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Well I had my first official Holiday catalog Launch party last night. It was great fun I got to see old friends that I haven't gotten to see in awhile as well as friends that I see more frequently.
I got to introduce stamping and Stampin' Up! to a couple of friends that had never stamped before and some that have been to one of my classes or workshops. I held the event at my church's fellowship hall because it was a good central location for people that I had invited from my home town and around the area as well as people in other cities that I know. It wasn't but 25 or 30 minutes away from my home studio so transporting everything wasn't bad.
Pictured above in the entry way was my sign up table for my door prize and I had placed the new catalogs for people to pick up as they came in. The blue table cloth I've used the last few years for my table at art festivals and it has the same blue in it as my logo so it worked out perfectly. We actually made the table cloth. I had purchased the fabric and with just a little surging to finish the edges boom I had a custom table cloth. The new addition was the orange burlap overlay which I found at Tuesday Mornings for $2.99 last week. I wanted to add a little fall color to the color scheme and since orange is my favorite color it was perfect.
As usual I forgot something, no surprise I know. But once we got there and set everything up I realized I forgot my sign up to win sign. Which also told people what the door prize was. But it was okay. Everything went well the sad part was it was sitting right there by my rolling bags to take so I wouldn't forget it. Hmmm we all see how well that worked out for me huh!
Next people could move from there and browse my card displays. Which after setting up I realized that I had more Christmas cards made then fall and Halloween cards so I will be making a few more to balance that all out. But here's a look at my display boards I made for the night.
As you can see I have room on the Fall and Halloween boards to add more stuff. I did display a sampling of all the holiday Designer Series Papers for people to be able to view them in person.
I also did a display board for the kits in the holiday catalog. The ones that I didn't preorder I printed off the photos and enlarged them for people to view as well as the information about each. I also created a few card examples of cards that could be created using the stamp set for the Tin of Tags Project Kit.
As you moved along the u shape table configuration you came a cross my BOGO table. People could pick these to go along with their new catalog purchases. They got to pick sets that were of equal or lesser value depending on the amount purchased. These were retired stamps that I had gotten but never used and was a great way to reward the people that came last night and made a purchase.
Next came the first table for my make and takes. They made a rain deer tag at the first station using the new Cookie cutter Christmas stamp set.
Very simple and easy. Next they moved to the second table were they made a 3×3 card which could also be used as a tag with a little modification (basically just punching a hole and adding some bakers twine to it). For this make and take they used the seasonal bell bundle in the holiday catalog.
From there they moved on to snacks or they could sit at the group of tables in the center of the room to Browse through the new catalog and chit chat with others.
As we went through the come and go style event people that made purchases last night got to spin my Spin To Win game were everyone was a winner.
Anyone that spent $35 dollars before taxes and shipping got to spin the wheel and get a small prize free. They all loved it and had a great time. I even had a friend who sat there and just played with it for a while and we just all laughed. It was hysterical.
All in all everyone had a great night and we all had a lot of fun talking Stampin and laughing.
If you would like a copy of the holiday catalog and you haven't made a purchase from me. Go to my online store and make any size purchase and I will send you a copy with your thank you card. You can do so by clicking the link here! If you are currently working with another demonstrator please contact them to get a catalog. If you have made a purchase with me in the last six months you should be getting a copy in the mail very soon.
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It didn't exactly take the Amazing Kreskin to see this coming when star quarterback Terrelle Pryor and three other offensive starters were cited by the NCAA last December for selling rings, jerseys and other memorabilia as underclassmen. But 6 1/2 months later, it's official: Ohio State is vacating all 12 wins from the 2010 season, including the Sugar Bowl win, and placing itself on two years' probation as penance for fielding multiple ineligible players.
The Buckeyes' self-flagellation comes as part of their official response to accusations of major NCAA violations involving both the ineligible players ? Pryor, running back Dan Herron, wide receiver DeVier Posey, offensive lineman Mike Adams and reserve defensive lineman Solomon Thomas ? and exiled head coach Jim Tressel's season-long cover-up of the violations. It also comes arguably 6 1/2 months too late. Initially, when OSU first brought the case to the NCAA last December, it not only escaped a heavy-handed response on the order of probation and vacated wins, but actually managed to keep the offending players eligible for the Sugar Bowl, where they each played a crucial role in a 31-26 win over Arkansas. It was only when Tressel was caught red-handed a few weeks later that the NCAA even decided to return to the case at all.
Now, Tressel is gone, Pryor is gone, and even the record books are being wiped clean of their tainted legacy. Officially, the Sugar Bowl win will disappear from the record, along with the 11 regular-season wins that preceded it and the co-Big Ten championship that came with them. Only the Oct. 16 loss at Wisconsin, the lone defeat of the season, will remain.*
Still, from Ohio State's perspective, a retroactive eraser to the results of games that TV networks and ticket buyers have already shelled out for is the least of its worries.Compared to the heavy scholarship losses and two-year bowl ban the NCAA dropped on USC last year for essentially the same offense, vacated wins is a velvet glove. By slapping itself with the more tolerable penalty now, on the heels of dumping its disgraced head coach, OSU is clearly hoping it can appear proactive enough to fend off the more painful variety later on (emphasis added):
Sources familiar with the university's response [to allegations of NCAA violations] also told The [Columbus] Dispatch that Ohio State is admitting major violations of NCAA regulations, but says it should not face harsh punishment because no OSU official other than Tressel was aware of player violations.
Sources said the university concedes it is a repeat offender, but contends it has responded appropriately, imposed fitting sanctions on its football program and should face no further punishment.
"Tressel as rogue coach" is the only viable card Ohio State had to play against an airtight case of intentional deception, and it's playing it. The only question now, ahead of its all-important date with the NCAA Committee on Infractions on Aug. 12, is whether the committee is still willing to raise the stakes.
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* Please note that "vacating" a win is not the same as a forfeit: There is no winner or loser. Officially, there was no game. So yes, Michigan fans, even in the record books, the losing streak in the rivalry stands. Sorry if you got your hopes up.
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Washington, DC – October 5, 2015 – China's INTELLIGEAST(智合东方) published an article (in Chinese) authored by Fang Liu and titled "5560万美元!美证监会对分众传媒及CEO的天价罚款(深度分析) ($55.6 Million! SEC's Staggering Fine Against Focus Media and CEO)"on the recent SEC order dated September 30, 2015, imposing a $55 million fine against Focus Media Holding Limited and its CEO.
