ignoring a complaint from a customer is the worst thing you can do. The proof is in the numbers; 78% percent of users that opt to complain to a company via Twitter expect a response in under an hour. Now imagine giving your social networking sites a quick once over every three hours. The amount of problems that could occur within that time are huge. At Social Media Marketing Doncaster, we put your company and it's consumers first by making sure that your social networking sites are constantly managed and that your voice is both friendly but serious. We do this by using strategies like:
- The planning and implementing of social media campaigns
- Reliable, fast and friendly customer interaction
- Interesting and relevant content to draw your consumers in
Within our core Social Media Marketing Agency umbrella however, we do have years of experience and expert knowledge in other parts of digital marketing such as:
- Copy writing
- Re-targeting campaigns
- Back-link acquisition
- Video Marketing
Dedicated to improving consumer awareness, our expertise with search engine optimisation and content writing will really set your brand apart from your competition. Choosing to add these services with our social media management will also give you a coherent voice throughout the entirety of your digital campaign making your brand more likeable and trustworthy from a consumers point of view. Which is the only view you should be really interested in.
Getting in contact is easy.
We offer a FREE social media consultation to those looking to expand their social networking reach and offer a 60 day money back guarantee if we find that you're not 100% happy with the services given and the changes made to your company's online presence. We offer this service as we truly believe in ourselves and the ethics that we follow here at Social Media Marketing Yorkshire and we hope that you're as blown away with our online tactics as our other clients have been. Our telephone number is 01226 491111 and our email address is email@example.com so get in touch with us today.


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There's a blind man on the road saying,
Allah, Allah. Sheikh Nuri runs to him,
'What do you know of Allah? And if you know,
why do you stay alive?' The sheikh keeps on,
beside himself with ecstatic questions.
Then he runs into a low place, where
a reedbed has recently been cut down.
He falls and gets up, falls again,
floundering on the sharp reed-ends.
People come and find him dead, the ground
wet with blood and written on every reed-tip,
the word Allah. This is the way one must
listen to the reed flute. Be killed
in it and lie down in the blood.
Attar, Persian Poet
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I keep hearing you say you never see a baby pigeon, well, I've eaten one which is my nomination for the grossest thing I ever ate. It was par-boiled and served on the "half-shell" at a funky little sidewalk cafe in katong pnom. I passed on the monkey brains.
Re: oil spill, please see the attached article on blow outs and blow out preventers -http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/soc.retirement/2010-04/msg05594.html . BP had a BOP on the rig, but not a remote-control device, which I agree should be mandated by regulation. But we don't know if the BOP could have been activaed even with a remote in place. From what I have read so far, Halliburton employees were cementing the hole (plugging the hole so they could move the rig) when the blowout occurred, and human error may be a cause, but no one knows yet. I was born and raised in South Louisiana and am fairly progressive, so I'm with you on regulation. But please know that oil field jobs in the oil patch are high-paying blue collar jobs and many men work their way up from roustabouts to rig operators (women now work on the rigs, but don't know if their are any female operators) with less than a high school eduaction - it is one of the last, if not the last, industries where uneducated workers can enter an industry with the realistic hope of one day earning over $100,000 (the oil industry apparently pays its "miners" much more than the coal industry). So saying that Haliburton is not unionized when it comes to rig work in general, and with regards to this accident in particular, is irrelevant. Best,


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"Beyond the Log: Williams Presidents in the Gentleman's Era" (pdf) is a product of the Williams Oral History Project, led by Bob Stegeman '60. It features a discussion with Professors Fred Rudolph '42 and John Hyde '52, along with former President John Chandler about Williams presidents from Paul Ansel Chadbourne (1872-81) to Tyler Dennett (1934-37). Let's spend three weeks discussing it. Day 5.
Fred Rudolph: There's no question about what Dennett didn't like about the place. In a 1975 honors thesis on the gentleman's Williams, Guy Creese '75 documented the background of the student body that disturbed Dennett: In the Class of 1929, thirty-six percent had traveled in Europe; 1930, twenty-nine percent; 1931, thirty-six percent. That's a pretty fancy group. In 1930 there was a Chapin Library exhibit of rare books to which seventeen students contributed. In 1935, thirty-seven percent of the upperclassmen had cars. In 1938, almost eighty percent of the freshmen families had servants. In 1938 only twenty-five percent of the students had summer jobs. Fifty-five percent came from families with two or more cars. In 1934, forty-four of the 775 students were in the New York Social Register, and four in the Boston Social Register. The Williams Record had fashion issues dealing with men's clothing. There were three men's clothing stores on Spring Street for a student body of less than 800. The Stork Club ran ads in The Williams Record.
When Dennett arrived as president, Lehman Hall had just been built. It had beautiful pine paneling and big fireplaces. And the top floor had modest little rooms for scholarship students. The other student rooms—handsome and spacious—commanded the highest rents on campus. At the end of Dennett's administration, the squash courts were built. What a symbolic statement! I don't know how many colleges in the United States had squash courts in 1938, in the midst of the most serious economic depression in history. Tyler Dennett knew that Williams didn't need them, but the people who gave them insisted. Well, that's the environment that Dennett hoped to do something about, the environment that he perceived as having little connection with the real America.
0) Here (pdf and pdf) is New York Times coverage.
1) Guy was an Ephblog author. Hope he comes back someday!
2) People are still reading and talking about Guy's thesis, more than 35 years after he wrote it. Want your thesis to live as long? Write about Williams.
3) Bob Magill Jr. '65 wrote:
QUESTION c. 1990, a book was out that tracked the top 5 college preferences of the children of the social register in large cities on the East Coast, from the years 1900 to 1950. The only college, besides Harvard Yale Princeton that was in the top 5 in more than one city was Williams (Boston and NY). The authors stated that Williams was considered "the national liberal arts college" and an exceptional alternative to HYP with the best educational facilities for a small liberal arts college. I only have some of my notes on this book — does anyone know the title, the author(s), etc? I asked Fred Rudolph over the weekend at the reunion and he could not remember either.
Can anyone help Bob?
4) I think that having students from extremely rich families want to go to Williams is a very, very good thing. If the Hollander twins had not wanted to go to Williams, we would not have Hollander Hall. How much admission preference, if any, should be given to such "development" admits is an open question. (Such cases used to be called "Morty Specials" by the admissions office. Has the nomenclature changed yet?)


