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The second edition of Investment Real Estate: Finance and Asset Management differs from other real estate investment and financial analysis publications by focusing on the real estate manager's role to ensure that the real estate management company's clients realize their investment goals for any given property. Real estate managers today are more than property overseers who must manage the day-to-day operations of their clients' properties—they are often asset managers.
This book provides insight into the real estate management company and manager's role in the financial analysis and asset management of a property. It also provides an inside look into the details of how to budget, forecast, and analyze cash flow.
Even if some real estate managers are not actively performing the financial analysis and management of a portfolio of investment real estate, they must have a basic understanding of the impact that various decisions about a property have on the cash flow and value of a property.
Today, owners have high expectations of their real estate management professionals. A strong knowledge of finance is an advantage that can enhance a real estate manager's relationships with clients and the professionals that turn to them for their expertise.
Real estate managers play a key role in preserving and enhancing the earning power of a real estate investment, and ultimately the investment's value. Experience, knowledge, and skills that are kept up to date are critical to being competitive and respected.
"How you perform as a real estate manager—NOI increases, vacancy decreases, and really looking at your budget fundamentals—has a direct impact on the value of your property. I would rather take a mediocre property and a top notch manager (preferably a CPM) than a top notch property and a mediocre manager any day." –John D. Clayton, CPM, Little Rock, Arkansas
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Cambodian newspaper Phnom Penh Post reports that Airbnb, an online home rental site based in San Francisco is also developing in Cambodia where appartments can be now rented for a fraction of the price of a hotel. According to the newspaper, more than 270 different rentals are available in Phnom Penh. A month rent can cost as little as 250 dollars a month or 25 to 30 dollars a night. Average price is around US$37 a night.
Airbnb is favoured increasingly by travellers who can also get the knowledge from a local when renting an appartment.
Some hotels even use Airbnb reservation system to sell rooms. The newspaper evocates rooms sold arounf US$45 per night at the Anise Hotel and Restaurant. Sokha Hotels & Resorts joined Airbnb weeks ago to promote Sokha Phnom Penh Residence – the serviced apartment arm of the hotel on Chroy Changvar peninsula , which is facing the city centre of Phnom Penh along the Mekong River. The property was launched last March.

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Click the drop down arrow next to the "delete" garbage can, with will bring up a dropdown list, one of the options will be "Canned responses" hover over that and your canned responses will open, click "New canned response…"
4) You will be prompted to name your new canned response
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Do You Have What it Takes to Become an Influencer?
Influencers are the new elite of the Internet age. We all want to connect with them, we all want to become influencers.
Do you really want to become influential?
Today I do not want to focus why it is not a good idea to strive to become influential. I will assume that it is perfectly OK to attempt to exert influence online.
It certainly has its advantages and I have been suggesting in the past to go after influencers to get their support.
When you take a look at who is really influential these days on the social Web you notice some patterns:
- they have a wildly popular blog or magazine
- they have published a book or more than one
- they lead their own (publishing) companies
- they have whole teams of people who do the work for them
- they mostly do the public appearances like speaking at conferences
- they have worked for so called "Fortune 500 brands"
- they reside in the US or at least in an English speaking country
They may have even more in common, this is just a very superficial collection but it's quite apt. Not all influencers fulfill all of these requirements but when you look at the likes of
- Robert Scoble
- Guy Kawasaki
- Pete Cashmore
- Seth Godin
- Rand Fishkin
you recognize a lot of the traits above. Additionally they are in most cases
- young
- white
- male
- middle class
- good looking
As we know correlation is not causation, you can become a "black" president these days so it's not impossible to become a black influencer e.g. On the other hand it may be a bit more difficult.
Women tend to get babies and are forced to stay at home more often than men. People "of color" get often judged by their race first, then by their skills.
Just look at the ridiculous amount of people claiming that Obama is a Muslim or not an American citizen at all. A white drunkard or a white womanizer didn't have these problems.
Despite of that you can succeed as well. Ideally you need health, time, money and zero obligations though. Other than that it's quite difficult to influence other people.
In case you're chronically ill, fat, homeless or a Gay Muslim Anarchist it's pretty hard to become an influencer.
Do you have to be mainstream to succeed?
You may argue that after you succeed at influencing people you'll be able to improve your fitness, prosper and let others forget your
- sexual
- religious
- political
affiliations. That's also true to some extent.
Still getting well known and making believe like you depends to a large part on you being like them.
Looking at my Klout score or other influence metrics you might assume that I am influencer myself. Why do I complain then?
Well, aside the fact that Klout rather measures the social media activity than the actual influence I stopped wanting to be an influencer somewhere along the road.
I'm not a Gay Muslim Anarchists but I'm not mainstream enough to be likeable for a large group of people. I'm
- white
- male
- middle class
and I may be even good looking (at least not that bad to scare people off) but I don't live in the US, I'm not even a native speaker of English.
I'm not an influencer and it's fine!
I didn't have the time to write a book yet, I don't have the money to employ a team to do the groundwork for me while I parade at conferences.
Indeed I do not even want to pay people to work instead of myself, I want to stay independent. Why make people subordinate and depend on you?
I want to stay a person and not solely become a personal brand known to be known like a celebrity.
I noticed that I am not the ideal candidate for an influencer a while ago.
Also I noticed that there is another role I can fulfill pretty good with much less of an effort, that of a connector.
I love connecting people. I even remember as a youngster introducing people from two nations that were at war to each other a lot to make them talk. There never was even a brawl.
There are plenty of other roles beyond influencer and connector. Find out what's yours and do not try to become like somebody else.
On the other hand: do you have what it takes to become an influencer? Then go for it.
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Sophomore Sophie Hemleben had to wait with the rest of Ashland University's women's golf team to get back on the course after playing just 18 holes to begin the 2018-19 season two weeks ago.
On Saturday (Sept. 22) at Cumberland Trail Golf Club in Pataskala, Ohio, Hemleben showed she wasn't the worse for rust, finishing the first round of the Cumberland Trail Golf Classic with a career-best 1-under-par 71 and in a tie for first place. Hemleben turned in a tie for the fifth-lowest round in program history thanks to an eagle on hole No. 5, and birdies on holes No. 2 and 6.
As a team, the Eagles finished the first day of play in a tie for sixth place in the 15-team field with a total of 324. Wayne State (309) is first, followed by Ohio Dominican and Saginaw Valley State (310).
Sophomore Hannah Lemons is in a tie for 26th individually with a first-day 81, followed by freshmen Cece Dillon (tied for 48th, 85) and Sophia Lowe (60th, 87), and senior Monica Torda (tied for 61st, 88).
Playing as individuals were juniors Logan Pottorf (tied for 69th, 90) and Claire Coughenour (83rd, 105).
The Eagle women will play in the second and final day of the Cumberland Trail Golf Classic on Sunday (Sept. 23).


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This meme is hosted by Mr. Knowitall.
In honor of Valentine's Day I paired down a poem I wrote in college.
So here is the shorter version of Whiskey
I remember my first shot of whiskey
Just like I remember our first kiss
My whole system is affected by it
My mouth goes numb and
Everything tastes weaker after
It's a taste that can never be forgotten
I'm haunted by our last kiss
I swore never shoot whiskey again
But I crave the burn
Tomorrow I'll post the whole poem.


