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Bears-Redskins: The good, the bad and the really ugly
By Jason Woodmansee
The Good
It was a win. I don't know how it was a win, but it was a win. I keep checking to see if the NFL stepped in and took it away. This Redskins team seems to find ways win games it shouldn't. Also, big props to DeAngelo Hall. It's hard to argue with four interceptions, even if they were thrown by Jay Cutler.
The Bad
Troy Aikman. I hate when Aikman does Redskins games -- it seems like his conflict of interest should preclude him from doing it. This week he took it to a new level by bizarrely demanding an excessive celebration penalty on Hall, who made an acrobatic leaping catch, ran 92 yards for a touchdown, and then slid on his knees in the end zone. Really? That's excessive? After a play like that, Hall should have been allowed to jump on Jay Cutler's back and ride him like a horse.
Donovan McNabb. Now, I'm a huge McNabb homer. I hate to see people saying he's not worth the draft picks the Redskins gave up. But man, did he play poorly. That tipped interception in the first quarter was "weapons grade stupid" (via @jasoncollete). I'm going to try to forget this one, Donovan.
The Really Ugly
This game. It was some of the worst football I've ever seen -- and remember, I've been watching 5-7-year-olds play flag football the last few months. The Redskins in no way deserved to win, and kept getting bailed out by lucky play after lucky play. During one stretch of the third quarter, it went like this:
- Cutler throws a long bomb that somehow is stopped at the one yard line. Chicago challenges the call, but the replay confirms that it was short.
- But hey, the Bears have the ball at the one, that's an automatic TD, right? Nope -- Cutler tries a QB sneak into the end zone and fumbles. Replays showed he probably got the TD and/or had his forward progress stopped, but the Bears don't challenge.
- On the second play of the ensuing Redskins drive, McNabb gets sacked and fumbles the ball - but recovers it.
- Fresh off the lucky fumble recovery, McNabb throws a terrible pass that is picked off and returned for an easy Bears touchdown. But it is called back because the Redskins had actually let the play clock expire. Clock management problems FTW!
- The Redskins are forced to punt, but Cutler immediately throws an INT.
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You know the weirdest part of that whole stupid diatribe by Troy Barkman was not when he argued that dropping to two knees was excessive. Bizzaro-world was really entered when he pontificated that ONE knee would have been acceptable but TWO knees, well THAT crossed a line.
I swear I keep hoping for a blimp to crash into the pressbox every time he calls a Redskins game. That or Maake Kemoeatu.
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Can Lavar do us a favor and knock him out one more time. Aikman is a pathetic.
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WWE Divas Champion AJ Lee was back in the ring at yesterday's WWE live event in Minehead, England. Lee tagged again with Tamina Snuka against The Bella Twins. Lee fainted at a live event in London the day before as a result of dehydration.
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The WayHome Music & Arts Festival kicks off tomorrow in Oro-Medonte, Ontario and while the idea of going on a road trip and camping all weekend sounds like a blast, we're totally there for the music.
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Brave Shores
Chances are you've probably heard Brave Shores' music before. The Toronto brother/sister duo's catchy single Never Come Down has been used in commercials for Sony Xperia's underwater phone as well as the FIFA Women's World Cup/Coca-Cola Canada, and for good reason. Their joyous synth-pop songs are ready-made earworms that will surely propel this band up festival bills in the years to come. Just hit play below and imagine clapping your hands and singing along at WayHome this weekend!
We've shared our love for Toronto rock band Weaves here before, but nothing will convince you more than seeing this four-piece live. Their energetic sets are an eclectic mix of shredding guitars, oddball rhythms and lead singer Jasmyn Burke's completely magnetic personality. You won't be able to keep your eyes off her as she wanders back and forth on the stage, commanding the audience with her outlandish charm.
Toronto pop artist Lowell has been on our radar for quite some time now and we're still rooting for her big time. Her ability to write incredible pop songs that promote fierce feminist messages is totally unique and much needed in the world today. So make sure to check out what will surely be an amazing set by Lowell, and bring your "Girl Power" flag with you.
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This Vancouver duo recently won the SOCAN Songwriting Prize for their song, I Heard I Had, and there's plenty more where that came from. The band weaves together warm synths and sharp riffs to create super infectious songs led by charismatic lead singer Danielle McTaggart. Just take a look at the video below to see/hear how dynamic they sound live!
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Australian rocker Courtney Barnett released her highly-anticipated debut album, Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit, earlier this year, solidifying her as one of the best indie rock stars of 2015 (so far). Her grunge-inspired garage rock is perfectly paired with Barnett's keen sense of observation in her lyrics as well as a sarcastic humour that we can't help but fall in love with. Do not miss what might be one of the best sets at WayHome.


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New Zealand ranks well on capability in science and technology, says physicist Paul Callaghan, with the tradition of Ernest Rutherford still very much alive.
Generally though, we have a mistaken idea that science and technology is "not what we're good at" with sports and physical endurance rather than scientific success held up to our young people as models of success.
"We need to acknowledge the heroes of New Zealand's high technology sectors: Neville Jordan, Peter Maire, Gary Paykel, Rod Drury, Ken Stevens, Russell Smith and Angus Tait," he says. "Who celebrates them?"
Where we do invest in technology, he says, it displays a subjective impression of "what we're good at", with New Zealand's agricultural background leading to higher investment in biotechnology and neglect of other areas; even those, like ICT, supposedly identified by the government as high-priority sectors.
We have a mistaken idea that science and technology 'is not what we're good at' with sports and physical endurance rather than scientific success held up to our young people as models of success.
Callaghan, MacDiarmid professor of physical sciences at the Victoria University of Wellington, spoke at the recent CIO Leaders' Luncheon in Auckland and Wellington, where he shared his thoughts on strategies to create more wealth without creating further impact on the land and the environment.
The recipient of the 2007 Sir Peter Blake Leadership Awards says a path New Zealand should consider carving out is "high technology". He says "star performers" such as Rakon, Navman, Fisher & Paykel and Tait Electronics have built on a platform of physical sciences and engineering capability. They have shown that knowledge-rich physical technology platforms can be based in New Zealand and be as competitive in this country as from anywhere else, he says.
Callaghan also looks back on the achievements of the human race and the accompanying ebb and flow of prosperity. These ranged widely from Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's moons to the average temperature of student flats in Dunedin, all of which was supported with thought-provoking statistical graphs and charts.
Science provides the basis of our prosperity and our culture, says Callaghan, from the survival of individuals in the face of disease to the change in relationships and the ways of thinking produced by such inventions as the telescope and the contraceptive pill. But the reverse also applies, the way science develops is crucially dependent on the culture surrounding it.