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North movie-maker Paul Anderson is to tie the knot with his screen-siren girlfriend Milla Jovovich, the Sunday Sun can reveal.
The couple were in Paris to celebrate his 38th birthday when Paul proposed . . . and the Hollywood beauty accepted.
Newcastle-born Paul, and Milla, who have been dating for two years, have not yet set a date for the big day but plan to move in together very soon.
"Paul's birthday was on March 5 and they were in Paris together, and that's when he proposed and she said `yes'," said his personal assistant Kurt Bloom.
Speaking from Paul's Impact Pictures offices in Los Angeles, he said: "No wedding day has been set as yet but they're both very happy to be engaged.
"We don't know where the wedding will be held yet either.
"But everyone, all their friends, family and colleagues, are thrilled that they are engaged because they are so wonderful together."
The former Royal Grammar School pupil moved to the US eight years ago and now lives in Venice Beach, Los Angeles.
Paul shot to fame when he turned the popular computer game Mortal Kombat into a Hollywood blockbuster, sparking a rash of copycat films including Streetfighter.
After making the scary sci-fi Event Horizon he set about transforming his favourite computer game Resident Evil into a big screen hit.
That's when he fell in love with his leading lady Milla, 27, star of The Fifth Element, Zoolander and hundreds of glamorous TV adverts for cosmetics giant L'Oreal.
The two may be a hot celebrity couple but they choose to shun glitzy nights out in Tinsel Town, in favour of cosy nights.
They have maintained separate homes while dating, with Paul settled in Venice Beach and Milla in the Hollywood Hills . . . but they now plan to find a home together.
Ukraine-born Milla shot to fame after appearing on her first glossy magazine cover at the tender age of 11.
She launched her acting career when she was 15, in Return to the Blue Lagoon.
She has been wed twice before but this union will delight her parents, who were shocked when, aged 16, she eloped with her Dazed and Confused co-star Shane Andrews.
Their marriage was annulled after just two months.
She married The Fifth Element director Luc Besson four years later but the two were divorced after 18 months.
This time, friends hope marriage is for keeps. Milla has said of Paul: "I've had a lot of things that have been emotionally trying, and he's stuck with me. Maybe he's the one."
And there's no doubt Paul wants to stay with the face of L'Oreal forever . . . because she's worth it!


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Photography Classes in Abiquiu NM
Looking for photography classes in Abiquiu NM? Whether you are a beginner, hobbyist, or professional, the best approach to improving your photography abilities is through hands-on training with knowledgeable instructors.
There are many accredited and recognized photography schools in New Mexico. Photography classes teach subjects such as digital capture, lighting techniques, exposure, composition, outdoor photography, and many other basic and advanced camera techniques. Becoming an accomplished photographer can lead to a successful professional career or lifelong hobby.
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Northern New Mexico College
921 Paseo de Onate
Espanola, New Mexico 87532
Phone: (505) 747-2100
17.87 miles away
Santa Fe University of Art and Design
1600 St. Michael's Drive
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505-7634
Phone: (505) 473-6011
41.87 miles away
Santa Fe Community College
6401 Richards Ave
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508-4887
Phone: (505) 428-1000
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NDAA is the National Defense Authorization Act. Two sections of the bill permit the Kidnapping (arrest and indefinite detention without due process) of both citizens and non-citizens, charged with being tangentially related to terrorist groups or activities.
Members of Congress keep misleading constituents about what the bill actually does.
DownsizeDC.org already addressed the lie, "Don't Worry, the NDAA exempts Americans" back on January 17. We consider that to be Part 1 in our responding to lies series.
The Latest Lie
A DC Downsizer writes, "Senator (blank)'s office is claiming that the NDAA gives the executive no new authority and only codifies a 2001 Supreme Court decision."
This is supposed to make us feel better?
It doesn't matter whether the office making this claim realizes they are prevaricating or they're just ignorant and repeating a fable they've been told. Neither explanation of their behavior reflects well on them.
Let's strip the cleverness. What are they're ACTUALLY saying?
"For years, the Executive Branch has usurped and used very similar powers. We, in Congress, have come along and brought the code of law in compliance with these acts. We have merely provided our endorsement and cover to them."
Now, there's actually a grain of truth in that statement, when it's rendered that accurately. The Executive branch was outside the law. So what the Senator's office is really saying is, "Two wrongs make a right."
But this answer is still misleading because this bill does NEW things . . .
1) For the first time, America was declared part of the "battlefield" in the war on terrorism.
* Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who backed the bill, indicated that the bill "basically say(s) in law for the first time that the homeland is part of the battlefield," and that people can be imprisoned without charge or trial "American citizen or not."
* Another supporter, Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) also declared that the bill is needed because "America is part of the battlefield."
2) Indefinite detention for American citizens was also novel.
Consider the following exchange between him and Senator Rand Paul from the Senate floor . . .
MR. PAUL: My question would be, under the provisions, would it be possible that an American citizen could be declared an 'enemy combatant' and sent to Guantanamo Bay, and detained indefinitely?
MR. McCAIN: I think that as long as that individual, NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE, if they POSE A THREAT to the security of the United States of America, should not be allowed to continue the threat.
3) As of yet, no bill calls for total repeal of BOTH offending sections, 1021 and 1022. But there are bills by Senator Diane Feinstein, Ron Paul, and others, calling for modification or repeal of various aspects.
Why would such bills be necessary, and even more important, why are they being resisted, IF, no new power is represented here?
- Repeal 1021? Well, we don't really need it because the power already existed, right?
- Declare that America is not part of the battlefield, continuing with Posse Comitatus? Why not, since there's nothing new here?
- Exempt Americans? Why object, if there's nothing novel about this law?
By the way, since there's an office saying that there's a Supreme Court case, and they are merely "ratifying," then I'm curious about two more things . . .
1) What is the decision to which they are referring?
2) What clause in the Constitution permitted either the Executive Branch or the Supreme Court to create a law, and the Congress to come along and "ratify" it? Isn't this EXPRESSLY the opposite of the Constitutional design, whereby the elected representatives of the people legislate?