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Welcome to the IBIS-PH Community of Practice - Product Management Site
IBIS-PH stands for Internet Based Information System for Public Health. IBIS-PH is a set of open source software that provides real time querying of SAS datasets, the centralized management of indicator profiles, as well as other content like health topics. This site provides access to all of the IBIS-PH work products. In general, the IBIS-PH Community of Practice consists of any organization or individual who is interested in the dissemination of data and information for public health assessment. Use of this site and/or the content contained within is subject to this disclaimer.
IBIS-PH Community of Practice Mission StatementThe mission of the IBIS-PH Community of Practice is to openly share resources and expertise to enhance the IBIS-PH software and to support its effective use in public health organizations.
IBIS-PH Community of Practice Management
- -NEW- Community Conference Call Agenda lists items to be discussed on the monthly conference call.
- Schedule? is a brief overview of the project activities for next few months.
- Community Efforts lists tasks that are being worked on by the community.
- Tickets are used to track enhancements, bugs, and tasks.
- -NEW- Defect Ticket Checklist general list of items to include when creating a defect/issue/bug type ticket.
- File Repository contains all the source code and other related work product files (SVN URL: http://www.ibisph.org/svn/main).
Adopting IBIS-PH
Resources / Help
- Wiki Pages Index lists all Trac wiki pages.
- How To Wiki Pages. This is an index of 'cookbook' type documents for states wishing to adopt the IBIS-PH software.
- How To Videos. This is an index of training videos.
- -NEW- Troubleshooting Help lists steps and items that an adopter needs to provide to the IBIS tech support.
- Discussion Forums. vBulletin is a web based application which allows individuals to share knowledge and ideas like dealing with health data, SAS programming, web development, and IBIS-PH application specific topics.
- System Documentation Website. This website provides detailed information about the software and includes how to install and support the applications, developer documentation, and content management user documentation.
- -NEW- Other Sites of Interest? list of sites that provide similar access to their public health data or sites that have interesting technology.
Public Sites Using the IBIS-PH Software:
- Alaska's IBIS-PH Public Health Data Resource
- Arizona's Cancer Registry Query System
- New Jersey State Health Assessment Data (NJ-SHAD)
- New Mexico's Indicator-based Information System for Public Health (NM-IBIS)
- North Carolina HealthStats
- Utah's EPHT Portal
- Utah's Indicator-based Information System for Public Health (IBIS-PH)
Agencies Adopting the IBIS-PH Software:
- Hawaii Department of Health
- Massachusetts Department of Health
- Montana Department of Health
- United South & Eastern Tribes
About IBIS-PH and the Trac Application
This page is part of the IBIS-PH WIKI and is hosted within the "Trac" application. Listed below are some helpful Trac management links:
- TracAdmin -- Configure Trac for the IBIS-PH components, versions and milestones.
- TracGuide -- Built-in Documentation
- TracSupport -- Trac Support
- The Trac project -- Trac Open Source Project
- Trac FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions
Special Acknowledgements
- Gayle P. Clement for graciously allowing us to use her "IBIS flock in flight" photo for the IBIS-PH CoP.
- The Utah Department of Health's IT group for supporting and hosting this site.


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Have you considered linking your teaching with the 2016 Annual Meeting theme, Evidence, Accident, Discovery? This new blog series offers relevant teaching resources to instructors of undergraduate and graduate courses on methods, ethics and theory. While none of these modules pretends to offer an exhaustive bibliography of its topic, each will suggest readings and matching discussion topics relating to one aspect of the politics and ethics of evidence and discovery in anthropology. Think of it as a week's course readings in a (virtual) box…
This week's post comes from 2016's Executive Program Committee Chair, Samuel Martinez.
INDEXES AND ICONS: Visual condensations of knowledge
Indexes and icons have migrated, from the world of market reporting and financial accounting, into the global governance domains of democratization and human rights. Anthropologists are asking what happens, socially and politically, when information of variable texture and uneven quality is lifted out of particular contexts and reduced and standardized into uniform, easily transferred and rapidly consumable rankings, symbols and mappings.
My own interest in the production of human rights indexes and icons was prompted by a very noncommittally worded email from a researcher in the Dominican Republic, asking if I would be surprised that her research into Dominican sugar production was revealing no evidence of forced labor. My answer was, "No, that is not a surprise at all. If it wasn't for those two documentary films (The Price of Sugar and The Sugar Babies), we wouldn't even be talking about this issue any longer." But what really fired my interest was when the findings of the Dominican researchers were reversed by the U.S.-based firm that had subcontracted the research on contract with the U.S. Department of Labor. The final, published report said that several indicators of forced labor had been discovered, thus affirming the documentaries' allegation of sugar slavery, which many in the Dominican Republic thought to be dead.
Reporting on how this happened, I found that the pivotal moment was the classification of Dominican sugar as a forced labor commodity in the inaugural 2009 edition of the US Department of Labor's List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor (USDoL's List). USDoL's List reports its classifications in the form of tables in which a check mark or the absence of a check mark denotes the presence or absence of child labor or forced labor in the production of a given commodity in a particular country. Grinding together source information of questionable relevance and quality, USDoL's List produces a novel human rights information product, which, like fast food, enables quick and easy consumption and appeals to innate human cravings, in this case for binary certainty in information.
But that was only the start. Mimicking the order of late capitalist product innovation in reverse, the commoditization of human rights knowledge (when it is packaged like a commodity and marketed as such) goes before its actual commodification (when human rights knowledge is produced under contract and subject to intellectual property restrictions). Outsourcing rights research to specialist firms, which may then off-shore the work to Third World based investigators — as happened in the USDoL commissioned research on Dominican sugar — turns human rights investigation into a global commodity supply chain, at the far terminus of which the Third World knowledge workers may be denied use of the findings in publications of their own.
Anthropologists may as yet only be scraping the tip of an iceberg through the studies done to date of the production of global governance indexes, icons and indicators by U.S. and UN investigative and standards-setting bodies. These agencies' fairly transparent workings may already be overtopped in terms of sheer quantity by the rights-related research being sponsored and conducted by private corporations and research subcontractors. And that public/private ratio will shrink further as Dodd-Frank and conflict minerals legislation add further to a demand for corporate accountability products first created by laws aiming to suppress child labor and human trafficking.
Valuable research publications are even so more numerous than the handful that I have selected here as a model for a course module on the topic of indexes and icons. Merry 2011 and Merry and Wood 2015 extend the terms of existing anthropological critique of human rights into the domain of indicators, pointing out the dilemma for human rights reporters, of losing both context and any grasp of source reliability in favor of an unprecedented ease of assimilating, sharing and comparing human rights information. The contributory volumes by Davis, Fisher, Kingsbury, and Merry 2012 and Merry, Davis, and Kinsbury 2015 present multidisciplinary overviews of the varied forms of global governance advanced through rankings and indicators. Warren 2010 subjects estimates of human trafficking and the ranking of countries in the US State Department's Trafficking in Persons Report to critical scrutiny as a form of knowledge production in which political matters go into the public domain as technical concerns.
Readings: Kevin E. Davis, Angelina Fisher, Benedict Kingsbury, and Sally Engle Merry, eds., Governance by Indicators: Global Power through Quantification and Rankings. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2012); Samuel Martínez, "From Commoditizing to Commodifying Human Rights: Research on Forced Labor in Dominican Sugar Production," Humanity 6(3, 2015): 387-409; Sally Engle Merry, "Measuring the World: Indicators, Human Rights, and Global Governance," Current Anthropology 52, Supplement 3 (2011): S8-S95; Sally Engle Merry, Kevin E. Davis, and Benedict Kingsbury, eds., The Quiet Power of Indicators: Measuring Governance, Corruption, and Rule of Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2015); Sally Engle Merry and Summer J. Wood, "The Paradox of Measurement: Child Rights in Tanzania," Current Anthropology 56(2, 2015): 205-229; Kay B. Warren, "The illusiveness of counting 'victims' and the concreteness of ranking countries: Trafficking in persons from Colombia to Japan." In Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts: The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict. Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill, eds., 110–126. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press (2010).


