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Construction and Safety meeting
Thursday 9th of August
Lookout Mountain Elementary School Project
June 28, 2012
All of the project's building permits have been approved by the City of Phoenix.
- A preconstruction meeting was conducted on June 12.
- All temporary facilities including the construction trailer, power and water are set up.
- Earthwork and construction of building pads have continued for the last two weeks.
- Materials for the geothermal wells have been delivered to the job site.
- A predrilling meeting for the geothermal wells was conducted on June 19.
Lookout Mountain Elementary School Project June 7, 2012
§ Additional permits have been approved by the City of Phoenix including traffic, civil, and street lighting.
§ Removal of salvaged equipment from Building 300 and the school site was finished last week.
§ Temporary water for construction, including water shut-down at the school, was completed Tuesday evening (5/29).
§ Construction fencing and signage around the construction site were completed following the end of school on May 30.
§ Installation of a temporary cell tower was completed this week.
§ Demolition of Building 300 and remaining site structures began this week. Final completion of the first phase of project demolition will be completed early next week.
§ Preliminary earthwork started this week.
Lookout Mountain Elementary School Project
May 29, 2012
§ Permitting for the project is continuing. To date, the offices for the Arizona State Fire Marshal and Maricopa County Environmental Services Department have reviewed and approved the construction documents. The Storm Water Management Plan and City of Phoenix Grading and Drainage permit have also been approved. Following receipt of City of Phoenix review comments, a resubmittal of the plans was made and is currently being reviewed by the Fire Department and Building Department for issuance of building permits.
§ District staff started removal of salvaged equipment from Building 300 and the school site.
§ School staff continued removing materials from inside Building 300 and coordinating staff moves from the building to other locations.
§ Power and water have been limited to Building 300 in anticipation of demolition.
§ Temporary construction fencing was erected around a portion of the construction site and building 300 leaving the playfields still available for use. The final fence installation will occur after the school year.
§ Coordination for the installation of gas service is being finalized by the District.
§ A meeting was held on Monday, May 21 to discuss final scheduling for removal of the existing cell tower and installation of a temporary tower.
Lookout Mountain Elementary School Project May 15, 2012
§ The guaranteed maximum price (GMP) proposal was approved by the Washington Elementary School District Governing Board on May 10.
§ The architect and consulting engineers have revised plans and are resubmitting to the City of Phoenix for second plans review as is typical for the building and permitting process.
§ Amendments to the cell tower agreement were approved by the Washington Elementary School District Governing Board on May 10. This allows for the removal of the existing tower and construction of part of the new school where the tower currently sits.
§ Details and schedules for the initial moving and building demolition were coordinated and finalized.
Lookout Mountain Elementary School Project
May 4, 2012
§ Final details were completed for the guaranteed maximum price (GMP) proposal in preparation of a presentation to the Washington Elementary School District Governing Board on May 10.
§ The architect and consulting engineers are revising the drawings to include city plan review comments. Plans are scheduled to be resubmitted back to the city for final review and permitting next week.
§ Amendments to the cell tower agreement have been finalized for presentation to the Governing Board for approval.
§ Several meetings were conducted this week to continue with coordination of various aspects of the project. District facilities personnel met with District MIS staff to further discuss technology requirements for the project and the vendor proposals for the work.
§ School administration was briefed by the construction team about the GMP presentation to the Governing Board. Details for construction and playground use through the end of the school year were reviewed.
Lookout Mountain Elementary School Project
April 27, 2012
§ District representatives along with the architect and Construction Manager at Risk spent significant time finalizing the guaranteed maximum price (GMP) this week. Final details are to be finished on Monday and Tuesday of next week in preparation for a presentation to the Washington Elementary School District Governing Board.
§ The architect received first review comments earlier than anticipated from the City of Phoenix. The architect is revising the plans to address the comments before submitting for the second city review.
§ District staff is drafting amendments to the cell tower agreement with the service provider to allow for its relocation. These amendments will be presented to the Governing Board for approval.
§ Coordination of vendors that will participate on the project is continuing. District representatives worked with moving, playground equipment and special systems vendors this week.
§ Cox Communications was updated on the project and met with the District representatives this week.
Lookout Mountain Elementary School Project
April 19, 2012
§ Adolfson and Peterson (the Construction Manager At Risk -- CMAR) has received bids for work on the project. They are currently clarifying scope and compiling the data received.
§ Adolfson and Peterson is developing information related to the construction phase including safety, a phasing video, and graphics identifying play areas during the construction phase. Some of these documents have already been forwarded to the District and school for review. This information is intended to provide the community with an understanding of the construction phase for the project.
§ District staff, H2, and school personnel have toured the site and reviewed plans for outdoor play areas during construction. Logistics have been discussed with District staff so they can make provisions for a variety of work to include fencing removal and relocation, pavement surface repairs, drainage structure modifications, and general safety provisions in all the play areas.
§ April 11 – District staff reviewed provisions for the Building 300 occupant move at the end of this school year prior to demolition of the building.
§ April 12 – The District Governing Board approved and authorized District staff to issue a letter of intent to grant an easement to Southwest Gas to use for their gas line serving the new facility.
§ Comments regarding the roofing system have been received from the District's roofing consultant and issued to the architect and CMAR.
§ April 13 – District Mangement Information System (MIS) staff and H2 met the SMART Board/projector vendor to discuss provisions for the school.
March 30, 2012
§ The construction documents for the Lookout Mountain School project have been completed, including design of the partial geothermal heating and cooling system. The documents are currently receiving a technical review by the Washington Elementary School District and Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR).
§ Orcutt/Winslow (architect) has submitted plans for review by regulatory agencies including the City of Phoenix, Maricopa County Health Department, and Arizona State Fire Marshall. This is a two- to three-month review process.
§ Adolfson and Peterson (CMAR) has distributed plans and specifications to solicit bids for the construction of the new school. Bids are due April 12.
§ H2 Group (WESD's representative) is coordinating the efforts of District-direct vendors that are involved on the project for special systems and furnishings. Proposals are being obtained to include with the guaranteed maximum price package that will be presented to the Governing Board on May 10.
The Construction "Zone"
March 16, 2012
Each week I look forward to updating you on the progress of the construction of our new school. What is even more exciting is that we will launch our new Web site on March 28 that will include a page dedicated to the construction project.
For the past school year, a committee has been working with Orcutt Winslow to design the new Lookout Mountain Elementary School. With the design in the final stages, we will be able to share with you the blueprint after spring break. The team received information about geothermal, and a test well was drilled over winter break. We will proceed with the drilling as part of the overall project.
In late May, you will notice construction safety fencing go up on the west end of the field. The first demolition job will be the independent wing that currently houses PE, art, band and our early childhood program. We have developed a relocation strategy that will take place the week of May 14. Demolition of this building will take place in early June. Summer school and KidSpace will continue on our campus this summer and will take place on the east side of the campus.
The safety fence will initially surround the entire playground throughout August. I have been told that areas of the playground will be released around the start of the 2012-2013 school year. We realize the importance of fresh air, natural light and movement. We are currently working on a plan to incorporate additional modified play areas around the campus, such as the green belt behind the bike rack, behind the library and with in the courtyard area. Our generous PTO purchased play equipment such as jump ropes, scoops, frisbees and stacking cups that can be used in a variety of areas. After-school sports such as basketball and cross country will continue. We are currently securing alternative practice sites.
A few quick answers to some of the latest questions I have received:
- Yes, we will have a gymnasium and a cafeteria
- Our school colors will remain Blue and Yellow
- Our mascot will remain the mighty Lion
- The Lion statue will be carefully relocated to the new building
- All of the tile mosaics (Tree and Community of Caring, and the faces) will be incorporated and moved to the new building
- There will considerably more parking
- Each classroom will have a window, a sink and built-in cabinetry for storage.
- The building site is on the east field where we currently participate in PE
- Move in date: January 2014
Mrs. Johnson, Principal

