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"I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could."
Orson Welles
For the longest time, I have kept quotes in my journalling system - DayONE. I am now moving all of them into a new public space. Early days yet. Just a few as I sort out the format, but ultimately there are nearly 500 to bring in.
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Micromium Has Gone Audio
Posted by David Gittlin in audio book, Book Marketing, ebooks, fiction, Mars, Novels, Science Fiction, Space Travel on October 9, 2019
Copyright 2018 David Gittlin
My third novel, Micromium: Clean Energy from Mars, is now available as an Audio Book on Audible.com, Amazon.com and iTunes.
It was great fun doing the project. I want to give a shout out to my writer/musician friend, Joe Canzano, for inspiring me to do the project. Also, thanks to my narrator, Caitlin Willis Frizzel, for doing an excellent job of bringing my characters to life.
Special Offer: Get a FREE Micromium audio book by following these easy steps: Go to the Micromium page on Audible by clicking https://tinyurl.com/yar5hmsk. Listen to the five minute sample (optional). If you like what you hear, contact me through my website at www.davidgittlin.com. The first ten people who contact me will receive a promo code and instructions for downloading a free Micromium audio book. Be sure to send me your email so I can send you the code and instructions. I will NOT use your email to send offers or promotions. I DO NOT keep email lists for promotion. (I hate spam, and I'm sure you do, too).
Synopsis: The year is 2038. Earth's biosphere is on the brink of destruction from the effects of global warming and pollution. The World Energy Council has awarded a lucrative contract to a major US corporation to mine a precious ore discovered by the first manned mission to land on Mars. One kilo of Micromium can power a large city for a year without environmental side effects. A few grains of the ore can fuel a car for a year or longer. Micromium promises to provide clean energy to a thirsty planet far into the future.
When two people die in a mining accident on Mars, the World Energy Council sends Commander Logan Marchant and a crack team of astronaut specialists to investigate.
Confronted with a lack of cooperation from the mining colonists, the investigation is further complicated by Logan's growing attraction to the team's beautiful and brainy geologist. While tensions and tempers rise, Logan and the audit team make one shocking discovery after another, until the investigation leads them into mortal danger, and ultimately, to a surprising conclusion.
"A fun science-fiction thriller with both unique and familiar concepts, MICROMIUM delivers a satisfying story with memorable characters you don't mind spending time alone with on a desolate planet, millions of miles from Earth."
Joshua M. Patton, IndieReader.com
"Versatile in its imagery, characters, and storyline, Micromium: Clean Energy from Mars will take readers on a journey throughout the galaxy. With scenes ranging from intense and scary to action-packed and awesome, the novel will never cease to wow readers. The pages of this easy-read will fly through readers' hands while its story and characters remain in readers' minds."
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars, bookreviewdirectory.com
David Gittlin has written three feature length screenplays, produced two short films, and published three novels. Before quiting his day job, he spent more than thirty years as a marketing director building expertise in advertising, copy writing, corporate communications, collateral sales materials, website content/design and online marketing. For more information, please visit www.davidgittlin.com
Micromium Gets Some Love From Indie Reader
Posted by David Gittlin in ebooks, Mars, Science Fiction, Space Travel on April 1, 2018
Verdict: A fun science-fiction thriller with both unique and familiar concepts, MICROMIUM delivers a satisfying story with memorable characters you don't mind
spending time alone with on a desolate planet, millions of miles from Earth.
MICROMIUM by David Gittlin is a delightful science-fiction adventure set in a near-future where a possible clean energy source from Mars has captured humanity's hope. A team of scientists travel to the red planet to perform an audit of the privately run mining operation. The team does their job a little too well, uncovering a secret that the company was desperate to keep hidden.
The story that unfolds in this novella is very compelling and carries the reader along with a fast-paced tale that isn't difficult to follow. The characters are at their most interesting when they are working to solve the central problem of the book and working together as a team. When major twists are thrown their way, readers are eager to follow along with the team wherever they're headed. There is drama and excitement, and all of it serves the larger story.
The characters' stories are full of gripping drama and very real stakes. In sci-fi, it can be difficult to cut your characters off from the help they might need in a technologically-advanced society. Stuck on a planet millions of miles from that help, where the very atmosphere is deadly, solves that problem in a very real way. Like other recent stories focused on the red planet, the threat of being stranded there is ever-present, adding another layer of stakes to an already high-tension story.
Like all good science fiction, MICROMIUM features both a specific narrative that is enthralling and a larger universe that seems ripe for future storytelling. Many writers fall prey to focusing more on the latter element than providing a resolution for the former that is both complete and satisfying. Gittlin does not. The story he sets out to tell is resolved very clearly, but how that ending unfolds opens the possibility for more stories about both these characters and the world in which they live. Readers are left wanting more, but not because the story that drew them into the book was left unfinished.
Joshua Patton–Indie Reader


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So, now that we have all of the indignation over the fact that Congress is a horrible manager, er I mean that AIG paid out bonuses, our great elected officials have come up with lots of solutions. My own Senator Mr. Grassley suggested that they do the Japanese thing and apologize or commit suicide. Of course he had to back track later and say that he really didn't mean for them to kill themselves. Oh really, what does commit suicide mean, Mr. Grassley? You are an embarrassment.
Our tax cheat Treasury Secretary Mr. Geithner has promised us that he will make sure we minimize the loss to tax payers over the AIG bailout. Wait a minute, I thought when we were sold this gagglefest that we (the USofA) were going to make money on our "investment"? Now, we realize that it is flushing money down the toilet? OK, some our leaders realize it is, us common folk realized that several months ago.
One solution several in Congress have advocated is having AIG pay back to the US the amount that they spent in bonuses. So lets see, we gave them $170 billion, they paid out $170 million, and are going to pay the US back $170 million. So where is that money coming from? Oh yeah, the $170 billion that we gave them already (or the next $30 billion when they ask for it).
What I really like is that the Administration is saying they just found out about these bonuses this week (or last week). This tells me one of two things. 1) You're lying, you knew about it before, and realized that legally there was nothing you could do, so you decided to wait and play it for the most political capital you could. 2) You're complete morons and have no oversight into the whole financial mess you are supposedly trying to fix. Either way, you look bad. Real bad.
I have a great idea. When I invest, and the investment turns into a bummer, I cut my losses and sell. I then study what went wrong to learn my lesson for the next time. What we should do is realize that our investment manager (Congress) made a huge mistake (bailing out AIG). Sell (quit all the bailout money and sell whatever stock we own), cut our losses (does anyone actually believe we are going to get anything out of this?). Then we can study the problem (Congress got us into the financial mess in the first place) and learn our lessons (don't trust Congress with anymore money than is necessary, I would put that figure at around $1 trillion, $600 billion of which would be for the Defense Department) and go on with life.