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2008 NAAG Presidential Initiative on Energy
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The purpose of the meeting is to provide information on a wide variety of energy topics, in order to assist Attorneys General in fulfilling their multifaceted duties touching on energy generation, transfer, use, and regulation. More details on times and activities offered will be coming to you at a later date.
Highlights: The Attorneys General will discuss a wide variety of energy issues, including: nuclear energy; emissions and their influence on state energy solutions; the development of new energy sources; global climate change and the law; regulation and deregulation of energy markets; current and future energy demands; energy delivery methods; and alternative fuels.
Guest speakers include: Shell Oil Company President John Hofmeister; Ward Sproat, Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management with the U.S. Department of Energy; Ed Holland, General Counsel for Southern Company; Norman Shilling of General Electric Energy; officials with the American Alliance of Auto Manufacturers; and senior attorneys from the Attorneys General offices of Idaho, California and Virginia.
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This new project was to create an illustration for their Food Science section, on the subject of SALT, one of the five basic tastes we are all hard wired to detect on our palate: bitter, sweet, sour, savory... and salt. Essentially the article describes a bit of historical background on salt, as well as explaining the matter of fact science behind how salt affects our various foods (from meats to vegetables) in the cooking, brining and flavoring processes. Plus it provides a glossary of salt, so the reader can learn all the different types of salts available. In other words, the article I was to illustrate was a mini-encyclopedic spread all about salt. There was no call for having to derive at a conceptual image... but rather (no pun intended), merely arrive at a visual flavor using various iconic images of salt.
The article described the two main ways of extracting salt, the first from salt mines and the other from the seas... so I decided to create vignettes of these two different processes as vignettes in each corner of the required long horizontal space. To romanticize these vignettes, I chose a retro look, by depicting a lone rock salt miner and a lone sea salt harvester in action... rather than depict the modern machinery which does these jobs today. Then I elected to show probably the most iconic symbol of salt for western culture, the salt shaker. Then I threw in a salt molecule and steak, for varietal contrast.
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Posted above is the initial doodle of my sketch idea, which I made as I was reading the article manuscript. At his stage I am really just scribbling... no concern for line quality because the art director will never see this stage. It is just to get the image in my head quickly out onto paper to begin to see how the various visual elements will work together (and relative to the article) as well as to begin to see
how things work within the required limitations of the compositional space.
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Posted above is the next stage sketch. It is actually five different sketches (the salt shaker, the salt molecule, the steak, the miner, and the harvester) which are all compiled in Photoshop to construct the formal sketch. I knew that I was probably going to keep the color palette for the final art image limited to mostly blues, so for these sketches I used blue ink pen, blue crayon, and blue pencil.
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Posted above is the official final sketch version which I initially showed to Pam Winn at Fine Cooking magazine. In this version I had also dropped in the blue textural background, which was created with brusk strokes of blue gouache on a roughly textured paperboard. The response was mostly favorable... they just felt that the words within the sketch could be taken out. I showed another version which included the hand wording (not shown here), but eventually it was decided that the words would indeed not be used.
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Posted above is the final illustration that was submitted for publication. The background was created with brushstrokes of blue gouache on a rough textured paper. The salt shaker was drawn with blue pastel with added digital color. The salt molecule was drawn with black crayon with added digital color. The steak was drawn with red oil crayon with added digital color. The rock salt miner and the sea salt harvester were drawn with blue ink pen on a smooth surface paper. The white color you see inside the salt shaker, the white color of the rock salt and the salt mounds, and the white color seen on the fatty part of the steak -were all created by "erasing" out the blue background, which was the bottom layer of the image during the layered stage in Photoshop.
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above: detail of the sea salt harvester
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above: detail of the rock salt miner
This SALT illustration falls into the category of the "new" style of images I have been creating thus far in 2012. (see the NEW STUFF portfolio section on my web site.)
Many art directors know me more for the light, whimsical illustrations that I have created for many years now.... especially for all the children's picture books I have illustrated. This "new" darker, moodier, more realistic style of mine is actually just reviving my own style from when I first started illustrating many years ago. In other words, I am excited to be exploring my own style from the past, and making it new again. (of course, I am indeed still creating the whimsical illustrations too, specifically for my children's picture books. My next illustrated picture book, BOOM! will be released in 2013 by Hyperion Books, which is an imprint of Disney.)


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Your blood flows with eternal life, and its healing powers allow you use your blood to heal others.
Prerequisites: Samsaran.
Benefit: At will as a full-round action, you may perform a special bloodletting ritual through which you sacrifice some of your own vitality to heal another creature. When using this feat, you take 1d4 points of damage and apply your blood to the wounds of a living creature, healing it for a number of hit points equal to the amount of damage you took from the ritual. This is a supernatural ability. Only you can perform this bloodletting. A creature cannot be healed by this ability more than once per day.
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Real life Donkey Kong? Zoo lets apes play video games
At the zoo in Melbourne, Australia, orangutans are going ape over video games.
The first program of its kind lets the animals play a number of specially designed, interactive video games. One game involves moving 3D beams of color and light; another projects a series of photos for them to react to. The technology is relatively simple, involving a projector, part of an Xbox and a laptop -- less than $1,000 worth of electronic equipment in all, Australia's News 10 reports.
The apes seem to think it's fun, and zookeepers say the games also serve an important purpose: keeping the animals challenged and engaged so they don't feel bored or unhappy, or worse, try to escape.
"We're trying to find ways to give all the animals more choice because that means more positive welfare," zookeeper Rachel Lowry told News 10 reporter Trent Dann.
Once the orangutans get the hang of it, they may get a chance to test their skills by playing games with zoo visitors. "They love interacting with our visitors, they choose to come up and interact with our visitors, so we want to test, do they actually want to share this with the visitors?" Lowry said.
Ultimately, learning how to control the video games could help the apes master other technology to improve their lives in captivity.
"We would love to think the orangutans could one day have more choice over their environment," Lowry said. "They might be able to choose the temperature, how much shade, and whether the blinds go up or down ... Who knows where this could go?"


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Red!?! Oh, Horror of Horrors!
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Now that wasn't so painful after all, was it? Very creative :)ReplyDeleteReplies
hahahaha - well, I don't know.... I did probably whine and stall longer than I should have :DDelete
Well, if you could come up with those combos from that stone and/or that paisley, I'd say you deserve dinosaurs, Egyptians, and ghosts all in the same movie. (I actually like the one without the turquoise; you sure worked through your horror.)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you! I actually found a dinosaur movie (they discovered a lost valley of dinosaurs, as usual) AND a ghost movie (creepy ghost haunts an isolated cabin on an island), so I watched them both!Delete
- AnonymousFebruary 5, 2014 at 2:01 AM
successful challenge! The two bracelets are beautiful.ReplyDelete
I love your technique of closure of the wires. Explain it in your tutorial?
if you tell me in what they purchase it? thanks I'll leave you my email address firstname.lastname@example.com
This might help you? https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.354969701183659.104582.206284059385558&type=3Delete
- AnonymousFebruary 5, 2014 at 7:49 AM
thanks sherry are a treasureDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 5, 2014 at 8:26 AM
perfect, this l 'but how do I get it to do untie the knots when the wires are cut? I have a proposition for you: why not write a manual and pubbluchi?Delete
I'd be your first customer, count on it ....
I have tutorials available here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/KnotJustMacrame?section_id=6212133&ref=shopsection_leftnav_4 and classes (that include video) here: http://craftartedu.com/fiber/micro-macrame Many of my patterns end with that same style of closure and more complete directions are included in those classes/tutorials.Delete
Ohhhhhhhhhhh sublimeReplyDelete
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I am so proud of you, you worked through your fears, hahaha. I really like the turquoise addition. But as you know, I also have a turquoise fetish. Cannot get enough of it. Now take a deep breath and enjoy another movie.ReplyDelete


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I hope you're enjoying some peace and rejuvenation over the summer months. I am writing to share some free and inexpensive professional development in New Jersey and New York. I will be at all of them, so please stop over and say hi if you attend.
Three of the events are of the EdCamp variety. As a recap EdCamp is a "do-it-yourself" type of conference. They are referred to as unconferences. There is no set schedule. The attendees build the conference session schedule the day of the event before the first session begins. You can post a session to lead or simply attend sessions. There is a "rule of two feet". If you do not end up in a session that suits your needs, you are able to pick up and choose a different session. There are no hard feelings if you walk out of a session in progress and sit in on another that has already started. One time it took me two moves to find a session that fit my interests. The whole basis is getting out and having discussions with other educators.
July 2012
EdCamp Leadership will be held on Thursday, July 26th in Monroe Township at the FEA Conference Center. It is free. On their webpage they say: Edcamp Leadership is a free unconference for school leaders devoted to K-12 education issues and ideas. Its goal is to assemble forward-thinking school administrators, board of education members, classroom teacher leaders, parents/community members – anyone interested in K-12 education – for a day of conversation, reflection and inspiration. This is the first time this EdCamp is being held. I'm looking forward to hearing a variety of local leaders sharing their ideas about education.
Main website: http://www.edcampleadership.org/
Registration: http://edcampleadership.ticketleap.com/2012/
#140edu will be held Tuesday, July 31 and Wednesday, August 1st at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. If you register as an educator the cost is $1.40. I went last year and it was fascinating, exhilarating, and exhausting, but so well worth my time. The structure is a full day from 9am to 5pm. Individuals and panels have 15 minutes to speak on topics of their passion centered on education. You can view videos from last year's conference at http://edu2011.140conf.com/speakers-2
Two speakers I really enjoyed were
School Improvement One Character at a Time by Eric Sheninger (principal at New Milford High School) http://edu2011.140conf.com/school-improvement-one-character-at-a-time
The Tech Commandments by Adam Bellow http://edu2011.140conf.com/the-tech-commandments-ways-we-can-revitalize-education-using-technology
Main website: http://edu2012.stateofnow.com/
Registration: http://140edu12.eventbrite.com/
EdCamp Common Core will be held on Thursday, August 9 in Union, NJ at Kean University. It is free. On their webpage they say: This unconference's theme is the Common Core. You will gain insights by hearing answers to these and any other questions you may have:
- What are districts doing to implement the Common Core?
- What am I expected to know about the Common Core Standards for the grade level(s) and content area I teach to prepare my students for the 2014?
- What am I expected to know as a classroom teacher?
- Just how different are the Common Core from previous state standards?
- What kinds of professional development are available to assist with implementing the Common Core?
Main website: https://sites.google.com/site/edcampcommoncore/
Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3741791800
Padcamp will be held on Thursday, August 16 in Galloway, NJ at the Galloway Township Middle School. It is free. On their webpage they say it is a: free unconference devoted to exploring the use of tablets, e-readers and other handheld mobile devices in K-12 education. I heard a lot of good feedback from last year's event and I'm looking forward to attending as I begin thinking more about alternatives for sharing among classrooms.
Main website: http://www.padcamp.org/
Registration: http://padcamp.ticketleap.com/padcamp-2012/
Archived Learning
I am looking forward to having the time to view the archived video from the K12 Online Conference 2012. Today I enjoyed the presentation by Kim Cofino and Chrissy Hellyer titled Hardware is Not Enough. It's given me a lot to think about in preparing for the new school year in September. Happy learning!