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He's politically dumb and his campaign is run by amateurs. He doesn't have a message and doesn't know how to deliver a message. He's a political let-down running on auto-pilot who needs to grab the controls. He's a man whom only friends, relatives and fellow Mormons will ever love. And his name is Mitt Romney, Republican candidate for President of the United States.
These are stinging jabs. All were made in the past week and all share one surprising thing in common: they were delivered not from the Obama campaign's Chicago attack machine, as you might expect, but in a succession of punches from the Right.
Conservative pundits and editorial columns, senior Republicans and two of the big beasts of the business world – Rupert Murdoch and the former talismanic chief executive of General Electric, Jack Welch – have all voiced serious misgivings about Mr Romney's ability to deliver victory in November.
The ferocity of the public criticism is a sign of the level of frustration with the former boss of private equity firm Bain Capital. America is hurting, manufacturing earnings are slowing fast, middle-class incomes are stagnating, the economic recovery is stalling, unemployment is at 8.2 per cent when Obama promised it would be 5.6 per cent: measured by historical precedent, Mr Romney is facing the equivalent of an electoral open goal, but the latest polls show that he is failing to score points off Mr Obama in those battleground states that decide elections.
The primary charge against Mr Romney is one of passivity. Those on the Right who believe that they have the economic arguments to kick-start the US economy – to make it "morning again in America" as the inspiring Ronald Reagan advert put it – find Mr Romney's apparent inability to seize the day maddening. It's what explains not just the criticism, but the contemptuous tone. The Wall Street Journal charged last week that Mr Romney appeared to want to "coast" to the White House by simply repeating (as the Romney campaign does, daily) that the Obama economy is failing. "Thanks, guys," came the bitter pay-off, "but Americans already know that."
What conservatives want is for Mr Romney to make their case that three decades of wealth-creating, free-market, centre-Right consensus made possible by Ronald Reagan's landslide election more than 30 years ago is now being put at risk by another four years of a big-spending, progressive tax-raising Obama administration. American families and workers are crying out for growth and Mr Romney, the turn-around chief executive, needs to set out a vision of how, after four years of failure by Mr Obama, he would achieve that.
And as Charles Krauthammer, the Pulitzer-prize winning columnist often described as the most influential voice in American conservatism, observed recently, the US is a "centre-Right country". The conservative alternative should resonate. Instinctively, say conservatives, Americans know that the dream wasn't built on Mr Obama's idea of a "fair shake for all", but on reward for hard work and a belief in America's ability to perpetually reinvent itself; to always come back stronger.
Since the near-calamity of 2008, Mr Obama, with his big government ideas, has been smothering the prospect of a new America at birth. "The American people do not want the expansion of government and European social democracy. We know that. We just saw that," Mr Krauthammer said on Fox News, referring to the drubbing handed to Obama and the Democrats in the 2010 mid-term elections.
"There hasn't been a radical change in the electorate. Romney has to make the case, not just, 'I know how to do jobs and create them because I did it at Bain. I'm going to deregulate. Obama's a regulator.' It's about expansion of government, it's about debt, it's about stimulus, Keynesian experiments. It's all out there and that's the case he has to make. And he hasn't. He wants to stick to biography. It's not enough."
It must be admitted that these are early days – and far too early to be reading too much into poll numbers. Close watchers of Mr Romney's previous elections will argue that he has a record of keeping his powder dry until the critical moment, before letting fly with a barrage of negative advertisements – the political equivalent of "shock and awe". It was a strategy that destroyed Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum in the primaries.
But the notion of Mitt Romney as steely general, ordering his troops "to hold fire, boys, until you see the whites of their eyes" in the autumn campaign, isn't washing. Palpably, it has failed to quell the rising fear on the Right that Mr Romney is in danger of ceding the initiative in the character stakes, of becoming another John Kerry: expertly coiffured but ultimately judged by the voters to be ineffectual and empty.
There have long been doubts about Mr Romney's ability to perform on the biggest political stage and, after a brief rally following his confirmation as the nominee, they have not taken long to resurface. His failure last week to seize on the fact that the Supreme Court effectively declared the Obama health reforms a tax on the middle classes was the catalyst for the latest attempt to urge Mr Romney to join battle, or as Mr Murdoch put it, to "spell out restoration of the American dream and bash incompetent administration".
Mr Romney is held back by his record in Massachusetts (where he implemented healthcare reforms very like Obamacare) but elections are a form of national theatre. Conviction, or even the appearance of it, can work wonders in getting voters to suspend their disbelief. The concern for those who long desperately to see the back of Mr Obama is that Mr Romney is on many other measures a weak candidate. Watch him woodenly working a crowd out on the stump, and it is a marvel how quickly he can dissipate the energy built up by his warm-up acts – a John McCain, say, or Chris Christie, the super-sized, straight-talking governor of New Jersey.
Even John Boehner, the Republican Speaker of the House, who is one of Mr Romney's biggest backers, admitted in the past week that the American people "aren't going to fall in love with Mitt Romney". The uncomfortable truth for Mr Romney is that US elections are a test of charisma, as much as of character, and the Bain man is short of the former. That might not matter if he had something better to offer. The American electorate fell starry-eyed in love with Barack Obama, but is now on the rebound. It should be ripe to pick up a tough, more practical choice of chief executive. Mr Romney's record as a job creator at Bain Capital should help him on this but – just as in his first election in the 1994 senate race against Ted Kennedy – that, too, is being turned against him.
In one ad filling the airwaves of Ohio and Florida this week, a worker described being asked to build a stage at his Indiana paper products factory, only for Bain executives to walk in the next week and use it to fire everyone. "It was like building my own coffin," he dead-panned. The charges stuck before, and if the polls from the swing states are correct, they seem to be sticking again. And yet the Romney camp has done little to counter the stream of ads depicting him as a heartless "vulture capitalist" who got rich while others lost jobs and pensions.
Mr Romney knows such ads can hurt him, as can attacks on his Swiss bank account and investment holdings on the Cayman Islands. By contrast, his beloved dad George Romney (whose 1968 presidential primary campaign imploded almost before it began) was the chief executive of American Motors Corporation at a time when Detroit was the Silicon Valley of its day.