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Grand Opening Ceremony in Lumphini Park, Bangkok
Now as you may know, tourism is big business in Thailand, and with such a huge diversity of amazing attractions and destinations it is not difficult to see why. Last year alone, 30 million people are thought to have visited the Kingdom, helping to generate around 8 trillion Baht for the economy.
To help promote the tourist industry and encourage more people to discover all that Thailand has to offer, the Tourism Authority of Thailand, or TAT, organises an annual tourism festival to raise awareness of Thai culture, traditions, heritage, and unique ways of life.This year the 36th festival was held in Lumpini Park over five days and kicked off with a Grand Opening Ceremony on the 13th of January. We met up with the Minister of Tourism and Sports of Thailand, Her Excellency Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul to ask why the festival is so important for the Thai tourism industry and to see what she hopes to achieve at this year's event.
This year's festival is split into four main zones, each designed to highlight the beautiful Thai way of life along with world famous Thai hospitality. The first showcases Thailand's colourful festivals and vibrant local fairs from the five major regions. It also introduced visitors to the "12 Hidden Gems Plus", or twin destinations project, an initiative designed to encourage travellers to visit small, pass-through or forgotten cities by pairing lesser known cities with their more famous neighbours.
Another zone showcases the uniqueness of the Kingdom's five regions via "5 Tourism Villages". Each village provides visitors with first-hand experiences of what each region has to offer, from exquisite art and exotic crafts to scrumptious local delicacies. Each of Bangkok's 50 districts were represented in a further Zone, whilst the final zone was home to a dazzling array of live cultural performances.
This year's event is thought to have been the biggest yet, attracting over 670,000 visitors, both locals and from around the world. We caught up with a few international tourists to see what they thought of the festival.


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Laserworld Garden Star
The Laserworld Garden Series lasers are special lighting effects for gardens, parks, for use at home, for parties, for indoor as well as outdoor use. It's more than a garden laser - it can be used as Halloween laser or to illuminate Christmas Trees as well - and even more applications are possible. Hundreds of red and/or green thin laser beams creating twinkling star like projections on plants, trees, walls, facades, ponds, at ceilings and on many other objects. The Laserworld Garden Series garden lasers are particularly suitable for effective lighting in gardens and outdoor areas. The IP67 waterproof housings of the garden laser projectors even allow for placing them next to ponds or pools. Different versions are available: single green, single red and dual color (red and green) devices as well as static and rotating versions.


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Literary Analysis: Deborah
Arnold J. Band
Please note that this web version does not include the footnotes containing references present in the book.
In the memory of ancient Israel, the period of the Judges is a chaotic interlude between the epic sweep of the Exodus including the revelation at Sinai , and the establishment of the Davidic monarchy. The narratives in the book of Judges are usually brief and violent, often retelling the cycle of apostasy, punishment, and delivery. The people of Israel stray from the covenantal Lord to worship other gods; they are punished by the Lord who subjects them to the ravages of hostile powers; in response to their pleas for help, He sends a hero, often called a "judge" (Ehud, Deborah, Gilead, Jephthah, for instance) to save them; Israel enjoys a period of tranquility but inevitably returns to its wayward ways.
Recent scholarship by Yaira Amit, attentive to the editing of the text and its contextualization, arrives at a sophisticated formulation:
"…it would seem that the book of Judges reflects the beginning of a process, that took place after the exile of the kingdom of Israel [722 BCE], of setting in order the world of beliefs of the kingdom of Judah, and the first attempt to understand the process of history and understand its underlying principles." As such, "the book of Judges expresses the earliest signs of the taking of shape of an absolute monotheism."
However fascinating this formulation of the importance the book might be in the history of ancient Israelite religion, it is undeniable that the book of Judges is a compilation of bloody events, of murder, mayhem, pillage and rape. Of the twelve so-called Judges in the book, only one transcends the violent paradigm of the other heroes, even though she is the one who summons men to battle: Deborah. Deborah is sent by the Lord to deliver Israel from its oppressor, here the Jabin the king of Hazor, but she differs radically from the archetype of the "judge" we have become accustomed to from a serial reading of the book from chapter One on. The first three judges are portrayed as warriors: Otniel, Ehud, and Shamgar., but Deborah, a woman not a man, is presented as an inspired leader, a prophetess through whom God gives instructions to Barak, the general of the Israelite forces. She clearly was an inspiring figure to generations of Israelite audiences since she is enshrined in the book of Judges in two different literary genres: a prose narrative (Chapter 4) and a poem (Chapter 5) which she ostensibly sings. We are told little about her: she is assigned no father, rare for a Biblical figure. She is given a husband, Lappidoth, but that name might be a misunderstanding since it exists nowhere else in the Hebrew Scriptures. Some readers imaginatively take the word "lappidoth" in its basic meaning, "torches" and translated the phrase aptly as "a spirited woman." In the prose narrative she is a prophetess accorded a known seat of prophecy called "The Palm Tree of Deborah" to which people came for "judgment." In her, judgment is merged with prophecy. In addition, in the poem, chapter 5, she is both a consummate, inspired, forceful poet and, as she designates herself triumphantly, "a mother in Israel," an epithet that connects her to the matriarchs of Genesis.
A multifaceted figure: judge, prophet, poet, matriarch, she is convincingly fitting to play a role in a complex plot. While chapter 4 supposedly tells the story of a victory of the Israelites led by Barak over the army of Hazor lead by Sisera, the entire battle scene amounts to one successful charge. The real triumph is in the deceptive plot. When Barak insists that Deborah accompany him to the battle, she agrees but warns him: "However there will be no glory for you in the course you are taking for then the Lord will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman." The reader assumes that she means that fame for the victory will be accorded to Deborah, a woman, and not to Barak the general, the normative masculine hero of Judges. But the plot is shrewder than the reader is.
As his army is routed, Sisera takes refuge in the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, a putative ally of his master, Jabin the king of Hazor. Heber, we have been informed in what seems to be a misplaced verse (11), that Heber was a distant relative of Moses' father-in-law but had separated from him. Jael, in a famous, memorable act of deception, welcomes Sisera to her tent, feeds him milk, covers him, and as he slept, drove a tent peg through his skull into the ground.
The scene is carefully wrought with many innuendos. Sisera, for instance, instructs Jael to say to any man who comes by that there is no man in the tent, and she will make sure that there us no (live) man in the tent. When Barak approaches (she apparently recognized both warriors) she welcome him in to show him the corpse of his enemy. In a sense she did not betray Sisera since he was already dead, not a man. Deborah's prophecy came true, but not as we expected. Sisera was killed not by Barak, but by a woman, Jael. Significantly, furthermore, Deborah emerges with her hands clean. She did not kill Sisera. Jael did.
What we enjoy as readers, then, is not the tactics of the battle, but the tactics of a clever emplotment. We have deception here as in the stories of Ehud or Gilead, but Deborah, unlike Ehud or Gilead, is not involved in murder.
Chapter 5, "The Song of Deborah," is often considered the oldest extant sizeable fragment of Hebrew literature and unintelligible is some places. Though basically a hymn of praise for deliverance, it is infused with the forceful fictive personality of the poetess, Deborah, who is supposedly singing this song. In the agitated proem (vs. 2 and 3), she declares that she sings this sing of praise and thanksgiving to the Lord in a time of national upheaval. Just as people have dedicated themselves to the struggle, she will sing this song to the Lord of Hosts, not to herself, but to the kings and potentates of the earth. The exalted tone is enhanced in vs. 4 and 5 which evoke the traditional images of the theophany at Sinai one might find in Psalms. She graphically portrays the conditions in the country prevalent in the period of the Judges:
"In the days of Jael, caravans ceased,
And wayfarers went
By roundabout paths." (v. 6)
At that point she, "the mother in Israel" arose to save her people since there were no fighters in the gates for Israel. Again, the woman must rally the men and she enacts how she did so in the stirring battle cries and vivid descriptions of vs. 10-12. Her challenges lead to victory:
" Then was the remnant made victor over the mighty;
The Lord's people won my victory over the warriors." v. 13.
In a dazzling series of names and bits of history reminiscent of scenes from the Homeric epics, Deborah praises the tribes who participated in the battle and chides those who shirked their duty ( vs 14-18). Turning to the enemy, "the kings of Canaan", she presetns a brief battle scene in which we learn that Sisera's army of chariots was actually swept away by a heaven sent torrent of the Kishon stream where the battle was fought. The excited climax of the battle is rendered by three cries of the same central term: nahal (torrent) in nahal Kishon, nahal kedumim (raging torrent) , nahal Kishon in v. 21. As in the narrative account of chapter 4, there is little attention paid to the battle itself; rather, victory is attributed to a torrent sent, obviously, from heaven.
Verse 23 seems at first to be out of place since it in the angel of the Lord curses Meroz (an unidentified people) bitterly
"Because they came not to the aid of the Lord
To the aid of the Lord among the warriors."
One expects this verse to be a continuation of the enumeration of the tribes and their various behavior verses 14-18, but it is much more angry and bitter. The reader is surprised to learn that the curse of Meroz is immediately followed and balanced by the blessing of Jael in v. 24:
"Most blessed of women be Jael,
Wife of Heber the Kenite,
Most blessed of women in the tents." V. 24.
Her actions in viciously slaying Sisera is conveyed in full rhythmic detail, unlike the battle scene which here, as in the prose narrative, is scantily treated. The end of the scene varies significantly from the prose version:
"At her feet he sank, lay outstretched.
At her feet he sank, lay still;
Where he sank, there he lay – destroyed." v. 27.
Note that in contrast with the prose passage where Sisera simply dies from the piercing blow of the tent peg, here we see him sinking (kara') three times. The verbs kara (sink) and nafal (fall) appear together in Psalms 20:9 : which describes the enemies who have chariots (like Sisera) collapsing and falling. But since in the Hebrew Sisera kara ben ragleha (sank between [not "at" Jael's legs), the sexual implication or reversal is also intimated. Kara also is used in gestures of adoration, or giving birth.
The polysemeity, mulitple meanings, of kara prepares us for the last section of the poem which presents a scene totally absent from the prose version: the mother of Sisera waiting at the window for her son to return from battle. The audience knows, of course, that Sisera is dead, brutally murdered by Jael, but his mother does not know. The dramatic irony is crushing. She wonders:
"Why is his chariot so long in coming?
Why so late the clatter f his wheels?" v. 28.
Ironically, she is reassured by her "wise" lady-friends who reassure her:
"They must be dividing the spoil they have found:
A damsel or two for each man …" v. 30 .
We, of course, know that the opposite is true: he has already been brutally slain by a woman. (One does not need sophisticated feminist theory to get the point.) The Hebrew, of course, does not say "damsel" but rehem which means womb or, by extension, vagina. Sisera's mother's statement is blatantly cruel and vulgar; it undercuts whatever pity we might have had for the mother waiting at the window for her returning son. The poet plays on the assonance between the word rehem and the root rekem (embroidery) which appears twice in the following lines. Part of the booty she imagines Sisera will bring home is colored embroidery to adorn her neck.
The poem ends with Deborah's prayerful wish:
"So may all your enemies perish, O Lord!
But may His friends be as the sun rising in might!" v. 31.
The two chapters end with the conventional Biblical closure:
"And the land was tranquil forty years." V. 31
Mieke Bal, a leading semiotician and feminist, has written three books on the book of Judges. In the last she sums up Deborah's figure:
"In the Song of Deborah, poetry is related to judging in both the military-political sense and in the juridical sense. Deborah's song is full of judgments, of praise and curse. It is also an evocation of the victory prompted by her own activity. The prophecy, emphasized more in chapter 4 than in chapter 5, is implicit in the direct communication between Deborah and Yahweh. The combination of ordering qualities that the poetess displays allows for the display of her function as one who establishes order in chaos by means of the proper word. And the proper word is the commemorating word, the one that will not let daughters die in forgetfulness. A mother who deserves the title "a mother in Israel" stands for wholeness, completeness through order and memory."