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Rio Round-up
Rio's fashion week is now reaching the end. Once again, we had a colorful season there. And that's what we like with Rio, the colors, the mixes and the overall energy. Balenciaga, MiuMiu and Versace influences were spotted in a few shows but what's more expected in mixes than some references melting together in the most unexpected ways ? Well it was a good season for Rio and a good way to start the season which will continue with Sao Paulo this week (can't wait for Osklen) then Couture in Paris. Luana Teifke, Karin Adam (by Eric... [Lire la suite]


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Tax Return Initiative – another HMRC amnesty
A new amnesty, which runs until 2 October 2012, has been announced. This one aims to encourage higher rate (i.e. 40% and 50%) taxpayers who have outstanding tax returns for 2009/10 and earlier years to complete them now and settle up their late tax.
The incentive being offered is a reduction in the penalties from the potential charge of 100% of unpaid tax to 10% or less. However, fixed penalties (such as the automatic £100 penalty for missing the first filing deadline) that have already been charged will remain, as will interest and surcharges on tax paid late.
This latest initiative is only open to individuals who are already registered under the self-assessment system and have outstanding tax returns. So, for that group, the amnesty makes a great deal of sense as sooner or later these individuals wil be obliged to complete returns – and will suffer much higher penalties. Anybody who is not on HMRC's radar at all is able to use the sector specific tax amnesties (for plumbers, electricians, online marketplace traders etc.)
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LXer: Siemens Betrays Germans by Legalising Software Patents in Europe
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Summary: The scandalous company decides not only to support Microsofts Linux tax but also to help legalise software patents in Germany THE LEGALITY of software patents in Europe is an issue that we covered this morning. Recently, Microsoft had its FAT software patent approved in Germany (by the court even) and now we find its close German partner (Siemens is a Windows shop) achieving the same thing. Here is an automated Google translation of the article from Heise:
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Outsourcing SANs to cut costs?
By Rick Cook
Storage service providers (SSPs) try to do for storage what ISPs did for Internet presence -- save companies time and headaches by outsourcing the service. The SSP concept offers some strong potential advantages, but the key word is "potential". SSPs are so new that there isn't much of a track record for the idea, much less most of the providers.
An SSP provides remote storage, usually tied to the customer's system using a high-speed link. To the customer, the SSP appears as a remote storage area network (SAN). The large SSPs, like StorageNetworks, use virtual private networks of optical fiber to establish points of presence in the markets they serve around the world. VPNs offer higher speed and better reliability than connections over the Internet.
By centralizing a whole lot of storage, SSPs say, they can offer sophisticated management, better reliability, and provide the flexibility of near-instant capacity expansion. The SSP concept is most attractive to companies whose storage needs are growing rapidly, such as Internet startups or new projects that need a running start. Especially in the case of Internet startups, it offers a way to conserve cash by substituting a monthly fee in place of capital expenditures for storage infrastructure.
The SSP concept is quite new. StorageNetworks, which bills itself as the oldest pure SSP, started in late 1998. By June 2000, the company still had just 73 customers. Most StorageNetworks customers are large companies like Lycos and Merrill Lynch (TechTarget.com is also a StorageNetworks customer). This still amounts to a relatively small customer base and a short track record.
According to Dataquest, the SSP business amounted to about $10 million last year (1999) but should grow to $8 billion by 2003. The very newness of SSPs leaves a lot of organizations with unanswered questions, such as, what happens to the corporate data if an SSP goes out of business?
Nor are SSPs cheap. Although SSPs claim an attractive total cost of ownership, the cost per terabyte of storage can be 40 percent more than in-house storage. Still for some organizations, the benefits of letting someone else worry about capacity planning and day-to-day management may be worth the cost.
Additional resources:
- For more information about StorageNetworks, please see the company's Web site at: http://www.storagenetworks.com/.
- For more information about managed storage and storage service providers, please see the Managed Storage listings in our SearchStorage Editor's Picks page at: https://searchstorage.techtarget.com/.
- For a complete list of Storage Management tips, please go to: https://searchstorage.techtarget.com/tips.
About the author: Rick Cook has been writing about mass storage since the days when the term meant an 80K floppy disk. The computers he learned on used ferrite cores and magnetic drums. For the last twenty years he has been a freelance writer specializing in storage and other computer issues.


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We have a special family of almost ten (due any day) named the Ratthe's. The whole family spent two weeks harvesting on the vineyards of HaBaracha in Samaria with the ministry, HaYovel. These are Christians who love Israel and want to be part of THE REDEMPTION. Francis and his two oldest boys just got back from PRUNING the vineyards. Just a few days later, two IDF soldiers were knifed right outside the vineyard compound. HaYovel became the first responders and were responsible for saving the lives of these two soldiers. They came into the tent meeting and a Medic just happened to be the speaker of the evening. The three minutes it took for the Israeli Army to converge on the scene was crucial. They were not sure if they were going to be attacked by Jihadists. The thirty Christian volunteers response to return to Israel was unanimous. They all felt that they were now part of the Land. They would ALL be back. They all felt what it was like to give back to the Land, His Land. Ha Yovel is making a mark in repairing Yeshua's reputation, which has been trampled on by the church. The Israeli Farmers on this mountaintop in Samaria have seen a 700 % increase in production because of the Christian volunteers. If you are interested in going to Israel, not just for tourism purposes, but to partner with HaShem and His Chosen people to bring in the Redemption... consider HaYovel. For more information: hayovel.com
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Categories: Wedding Advice For Women
Christmas and New Year see the largest amount of proposals than any other time in the year, with romance swirling through the winter air… or is it just because of all the mistletoe?
Either way, we want to hear about how your man did it. Did he take you to where you first met? Did he do it in private or a public place? Did you tear up? The proposal is one of the most special moments of a woman's life so why not share it with the world? By doing so, you could also be in with a chance of winning your hen party – covering another hugely important part of the run-up to the wedding…
Yes, we at Hen Heaven have joined up with Wedding Ideas Magazine to find the best proposal stories from around the country, so if you fancy heading away on a hen weekend worth £900, simply follow this link and enter here!
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"She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars."
-Neil Gaiman, Stardust
And with a quote like that, you would think you'd see a gorgeous night shot with a blanket of glowing stars! But alas, I have not mastered the art of night sky photography, although I drool over other photographs. I also would like to try out star trail photos… but that's another thing to master!
This week's theme at the Daily Post is of things unending, cycles, infinity and beyond. To me, the sky and space are infinite – I can get lost in my own world staring at the everchanging landscape of the clouds. This can be somewhat distracting when one is driving though, which at times can also seem endless. So here are my two versions of infinite, in sky form and on the road:


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I need to make my Delphi solutions available on Linux and I have tested them on both Wine and Lazarus. What are the technical considerations I should take into account (Programming, Deployment, Maintenance etc.) on the longer term in order to avoid landing in a maintenance nightmare. I keep my Windows components used pretty standard to avoid complexities that may develop on cross-platform. I am looking for some hard facts that should go beyond being subjective. I do not want to consider .Net/Mono because this will set me back immediately (Huge Delay to market) which I cannot afford.
I can think of some:
- Lazaraus may require some (changes) programming to make code work.
- Wine is a more difficult environment to maintain at a large base of customers.
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So I haven't posted in a ton of forever.
Since my last post in September of 2014, I have started a new job in education.
I am now an Academic Coordinator at the east campus of the school where I started teaching in fall 2013.
Essentially, I aid students and teachers with all things academic.
I prepare, plan for, and proctor testing. Which in Ohio is a lot.
A lot.
I try to keep up with the ever changing rules and laws that relate to teaching, students and testing.
I train teachers.
I attend meetings.
A lot of meetings.
Teacher evaluation takes way more time than I ever realized.
Like teaching, there's always, always more to do...
It's a challenging, frustrating, amazing, difficult, fast-paced, sitting at a desk job.
Some days I hate it.
Most days I love it.
And I have given up my summers.
I'm not sure how I feel about that yet, but as the school year comes to a close, I like it less and less.
So, to keep up with my changing every day, this blog needs to change, too.
First a new design - stay tuned.
Then a new focus - perhaps professional development?
- perhaps more personal?
- perhaps something else entirely?
I miss writing. So what began as a teacher's blog will become something new.
It's fitting that it's spring. Easter time. Time for growth. Rebirth.
A new beginning...
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It's the eve of new year and although I should be up and about cleaning and preparing for kitchen duty, I just had stop and give my blog some much needed and long overdue loving.
This year has painted with a very colorful palette in my life's canvas. So much so that I do not want to recall every little detail of it. But to draw the year to a close, I share to you how I will remember 2008 by.
2008 was the year…
- I spent the new year for the first time, away from family and away from the kid. Although it wasn't a very lonely new year since I had my brother and good friends to spend it with, it still was lacking.
- I got to bond with 4 amazing women from plurk (Karen, Shabby, Janine & Tess) and also met in person some more awesome people like Lemuel, Maru and Daryl. All thanks to that addictive Plurk. (also got to met ridiculous creatures but that's for another story telling time)
- I also personally met several of my ol' favorite bloggers from TMB, (the likes of Gino, Fritz, Helga, Lauren, Jayvee and Mike) and met new ones like Bim, Anne and Chris.
- My family went through the most nerve-wrecking challenges ever with my uncle's aneurysm, my mom's vehicular accident, my cancer scare, and my grandparents' minor-but-almost-fatal crises
- Overcame my fear of needles and did the "unthinkable"
- Got to spend the most of summer abroad (and I also got to travel here and there a whole damn lot)
- I lost my stake on the condo to the wolves *cries* and is living back with my family in Parañaque
- I was single the whole year round! OMG walang nagkamali, tsk
- I've gone back to the corporate world (and is so far having a blast if I might add)
I'm sure I forgot several things but I guess for now those are the major highlights for me this year. For the most of it, I honestly think 2008 wasn't my year. The year was mostly a big road bump after another.
Do I have regrets? Nah, I guess there's a big reason behind all the shit I had to go through. One I have not yet discovered. And It is a personal accomplishment that I have survived all of it. I only hope that in the year to come, things will become more serene and savory. I am SOOO ready for 2009.
To wrap it all up, I leave you with some of the "fun", memorable events of 2008 in photos. Au revoir 2008, happy new year everyone!


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Nasty C Signs First Artist As He Launches Own Label ' Tall Racks Records '
Months after announcing that he had signed a record deal with Universal Music Group, Local rapper Nasty C has announced that he has just become the owner of a new record label called ' Tall Racks Records '.
The Jungle rapper, who took to social media to share the news, also announced the signing of his first artist Rowlene.
He shared: "PROUD TO ANNOUNCE IM A RECORD LABEL OWNER. MY FIRST ARTIST IS THE AMAZING @rowlene_sa. TALL RACKS!! Coz that's the agenda."
PROUD TO ANNOUNCE IM A RECORD LABEL OWNER. MY FIRST ARTIST IS THE AMAZING @rowlene_sa
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— STRINGS AND BLING OUT NOW (@Nasty_CSA) August 20, 2018
"It's official, I'm about to reign on them hoes JK love you guys," she also wrote on Instagram, following the announcement.
In urban slang racks is referred to as one thousand cash within a rubber band, not be confused with a stack.
10 racks equals a stack. 100 racks equals one book. 1000 racks equals one bible.
The South African rapper also said he named the company Tall Racks because "that's the agenda."
At the age of 21, the King hit-maker has achieved quite a lot. He already has two solid albums under his belt, Bad Hair, released under Mabala Noise, and the latest, Strings and Bling, released under Universal Music Group.
He is also one of a few Mzansi rappers who are internationally renowned.


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Millions of people work to save energy in the United States. In our new multimedia project, People Who Save Energy, we introduce you to the people in this diverse and growing workforce. They work in every state, across industries and technologies. They make, sell, and install efficient products such as ENERGY STAR® appliances, build well-insulated homes, or offer energy-saving services such as weatherization. They are passionate about saving energy.
At least 2.2 million people work some or all of their time on energy-efficient technologies and services, according to a 2017 report for the US Department of Energy. They outnumber the 1.9 million who work to produce electricity (solar, wind, nuclear), coal, oil, and gas. More than half of these jobs occur in construction. In fact, one of every five US construction jobs now deals with products proven to save energy.
Other jobs are related to energy efficiency, too. The DOE reports another 0.7 million jobs that focus on vehicle fuel economy and alternative fuel vehicles and three million jobs that sell efficient (and other) appliances and building materials. These numbers don't include the indirect jobs that result when customers spend or invest the money they save in lower energy bills somewhere else in the economy.
Energy efficiency not only supports millions of US jobs, but attracts billions of dollars in capital each year. It is probably the single most important source of energy we have. The economy has grown by almost 150% since 1980. Powering that growth has been an increase in energy consumption of about 20 quadrillion BTUs. Over that same period, energy efficiency delivered more than 50 quads worth of energy services, far outpacing not just oil but also coal, gas, nuclear power, and all other sources of energy combined. (See our report The Greatest Energy Story You Haven't Heard.)
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At the same time, while efficiency employment grabs far fewer headlines than automotive jobs, a recent report by the Department of Energy found that efficiency employs about twice as many people.
Yet people generally don't think about energy efficiency in the same way they think about other sources of energy or other sectors of the economy. That's understandable, because energy efficiency is not a commodity like oil, whose price we follow closely, and it's not a bellwether industry like the auto sector, whose production and employment are key economic indicators. Energy efficiency itself is largely invisible, and its economic impacts are spread throughout the economy, making them hard to see.
Investing in energy efficiency is vital. A key driver of long-term economic growth is productivity: how much we can create with the resources we have at our disposal. At its simplest, energy efficiency is productivity: getting more out the energy we use. Investments in energy efficiency feed the engine of long-term economic growth and the jobs that result from it.
We see the power of this productivity when we do economic modeling of efficiency investments. We use the ACEEE DEEPER model to assess the economic implications of a range of efficiency policies and investments. In talking about the job-creating power of efficiency, most people imagine workers in hard hats installing efficient windows and other equipment. These are important and easy to identify, but our modeling consistently shows that for every job installing energy efficiency measures, the energy these measures save creates between one and three more.
Investments in energy efficiency not only create jobs on their own but they also free up resources to invest and create jobs elsewhere in the economy. This is the power of energy efficiency. It helps us do more with less, creating a faster growing, more stable economy and the dynamic job growth that comes with it.