It is true that management consultant is an infinitely tougher sell than captain of industry, but the thrust of the mounting criticisms is that Mr Romney needs to make his pitch. The worsening economic conditions might favour the challenger but the electoral mathematics shows that Mr Obama still has more possible routes to the magic 270 electoral college votes needed to keep the White House.
The message is clear. The voters are in pain; the Right is crying out for change, as the $100 million in donations that Mr Romney raised in June shows. People fear that for the first time in living memory children will enjoy a lower standard of living than their parents. They would vote for Old Nick himself if he could offer them a future. But if Mr Romney wants that job, he needs to fight for it.


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Parenting has been an inspiring and creative challenge. Raising two children has grown me in many regards. In our family we often talk about our ability to make choices in life, and how those choices not only affect us but everyone around us. We break them down into two categories: green choices which are wise or kind, and red choices which are unwise or unkind. So often in the middle of teaching my children a new concept I realize how much these lessons still apply to me.
Ditch the plastic in exchange for glass, wood, metal, and natural cloth. Not only is it more affordable in the long run, but it will add beauty to your home.
We are often encouraged through the media and through culture to make better and wiser choices regarding the environment, and as much as we should make these green choices simply because it is good for the Earth, I believe it is also good for the soul.
Psalm 24:1 "A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein."
The Bible says that the Earth does not belong to us but that it is the Lord's. We also know that in Genesis God gave us dominion over His creation. If we want to respect and honor God then we have to respect an honor that which He has made and called good.
Recently when I have shopped, I have become more aware of my tendency to purchase items because they are convenient, or indulgent. This is such an easy thing for me to do because it does not require any thought, discipline, or reflection. I simply see something I want and toss it in the basket. But taking a moment to ask myself is this a green choice? has kept me in check.
Realizing that the Earth is not my own has burdened me with a sense of responsibility. Not only is the Earth the Creator's, but I share it with everyone else.
Handkerchiefs are an easy way to cut back on paper waste.
There is a certain beauty in things that are meant to be kept. They call us to care for them as objects of practiced and repeated tending. When we throw away we learn nothing but the habit of wastefulness, and lose out on the unique beauty that can only be observe through responsibility.
So why is it so easy to throw away our money? I for one think its because we possess a destructive nature. We are careless more often than careful, and quick to make excuses to avoid additional effort.
The good news is once we recognize this tendency, it is easily remedied. All it takes is practice. It's never too late to start making greener choices for us, for others, and for God's green Earth.


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Due to the ongoing budget deadlock at the statehouse, New Jersey may be facing a state shutdown if a balanced budget isn't passed by midnight on Friday, June 30. Negotiations are ongoing, and CWA continues to urge our lawmakers not to disrupt vital public services.
While a State Government shutdown is by no means certain, we are preparing for the possibility to make sure that all of our rights are protected in the event that it does happen. We will continue to advocate on behalf of our members, and will make sure to keep you informed as this situation develops. In the meantime, here are some answers to the most frequently asked questions we have heard so far.
What does a "shutdown" mean?
If the State does not have an approved budget in place, only "essential" offices and functions would be open during a state government shutdown. Everything else would be closed.
This could mean that state parks and beaches are closed during the holiday weekend.
Essential services like corrections, emergency response, and others will continue to be open and operational during a shutdown.
Workers will be notified by management if they are essential during a shutdown and will be expected to report to work.
The Union will be working non-stop during a state shutdown to both share information, get members mobilized, and lobby to end the shutdown as soon as possible. It is important you stay informed.
Why is the Legislature and Governor threatening a shutdown?
Governor Christie has refused to sign a state budget passed by the Senate and Assembly unless it is packaged with bills that dedicate NJ State Lottery revenue to the pension fund and give the state control over surplus funds at Horizon insurance company.
On Thursday, June 29, the Senate passed a bill on the Lottery and a "compromise" bill on Horizon, but it isn't clear if the Horizon legislation will be approved by the Governor.
The Assembly is divided over whether the pass the budget first without any movement on the lottery and Horizon issues, or if it should pass the same version of the Horizon bill (or even another variation) at the same time as the budget. Some Assembly members want to pass the same package as the Senate to try to meet Christie's demands, others want to only pass a budget and deal with lottery and Horizon issues later when there is more time to take careful action.
How do I get the fastest updates about a State shutdown?
Share your cell and personal email (you may not receive or have access to your work email during a shutdown) with Local 1036 so we can add you to our news bulletins. We will send information via text and email blasts regularly during a shutdown.
Local 1036 does not share this contact information - it is only used by your Local Union to stay in touch.
Does a State shutdown affect NJ Judiciary?
Yes. Non-essential Judiciary operations will likely be closed during a state shutdown. Essential employees will be notified by management and expected to report to work. Essential employees will be notified by their management whether to report or not each day as long as a shutdown lasts. CWA 1036 has been communicating with Judiciary management to get information on which departments must continue operations during a shutdown, and which employees will be required to work during a potential shutdown. We know Pre-trial Services will definitely run on Saturday, July 1st as scheduled. Other departments, like IT operations, will continue to run and will require employees to work or be on call as usual.
All Judiciary employees will be advised whether to report or not to report to work each day as long as the shutdown lasts, as they would be in the case of any other emergency. This includes any work previously scheduled for weekends or holidays. Operations on Monday, July 3, will be determined as needed. The Judiciary will notify employees on a day by day basis during a potential shutdown.
Will I be paid for lost time if there is a shutdown?
The Union's position first and foremost is there should not be a shutdown at all - the budget should be resolved and vital state services should not be disrupted because of political games in the legislature and Governor's office.
If there is a shutdown, the Union will fight in every possible way to ensure our members are not harmed. Our salaries and wages are part of the budget and a shutdown is essentially an involuntary "lock out." We have both contract language and past precedent to guide us, but the best outcome would be to avoid a shutdown.


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In an age where motorcycle insiders moan about the lack of industry growth, off-road bikes still sell pretty well. People aren't buying supersports, but they're buying dirt bikes.