Referring to David Landes' book The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, he points out that trust between parties to a transaction, engendered by good clear law and an absence of corruption is only the start of a culture conducive to prosperity.
"If that were all that were needed, New Zealand would be the most prosperous country in the world," he says. "We did the right, decent thing. In 1984 we went cold turkey, got rid of tariffs, and got rid of subsidies. We've always had good property rights and legal frameworks. There are countries out there that are not virtuous like us. Some even have higher taxation rates and they're richer. It's infuriating, incomprehensible and unfair."
In fact New Zealand has become less prosperous since commodity prices began falling precipitously around the 1940s, he notes. The country's fortunes have declined to the point where he claims our per-capita gross domestic product lags badly behind Australia and is below the OECD average.
"There are plenty of countries on the planet less prosperous than ours. But when our grandchildren are growing up on the other side of the world, when we have to Skype to read a bedtime story and when we would rather hold the grandchild and read the book in person, we feel a pang of grief.
"Our prosperity gap, and especially our prosperity gap with the English-speaking world, causes us a loss of children and grandchildren. Prosperity matters to families. And while we are dealing with OECD rankings, in quality of life measures such as imprisonment rates and life expectancy, we have a rather spotty story. As for infant mortality, it is nothing short of shameful. Are these social factors related to prosperity? I don't know for certain, but I can't see how a declining per capita GDP ranking can help."
One of the most striking of Callaghan's charts shows that although New Zealanders put in the second-longest average hours of work per capita of all OECD countries, they have the lowest output per hour worked.
Callaghan considered simply raising the volume of traditional high earners such as dairy and tourism, but he says both are too heavy on resource consumption or degrade the value of what is sold. For instance, five times the number of tourists tramping a track means 25 times as many likely meetings between travellers, most of whom value the solitude of the experience.
A more appropriate answer, he says, lies in industries based on science and technology: "They don't don't give out greenhouse gases, they don't even require much land. They don't pollute the streams, don't stress the environment at all; they don't even need much capital infrastructure or investment. They just need brains and enterprise."
Though we are not short of successful technology-based companies, he says they are generally small in relation to their counterparts overseas.
Government financing of research and development is heavily concentrated on biotechnology he claims, an area where it is relatively hard to push a successful innovation through to production and continued profit. More usually, he states, the product will be picked up at a late trial stage by an overseas company and manufacture taken out of New Zealand.
Government research funds are allocated in advance into a number of preferred areas, he says. "There are these people who work on the Terrace [public servants in Wellington] and they draw up these spreadsheets and they're so clever they know exactly what to buy , I hope. But I kind of wonder about it, because we are 0.2 per cent of the world's science, as well as 0.2 per cent of the world's economy. When you're that small, there may be some surprises about how things work out.
We don't need to spend less on biotech, he emphasises, just more on science as a whole. Private industry funding of R&D is in an even more woeful state than government funding. Our 0.44 per cent of GDP compares with Israel's 3.16 per cent and is 31 per cent of the OECD average.
He cites Sweden, where private investment in science from one philanthropic family is worth five times the New Zealand government's Marsden fund. "The country is not much bigger; the talent is no different, but their kids don't grow up thinking the way ours do."
We go into a national state of mourning when we lose a major sports competition, says Callaghan. "The America's Cup was rated a disaster. But we came second. What if we were second behind Nokia in cellphone manufacture and innovation? Wouldn't that be something to be proud of?"
One positive sign, he says, is that the government is inducing New Zealanders to save, producing a pool of money available for productive investment, some of it hopefully, in science and technology. He also cites the Maori renaissance as producing some promising signs of go-ahead young people and iwi-based organisations.
"To be successful we need to be viewed internationally as more than a 'Farm and Theme Park'," he says, referring to former Prime Minister David Lange's quotation about how New Zealand's destiny was to be a theme park, and Australia's, a quarry.
A cultural revolution
Callaghan cites the need for a major cultural shift towards greater emphasis on science and technology, thereby generating new high technology enterprises through such a multiplier effect.
There has, however, been a renewed effort at forging science-industry links in the past five years or so and an upturn in some of the economic indicators.
He stresses part of the cultural change should be to encourage what he calls "a marriage of physical sciences and engineering".
"Ultimately, when we come to make products to sell to the world, we will need the skills of the engineers and designers. And New Zealand performs badly in this regard. We have a severe disjoint between engineering and physical science that borders on hostility in places. This is ridiculous. We have far too few students enrolling in engineering course in our universities, with far too few taking the necessary maths and physics at high school. But the solution, I believe, lies in the hands of the present science and engineering generation. When we create the exciting, high-paying jobs in the New Zealand high technology sector, smart kids will cotton on fast."
Callaghan, however, says for all the aforementioned trends, he remains optimistic about the country's fortunes.
And he explains why, with a quote from Landes: "In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when wrong, they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, success. Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the consolation of being right." With additional reporting from Divina Paredes
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Danish jewellery brand Pandora has today (August 9) announced that Anders Colding Friis is stepping down as president and chief executive of the company, following poor results in Q2.
Effective of August 31, Colding Friis will step down from the position following three-and-a-half years in the role.
On Tuesday (August 7), Pandora reduced its forecast for sales growth as a consequence of weaker-than-expected development in charms, as well revenue from wholesale decreasing by 27%.
Anders Colding Friis steps down as Pandora chief executive
According to the brand, new rings, earrings, necklaces and bracelets, such as Pandora Shine, delivered growth, but the new charms did not fuel the anticipated reignition of charms revenue.
Additionally, reduction of inventories in the wholesale channel has also challenged the revenue outlook for the year. This, combined with weaker-than-anticipated total like-for-like sales-out growth in July and increasing manufacturing costs, led Pandora to change its financial guidance for 2018.
As a result, the company says it will be further strengthening its management team at the same time as it searches for a new chief executive to replace Colding Friis.
Jeremy Schwartz, former chief executive of The Body Shop, will join Pandora as chief operating officer from the start of September. Schwartz has previously held senior positions at several other multinational companies.
Pandora's chief financial officer, Anders Boyer, and chief operating officer, Jeremy Schwartz, will be jointly responsible for managing the company and leading the execution of Pandora's strategy.
Peder Tuborgh, chairman of the board of directors at Pandora, said: "The board recognises the important role Anders Colding Friis has played in leading the company, and in particular in developing and articulating the right new strategy, assuring the future success of Pandora. Pending the appointment of a new chief executive, I am delighted that we have Anders Boyer and Jeremy Schwartz on board to take the lead."
Pandora jewellery is sold through more than 7,700 points of sale, including more than 2,500 concept stores worldwide.