I hate to name names because this "Don't Worry" lying campaign is widespread amongst Congress-criminals. Call your Reps and Senators to find out if they are among the guilty.
Copyright (c) 2012 by Jim Babka. Permission to distribute this blog post for educational purposes is granted, if done with attribution to the author and the DownsizeDC.org, Inc. Permission to use for commercial purposes is denied.
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Property Details for MLS® # C4092381
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- Price: $114,900
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Zoned Light Industrial. Great place to start your Business! This lot is on the corner and features 163 feet of Frontage for your Business! Seller has interest in property and a licensed realtor in the province of Alberta. Co owner is related to the listing REALTOR. Owners will build to suit in either Condo or Lease capacity. Plans are just an example and can be modified as per builder or lessee needs and area required. (Drawn Plans are in supplements.)
Contact Kelly Kernick About MLS® C4092381
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- Address: 817 1 ST SE
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The Rimers of Eldritch
Once a thriving mining town, Eldritch, Missouri has fallen on hard times. An old loner approaches a young girl in the woods. A witness shoots him dead. Gossip runs riot in the community as every detail of the case is examined in court and debated on the streets of Eldritch.
Lanford Wilson's early play is a turning point in American drama. His verbatim-style writing sets the stage for plays such as The Laramie Project and recalls Bertolt Brecht's model for epic theatre. The Street Scene, representing conflicting voices from a community in crisis.
"Rimers looked, sounded and felt new and exciting in the AADA context. The reports have been glowing, the students have been challenged well in varying ways, and their skills have grown accordingly." Andrew Davidson, Head of AADA
Set Design
Director: JASON LANGLEY
Playwright: LANFORD WILSON
Lighting Design: MATT COX
Costume Design: MEGAN VENHOEK
Sculptor: Ross Feller
Photographer: HEIDREN LORH
Australian Academy of Dramatic Art
Pilgrim Theatre, Sydney
December 2012
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Creative Play Workshops: Arts as Intervention for ages 2-5
Creative storytelling, dramatic play, and expressive movement activities reduce stress and support social and emotional development, coping skills, and resiliency. With curriculum development guidance and training from trauma-informed care consultant Kamyala Howard, CTC Teaching Artists align theatre arts based activities with developmentally appropriate strategies for ages 2-5.
creative storytelling with child-led participation
dramatic play with sensory integration
mindfulness activities
Creative Play Workshops are currently in residence at:
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery works to end abuse and neglect and create strong, healthy families. The Crisis Nursery supports families in crisis through services including overnight residential childcare. The Crisis Nursery shelters children for up to three nights.
People Serving People is the largest and most comprehensive family shelter in Minnesota. PSP helps homeless and at-risk children and their families manage crisis situations and build a strong foundation for their long-term success, including an on-site preschool program.
Center of Excellence for Resilience is new childcare center featuring trauma-informed healing practices for children and families. The Center's multi-generational approach helps increase the stability of children in our community through direct services–early childhood education, school-age support, and parental engagement—operating upstream from the shelter system to reach families before they need emergency shelter services.
Creative Play: Arts as Intervention Evaluation shows promising practices: Wilder Research Report
In 2015, CTC piloted our arts as intervention approach and 'Creative Play' curriculum with over 50 sessions at partnering sites: American Indian Montessori Childcare Center, Early Wonders, Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery, Northside Child Development Center, People Serving People, Way to Grow at Urban Ventures. Wilder Research collected observations from site staff about the Creative Play strategies that had impact on their practices: "When asked what strategies they planned to continue, many described plans to incorporate dramatic play, story-telling activities, and breathing exercises, and to encourage input from the children."
I feel like after our exposure to the trauma-informed creative arts activities we would be able to act out stories using our bodies to create a nurturing environment through social-emotional learning. It will be a wonderful way for kids to express themselves and begin to understand each other.
The stretching and breathing techniques used before each session [were] a great way to get the children's bodies ready for the activities ahead. I plan to use these or similar techniques before my group times.
I will ask the children more open-ended questions about their play and stories we are reading. Allowing time for responses from the children and accepting those responses!
Trauma-Informed Care Consultant: Kamyala Howard, MSW, LICSW has vast experience working with children and families in diverse communities, including early childhood program development, intercultural community relations, direct clinical practice, and executive leadership. Ms. Howard has a range of professional certifications, including certified Adverse Childhood Experiences trainer and an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Graduate Certification through the University of Minnesota. She is on many advisory councils, such as Voices and Choices for Children and Children and Family Ombudsman, and is a member of the council of advisors for the Center for Early Education and Development within the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota.
CTC acknowledges critical support for the Creative Play Workshops from:
Sheltering Arms (2015-2016)
Englesma Family Foundation (2016-2017)
Minnesota State Arts Board Partners in Arts Participation (2016-2017) supports the Crisis Nursery in their partnership with Children's Theatre Company. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Sauer Family Foundation (2017-2018)
Learn more about our valued partners:
Center of Excellence
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery
People Serving People
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Federal Housing Authority loan programs allow borrowers with bad credit or those with limited funds for a down payment to borrow up to 96.5 percent of the value of a home through a mortgage program sponsored by the government. However, the FHA sets the maximum loan amounts and uses the maximum debt ratios based on your income to determine your individual credit limit.
Basics of FHA Loan
The FHA is one of the largest government-sponsored mortgage programs, which aims to keep the housing market moving by making mortgage financing available to homebuyers who cannot get affordable loans with an FHA lender under Housing and Urban Development, FHA provides loans to FHA lenders to offset their risk by providing financing to high-risk borrowers. The main benefits include a lower payment requirement of 3.5 percent of the purchase price, low closing costs, and easier credit rating.
FHA limits ready
To protect its own interests, as well as the interests of lenders and borrowers, the FHA imposes ceilings on the fha loan process in every region of the United States, according to the FHA plus Loan website. Caps are adjusted each year and aim to set maximum amounts of appropriate loans for areas based on relative home values. The FHA plus Loan site notes that the highest limit for a one-unit property in 2009 was $ 729,750. The ceiling was down $ 271,050, which has been applied in many more affordable markets across the country. Consumers can search the HUD website by state and county to find current boundaries for each area.