But a quick scan of the Internet reveals a baffling spectrum of off-road machines available, ranging from pint-sized bikes for kids to mega-tourers that are supposed to handle off-road work, even though they look better-suited to a Gold Wing rally than a motocross track. How's the uninformed buyer to know what's what? We've put together the following highly factual guide, to help you navigate the confusing world of off-road motorcycles.
Honda CRF50, Yamaha TTR50 — most minibikes are 49 cc machines that parents buy for their kids, so they can live out their vicarious dreams of becoming a pro motocrosser. This is a dangerous move, because one of two things happens. Sometimes, the kid decides video games are more interesting, which means you've wasted a lot of money on a dirt bike they don't use. Or sometimes the kid falls madly in love with motorcycles, which means you've got to buy them a 70 as soon as they outgrow the 50, and a 110 once they outgrow the 70, and so on …
You need a minibike if: You're five years old, and you have a big yard, and parents who make good money.
Pitbikes are small off-road motorcycles that are used to ride around the pit areas at motorcycle races. They first gained popularity at motocross events, but you see them at roadracing tracks too, and in some places, people even race them. They're almost always small-capacity, often in the 125 cc range, small in size, and these days they're often made by Chinese manufacturers. The dodgy dirt bikes you see for sale in pop-up ads? Many of those are Chinese pit bikes.
You need a pitbike if: You're a 12-year-old kid whose clueless parents finally give in and buy you a dirt bike … for $499, off a sketchy website.
Once upon a time, motocross was just basic dirtbikes racing around fairly flat tracks. Then, as bikes got faster, organizers got worried and put in jumps to slow things down. Except that didn't make anything safer, as racers just decided to start smashing the jumps at high speed. Now, motocross is one of the most extreme spectacles of the motorsports world, and the bike design reflects that, with long-travel suspension to handle the rigours of landing massive jumps, and close-range transmissions to make sure you're always putting out max braps, because how can you defy gravity otherwise?
Motocross bikes used to always have two-stroke engines, as they make a lot of noise, and that's what's most important to the average MXer. Now, thanks to Al Gore, they have high-revving four-stroke engines instead, which are almost as fast and require three times as much maintenance. Isn't the progression of technology grand?
You need a motocross bike if: You've decided that land-based moto-hoonery isn't enough to keep you happy. What you really want is to sail through the skies aboard a 450 cc dirt bike, preferably while performing a heel-clicker or a Superman.
Enduro riding, or woods riding, is much more respectable than motocross, a real gentleman's sport. While MX bikes are made to rip around a short track, enduro bikes are built for more extended riding, for long distances through the woods or other off-road trails, instead of riding in a bumpy circle with the throttle pinned. As a result, enduro bikes have less suspension travel than motocross bikes, but can handle a wider variety of terrain. They're easier to ride in tight single-track trails, as the engines have wide-range transmissions that aren't screaming to pitch you off if you botch a downshift.
Despite the civilized and highly intelligent nature of the enduro scene, some nutters still have to prove themselves, and that's how we ended up with Hard Enduro, which is pretty much the same idea, except with the added barrier of impossibility. Hard Enduro events pit riders against terrain like abandoned mines, or partially decommissioned minefields, and usually have a low completion rate.
You need an enduro bike if: You just want to ride trails, and the idea of blasting through the air on a motocross bike is unappealing.
Rally Raid
The idea of rally raid racing is to string together checkpoints over long distances, often hundreds of kilometres, and then add a big transit stage at the beginning or end of the day — and then do it all over again the next day, and the day after that. At the end of the race, whoever's made it through the entire series of checkpoints in the least amount of time, and without dying of thirst, wins. The world's most famous rally raid race is the Dakar, although other events like the ECO Race are becoming much more popular, as they aren't run by arrogant Parisians.
Rally raid races typically aren't on tight terrain like enduro events. They usually take place in the desert, where there are fewer hippies to complain about the noise. As a result, the bikes have much more bodywork than most dirtbikes, with full fairings keeping wind off the rider and providing mounting points for navigation instruments. There's also a lot more fuel capacity, along with an emergency onboard water supply.
In the past, manufacturers raced big-bore machines, even litrebikes, in rally raid events. Now, you mostly see 450 cc machines, as organizers create boring restrictions to keep budgets down. If you want a rally raid bike, you can buy one directly from KTM and Yamaha's French subsidiary, but otherwise you've got to find a specialized company making them, as they are highly customized, or build your own.
You need a rally raid bike if: You've got a couple of hundred thousand bucks laying around that you don't know what to do with, and you decide to spend it on entering the Dakar Rally.
Trials riding lacks the adrenaline-pumping thrill of enduro or motocross racing; it's more about traveling through really tight trails, or even urban wastelands, with an emphasis on balance and control over speed. It's sort of like parkour, but with motorcycles. Trials bikes are highly specialized for their sport, with long-travel suspension, a motor with a very immediate power curve, and a seat that's impossibly low to sit on, to discourage any thoughts of taking a break while riding. Talented trials riders (Toni Bou, Dougie Lampkin) are lots of fun to watch on YouTube, despite the lack of screaming speed. Untalented trials riders are no fun at all to watch, as it's basically a goof doing donuts on a dirt bike.
You need a trials bike if: You want to get better at motorcycling without smashing your body to bits. Seriously, many of the sport's top riders, including CSBK champ Jordan Szoke, ride trials as a way to work on balance and control. Just don't expect anyone to watch your YouTube videos, if you suck at it.
Dual Sport
Want to ride your motorcycle on the dirt, but also on the street? That's where dual sport motorcycles come in. Most dual sport bikes are in the 200-650 cc range, and look a lot like dirt bikes, but with some street-legal equipment bolted on (proper DOT headlight, turn signals, licence plate).
There's a lot of compromise on dual sport bikes: 21-inch front wheels mean they don't turn quickly on the street, and all the extra pieces necessary for highway legality mean they're fairly porky when compared to true dirt bikes. As a result, dual sport riders are constantly moaning about wanting machines that work better off-road, but are more comfortable on the street. Dirt-only riders make fun of dual sport bikes for being too heavy and mildly gutless, and street-only riders make fun of them for having the same ergonomics as a sawhorse. Dual sport motorcycles do work well on your stereotypical potholed Canadian back road, but aren't much fun at highway speed.