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
NO: A Word Not Often Heard in Freelancing
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The reason I am no longer an illustrator is exactly because of the constraints, the joylessness, of the sort of piecemeal free-lance work you describe. In the end it got to the point that I realised I wasn't earning enough to pay rent in London and it was crushing inevitability of submitting three roughs for an illustration in a photocopier manual! It was the work or the art and the art won!ReplyDelete
I appreciate that that make a snob and a terrible person but I did feel as if I was debasing myself everytime I took a new job on.
Besides i've taken on another Sisyfusean task - I'm writing books now and that's tougher than three day old steak!
- AnonymousJanuary 13, 2011 at 2:13 PM
Oh, Courtney...I was having these same thoughts just this morning. I've got plenty of work but it's all mindless crap. After this I'm telling the agent "no more". I want to build my portfolio, not degrade it.ReplyDelete
Would love to hear more from you on this subject...if only to know I have a comrade out there who feels as used as I do.
Hi Anonymous!ReplyDelete
Glad to hear you're in the same boat. Well, I mean I'm glad to hear you can relate, though I'm sorry you're frustrated like me!
I'd love to share more thoughts on this subject with you directly but I don't know who you are---can you enlighten me? :)


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New 2015 Ford Edge large SUV revealed
Ford has revealed its all-new Edge large SUV range-topper, which it confirmed will go on sale in Europe for the first time in 2015.
The new Ford Edge, a blue oval alternative to models such as the Volkswagen Touareg and BMW X3, will sit above the rightly popular Kuga and mediocre Ecosport to give a full line of European blue oval SUVs for the first time.
So why now, given its previous unsuccessful foray into the large SUV sector with the dreary Explorer? Because European SUV sales are up from 10% in 2008 to 21% last year, that's why: it's a fast-growing market.
"Over the past few years we have seen a dramatic shift among customers from cars to SUVs around the world. The time is right for a larger, more upscale SUV at the top of our European line-up," Roelant de Waard, vice president, Marketing, Sales & Service, Ford of Europe
The Edge has been sold in North America since 2007 and achieved record sales last year; this new one is a ground-up redesign, says Ford, as a 'One Ford' world car. "We are leveraging our One Ford portfolio to offer a broader range of products to our customers in Europe," said Stephen Odell, president, Ford of EMEA.
Ford Edge 'a premium rival'
It will be a five-seater and be roomier than many larger, pricier SUV rivals, Roelant de Waard said. "The styling and suite of comfort, convenience and safety technologies in Edge rival the premium offerings in Europe."
Pleasingly, although it originates from the US, Ford's offering it in Europe with a choice of two diesels. The 180hp 2.0-litre TDCi produces 149g/km CO2, and there's a 210hp version that emits 159g/km CO2 (plus 331lb ft of torque). The former has s six-speed manual, the latter is a six-speed auto with paddleshifts. Both will feature intelligent all-wheel drive.
It's packed with gadgets, as the firm aims to give it a high-tech feel to stand out alongside premium rivals. Key features include:
- Adaptive Steering
- Active Noise Cancellation
- Front Split View Camera
- Hands-free tailgate
- In-car connectivity and voice control
- Inflatable rear seatbelts
- Active City Stop
- Heated and cooled front seats
- Heated steering wheel
Ford hasn't revealed any prices or other details yet, only confirming that it'll go on sale in the US in early 2015, following in Europe later. List prices are expected to start from upwards of £32,500.


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Here are two ways to search within a document that won't open the search dialog in Visual Studio 2010. The first one is also useful for 2013.
Incremental search (Ctrl-i): Ctrl-i will start an incremental search. In Visual Studio 2010 this won't even open the search dialog. Your search pattern will be displayed on the bottom bar in 2010 and in the standard search box in 2013. You can cycle through various entries by continuing to press Ctrl-i.
I often use incremental search to quickly jump to a specific location on the same line or a nearby line. For example if I want to jump to the word string I can just press Ctrl-i followed by the first few characters of the words I am looking for, in this case: st and I'm usually there. By using this feature I am able to prevent using the mouse or the arrow keys to move the cursor.
This is a big gain as taking your hands away from the keyboard has a huge impact on your workflow and the arrow keys are a slow way to move around (even with shift-arrow key).
Keep in mind that as the distance you need to travel increases, you'll tend to get more and more misses with this strategy and might need to keep repeating Ctrl-i too much.
Search for the word under the cursor (Ctrl-F3): This next one is specific to Visual Studio 2010. If you want to find other occurrences of a specific word just move your cursor to it and then press Ctrl-F3 which will automatically send you to the next occurrence. Again this will not bring up the search dialog, which would then necessitate at least one more click to confirm.
You can continue pressing F3 (no need for the Ctrl key) to move to the other occurrences of the same word within the current file.
This is particularly useful when you are already positioned on the word you want to search, say a variable or function, and contrary to Find all references it will also find commented out instances.
In Visual Studio 2013 search has been improved which rendered this shortcut obsolete. You can still press Ctrl-F3 which will have the same behaviour has Ctrl-F. F3 will also cycle to the next search hits.
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[Alongside the painstaking moments in the crevice are richly told tales of Ralston's prior adventures. After quitting his job as a mechanical engineer, he became an expert outdoorsman. The book finds him trekking along mountaintops, precipices and canyon floors around the world. Here, a bear stalks him; there, an avalanche buries him. He is always close to falling, being crushed or losing one appendage or another. The flashbacks provide relief from the intense pinned-arm drama, but also put Ralston's doomed Utah trip in perspective:] I wanted to show that I wasn't in over my head... This was something that was relatively low-exposure for me. - Aron Ralston
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It's one of the easiest and coolest manicures ( ranking after this one, from last October ) I have done
All you need is a bunch of coordinating polish colors, top coat, base coat, some scotch tape, pair of scissors, a bowl of cold water and a toothpick.
To begin with, apply a layer of quick dry base coat.
Next step- cut thin strips of scotch tape and frame it around the nails. I taped just a couple of fingers, to show exactly what is expected. I skipped the rest coz of lack of patience.
Thereafter I applied Essie my chauffeur as the base coat.
Now comes the fun part. To make this step easier, simultaneously open the lid of all the colors you wish to use for the marbling. I started by dropping some Maybelline porcelain party (white ) into the water, followed by Sephora OPI that's a hot pink and Sally Hansen lickety-split lime. Make sure not to move or shake the bowl until all the colors have been poured. Now cautiously use a toothpick to spread polish in the desired shape/direction.
Once crisscrossed, dip your fingers one by one into the water. Redo the marbling ( above step ) if the polish starts to get lumpy.Once all fingers are dipped, the look of the nails and the fingers is not the most sought after look, but trust me things hike for better from here.
