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Toward the end of last week, I started to feel crappy, details don't matter, but I had a rough couple of days, and Phil really stepped up in taking care of things around here and letting me get some extra rest in order to make sure that sort of crappy didn't take a turn for extra crappy, so on Friday, I was kind of rushing around in the afternoon to pick the place up before he got home, plus do the couple of things around the house that he usually feels like he has to do the second he comes in the door. He's one of those types, you know, can't relax until his things are done. So I figured I'd do all the things, and he could just kick back after really stretching for most of the week.
Except things kept happening. You know, after last Monday's entry, I guess typical Penelope stuff. Stuff I've come to expect from a Penelope. I forgot to lock the dishwasher (we have to lock the dishwasher to keep her from getting in it, but that doesn't stop her from randomly starting it up whenever she wants) and she got out some serving forks. I could hear her with them, so I approached slowly. You have to approach slowly when the Penelope has contraband, because if she knows you're coming to take it, she'll run. With FORKS. Or whatever she might have. And if she's running, and you're closing in, she'll throw whatever she's got, like some teenager with pot running through the woods behind the house party that just got busted, flinging the baggie off into the brush in desperate hope of not being caught but also maybe being able to find it again later. Except it's not pot, it's my cell phone and it's not the brush, it's probably the kitchen floor. Anyway, this time she didn't run, but she did throw the forks at my face.
She threw ham at the wall.
When discussing Penelope's behavior on Twitter the other day – which I don't do too often, because of reasons, but I wasn't feeling very well so was just generally totally beaten – someone suggested that I possibly might need to reevaluate what behavior I consider acceptable, because it is hard to believe that a two year old could be that bad all the time. That is, could it be that my standards of behavior for Penelope are much too high, making it seem as though she is constantly misbehaving, when in reality, it is just me, expecting too much from a toddler? Is this just a case of me not knowing that I need to pick my battles? Am I exhausting myself – and probably Penelope – with my impossibly high standards?
No. No, that's not the case. I let the ham go, y'all. I do choose my battles. I do. If she's not throwing something at my face, I mostly let it go, with a reminder that in this house, we pass things to each other. We don't throw.
(Oh yeah, we're those schmucks now. Come into our house, and you'll get pulled aside for the little speech, like those, "Oh, we try not to say 'No,' we feel like it crushes her spirit," except it's more like, "Oh, please don't throw anything in front of her, not even your car keys to your spouse to move the car, we feel like that's why she keeps throwing shoes at my face, so if you could just pass things to each other and then make a huge fucking deal about what a great pass that was, that would be GREAT, thanks." We know we sound like a couple of pass holes. We know.)
This is what's not okay: hitting, harassing the dogs, eating out of the trash/throwing things in the trash, taking things from the fridge, throwing things at people, failing to obey reasonable requests when it's very clear you understood and are deliberately disobeying for funsies.
Okay, I admit it, I didn't totally let the ham thing go.
In my defense, I just asked her to get it.
So I don't think I'm unreasonable in my expectations, and as you can see above, she might just be a BIT UNREASONABLE IN HER INTERPRETATIONS OF MY REQUESTS. I'm not saying she's in any way an abnormal child, I'm just saying that normal is a range and to compose a range, you need to have children at each end. What you're looking at here is an end child.
After the potato incident I mentioned last week, and the peanut butter incident – did I tell you about the peanut butter incident here? Brinkley ate half a jar of peanut butter, and then Penelope got the jar of peanut butter from the trash, and she had some. That happened. So after the peanut butter incident and the potato incident, we had some deliveries last week. We got some more child locks, and some more Door Monkeys, and a ridiculously priced Simple Human trash can with a pedal and a lock. Of course, after her nap, I turned my back for what I swear was the space of a super human speed bathroom visit and came back to this:
This is just a normal day, though, so no big. I mean, she gets into things, I pick them up. It's just particularly ridiculous because that day was one thing after another, and, well, okay, she's sitting in a pile of child locks. The point is, though, that I keep Phil updated on her doings throughout the day, and while he doesn't ever come out and say it, I do kind of get a "… really?" vibe from him pretty frequently. It can kind of seem like, if he were home, this sort of thing wouldn't be happening. Aren't I even watching? How can stuff like this happen so frequently? He's here every night and all weekend, and he doesn't see this much stuff happen…
It doesn't help that, a short time later – and, okay, I admit it, this is all on me – I had put her in her room for sneaking into the locked side of the linen closet (DO NOT EVEN GET ME STARTED ON HER HIDING IN THERE AND NOT MAKING A SOUND WHILE I RAN THROUGH THE HOUSE YELLING HER NAME OH MY GOD) and retrieving soda cans in order to fling them onto the kitchen floor, and I forgot that when I had to chase her out of her room earlier, I had left a tub of body butter on the floor. Okay. That was no good. That was no good at all. Especially because the body butter I have been using on her lately is one of mine (it works), so it is especially stinky and greasy. And it was so quiet in her room, and I went in there, and she was rubbing greasy, stinky body butter all over herself. And her hair. And the carpet. And everything ever.
I slept in a little bit on Saturday, and when I woke up, Phil and Penny weren't in the living room, or the kitchen, and I wandered into the playroom and didn't find them. But I smelled some really strong cleaning smell, and I found them both in the guest bathroom. Phil was standing at the sink, with the water running, and my new sneakers that I had just gotten, just the day before, scrubbing at the toes with a magic eraser. Penny had colored all over the toes with a ball point pen.
"I JUST LOOKED AWAY FOR A SECOND," he said.
Okay, I will keep you, WITH YOUR PERFECTLY-TIMED SHOE RUINING!
It is Monday again, which means it is time for Makeup Monday, which is the second part of my post, because maybe you are not into makeup, which means you can abandon ship here, but I may not always be so solicitous as to write a whole other thousand words not about makeup, so don't go getting used to it or anything. Thought I guess you're totally SOL if you don't like makeup OR my kid. Are you just hanging around waiting for me to start writing about World of Warcraft again? I mean, it could happen. My account is open. If you are, I mean… I probably should. Just to reward you. Because that is some dedication.
In the spirit of the No Buy, No No Blog, I have actually gone and USED SOMETHING UP from the pile in the picture in the original post detailing all of my restrictions and rules and plans for the whole project. Here is that picture.
So, while this isn't my entire makeup collection, for my No Buy, No No Blog, this is what I'm working with. I'll deal with everything in the picture in one of the ways described in the original post before the no buy ends. Well, everything in the picture, plus some things that hadn't arrived yet at the time the picture was taken.
Today, I'm talking about the product indicated with the arrow – Apricot Skin Renewal Cream by The Balm – as well as some eye makeup remover wipes that came in the Allure Summer Beauty box, and the two facial moisturizers I currently use, and why they can go right to hell.
I am currently using the two facial moisturizers pictured. I've got pretty normal skin, I think. It's not particularly prone to oiliness or greasiness, and I have what I think are pretty standard hormonal breakouts – probably one or two actual pimples once a month, maybe a threatened pimple here and there the rest of the month. Pretty lucky, I think, but I suffered for it mightily when I was younger. I've got really irritating patches of dryness, though, on my forehead between my eyes, next to my nose, and sometimes on my chin and next to my mouth depending on how hot my shower was, so I have to moisturize every day and heavily before makeup or my makeup will look flaky and horrible.
The two moisturizers pictured – Cetaphil Daily Facial Moisturizer with SPF 15 and Up & Up Facial Moisturizing Lotion with SPF 15, oil free – can go right the hell to hell, each for separate reasons. I use them in a pretty standard fashion – after the shower and/or before makeup, I put on a pretty thick layer and let it soak in. I put it on my face. My face, where the FACIAL MOISTURIZER is intended to go. My FACE, where I keep both my EYES and my MOUTH, most days.
