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"The act of creation is kind of ritual.
The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation.
Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life'"
Place a colored corner right in the middle of the metropolitan greyness.
Place a world of happiness at the center of the frenetic city.
The Palazzo Reale in Milan opens its doors to Keith Haring – one of the most important American artists of the late 20th century – in a show that is a multi-colored voyage through his creations and sources of inspiration.
"Keith Haring. About art" (until 18th June 2017) is an emotional journey that winds between 110 works, many impressive and some unexpected (or never before exhibited in Italy), lent from public and private collections.
This exhibition emphasizes the need to analyze the artist's work, in relation to the history of the arts he assimilated and placed at the center of his work, in order to have a complete understanding of them.
To this end, the show at the Palazzo Reale flanks the works of Haring with works from various other eras which inspired him, and that he reinterpreted in his own unique style: from those of Jackson Pollock to Paul Klee; from Italian Renaissance paintings to the casts of the Traiana Column.
The works of Haring are put into context, with classical architecture, pre-Columbian arts, religious archetypes, masks from the pacific, with the creations of native Americans and the masters of the 1900s.
It is an exhibition that shows, more than ever, the extent of Keith Haring's project: the recomposition of the language of art in a single – universal – symbolic language.
"It seems to me that art is not a bourgeois activity just to be appreciated by a few.
Art is for everybody and that is what I work towards"

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Grated Summer Squash Salad: A New Favorite
Summertime eating is the best! We've been enjoying fresh vegetables from our garden and from our farm share. And I've been swimming in zucchini and yellow squash, so I came up with this simple, pretty and very tasty summer squash salad. I've tried it with zucchini and with yellow squash, as well as a variety of types of summer squash. Use what you have or what you like best! Feel free to call it zucchini salad or yellow squash salad or anything else.
Everything about this yellow squash salad screams summer and fresh. Each vegetable and the basil came from either my backyard or from our community supported agriculture (CSA). We get a big bag of beautiful fresh produce and flowers each week from Dayspring Farm. It feels like I'm getting a present even though I paid for it.
If you're entertaining this summer or need to bring a dish to a party, this lemony summer squash salad is a good one. And if you need several options, here's a roundup of more than 20 healthy side dishes for summer potlucks.
The dressing of lemon juice and olive oil really let the freshness of the vegetables shine.
Adding the Parmesan cheese and toasted pistachios gives this summer squash salad a little more heartiness and the perfect amount of crunch.
Lemony Grated Summer Squash Salad Recipe
- 4 medium zucchini or yellow squash (about 40 ounces untrimmed)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups halved cherry tomatoes (about 10 ounces)
- 1/3 cup diced red onion (about 1 1/2 ounces)
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh basil (about 1/2 ounce)
- 2 ounces grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/3 cup toasted pistachios
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon coarse black pepper
- 5 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- Grate the squash using a food processor or a box grater. Place the grated squash in a colander and sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon salt. Mix the squash and salt together and leave to drain for 30 - 45 minutes. Once drained, remove the remaining liquid by pressing the squash between several layers of paper towels. Then place the squash in a large salad or mixing bowl.
- Add the cherry tomatoes, red onion and fresh basil to the bowl and mix.
- To make the dressing, whisk all the ingredients together, adding the olive oil last. Pour the dressing over the vegetables and mix well. Refrigerate until chilled.
- Add the Parmesan cheese and the toasted pistachios before serving.
Cheers to delicious, healthy summer eating!
Filed Under: Recipe, Salad, Side Dish
Tagged: diabetes, heart healthy, Mediterranean diet recipe, nuts, prediabetes, salad recipe, Vegetables
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Jill Weisenberger, MS, RDN, CDE, CHWC, FAND, is a Nutrition, Culinary & Diabetes Expert, Wellcoach®-certified health and wellness coach, Freelance Writer, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Diabetes Educator. She's also the author of four books, including a best-seller. She's a nationally-recognized media expert in high demand for print and online interviews, as well as corporate and one-on-one nutritional counseling. Jill's philosophy is that nutrition science should be understandable, realistic and oh so delicious.
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I have recently become aware of how often I pray.
I pray for stop lights that I need to turn green so my car doesn't stall waiting for a red light. I also like to offer thanks up when the light hits green as needed. I don't curse or scream when it doesn't, even when my fucking car stalls out for the fourth time that day. I just shrug it off. God has truly important things to do and I appreciate any help he slides my way.
I pray when I am about to cook a new meal, because I don't really follow direction very well. So, I ask God to please keep me from giving my family food poisoning. I don't wash my fruits and veggies, never have, so I pray while prepping my food that I don't make anyone sick due to my laziness.
Lately I have been praying I don't get into a car accident at night while driving. A year ago I went to get glasses as my readers were not cutting it. The doctor told me about the condition and said I would just need to be tested annually to keep tabs on if the pressure was building in a dangerous way. I was not prepared that over night, my eye sight which has always been 20-20 would turn on me. Turns out I may have a serious eye condition that makes driving very difficult, especially at night. I do have appointment one to discuss with my doctor and then hopefully appointment number two and a diagnoses. Lots of praying when I have had to get behind the wheel at night. Prayers for my safety and those around me.
I have surrender my night driving when there is someone else who can drive. It is the smart and safe thing to do. The bulk of my issue is highway when there are not street lights shining down. Night time highway driving is key to getting my kids to the events they need to go to.
I pray for my boyfriend and the work he does so he doesn't get hurt and that he comes home safely each day. I pray he has easier days ahead.
I pray for my kids. Especially when they are hurting, but also when they are out of my sight. When they piss me off, I pray for their souls. I also pray that their own children treat them better than they treat me. I want no karma for them and their kids, life is hard enough with out being the recipient of payback.