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Chuck Noone, President
Background: Originally from Chicago, Chuck moved to Corvallis with his wife after earning a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a M.S. in Forestry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1976, at the age of 30, he built his first home, for his family. It is the home he lives in to this very day. During the construction of his home, Chuck fell in love with custom home building and decided to launch a career doing it. He earned a second M.S. – in Construction Engineering Management at Oregon Statue University – and effectively launched The Village Builder. Now, 35 years later, the company is still going strong; proudly beautifying this community, one home at a time!
Bruce McVicar, Foreman
Background: Bruce received his B.S. from OSU, with a major in Business Administration and a minor in Forestry. Following several years of work in carpentry, he went into business for himself as a general contractor in Corvallis in 1976. Eventually deciding he preferred the hands-on side of the business, he started working with The Village Builder in 1983 as lead carpenter and quickly climbed to the position of foreman. Bruce is a master craftsman and has extensive experience making furniture such as beds, chests of drawers, coffee tables, desks, and file cabinets. On site, his specialties include stairways, mantels, and other finish work. He is guided by a sharp eye and a firm commitment to detail. He is also a certified renovator. Off the job, Bruce enjoys biking in McDonald Forest and
skiing on the weekends.
Tom Olson, Carpenter
Background: Tom has been involved in the homebuilding process from just about every angle possible. Prior to joining forces with The Village Builder, he was involved in commercial construction and residential remodeling. Now, he's onto home renovation. Tom is known on the crew as a tireless worker. After leaving the job site at the end of the day, he proceeds to put in more hours back at his turn-of-the-century farmhouse, where the ongoing renovation project has him doing his own plumbing, electrical, drywall, painting, flooring, cabinetry, and restoring it true to period. Before getting involved with construction, Tom spent ten years in the bicycle industry, "doing it all" (manufacture, wholesale, and retail). Outside of building, Tom loves mountain biking, camping, gardening, and photography.
John Donohue, Carpenter
Background: John is the quintessential jack-of-all-trades. Growing up in Juneau, Alaska, he started work for his father's repair business at the age of five and was steeped in all aspects of the world of mechanical repair (marine, automotive, and small engine). After moving to Oregon, he earned his B.S. in Liberal Arts from OSU, with an emphasis on music. In 2002, he joined the crew of The Village Builder. In his free time, John teaches drum lessons and is the featured percussionist in the Oregon State University Symphony. Additionally, he crafts wooden percussion instruments, a synthesis of his love of music and carpentry.
Peter Noone, Carpenter
Background: From day one, Peter grew up around blue prints and construction sites. He started working for The Village Builder just as soon as he was old enough. He went on to earn his Associates Degree in Construction Technology in 2007. Currently, he's involved with on-site construction and drawing plans, as well as extensive home remodeling work on his house in Albany. Peter served in Iraq with the ARMY National Guard infantry unit B 2-162 and returned (thankfully) intact. When not out pounding nails or ducking bullets, he enjoys soccer, skiing, running with his pugs, and volunteering for American Red Cross.


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Cynicism makes me angry. It's like: why bother to live, then? What's the point? And it's so common today. I'm a fairly hopeful person. I've seen too many people change in profound ways for me to be cynical.
I think the current protests around the world are great, even if I don't agree with what they're about. I like to see people putting their beliefs on the line – it means there's some freedom.
Most of the advice I got from my dad [Henry Fonda] came through the characters he played in films like 12 Angry Men, The Grapes of Wrath and The Wrong Man. He played these characters that were brave and strong and believed in justness and equality, which taught me to pay attention to those traits.
I only learn from failures and tragedies. It's in the ashes of a disaster that the phoenix can rise again. You think you're breaking down, but you're really breaking open.
I had a nervous breakdown at the end of my second marriage. I couldn't walk, I couldn't eat, I couldn't speak above a whisper. I worked out, which kept me alive – I ache, so I must be still here. Exercising through the trauma kept me going.
There's a difference between isolation and solitude. I choose solitude.
I've learned that people tend to get happier over 50 – less stressed, less anxious, less hostile. They don't know why, but scientists surmise it's because we've been there, done that, and none of it killed us. You don't make mountains out of molehills, you make lemonade out of lemons. Everything becomes more positive.
Older is happier. The worst time for women is your early 50s – menopause is so difficult, but it gets better! I call this time the fertile void – learn lessons from it, because you'll come out the other side so much stronger.
Sex is important to me, but only because I'm in a relationship. Some women are like: "Thank God that's over" and get quite upset when Viagra rears its head. Friendships, grandchildren, travel – there's a tremendously fulfilling life to be had without a sexual relationship later in life.
Sex at my age can be difficult, but it can be better, because the biggest sex organ is the brain. Intimacy is easier when you know who you are, which can be very sexy.
I rely on careful lighting and a lot of candles. The hardest part of ageing for me is the sagging skin, and I work out regularly. I position myself as well as possible.
I feel more like me than ever. I didn't feel like me while shooting Barbarella. The director was my husband and my marriage was on the rocks. I'd love to do it over.
Mine is an incredibly positive story because I'm a late bloomer. Now that we live on average 34 years longer than we did a century ago, this has its advantages.
I was brought up to believe that you have to be perfect in order to be loved – look perfect, be thin, be emotionally perfect – and my parents didn't know how to make me feel like I was good enough. It's hard to get over that. Therapy helped.
I'm a very flawed woman who's made the most of what she's been given, who remains youthful because I remain curious – I'm always learning.
Jane Fonda, Prime Time: Fit & Strong is out now on DVD


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If you have already read the rest of this page, you can Enter the St. Mark's archives.
St. Mark's has been around for more than fifty years and we have accumulated a very large trove of documents that are important to our history. Many of these documents are in hardcopy format and have been filed away for decades. If these documents are needed, it can take a lot of time to search through all of those old papers.
This project is intended to scan all of those old documents into a PDF image format, and then to store them in a web accessible location so that they can be downloaded and viewed by our parishioners. When the documents have been scanned and stored on the St. Mark's server, the electronic versions will then be part of our regular backup regimen, thus helping ensure their long-term safety.
Beginning this year (2016), newly created documents will be moved to the repository in their original electronic format.
For security reasons we do not want the entire Internet viewing many of the documents we are storing in this archival repository. As a result, we have implemented a user ID and password protocol to protect our members' privacy from people who may wish to obtain enough data as a way to perform identity theft or other misuse of our data.
That said, every current member of St. Mark's is entitled and encouraged to access the vast majority of this data. If you wish to obtain an ID and password, please contact the church office.
Old documents that have been scanned will be boxed up and stored in a safe, off-site location. This will also enable us to reclaim the space previously used for document storage for other, current uses.
Note that the project to scan our old documents into electronic form has only just begun. We will concentrate on recent years first and gradually work our way back in our history. This is a very time-consuming, labor-intensive process so we do expect it to take many months or even years to work our way through these old documents. Volunteers are welcome to assist with this; contact John Monahan or David Both for more information.
These archives are intended to include the following documents.
- Vestry minutes
- Church policies
- Financial reports
- Annual parochial reports
- Core documents for Reeve Fund and Memorial Garden
- Messengers
- The church Directory


text: Back to all posts MONAKR tour w/ MEW wrapped up; Upcoming Midwest Dates After a month on the road opening up for Mew, it's safe to say that MONAKR is tighter than ever. Back in Chicago, we are preparing for a short, Midwest run opening up for Dessa, while backing her up as her band during her set. See upcoming dates in "shows" section :) Photo: @entranced_media


