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An incongruous political situation led Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to reveal to the Parliament that Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar tipped off her political adversary, Marlene Mc Donald one month before her arrest.
"I didn't know Marlene Mc Donald was going to get arrested but one month before she was arrested the Leader of the Opposition could have called her to her office and tell her she was going to be arrested," Rowley said.
As the disclosure echoed through the Chamber of the Parliament on Monday night, gasps and wows emanated from the Government bench.
On August 7, Officers of the Fraud Squad swooped down on McDonald's home at Valley View, Maracas, St Joseph, where they executed a search warrant and took away several items.
This was in connection with six-year-old investigation into the alleged siphoning of over $1 million from a Government Ministry to three organisations which police claimed linked to family and friends of the then public administration minister and her husband.
Four days later, Mc Donald was charged with seven criminal charges, including misbehaviour in public office, conspiracy to defraud and money laundering.
As the Prime Minister continued his contribution to the Firearms (Amendment) Bill 2019, he told the Parliament that as the Chairman of the National Security Council he did not know that the police were on to Marlene Mc Donald but the Member of Parliament for Siparia, Kamla Persad Bissessar, did.
He added that it took him four days to find out what was taking place regarding his minister.
At that point Opposition Chief Whip David Lee interrupted and raised Standing Order 48 (1), which speaks to relevance to the debate at hand.
But the PM shot back quickly, "sit down!"
After getting affirmation from Deputy Speaker of the House Esmond Forde, Rowley continued and expressed how confident the Opposition Leader was in her information.
The Prime Minister's appetite for revelations seemed unfulfilled as he went on to say that there was even a point when the People's Partnership was in power (2010 -2015) that Mc Donald, an attorney, was offered the prospect of being made a Senior Counsel.
Again Lee raised Standing Order 48(1), only this time the Deputy Speaker urged the Prime Minister to tie what he was saying into the bill.
"Mr Deputy Speaker I have rope, I have twine, I have thread I could tie it." he said
He explained that he was pointing out the behaviour of the UNC as they made accusations against his Government and he felt that they are in fact the ones people should be careful with.
"Is because we have credibility that I as leader could have told my colleague you do no such thing and you take no silk from them unless is a silk twine to hang themselves." He added.
Mc Donald, the Port-of-Spain South MP, her long-time companion Michael Carew, Wayne Anthony, Victor McEachrane and Edgar Zepherine have appeared before Chief Magistrate Maria Busby-Earle-Caddle in the Port-of-Spain Magistrates' Court to answer a total of 49 charges.
Since being charged, McDonald has been removed as Public Administration Minister and deputy political leader of the People's National Movement (PNM).
Persad Bissessar was not in the Chamber at the time the Prime Minister was speaking and several efforts to contact her for comment up to late yesterday roved futile.
However, in response Public Relations Officer of the UNC, Anita Haynes said, "Once again Keith Rowley is grasping at straws. Without a single achievement to show the people of T&T, he is resorting once again to bringing patently false claims to the Parliament in an effort to deflect attention from his incompetence and inability to govern. Remember email-gate?" she said.
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It's late on a Saturday night, I'm at Starbucks – freezing! (why do they keep this place so cold?) red cup in hand, lap top open, pen and paper right beside. Working away, without Sesame Street playing the background, a child asking me for a snack, or trying to turn my neatly organized work papers into works of art. It is GLORIOUS!
As I sit and work and mull over various conversations I've had throughout the day I keep coming back to this general sentiment I've noticed in several people I've spoken with: I'm a victim.
I have TOTALLY been there! In tears, feeling like it's not fair, and then in desperation, just letting it happen, because – what can I do about it? I'm trapped in the current of a hectic life, holding my breath and closing my eyes and praying I make it.
But I wanted to write this blog post, because I've begun to live a different reality.
What I'm about to write isn't going to be easy to hear – and you probably won't believe me at first.
It took me a few listens to 'get it', but even if this is just the first of many hearings for you, I feel compelled to share.
Your life is what YOU, and you alone, CHOOSE.
You don't always get what you want, but you ALWAYS get what you chose. Any limitation that you feel, is SELF-IMPOSED.
It's so easy to find reasons outside of ourselves for why things aren't working out. And it might even feel good to skirt responsibility, but because we can't control what others do, it leaves us in a hopeless and 'victim' mentality. As hard as it may be to take responsibility for your life, once you do there is POWER, because YOU can control your own actions.
Let's take the example of your personal health.
Tell me how busy you are, tell me all the reasons outside of yourself, why you can't exercise on a regular basis, but when it comes down to it, YOU choose when you wake up. If you CHOOSE to, you could wake up at 5am and do your workout then. But instead, you are CHOOSING not to prioritize your health THAT much to get up at that hour every day. That's fine!! But don't tell me how it's everyone else's fault why you aren't working out consistently. You aren't working out consistently because you refuse to CHOOSE to do it. If YOU wanted to, if you were motivated and determined enough, you could do it. It all comes down to YOUR choice. Yes, that's hard to hear, but isn't it GREAT too! The power to change is in YOUR hands.
Maybe I'm feeling a little feisty tonight, maybe I've just heard so many excuses in my line of work, maybe I truly feel sad for the many people I speak to on a regular basis, who TRULY feel like they are a victim and there is no hope – they can NEVER get to whatever goal it is that they want. Even if it's just that they wish they could spend some time getting to know their neighbors (like my neighbor expressed to me this evening). She was actually talking to me like she wanted to get together with her neighbors so badly and yet it would just NEVER happen because she was so busy. The sound of her voice and look on her face was almost like there was some sort of governmental ban on socializing with your neighbors and she was stuck in this prison of solidarity. I'm just standing there thinking – "What is stopping you? Are you really THAT busy that you can't even find 2 hours one weeknight and invite them over for coffee? No, that not true. If you needed to go to a doctor's appointment, or get your oil changed, or buy a new outfit for an event, you just make the time for it. YOU choose what you want to do with your time, your money, your talent, and what you put in your mouth. PERIOD. No one else makes that choice for you." Stop feeling like you are a victim…it's just not true. Your limits are set by your mindset, change your mind and you will change your life.
Get away from the victim mentality, find a way to chase your dreams, and I'm telling you – it will be AMAZING how many things you thought were beyond your control start to change for the better.
I hope this isn't offensive to anyone, I share this because it brought FREEDOM and life and a new hope into my life during a very dark time. Every single person is full of potential and greatness, doubt and fear of failure kill that greatness – and if this post is the kick in the pants you need to realize that you don't have to let that happen anymore, THAT is my greatest hope.


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Wherever I travel in the world, I make the effort to buy locally made souvenirs and support local people. At the very least I make sure I buy a gift that is actually made in the country I am visiting.