You need a dual sport if: If you always wondered what's down those gravel roads you're passing on your street rides, or if your local DOT is years behind on its frost heave repair program.
Adventure touring
Adventure bikes were invented to combine long-distance travel capability with moderate offroad utility. BMW pretty much started this class by introducing the R80 G/S in 1980. Back then, you were allowed to run these behemoths in desert racing events, and the early G/S was a fairly spartan machine — you didn't need a lot of extras for bashing sand dunes.
Modern adventure bikes barely resemble that initial stripped-down airhead, as they're now covered in plastic bodywork and crash bars, and can cost as much as a small car. The stereotype is that while these bikes have more power than ever, with traction control/wheelie control/onboard navigation/oversized fuel tank to keep you motoring through the desert at mad speed, the reality is that most of these bikes never make it far past city limits.
You need an adventure touring bike if: You're tired of riding your expensive cruiser to Starbucks, and you need to change it up, but you think a stretched Hayabusa would be too gauche.


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Different people have different ideas about the current status of the "agile" movement in software development. Different people have different ideas about what "agile" even means. Having been involved with "agile" development since 2002, I've had the opportunity to observe an interesting trend: We've been gluing a lot of things onto "agile." Now it may be time to pry some of those things off and get back to basics.
What is "agile" and where does it stand?
Some believe "agile" is just beginning to gain traction. Others believe it crossed the chasm years ago (I would say sometime in the 2007-2009 time frame). Still others believe it has run its course and is no longer relevant. And there are those who think it was never a good idea to begin with.
Some say anything that is consistent with the four values stated in the Agile Manifesto qualifies as "agile." Others insist only an organization that exhibits most or all the characteristics, and follows most or all the practices that the community recommends are truly "agile." Many organizations apparently (based on their observed behavior) think "agile" just means decorations on the walls and technical staff pretending to be enthusiastic, requiring neither cultural change nor improvement in delivery performance.
Some think of "agile" as a set of broad values and principles; a way of thinking about and approaching problems; an attitude; a basis for organizational culture. Others think of it as "snake oil" that consultants push onto clients to collect high fees. Others conflate "agile" with some particular process or framework, like Scrum, Extreme Programming, or SAFe.
In an interesting twist, one of the authors of the Manifesto, Ron Jeffries, wrote recently that "agile" is whatever people do who call themselves "agile," in much the same way as Christianity is whatever people do who call themselves Christians, regardless of any advice Jesus may have for them. I guess that means anything can be "agile," regardless of what the Manifesto says. Decorations on the walls. Standing up. Sitting down. Whatever.
I wonder if the reason people have difficulty understanding what "agile" is supposed to mean is that we, the agile community, have made the whole thing so complicated.
Sticking things together
Here's an observation: The "agile" movement is like a katamari ball.
Katamari Damashii (塊魂, or "clump soul") is the name of an old Japanese video game, marketed in the US under the name I Love Katamari. It was popular enough to lead to a sequel, Minna Daisuki Katamari Damashii (みんな大好き塊魂, "everyone loves clump soul"), translated as We Love Katamari.
So, you operate this ball, the katamari, and when it rolls over a thing the thing sticks to it. The ball grows and grows as objects stick to it. You end up with this massive ball of stuff that the king uses to repair the universe (yeah, well, the storyline sort of bogs down at that point; the key thing is it's fun to roll the ball around).
The "agile" community is like that ball. Any time an agilist hears about or reads about a good idea, even if the idea was first elaborated thousands of years before the Manifesto, all of a sudden that idea becomes "agile." The ancient Egyptians were "agile" when they changed the slope of the Bent Pyramid. There's agile this and agile that. Agile requirements. Agile planning. Agile testing. Agile organizational transformation. Agile hamburgers. Agile roofing shingles. Agile pimple cream. You name it. If it's any good at all, it's "agile," and don't you dare suggest otherwise.
In this manner a set of ideas that began life as a straightforward, pragmatic approach to delivering high-quality software has ballooned into an all-encompassing philosophy of life; the umbrella term for All Things Good.
Pulling things apart
Armed with the belief that everything good is "agile" by definition, and that you're just about to die unless you do All The Things from cultural change to management style to technical practices, when you hire someone to help you adopt "agile" development they're likely to insist that you can't be Truly Agile unless you transform every aspect of your organization, and every aspect of your soul. They'll want you to unlearn and fail and all that jazz.
The funny thing is that many companies ask for help with "agile" because they're interested in improving their software delivery performance. Just that. They really aren't interested in changing their mindset, culture, structure, performance management process, use of remote workers, or assumptions regarding fixed budgets and timelines. They haven't decided to Change The World. They're just looking for some mechanical process improvements. They think that's what "agile" does. The poor dears aren't even aware of all the cultural stuff their "agile" helpers are about to unleash upon them.
Agilists will remind us that the client can't achieve 10x or greater improvement unless they do All The Things. No worries; improvement of 2x or 3x would please them greatly. You see, if the managers who hire us have been in their positions more than, say, 4 or 5 years, then they created the problem or, at best, they allowed the problem to fester on their watch.
If they achieve improvement of 2x or 3x, they will look like heroes. Their superiors will think they've been observant and proactive about improving things. If we make it obvious that 10x improvement is possible, their superiors will think they've allowed the organization to deteriorate to the extent that it's only 10% as effective as it should be. They are going to have a Bad Day. And they will be sure to share the love with us.
So, to help these clients achieve their goals (as opposed to our goals), we have to pull apart some of the things we've been sticking together all these years. We can un-stick all the cultural stuff from the process-related and technical stuff. If a client really wants to go all the way, that's great; we know how to do All The Things, the proverbial Whole Enchilada, or any other metaphor we can mix in. If not, there's still a lot of good we can do. It's really up to our clients…not up to us.


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A sideways look at economics
When Gandalf picks the Ring out of the fire and shows it to Frodo, words glow into life that were etched into the gold.[1] Frodo says: "I cannot read the fiery letters". Gandalf explains that they are written in an ancient script, which he renders in the common speech as:
"One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them,
One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."
This wasn't just a pretty trinket, capable of helping with a party trick, but the ring of power. Apart from revealing my inner LOTR geekiness, what does this have to do with economics? Sometimes, in economics as in fantasy novels, appearances can be deceptive.