If I use the Cetaphil, I get a taste in my mouth that I am pretty sure is poison. And it just hovers in the back of my throat for most of the day, ruining things and making life miserable. And look, smartbutticus, I know I'm not supposed to eat it. I don't eat it. It's on my face, all smeared around on there, and some of its fuminess kind of gets into the general mouthy area. I'm not rubbing it directly into my tongue. I guess it performs its general moistness duties okay, but the fact remains that when I use it, the back of my throat feels like a little man is standing back there with a fireplace bellows, releasing puffs of TERRIBLE all day long. It's no good. It's just no good.
And then there's the Up & Up. I'm a pretty big fan of Target's store brand of products, I haven't had too many stinkers. Well, unless you count shmazors. And for a moisturizer, this does okay. Just okay. It's not really anything super special as far as under makeup goes, considering my especially flaky spots, but for every day (I don't wear makeup every single day) and before bed, I don't mind it. Except for one thing. One teeeeeny, tiny thing. It's trying to blind me. It gets into my eyes somehow – AND NO, I AM NOT APPLYING IT DIRECTLY TO MY EYES – even hours after application, even if I don't feel like I am sweating any especial amount. It runs into my eyes when I'm just sitting on the couch, and holy shit, does it burn. It burns to the point that shortly thereafter, I'm barely able to keep my eyes open, what with the tearing up and the flames of hell and the rubbing and the splashing of water. BUT DON'T SPLASH THE WATER. Because that just seems to reactivate all the REST of the moisturizer on the face, which then rushes to my eyes. I've actually texted Phil at work near the end of his day to ask how close he was to coming home, because hey, I'm blind, and I can't afford to show any weakness to Penelope, she kind of has the upper hand as it is. But it doesn't happen every TIME. Only sometimes. At random. Maybe when Pen-o is about to stage some kind of coup. Maybe there's a connection. I don't know. I'm not a Makeup Scientist.
SO AS YOU CAN SEE. My current moisturizer selections are NOT EXACTLY EXCELLENT, so the samples I received in my recent order from The Balm were pretty well timed. I got two, and decided to start with the Apricot Skin Renewal Cream for no particular reason. I actually had a reason at the time, but I don't remember it.
The Balm website says that this lotion smooths the skin and also slows down the aging process, but a small foil packet is hardly enough product to really evaluate those claims, so what I was really looking for was how it dealt with my problem areas, did it try to poison me, and did it try to kill me and/or enter into cahoots with my daughter?
Texture: I probably should have taken a picture, but I DIDN'T. This is a pretty thick lotion. It's less liquidy than it is creamy, and has a greasier feeling than the two lotions I'm used to using. It's not a slap on the face kind of lotion, but more of a rub it in type. It has a higher quality feeling to it than the two I normally use, which makes sense, considering it costs several times more than they do.
It actually made my face feel kind of greasy when it was on, too. I don't know if greasy is the word. I think makeup people prefer the word dewy. Yeah. I was dewy as shit when I put this on. I used it at night only for the first two applications, which was about all that was in the packet. I wasn't sure if I'd actually wear it under makeup, because it felt… tacky. Not tacky like the way I usually dress, but tacky to the touch. I kept thinking about that one scene with Jordan and Ted from Scrubs, before she was in that other show that makes up for the fact that she's not a great actress by just writing for the fact that that's her face. You know what I mean? I WANT TO TOUCH IT BUT I DON'T.
I didn't really time it, or do anything really professional in nature like any kind of actual reviewer of products, but normally I put on my moisturizer and let it dry down for a bit, then put some more on my trouble spots before applying my primer and foundation, or BB cream, or whatever the hell I'm going to wear that day. I didn't really notice this stuff drying down completely for a while. I don't know how long a while is. You're going to have to ask someone with a clock. I probably could have gone ahead and applied primer over this, but… I don't know. Not my style, really.
Poison-ness: I don't know what something called Apricot Skin Renewal Cream is supposed to smell like, but I'm guessing apricots. It doesn't. But, good news! It doesn't smell like poison, either! You know what it smells like? The Dollar Store at Christmas. Or that one store in your hometown that you go in and quickly realize it is really not for you because it's all dolls or sun catchers or wall plaques with country ducks on them, but you're the only person in the store in the middle of a Saturday afternoon and the lady who is clearly the owner came out from behind the counter when you came in, so you feel obligated to give a kind of courtesy wander of the store, but the longer you stay, the more it seems like she thinks you might actually be the type of person who is really into country ducks or whatever, so she starts kind of following you and maybe pointing out different things in the store that she thinks you might like, or that are on sale, and, really, if you were into that kind of thing, you'd have to admit, you'd be a FOOL to pass up the deal, but you're NOT into that kind of thing, and now it's awkward, and you have to walk out the door without buying anything. So that's kind of a weird smell for a lotion, and it's even weirder if you think that it was maybe intended to smell like apricots, because I don't know about you, but I don't think country duck when I think apricot. I like apricots.
Kill/Cahoots: No attempts were made on my life during the use of this lotion. This probably could have gone under texture, but it didn't run at all, and I don't feel like if it did run, it would have caused any pain to my eyeballs.
Effectiveness: Like I said, the foil packet really isn't enough to judge if the Apricot Skin Renewal Cream can, you know, renew skin. I got two full applications out of it, and in the interest of the No Buy, No No Blog project and using things up, I squeezed out the last bits and applied them to my most troubley areas, and you know, I was pretty pleased. I ended up just applying makeup in the middle of the night to send ridiculous pictures to Diane and Jonna, but hell of my skin didn't look kind of fantastic under the clown face. I could actually see using this at night, something a little lighter out of the shower, and then this again on my flakiest areas.
Rebuy: So, would I buy this again? Well, it smells funny, but that kind of wears off eventually. It's expensive, to me, at $29 for 2.36oz, compared to, say, $7 for 4oz of my usual murder lotion. But can you really talk about price when you're talking about murder lotion? I have three more lotions to consider in my No Buy, No No Blog project: a Nutrogena from the Allure Summer Beauty Box, a sample from VMV Hypoallergenics that's been kicking around my tippy piles for a while, and another foil packet from TheBalm – Grapefruit Antioxidant Day Face Cream (spoiler: it smells like the locker room at the YMCA.) I know that the poison/murder lotions are out the door for sure, but I don't know for certain what will replace them.
SPEAKING OF APPLYING THINGS DIRECTLY TO EYES: Simple brand Eye Makeup Remover Pads for sensitive eyes! Yes! Ish! I have definitely applied these directly to my eyeballs in my attempts to learn how to tightline my eyes (which I can now successfully do THANK YOU), and I was not killed, nor was my daughter allowed to launch any of the multiple plots that are surely in any of several different stages of hatchery at any given time. Excellent. EXCELLENT.
Any makeup remover pad, when confronted with waterproof makeup, or lots of makeup, or lots of waterproof makeup many times over, like when someone with ham hands is learning a new skill very close to the eyeball, is going to be rubbed over the delicate eye area lots of times. Waterproof eye makeup is tough stuff, and eye makeup remover, especially that designed for sensitive eyes, cannot just go at it with fire and chemicals and burn that shit all to the ground. So it takes some swiping. And swiping. And swiping. So any makeup pad, no matter how intended to be gentle, is going to start to feel like you're taunting your eyelids with a fiberglass mitten. These are no real exception.
So. If you're sensitive to actual makeup remover, as in, the formulation of the stuff hurts your actual eyeballs and skin, Simple Eye Makeup Remover Pads for sensitive eyes are an excellent choice. If you're sensitive to having the eye area rubbed repeatedly with cotton-like pad thingers, well, maybe just rub it once or twice and call it good enough. You know what they say. Tonight's mascara & eyeliner are tomorrow's smoky eye.