I pray for my step kids.They have a very difficult and still volatile relationship between their parents. I pray often for the sweet Lord to shut down the Xbox when the little one screams incessantly. Squealing and screaming drive me insane.
I pray for my family, my sister, my mom, my grandma. I want them all to live closer to me and to live forever.
I pray for myself cause I am a mess most days. There are always financial burdens and worries that pile up. I pray that I can stop drinking sweet tea and gatoraide so I stop packing on sugar pounds. I pray that I reach my destination. I pray that I accomplish things that make my stupid mistakes not look so stupid. I pray that I stop making stupid mistakes, but God giggles and throws me another opportunity to fuck up.
I also pray for vengeance and while I know this is not well received by the powers that be, I do say the words and name the names. Not Game Of Thrones style, but I am human and I get angry.
Finally I pray when ever I see a feather. Some people, me, believe when you see feathers you are being thought of my someone you loved who has passed. When I see one, I think of my dad. I whisper, hey dad and a silent thank you. Not sure if it is thank you for visiting, thank you for thinking of me, or thank you for hearing my prayers. I love when I walk through a park downtown and the geese have left feathers everywhere. They are squawking and I am a prayin'.
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Ingredients :
1/2 cup water
2 tea bags
3 large sprigs of fresh mint
12 large red ripe strawberries (about 1.5
2 cups Bing (black) cherries
1 cup blueberries
1 cup raspberries
1 ripe mango
2/3 cup sugar
2 vanilla beans, split in half and seeds
scraped away, or 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
3.25 cups dry white wine
1/2 cup port wine
Fresh mint sprigs, for garnish
Bring the water to a boil and add the tea
bags and 3 large fresh mint sprigs. Stir until the mint is wilted.
Remove from the heat and cover. Let stand 10 minutes or longer.
Meanwhile, trim off and discard the stems of the strawberries. Cut each
strawberry in half lengthwise. Put the strawberries into a saucepan.
Pull off and discard the cherry stems. Cut each cherry in half and
discard the pits. Add the cherries to the strawberries. Rinse the
blueberries and raspberries and add them to the saucepan with the other
Peel the mango. Cut the flesh into thin
slices. Cut the slices into thin lengthwise strips. Add to the fruit and
berries. Put the sugar in a saucepan and add the vanilla beans or
vanilla, white wine and port. Place a sieve over the saucepan and pour
the tea mixture through it into the pan. Squeeze each tea bag to release
all the liquid; discard the bags. Reserve the mint sprigs. Bring the
mixture to a boil, then pour it into the pan with the fruits and
berries. Quickly bring to a simmer over high heat. Add the mint sprigs
and remove the pan from the heat. Place in the refrigerator and chill
well. To serve the compote, remove the mint sprigs, dish into shallow
soup plates, and garnish with sprigs of fresh mint.
Serves 8
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The Gladlands hosts some of North America's most treasured wetlands. Year after year, hundreds of thousands of ducks migrate to the fertile flooded rice fields and timber that inundate our beautiful landscape. Deer, dove, quail, and turkey are among other species available to hunt.
Big Creek Birds Hunting Lodge
The perfect bird habitat and dynamic gun dogs make for exciting memories for everyone. With alll of the beautiful surroundings, and the confortable lodge, you will be eager to visit often. The professional guides and the great hunting packages here at Big Creek Birds will have you booking your next hunting trip before you leave.
This beautiful rustic lodge is conveniently located 6 miles south of I-40 in Goodwin, Arkansas, only 1 1/2 hours from the Memphis and Little Rock airports.
Big Creek Birds offers hard-flying game birds and a great place to hunt them, but it also furnishes an experienced guide and trained gundogs. All of Big Creek's guided hunts are organized by well-seasoned professionals that will see to it that your hunt is the best it can be. This includes having your harvest dressed and packaged for you.
Contact Bill and Maurica Dooley, Owners at 501-412-2889.
Forrest City Country Club
The Forrest City Country Club is located at 922 E Cross Street in Forrest City. The club is private but does offer reciprocal memberships from various other country clubs in the area.
The country club has a beautiful 18 hole golf course with water hazards and trees that can alter your shots. The signature hole is #3, a 373 yard, par 4, requiring a long tee shot over water. The greens are Tidwarf Grass and the fairways are luscious Bermuda grass. Par for this course is 71.
Also at the club, there is a luxurious Clubhouse. It includes a large reception hall, a large restaurant, a bar, and a Pro shop. Down from the clubhouse is a pool house and a large swimming pool. There are also tennis courts at the facility. For more information, contact the Forrest City Country Club at 870-633-3380
Marianna Country Club
Marianna Country Club is located on Highway 79 East of Marianna. The club is a private club, but it does offer reciprocal memberships to other country clubs in the surrounding area.
The Marianna Country Club has a beautiful 9-hole golf course that is designed to allow players to play 18 holes. There are various water and sand hazards throughout the course to make the game fun and challenging. The course was built on rolling terrain and features wide-open fairways.
Also, at the club there is a pool and pool house open to all club members. Tennis courts are also available to all guests. A spacious clubhouse that houses a restaurant and a bar are also on the property. For more information on the Marianna Country Club call 870-295-5270.
Ridgecrest Club
Ridgecrest Club is located on Newcastle Road in Forrest City. The club is private, open only to members and their guests. It offers a beautiful 9-hole golf course, which can be played as an 18-hole course with varying tee boxes. The course offers water and sand challenges that will challenge even the best golfers.