I'm aware that this weekend marks the tenth anniversary of the Lehman Brothers debacle, but I'm not going to write about that. This month also marks the fifth anniversary of something that will ultimately prove to be even more significant: the initiation of China's One Belt, One Road (OBOR) project.
OBOR (aka the Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI) is a plan to invest truly colossal sums in developing and less-developed nations around the world, particularly those that occupy important or potentially important trade routes for China (such as the old 'Silk Road'). Very often, the recipient countries have been starved of substantial investment for decades, and not without reason. They tend not to qualify for funds from organisations like the IMF or the World Bank because of the parlous state of their public finances and their inability or unwillingness to comply with the off-the-shelf stabilisation policies that those organisations promote. And they often don't qualify for development aid from western donors, because of their unwillingness to embrace democracy or to make serious progress on human rights.
The authorities in China don't care about either of those things. They plan to extend massive loans to those countries irrespective of their fiscal position, their standard of governance or their record on human rights.
On the face of it, this looks like highly enlightened policy, akin to the Marshall Plan in post-war western Europe. The numbers are strikingly similar:
And the similarities don't end there. The recipient countries are in a bad equilibrium, many having been recently affected by war, just as they were in post-war western Europe; and a major jolt of this sort might be just the medicine they need to get them, and their citizens, onto a much better path in future, as happened back then. And China itself doesn't embrace democracy and doesn't have a stellar record on human rights, to say the least. But massive investment there has transformed the economy at an incredible rate over the last couple of decades, dramatically improving the standard of living of the country's citizens. If it works in China, why not elsewhere? Perhaps it goes: investment first, improving standard of living second, improved governance third. And even if the third thing doesn't happen, well, two out of three ain't bad…
This isn't the right place for a detailed assessment of the economics of OBOR. Suffice it to say, there are good reasons to support OBOR and equally good reasons to be concerned about its effects. Here, I'm focusing on the language around OBOR; the way that has changed; and what that might imply.
The language changed in 2016. Until then, the project had been known as One Belt, One Road. But since then it has been rendered in English as the Belt and Road Initiative. The stated reasons for the change: first, concerns that the emphasis on 'one' in the original title was misleading and led to unnecessary competition between potential recipients — fearing that if they missed out on the 'one' then they wouldn't be able to participate at all. And second, concerns that OBOR had been taken to imply a different kind of oneness — a sense of creeping control over the institutions in recipient countries.
To my ear, "One Belt, One Road" has an unmistakable tang of power about it which "The Belt and Road Initiative" lacks.
Think about the metre of the phrase: four thumping, leaden monosyllables. This isn't a light step: de-dum de-dum de-dum… It's much heavier than that: boom, boom, boom, boom. Like a steam press stamping out steel parts. Like Tyrannosaurus Rex approaching in Jurassic Park, making the ground shake and the water ripple. There are happier, lighter uses of this metre too, such as the Bob Marley lyrics "One love! One heart!", but OBOR doesn't resonate in that way for me.
And the repetition of "One" has a rhetorical intensity to it, as it does in the Marley lyrics. Think also of Churchill's repetition of "We shall fight…", and numerous examples of the same device in poetry. The repetition invites you to focus on the meaning of that word or phrase, even if its meaning is dark or uncomfortable. It wasn't a mistake the first time it was stated. The author doesn't want you to gloss over it or hide from its implications. Dwell on them. They are the whole point.
OBOR conveys no intimation of hesitancy or tentativeness. I feel, hearing it, that there's no doubt that this will happen. I can see the acronym in my mind's eye in raised steel lettering on the front of a locomotive or an oil tanker — or a tank — with the degree of hesitancy that implies (zero).
OBOR conveys no sense to my ear that there's any discussion to be had about what the belt and the road will look like. That has already been decided. There's no question in the tone. There will be no questions. It will be thus.
OBOR conveys strongly the sense that all participants will be doing the same thing. We shall be one. No: I insist. We shall be one: this one.
OBOR sounds like the vector of China's projection of power abroad. That's how I hear it.
BRI, by contrast, sounds hesitant and uncertain. The word "initiative" suggests that this is the beginning of something. It might work; or it might not. How it ends isn't yet known. And the removal of the repeated "One" draws the sting from the phrase, so to speak. This is the kind of thing middle managers would say in large corporations. I can imagine a conversation like:
"What are you working on today?"
"Oh, the belt and road initiative, you know."
"Oh, that sounds a bit dull. See you for a beer later?"
And the metre of the phrase is totally different: light footsteps, not the approach of a massive predator.
In my mind's eye I can see the acronym appearing on the title page of a rather tedious PowerPoint presentation ("Rolling out the BRI across consumer verticals" or some such gibberish) delivered in the graveyard post-lunch slot at a conference in a mid-level hotel near the airport. Unthreatening, corporate language.
The linguistic shift was aimed at preventing misunderstanding, apparently, whether by the domestic or the foreign audience (probably both). What if, though, it was really aimed at preventing understanding? What if this isn't just a pretty trinket, but the real thing?
What if OBOR/BRI is really a long-term power play by China — more akin to the growth of the British Empire than to the Marshall Plan?[2] Again, the numerical similarities are striking:
Which is the closer approximation to the spirit of OBOR/BRI? What is the hidden verse etched into the fabric of this project? Is it:
"One belt! One road! Let's get together and feel all right!"?
Or is it:
"One belt to rule them all, one road to find them…"?
This will be revealed in coming years when the project is tested in the heat of the real world.
[1] I can't believe I need to cite a reference here, dear reader? Surely everyone has read or seen this by now?
[2] I'm not naïve enough to believe that the Marshall Plan was an exercise of pure altruism: there were strings attached — principally the injunction that recipients should not become communist and that they should assist the US in containing Soviet Russia. But I am naïve enough to believe that those strings were benign and should have been freely accepted with or without a commitment of aid.


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Well, this should give you all a laugh, I thought to myself as I dreamt this blog post up in the car (NB I was actively driving at the time; as opposed to idly staring out of the window in stubbornly unmoving traffic. Yes, that's right, we have left Doha. And moved to Abu Dhabi, where the traffic actually….flows…. which, to be perfectly frank, is why I am not on Twitter so much any more).