Now with the aid of a Q-tip dipped in some rubbing alcohol, clean the extra polish in and around the nails. Let the polish dry completely and finish with a layer of top coat.
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Microsoft provides pages of documentation that indicates what has changed in XP SP2. There are many file changes of course. Please visit the site Windows XP SP 2 for IT Professionals for links to articles that will provide this information for you.
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Beast // Never Been I stiletto girl / flip my hair & wink girl / lace & French manicure girl / hand job for the Lobster Thermidor girl / cherries in my drink girl / People Magazine girl / other cheek girl / hold my breath girl / suck in my stomach girl / hold my hand girl / hold my hand cuz I'm scared girl / scared girl / scared of this mouth or this knuckle or this gun or death or you or anything girl II Anointed deified pampered blessed cherished coddled sanctified hallowed forgiven. Never wanted that, anyhow. III to the moon or to the deep end of City Pool or to my mama's mama's grave or to Lebanon or to Glasgow or to culinary arts school or to prison or to the Guggenheim or to my first husband's funeral or to my mama's funeral or to my rapist(s) funeral(s) or to my first love who tried to cut a gash in my throat but instead I laughed in his face's funeral or to hell IV Boiled. De-beaked. Plucked. Skinned. Ground. Starved. Branded. Hooked. Drowned. Electrified. Immolated. Gorged. Gagged. Clubbed. Gassed. Bolted. Exsanguinated. Fried. Basted. Battered. V Buried.
Secret Written from inside a Piranha's Mouth*† He prefers winter. Prefers cabernet. Steak. Blondes. Prefers ass. Fake nails and glossy lips. Juicy. Stilettos. Prefers silence. And Comedy Central. IPAs. American football. Prefers bareback. Under 30. Commando. Prefers I know his preferences. Prefers not to be bothered with mine. Prefers I keep things quiet. Keep things to myself. Sinks his teeth and shreds. Prefers the spotlight be his alone. Dims the room and all the people in it. Prefers his teeth sharp. Prefers a little blood in his soup. ___________________________________________ * Piranhas are omnivorous freshwater fish with powerful jaws and serrated teeth known to dilacerate prey. † Piranhas practice cannibalism under extreme conditions.
The Most Dangerous Game
"Best sport in the world." "For the hunter." —Richard Connell When he tells you about Joani, you cringe. Her dragging eyelids and thirst for bullets. How she did it in front of him. You come to understand his contempt for women. Appetite for skin. Amanda full of pills. Nikki emptied at the wrist. Christa gassed in a Ford Explorer. // Later, in the courtroom, you are asked to reenact: Hold the knife the way he held it. Say the words the way he spoke. Years pass. He makes parole. Police suggest you move away. Instead, you brush your hair, find your best dress. Lock up the knives. Open each window.
This poem borrows its title and epigraph from the short story by Richard Connell (Collier's, 1924).
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Happy New Year!
We've begun a fresh chapter: The Something Of Our Ways.
Hope to see you there…
Happy New Year!
We've begun a fresh chapter: The Something Of Our Ways.
Hope to see you there…
When I was diagnosed in October 2009, I was vaguely aware of one woman who had been through the experience before me.
I felt isolated. Targeted. Stupid.
Sadly, I don't feel alone now.
There are too many of us. And the numbers keep growing.
Most of our moms didn't walk this path.
I fervently hope that our daughters don't have to.
This weekend, we're doing the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation's Run For The Cure.
Feel free to help by sponsoring Mark, Lucy, Bayla or me.
Thank you.
A year ago yesterday, was my first day back to work.
But yesterday, wasn't.
Lucky, lucky me.
Before cancer, I led a charmed life. And I knew it.
I was happy. I was healthy. With two delicious daughters. And a vibrant relationship with a hunky, funky, fun-loving man.
We had good jobs. A cozy home. Consuming creative, hobbies. Tonnes of passion. And shared our time with interesting, intelligent, authentic, fun-loving friends.
I had stress. And I did torture myself. But I really did marvel at my miraculous life. And wondered how I'd stumbled into it.
Who'd have guessed it would get even better.
I love my life.
Thank you, Mark.
"You can keep them bottled up, but they will come out, Michael. Sometimes in the most unexpected… Hey, where the @!*# are my hard-boiled eggs?!"
— Tobias Fünke. Good Grief! Arrested Development 2004.
My life is brimming with beautiful people. Wise, interesting, creative, curious, passionate, compassionate, generous, articulate, level-headed, fun-loving people.
I'm lucky.
So I'm always shocked at the hair-trigger hostility I stumble into. Seemingly reasonable people who spray me with hatred over a sideways glance.
It confuses me.
Are they stretched to the breaking point struggling to maintain some decent facade? Are they barely bottling up frustration, dissatisfaction, loneliness, insecurity, envy and rage? And why bother spewing venom at inconsequential me?
In the online world, it's especially easy to lay out and examine entire interactions. And I've often done just that. Weighing a scant response from me against the lengthy and personal ferocity that results.
And my confusion remains.
But I'm learning to scrounge up some compassion for their barely bound pain. Beam some healing, happy vibes.
And move on.
There's no time like the present.
In October 2009, I was desperate to have both breasts removed.
Thanks to my insistent surgeon, I didn't.
They're small. They're lopsided.
There are scars on both.
But they're here. And so am I.
Lucky me.
When Mark lost his job last month, a friend grinned,
"When one door closes, another opens…
Sometimes, 17 others open."
And it's been true.
Possibilities have been popping up ever since.
Possible new paths for Mark.
And, surprisingly, hints of possible new paths for me.
Just hints, at this point. Vague invitations that may mean crossroads ahead.
But, several of them.
Open doors (even hints of open doors) are deliciously scary.
Three weeks ago today, Mark lost his job.
It was no laughing matter.
But, thanks to a whack of relevant AD quotes, we laughed a lot that day.
Often, it's not what happens so much as how we frame it.
This weekend, I did a hard-core search for a healthy way to look at braggarts, bullies and poseurs.
Thanks to mulling, sharing and listening to you, I think I struck gold:
Medicinal Deceit.
Medicinal Bragging.
Medicinal Superiority.
Medicinal Bullying…
I laugh just thinking these terms.
Bring it on.
(And, thanks!)
Life is short. And I'm the hard-earned new me.
So, why must I continue to let braggarts, bullies and poseurs get under my skin?
Really. I need to know why.
So I can stop.
Enough, already.
Back in December, I got pretty freaked out about a line of lumps along my right arm.
And celebrated big when I got the good news.
Two weeks ago, I had the long-awaited ultrasound and left to the words "I wouldn't worry if I were you".