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Conscious Discipline – Friday Harbor Session 4
Each childcare program or classroom has its own culture that supports behavioral patterns that aid or impede learning. Conscious Discipline teaches how to intentionally build a culture of learning.
Conscious Discipline® is an evidence-based, trauma-informed approach. It is recognized by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration's (SAMHSA's) National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices and received high ratings in a Harvard analysis of the nation's top 25 social-emotional learning programs.
In these sessions we will explore:
- traditional and conscious discipline techniques
- understanding more about the brain's ability to process discipline
- ways to create a connected culture
- our own composure
- becoming assertive
- allowing choices
- developing empathy
- looking for positive intent
- the effective use of consequences
The class fee includes a Conscious Discipline workbook for each program. Full MERIT reimbursement is available after the first session for those who have not already received STARS reimbursement for 2019-20120 fiscal year. MERIT reimburses up to $250 per fiscal year.
Date: November 14, 2019
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Trainer: Melanie Coyne
Cost: $200.00
Core Competencies: Interactions: Providing Individual Guidance, Level 2
Location:Skagit Valley College – San Juan Center 221 Weber Way
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Yesterday morning, Embedded Vision Alliance founder Jeff Bier and I had the honor and pleasure of spending around an hour with Jitendra Malik, Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS at the University of California at Berkeley for the past 25 years and one of the world's foremost computer vision researchers. I hope to have the video of the ~45 minute interview posted on the EVA website within a week; for now, I'll share a brief excerpt from the transcript of Malik's thoughts:
It's worth keeping in mind how difficult the problem is. Something like 30-50% of the human brain is devoted to visual processing. The human brain is a remarkable instrument. It's the result of billions of years of evolution. The computing power associated with this 30% of the brain is quite significant. We have on the order of a hundred billion neurons in the brain, and each of these neurons may be connected to 10,000 other neurons. And if we think that the computing power resides in the synapses, then we are talking of 1015 units.
Now, let's think about where computers are today. Now we can have devices which are 109 units quite readily. And these devices' transistors are faster than neurons. So essentially we get a little gain from that, when designing artificial systems. And now, say, we put a thousand of today's machines together, or maybe five years from now, we are approaching the kind of computing power we need.
A processing innovation unveiled by IBM earlier today may bring that aspiration to reality more quickly than previously forecasted. Announced on the same day as the 23rd IEEE Hot Chips Conference, where IBM presented on 'The IBM Blue Gene/Q Compute chip+SIMD floating-point unit', IBM's SyNAPSE (Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics) project is partially funded by DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). Here are some choice excerpts from the press release:
Today, IBM researchers unveiled a new generation of experimental computer chips designed to emulate the brain's abilities for perception, action and cognition. The technology could yield many orders of magnitude less power consumption and space than used in today's computers.
In a sharp departure from traditional concepts in designing and building computers, IBM's first neurosynaptic computing chips recreate the phenomena between spiking neurons and synapses in biological systems, such as the brain, through advanced algorithms and silicon circuitry. Its first two prototype chips have already been fabricated and are currently undergoing testing.
Called cognitive computers, systems built with these chips won't be programmed the same way traditional computers are today. Rather, cognitive computers are expected to learn through experiences, find correlations, create hypotheses, and remember – and learn from – the outcomes, mimicking the brains structural and synaptic plasticity.
The goal of SyNAPSE is to create a system that not only analyzes complex information from multiple sensory modalities at once, but also dynamically rewires itself as it interacts with its environment – all while rivaling the brain's compact size and low power usage. The IBM team has already successfully completed Phases 0 and 1.
While they contain no biological elements, IBM's first cognitive computing prototype chips use digital silicon circuits inspired by neurobiology to make up what is referred to as a "neurosynaptic core" with integrated memory (replicated synapses), computation (replicated neurons) and communication (replicated axons).
IBM has two working prototype designs. Both cores were fabricated in 45 nm SOI-CMOS and contain 256 neurons. One core contains 262,144 programmable synapses and the other contains 65,536 learning synapses. The IBM team has successfully demonstrated simple applications like navigation, machine vision, pattern recognition, associative memory and classification.
IBM's overarching cognitive computing architecture is an on-chip network of light-weight cores, creating a single integrated system of hardware and software. This architecture represents a critical shift away from traditional von Neumann computing to a potentially more power-efficient architecture that has no set programming, integrates memory with processor, and mimics the brain's event-driven, distributed and parallel processing.
IBM's long-term goal is to build a chip system with ten billion neurons and hundred trillion synapses, while consuming merely one kilowatt of power and occupying less than two liters of volume. Future chips will be able to ingest information from complex, real-world environments through multiple sensory modes and act through multiple motor modes in a coordinated, context-dependent manner.
For example, a cognitive computing system monitoring the world's water supply could contain a network of sensors and actuators that constantly record and report metrics such as temperature, pressure, wave height, acoustics and ocean tide, and issue tsunami warnings based on its decision making. Similarly, a grocer stocking shelves could use an instrumented glove that monitors sights, smells, texture and temperature to flag bad or contaminated produce. Making sense of real-time input flowing at an ever-dizzying rate would be a Herculean task for today's computers, but would be natural for a brain-inspired system.
"Imagine traffic lights that can integrate sights, sounds and smells and flag unsafe intersections before disaster happens or imagine cognitive co-processors that turn servers, laptops, tablets, and phones into machines that can interact better with their environments," said Dr. Modha [editor note: Dharmendra Modha, project leader for IBM Research].
For Phase 2 of SyNAPSE, IBM has assembled a world-class multi-dimensional team of researchers and collaborators to achieve these ambitious goals. The team includes Columbia University; Cornell University; University of California, Merced; and University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The press release also notes that IBM's artificial intelligence research extends back to 1956, when the company performed the world's first large-scale (512 neuron) cortical simulation. I also have 'ancient history' personal experience with the technology. My first job out of college was with Intel Corporation, where I spent eight years working in the nonvolatile memory group. For the first several years, my focus was on UV-erasable EPROMs and OTP (one-time-programmable) ROMs; meanwhile, my peers in the electrically reprogrammable NVM group were evaluating both 'pure' EEPROMs and flash memories and nonvolatile, in-system rewriteable memory-derived neural networking.
The desired commercialization of neural network ICs and their associated software didn't come to pass quickly enough, in sufficiently high volumes, to warrant Intel's long-term investment. However, the folks focused on neural networking at Intel were not only technically competent but also deeply passionate about their work. As such, it's good to see IBM pick up the torch and move the technology forward.
For more on IBM's SyNAPSE project, be sure to check out Wired Magazine's interview with Dr. Modha.