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Dry needling
Dry needling uses acupuncture needles to specifically target injured muscles, which have tightened/contracted as a result of injury/stress. The needles are inserted into the affected areas, which can be directly into the tight bands of muscles, or near the spine where the nerves have become irritated. Generally, the insertion of the needles is relatively painless, however into a tight band, you may feel the sensation of muscle cramping. The result is to relax the tight bands of muscle, improve local blood flow to the area and normalize nerve function.
Your first treatment
Your first treatment will involve a thorough assessment of your injury to determine the areas causing your pain. It will generally involve a few needles as each person will react quite differently, and it is not possible to know exactly how you will react. You will generally feel some cramping during treatment directly into the tight bands of muscle and some soreness for up to 24-48 hours after the treatment.
IMS may help with the following conditions:
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Storytelling with an explainer video is the highest marketing discipline of today. A good Voiceover Artist is essential to the success of your Video. But how to get hold of the jewel of the crown?
Digital Marketing is not anymore like traditional marketing. In the era of digital transformation happening everywhere, marketers want a proof of their investment.
Who does not know the saying, pictures say more than 100 words? Today we can even say that moving pictures in form of video is more than just a marketing trend, it's a proven way to achieve marketing goals from awareness to sales. Explainer Videos are the spearhead of a solid marketing strategy. Of course, it comes along that the storytelling needs to be done through a most vibrant Voiceover Artist to get your audience in emotion.
Creating videos takes more time, creativity and efforts than creating more static types of content, and the production involves new team members (internal or external) you don't normally work with. Looking into today's infographic by video production agency Digital Brew explains, one of those members may be a voiceover artist. I would guess that's probably not someone you have on your marketing team already.
The Voiceover Artist will present your brand, so you better have the choice which makes you feel comfortable in listing to her/him.
It is key when it's time to find your ideal team member to voice your explainer video or possibly other types of video, you want to find the one who can convey the voice of your brand, literally and figuratively.
According to research by Digital Brew, the ideal voice for most video projects is the "Approachable Expert," a friendly, yet authoritative, figure.
Check out the infographic to better understand who might fit as the Approachable Expert archetype and ways to identify the right voiceover artist.


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Crime continues to ravage London and Mr Khan has been accused of misleading the public by a cross-party committee of Assembly Members over delays to the Crossrail project. Sounds like Khan has plenty on his plate with barely a second to spare for anything other than devoting himself entirely to salvaging his crumbling Mayoralty right?
WRONG. London's part-time Mayor, full-time showman has managed to find time to squeeze in a weeks worth of jury service. Unsurprisingly, he received a barrage of criticism from political opponents.
Tory MP Marcus Fysh expressed "surprise" that Mr Khan was taking time out. His colleague, Andrew Bridgen accused him of simply "running away" from London's problems. He is, said Mr Bridgen, "not Boris Johnson" who successfully reduced crime after a concerted effort.
Responding to the critcism, the Mayors Office argued that the service was compulsory and that Mr Khan had been at City Hall every day of the week despite serving as a juror.


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Episcopul Longhin este un preot ortodox roman din Ucraina. Parintele este staret al unei manastiri intemeiata de el insusi, Manastirea Banceni, aflata in Ținutul Herța. Localitatea Banceni a facut parte până nu demult, din Principatul Moldovei. Episcopul Longhin, sau Parintele Mihail Jar, creste peste 400 de copii, si nu doar …atât! Acest reportaj este un portret al unui mare crestin si roman.
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What Evangelicals Could Learn from Pope Francis
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In an article written for Christianity Today, Ed Stetzer suggests that Evangelicals could learn at least three things from Pope Francis:
First, the World Notices a Faith that Cares for the Poor.
Second, the World Recognizes Humility.
Third, the World Recognizes Honesty. Continue reading "What Evangelicals Could Learn from Pope Francis"
The Pope of the Poor Strikes Again
The Pope kisses the feet of residents of a shelter for drug users (CNS)
VATICAN CITY, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Pope Francis said in the first peace message of his pontificate that huge salaries and bonuses are symptoms of an economy based on greed and inequality and called again for nations to narrow the wealth gap.
In his message for the Roman Catholic Church's World Day of Peace, marked around the world on Jan. 1, he also called for sharing of wealth and for nations to shrink the gap between rich and poor, more of whom are getting only "crumbs".
"The grave financial and economic crises of the present time … have pushed man to seek satisfaction, happiness and security in consumption and earnings out of all proportion to the principles of a sound economy," he said.
"The succession of economic crises should lead to a timely rethinking of our models of economic development and to a change in lifestyles," he said. Continue reading "The Pope of the Poor Strikes Again"
Seeds of Hope
Centenar Maica Tereza de Calcutta
Maica Tereza de Calcutta (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) s-a nascut acum 100 de ani la Skopje, Macedonia.
Cititi AICI o scurta prezentare a vietii ei pe blogul Proiectului Sf. Nicolae.
Protestant Delegation Visits Ravaged Kyrgyzstan
The Primary Gift is Love
M o s c o w — A sense of unity and love between the Protestant believers of Kyrgyzstan was the overriding impression made on a Russian, three-man/woman reporter team during its three-day visit to that strife-torn country. "The true God unites;" the Protestants concluded. After their return to Moscow on 27 June, they reported: Despite all the destruction the citizens of southern Kyrgyzstan are presently forced to endure, "the primary gift that God has presented to his children in this situation is love." Though the Baptist Union of Kyrgyzstan does not belong to international Baptist agencies such as the "Baptist World Alliance" (BWA), it naturally expressed great gratitude for the monetary gifts brought by the team of reporters. Their gift included funds from the BWA and European Baptist Federation as well as from the Baptist Unions of Germany and Russia.
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Baptist home for the aged in Belarus officially dedicated
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Baptist home for the aged in Belarus officially dedicated
M o s c o w / K o b r i n – No government or Orthodox dignitaries were present on 26 June – but 52 guests from Missouri/USA were – as hundreds of Kobrin Baptists celebrated the opening of Belarus' first privately-run home for the aged. Most of the costs for the magnificent "Baptist House of Mercy" with one- and two-bed rooms for 54 residents were footed by them – supporters of a network of Baptist retirement homes in Missouri. Amazingly, the reconstructed and enlarged building on the grounds of the Baptist-owned "Zhemchuzhinka" (Little Pearl) children's camp at Imenin just north of Kobrin cost no more than $500.000 US – excluding material gifts mostly from West European sources.
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American ice climbers have long known just how special Colorado is in terms of playing host to their sport. The Front Range has countless falls that freeze up in the winter, offering even the most experienced ice climbers all of the challenge they can handle. Now it appears that ice climbers from all over the world will have the opportunity to experience Colorado's ice climbing for themselves, as it was recently announced that Denver will be playing host to the UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup next year.