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Dr Jason Hall (editor) studied Pharmacy at the University of Strathclyde, before completing an MSc in Clinical Pharmacy at Liverpool John Moores University and a PhD in non-medical prescribing at the University of Manchester. He has worked in community pharmacy for five years, in the NHS as a pharmaceutical adviser for two years and in a further education college teaching chemistry and pharmaceutical science to pharmacy technicians and science students for five years. Jason joined the School of Pharmacy in Manchester in 1999 and is now Director of Undergraduate Teaching and Learning. Research interests include non-medical prescribing, professional identity and professionalism in pharmacy students. Dr Chris Rostron (series editor) graduated in Pharmacy from Manchester University and completed a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry at Aston University. He gained Chartered Chemist status in 1975. After a period of post-doctoral research he was appointed as a lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry at Liverpool Polytechnic. He is now an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University. He was a member of the Academic Pharmacy Group Committee of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and chairman for the past 5 years. He is currently chairman of the Academic Pharmacy Forum and deputy chair of the Education Expert Advisory Panel of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. He is an external examiner in Medicinal Chemistry at a number of Schools of Pharmacy both in the UK and abroad. In 2008 he was awarded honorary membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain for services to Pharmacy education.
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Do you know those newspaper columnists who cynically bundle together their previously-published articles and release them as a book? What a brilliant idea! I decided to do the same.
I've written nearly 300 articles on this blog, and not all of them are terrible. I decided to pick out the 100 best posts and publish them as an e-book. These aren't necessarily the most popular posts, or the latest. Many of them are old ones that almost nobody has read. But they are my favourites.
The book is called "Strange Thoughts, Random Mutterings" and exists as an e-book on Amazon (UK and US), Kobo, Nook and iBooks. It's free, so please download it if you haven't already read enough of my rants and ramblings. I've published it under my pen-name of Jackson Radcliffe.
And if any of you could take the time to write a review on Amazon, Goodreads, or any of the other places people leave reviews, I'd be unbelievably grateful. I mean it.


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16,000 people from 144 countries converged on Toronto early in July for Microsoft's World Partner Conference. Highlights of the opening day included: an announcement from General Electric CEO, Jeff Immelt and Microsoft CEO, SatyaNadella, that GE's Predix platform for the Industrial Internet is available on the Azure cloud; Japan Airlines using Microsoft HoloLens to change the training paradigm for flight crews and mechanics.
Of more direct interest to business users of Microsoft products was an announcement of new resources from Skype for Business. Microsoft announced the Skype Operations Framework (SOF), an end-to-end planning, deployment and operations methodology for Skype for Business.
Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team, said: "It provides partners a comprehensive guide and toolset for implementing and managing a reliable, cost-effective communications service with Skype in the cloud. It can help partners drive operational excellence and high-quality deployments."
He said also that the global footprint of Skype for Business PSTN services was being expanded. "PSTN Conferencing is now available to customers in 92 countries including Venezuela, Uruguay, Vietnam and Kenya, added this month. In addition, PSTN Calling is now available in both the UK and the US, providing inbound and outbound calling, voicemail, phone numbers and calling plans."
Koenigsbauer also unveiled plans to offer automatic transcription and translation in Skype Meeting Broadcast by the end of 2016. "These new services will provide live closed captioning of presentations and allow viewers to choose translation into their preferred language from a list of supported languages," Koenigsbauer said.
He revealed also that users of Microsoft 365 would get increased coverage from AIG's CyberEdge cyber risk insurance, designed to provide cover for a variety of cyber risk exposures not covered under conventional property and casualty insurances.
CyberEdge covers: the financial consequences of losing or misappropriating customer or employee data; the loss of net profit due to an interruption to the customer's network following a cyber breach; the cost of restoring, recollecting or recreating data after a leak or breach; the potentially significant costs and expenses of a data protection regulator's investigation and fines following data security breaches. There is also the option to cover the ransom payments required to end an extortion threat.
Koenigsbauer said Microsoft was the first cloud vendor to achieve this status with AIG. "AIG's CyberEdge clients using the Microsoft Cloud will now have access to expanded business interruption coverage," he explained. "Upon completion of a short questionnaire, AIG will offer this enhancement to identified Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365 customers when quoting a new or renewal CyberEdge policy including network interruption coverage."
Microsoft also unveiled an online certification program, Microsoft Professional Degree, presently in beta. The first certifications, which Microsoft will award this September, will be in data science.
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Socialism is not achievable now: Jyoti Basu
January 05, 2008 15:31 IST
Supporting West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's stand on capitalism, Communist Party of India-Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu on Friday said there is a need to industrialise the state.
"Socialism is not achievable at this point of time. We have been working within the capitalist system and as such private capital has to be used while social welfare programmes by the state government would continue," Basu told reporters in response to a question after attending a meeting of the party's state secretariat.
"Socialism is a far cry. Socialism is our political agenda and it was mentioned in our party document but capitalism will continue to be the compulsion for the future," the CPI-M politburo member said.
On January 3, Bhattacherjee had strongly advocated capitalism and not socialism as the only way to industrialise the state.
The allies of the CPI-M in the Left Front like Forward Bloc and RSP have accused the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government of deviating from the Left ideology after more than 30 years of power in the state.They accused him of toeing the capitalist path to industrialise the state and alleged that CPI-M was pursuing a policy of double standard by following the capitalist course here while criticising the Centre's economic policies.


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Interesting profile of Brian Schweitzer in the New York Times magazine this week. Overall, definitely a positive piece about Schweitzer in particular, and Western Democrats in general, but one section gave me pause:
Schweitzer remains an iconoclast; he says he supported John McCain's presidential bid in 2000, though he has since soured on McCain because of the way he has courted the religious right, and he says he is now intrigued by the possibility of a presidential run by Mitt Romney, the Republican governor of Massachusetts, in 2008. "If he gets the nomination, I might support him," Schweitzer told me.
I know that Schweitzer wants to cultivate an image of independence, and I can forgive the support for McCain, as a lot of people I respect were taken in by his media-created independent image, but Mitt Romney?


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HAVEN, Wis. — It was Jason's Day, but it is Jordan's world.
Now the golf world knows the secret formula of how to beat Jordan Spieth. All you have to do is shoot the lowest score in major championship history. Seriously, how hard can that be?
"This is as easy a loss as I've ever had because I felt I couldn't do much about it," Spieth said after finishing three shots behind Day at the 97th PGA, making a claim that may be overstated but nonetheless meant in the vein of good sportsmanship. "Jason was just that good."
After this loss, the same is true of Spieth. He won two majors, missed being in a playoff for a third and here, pushed Day to the finish. Day became the first player to reach 20 under par in a major championship because with Spieth chasing, he had to get there if he expected to win.
We now know something we didn't have an inkling of a year ago. Jordan Spieth is just that good.
His PGA runner-up finish wasn't just worth a stunning $1.08 million (no, that is not a typographical error!), it made what we had already deduced official: Spieth is the best player in the world, and the former No. 1, Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy, will have to play some outstanding golf to get the top spot back.
It was one of Spieth's goals, along with winning a major and making the cut in all four majors. In retrospect, he aimed low. Winning a major turned out to be just low-hanging fruit for Spieth. Making the cut in four majors? How about almost winning all of them.
The year began as a vehicle for McIlroy's dominant era. The only bigger surprise than McIlroy being a non-factor was Spieth turning into some kind of 22-year-old Ben Hogan. No one saw it coming, but Spieth is No. 1 now. Mission accomplished.