And I didn't.
Yesterday my oncologist gave me a cheery call. She's ordered another look at a reactive lymph node.
Lucky me. More practice at trusting my body. More practice at not worrying.
Pretty soon, I'll be a pro.
Hooping, it turns out, is perfect post-breast-cancer-treatment therapy. Almost.
It challenges my co-ordination, balance and spatial awareness.
It entirely occupies my mind.
Its frantic, erratic arm movements sneak my damaged limb into places I thought I'd left behind.
It allows me to flail and fail without drawing the attention of the likewise intensely occupied others.
And gives me ample opportunity to tame my uber frustration reflex.
It's brand new, so there's no kicking myself for lost progress.
It's great exercise.
It's fun.
And it's my first class with Lucy in 10 years.
But last night I discovered the Almost.
Chemo'd chicks don't spin.
Or at least they shouldn't.
I discovered.
It's easy to forget how disgusting chemo was.
Last night's hoop-induced nausea was a vivid reminder.
Of how lucky I am to be healthy.
And happy.
And chemo-free.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I took a timeout from teleworking today to enjoy a walk with Phaedra.
As my ever-burgeoning buttocks bounced happily behind me, I wondered what tweaks to my daily habits might reverse that jiggling trend.
A young man caught up to me on the all-but-deserted pathway, "You're going to think this is very forward of me, but I'm a personal trainer and…" bla, bla, bla.
The lengthy exchange was pleasant and professional and I returned to my walk feeling triumphant at having successfully deflected all compliments and steered clear of a pitch.
It was only as my mind was drawn back to my jiggling behind that I realized what I'd done.
How often do I nip opportunity in the bud?
Why do I put pride ahead of progress?
And, what's the scoop on this Marvin guy? I wish I'd got his last name.
Well, then, Tobias… follow those dreams. Make those dreams happen.
— Tobias Funke, Visiting Ours
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.
In the first few years after it, Jay and I laughed that our 7650 kilometre coast-to-coast cycling slog had eliminated all chances of future adventure.
Once-thrilling ski and bike tours, tough as they were, left us unfulfilled.
Our bang bar was just too high.
Turns out cancer raised a bang bar of its own.
Mark lost his job Monday.
It blindsided us both.
But we're all alive and healthy.
We're concerned, curious and quite run down.
But this challenge, tough as it is, is well below the bar.


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Sadly for the Little Boy, he did this regrettable act in broad daylight -- the time when the eye of the Sun was upon him. Seeing this horrendous and, yet again, blasphemous act, the Sun concentrated its rays on a beam -- a tiny beam that amounted to laser light. Though successful in channeling the concentrated energy of light onto a pinpoint on the hurled piece of ivory, the sun didn't hit it entirely. It only managed to bore a hole on the piece of ivory.
As the master of the Winds, he caused them to try and blow the still-flying piece of ivory towards heaven. Again, he was successful in making the Winds blow the ivory projectile, but it only caused it to shift a bit of course and straight into the direction of Heaven's window.
Seeing this minor blunder, the Sun caused the Winds to whirl and rub against themselves. This act, by far, seemed to be the most cunning act of the Sun in preventing harm from coming towards heaven. As the winds rubbed against each other, they managed to create a force so strong. Through friction and static energy, the winds crackled and hummed with electricity. The sun doesn't want to fail so he waited cautiously. With only one eye, he wanted his electric bolt to hit its mark and save Heaven's window from cracking. At the very last minute, he released the the static energy into a lightning bolt.
This time, the Sun was able to hit the piece of ivory flung by the Little Boy but not enough to totally destroy it. It got shattered into tiny specs of ivory and got blown in the wind. However, a sizable bit -- the size of a prune -- still remained airborne and still on course. With a clink on the glass of Heaven's window, it bounced off and down again, straight back in the direction of the Little Boy.
Although he was not entirely successful in stopping the ivory shard, he was victorious in protecting Heaven. As for the boy, although not entirely successful in breaking anything in Heaven's dominion, he was successful in getting heaven to notice him. From the window that was tapped by the ivory piece, a face, an angel spoke. The angel said, "Little Boy, Master of the Ivory Tower, oh most notorious neighbor, please desist in daring Heaven. Heaven, with all it's wisdom, might, and potential, has plans for you. Be patient and you will be purged of your punishment. Be hasty and spiteful and you shall see that Heaven can put down a more repugnant lesson reckon with. For now, Heaven will just teach you about gravity." Then, the angel closed the window, and Heaven grew serene once more.
Hearing those words, the Sun beamed in bliss. Hearing those words, the Little Boy grew more angry. "Bah! Teach me gravity? Who do they think they are? I know all about gravity," said the Little Boy. "In a nutshell, what..." and before he could finish his simple-minded definition, the small, prune-sized ivory shard thumped on his head, left a bit of a bump on his temple, and fell down towards the Earth. "... goes up must come down," he grumbled just to hold up a bit of defiance. With the final words spoken, he went in the tower.
Now, what of the ivory shards? What ever did happen to those that got blown in the wind? What happened to that prune-sized shard that was able to tap on Heaven's door? As the angel said, there is a lesson here to learn about gravity. Those shards fell. They fell down and all over the World. Being a piece of the Ivory Tower, they possessed some magic in them, which will eventually be seen by the Little Boy and everyone who had the eye for magical happenings. With what the Little Boy called "ammunition," there will come great and grand adventures for the little lives that will encounter those shards that came from the Ivory Tower standing on top of the tallest mountain on top of the World.
Minor note: Since there was no figure that represented the Sun and lightning bolts together, I used Goddess of Lightning by Feodome (top left). In the Light of Things (middle) was made by Timett. Ivory shards were not on Deviant Art so The Wish by MerenSherita was chosen (bottom left).


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Page count: 521
The Redbreast is a compelling novel of war, love, and betrayal that stretches from the waning days of the Russian Front to present-day Oslo, a city perched on top of a powder keg: a restive Muslim immigrant population and a resurgent neo-Nazi movement. The wonder of this epic is that it's written within the confines of a classic crime novel.
When Harry Hole, a police detective best described as a brilliant burnout, accidentally shoots one of the president's secret service agents during a rehearsal for an upcoming summit meeting, he believes it's the end of his career. However, the politics of the moment demand a hero, not a fall guy, and Harry is promoted to inspector instead. He begins to piece together disparate threads: threats of violence on Norway's upcoming Independence Day, the illegal importation of a Marklin rifle (a favored weapon of assassins), and a murder committed outside a pizza parlor frequented by neo-Nazis.
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The PMIV Methodology combined the Project Life Cycle with the Project Management Methodology including the Gate approach.