On a recent visit to Australia in October 2015 I was impressed by a shop at Sydney airport selling purely Australian made gifts for travellers. The shop, called Purely Australian carries a wide range of Australian made products – fridge magnets, soft toys, wax jackets and bags, microfibre glasses cleaning cloths, sports clothes such as tracksuit tops, jumpers, wooly hats, Akubra hats, fridge magnets, and much more – all made in Australia. Purely Australian is Australia's leading retailer of Australian clothing, offering a product range that reflects the fundamentals of nature, including Australian grown cotton and fine pure new wool. The Purely Group, which operates this shop, has operated retail outlets for the past fifteen years, with its primary focus on airport retailing throughout Australia. The Purely Australia Sydney Airport branch is located at Pier B after immigration control at Sydney International Airport and if you are in Sydney is a great place to shop. There are other shops at Sydney Airport selling Australian made products too, although Purely Australian seems to be the only selling just Australian made as opposed to some Australian made and mostly Chinese made souvenirs. At British airports and seaports you'll be lucky to find anything that is not foreign made, which in some ways is strange given that in Great Britain secondary industry produces far more goods than does Australia.
The products on sale at Purely Australian stores mostly seem to carry the Australian Made logo. The Australian Made, Australian Grown logo is administered by Australian Made Campaign Limited (AMCL), a not-for-profit public company established in 1999 by the Australian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ACCI) and the network of state and territory chambers of commerce, with the cooperation of the Federal Government. AMCL is not a government body and does not receive government funding for its core operations, which are licensing companies to use the logo and promoting Australian products both in Australia and overseas. Originally the campaign and logo were conceived by the government of Australia. The criteria for using the logo are clear – essentially the product has been manufactured in Australia (not just packaged or assembled); and 50% or more of the cost of making it can be attributed to Australian materials and/or production processes; or else grown/produced in Australia, with all of the product's significant ingredients grown in Australia and all or nearly all of the processing has been carried out in Australia. What I like about both the campaign and the shop are the simple and clear way it is carried forward. In answer to the question "Why buy Australian Made?", the response is simple too – "It's good for consumers, it's good for business and it's good for Australia."
My question is why can't the Brits operate stores at our airports and seaports providing British made souvenirs, in the same way that Purely Australian stores are committed to providing an all-Australian souvenir experience and why can't the Brits have a simple and clear buy British campaign like the Australian Made one?
There are a few Buy British campaigns currently running, such as those promoting the use of the logos below:
There are physical shops in the UK, like Things British, that only sell gifts and souvenirs that are made in the UK but non at Britain's ports and airports that I am aware of. There are some local shops only selling British, like Buford Woodcraft. Jail Dornoch at Inverness Airport is one of the few gift shops at a British airport that does sell quite a few British made items but still alongside much that is foreign made. There are gift shops who sell a good range of British made gifts (alongside Chinese made tat), such as some of the museum gift shops – The London Transport Museum shop, and the National Trust shops.
On the web there are sites selling only British made such as Things British (selling only British made gifts, and supporting British designer-makers), Made in These Isles (selling British made clothes, accessories, homeware, beauty products, furniture, lifestyle products, etc; all products are "produced from within the geographical region of the British Isles"), The Great British Exchange (trade only; they source new British made products and sell them to retailers), The Great British Home (selling gifts, and homeware made in the UK), From Britain with Love (Scandinavian inspired homeware, accessories and gifts made in Britain) and DreamGB (selling British made gifts and everyday products), Pickle ("All of our products are made in the UK" they tell us – throws, picnic rugs, kitchen ware, vases, children's shoes, toys, cards, jewellery, Christmas decorations and so on), Make The Most Of (an online networking community and seller of British goods and services direct from the providers; although the site promotes British business I do not think everything they sell is British made) and others selling gifts and more like Made Closer, Handmade GB and Not on the High Street that clearly label country of origin and sell some British made gifts. There are gift manufacturing companies too like Custom Works (trade only; they manufacture more than 50 product lines here in their factory in Bo'ness, Scotland, with everything else they sell being imported). Victoria Eggs homeware, gifts and cards are mostly made in Britain – aprons, oven mitts, tea towels, mugs which disappointingly are foreign made but are printed in the UK, cushions, screen prints, coasters, tote bags, greetings cards and gift wrap.
There are many more companies making gift items in the UK too of course. There are websites encouraging us to buy British such as Buy British, British Family, British Made for Quality, Made in Britain, Back British Farming by the NFU, and of course my site ukmade, but non supported by the British government.
If you travel to say Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the USA, France, or Thailand, you can easily find plenty of products that are made domestically. In this article by the British Family, James explains that they had a similar experience recently in Italy and were impressed by the number of domestically produced items easily available. As James challenges us to do in this article about Italy, look around the any British high street and see if you can find anything made in Britain!
Manufacturing in the UK allows companies to control supply, guarantee quality, offer flexibility and to be ethical and environmentally sound. I encourage you to buy products that are made in the British Isles (excluding the Republic of Ireland) and British Overseas Territories and if buying non-British made items I would encourage you to look at goods manufactured within the Commonwealth first. When buying a jumper, a piece of furniture or a bag of apples, do you check to see where it has come from? Why not make a conscious preference to buy British made? You may have to look that bit harder as lots of goods on the High Street are foreign made these days, but Britain still makes most things. I'm backing Britain. Are you?


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On top of my obsession for fashion and make-up there's one more hobby I absolutely adore, and that's photography. Whilst I've been blogging I've been shooting most of my photos in RAW, and I thought I'd do a post about what taking photos in RAW means and how I prefer it to shooting photos in standard modes.
This post is mainly for DSLR cameras and if anyone wants to know what camera I use then it's a Canon 1200D!
So, what does RAW mean?
RAW doesn't actually stand for anything, it's a setting you can take photos in. In your camera you have different settings for image quality – options could be small, medium, large or RAW.
Small, medium and large settings determine how big your photo will be (in terms of the size of the file) and they will all be JPEG. Then you have RAW photos, which are the biggest size and have the best quality. They're also saved as a RAW file instead of a JPEG.
What's the difference between JPEG and RAW?
The easiest way to think about it is that a JPEG file is a finished product and a RAW photo is the photo before editing. JPEG files aren't (in the photography world) meant to be edited much and this is because the quality isn't as good. When you have a RAW file, you can edit it better because it's a much clearer photo and it takes in so much more information, and then you save it after editing as a JPEG (and then you have your 'finished product').
RAW photos hold SO much more detail and light to JPEG photos. Here's two photos taken exactly the same but in the two modes. Left is RAW and right is JPEG. (I've not edited them)
I'll also show you a comparison below of zoomed in photos so you can see the detail difference (I've zoomed them in the same amount).