Debt ratios
Another tool used to decide how much you can borrow with an FHA loan is a common debt-to-income ratio. This is a ratio used to compare your monthly debt obligations, including car loan payments, credit cards, and other personal debts, with your gross income. While traditional lenders operate with a common guideline of a maximum ratio of 36 percent, the FHA allows up to 41 percent of your income to go towards debt payments. Similarly, an income-related mortgage establishes a maximum portion of your income, e to go towards a home payment. Banks typically operate with a standard 28 percent income mortgage cap. FHA lenders allow 29 percent. So,
Mortgage insurance
An important consideration in the decision to obtain a loan from the FHA is its mortgage insurance required. This is an insurance that covers your mortgage payments if you involuntarily lose your work and cannot make payments. This requirement is included to protect the lender, the program and you. However, it adds about 1 percent to your monthly mortgage payments, which is a major reason the maximum ratio of debt loads is higher for FHA loans.
What should I get back on an FHA Home loan?
An FHA Home loan is a mortgage home loan insured by the FHA. By ensuring the FHA lender against the default of the borrower, the FHA reduces the risk of writing a mortgage. The down payment for an FHA mortgage can be as little as 3 percent for buyers with good credit, compared to the industry standard of 20 percent.
To qualify for an FHA mortgage, you must prove that you have had at least three years of regular income. The source of income is not important as long as it is constant; wages, self-employment income, child support, pensions, seasonal pay, Veterans Administration benefits, Social Security and alimony can all qualify you. Overtime pay and work premiums are acceptable if you can demonstrate that payments have been constant over the three years. You will need documents, such as W-2s, tax returns or social security statements, to confirm your income.
Housing costs
With an FHA loan, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development says that housing costs can be as high as 29 percent of your gross monthly income; with a conventional loan, the limit is usually 28 percent. Housing costs or "Piti" are the main interests and monthly payments on your mortgage, your property taxes and the insurance of your landlord. The higher your income goes towards your PITI, the less you have leftover to cover monthly expenses, which can mean a higher default risk.
Debt to income
Debt versus income is another mortgage standard. To calculate it, the lender combines your monthly debts – credit card bills, alimony, student loan payments, car payments, and others – with your PITI potential; in conventional loans, the total should not be greater than 36 percent of your income. With FHA Mortgage Insurance, your debts can be up to 41 percent of your gross monthly income. To calculate what this figure is, multiply your gross salary by 0.41.
Even the 41 percent figure is not an absolute with an FHA loan. HUD says the FHA will allow for a bigger report if, for example, you have a large down payment, a lot of money in the bank or a net worth so high, you can pay the mortgage no matter what your income East. FHA will also accept a higher ratio if you increase the size of your down payment. If none of these cases, you may have to settle for a smaller mortgage with smaller payments.


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Goa is one of the favourite holiday destinations of the world traveler, and for good reason. The weather is warm and sunny almost all year round. The beaches are beautiful and the blue waters of Goa are great for swimming in. However, in recent years, the adventure seekers have been discovering that the lush landscapes, rocky cliffs, thundering rivers, and sprawling beaches of Goa allow for plenty of fun activities, and snorkeling in Goa is one of them.Why you should go snorkeling in Goa
The colorful variety of fish and the vibrant coral formations found at many locations on the coastline of the Goa have attracted curious travelers and nature lovers tourists globally. You're sure to see some gorgeous tropical fish, but if you're lucky, you might spot dolphins swimming alongside your boat!
Snorkeling in Goa is a peaceful adventure, with safe serene waters and paradise-like settings to choose from. It fits in with the relaxed Goan holiday mood and will give you a day out that you'll think about often. Also, snorkeling does not require any technical skills or knowledge, and has less stringent health requirements.Itineraries for snorkeling in Goa
There are a few popular spots for Goa snorkeling, but one of the best is Grande Island. Most Goa snorkeling trips begin in the morning, and if you're staying at North Goa, you will be picked up in a vehicle and driven to the start point. You'll board boats that take you out to Grande Island, and there you can get ready for your Goa snorkeling adventure. After the snorkeling is done, you'll head to the deserted beach, where a fun Goan-style barbecue and buffet lunch are set up for you. There's also unlimited beer and rum provided, but you won't be allowed to go back in the water if you drink. By late afternoon, you'll head back and will be dropped off to your hotel. Your Goa snorkeling adventure ends here.
Goa snorkeling day trips pack in plenty of fun and adventure that can be experienced by people of all age groups, as long as they are comfortable in the water. A package for snorkeling in Goa can cost anywhere between INR 1899 to INR 3000, and will provide almost a full day of fun.What to carry on your Goa snorkeling trip
Make sure you wear swimwear or quick dry clothing that will not restrict your movement. For the time spent on the boat or beach, you might want to carry a spare tee to protect you from the sun. Don't forget to carry your sunscreen and reapply as needed. Avoid denim shorts or thick cotton tees that will get heavy in the water.Best time for snorkeling in Goa:
The best time to go snorkeling in Goa is during the summer. The weather stays warm and comfortable, and you'll dry off quickly in the sun. The visibility is also best during this time, so you'll be able to see pretty far.


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Can you believe it!!! I started on this WIP again last night and it felt so good to have a needle in my hand after a couple months hiatus. As you many know, I have been hooked on crocheting for the past few months and stitching has been put on the back burner. I joined Jayne's Crazy January Challenge and got no stitching done in January, but I have all year to finish up my projects so any little bit helps.Here is the after pic. I only got a little bit done on the bottom right hand corner. This is a sampler from The Sampler Life Yahoo Group, and it is done in pages. After you finish a page you send a picture in and you get the next page. I am almost finished page 6 and will be sending my pic in for page 7 today. I know I can start on it anyway and the sampler is pretty symmetrical.
Big sister is watching her new movie this morning, Tinkerbell, while I do a little blogging and laundry, and dishes, and sweeping, and bed making, and tidying..... Does it ever end?


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Daniel Torjman, founder/creative director of 18 Waits.
18 Waits 990 Queen West, 416-303-0018
Owner Daniel Torjman, founder/creative director
The store Cult Toronto menswear brand 18 Waits has opened its first flagship just in time for the holiday season. The store carries its signature line of hip yet never trendy, rugged yet always polished clothing, as well as items from brands like Lunettes Kollektion, Misc. Goods Co. and Lafco candles. We perused the racks with owner/founder Torjman for its most amazing giftable wares.