Moaning about Doha is something of an expat hobby (the champions being, of course, Brits – oh how we love a good moan). As soon as you tell anyone in Doha that you are moving to Abu Dhabi, you get told how much you will simply LOVE it: "It's sort of in between Dubai and Doha, you know, more relaxed than Doha, but without all the 'jazz' of Dubai…I used to live there/my friend Sally/Bill/Ed/Sheila used to live there five years ago – you will LOVE it".
But hey, guess what Doha peeps? There are a few good things about Doha which I am already missing, even though we only left a month ago. Please, pick yourself up off the floor and allow me to list them:
- Al Rawnaq
The crazy death-trap of a place situated in an underground cavern, with an entrance hole somewhere near Al Ahli (and, rumour has it, extending underground as far as Al Wakra). You post on Where, When, How Doha that you need something so obscure that you are certain that nowhere in Doha will possibly sell it….and you will get 15 people all telling you (correctly) that it can be found in Al Rawnaq. No doubt the place will probably go up in cheap-Chinese-lead-filled-paint-fuelled raging inferno one day (and swallow the entire district of Bin Omran with it), but until then, fill yer boots.
2. AquaArt on Salwa Road.
OK, this is a bit specialist. I am an aquarist and this is an AWESOME aquarium shop. They have good knowledge, good products and such an amazing selection of fish that I could actually kill an entire summer's afternoon in there entertaining my toddler twins FOR FREE. Beat that, Abu Dhabi.
3. Decent compounds.
Who knew? Doha's nicer compounds, such as the Al Fardans, Al Messilahs and Al Jazis, absolutely blow anything over here out of the water. And there's also nothing like the Pearl here. I know the Pearl has its haters, but we absolutely adored living there. With hindsight, the architecture was actually pretty cool and the balconies on the apartments were often amazing, and the cafe culture and shopping just kept getting better and better.
4. Freedom of speech.
I'm being very careful how I word this blog post. Let's just leave it at that, shall we?
5. Souq Waqif, the new Souq at Al Wakra, and the MIA.
I know, too obvious. But they were special. I miss them.
6. Hamad International Airport.
Well, Doha, you waited long enough. And now you have it… a lovely big, shiny airport (and a teddy bear. Let's not forget the teddy bear). It's stylish, it's practically-designed (apart from when it rains) and it's comfortable. And let me just say this: They don't do that stupid thing any more when they x-ray your bag BEFORE check in. Remember that particular joy in the old airport? Hmmm? Well it's not disappeared from the Middle East altogether. Grrr.
7. Ambulances*.
*Ambos for the Aussies among you.
I've done my fair share of moaning about the ambulance service in Doha in the past, but at least you used to see them. They seem to be a rarer sight here (perhaps because of the much smaller-scale nature of public healthcare – it's not like the Hamad system). Someone on our compound called an ambulance for a child and was told to take them by car as it would be quicker, and Facebook replies suggested that wasn't exactly unusual. Doha is now dotted with ambulance outstation posts, which is fantastic and should be lauded.
8. Old Navy.
OK, so I am scraping the barrel now. I never even liked anything in there anyway. And we have Pottery Barn over here, which absolutely whoops anything Doha has in the way of homewares into oblivion, so that cancels out the Old Navy thing anyway. Abu Dhabi 1, Doha 0.
9. Traffic policemen on roundabouts and intersections.
HAHAHAHAHA NO NOT REALLY. You can keep those Doha. Please. Oh and you know what else you can keep? Motorcades.


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Psycho Fox (1989)
By: Vic Tokai / Sega Genre: Platform Players: 1 Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Also Available For: Nothing
RKS Score: 9/10
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Master System Platform Games #1
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A joy to play and tehnically superb, the MS at its finest. Given the extreme storage limitations, you can forgive the repetitive backgrounds :) BTW, u said "tall, flexible poles"....ReplyDelete
Hey buddy - I think you're the only person that comments here now! :P You're right though, it's an effing classic! There might be some great platformers on the NES but there's nothing quite like Psycho Fox. Did you like the screenshots, by the way? They were hard to grab as pausing the game takes you to the item selection screen of course... Huh huh... pole...ReplyDelete
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Also Known as – HTC One E9 plus (A55)
HTC One E9+ Root:- Currently rooting is one of the easiest processes in the list of an Android Solution but various users hesitate to root their phone and their hesitation is necessary too because rooting a phone involved lot of risk too and one of the major risks of rooting is the breach of your privacy. However, if you are being careful enough you did not have to deal with such misfortune and avoiding these type of risks are easy too you just need to install the application from trusted sources and you are good to go. To make yourself feel extra secure take an entire backup of your internal phone data and store it on your computer or cloud storage server using custom recovery software such as TWRP. Now let's follow the procedure on how to root and unroot your HTC phone.
A bit about HTC One E9+ before rooting
Display: 5.5 inch LCD (1440 x 2560 Resolution)
Launched: March 2015
Operating System: Android v5.0 Lollipop
Processor: 2.0 GHz Octa-Core
Internal Space: 32 GB
Battery: 2800 mAh Li-Po (Up to 13.2 hours of Talktime)
How to Root HTC One E9+
Rooting helps a lot of users to increase the performance of the mobile phone and also change part of how your phone reacts on certain command which is why rooting a phone is a famous and well-known topic worldwide. As we discussed above the application method is by far the easiest way but along with an application, I am providing the software solution to root your phone which means you can root your phone with or without a computer.
Before following one of our methods to root your device please activate debugging mode in your smartphone.
1) Through Framaroot App
- Go to the following URL "https://framaroot-app.com/" and install the app.
- Before installation, the app required your permission because you are installing a custom app so when a pop-up prompt message will be appeared titled INSTALL BLOCKED just go to SETTINGS and tap on UNKNOWN SOURCE as shown in Figure.
- Open the app after installation and on select an option to execute choose INSTALL SUPERSU.
- On Select an Exploit tap on BOROMIR.
- This might result in two option first one is Exploit successful means your smartphone is rooted and second option is Your device seems not vulnerable to exploit which means this smartphone is highly protected by the developer that's why it can't be rooted.
2) Through Wondershare Tunesgo
The second method to root a phone is quite bothersome because in this method you will need a USB cable and computer to root your smartphone.