A large crystal clear swimming pool and a pool house with a small restaurant to make you made to order food is located at the club. There is also a Pro shop for the golfers and a small meeting room located at the club. Tennis courts and an outdoor basketball court is also available to the club members.
For more information, contact Ridgecrest Club at 870-633-9863.
The Ridges at Village Creek
The Ridges at Village Creek is a newly designed, Andy Dye course. The course is a world- ranked championship, 27- hole course, set among the beautiful rolling hills and hardwood forests of Crowley's Ridge. Dramatic elevation changes offer a unique challenge to even the most experienced golfers. Golfers will be able to choose any configuration of two nines. The Ridges is part of the Natural State Golf Trail. The course is opened daily, which includes a golf shop, practice green, and golf carts. Golf carts are included in the green fees. Golf lessons are also available. Groups of any size are welcome. Call ahead for tee times, 870-238-5226
The Gladlands has over 50 creeks, rivers and lakes to enjoy. Bass, bream, catfish, crappie, trout… you'll find them all in The Gladlands.
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I am curious how many SharePoint Developers (individuals, IT groups, consultants, and ISVs) are making use of any or all of the Microsoft Patterns and Practices SharePoint Guidance.
Wow! Just wow! I was reading this post by Paul J. Swider, and I kept waiting for the punch line that never came.
I have a great deal of respect for Paul – I have seen him speak, and follow his posts and tweets regularly. While this presents an interesting counterpoint to conventional thinking around governance, I am afraid he lost me on this one.
First off, lets look at the comparison to Y2K. Is he saying that no one should have invested in fixing Y2K issues, and that no systems would have failed if nothing had been fix? That seems to be what he is saying, since he is comparing Governance to that, and obviously governance is only good if it does not cost anything.
Then there is this statement:
"Many companies haven't had governance and compliance features in place for there information systems for years. This has been true since I started working with software in the early 90's"
This is like saying "for many years, most companies did not have software development processes", and using this as justification that no investment should be made in such processes. Ditto for QA, or project management. We survived without much investment in any of these silly processes.
Just because lots of organizations are using SharePoint and do not have governance, does not mean that they are doing so effectively or the best way they can. It is also still too early in SharePoint's lifetime to truly assess the long term costs of doing it wrong.
Finally, lets look at
"Most CIO's and managers I speak with are tired of hearing about soft dollar calculations and want hard dollar cost savings immediately, after all these are complex and challenging fiscal situations they are managing."
It is true that most CIOs and managers are being pressured into short-sighted approaches to many things. That does not mean that they should abandon meaningful and appropriate processes just because times are tough.
(would you suggest abandoning corporate governance and controls because money was tight? oh wait, I think many on Wall Street did)
Paul's example needing a new purchase process to respond to funding cutbacks is a good one, and provides a good segue to what I see as a more positive takeaway from this discussion, which is the appropriate use of process.
Through much of my career, I have been involved heavily in process – whether software development, QA, test engineering, innovation, or otherwise. For many years, I worked on military and aerospace projects, which are noted for extremely heavy processes. What I learned from all of that was that you can invest in all the process in the world, and still fail miserably. And even when you succeed, the overhead involved in such processes makes them untenable.
This has led me to what I have referred to previously as just enough process (I know I am not the first to use the term). The software development process must match the context – the type of organization, the type of solution, the potential impact of failures of the system, the potential lifetime of the system, etc. A software development process appropriate for a social networking web app is hardly acceptable for medical devices.
The same is true of SharePoint governance. Cookie cutter approaches will not do. Off-the-shelf consulting processes will not do. This is not a one-size-fits-all kind of thing.
Rather than encouraging the total abandonment of governance processes, or treating governance as a "nice to have" luxury that you do away with in favour of short-term perceived cost savings, it is far more appropriate to encourage clients to find the level and type of governance process which suits their situation.
After all, isn't that what a good consultant does? Helps the client find the solution that is right for them, rather than applying the same solution to all clients?
This is a re-post of a column I wrote over on Legal IT Professionals a couple of years ago. Just posting it here so that I have a local version.
This column I want to deliver a warning to all of you out there – do not implement SharePoint in your organization! If you ignore this warning, and implement SharePoint anyway, beware. You run the risk of any number of problems, including:
I do a lot of work helping organizations build solutions using SharePoint – is that all a lie?
Not at all. The problem here is the way you think about your projects. If you are consistently talking about "implementing SharePoint" you are going in the wrong direction. If you are talking about implementing any platform, you are setting up for failure. Many of the problems we run into with SharePoint and other platforms arise from focusing on the technologies.
SharePoint is a technology. It is a platform. It is a pretty good platform, in my opinion. Not without its problems, but a pretty good platform.
So what should you be focused on? The answer is obvious, isn't it? The focus should be on implementing solutions to real business problems, bringing real business value. That was obvious to everyone, wasn't it? If this is obvious, then why do I still have conversations with potential clients who come to me saying "Help us implement SharePoint", when they cannot clearly articulate why they want to implement it? Sure, they can spout a lot of vague statements about documents, collaboration, communication, workflow, etc. but where are the clear statements about how this is all going to help their firm?
I think there are a number of reasons this happens. Firstly, maybe I am just talking to the wrong people (too many techies!). However, I have these discussions with many business people as well. Microsoft's marketing is also a problem (though it is not Microsoft's fault). People see Microsoft's SharePoint marketing information, but they typically only pay very superficial attention. They see all these demos of interesting solutions that seem like they must be useful in their world. Then they go to their IT department (or decision makers) and say "Hey we need to implement SharePoint!"
Even worse, they go rogue and implement SharePoint on a small scale within their groups or departments. Then the IT group has to manage all of these emergent SharePoint deployments, so there is a decision to "implement SharePoint" firm wide.