See the quality difference? If you're on your phone it may not be clear but click the photos and zoom in further, you'll notice the JPEG image is much more pixelated.
How do I shoot in RAW?
If you go to your camera menu or settings, somewhere you'll find 'image quality' – here you'll have your options for shooting in small, medium, large or RAW modes.
Will it make a difference to how I take photos?
Not at all! You take your photos exactly how you did before – on your camera it'll look pretty much the same as a JPEG photo until you get into your editing software and realise how much more detailed RAW photos are.
How do I edit them?
This is where it gets complicated. You have to edit your photos a bit differently using some different programs, and unless you have Lightroom or Photoshop you won't be able to easily edit RAW photos – free programs don't support them.
I edit my photos in Photoshop CS6 – this isn't the newest version but my dad had it on an old CD which I stole last year. Attached to Photoshop packages you get something called 'Adobe Bridge'. To find it you can click on File in Photoshop and it'll say 'Browse In Bridge'.
Adobe Bridge looks a bit like this:
Bridge is a program where you can navigate around your folders and find photos easily, and you right click them to edit them. When you right click a RAW file in Bridge it'll give you an option to 'Edit in Camera RAW'. Camera RAW is an extra program where you do all the editing. It looks like this:
The options obviously take a while to get used to – it's pretty similar to Photoshop editing but it's eventually easier to use and there are LOADS more options. Honestly, the possibilites of editing photos in Camera RAW are endless and you can do so much more to them without them looking obviously edited or compressed.
When you've finished editing your photo in Camera RAW you need to open it in Photoshop. See in that previous photo it says 'Open Image'? You click that and it opens it in Photoshop – once it's open it's now a completed JPEG file.
The only issue is, it's still a HUGE file. The size of it can be 5 times the size it needs to be (especially for me, my photos only need to be 1000 pixels wide to fit on my blog). Luckily in Photoshop you can change the size of images when you save them.
Go to File, and click Save to Web. It'll come up with the sizes in the bottom right corner and you can save it as a smaller file. This way it'll take less time to load on your blog and it won't take up tons of memory on your computer/laptop.
I hope this post has given you some idea as what a RAW file is (sorry if I made it sound MEGA complicated). If you're really interested in photography then I'd definitely recommend finding out more about it – plus overall it actually makes editing photos a much quicker process!
Leave me a comment if you have any questions – I'll reply to them all!
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Sauteed Chanterelle Mushroom Recipe
Here's my delicious sauteed chanterelle mushroom recipe. I use these sauteed chanterelle's on all types of recipes like topping grilled chicken and in omelets or just by itself.
1/2 lb Chanterelle Mushrooms
1/2 Large Yellow Onion
Olive Oil
White Wine or Champagne Wine Vinegar
Add Olive Oil to pan and saute for 3 minutes. Add Onion and saute for an additional 5 minutes. Add Wine Vinegar and coat the mushrooms thoroughly. Cook until the wine vinegar boils off. Then, serve or add to your favorite recipe.
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Chanterelle Hunting 2014
Find some free Chanterelle Mushrooms in the wood during your next hike. Let me show you how.
While hiking on some local game lands, I discovered some Chanterelle mushrooms. Chanterelle's have an orange color caps with false gills.
I just look for big oak tree and look around them to find the Chanties.
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Friday, August 8, 2014
Grilled Kale
Grilled Kale is quickly becoming one of my favorite grilled vegetables. If you love kale chips, you're going to love this recipe.
This recipe takes advantage of simple ingredients and is quick to make. Coat the kale with olive oil, salt, and pepper. Place the kale on the grill and grill each side for 1 to 2 minute.
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Hello gay women!
Melissa Etheridge is lending her talents in support of the earth yet again. She'll be performing at the Dow Live Earth Run for Water in Atlanta on April 18.
Just a reminder that the new cycle of America's Next Top Model is on The CW tonight (8 p.m. EST), including out contestant Tatianna. Get ready to judge some new smizes!
k.d. lang is working on a new album of completely original songs and also says she'll be embarking on a Canadian tour, but not until 2011.
Julianne Moore is DIVA magazine's new cover model. As an actress well-versed in playing gay, she told the mag, "I feel that to describe it as such can be reductive sometimes. The films I've made are about humanity, about what it is to be alive and for me the stories are about all of us." Right, but you also kiss girls and we like that about you.
This Friday, lesbian agent Diana Lancing returns for the finale of White Collar. That takes her episode count up to to two for the whole season. That's not enough lesbian for me.
On the season two premiere of BBC show Love Soup, shopgirl Alice Chenery finds herself under the supervision of a "predatory lesbian boss." Grumble grumble.
Ghostella director/resident AfterEllen.com horror film buff Stacie Ponder is hosting a live blog tonight in conjunction with her podcast, The Scare-ring. It's the launch episode, and promises some special guests, so join in at 8 p.m. PST.
Hey geeky gay girls — Battlestar Galactica is launching a Massively-Multiplayer Online (MMO) game next fall. Says Bill Kispert, VP of digital platforms for Universal Pictures: "We're picking a point in the chronology of the series that fans are very familiar with to tell new stories. There will be space combat as well as missions and exploration." Starbuck lives on!
Lesbians love Chloë Sevigny — and why shouldn't we? Well, you could be a little put off by her interview with The Advocate. The actress says she "still kiss[es] girls occasionally" but "wouldn't say [she] was bisexual." Also, in regards to if she could ever be in a relationship with a woman: "Probably not, no. I need more meat and potatoes — with more of the meat part, I guess." She obviously just hasn't met the right woman yet.
You can pre-order Suze Orman's new book, Suze Orman's Action Plan: New Rules for New Times for $9.99. The book comes out March 23 and will surely be full of Suze Smackdowns.
Lesbian video site Tellofilms.com is relaunching March 15 with behind-the-scenes interviews with the cast and crew of GirlTrash! Up All Night, including stars Gabrielle Christian, Mandy Musgrave and directors Alexandra Martinez Kondracke and Angela Robinson.
While in the UK recently, Lindsay Lohan went on Alan Carr's talk show where he asked about her love life, her sexuality and some other personal questions.
I hadn't heard of this "Arthur or Martha" business before. UK readers, is this used frequently or did Alan Carr create this to make LiLo blush?


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Deregulation and market-oriented policies could unlock private risk capital and entrepreneurship in Japan. In key sectors of the Japanese economy, regulations strangle growth. Specifically, policy should promote producers in sectors where Japan has natural strengths. I see at least four areas in which Japan has the potential to leverage inherent social and cultural attributes to realize substantial economic returns:
Rojin power. No country is better suited to create a network of health care facilities, retirement communities, hospices and the like that would set new global standards for how societies provide for their rojin, or seniors.