"I accomplished one of my life-long goals," Spieth said. "That will never be taken away from me now. When I look back on this year, the consistency that we had and being able to step it up on the biggest stages, that's a huge confidence builder. It's what allowed us as a team to become No. 1 and, I believe right now, the best in the world. Well, second-best behind Jason Day this week."
Spieth's official ascension to the throne is almost as big as Day's breakthrough major championship. One stirring victory often leads to outrageous predictions because, obviously, the winner always looks great after playing his best golf. "The floodgates are bound to open now," is the most common phrase, but in the case of Day, it seems legit, since he has held or shared the 54-hole lead in the last three majors.
But consider this: golf already looked as if it was in a great place with the wish-upon-a-star rivalry between Spieth and McIlroy. It didn't materialize this week, but the best part about it is it invigorates the game on both sides of the Atlantic. Europe roots for young Rory (who is popular in America) and the United States roots for young Jordan (who is well-liked overseas). On the surface, that could be nearly as good as our previous rivalry, Tiger Woods vs. Phil Mickelson.
Let's add young Jason to the equation. Now we've got another continent – Australia – involved with a rooting interest. Are Day, Spieth and McIlroy going to start fighting for majors between them for the next decade? Could we be that lucky?
Because if we are, maybe instead of a new-age rivalry we've got a new-age Big Three of Golf. I'm not saying these guys are Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus. I'm not even saying they're Tiger and Phil. I'm just saying they could be very big for generating greater global interest in the game.
One PGA title doesn't make Day an irresistible force or an immovable object but hey, that Big Three possibility is pretty gosh-darn tantalizing, as Spieth might say.
A runner-up finish here doesn't change the fact that this is The Year Of Jordan Spieth. He's got four wins, two of them majors, and he's cleared $10 million in winnings so far, with the FedEx Cup and it's $10 million bonus still up for grabs.
"Yeah, it's been a very, very good year," Spieth said, almost giggling before he could finish that understated sentence. "You can look at it as if I was four shots shy of the Grand Slam or you could say where with one putt, I would have only one major this year — if Dustin Johnson's putt goes in at the U.S. Open.
"It was amazing. You only get four chances a year and to have an opportunity to win all of them is so cool. I hope that we can do this again."
Seasons like this, performances like this, are exceedingly rare. Hogan won the first three majors in 1953, but because he had to travel by ship, he couldn't get back from the British Open in time to play the PGA Championship. Tiger won three majors in one year during his Tiger Slam period.
What Spieth did this year, at 22, is hard to compare to anything else we've seen in modern golf. It almost feels like a letdown that he won "only" two majors.
His greatest contribution may be in putting a focus on a different aspect of golf. We've been loving the long ball for decades. The most popular instruction stories are about How to Hit It Longer. The dominant golfers of our lives have been big hitters since the days of Hogan. Palmer, Nicklaus. Watson, to a lesser extent. Seve Ballesteros. Greg Norman. Tiger and Phil. Nick Faldo had a nice run but was he ever truly a dominant player? Fans respond to big hitters, such as Fred Couples, Davis Love and John Daly.
Here comes Spieth. He's not a short hitter by any means. He's a little longer than medium, but he's not long. He is dominating the game with his wedge play, his chipping and pitching around the greens and his putting. We've never seen anyone hole out from off the green so often and more impressively. We've never seen a golfer hit it stony — inside two feet, kick-in length — with such regularity.
The secret of golf is never making bogeys, and when Spieth scrambles for par from off the green, he usually does it with a stress-free tap-in, not a worrisome six-footer. The putting? He's already on a par with Ben Crenshaw or Jack Nicklaus or Tiger Woods. Like Jack and Tiger, the bigger the putt, the more likely Spieth is to make it.
You're not going to see instruction articles like, How To Chip Like Spieth. Because the answer is, spend six hours a day chipping for the next two years. Ditto for his putting. You can't replicate it. You're not Jordan Spieth, and you never will be. Remember how Tiger raised the bar on Tour for fitness? Because he was so buff, most other players trying to compete with him decided they needed to get stronger, too.
Spieth has raised the bar on major preparation. Nicklaus did it once before. He'd go play a major site a week or two early and spend two, three or four days there. He'd play one ball and try to shoot a low score. He also wanted to get used to playing, say, Baltusrol, so when he came back he wouldn't feel like he was in a U.S. Open, he was just playing Baltusrol again. And he'd be confident because he'd already shot 65 there.
When Spieth holed out from the front bunker to finish his round at Whistling Straits in the second round, it was a key shot. It got him back into contention after a rugged opening round. He made it because he knew, after talking to the regular working-stiff caddies who ply their trade there all summer, that the front bunker at 18 always has more sand than the other bunkers.
Spieth and his own caddie, Michael Greller, collect local knowledge like kids collect baseball cards, so if you want to beat Spieth, you're going to have to try to outwork him, too.
Day outplayed him with a historic performance. Spieth's performance this year was historic, too. You should file the 2015 golf year away in your memory bank. Sure, Spieth and McIlroy and Day are young and there are great things ahead but honestly, you may not see another performance like Spieth's this year for a long, long time.
This is Jordan Spieth's world right now. Consider yourself lucky to watch it.
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Issue 3 | May 20, 2015
There's a secret place on campus. Perhaps you've walked by it a few times and even caught a glimpse of the magic inside: a piece of black velvet curled around a perfume bottle, metal ladders, long, dark curtains and seamlesses stacked against a wall.
It's the photography department in Drescher Hall on Santa Monica College's main campus. Morning, noon or night, you are almost guaranteed to catch sight of groups of students hanging out with their instructors, chasing the perfect shadows or trying to find the right angle on a seagull – or just enjoying coffee or instant ramen together.
"I love the sense of community I feel when I come to campus," says photography instructor Craig Mohr. "The energy here is infectious."
What brings students here is the reputation, excellence and breadth of the Photography program. A roster of professional photographers teaches the art and craft – four full time faculty and 24 part time – and students have the option of a Certificate of Achievement or an Associate Degree. SMC has more courses on photography than any other community college in Southern California.
"Honestly, it's the students that make me excited to come to work every day," says Josh Sanseri, instructor. "We have some of the most dedicated, talented and resilient students in Los Angeles. The obstacles many of them hurdle on a daily basis in order to get to class is unbelievable, and inspiring."
Josh Withers, one of the newest full-time additions, echoes the sentiment and after a long career in advertising, finds teaching at SMC a rewarding experience.
"I learn as much from my students as they learn from us," says Withers, who credits the success of the program to a solid technical foundation that has been built over decades and the diverse professional backgrounds from which instructors come.
Ford Lowcock is the department chair for Photo and Fashion. What students need to succeed in photography is what he calls an "endless supply of passion," to fuel what is first and foremost an entrepreneurial profession.
"This is a serious photography program," says Lowcock, citing examples of four-year institutions seeking out SMC students, and local industry desiring student talent. He has been busy helping organize the annual photo show which runs from May 14 to 27, and features 198 prints – featuring works from fine art to portraiture and still life and more – by 95 student photographers.
"Students don't want to leave!" laughs Lowcock. "This is home." Many former students have gone on to make a name for themselves in photography including advertising illustration photographer David Zaitz; people, children and product photographer Anthony Nex; successful celebrity and advertising photographer Matt Beard; and Sharon Montrose, who is well known for her beloved dog and cat photos and books like "Dogtionary."
"We tap some of the most talented photographers and educators in the area to teach for us," says Sanseri. "And our students' portfolios reflect their commitment and energy."
So if you haven't seen the secret place yet, you now know exactly where it is. For more information, check out the photography department's
The 25 student photos in the slideshow above were also juried into the Annual Photo Show, showing from May 14-27 at the SMC Photography Gallery on the 2nd floor of Drescher Hall and the Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery at the Performing Arts Campus.