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If you are wondering how to dress well even when you're broke, you've come to the right place. A few years ago, I truly considered myself to be "broke." If we rewind 4 years ago…I had just gotten divorced, was living in a shoddy, old apartment by myself. I'm talking a ramshackle, hunk of junk, old as dirt, in disrepair apartment on the 2nd floor. There were no outlets on the kitchen counter (my Keurig and toaster oven sat on stools) and the windows had huge cracks in the glass which I didn't notice until winter rolled around. I had a fairly expensive car payment, drove 35 minutes to my kindergarten teaching job, and had little to no furniture. I was lucky if I had food in my refrigerator. So yeah…I was broke. I like to think that I managed to dress well, even though I didn't have much to spend on clothes at the time.
Fast forward a few years later, and I'm doing really well for myself. I have my Master's Degree so I'm making a bit more than I used to, I'm sharing the rent with my boyfriend, Chris, and my car is almost paid off. However, yesterday Chris dropped a big bombshell on me. The "H" word…house. We have been throwing the idea around of buying our own home here in the Philly area, but the whole concept has been mostly floating around in a cartoon thought bubble above my head. It hadn't quite become a concrete idea until now. The truth is that renting OR owning a home in a big city can be downright expensive unless you have a roommate or two. Currently we are renting a house that we would love to own, but truthfully may not be able to afford to own at this point in our lives and current careers.
My frivolous summer spending is going to have to come to an end. Going out to eat, shopping sprees, and buying random things like those lidded wine cups with funny sayings…I've got to stop, or at least slow down a bit. I have to adopt better spending habits and begin saving a lot more for a down payment. Part of this plan is to stop spending as much on clothes and re-wear my clothes in different ways. In this blog post, you will read about how to save money on your clothes, how to be smarter about what you're spending your money on, and how to use your current wardrobe in new and versatile ways.
Part 1: Ways to Save $ on Your Clothes
This is pretty much a no-brainer. Don't buy anything at full price. Be aware of your favorite store's sales. I'm always up for shopping at Victoria's Secret when they have their Semi-Annual sale. NOTE: You may be living under a rock if you are a blogger and have not heard anything about the Nordstrom Annual Sale. Even on sale, it's not going to be cheap at Nordstrom though, so shop carefully!
Some stores, like my fave New York & Company, have pretty good deals most of the time. To make sales like BOGO or BOGO 50% off worth your while, you can shop with a friend and each buy something. I'm not a huge BOGO fan, TBH. I always find that there are better deals out there most of the time. Sign up with your email at your favorite store to get email updates on the latest sales and savings, or you can also opt into text alerts if you don't want to go online.
I just signed up for Shop It To Me! If you don't like going to the mall (*GASP*), Shop It To Me alerts you of sales going on at your favorite brands or stores in YOUR SIZE. You can select favorites by clicking the heart, and they will alert you if the prices drop on any of your selected items. You can receive Sale Mail as often as you would like (daily, weekly, or twice a week). This is a free service. My picks were H&M, Puma, Nine West, Free People, J. Crew, INC International, Lucky Brand, Betsey Johnson, Kate Spade, LOFT, and Madewell.
This is one of the major ways that I saved money when I didn't have much to spare. When I was first out of college, I wanted a professional teacher's wardrobe, so I would head straight for the clearance section in The Limited. Their normal clothes were way too expensive for me at that point, but I found a lot of nice blouses, dress pants, and skirt by sifting through the clearance racks. The Kohl's clearance section for shoes is one of my favorites. There are so many gems there just waiting to be discovered! Shopping clearance for your basics makes a lot of sense to me, because your basics are typically your plainer, mostly neutral colored items. You can shop jewelry, handbags, shoes, dress pants, shorts, jeans, tees, or camis on clearance and no one would ever know.
I used to do this ALL THE TIME. I had a credit card through my bank and would accumulate points. At the time it was really fabulous, because I would put my graduate courses on my card. Then, my school would reimburse me within 2-4 weeks before my statement would come. I would get all of these wonderful points on my credit card for barely paying anything myself, and turned them into gift cards for Kohl's and other stores. Sometimes the cash back given to you by credit card companies is less than if you would convert them to gift cards, so it's totally worth it to select the gift card option.
I also have New York & Company, Kohl's, and LOFT credit cards. When you initially open them up, you of course get a percentage off of your purchase. I'm sure you've heard of Kohl's Cash, and as much as I shop at Kohl's, I need every penny of that cash. There's also a Kohl's rewards card, and I get emails and catalog mailings from Kohl's with up to 30% off coupons that I use routinely. I also get Runway Rewards from New York & Company, which includes a birthday gift of $10 and a $20 coupon for every $200 I spend. With that being said, please don't open up a million store cards. However, I do think it makes sense if you shop in one store almost exclusively (like me and NY & Co.).
Coupons and promos may sound good, but you still need to make sure you get the most bang for your buck. Some people need to work on their mental math (it's true!), so if that's you, just pop out your calculator on your phone and figure it out if you need to. Multiple your item by the percentage off. For example, if something is 30% off, multiply the full price by .70 (This is the price -.30, or 30%). Make sure that whatever coupon you are trying to use also works with sale or clearance items. I barely ever use New York & Company's coupons, because they always have great deals and sales going on…I very rarely can use my coupon and the sales at the same time.
Back when I was really broke, I limited myself to 1 clothing purchase per month. This was really hard for me, because I love clothes so much. After awhile, I got really used to it, and it was easier to say "no" to items that I didn't need. I also got very good at making sure that I truly loved whatever my one item was, and that it fit like a glove! (Ace Ventura, anyone? LOL) Another idea that I have done before is to put a cap on your spending, such as $50 or $100 a month on clothes. Having a monetary limit made me better at finding lots of things for less money…you get very creative when you have to!
It's not the most ideal situation, but if you really want clothes that much, maybe you need to work for them! I worked at Old Navy in college, and I actually liked it there. I loved that I had an employee discount on any purchases. That and I got to walk around with the price gun and marked everything when it was on clearance or sale, so I got to see all the deals before anyone else. I still saved a lot of money when I worked there part-time, and got lots of cute outfits!
Part 2: Spend Your Money Smarter
Don't buy that shirt or dress that you THINK you could fit into if you only lost some weight. Don't buy the pants that look amazing on the hanger, but squeeze your stomach a little too tight and make you feel uncomfortable. Find pieces that feel comfortable and look fantastic on you. I've made this mistake before with shoes especially, hoping that a half size wouldn't make much of a difference. Bad idea. For more about this idea, see my previous blog post: "5 Ways to Feel Good in What You Wear."
When I don't have much money to spend on clothes, I will prioritize items that I actually "need." This includes dress pants, camisoles, jackets, jeans, shorts, sneakers, handbags, or shoes for each season. I like to have a good pair of brown or tan shoes and another pair of black shoes that are appropriate for the season. This is one of my "must-haves" that I will prioritize over buying trends or anything that catches my eye. Depending on your job or lifestyle, you may have different basics that you update every year. Keeping everything in similar colors or neutrals can be helpful for mixing and matching (for me, it's black, white, olive green, gray, and khaki). I'm a big fan of black and white together, and my wardrobe reflects that. Classic styles are perfect for pairing together, and never go out of style. I wrote a blog post series called "Timeless Fashion: 4 Classic Styles that Every Woman Should Own Vol. 1 and Vol. 2" that will give some information about what some of these classic styles are.
This photograph reminds me of every time that I have lusted over a pair of platform or stiletto high heels. My heart wants them, but my brain stops me: "Where are you going to wear those to? To school, where you'll step on kids' hands as you're teaching on the rug? Walking to and from the train station? Walking to Main Street for a drink? C'mon, you can't even walk across your living room floor with bare feet without tripping."
You have to think about how each clothing item is going to serve you in more than one way. If you can't think of any ways that something makes sense for your lifestyle, don't buy it! When I first became a teacher, I had to train my mind to find things that I wouldn't mind wearing to work AND on the weekends. That means my hemlines have to be lower for my skirts and dresses, my shoes have to be practical, and my necklines have to be higher (or I wear a camisole underneath).
In addition to that, you should think about how each new piece fits with what you currently own. If you are racking your brain and can't figure out more than one way that you'll wear it, maybe it's not for you. The only exceptions to this rule are dresses. In my opinion, dresses are the ultimate "put-it-on-and-go" outfit that don't necessarily need to be remixed the same way that tops, pants, and skirts need to be. You can add different accessories, shoes, and jackets for a new feel, but it's not needed.
According to Wikipedia, capsule wardrobes is a term coined by Susie Faux, the owner of a London Boutique called "Wardrobe," in the 1970s. A capsule wardrobe is a collection of a few classic items of clothing. Capsule wardrobes are generally in neutral colors and are very versatile, because you can wear the pieces with the latest trends of the season. You can also mix and match the items in a capsule wardrobe together, for an elegant and simplistic look. Here are my picks for a summer capsule wardrobe (from New York & Company).
Summer Capsule Wardrobe
(Left to right, top to bottom)
- Black Pointed-Toe Flats
- Crisscross-Back V-Neck Swing Dress
- 7th Avenue White 4-Inch Shorts
- Hampton Striped Cotton Split-Neck Tee
- Sleeveless Kate Shirt
- Off-the-Shoulder Bodysuit
- Perforated Two-Band Slide Sandals
- Soho Jeans Stained Glass Wash Boyfriend Bowery 4-Inch Shorts
- 7th Avenue Medium Blue Chambray Madison Stretch Shirt
Ways to Mix and Match the Capsule Items
I love retro-inspired classics, geeky t-shirts and sneakers, and soft, feminine pieces. Everyone has their own unique style. If you are not sure what yours is, Cardigan Empire is an amazing site (with blog posts, a style guide, and you-tube channel) that discusses finding your signature style (Discover Your Signature Style!). According to her website, I believe that my style may fit under the "romantic" and "traditional" categories. You should never buy something JUST because it is on clearance or on sale. It should really speak to you, and you should LOVE it! It should fit your overall aesthetic. Don't force it just because the price is good. If you're never going to wear it, it is a waste of money, no matter the cost!
Part 3: What's Old is New Again
I can thank Chris for the catchphrase, "What's Old is New Again." I am so inspired by the whole idea of using my current wardrobe is new and unique ways that I am planning an entire month on my facebook group for Polka Dot Blonde dedicated to this very idea. So stay tuned on (follow me if you wish) if you would like to see how I re-mix some of my older clothing in different ways. If you need me to help you to do the same and you are local to Lancaster or Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, please shoot me an e-mail here. You can remix your wardrobe by simply using old items in new ways OR pairing old items with new purchases. I was scrolling through my own photographs and noticed that I did this very thing with some of my favorite articles of clothing. Take a look.
As you can tell, it becomes much easier to mix and match when you have clothing in the same color schemes, or when you own neutral pieces like black, white, olive green, and tan. I would even consider chambray and denim to be neutral in color that you can pair with many different outfits.
Not only can you switch up your tops or bottoms for your old outfits, but you can also swap out different accessories such as sunglasses, scarves, shoes, jewelry, handbags. Even changing your hairstyle or makeup will make your outfit feel brand-new. Many of the blog posts I've read discuss how accessories are where you should invest the bulk of your money. I can't say that I follow this advice very well, but I can understand how a good quality purse, necklace, or pair of shoes will last you a very, very long time. Here are some examples of how I change up accessories to make an old outfit feel special.
Of course, in all of these outfits, I did also change the tops or bottoms. However, hopefully you can see how much the accessories lend themselves to the overall feel of an outfit. You can dress down an outfit by adding a denim jacket or sneakers (or a faux-hawk if you've got a pixie like me). On the other hand, you can dress up an outfit by adding accessories with some glamour to them, like the Cloche hat, floppy hat, pumps, long necklaces, glitzy jewelry (or red lips, naturally!). If you're like me, and never know which shoes to wear with your outfit, here is the most fabulous pin I have ever saved on Pinterest. It blew my mind…seriously.
I'm not talking a REAL personal stylist. I'm talking about having a close friend, family member, or significant other whose fashion sense you trust. Pick out 10 of your favorite items, or items that you always seem to wear in the same way every time. See if they can help you to pair your clothes in different way. That seems like it would be so much fun, right??
In conclusion, if you are broke but still want to look good, make sure that you follow these 3 guidelines.
- Find Ways to Save $ On Your Clothes
- Spend Your Money in Smarter Ways
- Make What's Old New Again
It's not easy…in fact it can be downright difficult to control the urge to shop. With these tips, however, you should be able to look stylish and save!
Until next time…