Soft power. Given the global admiration for Japanese fashion, design, new media and architecture, the country can become a magnet for firms in those fields from all over the world.
Agripower. With a shift in focus to eco-food, safe food and innovative food, even Japan's famously inefficient farmers could become world beaters.
Destination power. Since neighboring countries are generating millions of newly prosperous citizens who want to tour the world, Japan should make itself much more inviting to these travelers.
None of these activities involve significant manufacturing. Each is labor-intensive, offering reasonable pay for jobs requiring relatively high levels of education and creativity.
Poll after poll finds that Japan's citizens are anxious about the future. Among their biggest fears: uncertainty about whether the state's promises to cover graceful retirement can be honored. This uncertainty drives workers to save much of their paychecks, depresses demand and worsens the vicious deflationary cycles.
Magic bullets are rare in public policy, but in this case, one is available: Japan should pass a law that automatically raises the consumption tax from its current 5% level by an additional percentage point every year. And this law must leave unspecified how many consecutive years this step-up is supposed to happen.
Not all optimists are starry-eyed; my confidence in Japan is rooted in reality. Empowering people and entrepreneurs and enacting sensible tax increases can put Japan back on a track toward prosperity.
The More Things Change
Pico Iyer
One Japanese individual commits suicide every 15 minutes. Perhaps a million Japanese are hikikomori, meaning that they almost never leave their houses. Even as the country is suffering through one recession after another shuttered stores seem to be as common as departing Prime Ministers the social fabric of my adopted home, sustained and refined over centuries, is beginning to crack. Some older couples are hiring young actresses to visit them on Sundays to say, "Hi, Mom! Hi, Pop!" because their own daughters no longer do.
Yet even as all the external registers suggest a society in decline, and even after the horrifying earthquake and tsunami of March 2011 literally reduced parts of the country to rubble, the Japan I see around me seems much stronger and more durable than statistics suggest. It remains the pop-cultural model that countries from Taiwan to Singapore are keen to follow in its street fashions, its gizmos, its convenience stores. Japan is still a byword for quality and efficiency. Its people, in moments of stress (as after the tsunami), summon a fortitude and a community spirit at which the rest of the world rightly marvels. And when Richard Florida at the Rotman School of Management in Toronto conducted a survey of 45 countries a few years ago, Japan ranked first in the values index a register of how much the country holds to the traditional. For Florida, this ranking was not an advantage, but for those who worry that Japan has left its past behind without ever quite arriving at an international future, the result could be both a surprise and a consolation.
As I look around the city I've made my home at the deer grazing just outside the glass-and-concrete city hall it's hard not to wonder if the country's strength lies not in its future but in its past, at least in the traditional sense that time moves around rather than always pressing forward. Fashions change in Japan, famously, more furiously than anywhere else, and there are few places more full of surging crowds, flashing images and all the apparatus of tomorrow. But the ideas underlying all these spinning surfaces often suggest that progress is cyclical, not linear, that moments keep returning as the seasons do and that change itself can be a constant. Every year, the details shift but the pattern looks very much the same.
The recent power and popularity of Japan, such as it is, has come not from its trying to diminish its distance from the world so much as from trying to turn that distance to advantage. The brilliant miniaturism of its TVs and smart phones arises from a land that has long liked to work in small spaces think haiku and bonsai. The manga and anime that have swept the pop-cultural globe come from a culture that has long thought in images more readily than in words. The planetary phenomenon that Yorkshiremen call "carry-oke" derives from a country whose people are at once publicly shy and yet strikingly confident when it comes to playing a part.
Japan has long been less like anywhere else than anywhere else I know, and when the country sees that as a strength, it finds its place on the international stage. Who would have thought, for example, that people from Bombay to Rio would be devouring raw fish? In an era of globalization, the local has a new and particular force.
Their economy is stalled, their political system looks bankrupt, their land was hit by an apocalyptic series of traumas, and their kids are acting out. But when Japan looks toward the future and this was not the case in the England I grew up in or in California when I lived there it sees something that looks as familiar as the falling leaves and brilliant skies of November. The things that don't change give a meaning and a perspective to the many things that do. Autumn turns to winter, and then to spring again.
Excerpted from Reimagining Japan: The Quest for a Future That Works, edited by McKinsey & Co., Clay Chandler, Heang Chhor and Brian Salsberg (VIZ Media, 2011). © McKinsey & Co.


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A resident with a history of wandering and whose whereabouts were supposed to be monitored every two hours escaped from the facility and was found frozen to death in an alley behind the Illinois nursing home. The nurses' notes did not reveal that the resident was being monitored and an IDPH survey revealed that the front door of the facility did not have an alarm.
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How to Survive an Operating System Crash
by Patty Gale – © 2005 all rights reserved
"We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows could not be accessed
or located."
It happens to the best of us. A complete operating system failure. One
day you might turn on your PC and that dreadful message is on your
screen as plain as day. You don't know what you could have possibly
done, as your computer was working fine just a little while ago.
Panic is usually the first thing to set in. Something like an operating
system failure can literally put home business owners out of business
indefinitely. The cost and time involved in trying to repair a PC
and the months or even years of lost information is overwhelming and
frightening to think about.
This doesn't have to happen to you if you are prepared.
When you think about it, our businesses are at the mercy of technology.
The technology is only as good as long as it's working properly. What a
wonderful world we would live in if technology were flawless.
The reality is that systems fail. Computers are machines and machines
sometimes break down. It doesn't get any simpler that than. We have
no other choice than to be prepared for when those times come,
especially IF we want to make sure our home business suffers very
little down time.
There are some very easy things you can do right now to make ensure your
peace of mind for your business. You need to be back up and running as
quickly as possible in the event of an operating system crash.
- Document everything including usernames, passwords, merchant account
numbers, important websites and especially software unlock codes.
Anything that is not written down on paper is subject to being lost.
- Back up your hard-drive as necessary for how often you have new
updates that you cannot afford to lose or rebuild.
** Important! If you have to completely reinstall your operating system,
the "My Documents" folder is usually lost. Make sure you don't forget
this folder when you do the back up.
- Make sure all of your .exe, zip and software install files are on a
disk. This is easily done by backing them up or burning them onto a
CD. You should already have the system restoration and any other
store-bought software disks handy.
The actual repair or reinstall of your operating system may be simple, or it
may be complicated. If you are well versed in this area, you may be
able to restore the system yourself. If you're like most of us, you
may have to call a computer repair professional.
When your PC is restored, you will be able to simply reinstall your
software and document files from the disks you created. If you have
access to a secondary PC, you can install your programs on the backup
computer in the interim.