The design "All of our store furniture has been custom-designed and made for us by two very talented local furniture makers, William Bache Bespoke Design and Adam Fullerton."
The collection "We stock our entire 18 Waits fall/winter 2016 collection, which is important because we design each collection thoughtfully and purposefully, and there's a reason for every fabric and style choice."
The 'hood "My staff and I all live within walking distance from our store/studio. We're not simply moving into the trendy part of town - we've been living in it for the past nine years. If the store was located elsewhere, this neighbourhood would still be home."
18 Waits must-gift holiday picks
Photos by Tanja-Tiziana
Bowie Baumer jacket in charcoal waxed cotton, $475.
Slim Suit trouser in charcoal wool, $285. Woodsman shirt in charcoal check flannel, $230.
Neuwirth shirt in Living Dead print, $230. Hopper shirt in Living Dead print (Hopper Hunter brand), $60.
Ramblin' Weekender in navy waxed cotton, $395.
In the neighbourhood, we caught up with: Nadia
Nadia Gohar in Kensington/Chinatown
The local Nadia Gohar, artist, 27
Holiday plans "Visiting my dad in Guatemala."
Favourite neighbourhood store "The Chinatown Dollar Mart at Dundas and Spadina. They've been having a closing 40 per cent off everything sale for about two years."
More great gift ideas:
Take a pictorial trip to some of the world's best beaches with Canadian photographer Joshua Jensen Nagle's retrospective book ($50, Bau-Xi Photo, 324 Dundas West, 416-977-0400).
Celebrate Queen West's unofficial mascot with Oxford Pennant's white squirrel banner for Tuck Shop Trading Co.'s "City of Neighbourhoods" series ($85, Tuck Shop Trading Co., 1226 Yonge, 416-859-3566).
Adorn your walls with Stephanie Cheng's prints of vintage Toronto's most iconic sport heroes ($30 each, the Weekend Variety, 1080 Queen West, 416-993-6510).
These miniature 14-karat gold hoops by Toronto's Attic Gold make the perfect gift for those with a penchant for understated glamour ($160, the Devil's Workshop, 890 Queen West, 416-855-4321).
Gap's (RED) collection celebrates 10 years in support of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria with this limited-edition collaboration with six renowned female street artists, each of whom has redesigned the brand's utility jacket ($198 each, Gap, 60 Bloor West, and others, 416-921-2225).
Add a tropical accent to their at-home bar set-up with copper pineapple shot glasses ($48/two, BYOB Cocktail Emporium, 972 Queen West, and other, 647-727-3600).
The Art Of The Cheese Plate, a book by Tia Keenan, is probably the most conveniently selfish gift you can give this season ($45, Frank + Oak, 735 Queen West, 647-930-8711, and others).
The Christmas Eve tradition of reading ghost stories has been brought back to life by indie publisher Biblioasis and Canadian cartoonist Seth, who's designed and illustrated classics like Edith Wharton's Afterward ($8.95, Type Books, 883 Queen West, 416-366-8973, and other).
Special-edition Toy Story Vans, for forever kids and wannabe cowboys alike ($90, Vans, 245 Yonge, 416-866-2121).
Sonos PLAY: 1 is the ideal aural accoutrement for condo living ($219, Bay Bloor Radio, Manulife Centre, 55 Bloor West., 416-967-1122).
Ensure a permanent spot at their dinner table with this statement ceiling lamp ($429, Shelter Furniture, 885 Caledonia, 416-783-3333).
For a gift that makes serious impact, give something from Oxfam's Unwrapped series, which includes gifts ranging from seeds to clean water to hygiene kits in parts of the world that need it most ($12-1,300).
Jardins d'Écrivains has recreated a beatnik favourite, white California burning sage, for all your artisanal cleansing needs ($75, suitehazen.com).
The urbanite's answer to a mall credit, West Queen West's e-gift cards are accepted at a variety of retailers, restaurants, spas and salons on the hot shopping street between Bathurst and Gladstone (various prices).
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These stunning pipes are handcrafted in Manitoba from precious stones found in northern Ontario. Need we say more ($125 each, Tokyo Smoke, 850B Adelaide West, 647-348-6596)?
A French-designed memory game hones those visual skills ($35, Ella + Elliot, 188 Strachan, 416-850-7890).
What could be more essential than this banana bather flowerpot by Group Partner ($85, Easy Tiger Goods, 1447 Dundas West, 647-748-6161)?
A classic that just won't quit, Fred Perry's M12 shirt is a sure bet for just about any guy on your list ($120, Fred Perry, 964 Queen West, 416-538-3733).
For the film buff who dreams of staying at the movies' most iconic hotels, consider these movie hotel notepads, from Dirty Dancing's romantic Kellerman's Resort to The Shining's terrifying Overlook ($30 for a set of eight, Type Books, 883 Queen West, 416-366-8973, and other).
Go beyond the LCBO's selection with Wine Online, which sells an exclusive selection of wines otherwise unavailable in Ontario, like this Hacienda Lopez de Haro Rioja from Spain ($14.95).
A dainty ring with witchy vibes from Seattle-based jewellery brand Fresh Tangerine ($45, Zane, 753 Queen West, 647-352-9263).
For the commitment-phobe on your list, Inkbox offers over 350 temporary tattoo designs that vanish after two weeks ($25-$35).
Get more holiday and gift ideas here. Still to come: more neighbourhood-centric shopping guides.


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You know, among the mess of retro swag that has come in waves over the last decade, one thing has stayed more or less dead. Cassette tape couture, we've seen that. Fashions of all sorts have come and gone. But, one thing stayed in the coffin of history, until now.
Yes, someone has exhumed disco. Long thought to have been killed (demolished, some would say) in July of 1979 at a White Sox doubleheader in Chicago, disco has been revived by Pyle and their Bluetooth Disco Jam Stereo Speaker System. It's a high-powered speaker system that will definitely be able to blast your KC and the Sunshine Band tunes at recklessly high volumes. This thing has a total of 600 watts of output, coming from a 10" subwoofer and three 5" Piezo Tweeters. There's also seven-band EQ.