Jonah Okike-Hephzibah recently became the fourth SMC student in five years to
win the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation (JKCF) Transfer Scholarship.
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Thanks to delegates, partners and speakers that made the premier for Workplace Scandinavia in Norway a success. December 4th it is time for the third Workplace Scandinavia conference in Copenhagen and soon you will find the homepage with programs and partners here. If you want to stay in touch, have questions or are interested in becoming at partner in Copenhagen please contact us.
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This past weekend I made a really big, tough decision. It's something I've been leaning towards for a while now, and I've finally decided to take the plunge.
I'm going to self-publish Strong Medicine.
Now, if you've been paying attention you might have heard me say something along the lines of "I don't want to self-publish, because I don't think I can do such a good job of marketing my books." But there are two major things influencing my decision to self-publish:
I really believe in this book.
Like. REALLY. Strong Medicine is a fictional portrayal of something deeply disturbing to any parent on the planet, the abduction of a child. However, it is also a very real danger for children in Southern Africa. In my earlier years as a skeptical blogger I researched the muthi murder phenomenon in South Africa and Mozambique. Can I tell you something? It's TERRIFYING! the latest stats I could find suggest that something like 300 people a year are abducted for muthi (traditional medicine) every year. Most of those are children.
It's scary guys. Really scary. And it's something I've lived with all my life, ever since my mom warned me not to take sweets from strangers because they might kidnap me and chop me up for muthi. Now I have three beautiful children of my own and I am scared shit less that this could happen to them.
I've run out of markets to submit to
Well, there are always more markets, but I've gone through my list of agents and publishers and submitted to everyone who I think I would like to work with, who might also give this book the treatment I believe it deserves. I've had a great deal of very positive, enthusiastic feedback from beta readers and editors. I've had New York agents request partials and fulls on the manuscript. I've had small publishers I have worked with before, who have a great name in the industry, request partials and fulls. I've received a lot of glowing feedback. A ton of form rejections. And some incredibly helpful comments about how I might improve the book.
I've made improvements I felt suitable and necessary. And I still can't find a home for this book I believe in so much it hurts.
And I've reached the end of the list.
Well, this isn't 1980 any more. The market has shifted. I've dipped my toes into the water with Dead Ends and Sharp Bends and enjoyed the process. I've done a LOT of research into self-publishing. I think I might be able to do this, and I sure am ready to try.
So, dear reader, watch this space. Prepare your eyeballs. Strong Medicine is coming soon.


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Oregon Health Sciences Libraries Association Board Meeting
Present: Douglas Hambley, Daphne Plaut, Noelle Stello, Laura Zeigen
Meeting started at 2:30 pm.
Reviewed and accepted previous board minutes.
Treasurer's report
Meeting adjourned at 3:25 pm.
Present: Douglas Hambley, Daphne Plaut, Noelle Stello, Laura Zeigen
Meeting started at 2:30 pm.
Reviewed and accepted previous board minutes.
Treasurer's report
- Noelle reported the balances in checking, savings, and CDs.
- Noelle recommended moving the treasurer's books to a calendar fiscal year, which would create an easier transition from one treasurer to another.
- She projects that income may slightly exceed expenses this year.
- The number of institutional members has remained fairly stable.
- The board brainstormed ideas to increase membership.
- Noelle will send a list of recently dropped memberships to Laura and Laura will also gather a list of other potential member institutions. Laura will draft a letter to be sent to those individuals or institutions. She will send the list of people/institutions to the board along with the draft of the outreach letter.
- Noelle will send the current membership list to Laura and Loree so that the website can be updated.
- The membership form should be changed to ask who from an institution should be listed as the OHSLA contact. Although all staff of an institutional member library are OHSLA members, we don't need to list all staff on the website.
- Discussed the website domain registration. Does it need to be renewed every year or every two years? Follow-up with Loree is needed.
- The board reviewed the list of people who had volunteered or agreed to be nominated for board openings.
- The board agreed that the archivist does not need to be a member of the board; therefore no bylaws change is necessary.
- At next general meeting (July 2013) OHSLA should establish a bylaws committee to periodically review the bylaws.
- CE ideas previously mentioned include: user experience, offerings from the RML, lectures by the Computer-Human Interaction Forum of Oregon, health impact assessments, state approach to the affordable care act, presentation by Upstream Public Health, state forensic anthropologist, resource licensing, MLA CE classes.
Meeting adjourned at 3:25 pm.


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The emerging state insurance exchanges suggest that states' rights are alive and well.
As the implementation of portions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act approaches, state exchanges are beginning to take form and substance. The Commonwealth Fund surveyed all 50 states and the District of Columbia to see how things were going, and found plenty of diversity among the characteristics of the various exchanges.
One message that came through loud and clear: About a third of the states are moving much faster than the feds to provide coverage to individuals and small-business workers through their exchanges.
The Commonwealth Fund focused on the 17 states and the District of Columbia that have decided to establish state-based exchanges rather than go through the federal program to offer coverage.
There was plenty of meat in the report for insurers, as well as anyone in the business of selling or buying employee benefit plans. Some highlights:
1. States are deciding how to fund their exchanges, and some will assess insurers to do so. The report says:
Seven states and the District of Columbia remain undecided on their long-term revenue source; most of the remaining states will assess insurers that offer coverage in the exchanges. State officials reported that decisions in these areas often reflected compressed timelines, political realities, and the state's long-term vision for the exchange.
2. In some states, if insurers don't participate this year, they'll be barred from future participation. The report says:
Ten states and the District of Columbia adopted formal requirements regarding exchange participation or alignment of coverage options inside and outside the exchange. These mechanisms include establishing a single marketplace, prohibiting insurers from entering the exchange if the insurer did not participate in 2014, and requiring insurers to offer the same coverage inside and outside the exchange.
3. Insurers are going to have to be flexible, and get used to increased government oversight, when it comes to meeting the needs of small business employees. The report says:
Nearly all SHOP exchanges are expected to offer "employee choice" options that give employees a choice of more than one plan, and eight states provided maximum flexibility by allowing employers to give employees the choice of any plan on the SHOP exchange. State officials emphasized the importance of employee choice models for ensuring that the SHOP exchange is attractive to small employers.
And this:
Nine states limited the number of plans per insurer or required insurers to offer some standardized plans in the exchange. Of the remaining states, only two and the District of Columbia adopted a meaningful difference standard of review to ensure that plans are substantially distinct from other plans offered in the same market by the same insurer.
4. Exchanges are not going to force insurance agents to find a new line of work. The study says:
Thirteen states and the District of Columbia established both a navigator and in-person assistance program while two states will operate only a navigator program for 2014. An additional two states have not yet finalized their approach. … Every exchange allowed producers — otherwise known as or agents and brokers — to help consumers enroll through the exchange. While some exchanges planned to set and pay commissions, most allowed insurers to set producer compensation.
5. State-run exchanges confer considerable power on state officials to design their exchanges, and these states are, in general, moving quickly to complete their exchange structure by the October deadline. The report says:
States operating their own exchanges had significant flexibility in designing their exchanges to meet state needs. Overall, states made significant progress in structuring and operationalizing their exchanges, and made design decisions with an eye toward minimizing market disruption, promoting exchange viability, and providing value for consumers.
6. This group of 18 governing bodies is highly likely to continue to use its states-rights power to fine-tune the state exchanges going forward. They may well hold insurers to higher standards than they have been accustomed to. The report says:
Many states expect to exceed some federal requirements — to collect and display quality data, for instance — for 2014. These findings suggest that states capitalized on the flexibility provided by the Affordable Care Act to tailor their exchanges to their unique needs and made decisions with an eye towards outcomes, such as enrollment, consumer experience, and sustainability. These findings also suggest that states' initial decisions will inform future exchange implementation and that states will adjust their decisions while continuing to adopt innovative approaches to accomplish policy goals.