Regardless, you will rest much easier knowing that you have taken some
basic steps necessary to prepare yourself and protect your business.
This very same scenario happened to me just recently. It could have
been a disaster for my business, but it wasn't. I was prepared, and was
back up and running within 24 hours.
Don't wait until it's too late.
About the Author:
Patty Gale is a successful entrepreneur who specializes in
personalization and customer care for all of her clients. She
exchanged her suits, hose and heels to work from home in her "jammies"
and is on a mission to empower others to do the same.
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Identifying and Reporting Federal Facility Activities
SUPERSEDED - Please refer to MOST RECENT GUIDANCE
Purpose:In FY 2006 we started a data quality focus on accurate and complete reporting of federal facility enforcement and compliance activities. It is essential that all federal facility activities (enforcement actions, inspections and compliance assistance activities), along with their outcome measures, be reported. For FY 2009, Regions should continue to ensure that all federal facility activities are entered into the appropriate database of record.
The certification form was modified in FY 2006 to require that each Region and OECA office certify that all federal enforcement and compliance activities have been entered and identified as addressing a federal facility in the respective database of record.
A continuous challenge has been determining when a facility is a "federal" facility and identifying its type of ownership correctly in ICIS. OECA's Federal Facilities Enforcement Office (FFEO) is continuing to work with the Regions to better define and identify all federal facility activities in ICIS. This includes efforts to create a mandatory field in ICIS to identify federal facility activities.
Data Entry:When entering compliance monitoring/enforcement action data in ICIS, the facility screen in ICIS contains a field for "Facility Type of Ownership." Select "Federal Facility" for the traditional federal facility or "GOCO (Government Owned/Contractor Operated)" as appropriate for all records involving federal facilities. However, some actions involve privately owned organizations that are only operating on Federal property (i.e., a privately owned gas station operating on a military base). Because these cases are not against a federal facility but against a private organization, insert the abbreviation "(FF)" at the end of the activity name instead of marking the facility type of ownership as Federal. In the case of facility data provided to ICIS from FRS that is not properly identified as a federal facility, ICIS users should link their activity to the facility and insert the abbreviation "(FF)" in the activity name in order to identify the activity as a federal facility activity. If possible, Regions should attempt to update the federal facility field in the source database where the improperly identified facility data originated.
Data Retrieval:FFEO uses ICIS ad hoc reports to retrieve federal facility activity data which have the federal facility field populated with Yes. FFEO will develop and post these reports specific to federal facilities under the "Shared Community" within Business Objects. Selecting the facility type of ownership field and inserting "(FF)" at the end of the activity name will ensure that all of the outputs and outcomes from these relevant activities will be analyzed and reported.


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Core Academy: Supporting Student Achievement Success (CASSAS), also known as Saturday School, is an opportunity for students to make up time they have missed due to absences. Saturday School is staffed by credentialed teachers who are ready and willing to tutor your child on their school work. It operates on selected Saturdays (see schedule below) from 7:55 am till noon. Students may be assigned Saturday School for unexcused absences, or may voluntarily come to clear excused absences. It does not necessarily remove truancies from individual classes for the purposes of grade calculations by teachers. Students who have more than one truancy may be put on an attendance contract. Students may be suspended for violation of the contract. Students who do not attend assigned Saturday school will remain on the LOP list. Each Saturday school clears one full day of absence.
A breakfast meal is available for students attending Saturday School. If your child is approved to receive Free or Reduced Price Meals, or if the entire school receives Free meals, the breakfast is available for no charge. If your child pays for meals, please make sure they have money in their cafeteria account to cover the cost of the breakfast of $1.00.
Every Saturday school will be staffed with either a English, Math, History or Science teacher. This time can provide your student with free tutoring during that time. The dates of each Saturday school and the subject area represented will be posted on the Henry website.
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2. Saturday School is held from 8:00 am - noon.
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5. One ten-minute break will be given during the four-hour session. You will be allowed to go to the bathroom only during the break, so plan accordingly. Failure to return on time will result in dismissal without credit.
6. If you leave at any time during the session or are asked to leave by the supervisor, you will not receive credit for the day.
The Saturday School teacher assigned will check student progress every hour and if they are not working, they will not receive credit.
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In the News: 200 Attend Business Conference at Augustana
Two hundred local business owners and entrepreneurs attended the third annual Sioux Falls Business Conference earlier today to learn more about "Innovation in a Changing Marketplace." Held on the Augustana campus, the conference brought together local and regional business experts to discuss the changing Sioux Falls marketplace and recommend how business owners can best plan for success in the future.
Five Augustana alumni and one faculty member were among the panelists and each break-out session was moderated by members of the College's Business Administration department, including Jason Harris, Shelly Gardner, Dr. Marcia Entwistle, Kevin Buell, Dr. Ryan Sougstad and Dr. Bob Wright, Nef Family Chair of Political Economy.
Jeff Broin, CEO and president of POET, was the morning keynote speaker. Read more about Broin's remarks at the Sioux Falls Business Journal.
For those who couldn't be there, the Sioux Falls Business Journal live-streamed the two featured speakers, Jeff Broin, CEO of POET, and Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether. Replays of the speeches are available on-demand.
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Gartner's 2010 CIO Agenda survey doesn't throw up any astounding findings. Spending is flat and cloud is top of the agenda. It doesn't paint a very rosy picture for IT teams that have already had to endure two or more lean years.
But, it does seem to indicate that the transition from IT leaders and their non-IT peers talking about cloud to actually adopting it in a big way is about to start and gives a points to the ways in which IT spending is going to change as a result of that shift.
Globally, the survey of 2,014 CIOs found IT budgets were expected to rise by a meagre 0.4 per cent this year. However, the picture in Europe is worse than that, with the UK pulling figures down further than any other country in the region. Domestic IT budgets are expected to fall by 7 per cent.
Speaking to Gartner CIO research director Dave Aron, he noted that British IT spending has been hit doubly by a squeeze in corporate spending and public sector budget cuts.
He said: "The more IT is pervasive in an organisation, the more it is likely to be affected by economic factors. The less it is embedded, the less it is susceptible [to the health of the organisation]."
Gartner makes the unsurprising conclusion that these conditions play into the hands of those driving the adoption of cloud computing.
The research bears this out with a high level of CIOs focusing on infrastructure services. Only 3 per cent of those questioned said the majority of their systems ran over cloud services. This is expected to increase to 43 per cent by 2015.
Aron explained that CIOs were looking forward to adopting cloud services because they think they will be able to plough the savings they expect to make from the transition back into other IT initiatives.