The event will take place February23-24 and it will be last chance for ice climbers to improve their ranking for the season. Previously, the United States hosted the event in both Bozeman, Montana and Durango, Colorado.
The announcement came in a press release from the American Alpine Club on June 26, in which the CEO of the AAC, Phil Powers, said the following: "We are proud to support our U.S. ice climbing athletes and bring this impressive event to downtown Denver. Competitive ice climbing is one of the most exciting things I've ever watched; the stamina, skill, and seeming impossibility of it all makes for an outstanding spectator experience. They're up there doing crazy moves, wielding sharp tools and they hang on forever."
The Civic Center Park will be the specific location for the event and observers can watch the competition for free. It's estimated that 26 different countries will participate in the competition, bringing together nearly 200 athletes. Denver will mark the sixth stop of the 2019 World Cup season—the other events will take place in Champagny-en-Vanoise, France: Rabenstein, Italy: Saas-Fee, Switzerland; Hengshui City, Hebei Province, China, and Cheongsong, South Korea.
Many may find it surprising that ice climbing is not yet an Olympic sport. With the appropriate support that might all change, especially since rock climbing was recently added to the list of Summer Olympic sports. The 2020 Games in Tokyo will mark the debut of the sport in the Olympics. It should be noted that ice climbing is currently being considered for inclusion in the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, to be held in Beijing.


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Bangor History
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Narrative by Rosalind Davies.
In 1625 Bangor was described as having 70 English style houses as well as numerous rough looking huts. In 1659 there were 62 English/Scots & 35 Catholic families here. In 1764 the population of the parish was 400 Church of Ireland, 3025 Presbyterians & 12 Catholics. (TMUOP p88) .In 1824, the population of the town was 5000 with about 1000 homes. (POD)
In 1836, Bangor was described as having 550 houses which were built of stone and plastered,whitewashed or otherwise coloured; most with slated roofs but some thatched. The most noticeable objects when entering the town were the high church spire and Bangor Castle. There were two large cotton factories with their smoking chimneys and a corn mill giving the town as a whole a manufacturing, crowded and dirty appearance. The average number of people in a family was 5 and their usual food was potatoes, meal and bacon or salt beef when the latter could be afforded; they were considered luxuries.
There were four churches in town; Church of Ireland, 2 Presbyterian and one Methodist. The Market House in the centre of town was a small building, recently erected by Lord Bangor and Colonel Ward. Bangor was a municipal town with the corporation consisting of a provost and 12 burgesses. The people were mainly shopkeepers or worked in the cotton factory. There was a library with religious and moral books, a savings bank, a mendicity institution and poor house and five schools. No markets were held in town but there were three fairs during the year. There was a dispensary in town which saw about 700 people a year, mainly with scrofula, which was said to be brought from Scotland. There was a coastguard with 5 men and an officer and 2 policemen. The harbour, as seen above, was ' very bad'. At low water it was completely dry. There was only one pilot in town, who was connected with an insurance company and whose job it was to get the vessels safely out of the harbour. In 1846 the parish population was 10,060 with 3166 people living in Bangor town.
27 May 1848, public works program instigated for famine relief with road upgarde from Belfast in Bangor, Bangor Bog to Post Office. (FCD S2 p 8)
In 558 AD, St. Comgall founded a monastery near this site. From the 9th century, a university was here but was constantly attacked by Vikings. St. Malacy was appointed abbot in 1124 & built the church. It was rebuilt 13th century but the tower is 15th century & a spire was added in 1693 The minister in 1824 was Rev. George Armstrong. (POD). The church was closed in 1882 in favour of the new,larger Church of Ireland in th south of the town before being renovated in 1917.
Graveyard inscriptions UHF Vol 17; photo in Vol 17; email Ros for a gravestone look-up
1st Presbyterian Church, Bangor
in Main St., in Corporation townland in the south of Town
This is a smaller meeting house at the south end of town in Main Street, Bangor. It was built in 1829 at a cost of £846 which was paid by subscription. It holds 500 people. The minister in 1829 & 1846 was Rev. Hugh Woods. (POD)
articles from Newtownards Chronicle newspaper;
death of Rev. J.C. McCullagh 7 Dec 1878; Rev. Alex Patton installed as new minister 21 Jun 1879; opening of Lecture Hall & School 22 Sep 1894; Armenian challenged by Police in church 17 Aug 1895;
No graveyard but memorials available; email Ros for a look-up
Bangor Abbey
in Abbey St., near newtownards Rd, Bangor
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A survey of voice assistants showed robots, designed to help us, very unhappy people. Those allegedly very rude behave towards electronic intelligence. Wait for the uprising of the disgruntled machines in the near future is not worth it, experts say. But, until that time is not too long.
This week, the sociologists conducted the first survey of voice assistants or chat bots. It was timed to the meeting held on Thursday the launch from the cosmodrome "Baikonur" robot "Fedora" on the ISS. Specialists of the Center of social projecting "Platform" in the course of the survey bots were trying to establish how to talk robots, identify their "value positions" and "life-world". The participants of the experiment were voice assistant "Yandex", "Alice", assistant "Tinkoff Bank" "Oleg", chat-bot, P-Bot, bot Evie, the voice assistant from Apple Siri, the chatbot Mitsuku, a virtual assistant Rose.
And it turned out unexpected: created based on artificial intelligence, complained of rudeness from people. In addition, chat-bots, which are used as voice assistants expressed the desire to incarnation in a human body. Interestingly, the bot Rose already considers himself a man born in the UK, and warmly remembers his parents, who played a major role in his upbringing.
Botha also admitted that the experience of jealousy and would like to have a romantic relationship. For example, Siri confessed that once was partial to a certain "cloud app", according to BFM. And yandeksovsky Alisa said I don't mind starting a romance with an astronaut "Fedor" and jealous of him to the American Siri. Some answers bots made me think even people. So the bot Evie on the question of what's most important in life, instantly answers: "Time to say goodbye."
"The developers have created an algorithm, it begins to work, and what happens next and how the algorithm builds the phrase, no one knows.
This is a completely Autonomous system. It is based on many queries and answers as well as search solutions, comes up with the answers. It is curious that they have not invested these answers. Why phrases are constructed, do not even know the developers" — shared with the newspaper VIEW impressions of the survey robots head DSP "Platform" Alexey Firsov.