See also: 10 things to know about state health insurance exchanges


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Considered as one of the founding fathers of rock 'n' roll, Charles Edward Anderson Berry, The Chicago bluesman, who has died aged 90, basically invented rock.
Although Elvis Presley was called the king of rock 'n' roll, that crown would have fit just as well on Berry's own carefully sculpted pompadour.
Berry hits such as "Johnny B. Goode," "Roll Over Beethoven," "Sweet Little Sixteen," "Maybellene" and "Memphis" melded elements of blues, rockabilly and jazz into some of the most timeless pop songs of the 20th century.
Berry's recording of the song "Johnny B. Goode" was included on NASA's Voyager Golden Record, attached to the Voyager spacecraft as representing rock and roll, one of four American songs included among many cultural achievements of humanity.
"If you tried to give rock 'n' roll another name," Lennon once said, "you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." Bob Dylan called Berry "the Shakespeare of rock 'n' roll," and he was one of the first popular acts to write as well as perform his own songs. They focused on youth, romance, cars and good times, with lyrics that were complex, humorous and sometimes a little raunchy.
Paying tribute to Berry on Twitter on Saturday, Springsteen called him "rock's greatest practitioner, guitarist, and the greatest pure rock 'n' roll writer who ever lived." Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger tweeted: "Chuck you were amazing & your music is engraved inside us forever."
His death came five months after Berry announced plans to release his first album of new music in 38 years some time in 2017 - a collection of mostly original material recorded and produced by Berry, titled "Chuck" and dedicated to his wife of 68 years,
Berry was born Oct. 18, 1926, the third of six children whose father was a contractor and church deacon and whose mother was a schoolteacher. They lived in a relatively prosperous black section of St. Louis known as the Ville.
In the first of his brushes with the law, Berry was sent to a reformatory as a teenager for armed robbery. And he was released age 21, in 1947. On October 28, 1948, Berry married Themetta "Toddy" Suggs, who gave birth to Darlin Ingrid Berry on October 3, 1950. Berry supported his family by taking various jobs in St. Louis, working briefly as a factory worker at two automobile assembly plants and as a janitor in the apartment building where he and his wife lived. Afterwards he trained as a beautician at the Poro College of Cosmetology, founded by Annie Turnbo Malone. He was doing well enough by 1950 to buy a "small three room brick cottage with a bath" on Whittier Street,which is now listed as the Chuck Berry House on the National Register of Historic Places.


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LAS VEGAS – Whatever Stipe Miocic says, Francis Ngannou isn't buying it.
While Miocic, the UFC's heavyweight champion, was completely respectful of Ngannou as they promoted their headlining fight at UFC 220 at a Las Vegas press conference on Friday afternoon, Ngannou was totally clear about how he thinks the fight is going to go.
Ngannou thinks he's going to knock Miocic out and win the UFC heavyweight championship, and he believes that Miocic's strategy is remarkably simple.
"He will try to survive," Ngannou said. "Survive, and then whatever he is going to try, I'm going to catch him.
"I'm going to connect, and what happens when I connect?"
What happens when Ngannou connects is pretty simple: His opponents go unconscious.
It's what happened against former heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski when they fought earlier this year, and it's what happened earlier in December when Ngannou knocked out Alistair Overeem with one of the most vicious uppercuts ever thrown in the UFC.
Ngannou's knockout power and unique story – he fled his home country of Cameroon less than five years ago and lived on the streets of Paris in 2014 – have made him arguably the most intriguing prospect in all of MMA.
The excitement that surrounds him hasn't been seen since Conor McGregor was rising the ranks, and it's made the Jan. 20 fight in Boston arguably the most anticipated matchup that the UFC can possibly put together.
Daniel Cormier, who is co-headlining against Volkan Oezdemir, cautioned against buying full into the Ngannou hype train.
"(Miocic) has got five knockouts in a row himself," Cormier said when he was asked to break down the fight. "Somebody's going to sleep and I'm just glad I get to be in the building to watch it."
To be clear, nobody really has any idea how the Jan. 20 fight is going to play out.
Both guys have insane knockout power and have trucked their way through whatever opposition the UFC has thrown their way.
It's a heavyweight fight, too, so either guy could easily go to sleep if they're on the receiving end of a good, hard punch, and that's what makes the fight so fun.
It's enough that even Cormier, who competed at heavyweight before moving down to become the light-heavyweight champion, admitted that he's not interested in going up a weight-class to win a second belt.
"Do you guys see these dudes? Sometimes I read these things and I don't even know what I was thinking back then," Cormier said. "So no, I'm not going to fight Stipe Miocic and I'm definitely not fighting Francis Ngannou."
It's not often that fighters apologize to their opponents a couple days before they square off in the octagon.
Former women's strawweight champion Carla Esparza, however, made sure she said sorry to Cynthia Calvillo when they ran into each other this week at the T-Mobile Arena.
The two were involved in a verbal altercation this summer at an afterparty following UFC 214 in Anaheim, a week after Calvillo had publicly called-out Esparza after she beat Joanne Calderwood.
"We'd had a couple drinks and who do I run into at the next table that night? I'm a fighter, so I was like 'You wanna fight me?', " Esparza said. "Nothing physical, all the fighters that were there were like 'let's save this for the octagon.'
"It was bad, I should have kept it a little bit more professional. I guess I don't regret it, though, it's who I am, it's what makes me a fighter, that's always going to be inside of me."
While Esparza might not regret the altercation, she admitted this week that when she saw Calvillo she'd felt compelled to apologize.
Yes, they're fighting on Saturday night, but that doesn't excuse her behaviour.
"I ran into Cynthia this morning and I actually apologized to her," Esparza said. "I apologized for what happened and said 'let's go out there and have a good fight' and that was that."
Neil Magny might just be the most honest man in MMA.
Ask most fighters about their opponents heading into a fight, and even the biggest underdogs will come across as a little delusional when they explain why they're actually the better fighter.
Not Magny.
When we asked Magny to break down his UFC 219 fight against Carlos Condit, he couldn't have been more devastatingly honest about the way he sees the bout.
"I do not have one single advantage in this fight," Magny said. "Cardio advantage? Reach advantage? No, not a single advantage.
"If I'm going to win this fight, I have to fight for it, and that's what I'm excited about."
Magny is selling himself a little short, but he still deserves points for being completely honest.
While Magny is a top-10 welterweight fighter, Condit has fought for the 170 lbs. title multiple times and on his best day is as good as anybody in the division.
If Magny chooses to fight a technical fight, he's probably going to lose.
He knows it, so he understands his path to victory.
"I'm going to win by going out there and being relentless and fighting tooth-and-nail for everything," Magny said. "I know every punch I throw is not going to come easy, every kick I throw is not going to come easy, every takedown is not going to come easy, I'm going to win by being relentless."


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Once upon a time there was a bride named Goldie. She had met her prince charming and couldn't wait to start the process of planning her wedding. She stopped at a bookstore and came home with an armload of wedding magazines. Goldie was inspired.
Goldie set her DVR and recorded many wedding shows. There were shows about cakes, shows about brides-behaving-badly, shows about wedding dresses, and shows about planning the almost-perfect wedding… including one with a white knight named David Tutera who rides in on his trusty steed, Marky Mark (named after his favorite actor), to save the day from incredibly amateur wedding planning. Goldie drank gallons of coffee and watched the wedding shows until the wee hours of the morning. Goldie was jittery… and further inspired.
Goldie took her inspiration to the internet where she registered at every wedding website known to humanity… local sites, regional sites, and national sites. She read many message board postings of incredibly uninformed and self-centered brides, most of whom had not yet married, and therefore knew little of what they spoke. Nevertheless, having logged dozens of hours, swimming in information and data, Goldie was convinced she was becoming a wedding expert. She now forecast a career as a wedding planner, as soon as she completed her own wedding.