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In 1948, just after completing Tarzan and the Mermaids (his final contribution to the long-running series based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs), Johnny Weissmuller quickly found another paycheck awaiting him when he signed up with super-cheap film producer Sam Katzman to do a series of programmers based on the popular comic strip Jungle Jim, created by the legendary Alex Raymond in 1934. The "funny papers" feature was no stranger to the big screen, having been adapted by Universal into a twelve-part chapter play in 1937 that starred Grant Withers as the titular hero. But eleven years later, Weissmuller—while still in great physical condition but getting a bit long-in-the-tooth to continue playing the Lord of the Apes—would take the role and run with it, ultimately appearing in sixteen B-features produced between 1948 and 1955.
It was probably a refreshing change of pace for the former Olympic swimming champion, who had been typecast as Tarzan but as Jungle Jim was at least allowed to speak complete sentences. Other than that, however, the Jungle Jim series really didn't deviate much from the Tarzan formula; as Matt Winans observes on his "Jungle Jim" website: "The plots are farfetched and often have too many overlapping and confusing story threads. What they lack in storytelling, they more than make up for with all-out action and over-the-top heroics. There are enough spills and thrills in a typical Jungle Jim movie to fill three regular jungle epics!" Another wag summed it up more succinctly with the comment: "Tarzan with clothes on."
The Greatest Cable Channel Known to Mankind™ rolled out a mini-marathon of Weissmuller's Jungle Jim oeuvre yesterday afternoon, beginning with the inaugural film, Jungle Jim (1948), at 3:45pm. I thought this one was going to be a real inducement for a power nap but surprisingly, it's not that bad—I think the film's major debit is that there's just a tad too much stock footage and had Katzman (apparently channeling his inner Carl Denham) had trimmed some of it back it would be a much more enjoyable little programmer. The plot features our hero being hired by Dr. Hilary Parker (Virginia Grey, the actress kvetching about all the retakes she had to do with Joan Crawford in that The Women segment they run constantly on TCM) to track down a native poison that, used in the correct and proper manner, is a cure for polio. Accompanied by his pal Kolu (professional serial baddie Rick Vallin)—who is apparently the chief of a native tribe but is treated by J.J. as his personal valet—and Kolu's smokin' hot sister Zia (Lita Baron, who fills out a sarong rather nicely if you know what I mean…and I think you do), our merry band of wanderers locate the stronghold of "the Devil Doctors" but find themselves at the mercy of a man who's using the tribe for his own nefarious purposes: an irresponsible treasure-seeking photographer named Bruce Edwards…played by The Man Who Would Be Superman, George Reeves.
Reeves' performance—laced with a casual "What? Me worry?" attitude—is the main reason why Jungle succeeds as the entertaining time-killer it is; in fact, when we're first introduced to Reeves' character he's sprawled out nonchalantly on a couch in the office of Commissioner Geoffrey Marsden (Holmes Herbert), pith helmet over his eyes and not a care in the world. He doesn't turn up again until about the thirty-nine minute mark, and from that point on, he fluctuates from comedy relief to genuine menace (in a particularly exciting cliffhanging sequence, he "bumps" into Weissmuller, causing our hero to lose his footing and fall, winding up clinging to a branch growing out of the side of a cliff) and what's even funnier is that the Jim character has no response to his outrageous antics; he just continues to fume and swallow his anger throughout the entire safari. Grey's character is the sort of pedantic female who is rankled when any man thinks less of her due to her profession (on her arrival in the jungle and greeted by an astonished Commissioner Herbert, she interrupts him to say "You expected a man…people usually do. I find it extremely annoying") but is reduced to Kate Capshaw-like spastics when a crocodile comes up to her and wants to make fast lunch friends. (I also giggled at the fact that Grey's doctor wears scholarly-thick spectacles but unfortunately the film robs us of the moment when she takes them off and her male love interest remarks: "Why, Doctor…without your glasses, you're…you're beautiful!") Jim runs a total of seventy-one minutes and if the only thing you're really looking for in a movie is mindless entertainment—believe me, you could do worse.
Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land (1952) – J.J. is approached by yet another female of science, an anthropologist (Angela Greene) who begs him to lead her to the Land of Giant People—a mysterious race of beings who might provide a piece of the puzzle to the development of man (a.k.a. the famed "missing link") but Weissmuller—who apparently took Tarzan's constant moralizing about not screwing around with the jungle with him in developing his new character—refuses to do so. There's another party looking for this Irwin Allen territory; a pair of ivory traders (Jean Willes, William Tannen) who've learned that Giantland contains a secret pass extensively used by the jungle's elephant population…and if they were there to pick off the pachyderms at the time of their exit they'd soon be rich as hollandaise sauce.
Again, stock footage is pretty much the order of the day here but boosting the entertainment value are the appearances of TDOY fave Willes (who plays one of the most cold-blooded villainesses in cinematic memory) and Tannen (whose character, "Doc" Edwards, explains his nickname with "I went to medical school one time, and the name just stuck"). Willes is introduced as the ward of ivory hunter George Eldredge, and because there are no real familial ties between the two it's only a matter of time before Willes arranges for George to be croaked (by some native lackey named Zulu [Frederic Berest]) and Jim framed for his murder! As for the "giant people," two of them are captured during Forbidden Land's running time; they're not even really "giants," however, and the male appears to be a distant werewolf cousin of Lon Chaney, Jr. (every time I saw him on screen I couldn't get that "His hair was perfect" lyric from Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London out my head) while the female looks as if she's in dire need of electrolysis. Towards the ends of the film, Willes gets hold of a pistol and begins to fire at the male giant dude—who does not forget that Willes tried to pump some lead into him when he rushes her and the two of them go careening off a cliff to be smashed on the rocks below.
Jungle Manhunt (1951) – The last in the trio shown by TCM yesterday is a notch below the other two; Jim rescues a saucy photographer (Sheila Ryan) from near-drowning and she asks for his help in locating Bob Miller (Bob Waterfield), a former gridiron star whose plane took a header whilst flying over the jungle and neither hide nor hair has been seen of him since. (Waterfield, former quarterback and later coach of the Los Angeles Rams, apparently flirted briefly with acting but is probably better known as the hubby of screen siren Jane Russell from 1943 to 1967 [Russell was his high school sweetheart; the two of them also formed a production company that oversaw such Russell epics as Gentlemen Marry Brunettes [1955] and The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown [1957]].) When asked by his native friend Bono (Rick Vallin again—and it's pronounced like Sonny's last name, not the lead singer of U2) to investigate some "mysterious skeleton men" who are fomenting fear and loathing among the other tribes, Jim and Sheila set out to investigate (coincidentally running into Waterfield in the process) and come face to face with famed movie villain and Ozzie & Harriet neighbor Lyle Talbot…who's using the natives he's captured to dig for igneous rock (he's processing synthetic diamonds) and exposing them to radiation in the process (the cad!).
Talbot is always worth his weight in villainy and Ryan manages to inject some humor in her role (check out her first encounter with Weissmuller; she tells him to turn his head to the right and he turns it to the left)—plus she shows up in a later scene sporting a very appealing bathing suit. Waterfield manages not to come off too awful (though I hope he was a better husband than actor) and I find myself endlessly fascinated with Tamba, Jungle Jim's pet chimpanzee—who's like Cheetah on meds (honest to my grandma, this is one seriously psychotic chimp). The scene that made me laugh out loud is when Weissmuller, Ryan and Vallin arrive at their point of arrival and "Jim" tells "Bono" to get the suitcases—here's a chieftain, leader of the "Matusa" tribe, and he's schlepping luggage.
In 1955, producer Katzman cut a deal with the fledgling television arm of Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, to do a television version of Jungle Jim (which also starred Weissmuller) that produced a single season of twenty-six half-hour adventures (this show had one of the most memorable openings of any series, with Weissmuller diving off an incredibly high cliff). But Weissmuller owed the studio three additional pictures, and because the rights to the character had reverted to the TV series, he was forced to finish his contract playing…Johnny Weissmuller! That's right—even though he continued to wear the Jungle Jim togs, the actor used his real name…but his mad chimp wasn't so lucky, having to change his name to Kimba (since again, "Tamba" was now on the boob tube).
I really expected to be disappointed with the Jungle Jim films I watched yesterday because I've heard from a good many individuals that the films aren't all they're cracked up to be (and are mostly just nostalgic pieces for adults who grew up watching them at Saturday matinees); previously, I'd only seen one film in the series, Captive Girl (1950)—which is entertaining as heck because you get two Tarzans/Olympic champions for the price of one (Buster Crabbe plays the bad guy). But except for the excessive stock footage, the Jim movies are undemanding entertainment—certainly better than Monogram's competing Bomba, the Jungle Boy series…which featured the Weissmuller-Tarzan's "son," Johnny Sheffield. I hope to see more Jim on TCM soon—a DVD box set release of the films had been in the works sometime back (to cash in on the success of the Warner Bros. Tarzan sets) but apparently that project has fallen by the wayside.