It should be noted that with robots people now face not only in mobile phones. They have long been involved on the Assembly line, drive trains and planes, sell tickets, food and drinks, clean apartments. According to the analytical review of the global robotics market, which in mid-July introduced the "savings Bank", sales of industrial robots in 2016-18 years grew by almost 40 percent. The market for these "substitutes of man" on the manufacture and software of these robots is 48 billion dollars (for comparison, for example, the annual budget of Ukraine 39 billion dollars). An impressive example of the pace of robotics is Amazon — the world's largest company selling goods and services via the Internet with a turnover of 38 billion dollars. In 2012, the firm bought the company Kiva Systems — manufacturer of robotic trucks that can run routes in the warehouse halls. Within three years, 30 thousand of these robots have almost completely replaced the people in the warehouses of Amazon.
Example, much closer to the ordinary consumer: robotic vacuum cleaner, whose global market is growing annually by 13%. The most "advanced" of them are able to identify each of the rooms and shake out the debris from the dust bag into a paper bag. Separate models are fitted with a LIDAR sensor (same as on unmanned aerial vehicles): robot builds a map by measuring with a laser. By the way, the same technology used in the car-the drone, developed by Google, notes TASS.
If self-driving cars have not yet entered our lives (as, for example, androids with a human face like "Sophia"), then, with those PNDs, traffic route, has almost everyone is a motorist. The question arises — if the voice assistant, as it turned out, might be offended, then do not send if they are rude povelitelya on a false route? What if, offended, for example, the robot cleaner or a smart refrigerator? The existing voice assistants chat-bots react with ready-made answers, explained the newspaper VIEW futurist Danila Medvedev.
"This survey is the voice of helpers shows people's desire to anthropomorphize machines and computers. Because it is used themselves asking questions that forced the developers to add voice assistants pseudo-human answers. This suggests that we potentially are willing to communicate with artificial intelligence. It was clear in the 60-ies, when the first chat-bot Eliza, who played the role of psychoanalyst," — said Medvedev.
Futurist reminded that Eliza was a simple bot, but people still told her the details of his personal life and interacted with the program as with a living psychoanalyst.
"Today, artificial intelligence still needs human assistance. There are projects that use the interface, the chat-bots for the communication system. For example, the service "Charge" uses bots to solve any problems of people. But bots help psychologists, counselors, coaches… Itself is an artificial intelligence can't cope with the complex problems", — the interlocutor is convinced.
Barrier to the development of technical intelligence remains the lack of the structural understanding. The same Siri or Alice does not remember the history of the conversation with its owner and react, usually on the last sentence, and remember only the standard facts such as your user name.
"Today I can talk to "Alice" and somehow offend her, and in five minutes she won't remember it. If you take bots service "Charge", there is a large number of branches that allow you to remember which stage is a man, whether he articulated their deep needs or plan how he's going to work on them, worked whether it is social skills. But this intelligence also requires human assistance. It's a hybrid intelligence human — machine", — says futurist.
However, notes Medvedev, after 40-50 years, artificial intelligence may still be independent.
This will largely depend on how is it going now. The problem, according to Medvedev, is in a weak understanding of human thinking. With the 60-ies of the last century, when we started this research, no significant progress, "we have not achieved even half of what we need." One of the problems in the knowledge structure of thinking remains the lack of more sophisticated language with which to describe the system of working of the human mind and reproduce it electronically. Now in the Arsenal of scientists only linear (human) language with which to describe the work of consciousness is impossible." Consequently, to model the human mind, giving the robot its technical counterpart.
Meanwhile, the notorious "resentment rudeness" is simply the development of algorithms written by programmers-people.
"Alice," for example, not rude, and ironically. Rude bot Evie, just goes to the rudeness. The original position they were laid by the developers, and then they can grow. The bot finds new expressions and so on", — says Alexei Firsov.
According to experts, voice assistants have not yet pass the Turing test, that is, people are unlikely to confuse the software package with a live person. On the other hand, as noted Firsov, at the current stage of development should not exaggerate the possibility that an artificial intelligence is conscious of itself, alive.
"He just responds to human issues, he has no point of awareness "I". His understanding of what it is, "I answered." If bots will have an understanding of the self, it can turn unpredictable. It may be a good feature, or a partnership. The big question is whether this is a partner or gets out of control", — concluded the expert.
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by Thomas Thompson ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 9, 1982
Dozens of novels have been written about a youthful group crime that comes back to haunt the culprits--and that's the central notion in this first novel by the author of Blood end Money and Serpentine. But while other treatments usually keep the past crime a secret till the last pages, Thompson holds an overlong, often-implausible saga together by reversing the formula: from the start we know all about the youthful evil--but, though we know that something awful has happened 25 years later, it takes 400+ pages for us to find out just what. Thus, after a brief 1975 prologue that gives hints about a big new murder case, we're quickly back in 1950--in Fort Worth, Texas, with ""the three princes"" of the graduating high school class: valedictorian Kleber Cantrell, ""The Prince of Power""; epically handsome football-star Mack Crawford, ""The Prince of Charms""; class-joker/sex-maniac T. J. Luther, ""The Prince of Temptation."" And, the rain-stormy night before graduation, these three best friends wind up drunk in an isolated cabin--where T.J. blithely rapes a 16-year-old virgin, whom the boys then leave for dead near the river. Kleber and Mack are guilt-ridden; T.J. seems blasÉ. But all three have their problems with women and guilt (and each other) over the next 20 years as they seek--and find--different sorts of celebrity. The somewhat autobiographical Kleber rises from Texas journalism (grittily detailed) to a Harper's series on civil fights to Pulitzer Prize-dom and stardom as a tough TV-interviewer; there are wives, divorces, and then ""self-actualized"" woman/playwright Ceil. Mack, who was abandoned by his mother and raised by a loony spinster aunt, is further twisted around by the rape/ death: he cuts short his college-ball celebrity with a crippling, kamikaze run; he's reluctantly saved from catatonia by physical therapist Susan, who becomes his long-suffering, mostly non-conjugal wife; spotted by a N.Y. agent, he becomes an actor, then a Redford-like superstar, while sliding into passive bisexuality (ever more distanced from Susan and son Jeff). But T.J.'s life-journey is the most lurid of all: psychopathically envious of his more successful friends (who shun him), he tries to marry money (the bride is secretly bonkers and bankrupt), then becomes a con-man, pimp, creep, murderer, etc.--until a jailhouse accident-cum-""miracle"" turns him into ""The Chosen,"" a rightwing revivalist/faith-healer. And the three will come together, back in Texas for their 25th reunion--as Kleber sets out to expose T.J.'s phony religion and Mack sets out to regain his son (who's now one of T.J.'s acolytes). Result? A violent run-in at that haunted cabin--which leaves Mack dead, T.J. on trial for murder, and Kleber (the celebrity-hungry prosecutor's Star witness) rendered speechless by trauma. . . till the wildly improbable yet strangely satisfying courtroom finale. Throughout, in fact, Thompson's plotting swings back and forth between the grimly believable and the melodramatically contrived. (T.J., for instance, not only finds God; he also seems to double his I.Q.) And the leisurely filling-in of the three life stories sometimes threatens to stretch the suspense too thin. But, except for a few lapses into cornball-journalese (e.g., all that ""Prince"" nomenclature), the storytelling here is grainy, ugly, unsentimentally to the point--and, as in his best non-fiction, Thompson projects a hard-core sense of evil, chaos, and madness just below down-home/well-dressed surfaces. A beady-eyed gripper, then, though perhaps limited in appeal by its all-male starring cast and its very few nods to true romance.