Finally, there are those firms (hopefully very few these days) who really do not understand that they should not be thinking in terms of the technology.
So when is SharePoint not dangerous? Well, that is driven by how you got to "SharePoint" in the first place. I am not going to go into much detail here, because most of this should be pretty well engrained process (if not, call me – I can help ), but here are the big steps:
The first step, though – change your thinking and your terminology – and stop talking about "implementing SharePoint"!
I have been playing a lot the last little while with SharePoint 2010 Delegate Controls. I have known about them for a ling time, but have never really delved into them all that much.
Most of the examples I have looked at, and the usage ideas I have seen, involve using the existing delegate controls in V4.master to do things like:
Last week, I used a delegate control for something a little different.
For a project I am working on, the client wanted some functionality displayed just below the Quick Launch, on every page in the site collection. I know there are lots of ways to do this (put a user control on the master page, put a web part on the master page, or just put links on the master page, since that's all the content was in this case).
But then I thought of a little bit more elegant (to me) solution. Rather than explicitly putting the content on the master page, I added a delegate control of my own to the page, and placed it just below the Quick Launch, as shown below.
Several things to note here:
So, here we see the how the delegate looks before I deploy my feature:
After I deploy my Feature, we see that the default content is replaced with the Feature's control's output:
But wait, there's more! Remember that I set AllowMultipleControls to true? That allows me to deploy multiple features with controls that map to my ControlId, and instead of only displaying the one with the lowest Sequence attribute, it will stack them all in order of Sequence number, as shown below.
This means that I can add any number of things to the area under the Quick Launch without further customizing the the Master Page.
Maybe I am just easily amused, but I thought that was pretty neat!
The source for this, including the master page, is available here.
Over the past week I have been reading a couple of recent SharePoint-related papers, and thought I would share some of my thoughts.
The first paper is entitled SharePoint – strategies and experiences from AIIM. This document presents the results of a survey of 624 AIIM members last spring regarding experiences and plans with SharePoint. I strongly recommend downloading and reading the entire report, as I do not intend to cover all of it in this post, only those items that seemed interesting to me (which is actually difficult, because there is a fair amount of interesting stuff in there!).
The findings I found most interesting were:
For me, the most startling result in the report is
Half of SharePoint implementations went ahead with no business case being made to justify the
investment. Only 23% were required to make a financial justification. Where a business case was
made, improved collaboration and better knowledge sharing were the main benefits assessed.
Is it just me, or is this insane? As I said last year in my column Danger! Do not implement SharePoint in your Organization!, the focus of your SharePoint implementation should be solutions to real business problems, bringing real business value. A business case is not just something you do in order to get funding. It is something you do so you understand what functionality you are implementing and why. Not doing a business plan is setting the project up for failure, but for a failure you may never know about. After all, if you have nothing against which to measure success, how can you even know if you have failed, or at least failed to live up to potential? I guess I am optimistic, but I thought everyone understood this by now.
The second point is equally astonishing to me. While the first links I saw to the AIIM document had headlines implying some weakness in SharePoint governance was found (here for example), the real finding is that many of the organizations implementing SharePoint simply do not put appropriate governance in place. A great many organizations have a lack of definition of governance of features, sites or content.
Surprisingly, despite the lack of business case and governance, most of the organizations surveyed were happy with the ROI achieved (which is amazing if they had no definition of what they were trying to accomplish!). Only 9% said that the ROI was worse than expected. Then again, maybe this is just a reflection of having no real idea of what you expected the ROI to be.
The results also identified some of the challenges faced when implementing SharePoint. Among the key issues identified were:
All of these, in my opinion, are reflections of lack of planning and lack of business case. While many of these challenges are common even in the best of circumstances, a lack of a clear, business-focused vision and plan will invariably make them worse.
There were also a couple of positive results from the report (more than a couple, but 2 I will mention here).
The results indicated that 13% of the respondents are planning to upgrade to SharePoint 2010 almost immediately, while half are planning to within a year. I see this as positive, anyway.
It was also interesting to look at what SharePoint features are most popular in these organizations. While I always tend to think of SharePoint primarily as a portal platform, and a solution development platform (hey, I am a developer), the most popular usages found in the survey were:
These are just some of the points I found interesting in the report. Again, I strongly urge anyone looking at SharePoint to real the whole report.
A year of so ago I wrote a couple of posts on MOSS 2007 workflows, specifically around the creation of custom Association and Initiation forms using InfoPath. While neither of these tasks are really very difficult (once you have figured out how), I think most would agree that the whole process is a great deal more messy that it should be.
Now that we are near the release of SharePoint 2010 (it went RTM last week and ships May 12, for those who have not seen the 2 million other posts letting you know), I thought I would revisit these same activities in SharePoint 2010 to demonstrate the fact that the process is whole lot less messy.
(Note that I have not had time to do screen captures as I did in my previous examples. If you have trouble following what I have done, leave a comment and I will add the pictures in).
The first couple of steps are identical to the previous version:
1) Create a new site.
2) Create a new document library (make sure you add at least one document to the library for testing later).
Now things get a little different.
3) Run SharePoint Designer 2010, and open your site.
4) In the Site Objects list on the left hand side, select Workflows. You will see the list of workflows defined on the site, which at this point will just be built in workflows. You can edit these workflows (though I wouldn't) or you can create a copy of one of them to serve as a starting point. In this example, however, we will start from scratch.
5) In the Ribbon you will see three choices for creating a new workflow:
In this example, we will create a Reusable Workflow. Give your workflow a name, a description if you want, and leave the Content Type selection at "All", and click Ok.