The purpose of the gate approach is to establish clear criteria for project evaluation and audit a project between phases.
The PMIV Methodology model may vary between projects but its functionality is the same.
Each phase is broken down into key deliverables and grouped mainly into four (4) categories: Business, Project, Operations and External. Each category has a certain number of documents that need to be satisfied in order to move from one phase to the next. The Execute phase is often broken down into Detailed Engineering, Procurement and Fabrication & Construction. The Operate phase is often broken down into Start Up & Operate and Close Out.
The following represents some examples of key deliverables supported by scored key activities linked to procedures for each gate evaluation:
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Each Project Life Cycle phase is supported by a set of processes, Data Flow Diagrams and Procedures. Integral Vision has also various Project Management Manuals, Templates and Training Manuals.
The primary activities for a gate evaluation are linked to reference documents such as procedures.
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When I was a child, the world seemed so wide March 22, 2009Posted by dolorosa12 in books, childhood, fangirl, memories.
Tags: addiction, american gods, books, buffy, catherine jinks, childhood, fangirl, fantasy novels, john marsden, joss whedon, memories, neil gaiman, nostalgia, pagan chronicles, philip pullman, sara douglass, victor kelleher, watchmen
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For someone whose favourite series of books is about the absolute necessity of embracing conscious, adult existence, I sure spend a lot of time reminiscing about my childhood. On days when adult life seems to 'suck beyond the telling of it' (Gratuitous Buffy Quote #1), childhood experiences seem that much more wonderful, their joys that much fiercer, their emotions that much stronger, the whole 17 (to pluck an arbitrary number out of nowhere) years that much more meaningful than anything the previous seven have had to offer. Nowhere is this more apparent than in my attitude to my favourite texts (TV series and movies, but for the most part books) of my younger years.
It became apparent, in a couple of conversations with Sibylle, that I mythologised my personal canon of childhood to an absurd degree. Sibylle has set herself a rather awesome reading challenge this year: to read the best young-adult, science-fiction and fantasy novels out there. Since these are my three main genres, I was happy to oblige with suggestions. What we both noticed was that I was constantly saying things like 'such and such a book was my favourite book when I was seven' or, 'so and so wrote the books that meant the most to me when I was a teenager'. Although I have discovered texts that I adore since hitting the wrong side of 18, they are much rarer. (Hello, current crazy Watchmen obsession! Why don't you stand up and take a bow, Great, Epic Fangirling of Scott Westerfeld and Cory Doctorow of 2007-8? And let's not forget the time that American Gods reduced me to a quivering heap of awed silence.)
But a recent post of Sibylle's forced me to reexamine my rather blinkered, uncritical view of my childhood canon.
I've also watched Grease (1978) for the upteenth time. It was my favourite movie when I was 13, which means nothing as to its quality. I'm very suspicious of my teenage and childhood loves as I don't think half of them were based on merit. You won't find me writing about how wonderful something is based solely on my childhood memories of it.
Ouch. Even though she assures me this comment wasn't aimed at me, it did make me think that I needed to assess exactly why I champion my beloved texts of childhood so fiercely.
One of the things I've noticed about adulthood is that you have much less time to be a narcissist. (Somewhere, my mother is rolling on the floor laughing at this admission of her most narcissistic of daughters.) I know this sounds odd coming from someone whose idea of a good time is to sit in her room, reviewing books on the internet while talking to people on IRC, but the pull of the 'real world' is slightly more insistent once you're an adult. If nothing else, there's a need to earn money to support an expensive lifestyle of Buffy boxed sets, fantasy novels and, once in a while, food. Childhood and adolescence, in contrast, offer many opportunities for sitting in one's room, thinking about how such and such a novel (or film, or song) PERFECTLY ENCAPSULATES ONE'S LIFE. (That is, if one's childhood is as wonderfully middle-class Canberran as mine was.) But it is not merely opportunity that causes this vastly expanded childhood canon.
I've realised that I like texts in three different ways. These can be roughly summarised thus:
- Head: These texts appeal to me solely on an aesthetic level. I appreciate the technical proficiency of their creators, and in some cases, their complex themes, but I feel no desire to reread or rewatch them. I can't list any examples because, once I've read or watched such texts, they exert no further pull on my imagination.
- Head and Heart: These texts are aesthetically pleasing and speak to me on some personal level. They have some kind of meaning that either fits in with my worldview or has some relevance to my life, and tend to encourage me to want to write about them and discuss them with others. The majority of the books of my childhood would fall under this category, as would most of my current personal canon (Sophia McDougall's Romanitas series, China Miéville's books, Steven Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa series, Dollhouse, most of the immrama that I'm writing about for my dissertation).
- Head, Heart and Soul: These texts are technically proficient. They possess themes which speak to me on a personal level and make me want to write about them and discuss them with other fans. But, most importantly, they make me reexamine who I am, make me want to change, to become better, to think more. These are the texts that I would quite possibly die to save. Thinking about these texts makes my life worth living.
This last category contains such things as His Dark Materials, Buffy, Firefly, Sara Douglass's Troy Game series, Parkland, Earthsong, Firedancer, The Beast of Heaven and Taronga by Victor Kelleher, The Tiger In The Well by Philip Pullman, The Vampire Chronicles, Catherine Jinks's Pagan series, Adele Geras's Tower Room series and book The Girls in the Velvet Frame, John Marsden's Tomorrow series, Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths, American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, the films Amelie and Waltz With Bashir, A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield, Jo Walton's Tir Tanagiri Saga, Cirque du Soleil's show Quidam, Buile Shuibne, and the graphic novel Watchmen.
Of that list, only American Gods, Small Gods, The Vampire Chronicles, Buile Shuibne, The Troy Game, The Tir Tanagiri Saga, Waltz With Bashir, Firefly and Watchmen were read/watched by me when I was an adult. And of that small list, the only ones read/watched by me after I finished my undergrad degree were Waltz With Bashir, Watchmen, American Gods and Small Gods. That's a very small proportion of a rather large personal canon.
I do read slightly less than I did as a child (when I would routinely read three books a day), but that can't be the only reason. Of the three books a day I read as a child, after all, not all became Head, Heart and Soul books. Why, then, are so few of the texts that have meaning for me texts I've discovered as an adult?
It's not a reflection of quality. Objectively, I know, for example, that the Pagan series is of a much higher quality than the Vampire Chronicles, and that Victor Kelleher is a much better writer than Sara Douglass. I might (after doing Honours in English literature, working for five years as a book reviewer and two years as a feature sub-editor) know a bit more about what makes for bad writing than I did as a child, but none of the 'childhood canon' books on my list are badly written. I've read them all many times as an adult, and they remain as wonderful now as they seemed to me as a child.