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Sustainable Livelihoods
Unemployment and underemployment figures in Iraq stand somewhere between 50 and 60 percent, creating an economic crisis, all too common in post-conflict zones. These people's needs are often overlooked because of ongoing unrest and fierce competition for scarce resources throughout the country. To alleviate this problem, systematic and sustained attention to this specific group, their families, and their communities is required. IOM Iraq staff strives to assist the unemployed and underemployed; assistance programs, coordinated between three different departments, help to immediately improve quality of life, but more importantly, institute lasting employment structures that will thrive long after the direct IOM presence in these communities has gone. IOM Iraq's Programme for Human Security and Stabilization, Community Assistance Projects, and Business Development Services Department focus on aiding the unemployed and underemployed and their communities, and have seen many great successes over the years of operation. Below is a more specific breakdown of their respective operations in regards to establishing sustainable livelihoods across Iraq:
Community Revitalisation Programme
The Community Revitalisation Programme (CRP) works closely with the Iraqi Ministry of Displacement and Migration (MoDM) and Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MoLSA) to develop a wide-ranging set of grassroots economic development programmes, with a focus on small business development. CRP supports the efforts of Iraqis to rebuild their local economies and encourages locally focused, broad-based economic development targeting unemployed and underemployed community members, as well as returnees in need of work. As small businesses are the backbone of any economy, CRP assists small businesses in Iraq in developing their markets, expanding their workforce through business and skills training for employees, and purchasing equipment to enable businesses to offer a greater number of quality services to their customers. CRP is currently operating in the 13 governorates of Anbar, Babylon, Baghdad, Basrah, Dahuk, Diyala, Erbil, Kirkuk, Missan, Ninewa, Qadissiya, Sulaymaniyah and Wassit, with the support from the governments of Germany and the United States. IOM Iraq expects CRP activities to soon become a nationwide initiative. CRP provides tools, materials and skills to the people of Iraq, and thus enables them to create economic opportunities for themselves and their families, rather than continuing cycles of dependence on aid. Iraqis have begun to rebuild their communities, their society and their country, and CRP strives every day to assist them in these efforts.
Assistance to Female-Headed Households
In late 2009, IOM Iraq began the implementation of a pilot project for psychosocial, legal and livelihood support to the most vulnerable internally displaced and returnee female-headed households in Baghdad, Diyala and Missan. The project provides vulnerable IDP and returnee female-headed households (FHHs) and other vulnerable women from host communities with psychosocial, legal and health support as a means of prevention and protection from violence as well as social and economic exclusion. In addition, IOM Iraq links these families to services that provide information and direct assistance in the areas of shelter and income-generation opportunities. In addition to direct targeted assistance provided to FHHs and their dependents, IOM Iraq provides technical support to community-based organizations. This cooperation aims at enhancing community-based organizations' capacity to address specific issues related to women at risk, including support for FHHs in the future.
Private Sector Development
IOM Iraq is an implementing partner with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in the 'Private Sector Development Programme' (PSDP-I), an 18-month project (September 2010- March 2012) focused on enhancing 'Business Development Services' (BDS) in three governorates of Iraq – Anbar, Basra, and Erbil. The primary objective of the partnership is to build the capacities of local private and semi/private business development service providers and to ensure that local entrepreneurs, unemployed and other marginalized groups have access to BDS.