6) You will now see the workflow editor in SharePoint Designer. The main canvas is where you design the logic of your workflow. Make sure your insertion point is in Step 1, and from the Action gallery of the Insert section of the Ribbon, select "Log to History List". Click on "this message" in the design area, and enter text to be logged. I used "My Workflow Started".
7) Now for the point of this example – we will create an Association and Initiation parameter. In the Ribbon, click on Initiation Form Parameters.
Click Add…, and define a new parameter. Mine is called "MyParameter", is of type "Single Line of Text", and will be shown on both the Association and Initiation forms (you can also have a parameter which is only shown on Association, or only shown on Initiation). Once you have defined your parameter, click Ok.
8 ) Now you can add a reference to your parameter to you "Log to History List" activity. Open the message to be logged, and click the ellipses (…) to display the string builder tool. Click Add or Change Lookup, and select "Workflow Variables and Parameters" as the Data Source. Then select your parameter in the "Field from Source" drop down, and select String as the "Return Field As" selection. Click Ok, and then Ok again.
9) Now we should be ready to test things. In the Ribbon, click Publish. This will make the workflow available in your site.
10) Navigate to your site in the browser, and open the document library you created for this example. At the top of the page, under Library Tools, select Library. On the far right side of the Ribbon, select the Workflow Settings drop down, and select Add a Workflow. Select your custom workflow from the list, give your workflow association a name, and leave all the other settings at the default values. Click Ok.
11) A custom association form will now be displayed, asking for your parameter. Enter a default value for the parameter (I used "Default Value"). Click Save.
12) Now return to your document library, and select one of your documents. From the menu for the document, select Workflows. On the Workflows page that is displayed, select your workflow. A custom initiation form is now displayed, asking for the parameter you defined. Enter a value and click Start.
13) You will now be taken back to your document library. Notice that the document you used for the test now has a column named for your workflow, and has a value there of Completed. Click on Completed to view the workflow status page. You should now see the status for this workflow instance, and at the bottom you should see your logged message, with the value you entered for the parameter in your Initiation form.
While this procedure has almost as many steps as the previous examples for MOSS 2007, it is obviously a lot less messy to create and access Association and Initiation parameters in SharePoint 2010. From here, you can go back to SharePoint Designer, from which you can see the actual form (.XSN) used for your workflow, and you can open it up and customize it in InfoPath.


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We've just made three moves that are just a tad scary ... and one that gave me great personal pleasure. 'Three Nightmares and a Reunion' will be the title of the film version of this blog yarn.
Scary A: We're about to run with our first ever ebook-only project. We will now see if an ebook really can stand on its own feet without support from paperback and hardback sales. Regular readers and old friends know our passion for the future of the ebook presentation of work, so now let's find out if our enthusiasm has run away with us or if we've been on track so far this century.
Scary B: Again for the first time, without the usual support of Ingram's – the biggest book distributor on the planet – we're faced with building an ebook retail base ourselves ... from scratch. No mean trick, is that. But we've carefully prepared (even to the extent of registering BeWrite Books LLC in the USA to get into the massive new ebook retail stores that exclude publishers without an official US presence) and have high hopes.
Scary C: We're publishing our first non-fiction book with this release. Until now, it's been strictly Novels-я-Us. And poetry collections, of course.
Pleasure A-Z: I've been working along with an author who's an old buddy from mid-seventies newspaper days in Fleet Street. We've not worked together or even set eyes on each other since we shared an office thirty-five years ago when we were both still in our roaring twenties and Fleet Street was much, much more than just an address in London EC4. And – wow – it's been a breeze.
A bit scary for author Irene Thompson, too, because 1) she hadn't a clue about ebooks and had never even read one when we snared her 2) the subject matter of her A-Z of Punishment and Torture seems to clash with her gentle persona as a popular human interest journalist and former ballet dancer.
The story of this reunion is pretty simple. Irene's husband, John, is European editor of a major US newspaper group and, over the decades, we've touched base on international stories many times. So when Irene drifted from newspapers and magazines into books, I read what she wrote with interest and admiration. When I bought The A-Z of Punishment and Torture, though, it suddenly struck me that the mainstream UK publisher of the hardback version had not yet moved in the direction of ebooks. I dropped Irene a line about it. she thought once, then twice, talked it over with John, then contacted her publisher for the go-ahead, and decided to sign with BeWrite Books to run the ebook version.
We had a lot of fun along the way because the ebook is a significant revision of the hardback. And it was such a whizz of a job because Irene – a thorough pro – understood all the editorial twists and turns without the batting of an eye and was so happy to learn about ebooks and technology as we progressed through the months of editing.
There was another wee bonus. Although her publisher had handed Irene ebook rights, they couldn't (for contractual reasons) release rights to the original illustrations in her book. So we pulled in brilliant UK artist Catherine Edmunds, who is also an author, was part of the old BeWrite Community way back when and has always kept in warm touch. Cathy, Irene and I worked together to make the book fully illustrated with twenty-six drawings, one for each letter of the alphabet, as chapter-openers. (Cathy, by the way, also covered and illustrated BB's ALLAKAZZAM! by Daniel Abelman.)
Then partner, close colleague and pal, Tony Szmuk, who also handled inside text design and all matters technical, added the finishing touch of a striking cover that works magnificently in both colour and in the black-and-white used by e-ink ebook-dedicated reading devices like Kindle, Sony, Kobo et al. (B&N's Nook, like Apple's iPad, can give it the full colour treatment.)
Then partner, close colleague and pal, Tony Szmuk, who also handled inside text design and all matters technical, added the finishing touch of a striking cover that works magnificently in both colour and in the black-and-white used by e-ink ebook-dedicated reading devices like Kindle, Sony, Kobo et al. (B&N's Nook, like Apple's iPad, can give it the full colour treatment.)