Input comes in a lot of different ways. The Pyle Bluetooth Disco Jam Stereo Speaker System is, as the name implies, Bluetooth compatible. There are also USB and 3.5 mm ports, and you'll also see a built-in FM radio, if you really want to trust your party to the whims of the radio DJ.
Of course, the centerpiece is the light-up disco ball (more like disco dome) sticking up out of the console. There's also a luggage-style carrying handle, so you can wheel it off easily once the party is done and everyone has recovered from their bouts of Saturday Night Fever.
The Pyle Bluetooth Disco Jam Stereo Speaker System will tear up your dance floor for about $200.


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2020 BMW Pickup Truck. There are many assumptions about luxury cars to be launched soon. Prior to that, the talks focused on BMW, a leading German automotive company worldwide. Founded in 1916 and became one of the most successful vehicles to date. The first car launched is Dixie, and over the years, with the development of tools and devices as well, their cars have produced essentially unique and automated functions. Here are information and rumors about the new BMW 2020.
It's just a rumor, of course. But, do not take it that easy. For a while, we see concepts showing something that could have been a BMW pickup truck. From sedans taken to intersections, it is clear that the entire automobile industry likes to see a car. A pickup truck can be a BMW 2020 solution. The keyword may be because the company is still silent about it.
Let's go back to the rumors. In 2011, we were able to see the M3 truck concept. It is certainly a joke and no admirer can imagine it on the road. Now, with the Crossover group growing very fast, and trucks approaching design, the BMW truck is not unrealistic. However, it is not easy to turn an SUV into a truck by cutting the cabin and turning it into a bed.
BMW's main competitors are also preparing for trucks. With the Mercedes-Benz X-Class and the Audi pickup, we will see a new dimension to this sector. German auto manufacturers are not leaders in Europe alone, but also in many sectors in the United States. However, so far, there have been no plans to enter the truck sector. If this happens, will happen sooner or later, the three companies will not give you another advantage. Therefore, it is only a matter of time which of these companies will present the first model.
2020 BMW Pickup Truck Design
Although we have already seen a sedan turned into a truck, it is unlikely that BMW will borrow an M3 platform truck. We can see the x5 truck instead of any other model. The crossover is versatile and attractive, and its concept is the best combination for a new car.
2020 BMW Pickup Truck Engine
The X5 SUV is an excellent solution for the BMW 2020 for many reasons. Not only that car can provide a platform that can become pickup, but also for engine options.
The BMW V-6 will carry a standard V-6 engine. However, the Crossover also has a V-8, so you can see the upper settings of the pickup under the hood. That's not all since the diesel transmission is also in the 2020 pickup. All engines have a turbocharger, which helps them save more power. The V-6 is good for 300 hp, the big V-6 can produce 450 hp, while the diesel price is 250 hp, but with high torque.
Lots of energy has its cost in mpg rating. The BMW Truck is not fuel-friendly, so the BMW 2020 pickup truck is likely to have some alternatives. Simple power adapters, without the turbocharger, will consume less fuel, but the output will be smaller.
2020 BMW Pickup Truck Release Date And Price
With many similarities, fans can see the price of the BMW X5 in a BMW 2020, but we suspect that the German automaker can succeed in a new sector at an initial price of $ 50,000. Reducing many options and engines is mandatory, and the cost must be less than $ 40,000.
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Apple Mac Mini Intel Core i5 2.3Ghz DDR3 – Mid- 2011 RAM Upgrades Cheap
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The Apple Mac mini Intel Core i5 2.3 GHZ was a slightly less powerful version of the Mac Mini introduced in mid-2011. The Mac Mini was the first Mac desktop for the consumer market. Conceived as an entry level model to the Apple product line, like its sibling unit the Mac Mini 2.6 GHz i5, it has no display, keyboard or mouse and no built-in optical drive. Apple promoted this as "Bring Your Own Display, Keyboard and Mouse…" to justify the lower cost. By eliminating the optical drive in all Mac Minis since the first they were able to reduce their initial MSRP down one hundred dollars from its predecessor.
The Apple Mac mini Intel Core i5 2.3 included the server version as part of the Mac OS, as have all Mac minis since the first revision of the model in mid 2010.
The Apple Mac mini Intel Core i5 2.3 GHz features the aluminum unibody design that replaced the original chassis which featured a polycarbonate top and bottom panels on the aluminum case. The unit measures 7.7 inches (19.7 cm) square and 1.4 inches (3.6 cm) tall. It weighs 2.7 pounds (1.22 kg). The processor that shipped with the computer was a 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 with 3MB on-chip shared L3 cache
Apple Mac Mini Intel Core i5 features:
• 500GB (5400-rpm) hard drive configurable to 256GB solid-state drive or 256GB solid-state drive and 750GB (7200-rpm) hard drive
• AMD Radon HD 6630M graphics processor with 256MB of GDDR5 memory
• Support for dual display and video mirroring
• Thunderbolt port with support for up to 2560-by-1600 resolution
• HDMI port with support for up to 1920-by-1200 resolution
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• Support for Apple phone headset with microphone
• Built-in speaker
• Thunderbolt port (up to 10 Gaps)
• FireWire 800 port (up to 800 Mbps)
• Four USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps)
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• 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet (RJ-45 connector)
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Continuing Apple's commitment to Green technology and recyclability of its product line, the Apple Mac Min 2.3 GHZ featured a recyclable aluminum enclosure, met ENERGY STAR 5.2 requirements and Rated EPEAT Gold
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• Maximum Memory Allowed: 8 GB
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The G.I.Joe Collectors Club has announced a new guest for the G.I.Joe Collectors Convention, none other than Mr. David Kunitz! From the Club –
DAVID "OZONE" KUNITZ probably worked on the 3 3/4-inch G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero brand longer then any one designer. Although starting out on Transformers in 1984, he immediately took on responsibilities for G.I. Joe vehicles. David designed vehicles through an amazing time in the 80s and into the 90s. He is credited for work on G.I. Joe: The Movie and G.I. Joe: Sgt. Savage. He also was instrumental in bringing back the 12-inch G.I. Joe in the 90s. He moved from G.I. Joe to work on other toys for Hasbro when G.I. Joe decided to be "G.I. Joe Extreme". He left Hasbro to work on brands such as Battletech, Tyco RC, Tyco Electric Race and Matchbox. He was Director of Matchbox vehicles until Hasbro invited him back to lead boys toys for Hasbro Direct, where he participated in bringing back 3 3/4-inch G.I. Joe through Toys "R" Us. David then went on to become vice president of design for boys toys at Hasbro. He was involved in many aspects of G.I. Joe.