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Henna Night – Friday, May 3, 2013 – Lansing
Turkish American Society of Michigan Women's Branch cordially invites all ladies to Turkish Henna Night on Friday, May 3, 2013. Please join us for a live demonstration of a traditional Henna Night ceremony and enjoy delicious food from Turkish cuisine.Please RSVP by either filling out the RSVP form by clicking here or by sending an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com
What is the tradition of Henna Night?
Henna Night ("Kina Gecesi" in Turkish) is a special gathering for the bride, her family, and her friends a day before the wedding day. The henna dying stands for dedication and devotion. In this occasion, the bride shows her devotion to her new family.
In the henna ceremony, the bride enters the room veiled and sits in the middle of the gathering as a touchy story is sung about a young woman who leaves her family to live with her husband. Henna Night is a warm farewell to the bride's own family and the home she grew up in, but also a welcoming gesture for her as she is about to be a part of a new family.
DATE : Friday, May 3, 2013
TIME : 7pm – 9pm
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I find this study very interesting because there are a number of provocative ways to interpret the results of this study, and most of those would be incorrect! In what follows, I highlight four (wrong) ways to interpret the results of this study.
I. HA! At last there is proof that genes do influence education attainment!
The first reaction to this result is likely to be a confirmation of something we all know intuitively--our genes influence our behavior, and in particular, the kinds of behaviors that are associated with longevity in school (e.g., perseverance, cognitive ability, work ethic). Unfortunately, its not a good idea to interpret this study as definitive evidence that genes influence educational attainment. Sure the sample of 120,000 people is pretty impressive, but the reality is that the three significant SNPs account for roughly 2% of the variance in participants' educational attainment--or about one extra month of schooling. Not a huge genetic impact on educational attainment, which then might lead someone to conclude...
II. HA! At last there is proof that genes don't influence education attainment!
It seems reasonable to conclude that if SNPs only account for 2% of variance in educational attainment, then they don't matter in the grand scheme of our educational lives, but that would also be an incorrect characterization of these findings. This specific study is a genome wide association study that looks for associations between SNPs and a specific phenotype. The method assumes that there will be relationships between a specific repeating DNA nucleotide sequence and a behavior. This of course, is not the only way that genes can influence us: For instance, genes can have additive effects, can interact with each other or the environment, can be switched on and off by changes in the social context, can mutate, and on and on. This specific study doesn't account for these more complex genetic influences--genes still are very much in play when it comes to educational attainment.
III. This research validates previous SNP studies!
You might be tempted, at this point, to conclude that the results of this study provide further validation for similar work that examines associations between specific SNPs and behavior. Most people are aware of SNPs like those that predict Alzheimer's Disease risk (APOE-4) or that relate to the number of oxytocin receptors in the brain (rs53576). But this specific study, if anything, is actually critical of much of this prior work.
If exploring the entire genome yields specific SNPs that only explain 2% of variance in a given behavior, then that behavior is either uniquely not influenced by genes (see point II above) or SNPs are not likely to be powerful predictors of behavior to begin with. Thus, studies that examine specific SNPs should be using a much larger sample than they have previously (try 120,000).
IV. Gene researchers shouldn't bother with SNP studies
Before you go throwing out the baby with the bathwater, it is important to note that some SNPs are powerful in predicting behavior--though they are fairly rare. The one example is the APOE-4 SNP that predicts Alzheimer's Disease. There are likely others, so this type of research isn't a lost cause. The question of whether a specific SNP sequence will reliably influence complex behaviors that people study in social and personality psychology remains a mystery.
Rietveld, C. A. (2013). GWAS of 126,599 individuals identifies genetic variants associated with educational attainment Science


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We couldn't let National Cat Day just pass us by at Cheezburger without some sort of celebration, and we want to share our day with you! First, we were lucky enough to have a couple of lovely feline visitors in the office today—Clara from ICHC brought in her adorable boy Bo, and Product Manager Peter also stopped in with the very sweet Casper. We couldn't resist having a little photo shoot for the kittehs.
Bo getting revved up for his super special day. Really, I think he's excited!
Casper is ready to go hunting for his missing burger…those fries just seem so lonely.
Group shot! Our models are definitely getting into the swing of things now.
Also, most of us at Cheez HQ have a raging sweet tooth so these cat inspired cupcakes are another treat we decided on for our National Cat Day celebration. Brought over by the talented bakers at The Yellow Leaf Cupcake Co., I'm sure you'll recognize a few familiar cat faces!
Happy National Cat Day from Cheezburger!