Like a college student, cramming for final exams, Goldie's head was ready to explode. She had consumed seemingly unlimited amounts of information, but hadn't made one decision. Poor Goldie. A bridal show… that would be the answer. She could meet many wedding professionals, under one roof, on one day. Surely this would make decision making easier. Go Goldie, Go!!
Goldie started with wedding disc jockeys, knowing how important they would be in the success of her reception. She was quite excited after meeting the first couple of DJ's. And then, at each aisle, it seemed, there was yet another disc jockey. They were all dressed in bear suits and had matching accessories from a local tuxedo store.
Goldie learned a new word… commodity.
And with each successive encounter she filled her wedding basket with a treasure trove of CHOICES. Choices of music, disc jockeys, wedding entertainment directors, uplighting, dance floor lighting, gobos, party motivators, more equipment, less equipment, CDs and vinyl records. Goldie's eyes started to spin like a cartoon character that had been conked on the head with a frying pan. Poor Goldie…
Goldie was no longer inspired. She was confused.
Goldie wanted fewer choices.
There weren't too many bears… uhh, DJs. Though each of them offered too many choices. Goldie's head was splitting with options. She couldn't make one decision, until she met the 13th bear. That bear offered a single choice, an appointment.
"I'm sure you've met many other bears and DJ's, today. I know we all have a lot to offer. Perhaps it would be easier if you came to our office, brought your fiancé, and enjoyed some porridge. Then we could answer all your questions without your head exploding. Would afternoon or evening be better?"
And so, Goldie deferred her decision until she met with the knowledgable and professional 13th DJ-Bear. Goldie was able to clear her head, at least for a little while, and decided to hire this particular bear to entertain at her wedding.
Goldie was no longer inspired. She was content and relieved.
As she made her way around the bridal show floor, Goldie made appointments with other wedding professionals who understood the wisdom of how to work a bridal show.
Morale: Disc jockey wedding bears and other wedding professional bears that make appointments at wedding shows, make more sales. Any other strategy would be… well, unbearable.
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The Sydney Morning Herald recently reported IbisWorld figures that that the Australian wedding industry has revenues of $4.3 billion and estimates the average wedding cost is $36,200.
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Carl Stuart Middle School's Jr. Optimist Club raised more than $1,500 to provide care packages for the homeless and senior citizens of the community.
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They also donated money to the Bethlehem House, which works to equip, motivate, and encourage homeless individuals to strive for a better quality of life.
"A special thank you goes to our students for all of their hard work this year," said Brandi Kemp, the club's sponsor. "We would also like to thank our school and community for supporting these projects."
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This is a YA contemporary. It stars Maggie a reliable and middle of the road popular senior who is kind of bored with her life. She had two best friends that she has known for her entire life and feels like she is in a rut. What I really liked about this book is she has two normal, loving parents. Maggie's life is slowly turned upside down as Clay comes into it. Clay is a transfer student from far away and is broody and mysterious. What Maggie doesn't know at first is that the reason he is all broody is because he suffers from Bipolar Disorder. I loved this story as it followed Clay's struggle to deal with the medication, wanting to feel normal but unable to embrace normal when the meds rob him of his emotions and energy. I see this in my classroom so many times. Where a parent has to decide which is better; a child that can sit still in a coma and hopefully learn or a kid bouncing off the walls and struggling with emotional ups and downs, while hopefully learning. I can't say which is best but in this case Clay's emotional roller coaster not only puts him at risk but also Maggie. I love how this book takes us through her downward spiral as she tries to be the support she thinks he needs. Tries to be enough for him to get well. When eventually she figures out she can't. I thought the character development, dialogue, and most of all the realistic depiction of the characters was spot on. I felt so connected to Clay and his struggles. I have to say my only complaint is that I want to read the next book and although a teaser is placed at the end of the book I can not find any reference to it being available nor a date of release. Frustrating...the teaser just kills me and I need, NEED to see how Clay turns out. Please finish it if it is not done and if it is I would love to read it for a review.
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Good Times and Happy Mail!
My Happy Place blog:
Hope everyone has been having a wonderful summer. It's been busy around here, I haven't been to your beautiful blogs nearly as much as I would like. Hoping the pace will slow a little in these last, sweltering days of summer. I've still got more to post.... but it will have to wait a bit.... ;)
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- Craft Addicts - Tracy Evans said...
Beautiful butterfly album. Sounds like u have had a great time and a lovely surprise on your return, what could be better. Tracy x
- August 9, 2011 at 3:49 PM
- Netty said...
Terrific butterfly album, sounds as if you had a fab time. Loving your gift from Linda, beautiful, xx
- August 9, 2011 at 4:08 PM
- Talking Horses Arts said...
Love it,gorgeous!
So wish they had classes in my area for this kind of art.
Thanks so much for sharing,
- August 9, 2011 at 4:24 PM
- Unknown said...
oh wow, what a beautiful album!
can't wait to see the rest!
- August 9, 2011 at 4:30 PM
- joy said...
Gorgeous canvas album - Donna is so very talented! And, I love the surprise you received in the mail, too!
- August 9, 2011 at 6:40 PM
- Shar B said...
Fantastic! What a beautiful project!
- August 9, 2011 at 9:06 PM
Beautiful art and it sounds like you had a great time!
- August 10, 2011 at 12:21 AM
- Ana Márquez said...
You're really very inspired :-D Everything is very gorgeous, congrats!!! Hugs from Spain.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:33 AM
- Unknown said...
Your journal is so beautiful. What a fun class that must have been..
You are so welcome.. Thank you right back for my awesome candy.. I am so happy you got your mail and enjoyed it.. I do LOVE making those little canvases..
Hugs, Linda
- August 10, 2011 at 11:54 AM
- Terry said...
The album is beautiful and I can see why you love that paint! The butterfly is so slimmery! What a fun time!
- August 10, 2011 at 4:47 PM
- Suzanne B aka brookfies said...
Gorgeous projects....so please keep on posting.
PS...love your latest articles in the Craft Stamper mag.
- August 10, 2011 at 4:59 PM
- Lori said...
Love this Jean! So cool with the fabric letters!
- August 10, 2011 at 7:59 PM
- Elli p.´s Stempelvitrine said...
Wouw, so beautiful, i love it!
Have a nice day, Sabine
- August 12, 2011 at 1:29 AM
- Angelnorth said...
Your album looks fantastic Jean and it looks like you have more fun to come with the inside pages? Lovely gift from your blogging friend, too!
- August 12, 2011 at 9:10 AM
- Betty said...
Beautiful album! So inspired by you to create one..
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League of Legends $10 Gift Card – 1380 Riot Points
League of Legends is one of the best and most outstanding MOBA genre games in the world with tens of millions of players worldwide. The title is free to play but includes optional purchases through microtransactions. While you cannot buy any power items in-game, you can buy a whole ton of cosmetic and commodity items to boost your gameplay experience to a whole another level.
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Buy League of Legends 10 prepaid gift card even if you don't need a skin. You might think of switching the server, or even your name – there are items for both occasions, along with many others. Treasury boxes & keys – these might reward you with significantly greater rewards, however, these purchases always come with a risk factor. Weigh in the odds and start your venture, the League of Legends store is a great place once you're packed with RP!
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(Jan. 23, 2009) Pic's pic of the week
I am a subscriber to the MSNBC "The Week in Pictures". A link is sent to my e-mail where I can look at the week's featured photos from around the world. I was looking at the photos this morning when I came across the photo above that struck me as a great photo. To be selected to "The Week in Pictures" it has to be good but there was something special about this particular photo.