- Go to your smartphone settings and Unlock Developer Option and enter USB DEBUGGING Mode.
- Once you activated the USB DEBUGGING download and install the software Wondershare Tunesgo on your computer.
- Once Installed open the software and click on TOOLBOX given at the top right side of the page.
- On Toolbox Page locate the section OTHER TOOLS and click on button ONE-CLICK ROOT.
- Once you click on ONE-CLICK ROOT a pop-up message click on blue button ROOT. It might take up to 15 minutes to root your smartphone.
If you are looking for more apps like Framaroot then try these out – Kingoroot and Towelroot. The method of installing each app will be the same.
How to Unroot HTC One E9+
Just like rooting you should unroot your phone whenever you visit customer service office to repair your smartphone or installing operating system updates on your smartphone.
Using Supersu App
- Go To Playstore and Download Supersu App.
- Open Application and then go to settings page, scroll down and tap on FULL UNROOT.
Using Es File Explorer
- Go to play store and download the app ES File Explorer on your Internal Storage
- Once installed open the app and click on MENU mentioned on the top left side of the page.
- Now tap on Tools and then turn on ROOT EXPLORER.
- After turn on Root Explorer go back to the app dashboard and go back to destination "/".
- Now go to folder SYSTEM -> BIN and delete file SU.
- Then go back to another folder SYSTEM -> XBIN and delete file SU.
- Now go back to folder SYSTEM -> APP and then remove the SUPERUSER.APK file.
- Once the files are deleted reboot your phone, congrats your phone is unrooted.
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2 Row High Chassis Tiller is a secondary soil tillage machine is mounted to tractor's hydraulic lifting unit and universal three point linkage system, hydraulically mounted type machine. Therefore transportation to the field can be easily done.
2 Row High Chassis Tiller is used for preparing the soil before sowing by uprooting the weeds for to make fertilizer and preparing the seed-beds.
2 Row Tillers are manufactured as 7, 9,11,13,15 feet, 80×80 mm profile chassis and 30×30 mm spring foot which are made of special high-strength spring steel.
Row spaces of the feet are adjustable. For preparing the soil for the sowing process single or double row roll also could be attachable at the back of the machine.
Duck foot point and narrow type end iron can be attachable as optional.
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Thursday, December 6, 2018
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
Going up on Chicago's South Side, the Bronzeville microgrid will change the electric energy experience in America. The vision – cities will soon be honeycombed with small self-contained hubs of energy. The lights will stay on – hospitals and police stations will work – when blizzards, hurricanes and even cyberterrorists – strike. Batteries will be deployed. Solar will sprout on rooftops. Join us as Commonwealth Edison and its technology partners in Chicago explains what it is up to – how it will change its business as a result – and what it will mean to utilities and their customers across America.
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President and Chief Operating Officer
Mohammad Shahidehpour
Bodine Chair Professor and
Director of Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Initiative
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The blockchain is a core component of the architecture of Bitcoin, a global digital money that operates independently of existing government and financial institutions by using cryptographic hashing to register, validate and store transactions in a distributed manner. The blockchain has spurred a wave of innovation beyond Bitcoin and crypto-currencies, with the proposition of decentralizing processes that would normally require a central authority validate it and guarantee trust – leading to claims of impending radical transformation of governance and institutions of state and finance. The technology has thus caught the imagination of actors across the political spectrum sceptical of centralized authority …
The Distributing Chains research project is driven by the question what matters politically in blockchain technology? By "matters" what is meant is literally mattering as in making a material difference. By "politically" what is meant is the mediation and resolution of incompatibility and the process through which the possible and impossible are spatially distributed.
In the quest of answering this question, the thesis develops and employs three strategies, or methods for thinking and working on the politics of blockchain technologies: Diffraction; dissensus; and the (re)distribution of the possible. The thesis will discuss these strategies in relation to three case studies of blockchain technology – Bitcoin, Ethereum and Faircoin – first describing their architectures and the ways in which they differentiate from each other as a moment of choice and decision-making that reveals principles, beliefs and assumptions; then analyzing moments of conflict and dissensus in each case that forces an more explicit articulation of principles (political, design, technical) as well as processes for resolving incompatibility, in turn rearticulating the principles; and finally the ways in which each of the cases entail a redistribution of what is possible in relation to other existing spaces and modes of politics.
Distributing Chains is a PhD project by Jaya Klara Brekke based in the Geography department of Durham University UK.
Supervised by professors Joe Painter and Harriet Bulkeley, and advised by Louise Amoore.
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New Think for Old Publishers
A talk by Clay Shirky, John Fagan, Deborah Schultz, Peter Miller, and Ivan Held at SXSWi 2009
About the Talk
March 15, 2009 1:00 PM
500 E Cesar Chavez St, Austin, TX 78701500 E Cesar Chavez St, Austin, TX 78701
This is not a discussion of whether ebooks are killing treebooks, or whether it's possible to get cozy with an Amazon Kindle. It's about how participatory culture and the online world interact with good olde book publishing.Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, Deborah Schultz, and fellow panelists will share with the audience a variety of perspectives on what's going right and what's going wrong in publishing, assess success of recent forays into marketing digitally, digital publishing, and what books and blogs have to gain from one another. Penguin Group (USA), which houses some 40 plus imprints and publishes an extremely broad variety of physical and digital productsÑeverything from William Gibson's first ebook in the 90's to Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food to Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse novels (the source for HBO's True Blood)Ñis deeply involved in exploring ways that old and new media might better collaborate. Audience members are invited to speak up about what they think book publishers could/should be doing to better provide relevant information and content to blogs, websites, and online communities. Come tell old media what you want and how you want it.
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This year, while we take our annual holiday break, we thought we'd offer readers something a little different. With an eye to a new administration, many of the state's experts have been writing reports and offering solutions to the New Jersey's most difficult problems. We at NJ Spotlight selected what we think are the most provocative, interesting and important papers and are highlighting them with the hope that every New Jerseyan interested in public policy reads them. That includes the governor-elect and his staff, for whom most of these papers were written. I think you'll find that although our state's problems are serious, they are fixable with the right blend of political courage, ingenuity, and time.
We'll be back with our usual mix of information and analysis January 2. In the meantime, I hope you have a merry holiday week.
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