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Wykeham inn modification request withdrawn
WASHINGTON — The Paligroup has withdrawn its request for modifications to the site plan and 2013 settlement agreement for the previously approved Washington Zoning Commission special permit to build an unn on its 101 Wykeham Road property.
The high-end California hotel group applied for the changes in June. It purchased the 27 acre parcel in March from owners Matthew and Erika Klauer. The Klauers had foungth since 2007 for zoning approval to build a luxury in on the Wykeham Road property.
Neighbors to the property have fought The Paligroup's attempts to modify the approved plans. Two public hearings on the application ran for several hours with attorney Gail McTaggart, representing five neighboring property owners and attorney Robert Fisher representing the applicant.
The withdrawal email from Fisher stated the withdrawal was "without prejudice" and the applicant may apply again in the future.
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For most of us, listening to something – be it news or music or stories – is more than a habit, it's a ritual. Depending on your age and tastes, radio may be a part of that ritual. But the fact is that what we listen to and how we listen to it is changing.
In the midst of that change, Louisville's public radio remains a fiercely popular community asset. WFPL, WFPK, and WUOL provide entertainment and education for the whole region. Each station is headquartered in Louisville Public Media, a non-profit organization in the heart of Louisville's downtown. This is a vital group. But no one knows about it. Louisville Public Media is at a turning point in their more than 60-year history.
Louisville Public Media engaged us to raise their visibility by organizing and cohering their brand through language, design, and sound. Through this growth, they're preparing for the future of their work as their listeners continue to tune in – in any way and anywhere they can.
"This is a transformative time in our company history. The timing was perfect."
– Layla George, Director of Development
We're firm believers in the idea that a branding exercise is no good in a vacuum. In order for it to be successful, it must strengthen internal change within an organization. Nowhere is this more evident than in Louisville Public Media.
It's an exciting time to be a part of public media in general. As more listening shifts from real-time to on-demand, national groups like NPR are reexamining what kind of content creates lasting relationships with listeners long-term. How can they engender the same kind of loyalty online – where there is far greater competition?
This shift is daunting, but it's a huge opportunity – especially for groups like Louisville Public Media. LPM is primed for digital listenership, with successful podcasts in motion. In combination with their focus on the radio experience, LPM's strategy is not strictly digital – it's strategy in a digital age.
In addition, as public media goes through an identity crisis, Louisville Public Media remains mission-driven. While there was low parent group visibility before our engagement, campaign contributor comments from loyal listeners revealed a clear understanding of the group's value and vision. You cannot focus group that kind of passion.
We reviewed listener and contributor comments, campaign materials, leadership conversations, and – best of all – we listened to their programming religiously in order to understand exactly how the LPM mission plays out in its work and audience. The quality was clear: Louisville Public Media is community-driven in every sense of the word.
But the fact is that everyone uses that word. We needed to demonstrate community. To use strong branding that unifies each station in a shared spirit shown, not told. We oriented our efforts around the tagline: Gather Around.
Armed with an overall verbal tag, we worked with audio producer Brad Cassetto to create options for an overall audio tag. Brad is a Louisville resident – and an LPM enthusiast. His efforts were developed by Daniel Gilliam using a diverse selection of instruments to tailor each tag to each station. Their combined work resulted in the following audio tags:
Concept ideation for this project was challenging, but rewarding. We found a particularly valuable collaborator in Sean Cannon, Senior Digital Strategist and host/producer of the weekly interview show The Guestlist. Through our conversations with Sean – who is equipped with expertise in both design and all things LPM – we were able to create an identity that builds off the original work. Taking LPM to the next level while tightening their organization and messaging.
Formalizing naming was vital to this effort. Each member station was working to varying degrees with their call numbers, call letters, and in some cases descriptive names. We recommended applying descriptive names to each LPM property. The descriptive name needed to identify primary offering and pair with the word "Louisville." By repeating "Louisville" in the naming, each member station is further tied to the parent brand. Louisville Public Media.
As an added wrinkle, we saw the opportunity for a naming change. WFPK was formerly called Radio Louisville. In a digital age, that name could be limiting. We worked with their team to come up with alternatives, and proposed Independent Louisville.
The first step in the rollout was a digital makeover. We provided direction regarding LPM's app, web, and social branding. The rest was up to their team. And we created collateral to energize their employees and fans.
"The process helped us clarify what we actually wanted as an organization as we continue growing and evolving."
– Stephen George, Louisville Public Media President
Louisville Public Media has made waves using a re-focused awareness. It has no plans to stop on-air. Their investigative reporting work is now a banner initiative for the organization.
"I believe that the branding…almost gives us permission to be willing to try new things that aren't radio…It is a forward-thinking framework that can incorporate growth. That is very important for a media company in a rapidly changing environment."
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Sarah Kane's final play is a raw and sincere landscape of the psychotic mind. It is a story about someone who desperately wanted to communicate, to be understood; to be seen a person and not as an illness. 4.48 Psychosis allows us to observe the struggle of the self to remain intact and its inevitable fall.
Recreating an internal visual depiction of the human mind in turmoil. A barren space, and a mind which is full of potentiality at the same time. Exploring the fragmentation of self, the losing of borders that the psychotic mind experiences, the performance asks the audience to enter a subterranean labyrinth and encounter the complexity of the human memory, imagination and perception in all of its terror and beauty.
We have created a world open to its audience, a theatre of deconstruction which invites you to enter a region of the mind most of us would hope never to see. Enter our labyrinth.
"The production was first performed from the 7th-9th July 2015 at the Crypt Gallery, London"
A site-specific promenade performance lasting approximately 50 minutes.
7th-10th October
1.00 pm, 4.00pm, 6.00pm, 8.00pm daily
Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, Euston Road
Alisha Iyer, Miranda Teed, Cora Burridge, Helena Gadelha, Clemence Roberts, Ioli Filippakopoulou, Indre Kaftaniukaite, Depi Gorgogianni
Emily Louizou (Director)
Emily is currently in her final year studying English at UCL. Over the past eight years she has been actively involved in theatre companies by directing, writing, acting, and producing plays. Last year she was chosen to direct Euripides' Bacchae for UCL's annual Classics Play, which was selected by the National Student Drama Festival 2015, and invited to give a special performance at the British Museum. Since 2011 she has been Creative Director for The No Project, an initiative with which she has been exploring ways that art can be used to raise awareness of human trafficking. Recent directing credits include: Euripides' Bacchae (International Tour), Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano (Camden Fringe 2015), world premiere of Gingerbread (Almeida Theatre, August 2015), Unknown (Bloomsbury Theatre, March 2014).
Lily Hassioti (Designer)
Lily is an undergraduate student living in Dundee, Scotland. She is in her last
year of Fine Art studies at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. Responding to an era of consumerism and an age of enhanced communications, she focuses on producing works that focus on establishing relationships between the viewer and the artwork. Lily's art practice combines traditional media with technologies to produce interactive works that function only with the viewer's presence. Her installations become responsive with the use of sensors and microcontrollers and engage the viewers in experiences.
Ileana Arnaoutou (Designer)
Ileana has just completed her second year of her BA Fine Art degree, at the Slade School of Art, UCL. Her art practice mainly focuses on materials and their potential. Intimate relationships formed between her thoughts and the artwork are a key point of her philosophy. The power of the unconscious and the ability to portray genuine spontaneous ideas through momentum is the motto and target that keeps her creating. Her latest body of work explores biomorphic shapes and their ability to be abstracted from the human body and seen as individual living forms.
Avra just completed her second year of her studies in Performance Design and Practice at Central Saint Martins. She designed the Finborough Theatre world debut production of A Third (June 2015) and also worked as an assistant designer for the Artangel sight specific performance Have your circumstances changed. This year she also designed the Bacchae at the Bloomsbury Theatre. Avra recently designed for the National Youth Theatre as well as assisting for Dessa Rose, a musical that was nominated for Best Scenic Award at the Broadway World UK award 2014. Avra was also involved in the costume design creation for Scenes of Opera at the Royal Academy of Music.
David is an award-winning composer for theatre, screen and concert hall. He is a recent graduate of the Royal College of Music and his recent work includes Streetcar Named Desire (June 2015), Bacchae (February 2015). His passion for music and his compositional style are rooted in his deep-seated desire to disturb, unsettle, and confuse his audience without mercy.
Nicole Cyrier (Assistant producer)
Nicole is expecting to graduate September 2015, earning her MSc in Social and Cultural Anthropology at University College London (UCL). She earned a Bachelors of Arts in Anthropology with a Minor in Theatre from University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), with honors. There, she presented undergraduate research at The Second City Anthropology Conference (2013) and became heavily involved with UIC Theatre productions through costuming, make-up, and running crew. Nicole feels thrilled and extremely grateful to learn and work with the impressively spectacular cast and crew that is Collide Theatre.


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Anyone else love Adobo seasoning? I just recently bought it for the frist time, after enjoying it at other's homes. I'm loving it, on pork, beef, and chicken. I'm thinking the flavor that makes it special (to me, anyway) is the ingredient Tumeric. Any comments are most welcome.