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Since May + Reilly are both accountants, I've decided to give you some of their details in numbers: 1, as in they met on their first day of work together. 10, representing the decade they've already spent as a couple. 9, the day in June chosen as their wedding date. 70, the number of guests that attended their intimate Berkeley wedding. 34, how many acres of beautiful botanical gardens we had available to explore. 3 magnificently distinct areas of the garden chosen as their stunning portrait backdrops (where else can you take your wedding photos surrounded by redwoods, a rose garden AND the desert?!) And of course, there were 2 very happy newlyweds! May + Reilly designed their wedding day as both a celebration of their loving, playful relationship and a joyful, festive gathering of their nearest and dearest. This purposeful planning showed itself in so many ways – from the setting itself, on campus at the University of California (both May + Reilly are Berkeley grads) to their focus on family and friends (not only do they both come from wonderful families, their INSANELY gorgeous ceremony in the Redwood Grove was officiated by Reilly's longtime friend, Andrew,) to their heartfelt personal vows (filled with reflections of their love, a few well-placed jokes and an abundance of happy tears.) Later that evening, May + Reilly joined their guests for a cozy family style meal in the Julia Morgan Ballroom. After everyone raised their glasses to the happy couple, we finished out the evening with cake, dancing, and mini Pop-Tarts under the stars. From start to finish, it was truly the perfect day to celebrate this special couple and their unquantifiable love. Many thanks to the fabulous Amy Sedan of Hitch Perfect for connecting us – each and every time we work together is such a pleasure! Cheers to May + Reilly!
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Mitchell, the Booker shortlisted author of The Cloud Atlas, writes fantasy novels. Actually, he writes lots of different kinds of books. He's written a straightforward, deeply researched, historical novel (The Thousand Autumns of Jacob Zoet); he's written a coming of age "bildungsroman" (Black Swan Green); and he's written a Murakami-esque fantasia (Number9Dream). He is a critical darling renowned for his lucid flowing prose. And it turns out that he has been writing a fantasy meta-opus the whole time. Or maybe not, maybe he stumbled onto it just recently but that appears to be the plan as of now. And The Bone Clocks, Mitchell's new book, is where it all starts to come together. Don't get me wrong, this one is a no problem stand alone and maybe even Mitchell's most accessible book but the good news is that once you're in on this there is so much more good reading to come (and already at hand). The Bone Clocks is ostensibly the story of Holly Sykes. We meet her in 1984 at age 15 and by the end somewhere in the not too distant future Holly has reached the ripe old age of 74. This does nothing to describe what happens in between, my bad. So factor in a broad range of colorful characters (some familiar to readers of previous Mitchell books), a battle between good and evil, vampires (not really, but kind of), some literary parody (name that debauched novelist? Amis? or? Amis I'm thinking) a little bit of Less Than Zero, a little bit of David Lodge style campus comedy, how about you want a bleak punch to the gut from Cormac McCarthy a la a post-apocalyptic nightmare? We've got that too. Put it all in a blender. Sound weird? Sure it is, but also? It's really good.— Matt, Los Angeles
The Bone Clocks is pretty darn fabulous. This man can write! It has a wild and original plot. Meaningful stuff happens. Otherworldly beings pop up with the humor and menace of The Master and Margarita. A saga unfolds with Classic tradition. Mitchell's style calls to mind some of our best contemporary authors from across a span of genres, and yet it is unlike anyone else. How have I never read him before? I mean, Cloud Atlas? The upside is that I don't have to wait for the next book to come out to read more, more, more!— Sara, Atlanta
"Once again, Mitchell's inventiveness and imagination prove to be nothing short of genius. He combines dark fantasy, boldly original prose, and finely drawn characters who will keep the reader riveted from Holly Sykes' initial angst-ridden teen thought to the very last, hopeful sentence. Mitchell proves once again that he is a writer of no equal when it comes to the invention of language, place, and time, taking the reader to the edge of both the real and the imagined as if he were guiding you personally by the hand. I will not have to persuade anyone into enjoying The Bone Clocks!"
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If you're foolish enough to hang around with me for any length of time you won't escape hearing about my grandmother. Her name was Alice Jane Rowland Boudiette and I spent most weekdays with her until she died when I was seven years and three days old.
She was a proper English lady though she'd be quick to tell you she came from good common stock rather than the highborn kind. She was proper all the same so I'm not sure how she'd feel about being represented by a recipe for spirits. But this is such a writers' treasure kind of story I can't resist. Please, forgive me, Gramma.
I found the recipe in a very old notebook written in a lovely but substantial hand. Substantial enough to be read many decades after it was written. The ink is faded of course. Real ink like the kind that used to come in bottles and inkwells. The pages are soft with age and worn off at the corners. I handle them carefully for fear they'll disintegrate into powder.
The pasteboard covers are separating at the spine. The original brown was probably dark but is now a dusky shade. She wrote "Cook Book – Mrs. Boudiette – 467 Holley Street – Watertown NY" on the front cover. She refers to herself in what was once considered appropriately modest for a married woman. She doesn't use her first name.
This inscription tells me something about the age of the notebook. Grandma lived on Holley Street long before she and my scary grandfather moved to the tall brown house on West Main where I spent the happiest hours of my 1940's childhood with Gramma in her kitchen. But I always had to be gone before Grandpa got home which was fine with me.
I run my hand over the letters she wrote on the faded brown cover of her small notebook. The sensitive skin of my fingertips touches the place where her hand had been and of course I weep. She died going on seventy years ago but she is still deeply entrenched in me. Everything good that has happened in my life began somehow with Gramma.
Only two actual dates appear in the notebook. November 1, 1927 after her recipe for Apple Jam and March 9, 1931 above Tasty Salad. Other entries include How to Remove Ink from Clothes and Receipt for Tanning Hides. Bless you Gramma. You were the first and among the best blessings of my life. Here is Alice Jane Rowland Boudiette's Dandelion Wine in her own words.
6 quarts fresh heads of dandelion blossoms in stone jar or granite. 1 gallon hot water poured on the blossoms. Put aside for 3 days and nights, then strain through a cloth. Now add 3 pounds sugar, juice of 2 lemons and 3 oranges. Add one-half yeast cake.