In terms of technological priorities the list came out like this:
1 cloud computing
2 virtualisation
3 mobile technologies
4 IT management
5 business intelligence
6 networking, voice and data comms
7 Enterprise applications
8 Collaboration technologies
9 infrastructure
10 Web 2.0
This shows how CIOs across the world are more oriented to technologies that help them cut costs and improve productivity, whereas IT that leads to business innovation appears lower down as a priority.


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Friday, January 27, 2012
Voters continue to trust Republicans more than Democrats on the number one issue of the economy, but they now trust Democrats at least slightly more on five of the 10 most important issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports. The two parties are nearly tied on five of the 10, though. This is the first survey since May 2009 in which the GOP doesn't have an edge on a majority of the issues.
The latest national telephone survey finds that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters trust the GOP more when it comes to handling the economy, while 40% have more faith in President Obama's party. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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Patti has been working for over a decade with students and participants from all over the world. All distance sessions are as effective as in person sessions due to Patti's guidelines and energetic field.
All appointments must be scheduled by same person attending the session unless incapacitated, in hospice or under 18.
First-time sessions are $350 and subsequent sessions are $300. Sessions are 90 minutes.
SKYPE/ZOOM SESSION A skype or zoom session has exactly the same effect as an in-person session with similar email protocol as in-person session . Ensure there will be no interruptions from phones or no foot traffic from family during the session. Please have tissues and water on hand as well as a notepad for anything you wish to jot down during the session. Prior to the Reiki and, or EFT session the same outline will be carried out with information going back and forward to utilize the time together effectively. Turn off all phones during session as well as landlines to mute. Please send Patti your Skype name prior to your session, or if you are using Zoom please download the program if not already on your computer.
DISTANCE SESSION A distance Reiki session is when energy is sent through time and space using entanglement theory for a full body treatment, or to business meetings, negotiations, projects pitches. Patti has sent Reiki for many years to many mothers in labor as well as the transition of loved ones either in the present or past that remain unresolved. Participants may either use skype/zoom or just their phone during the session.
REIKI SESSION A Reiki Session is said to feel like rejuvenation of the mind, body and soul lasting 90 minutes. Stepping out of your physical reality to immerse into an ocean of tranquility and pure consciousness. As recipients can enter delta states of brain activity, deep stillness and relaxation calibrate the energy centers of the body to balance and harmonize the body's intelligence. It is not only what happens on the treatment table but the 72 hours post session that begins to unravel any further restoration and recalibration.
EFT SESSION An EFT session with Patti is said to transform your life as decades long issues and blockages dissolve as you focus on what you want to come with and leave without. A brief concise blueprint, or history of patterns, blockages or overview of information relating to the session is exchange with Patti prior at least 48 hours prior to the session or it will be rescheduled. If you would like to read more about the session please click here to An EFT TAPPING SESSION. All EFT sessions are 90 minutes to disengage any energetic protection, or psychologically reversal preventing your healing or letting go of core issues haunting you for decades.
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Sea IT Grows Nordic Team
Sea IT has added Felix Magnusson and Daniel Wejnermark to its international team. They will be stationed at the Sea IT headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden and travel on assignment to serve increased client demands around the world.
Daniel Wejnermark holds beside multiple Cisco certificates, also a degree in computer networks along with a field of interest in IT Security.
Felix Magnusson has a background from computer networks at Cisco Academy and has served in both 1st and 2nd line IT support.
"Our expansion is a result of the continued growth of our customer base and we have a busy 2018 year ahead as more shipping companies request installations of the BlueCORE platform" says CEO Kristian Ryberg, CEO at Sea IT.


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Are you ready Auckland for your first ever Fermentation Festival?! We are bringing NZ's leading artisanal producers to The Cloud, Queens Wharf for the final weekend of March 2019!
Tickets are from only $10 available and a range of workshops to add on to your day at Ferment!
This event has probably been and gone!
Ferment! is fun for the whole family. We've got fancy cheeses and wine for mum, craft beers, ciders and cured meats for the dads and plenty of chocolates, yoghurts and breads for the kids.
Ferment! is a festival that celebrates the smaller producer crafting excellent products that have been fermented at some point in their lifetime. We seek to open your eyes to the range of fermented goods that line the shelves of your favourite deli or bakery as well as the health benefits of them all.
Come along to try incredible foods and drinks from over 60 artisan producers from across New Zealand. From Northland to Raglan – we've got some of the best in one room to celebrate Fermentation!
The festival is set up like a farmers market so that you can wander through and taste samples or buy products from the producers.
Open your eyes to the fantastic world of fermentation. It's more than just bread and yoghurt! Come experience the best of NZ's chocolate, tea, kimchi, kombucha, cider, salami, kefir, sodas, cheese and so much more!
Also look out for the educational workshop and tasting spaces! We have some of New Zealands leading producers, chefs and respective experts to host a range of interactive workshops for kids and adults and masterclass tastings.
Tasting & Workshop Event Planner:
Bookings for Workshops will go fast so make sure you have secured your spot before then.
Baking Breads for the Kids $20
Get to put fillings into your own bread from salami chunks and feta to smarties and chocolate. Each child will get to learn to mix and knead their own dough, put in fillings and walk away with their individualised baked bread rolls.
Five workshops each day: 10.30, 11.30, 12.30, 1.30, 2.30.
Each class will last 40 minutes
Understanding Cheese $30
Taste your way to cheese expertise in this interactive class. You'll be given a variety of hard and soft cheeses produced from across New Zealand so that you can finally learn about cheese and of course master your cheese board skills!
Two workshops each day: 10.30am & 1.30pm
Mastering Sourdough $30
Isabelle, of Bread & Butter Bakery, one of Auckland's top experts on sourdough will walk you through how Sourdough is produced. In this class you will learn about the history, how to start (and keep) your starter, how to shape your dough and so much more. Did we mention that you'll also walk away with some freshly baked goodness?
Two workshops each day: 12pm & 3pm
Each class will last 45-60 minutes
Kombucha, Teas & Tonics $30
Deli and supermarket shelves are now booming with their kombucha ranges but now it is time to really delve deep into the world of fermented beverages and learn about their probiotic goodness. We've got a collection of delicious kombucha, tonics, kefirs and teas for you to taste your way through!
Two workshops each day: 10.30am & 1.30pm
Salamis to Proscuitto $30
You read that right! Cured meats are one of the most important fermented foods found on the shelves of your favourite deli. In this tasting, Hannah Miller (A Lady Butcher) will teach you about how meats are fermented in their preserving stages and, of course, taste your way through a variety of cured meats.