We'll see release of The A-Z of Punishment and Torture next month. Meantime, if you go back to the BB website (just click on the open book icon and the top right of this page) and enter the bookstore section, you can read about Irene's new ebook in the 'coming soon' column in the right margin, about Irene herself, and also read a sample chapter from The A-Z of Punishment and Torture and see one of Cathy's illustrations.
Irene has even made the brave new move – without any help from us or anyone else – of kicking off a blog. Her first foray into online interaction with readers. It's lovely. And very personal. You'll find it here: www.irenethompsonbooks.blogspot.com. Do pay a visit and leave an encouraging note because it's so new (Oct 13) that Irene only has two followers so far – husband John and me. I predict that her followers list will soon be bustin' at the seams.
Cathy also has a blog. She's on http://catherineedmunds.blogspot.com/ where she talks about her own new novel, Small Poisons, and poetry collection, wormwood, earth and honey. And you can see many examples of her art by Googling.
So that's Three Nightmares and a Reunion ... from A-Z, folks.
Slainte ba. Neil


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I just started college this fall. I'm currently at home, but I'll be back on campus in a few days to begin the spring semester. I wish I didn't have to go back for reasons that will soon be obvious.
During my first week on campus, I met "Amy." We quickly became good friends. From the beginning, I knew that "Amy" was gay, but it didn't bother me. I'm pretty open-minded, despite my upbringing. I knew she was attracted to me, which I guess I found flattering. Anytime we were alone, especially when we were in her dorm room, she would start working on me, trying to get me to experiment with her. Finally, one night, when I'd had a bit to drink and we were again alone in her room, I gave in and had sex with her.
I admit I enjoyed it, but as far as I was concerned, it was just an experiment. But she began acting like we were a couple. I tried telling her that it was just a one-time thing and that we couldn't be together. She got really mad and that's when she pulled up the video on her laptop. Turns out she'd had a camera set up in her room to film us having sex. She's threatened to leak the video to my parents if I don't do exactly what she tells me.
Now, my parents are super-religious and insanely conservative. At minimum, they'd refuse to pay my tuition and I'd have to leave college if they found out I've experimented with homosexuality. The worst case scenario is they'd both disown me. And the worst case scenario is a real possibility.
For the rest of the semester, I had to meet up with "Amy" for sex anytime she asked. Thinking about those encounters as I type this makes my skin crawl. I always feel so dirty and used afterward. To her, I'm a human sex toy. I can tell that she gets off on the fact that I'm forced to do this and don't want to.
I have to get out of this situation, but I don't know how. If I don't comply, she'll release the video. I've thought about reporting her, but I'm not sure that what she's doing is even illegal in this state. Plus, it's only my word that this video even exists. I doubt the police could get a warrant just on my say-so. And even if they did do something, I'm sure she has a back-up copy of that video somewhere. If the cops don't manage to seize it along with her laptop, it'll get leaked eventually.
I feel stuck in a situation of mutually assured destruction. I can't have my parents finding out about us having sex. Is there anything I can do?
- Worrying about ruining your relationship with your parents can make you feel stressed out and anxious. You are strong for reaching out for help in what must seem like a desperate situation.
- The only way to be truly happy is to love yourself first. "Amy" is crossing the line by making you have sex with her. You'll respect yourself more by doing what you feel is right.
- You can cut off all communication with "Amy". You might even want to get legal advice about what to do about the videotape from a trusted professional.
- It might help you feel better about the situation by learning more about the LGBTQ community. You can head to the Teen Central website and click the Learn tab then Sexuality then LGBTQ to try to understand their struggles a bit better. Remember that "Amy" has no right to mistreat you in any way but by understanding her feelings it might be easier to see that she's human and move on from the situation with peace of mind.
- You can try using creativity to express yourself in a positive way. Some ways to be more creative are writing in a daily journal, painting, drawing, coloring in a coloring book or learning to play a musical instrument. Repeat positive affirmations to yourself.
- How can you commit to stopping yourself from getting involved in negative situations in the future?
- In what ways can hanging out with the right people make you happier in the long run?
- How could focusing on doing the right thing for yourself and others help make everyone's futures brighter?


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In Ball v First Essex Buses Limited, a bus driver who was dismissed after testing positive for cocaine has won compensation of almost £40,000 at an employment tribunal.
Mr Ball, who suffers from type-2 diabetes and high blood pressure, worked as a driver for First Group for more than 20 years. He said the drug could have got into his system when he licked his fingers after accepting notes from students. A random drugs test showed that he had traces of the Class A drug in his saliva. To prove his innocence, he submitted a hair follicle test that showed no trace of cocaine, but it was dismissed as evidence by the bus company.
An employment judge agreed that he could have tested positive after handling contaminated bank notes (apparently four out of five bank notes can test positive for traces of cocaine, according to experts). Mr Ball would often lick his sore fingers at the wheel, because he had to prick them with needles every two hours to monitor his blood sugar levels. As a man in his 60s with his medical conditions, Mr Ball said it would have been "reckless" for him to take cocaine as it could lead to heart problems and a stroke.
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What I learned about myself and my personal design process after moving from the U.S. to Holland.
In September of 2014 my wife and I packed up the kids and the dogs and flew from Austin, Texas to Amsterdam, Netherlands. We were starting a new chapter of our lives, because I accepted a job that required relocating. Though the company did an amazing job of making the transition as smooth as possible (they have a whole team dedicated to supporting international new hires), it was still an enormous undertaking. We had to find schools for our kids; a place to live; re-learn how commerce works (mostly bank transfers here in The Netherlands); register with the local municipality, etc. Translating documents from Dutch to English seemed like our full-time jobs. Thank goodness that so many people in Holland speak English. I've always had a certain amount of respect for people who leave their home countries seeking opportunities in new ones, but now I have something even more powerful. Empathy.