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Tt eSPORTS Theron RTS Laser Gaming Mouse
The left side of the Theron is mostly covered with soft rubber coating for an assured grip even with sweaty hands. The shiny bit at the front is black plastic that wraps around the edge to the side. Then there is the pair of thumb buttons at the top, while the bottom shiny section is LED backlit.
The heel of the Theron offers the Battle Dragon logo that is backlit, has the shiny section at the left to denote the DPI selection being used, and another LED section at the bottom that is surrounded by the shiny black plastic that points to the back of the mouse.
The right side offers the same coating we have seen all over the top of the Theron. It also has another programmable button on this side and the LED section at the bottom. The spot you see near the top, behind the button is where a bit of the finish is coming off.
Staring the Theron in the face you can see the bottom section under the buttons is shiny and black to contrast all of the matte black on the top. The right and left click buttons are contoured with ever so slight ledges at the sides to help keep your hand on the mouse a little better in the heat of battle.
The scroll wheel is backlit and it has pointy horse shoe patterns on it, or are they Battle Dragon prints? The pair of arrow buttons behind the scroll wheel will allow you to select one of four set DPI settings which can be changed via the software to make things perfect for each user.
To power the Theron you will need to plug in the gold plated USB 2.0 connection into a PC. The cabling that comes with a braided sleeving on it is bound up to shorten the 1.8 meter length of it and secured with the Velcro strap with the Tt logo on it.
Under the Theron you can see it glides on two large and wide PTFE feet that are applied one to the front and one in the back. Mixed into the sticker you will see the sensor along with a profile button to change them and a polling rate button to adjust that.
Moving in a bit closer I want to address the locking switch. These allow users to disable or enable the side buttons functionality. Locked means they don't work, and unlocked allows them to function. You also get a door that can be opened to address mouse weighting.
I opened the door and removed the soft rubber insert that holds up to five weights. Each weight is 4.5 grams and will give you a total of 22.5 grams of additional weight if you need it.
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Any Way West by Eliza March
Publisher: Siren Publishing, Inc.
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Short Story (83 pgs)
Other: M/F, M/F/M, Ménage, Anal Play, Spanking
Rating: 4 cherries
Reviewed by Xeranthemum
The two gorgeous men on her doorstep look like the answer to Carly's sexual frustration. She has a score to settle with one, and he's brought a peace offering in the form of a hunky friend. Carly knows Jake's darkest secrets and, at one time, desired him anyway. Now she won't settle. She wants it all. Jake's hard and furious, Trey's slow and tender.
Ten years ago, Jake took everything Carly offered, any way he wanted, then abandoned her for the rodeo, danger and the open road. When he decides he still wants the one woman who accepted his rough sexual needs, he won't settle for less. He'll do what he must to convince her he'll be enough. If she wants Trey, Jake will share her, but only for now.
Who says you can't go home again?
How can a woman resist loving two men, especially when one used to be a bona fide cowboy? How can she chose only one and which one won't break her heart?
The answers can be found in the very sensual and erotic romance of Any Way West.
The book basically jumps into a reunion of old lovers and the internal conflict is just enough to give good reasons for making what happens believable and interesting.
Carly is an artist who returns to the home she knew. A place filled with hot memories of a lover and sadness and hurt because of the same guy. I thought Carly to be a pretty courageous woman because it isn't easy to go back and face the past. Especially when said past starts unloading your truck.
Jake is the man with some serious growing up to do. He was pretty stupid way back when. At least, that's my take on it. I guess he was scared mostly, but being a typical guy, he didn't handle his emotions well and didn't make the best choice in dealing with them. Now he has to decide once and for all – what does he really want out of life and what is he willing to do to make it happen. It gets more complicated because it's not just him this time around. He's got serious competition.
Trey acts like a happy sexual facilitator. He is very interested in Carly, doesn't mind sharing and has the sensitivity to realize what is really going on. His contribution to the story makes it sizzle and pop and he's a really nice guy. It was a toss-up as to who I liked better for Carly.
Ms. March did an awesome job with the waterfall scene. I loved the buildup, the descriptions and the scorching love scenes. I also thought the author chose the most romantic and perfect place for what she chose to have happen there. Ms. March wove many opportunities for the threesome to explore their sexual cravings and no sensual stone was left unturned throughout the story. She has a way with words and if a reader is looking for well choreographed and steamy scenes then this book will satisfy.
I personally wished that there was a bit more development of the characters because I prefer more substance to the stories I read, but even saying that, I admit that the author wrote in a well balanced amount to do her story justice and for a reader to be happy with Carly's eventual choice.
Any Way West is the book to read for a reader who is in the mood for a romance filled to the brim with hot and inventive ways that burn up the pages with a wild and passionate threesome. The buildup to Carly's eventual choice was believable and enjoyable. The author had a good grasp of what makes a ménage work and has the descriptions and dialogue to prove it. It's a quick read and quite entertaining; and I think it will appeal to readers who like deliciously naughty romances with a happily ever after totally in line with the personalities of the hero and heroine.


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This lovely jacket is the perfect vessel for your embellishments. We will discuss several options in class. Class fee is 35.00 and includes the pattern.
There is a new product to make ruffling a breeze ( oh ya). We will discuss a little about hand work on our jacket and ways to make this your own.
Please bring: A sewing machine, and a basic sewing kit.
Scotch tape for the pattern pieces.
Good fabric scissors
Fabric - I recommend a medium lightweight linen and a gauze or light weight fabric for fabric 2.
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On the eve of Patron Saint's Day of the patriarchal chapel of St. Simeon
26. February 2010 - 10:00
His Grace vicar Bishop Atanasije of Hvosno served last evening, on February 25 2010, Grand compline with Five-bread vessel and Morning service in the chapel of St. Simeon the Myrrh-Gusher at the Court of the Serbian Patriarchate.
The service, besides His Holiness Patriarch Irinej, also was attended prayerfully by lots of pious people of the capital. Today, on the occasion of the Patron Saint's Day of the Patriarchate chapel His Holiness will serve Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts at 9 a.m.


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What it does allow is for you to put games or applications written by other people. These programs sit on a microSD card. It comes with a 128mb card and a USB reader, as well as a CD containing some games and a video converter used to get your videos in the right format for viewing on the DS. That's right, the Games 'n' Music is a media player as well. It's not the greatest, but it is usable.
There are probably hundreds of games and applications available. Some of them are great, but many of them are not. Below is a relatively boring video demonstrating some of my favorite apps that have some potential in education.
All of the programs I mentioned in the video can be obtained from http://nintendo-ds.dcemu.co.uk/
You will also need a DLDI patcher to make things work. If there's interest I'll create a video demonstrating how to do this.


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Kevin Spacey Brings Hollywood Hypocrisy to Annapolis, Demands More Millions in Taxpayer Subsidies for 'House of Cards'
The Washington Post was apparently too star-struck to notice the irony of Kevin Spacey coming to an Annapolis reception to demand millions of dollars more in tax credits from the Maryland state government for a Hollywood company to make the program "House of Cards"in the state.
Spacey, an avid liberal and Obama fan, seems to like corporate welfare when it benefits him. Post reporters Jenna Johnson and John Wagner never found an ounce of One Percent irony while they described the oozy Spacey scene at the Red Red Wine Bar:
Lawmakers got about 90 minutes with him at an Annapolis wine bar on Friday night, during which they asked questions about the recently released Season 2, snapped selfies and — whether they admit it or not — pretended that their lives and careers were as glamorous, exciting and mysterious as Hollywood's version of politics....
Inside the bar, Spacey oozed charm as he schmoozed and smiled. He wore a white cable-knit sweater, a preppy look more associated with the yachts parked down the street than the mess of public servants wearing off-the-hanger, department-store suits. It was a rare bipartisan event, with Democrats and Republicans equally giddy and star-struck. Snippets of conversations escaped from the bar to the hungry reporters outside.
Spacey's Tinseltown paymasters have actually demanded more millions before they will film another season in Maryland, a threat that's already spurred a 45-to-1 state Senate vote in favor of more subsidy money:
"House of Cards" filmed its first two seasons in Maryland and planned to start filming the third season this spring. That has been pushed off until at least June, as the show's makers refuse to continue filming in Maryland until lawmakers vote to set aside millions more in film tax credits. The show has already received, or is in the process of receiving, as much as $26.6 million in reimbursements for the more than $119 million they spent in the state during the first two seasons. For Season 3, they want another $15 million. So far, the state has only promised $4 million....
The production company behind House of Cards — Media Rights Capital of Los Angeles — sent Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) a letter in late January that gently suggested that if lawmakers fail to deliver, they would "break down our stage, sets and offices and set up in another state."
No one's setting up the familiar liberal reaction to corporate welfare: Some homeless people in Maryland or some food kitchen is going to get slighted so that Kevin Spacey can get his salary paid for by the state of Maryland. They also avoided the Tax Foundation view that film tax credits do not really bring added revenue to a state.
The online headline for this story was a play on his acting role, "Kevin Spacey whips votes for Maryland film tax credits." In the Sunday paper, the story was buried on page B-3 with no pictures and the less descriptive headline "Spacey channels alter ego in Maryland pitch."
Earlier: Kevin Spacey Joked Romney Was Murderous, But Now Obama Is a Historic Giant


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I have not been around much with the holidays in full swing and me being sick to boot. Just a little beauty for you for today.
Beautiful Stephanie with her dark brown wanted to have a little change without cutting her hair off so we elected to add some caramel ombre. With an ombre, you can have some "blonde" in your hair whether or not it is "your color" so long as it is not against your face.
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