Two workshops each day: 12pm & 3pm
Each class will last 45-60 minutes
Pickles, Kraut and Kimchi $30
Let Tanah Dowdle of Gourmet Joy whisk you away with the diversity of pickled vegetables and their incredible history dating way back to the day of the Mongols. She'll be using her 45+ years as a chef to show you how to naturally add a bit of zing to your dishes & you'll get to try a couple of exclusive goodies!
Two workshops each day: 10.30am & 12pm
Strictly Adults Wine/Sake/Cider $30
Here is a tasting purely for adults where Meg Abbott-Walker DipWSET will be personally taking you through some of New Zealand's best alcoholic fermented beverages from Cider to Sake to Mead to Craft Beers to Wine. So much to taste our way through, so little time!
Two workshops each day: 1.30pm & 3pm
Each class will last 45-60 minutes
Chocolate & Fermentation $30
Join Luke from The Chocolate Bar for a guided tasting of some of the world's finest chocolate. For these sessions, Luke has sourced some delicious and unusual chocolate bars from the best craft chocolate makers on the planet. Each chocolate tasted will contain a different fermented food or drink, whether it be wine, bread, coffee, tea or a number of other delicious inclusions. And of course chocolate itself is a fermented food, which you can learn more about at this event, along with the rest of the bean-to-bar process. This promises to be a fun, interesting and scrumptious experience!
Saturday: 10.30am, 12pm, 1.30pm & 3pm
Chocolate & Beer Pairing $30
Join Luke from The Chocolate Bar and the guys from Beer Jerk for a guided chocolate and craft beer tasting. This will feature some of the world's finest chocolate and craft beers, allowing you to indulge in some fantastic combinations as well as developing your understanding of food and beverage matches. Don't miss out on this opportunity to taste some rare and delicious bars and brews!
Sunday: 10.30am, 12pm, 1.30pm & 3pm
Each class will last 45-60 minutes


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- THE PRESSURE ON ME IS OFF! You will note that the last issue you received was Volume 48, Number 11, November, 1984. This issue is Volume 48, Number 12, June, 1985 and like magic, we are back on the right date. The post office was not too happy with me so we decided to skip the cover dates of December, 1984 and January, February, March, April and May of 1985. This will confuse collectors, I'm sure but it is the best thing to do.
- Page 869: THE BRIDE OF THE BLADES. Fifty eighth in a Series Design by Paul Osborne
- Page 871: COMEDY CARDS ACROSS By Doug Bennett
- Page 872: THE SEMAPHORE REVEALMENT By Gerald Kosky
- Page 872: A TRICK WITH A KICK By the late Glenn Gravatt
- Page 873: EXCHANGE OF FIRE By Paul Curry
- Page 874: POINT OF ARRIVAL By Phil Goldstein
- Page 886: Magicana - THE ALCHEMISTS BEAKER As Presented by Richard Buffum
- Page 868: THE VERNON TOUCH By Dai Vernon
- Page 875: JOSEPH — An Act That Really Flys By Fred Gomez
- Page 878: DESERT SEMINAR VIII A Report by Bill and Irene Larsen
- Page 882: MAGICRUISE 85 - A Report by Bill and Irene Larsen
- Page 886: MAGICANA By Charlie Miller and William Read Woodfield
- Page 892: MAGIC MENTALISM AND THE LEGITIMATE LIE By David F. Ashton
- Page 893: FITZKEE WAS WRONG By James D. Robinson
- Page 895: THE FUTURE OF THE RESTAURANT BUSINESS By Eugene Burger
- Page 897: AFTER 900 PERFORMANCES BEGINNING AGAIN An Interview with Marco the Magi Part 2
- Page 907: GREATER MAGIC VIDEO LIBRARY By Tony Devine
- Page 867: GENII SPEAKS By Bill Larsen
- Page 888: INTERMISSION By Charlie Miller
- Page 890: 25 YEARS AGO IN GENII By Gerrie Larsen Jaffe
- Page 896: CRUISE NEWS By Peter and Carol Gensemer
- Page 897: AN ENGLISHMAN'S POINT OF VIEW By Tony Griffith
- Page 900: MAGIC NEWS FROM JAPAN By Max Maven
- Page 901: LIGHT FROM THE LAMP By Magic Castle Members
- Magic with Finger Rings by Jerry Mentzer reviewed by Daryl
- Page 903: THE REEL WORKS By Pete Biro
- Page 904: ABSOLUTELY OGDEN By Tom Ogden
- Page 905: TRICKS OF THE TRADE By Phil Goldstein
- Page 906: OBITUARIES


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TOLEDO (13abc Action News) - Hundreds of people were ready for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to make an appearance in Toledo.
Individuals who do not support Mrs. Clinton protested nearby the Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza where she was speaking on Monday.
Jon Stainbrook, the Lucas County Rep. Party Chairman compared Mrs. Clinton's first visit to Donald Trumps multiple visits to Northwest Ohio.
"Donald Trump has been here twice. He has done two sold out events," said Stainbrook.
While Stainbrook was not interested in hearing Mrs. Clinton speak, her supporters came ready to hear her plan.
"I want to hear about the environment. that's a big thing with me," said one voter.
Barbara Lynn said she wants the presidential candidate to stay true to herself.
"I've been enjoying what I have been hearing from Hillary. How she feels about Economics, how she feels about children, how she feels about women, our planet," said Lynn.
There are 36 days until election day. Like many, one voter is ready for the bashing to be over.
"I'm really tired of that and can't wait until this is over. They've done too much of it. I'm for her obviously. Voted for her husband first time around," said one Hillary supporter.
"I want to focus on what are called kitchen table issues," said Mrs. Clinton. "You know the ones that keep you up at night like the cost of childcare, college, and prescription drugs and so much else."
Haraz Ghanbari, a veteran claimed some vets are not sold on her views.
"They want to make sure there's a commander in chief that has our back at all times," said Ghanbari. "That is going to invest in education needs and that's going to invest in mental heath challenges that some of our veterans are facing when they come home."
Mrs. Clinton outlined her economic plan at the Monday event.
"We have to create more good jobs with rising incomes. That means we have to have good schools in every zip code," added Mrs. Clinton.
"She wants to bring the jobs back instead of outsourcing them to other countries, said one Hilary supporter.
This month is crucial as time ticks until election Tuesday.
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Sorcerer's Apprentice, The | Review
By JP Chapman | July 13, 2010
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
Writers: Doug Miro, Carlo Bernard, Matt Lopez, Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (poem)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina, Monica Bellucci
I should have known I was in for an "adventurous" film-going experience based on the audience present at the screening for Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice. When the first 5 rows consist of babies and the row behind me is made up of toddlers that talk endlessly about popcorn and peeing; I should have realized that I wasn't going to be a member of this film's "target market". Nevertheless, Disney has been faithful to provide adults with enjoyable nuggets in a number of their previous kids' movies…so I held out hope. Connected to all of this, I'm not ashamed to admit that I have something of a soft spot for Nicolas Cage (one that grows softer and softer as his hairline recedes more and more). However, even my steadfast love for the Cage-ster couldn't overcome the fact that The Sorcerer's Apprenctice is probably one of the poorest excuses for a "summer blockbuster" that I've ever seen. Filled with predictable writing, laughable acting, and terrible dialogue — this was no "magical" experience.