Perhaps it has something to do with the relative complexity (and stability) of one's adult identity in comparison to the fluidity of the identity of a child. A child is, to a certain extent, unformed, and capable of possessing many facets, not all of which must be satisfied in a work of fiction. Thus, the part of my child-self that consoled itself through 'supposing' was satisfied with A Little Princess, while the part of it that thought all humans were beasts found expression in the works of Victor Kelleher. I did not require a text to be all things to all parts of my personality, and so was satisfied with texts that embodied just some parts of that personality. As an adult, I require more of my texts, and so, for the most part, am disappointed in this regard. A text must, as I wrote elsewhere in this blog, speak to me and for me and and about me, but it must do so to and for and about all parts of my identity.
That is asking a lot of a text. In fact, in the face of my high-maintenance requirements of texts, it's a wonder any have managed to find their way into my personal canon at all since I turned 18. So thank you, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Ari Folman, Alan Moore, Sara Douglass, Jo Walton, Anne Rice, crazed anonymous medieval author of Buile Shuibne, and Joss Whedon for somehow finding a way into the seething mass of contradictions which make up my mind, heart and soul. Sometimes, your writings are the only things that make me feel anything for this confusing, terrifying, beautiful and heartbreaking thing called adulthood. For this, I am eternally grateful.
Something for the sraffies May 29, 2008Posted by dolorosa12 in sraffies.
Tags: addiction, internet, sraffies, writing
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So, for some weird reason, I found myself last night re-reading lots of my old reviews. I was searching for one on Peeps and The Last Days by Scott Westerfeld, but I ended up reading them all. It was like peering back through the pages of an old diary, laughing at the clunkiness of my old prose and, every so often, shocked, thinking, 'I believed that?' My review of Eragon is absolutely painful to read. I described the book as 'richly imagined'? That pile of dross recycled from The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and The Earthsea Quartet? What was I thinking?
What I really wanted to post here, was, however, my article about literary internet fansites. I think it will be amusing for all the sraffies. I certainly laughed when I read it (and not only at the clunky writing). The illustrations show a very early image of the BttS homepage, with news stories by Merlyn (that's how old this article is, sraffies) and Blighty (is that Will?).
So, for your reading pleasure and amusement, I present 'It's Booklovers Anonymous in cyberspace'.
One of the delicious thrills of joining a literary Internet chat room is the possibility that you may actually be talking to a friend. Hidden behind the many adopted noms de plume may be someone you know – a casual acquaintance or even someone you passed in the street that day. While in the library at uni a few weeks ago, I noticed something unexpected as I waited in line to check my email.
Another student, already on the computer, was browsing the forums of an unofficial literary Internet fan site with which I was perhaps too familiar. I did not know this girl – indeed, I know none of the other members of the fan site. All go by pseudonyms, preferring to cloak their almost fanatical love of books in obscurity. It is strange and slightly unsettling when the anonymity of the Internet is threatened in this way – when its artificial world comes too close to the real world.
This girl and I did not know each other, and yet we may have been sharing thoughts on our favourite books for months. A literary fan site provides anonymous possibilities similar to the pleasures of a masked ball.
While many have claimed that the wonder of the Internet is email – instant communication in real time – for those with a passion for particular authors or genres of literature, the unofficial fan site would have to run a close second. For booklovers who perhaps had scorned the Internet as yet another small-screen diversion from life's real purpose, of reading more books, the development of literary fan sites has proved as much of a diversion as the Australian Idol website has been for those with a different kind of passion.
Literary fan sites – on authors from Sir Thomas Malory to George Orwell to the generic writers of The Saddle Club – are generally run by fans, places where groups of like-minded people can discuss their favourite books, trade gossip on book-related topics, and essentially indulge their obsession with a particular series of books. (argh! three 'books' in the one sentence. *winces*)
Indeed, one of the chief delights of literary websites lies in sharing the obsessive pedantry of the fan with like-minded souls around the world. While some of the sites are little more than chatrooms providing a front for selling merchandise, others include transcripts of interviews, heated discussion about the significance of particular events (on the fan site for His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, the discussion about whether two characters slept together goes on for 36 pages and counting!) and speculation about where a particular series of books is heading. (hmm, only 36 pages? It must be close to 200 by now…)
Many fan sites, particularly those related to fantasy writing, are really clusters of sites. The main site for Isobel Carmody fans is obernewtyn.net, which has a sister site, Obernewtyn Theories. The main site has transcripts of interviews, fan fiction, fan art, news and gossip. The second site is an endless forum for discussion of the meaning of texts, plot development and cross-text references.
The Philip Pullman site, which is at bridgetothestars.net, includes a series of forums dedicated to not only the His Dark Materials trilogy itself but all other books by the author, as well as separate forums for discussing other books, movies, music and interests. As well as the inevitable fan fiction (stories using the original novels as a starting point), bridgetothstars.net also has a section where fans can publish their essays.
Fantasy sites seem to attract mainly young people, who enjoy writing themselves into the story. However, these fantasy sites are not simply filled with lost children escaping the real world. The existence of an essay section in bridgetothestars.net actually encourages readers to research and write essays about aspects of their favourite texts. (No, really?)
Children and teenagers are writing essays on topics as diverse as the scientific basis of the multi-universes of Pullman's world, to his use of Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism, in in work, for the sheer love of it.
Just as the line between fantasy and reality can be thin on the Internet, so it it too for these avid fans. One of the more recent issues discussed on the Pullman site was the possibility of dedicating a park bench – which plays a significant role in Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy – in the Oxford Botanical Gardens to the chief characters in his books. Later, English fans returned to the site to report that the characters' names had already been carved into the bench by more switched-on fans. They also reported that the bench had been formally dedicated to a couple of women already, and a search began to find out information about these women and the possible reasons behind this dedication.
The obernewtyn.net site hosts monthly "moonfairs", complete with competitions and prizes, in an attempt to emulate similar moonfairs in the series. The moderators of the sites use a number of creative methods to contribute to the intellectual life and discussion of the site. For example, members of obernewtyn.net belong to "guilds", similar to the guilds created by Carmody's heroic characters; each guild member attracts points by contributing to the site.
On bridgetothestars.net members are rewarded for posting on the numerous forums by being moved up on the invented hierarchy of characters from Pullman's trilogy. For example, a member who has posted 25 times or less is known as a "grazer" – a bovine-type character with no consciousness – whereas 25 to 50 posts puts the member in the category of the "mulefa" – a creature similar in appearance to the grazer but with the bonus of human-like consciousness. (hmm, someone didn't understand the conventions of php-based forums, clearly. Someone also appeared to think that post-count related ranks were there to reward post-whorage. *shame*)
All of these things combine to create a friendly, if obsessive, atmosphere, full of like-minded people. As for collectors of memorabilia and the other groups of passionate oddballs, the sense of community, of shared experience, in literary Internet fan sites, is strong. They provide an outlet for such people to enjoy literature away from the academic world, and without its pressures.