David's likeness was used on two G.I. Joe figures. The 1st being Thrasher, the driver for the Thunder Machine. He had Ron Rudat create an outfit out of lacrosse equipment. The 2nd figure is Ozone, a member of Eco-Warriors and Star Brigade. Ozone's file card displays his name: David F Kunitz. His work has been featured in several books and on video, most recently on a G.I. Joe episode of the Netflix series "The Toys That Made Us".
Presently David Kunitz is the owner of D-Kid group LLC. D-Kid group LLC is a successful product development company that is now partnering on startups to create product for mass-market. It also provides freelance design and consulting for toy companies. These products include interactive books and storytelling, exercise equipment, medical devices, automotive accessories, toys, games, and apiculture. David was educated to be a designer and inventor at Purdue University, and continued his education with Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in executive development. David volunteers on the Board of Directors for RIMOSA – Rhode Island Museum of Science and Art and presently is Chair for the Institutional Planning committee. RIMOSA's mission is to awaken curiosity and increase independent thinking, creativity, innovation and invention. This mission is accomplished by encouraging the exploration of science and art through interactive exhibits, educational programming, performances and other museum events.
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There is no denying mid-century design was particularly special for art, cars & furniture but also true for a variety of watch designs. It was a period of experimentation with minimalism, asymmetry and new materials which opened the door for the use of wood in timepieces. Introduced in the late fifties and [...]
This week, we're revisiting an old friend, Japanese Steampunk watchmaker, Sueyoshi Haruo (also referred to as Haruo Suekichi), featured nearly a decade ago on The Watchismo Times blog. Having created thousands of custom built Steampunk watches, all nearly one of a kind and with completely hilarious mechanical functions like flapping leather dragon wings to celebratory noisemakers and [...]
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Andrew Grima was a famous British mid-century modern jewelry designer, commissioned to create unusual one-of-a-kind watches for Omega and Pulsar in the 60's & early 70's. He was commissioned by Omega to create a highly aesthetic avant-garde collection called 'About Time'. Grima was given a free hand and chose to stick to one principle: he would [...]
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Thursday, August 18, 2016
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Wednesday, August 3, 2016
New 4th Dimension Concrete Dial Watch by 22 Design Studio, the Harbour Edition
New 4th Dimension Watch: Harbour Edition
The Harbour Model combines a dark gray concrete watch surface with a brushed stainless steel bezel, silver and blue hands, a polished stainless-steel crown, and a canglan leather band. This color combination exudes a subtle sophistication and elegantly complements formal wear.
Materials: 316L Stainless Steel Case, High-density Concrete, Sapphire Glass Lens, MIYOTA movement, Leather Strap Case Measurement: Ø 42mm D 14mm
Time divides and measures the progress of existence. A timepiece displays that time in three dimensions. With "4th Dimension Timepieces" , we bring these dimensions together with an original design. The timepieces' concrete construction strongly proclaims its physicality while its design, in the shape of a spiral staircase, helps you envision the concept of time by its constantly evolving patterns of light and shade. These timepieces clearly tell the time while quietly engaging the viewer in the concepts of a 4th dimension.
Monday, August 1, 2016
Discover Fiyta Watches
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A picture is worth a thousand hours -- and these new skeletonized mechanical watches from FIYTA are hard not to notice and easy to read. You'll see a wide variety from this daring automatic collection, all featuring new & unusual ways of displaying the time while seeing into the inner workings of the mechanics.
These have the finishing of a watch costing thousands of dollars but this collection starts at just a few hundred bucks with nothing over $599. You'll definitely find one in your price range as well as fitting that missing piece in your collection of unusual mechanical timepieces.
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Friday, July 29, 2016
Mr. Jones Watches "An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles" Limited Edition of only 100
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On being asked what one could learn about God from a study of his creation the Victorian biologist Haldane answered, "that he has an inordinate fondness for beetles"
There are 350,000 identified species of beetle, accounting for 30% of all animal life. An inordinate fondness for beetles is a celebration of this most abundant of insects.
The design was created with English illustrator Lucy Eves, there is a scurrying mass of beetles arranged across the case, the glass, the dial and the disc hand. Lucy explains the thinking behind the watch,
"the design is inspired by those wonderfully intricate and diverse displays of pinned Victorian entomological collections which have found their way into my illustration work before; yet the beetles contained here are on the move, swarming and scuttling in every direction, creating a mobile bug-box to exhibit on your arm.
Time flies? Maybe it just beetles..."
The time display unconventional: the hour is read from the position of the colored beetle in the crescent. The crescent shows 12 hours running from 6 on the left to 6 on the right. The green beetle indicates the hours from 6am to 6pm. At 6pm the green beetle disappears on the right and the red beetle appears on the left. The red beetle shows the hours from 6pm through to 6am.
The display is based on the Sun and Moon watches that were first produced in Britain in the late 1600s during a period of experimentation with the watch face and how to represent the time, before the concentric hour and minute hands became established as the universal standard which we still use.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2016
A Clockwork Orange - Top Ten Coolest Orange Watches
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Thomas "Tommy" Harold Flowers, MBE (22 December 1905 – 28 October 1998) was a British engineer. During World War II, Flowers designed Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages.
Flowers was born at 160 Abbott Road, Poplar in London's East End on 22 December 1905, the son of a bricklayer.[1] Whilst undertaking an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, he took evening classes at the University of London to earn a degree in electrical engineering.[1] In 1926, he joined the telecommunications branch of the General Post Office (GPO), moving to work at the research station at Dollis Hill in north-west London in 1930. In 1935, he married Eileen Margaret Green and the couple later had two children, John and Kenneth.[1]
From 1935 onward, he explored the use of electronics for telephone exchanges. By 1939, he was convinced that an all-electronic system was possible. This background in switching electronics would prove crucial for his computer design in World War II.