The Deep End of the Pool
There was a lot of information to consume, but I wanted to be a good employee. I wanted to learn the company way. I attended various trainings that were offered. I also had some great colleagues who acted as mentors. They shared with me their experiences. They schooled me on how our teams operate. They demonstrated how we generate ideas and how we determine whether an idea is successful or not. They taught me how to fail fast, fail often and aggregate those learnings. But honestly, it was a bit overwhelming. The first six months were really tough.
The Road to Hell is Paved Good Intentions
I was in survival mode. I felt like a zombie, devouring the brains (knowledge and experience) from as many different colleagues as possible. My plan was simple. Find out what worked for other designers and duplicate it. I observed and questioned as many of my colleagues as possible. I even tried mimicking other designer's design processes, hoping to find some cookie-cutter methods that would guarantee success. Things didn't quite work out like I planned. It all felt forced. Clumsy. Unnatural. I felt like I couldn't move fast enough so I tried moving faster. I thought that by skipping the sketching and wireframing stages and going straight to high fidelity mockups I could improve my speed. Unfortunately, this only led to more mistakes. Sometimes I missed steps that were important. Other times I forgot to consider simple interaction details. I was really self-conscious and started to feel like everyone must be wondering how in the world I made it past the interview process. Of course, that was my own internal criticism and not a view that others shared. At any rate, I was not in a good place and I wasn't sure how to change that.
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Somewhere around the seventh month of my new gig, I had an epiphany. It occurred to me that one of the reasons I was hired was for my experience. In other words, the processes I developed over the years are valuable, so why was I throwing them out and trying to start over from scratch? I was self-imposing a set of draconian rules about how I thought I should work, based on what I thought my company expected of me. From that point on I decided to go back to my own personal process and work forward to figure out how to best fit it into my new environment. What now seems like common sense, somehow evaded me initially. Not surprisingly, things seemed to get better. I started to feel more comfortable about the work I was putting out. My hypotheses were more sound, my solutions were more comprehensive and the results were generally better. I say generally better, because I still made mistakes and got things wrong. The difference is that I now have a better attitude about my failures and I am less stringent about my process. When I want to explore different Ideas quickly, I like to sketch on paper. If the workflow or interaction is a bit complex I use detailed wireframes. For simpler features (or ones I already have a lot of domain knowledge about) I go straight to high fidelity-mockups or even design directly in the browser. It just depends on the problem I'm trying to solve and who else I'm working with on the project (Product Owners, other developers or working by myself).
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Here are a few things that I've learned or reinforced over the past year that have been invaluable to my personal growth and development, both in my career and personal life.
One size does not fit all
There is no silver bullet. No rubber stamp design process. Instead, I think of it as a toolbox with a many different tools that do different things. Each problem requires using a different combination of tools. Sometimes you have to be inventive and use chewing gum, tape and a bit of string instead of a hammer and nails.
Perfect is the enemy of good enough
Launching something good is a lot more valuable than launching something perfect. Not to mention, if you think you can make something perfect, you're delusional. There are so many assumptions we make when creating products. But those assumptions can't be validated until they are out in the wild. Sure we can use focus groups, usability tests and surveys, but the truth is that there are so many factors that contribute to the success or failure of a product that we can't predict. So don't waste too much time trying to guess at things. Put it out in the wild so you can see what is working and what needs improvement.
No lily gilding
To put it simply, don't over-design. As a designer, I often hear comments like, "It's just not sexy enough" or "how can we make it more visually appealing?" I'll admit, I want my designs to be attractive. Not just visually, but from a functionality standpoint as well. I want them to be comprehensive. To have considered every possibile interaction or ancillary feature. But I suggest you join me in fighting this urge and try to start small. Keep things as simple as possible. You can always add or embellish things later. But by keeping things simple, you focus on testing the validity of your concept first. If it proves out, then you can iterate on the details.
Dear Diary…
One of the most valuable things I started doing, is keep a weekly diary of things I learned. These notes covered a wide variety of topics including technical stuff, interpersonal skills, domain knowledge or even relationship stuff. Not only did this help me collect my learnings, it had an even bigger psychological effect. In those times where I was really struggling and feeling like nothing I did was working, I could still find value in my work.
Don't hate, collaborate
Sometimes I get so caught up in my own "brilliant" ideas that I don't take the time to share them with others. But I've found that the best solutions have been ones I've reviewed with fellow designers, developers, product managers, etc. They always seem to provide a different perspective or new insights that I didn't originally think about.
The last 16 months have had many peaks and valleys, but with a steep upward trend. I think the most important lesson for me has been that every day, every situation is an opportunity to learn.


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Saturday, 16 October 2010
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The narrator is a young governess, sent off to a country house to take charge of two orphaned children. She finds a pleasant house and a comfortable housekeeper, while the children are beautiful and charming. But she soon begins to feel the presence of intense evil.
This novella is supposed to be a ghost story, but I will say right at the beginning that my main complaint is that it didn't really feel like a ghost story to me. The atmosphere was not scary or haunting; to me, it was too rational for a ghost story, too composed, almost.
The story follows a young governess who was raised in an isolated environment and has very romantic ideas about the nephew and niece of her employer, as well as about her employer (although she doesn't even know him). She creates a picture about these people in advance, as if she decided that she will love them and make them her everything in her life. Then, something begins to disturb her new delightful existence: the ghosts of the old governess and her lover begin to appear to the governess, attempting to take the children away from her and she makes it her mission to stop them.