Personally I am a big fan of photos that tell a story from a different point of view. This photo, taken by Jason Reed/Reuters, is not your typical "farewell speech" photo that shows a man giving a big wave as he walks off the podium. Former President Bush is walking off the stage for the final time. For as much criticism as he received during his time in the White House, he stood tall, held his head up high.
There seems to be a look of relief on Former President Bush's face, almost a bounce in his step. If I were in his position, I would certainly be relieved as well. There is no doubt in my mind that he did his best. Most people are afraid to speak in public and this man was facing the most important people in the world every day.
Another reason I love the photo so much is because is shows a bit of what Bush saw everyday when making addresses and speeches to his colleagues. The lights, the people, the podium, the atmosphere, the camera, the intimidation.
This photo tell the story of a man stepping down from the role of "Leader of the Free World" for the last time with dignity and the respect of his colleagues.
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On hiatus from my blog and flickr until we finish the remodel. We're currently working on our kitchen remodel! hopefully it will be in working order in time for Thanksgiving, and completely finished by mid December. This is the before picture that was taken when we first toured the house, as the previous owner kept it. i'll post more pics of the progress soon.
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Author: Nishant Lodha, Product Marketing, QLogic Corp
The Evolution of Disk and Fabric
Ever since IBM shipped the world's first hard disk drive (HDD), the RAMAC 305 in 1956, persistent storage technology has steadily evolved. In the early 1990s, various manufacturers introduced storage devices known today as flash-based or dynamic random access memory (DRAM)-based solid state disk (SSD). The SSDs had no moving (mechanical) components, which allowed them to deliver lower latency and significantly faster access times.
While SSDs have made great strides in boosting performance, its interface—the 6Gb per second (Gb/s) SAS 3 bus—began to hinder further advances in performance. Storage devices then moved to the PCI Express (PCIe) bus, which is capable of up to 500 MB/s per lane for PCIe 2.0 and up to 1000 MB/s per lane for PCIe 3.0, with up to 16 lanes. In addition to improved bandwidth, latency is reduced by several microseconds due to a faster interface as well as the ability to directly attach to the chip set or CPU. Today, PCIe SSDs are widely available from an array of manufacturers.
Additionally, PCIe SSDs removed the hardware bottleneck of using the SATA interface, but these devices continued to use the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) protocol/command set, which dates back to 2004 and was designed with rotating hard drives (HDDs) in mind. AHCI addressed the need for multiple commands to read the data, but SSDs do not have this need. Because the first PCIe SSDs used the AHCI command set, they were burdened with the overhead that comes with AHCI. Obviously, in order to become more efficient, the industry had to develop an interface that eliminated the limits imposed by AHCI.
It wasn't only the overheads of AHCI that challenged PCIe SSD adoption, though, since each SSD vendor provided a unique driver for each operating system (OS), with a varying subset of features, creating complexity for customer looking for a homogeneous high speed flash solution for enterprise data centers.
To enable an optimized command set and usher in faster adoption and interoperability of PCIe SSDs, industry leaders have defined the Non Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) standard. NVMe defines an optimized, scalable command set that avoids burdening the device with legacy support requirements. It also enables standard drivers to be written for each OS and enables interoperability between implementations, reducing complexity and simplifying management.
SCSI and NVMe Differences
While the SCSI/AHCI interface comes with the benefit of wide software compatibility, it cannot deliver optimal performance when used with SSDs connected via the PCIe bus. As a logical interface, AHCI was developed when the purpose was to connect the CPU/memory subsystem with a much slower storage subsystem based on rotating magnetic media. As a result, AHCI introduces certain inefficiencies when used with SSD devices, whose characteristics are far closer to behaving like DRAM than like spinning media.
The NVMe device interface has been designed from the ground up, capitalizing on the low latency and parallelism of PCIe SSDs, and complementing the parallelism of contemporary CPUs, platforms and applications. At a high level, the basic advantages of NVMe relate to its ability to exploit parallelism in host hardware and software, manifested by the differences in command queue depths, efficiency of interrupt processing, and the number of un-cacheable register accesses, etc., resulting in significant performance improvements across a variety of dimensions.
NVMe Deep Dive
The NVMe interface is defined in a scalable fashion such that it can support the needs of Enterprise and Client (e.g., consumer devices) in a flexible way. NVM Express has been developed by an industry consortium, the NVM Express Workgroup. Version 1.0 of the interface specification was released on March 1, 2011 and a version 1.2 released on Nov. 12, 2014. Expansion of the standard to include NVMe over Fabrics (including Fibre Channel) was completed in June, 2016.
Today more than 100 companies participate in the definition of the interface, which some very impressive characteristics:
- Architected from the ground up for this and next generation Non-Volatile Memory to address Enterprise and Client system needs
- Developed by an open industry consortium, directed by a 13 company Promoter Group
- Architected for on-motherboard PCIe connectivity
- Capitalize on multi-channel memory access with scalable port width and scalable link speed
As a result of the simplicity, parallelism and efficiently of NVMe, it delivers significant performance gains vs. SCSI. Some metrics include –
- For 100% random reads, NVMe has 3x better IOPS than 12Gbps SAS[1]
- For 70% random reads, NVMe has 2x better IOPS than 12Gbps SAS [1]
- For 100% random writes, NVMe has 1.5x better IOPs than 12Gbps SAS [1]
- For 100% sequential reads: NVMe has 2x higher throughput than 12Gbps SAS [1]
- For 100% sequential writes: NVMe has 2.5x higher throughput than 12Gbps SAS [1]
In addition to just IOPS and throughput, the efficiencies of command structure described above also reduce CPU cycles by half, as well as reduce latency by more than 200 microseconds than
12 Gbps SAS.
NVMe and Fibre Channel (FC-NVMe)
The Fibre Channel protocol (FCP) has been the dominant protocol used to connect servers with remote shared storage comprising of HDDs and SSDs. FCP transports SCSI commands encapsulated into the Fibre Channel frame and is one of most reliable and trusted networks in the data center for accessing SCSI-based storage. While FCP can be used to access remote shared NVMe-based storage, such a mechanism requires the interpretation and translation of the SCSI commands encapsulated and transported by FCP into NVMe commands that can be processed by the NVMe storage array. This translation and interpretation can impose performance penalties when accessing NVMe storage and in turn negates the benefits of efficiency and simplicity of NVMe.
FC-NVMe extends the simplicity, efficiency and end-to-end NVMe model where NVMe commands and structures are transferred end-to-end, requiring no translations. Fibre Channel's inherent multi-queue capability, parallelism, deep queues, and battle-hardened reliability make it an ideal transport for NVMe across the fabric. FC-NVMe implementations will be backward compatible with Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) transporting SCSI so a single FCNVMe adapter will support both SCSI-based HDDs and SSDs, as well as NVMe-based PCIe SSDs.
New T11 project to define an NVMe over Fibre Channel Protocol mapping has been initiated. In August 2014, the INCITS T11 started a FC-NVMe working group and it is expected that the specification will be complete by end of calendar year 2016. Fibre Channel networks are a natural fit for shared remote access to high speed NVMe due to their trusted, lossless and high performance characteristics.
As next-generation data-intensive workloads transition to low-latency NVMe flash-based storage to meet increasing user demand, the Fibre Channel industry is combining the lossless, highly deterministic nature of Fibre Channel with NVMe. FC-NVMe targets the performance, application response time, and scalability needed for next generation data centers, while leveraging existing Fibre Channel infrastructures. FCIA is pioneering this effort with industry leaders, which in time, will yield significant operational benefits to data center operators and IT managers.


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Another great visual resource for improving your grammar skills can be found at theoatmeal.com's Grammar Section. See my favorite, 10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling and How to Use a Semicolon.