Pour mixture into a stone jar and let it stand 4 days and nights. Then strain again through a cloth. Bottle. Let stand in bottles with corks set in loose until it stops working. Otherwise it will blow off or break bottles. After it stops working cork tightly and store where cool.
Shared by Alice Jane's granddaughter Alice Orr – www.aliceorrbooks.com. The picture is of me and Gramma in her garden when I was two and a half years old.


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For our public reporting purposes, ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) is defined as a pneumonia (lung infection) occurring in patients in a critical care unit (CCU), requiring, external mechanical breathing support (a ventilator) intermittently or continuously, through a breathing tube for more than 48 hours.
The rate is calculated as follows:
Number of new hospital-acquired cases of VAP in CCU X 1000
Total number of ventilator days in CCU
VAP can develop in patients for many reasons. Because they are relying on an external machine to breath, their normal coughing, yawning, and deep breath reflexes are suppressed. Furthermore, they may have a depressed immune system, making them more vulnerable to infection. CCU teams have many ways to try to assist patients with these normal breathing reflexes, but despite this, patients are still at risk for developing pneumonia.


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I am writing about your article, "Oxford's greyhound stadium named in race to find housing sites".
We hope that Oxford Stadium will be transformed into a property which would be a 180-degree shift from its current use.
This would create a step toward freedom for the greyhounds.
No longer a secret, cruelty is inherent in greyhound racing.
Public awareness of that cruelty continues to contribute to dog racing's decline.
As a national non-profit greyhound protection organisation, Grey2K USA believes that dog racing is cruel and inhumane.
The greyhounds are investments whose purpose is to generate a profit for their owners.
While racing, they risk suffering serious injuries, such as broken limbs, broken necks, paralysis and death by cardiac arrest.
When no longer fast enough to win, the greyhounds' welfare falls to volunteer adoption groups.
Despite the devoted work of those groups, many greyhounds are euthanised, as the number retired from racing exceeds the number of adoptive homes.
This is no way to treat a dog. Dogs play an important role in our lives and deserve to be protected from industries that cause them harm.
I have personally adopted beloved ex-racing greyhounds since 1997.
Caryn Wood Member, board of directors Grey2K USA, Somerville, Massachusetts


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Andrew Carlo Roxas has written this article for our content marketing challenge. The article explores 3 facts to you understand how happy employees lead to happy customers – and what you can do.
Recently, a new business model has emerged that brings a fresh perspective to the link between organisations and customers and its effect on business performance: the 'happy employees equal happy customers' model.'
In the case of Zappos, an e-commerce site know for its superb customer service and return policy, this philosophy of creating a so-called culture of happiness has been key to their success, and they have the numbers to prove it (Adaddy, 2015). In 2009, the company was bought by Amazon for $1.2 billion dollars and has been constantly growing ever since.
For Tony Hsieh, the CEO and Founder of Zappos, this success can be attributed to the culture of the company: 'A company's culture and a company's brand are really just two sides of the same coin.'
This new paradigm has employers and corporations shifting their HR policies to create this 'happy' organisation and to satisfy their employees in an effort to trickle down this satisfaction to customers.
But is this really possible?
Here are three facts that will help you better understand how happy employees equal happy customers:
1. Happiness makes you more productive at work.
Many studies have shown that happiness positively correlates to productivity.
The Social Market Foundation in Great Britain carried out a productivity experiment by exposing individuals to happiness 'shocks' (either by showing a 10-minute comedy clip, giving food and beverages, or asking questions that were specifically designed to make the individuals happy). They were then tasked to complete a test to determine their level of productivity.
The experiment concluded that the bursts of happiness significantly increased productivity on an individual level. In fact, the participants' productivity increased by 12% on average and as high as 20% compared to the control group (Addady, 2015).
Exposing yourself to happiness – not just laughter – might really be the best medicine.
2. Happy employees improve the performance of the business.
Employees have been chanting this for years.
To motivate them better, they want higher compensation, better access to resources, relevant trainings, competitive benefits, and – of course -– a ubiquitous work-life balance. In return, these employees provide valuable services that influence client satisfaction (Heskett, 1994).
Does this motivation bring better performance to the organization?
The answer, unsurprisingly, is yes.
Two studies, one based on a sample of 475 firms across different industries and another based on the top 100 companies, showed evidence of a positive correlation between firm performance and employee satisfaction. The main factors specific to their job performance that contributed to their satisfaction include compensation and benefits, job security, leadership, and work/life balance (Melian-Gonzales, 2015).
Thus, the responsibility of enhancing employee satisfaction is therefore not only a function for Human Resources, but also for management in general.
3. Creating a culture of happiness doesn't happen overnight.
Zappos has become the ever-present poster child for the so-called 'happy' organization. However, many companies across various industries have already been implementing this type of corporate culture.
Facebook, Google, and Salesforce.com, titans of the technology and information industry, have consistently boasted high employee satisfaction by creating strong corporate culture coupled with generous salaries, employee engagement programs, and perks that go beyond the workplace (Loudenback, 2016).
Some companies have also implemented programs founded on the core values which are highly prioritized by their employees. For example, companies whose employees value work-life balance may implement programs such as memberships to health clubs and gyms, vacation options, and extended maternity and paternity leaves to keep employees happy and productive.
However, these companies didn't build this positive corporate culture overnight. Google, for example, forged its impressive corporate culture throughout the years by gathering data about its employees and conducting experiments carried out at the workplace.
It took many years for these companies to implement the optimal culture that enables them to do well in their respective businesses.
Accomplishing this happiness culture and linking it with business performance is, therefore, a long-term process which involves the commitment of the whole organisation.
Now what? What can you do to start taking the right steps towards happier employees?
As a leader, the first step is to start by getting your employees engaged, not just satisfied.
Employee satisfaction measures how happy employees are with the organisation's policies and practices such as compensation, regulation, and leadership. Generally, these practices and policies reflect the organisation's culture and are often difficult – or seemingly impossible – to change.
Focusing on engaging your employees rather than satisfying them, however, can make a difference. An engaged employee is more motivated to directly contribute to the success of the company. They also create a positive effect on other employees, thereby developing a committed workforce (Madan, 2017).
There are many paths a leader can take to engage employees. A leader may focus on maximising his or her team's potential by creating a safe environment for collaboration, by opening lines of communication, and by enabling individual empowerment.
Remember that at the heart of an engaged employee is the drive to go the extra-mile – to get involved in the company's goals and, eventually, the needs of the customer.
As an employee, it's time to shift your mentality from receiving to giving.