There is a lot of controversy regarding this novella, as half of the readers/critics believe that the governess really sees the ghosts, while the other half believes she is simply losing her mind and seeing things that are not real. I am with this other half.
Now, I already mentioned that I didn't like the rational take on this ghost story. Henry James always went deep with his psychological realism, raising it to a completely new level, and while I could appreciate this in his other novels (although very tedious to read, as nothing ever happens, really), it annoyed me in this case. I wanted a ghost story, not an examination of the human mind. Since this is supposed to be a ghost story, I rated it down precisely because it didn't feel like a ghost story to me at all. I didn't feel any tension or anticipation (or perhaps I'm just too picky).
However, I have to give James credit for his great presentation of the governess's mind. The novella is narrated from her point of view and I believe that first-person narration is never reliable. One can only read one particular person's thoughts, which gives the reader a narrow-minded presentation of the world of a book, which is, strangely enough, precisely why I love first-person narration. The reader has to search for clues on their own much more than with third-person narration, in my opinion.
Looking at the governess's ideas and the responses of others around her, I personally deducted that she imagined things on a big scale. She was raised in isolation, was lonely and wanted to have someone to love and to love her in return. She found this in her two charges, but on a subconscious level, she felt that something might take them away from her, so she began to imagine evil, manipulating ghosts and herself as the saviour of the two children. Her prize for saving them would be their eternal loyalty and love, I suppose. I read that the main argument why the ghosts could be real is that the governess described them to the housekeeper in detail and the housekeeper confirmed her description to be entirely true. However, the governess could easily have obtained this information through a way that was not paranormal in nature. Her conclusions are often entirely unsupported by anything rational and sometimes, I wondered at her deductions, as they really had no logical basis, so she could only come up with them on her own, following some strange logic only known to her. It's as if, for example, I pointed out a lovely pebble to a friend and he/she responded, "I can deduce by the look of this gray pebble that someone was eating strawberry ice-cream here." She saw the children as something they were not, either in good or bad ways, and, together with some other things that I won't mention to avoid spoilers, I think she was really imagining things.
The ending is quite shocking and unexpected, and I found it sad, too. I don't really know how it happened, but it might not have happened if the governess hadn't been so keen on "finding out the truth" by all means possible.
If the novel wasn't praised for being a great ghost story, I would have given it a higher rating, perhaps. But I can say that it is a great psychological story. If psychological realism appeals to you, then this is a good story for you to read. Just do not expect a haunting, spooky tale because it isn't one; at least not to me.
I read the novella for the R.I.P. V Challenge and my reading challenge of American classics.
THIS MISS RATES: / (3.5 stars)
7 comments:
- Jan von Harz said...
I have yet to read this one and think I will have to put it on my classics read list next year. I will be challenging myself to read a classic a month, and have a long list to choose from as my education was somewhat lacking in this area.
I always love reading your review too as you really explain your feelings and the books good and bad points so masterfully. Thanks
- 16 October 2010 at 15:58
- The Insouciant Sophisticate said...
Thanks for the review; I knew absolutely nothing about this book but your review makes it sounds really interesting even if it fails as a spooky tale.
- 16 October 2010 at 16:20
- Bethany said...
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- 16 October 2010 at 18:25
- Blodeuedd said...
Henry James, I really should read a classic now and again
- 16 October 2010 at 22:07
- Midnyte Reader said...
I mentioned in my post above that The Innocents is one of my fav. movies. Give it a try, it might give you that spooky feel you want...although there is still a question.
- 18 October 2010 at 14:49
- caju said...
I'm a student of literature in Brazil and I would like to know your opinion about the movie. Did the author of The innocents (1961) put an end in the ambiguity?
- 22 October 2010 at 20:48
- Kailana said...
I really want to read this at some point. I have never read any Henry James and need to remedy that.
- 24 October 2010 at 03:58


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Medicinal Plants-In the Field with Michael Moore by Michael Cottingham
M. Ericksen & M. Moore in the field
This trip (video 13) we studied plants of Colarado. Much gratitude to Michael Cottingham in preserving this knowledge in his videos. Michael Moore brought herbal knowledge to modern Americans. Without him we would lack much important Botanical knowledge of important healing remedies. I will always remember you Michel Moore!
Scene; The Players Club, Gramercy Park, Manhattan, New York City. Occassion; Ms Bacall's Birthday Party. Actors of stage and screen entertaining each other! Alan Ginsburg on stage, Imogen Coca, A Star Studded affair. Me, certainly in awe of this Grand Lady and fine actress. She was so beautiful and elegant , her mature years no less. Being invited to her party was an honor and she was indeed gracious to me. I still get lost in her films, enthralled with her characters, I could watch Casablanca a million times and never be bored! She will always be part of my memory and the Great American Theater! Ms Bacall you are remembered well!
New York Times on Bacall..
Lauren Bacall, the actress whose provocative glamour elevated her to stardom in Hollywood's golden age and whose lasting mystique put her on a plateau in American culture that few stars reach, died on Tuesday in New York. She was 89.
Her death was confirmed by her son Stephen Bogart. "Her life speaks for itself," Mr. Bogart said. "She lived a wonderful life, a magical life."
With an insinuating pose and a seductive, throaty voice — her simplest remark sounded like a jungle mating call, one critic said — Ms. Bacall shot to fame in 1944 with her first movie, Howard Hawks's adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have and Have Not," playing opposite Humphrey Bogart, who became her lover on the set and later her husband.
It was a smashing debut sealed with a handful of lines now engraved in Hollywood history.
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