With the freedom of anonymity, users are able to cultivate individuality and enhance any quirkiness they are able to express. While the rise of the Internet was seen as a threat to the future of the book, just as television was supposed to signal an end to reading, literary fan sites encourage an appreciation of literature and should be applauded.
Fantasy web sites, in particular, created for the most part by young people, have encouraged the close reading of texts and the self-expression dear to the heart of any English teacher. They are also lots of fun!
~ This originally appeared in the CT on Saturday, January 31, 2004.
I feel shame that I ever wrote this badly, but the comments about teh sraffies crack me up now. Anonymity? *falls over laughing* I also love that I hadn't quite been bitten by the Internet bug yet – and still believed in a false dichotomy between the 'online' and 'real' worlds.
First post March 25, 2008Posted by dolorosa12 in Uncategorized.
Tags: addiction, first post, introduction
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Well, I've decided to start using wordpress. I skipped over here after being thoroughly disgusted with some stuff that was going on at LJ, and although I don't think I'll abandon LJ – my blog there is a bit like a spoiled, much-loved child – I'll try wordpress for a bit.
What can I say? I tend to spread myself too thinly across the internet – especially when vanity and exhibitionism are involved.


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Fusion (The merging or blending of two or more things) is the name of BFA Alumni Tracey Baird's company and what she had in mind when coordinating a talented team of individuals to work together on events such as weddings, corporate functions and special occasions. Baird has created a mobile and salon service for hair, makeup and beauty, combined with photography and other specialist services such as floristry, invitations and painting.
With over 12 years of hairdressing and nail experience in Auckland and London and tutoring at a top hairdressing school, Baird decided to expand her career in 2008 by completing a Fine Arts degree with a major in photography at Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design.
As a mature student, Baird was able to draw on life experience including valuable transferable skills such as time management and an understanding of financial realities. These skills helped to underpin her thought processes when considering the type of career she wanted at the completion of her studies.
Throughout her time at Whitecliffe, Baird displayed an inbuilt aptitude for being able to segment one idea into component parts and she also has a honed appreciation of colour, tone and texture. Baird finds she is able to think and express herself more naturally in pictures as opposed to the written word. The academic writing and reading for the degree were challenging but with the support of lecturers Baird was able to make the most of this aspect of her studies.
Baird generated many ideas whilst she was studying which she is now bringing to fruition. While discussing this she commented that ideas don't have to be worked on immediately; study is a time to generate ideas, which can be refined and worked on later. After an extended incubation time she has now found the right moment to draw upon her prior store of knowledge.
Baird is part of the Auckland Festival of Photography with her exhibition; Don't let the bed bugs bite.
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- Explain the Oracle Retail Footprint
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They are looking for the right individual with significant aviation, life and leadership experience and qualifications to match, to head a small team engaged in a mix of owner and charter operations.
The applicant must aim to demonstrate the highest standards of flying skills, safety and situational awareness while seamlessly incorporating the skills of crew resource management, threat error management, airmanship and teamwork into the daily operation. Continue to learn and increase one's knowledge at all times, fly using ExecuJet's standard operating procedures and deliver the highest standards of customer service whilst maintaining a sense of discretion.
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After my last startup was acquired by Symantec, I became a Director in that company overseeing the incorporation of our web-based VPN Linux appliance into their product line.
We relocated our startup office from Emeryville, CA to Redwood Shores, CA in the SF Bay Area (everyone but our developer in Flagstaff, AZ who continued to telecommute from 742 miles away). I reported to our division Vice President in Waltham, MA located on the other side of the country 3100 miles away. That VP in turn reported to Symantec corporate headquarters 3100 miles away in Mountain View, CA (ironically just 14 miles south from my office).
Immediately prior to that I was a chief technical officer for a startup in Irvine, CA simultaneously managing ERP consultants in Irvine, CA, Web Developers in Santa Monica, CA and programmers in Sao Paulo, Brazil 6,100 miles away. Several years before that, I setup a the first US-based Japanese test bed for DELL in Austin, TX and collaborated with a more extensive test bed site in Japan about 10,500 miles and 14 time zones away. Finally, before that I worked in Tokyo supporting a global financial information network with nodes in London, New York, Hong Kong, Sidney and several other smaller cities in Asia.
All this is to say virtual teams comprised of individuals working across many geographical regions is extremely common – especially in high-end knowledge fields like finance, engineering, design, film, etc. As a result we have a great deal of technical tools that will help us collaborate with JP in Costa Rica (and you will all be better prepared for the future).
Here are my short list of tools that we will find useful to coordinate our collaboration:
Meetings: Facetime/Skype
Screen Sharing: ScreenLeap, SkyFlex, Mikogo and CrossLoop (more research needed)
File/Code Sharing: Dropbox/Git
Project Management: Asana, Trello, Bitrix, etc
Bug Tracking: (may be relegated to a todo list in Project Management)
It's difficult to come on accurate figures for the percent of the workforce that telecommutes but this Forbes.com freelancer cites 35-40% telecommute in businesses she deals with based upon her experience and the opinions of HR people she deals with.
Unfortunately, virtual collaboration will not address all the challenges that we will face this fall in FIRST LEGO League. Much of FLL is based upon teamwork and developing good interpersonal skills that are optimally achieved face to face.
Fortunately, JP will be visiting us periodically before our first Nov/Dec FLL tournament during which we can focus on addressing these short comings of technology with team building exercises. In any case, our team will have a unique opportunity to be introduced to the future of work via FLL.


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Author(s): Colin Martin; Geoffrey Parker
At the end of July 1588, Philip II's Armada of 130 ships set sail against England. Within a month they were condemned to defeat. The authors spent 13 years reassessing the profusion of untapped documents, diaries and private papers lying forgotten in Spanish and Dutch archives. This material has been augmented by underwater discoveries from the Armada wrecks.
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Fermentation and the use of micro-organisms is one of the most important aspects of food processing, an industry worth billions of US dollars world-wide. From beer and wine to yoghurt and bread, it is the common denominator between many of our foodstuffs.
In his engaging style Professor Charles Bamforth covers all known food applications of fermentation. Beginning with the science underpinning food fermentations, Professor Bamforth looks at the relevant aspects of microbiology and microbial physiology, moving on to cover individual food products, how they are made, what is the role of fermentation and what possibilities exist for future development.
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