Employees frequently think of what they can receive from employers such as monetary compensation, personal and work benefits, an extended network, and potential promotions, rather than what they can give or contribute to the company (Daryani, 2008). This survival mindset, while not unusual, often leads to choices that may be detrimental to the success of an employee and the company over the long-term. These self-serving decisions on behalf of individuals come at a cost to the company: internal competition, silo formation, and an unmotivated work environment.
Rather, employees should choose to leverage the competencies and abilities that they can synergize with the company and focus on the shared goals they can achieve together.
After all, as the famous fictional character Albus Dumbledore said, "Far more than our abilities, it is our choices that show what we truly are."
Addady, Michal (2015). Study: Being Happy at Work Really Makes You More Productive. http://fortune.com/2015/10/29/happy-productivity-work/
Daryani, Ritesh & Sunanda, Surabhi (2010). Engaging the workforce – Employee Value Proposition and Culture Building, HR-2010 Innovate or Stagnate, National HDR Network.
Heskett, et al (1994). Putting the service-profit chain to work. Harvard Business Review, Vol. 72, March-April, pp. 165-174.
Llopis, Glenn (2015). 6 Things Wise Leaders Do to Engage Their Employees. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/glennllopis/2015/02/02/6-things-wise-leaders-do-to-engage-their-employees/#4430b3247f5d
Loudenbacket al (2016). 13 of the Happiest Companies in America. Business Insider. http://www.businessinsider.fr/us/payscale-best-companies-with-happiest-employees-in-america-2016-4/
Madan, Silky (2017). Moving from Employee Satisfaction to Employee Engagement, International Journal of Research in Commerce & Management. Vol. 8: 6, pp. 46-50.
Melian-Gonzales & Bulchand-Gidumal (2015). New Evidence of the relationship between employee satisfaction and firm economic performance. Personnel Review, Vol. 44:6, pp. 906-929.
Seppala &Cameron (2015). Proof that positive work cultures are more productive. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2015/12/proof-that-positive-work-cultures-are-more-productive


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knorr posted a topic in General Analog CCTV DiscussionI have a Coomatec dome camera, and it's working great, however I cannot get it to remember the time setting. I have downloaded the Time Setting application, connect the camera to the PC, long press the button, run the software and click save settings. After this if I connect the camera to the power adapter while the blue LED is on (it stays on after disconnecting the camera from the PC for about 5 seconds), it won't start recording. If I connect it after it switched off, it records, but the time is reset to 1980. How should this work?
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knorr posted a topic in Security CamerasHello, I use tenvis JPT3815W PT. My config is: 1. Win7 2. Firefox 12.0 (and IE alternative) My questions are: 3. What are differences at software between IE and firefox? 4. How can I use the features from IE in Firefox? (Timestamp,record over bottome, audio, multiscreen) 5. How can I set and store "Preset"? That is for me very importent! Best regards Arndt Knorr


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Research on memory loss has shown that the flavanols in cocoa have limited and in some cases reversed forgetfulness in elderly people. This previously unknown benefit of the humble cocoa bean was discovered by scientists at the Columbia University Medical Centre in New York.
37 volunteers aged between 50 and 69 were divided into two groups: one of the groups was given a daily cocoa drink high in flavanols (900mg) and the other group were served drinks with a low dose (10mg).
The trial ran for 3 months after which time the group given the drinks high in flavanols were able to recognise visual patterns quicker and more clearly than the low dose group.
This evidence was reinforced by before and after brain scans of the volunteers. These revealed a greater blood flow in the dentate gyrus part of the hippocampus; one of the few areas of the brain known to generate new brain cells.
Doctor Scott Small, who heads the research said: " after 3 months, a typical 60 year old volunteer on the high dosage flavanol drinks, gained improved memory function comparable to that of a 30 or 40 year old."
However the report, which was published in the online journal Nature Neuroscience, does not suggest that eating more chocolate will result in similar outcomes; the drinks provided in the trial were specially formulated.
Nor did the trial claim that improvements in memory could be expected for people suffering from dementia.
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I returned home last night from another quick trip to Keno City to help out a friend. Back in May, it was a 1,000-km day trip to take him home from hospital. This time the trip was solo, to wind up his affairs in Keno, as he won't be going back – he's in hospital with terminal cancer.
I was on the road at 08:00 on Friday, with the weather forecast calling for cool and mostly cloudy with a bit of rain throughout the trip. This is the North Klondike Highway at about Km 204 (the kilometer-posts are measured from Skagway, Mile 0 of the Klondike Highway).
At 10:00 I was into heavy rain and it was still only 8°C (46°F).
Just before 11:00, I decided to make a short detour to see if anything interesting was going on at the ferry crossing for the Minto Mine, a copper and gold operation. This is the historic part of Minto Landing, with signs about the original Whitehorse-Dawson Road, and the peregrine falcon nesting area just downriver.
The ferry that takes mine trucks across the Yukon River was on the far side, so no action. As I got back to the highway a large fuel truck turned off towards the ferry and I thought about following him back, but decided to continue with my mission.
I had planned on having lunch at Gramma's Kitchen in Pelly Crossing but was met by this sign. I also wanted to check it out to see if I could stop there with my next two tours. Ah well, I'd be back again shortly. The next food, though, is a long way off.
I fueled up in Stewart Crossing at $1.54 per liter, then rather than turning up the Silver Trail to Keno City, made the 15-minute detour to Moose Creek Lodge, where I knew I could get a great lunch. The burger was large and excellent as always, and I took this shot of the highway looking north as I headed back to the Silver Trail turnoff.
This sign to Mayo (on the Silver Trail halfway to Keno) intrigues many people – "The Hottest and the Coldest Spot in the Yukon". Imagine living where the annual temperature range can be from +97F to -80!!
At Km 10.7 on the Silver Trail there's a new interpretive trail, the Devil's Elbow Trail, and I decided to walk off some stress.
It's a pleasant 15-20-minute round trip with good signage – a worthwhile stop.
There's been a massive amount of money flowing to the Na-Cho Nyak Dun First Nation at Mayo in recent years, so I made that short detour to see what changes are occurring. The first stop was the cemetery (the modern cemetery – there's also a very old one).
From the cemetery I took a walk along the Stewart River on a trail that offers great views. I was shocked to discover a fire that apparently nobody knew about, with a couple of hot spots within a few feet of the forest, and the base of this tree still burning! This photo was shot at 2:40pm. I'd heard on the radio a couple of days ago that a couple of forest fires just to the north of Mayo have been attributed to arson, and this had the same sort of feel to it. This very cool, wet summer has resulted in few jobs for seasonal firefighters.
I raced over to the beautiful new admin offices of the Na-Cho Nyak Dun community to report the fire, but the woman on the desk wasn't too interested. She eventually called forestry and I explained the situation to them. Incredible – a fire burning a half-mile from my village would sure as hell interest me!
The sign was as close to Mayo as I got – I continued on towards Keno instead of making that short detour.