Flowers's first contact with the wartime codebreaking effort came in February 1941[2] when his director, W Gordon Radley was asked for help by Alan Turing, who was then working at the government's Bletchley Park codebreaking establishment 50 miles north west of London in Buckinghamshire. Turing wanted Flowers to build a decoder for the relay-based Bombe machine, which Turing had developed to help decrypt the Germans' Enigma codes. Although the decoder project was abandoned, Turing was impressed with Flowers's work, and in February 1943 introduced him to Max Newman who was leading the effort to automate part of the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. This was a high-level German cipher generated by a teletypewriter in-line cipher machine, the SZ40/42, one of their "Geheimschreiber" (secret writer) systems, that was called "Tunny" by the British. It was a much more complex system than Enigma; the decoding procedure involved trying so many possibilities that it was impractical to do by hand. Flowers and Frank Morrell (also at Dollis Hill) designed the Heath Robinson, the first machine designed to decrypt the Lorenz or "Fish" machine cyphers.
Flowers proposed an electronic system, which his staff called Colossus, using perhaps 1,800 thermionic valves (vacuum tubes), and having only one paper tape instead of two (which required synchronisation) by generating the wheel patterns electronically. Because the most complicated previous electronic device had used about 150 valves, some were sceptical that the system would be reliable. Flowers countered that the British telephone system used thousands of valves and was reliable because the electronics were operated in a stable environment with the circuitry on all the time. The Bletchley Park management were not convinced, however, and merely encouraged Flowers to proceed on his own. He did so, providing much of the funds for the project himself. Flowers had first met (and got on with) Turing in 1939, but was treated with disdain by Gordon Welchman, because of his advocacy of valves rather than relays. Welchman preferred the views of Wynn-Williams and Keene of BTM (who had designed and constructed the Bombe), and wanted Radley and "Mr Flowers of Dollis Hill" removed from work on Colossus for "squandering good valves".[3]
On 2 June 1943, Flowers was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire.[4][5]
Flowers gained full backing for his project from the director of Dollis Hill, W. G. Radley. With the highest priority for acquisition of parts, Flowers's extremely dedicated team at Dollis Hill built the first machine in 11 months. It was immediately dubbed 'Colossus' by the Bletchley Park staff for its immense proportions. The Mark 1 Colossus operated five times faster and was more flexible than the previous system, named Heath Robinson, which used electro-mechanical switches. The first Mark 1, with 1500 valves, ran at Dollis Hill in November 1943, and then at Bletchley Park in January 1944.
A Mark 2 redesign utilizing 2,400 valves had begun before the first computer was finished, in anticipation of a need for additional computers. The first Mark 2 Colossus went into service at Bletchley Park on 1 June 1944, and immediately produced vital information for the imminent D-Day landings planned for Monday 5 June (postponed 24 hours by bad weather). Flowers later described a crucial meeting between Dwight D. Eisenhower and his staff on 5 June, during which a courier entered and handed Eisenhower a note summarizing a Colossus decrypt. This confirmed that Hitler wanted no additional troops moved to Normandy, as he was still convinced that the preparations for the Normandy Landings were a diversionary feint. Handing back the decrypt, Eisenhower announced to his staff, "We go tomorrow."[6] Earlier, a report from Field Marshal Rommel on the western defences was decoded by Colossus and revealed that one of the sites chosen as the drop site for an US parachute division was the base for a German tank division. The site was changed.[7]
Years later, Flowers described the design and construction of these computers.[8] Ten Colossi were completed and used during World War II in British decoding efforts, and an eleventh was ready for commissioning at the end of the war. All but two were dismantled at the end of the war. "The remaining two were moved to a British Intelligence department, GCHQ in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, where they may have played a significant part in the codebreaking operations of the Cold War".[9] They were finally decommissioned in 1959 and 1960.
After the war, Flowers was granted £1,000 by the government, payment which did not cover Flowers' personal investment in the equipment and most of which he shared amongst the staff who helped him build and test Colossus. Ironically, Flowers applied for a loan from the Bank of England to build another machine like Colossus but was denied the loan because the bank did not believe that such a machine could work. He could not argue that he had already designed and built many of these machines because his work on Colossus was covered by the Official Secrets Act. His work in computing was not fully acknowledged until the 1970s. His family had known only that he had done some 'secret and important' work.[10] He remained at the Post Office Research Station where he was Head of the Switching Division. He and his group pioneered work on all-electronic telephone exchanges, completing a basic design by about 1950, which led on to the Highgate Wood Telephone Exchange. He was also involved in the development of ERNIE.[11] In 1964, he became head of the advanced development at Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd.,[12] where he continued to develop electronic telephone switching including a pulse amplitude modulation exchange, retiring in 1969.[13]
In 1976, he published Introduction to Exchange Systems, a book on the engineering principles of telephone exchanges.[14]
In 1977 Flowers was made an honorary Doctor of Science by Newcastle University.[15]
In 1980 he was the first winner of the Martlesham Medal in recognition of his achievements in computing.[16]
In 1993, he received a certificate from Hendon College, having completed a basic course in information processing on a personal computer.[17]
Flowers died in 1998 aged 92, leaving a wife and two sons.[1] He is commemorated at the Post Office Research Station site, which became a housing development, with the main building converted into a block of flats and an access road called Flowers Close. He was honoured by London Borough of Tower Hamlets, where he was born. An Information and Communications Technology (ICT) centre for young people, the Tommy Flowers Centre, opened there in November 2010.[18] The centre has closed but the building is now the Tommy Flowers Centre, part of the Tower Hamlets Pupil Referral Unit.
In September 2012, his wartime diary was put on display at Bletchley Park.[19] A road in Kesgrave, near the current BT Research Laboratories, is named Tommy Flowers Drive.[20]
On Thursday 12 December 2013, 70 years after he created Colossus, his legacy was honoured with a memorial commissioned by BT, successor to Post Office Telephones. The life-size bronze bust, designed by James Butler, was unveiled by Trevor Baylis at Adastral Park, BT's research and development centre in Martlesham Heath, near Ipswich, Suffolk. BT also began a computer science scholarship and award in his name.[21]
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