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Baghdad: Sniper fire by Islamic State militants killed a senior Iraqi commander near the northern IS-held city of Mosul, the extremist group's main bastion in Iraq, as the UN refugee agency warned that thousands of civilians have been newly displaced from that area.
Iraq's Defence Ministry said late yesterday that Brig Ahmed Badr al-Luhaibi, the commander of Brigade 71st of Division 15, was killed by a sniper during an operation to retake a village south of Mosul.
The statement lauded al-Luhaibi as a "knight" and said his death would "increase our determination to clear" the entire province of Nineveh, where Mosul is the provincial capital, of IS militants.
Mosul - Iraq's second-largest city - fell to the Islamic State group during the militants' June 2014 onslaught that captured large swaths of northern and western Iraq and also almost a third of neighbouring Syria.
The city, about 360 kilometres northwest of Baghdad, became also the largest city in the extremist group's
self-declared caliphate on the territories the militants control. Along with a major offensive to retake Fallujah, a city in western Anbar province, Iraqi troops have this week resumed small-scale operations to dislodge IS militants from areas to the south and southeast of Mosul.
In late March, the government forces launched a military operation aimed at clearing areas between Makmour and the adjacent Qayara areas outside of Mosul, to the east of the Tigris River, and to cut one of the supply lines to the nearby IS-held Shirqat area.
But retaking Mosul itself is not likely to come anytime soon. It will be an enormous undertaking for the Iraqi troops, even though they are backed by airstrikes from the US-led coalition and have been joined by pro-government fighters, mostly Shiite militias.
Iraqi and US officials have refrained from giving a specific time for a Mosul operation, saying it would take many months to prepare Iraq's still struggling military. Some of the US and Iraqi officials have said it may not even be possible to retake it this year, despite repeated vows by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.
The UNHCR said yesterday the fighting outside Mosul has displaced over 14,000 Iraqis since March. Of that number, more than 8,000 people left from villages east of the Tigris, putting additional pressure on existing camps for refugees and the displaced.
Since April, 6,700 more Iraqis have crossed into Syria's northeastern Hassakeh province using local smuggling networks. Some of those refugees managed to escape Mosul.
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In reality, green tea has been part of the traditional Asian diet for centuries. Asian peoples have long believed that drinking this tea daily is the key to a long and healthy life. Now it's a proven scientific fact: green tea's natural active ingredients enhance human health, increase longevity, and aid in WEIGHT LOSS.
Green Tea is the healthiest way to lose weight by enhanced caloric burn, increased metabolism, and also oxidizing visceral fat.
Black & Green Tea
Both green and black teas come from the leaves of the Camellia Sinensis plant. The differences begin in how people processed them.
Black tea is processed through fermentation, which is what turns the leaf dark in colour and creates the strong flavour. Unfortunately, all this processing breaks down the natural properties of the leaf, stripping it of its main health benefits.
Green tea leaves, however, are the least processed of all the teas. The leaves are steamed, rolled, and naturally dried, therefore preserving its natural green colour and all of the natural antioxidants contained in the leaf.
On our motorbike tours, you will have many chances to try both of these teas.
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Letters to the Editor, March 5-7, 2014
Old mining structures need preserving
We as a community need demand that both Park City Mountain and Deer Valley
Resort start preserving the old mining structures that are on their properties.
As you ski past these beautiful old mining buildings year after year you see that they are slowly — and some not so slowly — deteriorating. The problem is when they're gone they're gone. An example is when you go to the Pioneer Lift at Park City Mountain there is a plaque with a picture of old mining builds that used to be there. Unless we want a bunch of plaques representing our history we need to demand the resorts take responsibility for preserving these priceless structures.
Bob Goldman
Park City
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Facts should determine living wage decision, not ideology
Living Wage House Bill 73 was heard in House Health and Human Services committee Monday. The bill raises the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.25 for workers and from $2.13 to $3.13 for restaurant servers. The main complaint facing the bill is the probable cost to the state and to small businesses.
Representative Lynn Hemingway, the bill's author, said, "Committee members made a brave choice to allow this bill to be heard today. Facts should determine whether or not this goes forward, not ideology. The fact is that the current minimum wage does not provide a way for workers to live with dignity, to accomplish their goals. These facts will come out in interim study. We have the tools to lower unemployment, increase educational attainment and boost people's chances to climb out of poverty. We have a tendency to blame the poor instead of the system we have set up that has continued to damn them."
The bill's fiscal note claims a $20 million price tag from public and higher education. Representative Hemingway continued, "The biggest cost attached to this bill is in education, which directly confronts the systemic lack of funding for our education system. Our priorities are all backwards right now. We need to put our money where our mouth is. We need to support our hardest working employees and give them a chance to live, not survive."
HB 73 would affect 35,000 Utah employees, 85% of which are over 20 years of age and working full time. Representative Hemingway hopes that an increase in the living wage would lessen the dependency on the social safety net, and support working parents who have not had the chance to earn college degrees. "We either reward people for their hard work, or we support their families through government programs. These are the decisions we have to make now."
Elizabeth Roberts
Utah House Democratic Caucus
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Veterans: sacrificial lambs
Our Legislators have no qualms sending our men and women in uniform into harm's way. We who served and those who continue to serve do what is expected in service for our Country, even if it means the giving of our life. Eventually we become Veterans.
Some of us at some point need help from our government, usually in the form of VA benefits. A Senate Bill S.1982 would have included disability compensation, pensions, survivor benefits and education, vocational training rehab, opening of new VA clinics and medical facilities and cost of living adjustments for military retires; naming a few benefits.
S.1982, titled: Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits, a Bill to improve provisions of service and benefits to veterans. The Bill failed passage in the Senate by a vote of 56 to 41, needed was 60 Yea votes. All Democrat Senators voted Yea. The Bill failed because of the Republican vote of Nay. Those Senators who disagreed was due to $21 billion budget spread out over ten years. Our veterans are not worth the dollars. Where does that place the veterans, they still have to continue to beg for VA benefits.
Where is the accountability when it come to veterans benefits? It seems many of our legislators do not understand accountability. Must veterans continue to carry budget cuts on their backs?
There is still an active House Bill HR-543, The Vietnam Agent Orange Act for Blue Water Navy. Will this Bill fail as well? We used to be able to count on our elected Congress and Senate who would send us off to war. We counted on them to do the right thing when we would be in need of help, no more, so what happened?
All Americans should contact their respective members of Congress and Senate and advise them to do what is right for our veterans.
John J. Bury, U.S. Navy, retired
Media, Penn.
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PCHS tech program is dazzling
Recently I attended Parent Teacher Conference for my 5th grader, Kira. She's at JRES, in Ms. Johnston's class, and Kira led me through a multimedia computer portfolio of her work in class this year. It dazzled me!
Wow, congrats to Ms. Johnston and Mr. Daenitz for partnering together to create a class of 5th grade tech-wiz kids. In particular, I appreciate Ms. Johnston taking the time to custom tailor curriculum to give our kids every technology advantage using many computer programs. Also, thanks to Mr. Daenitz for spending many hours helping the kids sort through thorny problems and fix them. Kira was very proud of her accomplishments.
Also, thanks to PCHS Principal, Bob O'Connor, for his visionary creation of a robotics program for our district. In only their third year of competition, PCHS Robotics Mentor, Charlie Matthews, coached the RoboMiners to a first place win in Utah's First Tech Challenge competition. Two other teams from Park City, the PCHS Torque Team, also coached by Mr. Matthews and the LadyBots also medaled in this competition. The RoboMiners and LadyBots are both headed to the regional competition in Sacramento on March
This is exactly the innovative technology vision we were hoping our district would achieve.
Kendeyl Johansen
Park City
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Letters: Experience the magic of Main Street this holiday season
Members of the Historic Park City Alliance write in a letter to the editor that early December is the perfect time for Parkites to experience the "old town feel" of Main Street.


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Relationship-Centered Approach to Team Building
Relationship-Centered Approach to Team Building
Why do I advocate relationship-centered team building?
In 2015 Google published a study finding that their most effective teams had one thing in common, people could speak their mind without fear of ridicule. This led to innovation and speed beyond anyone's expectations. These findings confirm recent neuro science research that identified people's need for relationship (inclusion) was as important to survival as food and shelter.
Ms. Carrillo's approach to training and developing high performing teams is based on this evidence-based research. Each organizational culture has developed a set of criteria for inclusion and exclusion. Effective leaders recognize the culture and learn to use it to create greater inclusion.
The wider the inclusion net is cast, the more people buy in to the goals and desired outcomes of the organization. Our process follows this basic process that allows for variations in timing and order of topics.
- Introduction of neuro science leadership principles. Understanding the brain and how our actions impact our own and other's effectiveness.
- In depth discovery and understanding of self and others on the team. We employ various self-disclosing tools that people share within their own comfort level. We find that as trust grows incrementally, people are willing to share more.
- Team members learn new models and skills to improve their communication skills and their ability to influence change.
- The team moves from relationship to task to test their newfound knowledge while working to solve complex problems. The team engages in action learning which means they go into the field and practice their communication skills to gather timely data to fuel action planning.
- One of the first tasks is to develop a team charter. It consists of a vision, mission, team norms, expected results and roles and responsibilities. The senior executives review the document with the team to approve or add to it. This reduces the possibility of the team failing to meet expectations.
- As the team moves into implementation, the true test is each individual's ability to deal with disagreement and accept or give performance feedback in a timely manner. We introduce this process in a safe environment using both positive and corrective performance feedback. Just as an athlete accepts coaching as a natural event, the team learns to coach and be coached.
- Success is evaluated through measurable goals set by the team. They agree to expectations for performance that include accountability and commitment.
- Once the action plans that include estimated resources and measurable objectives are completed, senior management approves or spells out where she or he wants to be kept informed.
- Structures to keep the team on course include a quarterly day-long meeting facilitated by the consultants for the first year to provide guidance and support. Before the conclusion of each meeting the senior leader attends for an update and again to affirm the team's direction.