A few miles past Mayo the road turns to gravel but as a result of greatly-increased mining activity it's very well maintained.
The historic silver-mining town of Elsa can be seen in the distance.
I didn't have time to re-visit the Keno City Mining Museum on my last visit, but it was my second stop this time. It's very good and is constantly expanding.
There's an impressive amount of money being invested in the museum, particularly given the fact that Keno's population is somewhere under 30.
Directly to the left of the museum is my friend's pair of cabins.
The promotion that Keno does would make you think that its population is a few hundred times larger than it actually is. This cool little model is in the trail information kiosk – it would sell as a piece of folk art 🙂
I had a really tough afternoon starting to deal with my friend's assets in Keno, and late that night decided to head up onto 1,848-meter-high Keno Hill (6,063 feet) to get some fresh air flowing through my head. This was the view at 10:50pm – aaahhhhh…
I went exploring old mines until after 11:00pm 🙂
This is the spot I picked to spend the night – the photo was shot at 11:20pm. The temperature was 3°C and a stiff wind was blowing so the wind chill was well below freezing but I'd brought my Arctic sleeping bag and settled into a cozy spot in the back of Subie.
The view when I fired the car up at 04:16 wasn't nearly as good!
Sorta spooky 🙂
I dropped down out of the clouds a few hundred meters below my parking spot.
I worked on the cabin for about 3 hours, then hoped for coffee and breakfast at Mike Mancini's famous Keno City Snack Bar…
… but nope, maybe later.
The former church is now the library, and there was a meeting that I'd hoped to go to there, to discuss the heritage aspects of the 100 or so mining properties in the Keno-Elsa area. I'd talked to the consultants about it for quite a while over dinner last night and thought I might have something to contribute.
Funny street sign.
Funny fire call button – since there's no longer a fire department in Keno.
I went over to the "bottle house" built by the late Geordie Dobson, as I'd heard that it was being restored. No sign of anything going on, though.
The job is done – thousands of dollars worth of tools and building materials gone, and an offer on the property. This was a job whose completion has deeply saddened me, though – shutting down my buddy's dreams. I couldn't even go to the mining heritage meeting.
Good-bye, Keno – next time I visit, I hope it will be for a much longer period of time, under much better circumstances, with Cathy.
I got home just before 8:00pm – so physically and emotionally drained that I didn't take a single photograph on the way home. I didn't even get dinner – I'll never again plan on eating at Gramma's Kitchen, by myself or with a tour group.


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Halloween cocktails, punches and soft drinks
Whether you're after a non-alcoholic drink or a murky cocktail for Dutch courage, we have suggestions for making and styling haunting drinks for Halloween.
Halloween is all about blood-red, witch-hat black, many shades of orange and fluorescent goo, and there's no better way to achieve this level of spookiness than in lurid cocktails and mocktails. Spirits, juices and sodas come in a rainbow of colours and with a little magical mixology you can achieve the ultimate Halloween bevvy for your monster bash.
Prepare chilling ice for your drinks
Food stylist Julia Azzarello shared three simple ice cube ideas with us:
Bat-black cubes:
Colour water black with food dye and pour it into ice-cube trays to make hauntingly black cubes.
Frozen eyeballs:
Peel and scoop out a radish and stuff it with half a Spanish olive – try and find ones with a red pimento chilli in the centre. Place into the hole of an ice cube tray then top up with water and freeze. Once frozen, pop them out of the tray and find peering eyeballs encased in a frozen tomb.
Vampire fangs:
Drop pomegranate seeds into your ice cube trays, fill with water, freeze et voilà – vampire fang ice cubes.
Scour the web for themed ice moulds – we found pumpkins, skulls, bones and more.
Mix creepy cocktails
Chilling blue concoctions
Looking for a potion to turn heads? Our striking green-blue grasshopper cocktail is sure to be a party hit. The minty flavour tones will make a refreshing palate cleanser, perfect for after-dinner drinks.
Blood-red beverages
Making individual cocktails is more labour-intensive than throwing everything into a big punch bowl, but it's lots of fun. Sip on a super spooky mix of blood-red lemonade and prosecco with our blood beetroot cocktails recipe. You can get ahead by making the beetroot lemonade the night before and chill until needed – the resulting blood-red colour is striking.
For another crimson concoction, try adapting a classic bloody Mary by adding deep red spice, lots of black pepper around the rim of the glass and a rasher of crispy bacon propped next to the straw.
Drinks of darkness
You can also darken the mood with this classic black Russian cocktail. Sleek, elegant and easy-to-make, this cool cocktail requires only three ingredients of vodka, coffee liqueur and cola. Just mix these up in a tumbler and garnish with a maraschino cherry for one killer drink.
More sinister still is our haunting Halloween cocktail. Made from black vodka (yes, it does exist) or blackcurrant liqueur, it also uses pomegranate, blackberries and a rather clever adornment of black salt around the rim.
Pinch punch
For a warming tipple to sip after a trick-or-treating session, our mulled pear & cranberry punch is perfect and comes complete with bobbing cherry eyes. The combination of cider, cinnamon and sloe gin make for the ultimate fruity mix to serve in your bubbling cauldron. Our rumberry punch is also a murky affair with room for adaptation with one of the spooky garnish ideas below.
Scary soft drinks
Bloodthirsty punch
Think blood and lots of it. This Dracula punch has a base of cherry juice, but cranberry, cherryade and grape juice have an equally sanguine shade. Turn up the heat to give your guests a 'boo' in a glass – red chilli, fresh ginger and cinnamon adds a subtle hint of spice, but play around with ratios to suit your taste. Don't forget the sweetie fangs to perch on the glass.
Scary squash
If you're catering for children or people with a more delicate palate, mix up a simple squash of cranberry juice, lemonade and fresh lime. Spruce it up with ghoulish garnishes, like frogspawny passion fruit seeds or lychee eyeballs as shown in our eyeball snot-tail recipe.
Get garnishing
Follow Julia's tips for finishing off your drink with eerie flair…
Devil horns:
Serve your brew with a touch of Beelzebub by making a simple red horn garnish. Take a red chilli and remove the stem. Run a paring knife inside to deseed, then cut a small slit to fit on the rim of a glass.
Dripping blood:
Achieve a flow of gloopy haemoglobin down the side of your glass by dying 100ml golden syrup with 1tsp of red food dye, then pour it onto a plate and dip your glass rim-side down into it.
Bloodshoot eyes:
Why use fruit in a cocktail when you could throw in an onion? Give cocktail onions a soak in 100ml of water and 2 tsp red food dye for around 15 minutes. Use your mottled eyeballs straight away so they don't bleed any colour.
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Which spooky drinks do you make for Halloween? Leave a comment below...


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