I can't really go into a recap of the storyline of Sorcerer's Apprentice without first drawing attention to the two primary sorcerer's names: Balthazar Black (Nicolas Cage) and Maxim Horvath (Alfred Molina) *Deep breath* wow! The film begins with a back-story montage that shows Balthazar, Maxim, and Balthazar's true love Veronica (Monica Bellucci) working hand in hand in the middle ages as the one and only Merlin's apprentices. However; their team-work is cut short via a betrayal by Maxim as he joins forces with Morgana (Alice Krige): the most evil and powerful witch in the world. Merlin is killed by the evil duo, but Morgana is stopped as Veronica joins their spirits and allows Balthazar to lock both her and Morgana away in one of those stupid Russian doll within doll things with creepy paintings on it (aka nesting dolls). Balthazar swears vengeance and what-not, but not before Merlin can give him his awesome dragon ring. Merlin tells Nicolas Cage that he is now supposed to go and show the ring to little boys around the world, and that "he'll know" when his journey is over (kind of creepy in a Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC way). Balthazar fights the most evil sorcerer's in the world and locks them all in his creepy little Russian doll, which is gradually covered in worse and worse creepy drawings.
Hundreds of years pass, until one day an awkward little Jewish boy from New York stumbles into Balthazar's exciting, but devoid of customers, antique store. Balthazar, like every good creepy sorcerer that likes to befriend little boys, swishes his cape and offers to give the boy his dragon ring "if it likes him". Surprisingly enough, the ring does "like" the boy, who is revealed to be Dave Stutler (later played by Jay Baruchel). For some reason, Balthazar sees this as a good time to leave little Dave alone, and shuffles off to look at his 500 year old keepsakes. Meanwhile, Dave manages to find the creepy Russian doll and releases Maxim from his slumber. Balthazar runs back in surprised that you can't trust little boys in 1990's New York and fights Maxim into a poorly painted vase that locks both he and Maxim within it for 10 years (complete with horrendously painted Nicolas Cage/Alfred Molina pictures on the outside). Meanwhile, little Dave pees his pants and starts crying like all the babies in the theatre I was in. 10 years later the two are freed and race to find pee-pants Davy and his creepy Russian doll. After a close call with Maxim, Balthazar saves Dave and informs him that he is the prime-Merlinian-Merlin's heir apparent and the most powerful sorcerer in the world. Dave must be trained by Balthazar to fight and destroy Morgana once she is freed by Maxim. Thus, Jay Baruchel becomes…The Sorcerer's Apprentice (the end).
When I first saw the previews for Sorcerer's Apprentice, I had some hope. Despite the ridicule I suffer from the rest of the SLSS staff, I'm a big fan of the National Treasure franchise and had high hopes that Nicolas Cage would be infusing some of the fun energy of those films into a new franchise. I even got excited that Jay Baruchel was going to be in this with him. Somehow in the midst of my excitement, I missed the commercials with mops coming alive and dancing a la Fantasia though. Had I seen them, I think I would have been a little more prepared for what faced me in The Sorcerer's Apprentice. As I mentioned in the intro to this review, this is a mess of a movie. The acting is terrible, the plot-line is laughable, and the dialogue is horrendous. I understand Jay Baruchel wanting to take a higher profile role, but cash has to be the only reason any other member of this cast took this film on (especially Nicolas Cage in light of his recent tax battles). Not only is this a played out story, but it's also one that is executed much more poorly than any of its predecessors. Were I a kid, I may be able to have some fun with this movie—but even the toddlers behind me seemed more excited about popcorn and peeing than they were with most of the action on-screen. Jerry Bruckheimer should know better, but sadly The Sorcerer's Apprentice leaves you with the same impression that a made for Disney Channel movie does. It's a shallow imitation of other wizarding movies on the market (*cough* Harry Potter), and with little to no heart behind it. Take your kids to see Toy Story 3 instead. This is not Nicolas Cage's finest hour.
Rating: *2/10
*2 points for my hero's awesome hair in this movie.
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Sankey Diagramschristopher.hawk Nov 19, 2014 7:43 AM
Thanks to our meeting I went down the rabbit hole that is Sankey diagrams or graphs. I have to say it is a challenge to produce these graphs in any format let alone Tableau. I missed the name of the woman that showed us her version. But I can say I have both regretted it and appreciated it over the past day. There are some good discussions both in the Tableau user community and in some other excellent blogs.
Here is my first result. I'm still playing with details like labeling and colors but it is an actual result. And it is pretty cool.
The key learning over the last 2 days is that data prep is a primary requirement. I jumped in and built a Sankey diagram with an intermediate point. So each path has a starting location, an intermediate location, and a final location, positions 1, 2 and 3. Data needs to be generated to produce the curve of the path between these points, and to produce the ribbon effect.
First I needed to lay out the vertical positions I want. This was done in Excel using a running percentage total after sorting the data set on each category.
Producing the curve between the points is pretty straight forward. Tableau's primary limitation though is that the width of a line cannot be explicitly defined based on data content. If I want a line path that is 42% of the width of the plot area I cannot make it that explicit. The resulting view can be useful but is not the true Sankey view.
To get around the line width limitations, the standard response is to create a line for each percentage, essentially 100 different lines that follow their own path. My sample data set had 40 distinct paths through 2 transitions. The basic data set is pretty straight forward, a path defined by three categories, and the could of units passing through that path.
The first data prep step is to create the curve using the Sigmoid function. What this means in data prep terms is that each record has to be repeated with a newly created distinct value of T. My example uses T values from -6 to 6 incrementing every .25 for a row multiplier factor of 49. My first attempt was to cut/paste 49 times with a new T value. That got very boring fast so I decided to create a separate data set with the 49 T values and right join in tableau to create those records. On a new tab I created the 49 row data set for T values and joined to it.
Next I needed to spread the rows vertically to produce the width in the ribbons. My data at this point (after join) is one data row repeated 49 times to create a path. I now need to replicate the set of records defining a path to be as many paths as needed to fill the width of the ribbon. I defined the width in the data set using excel formulas (PctStart and PctEnd below). This is the width of each ribbon if the Y axis runs from 0 to 100.
Then because I hate cut/paste I used the same right join method to create the added rows. Tableau doesn't allow joins like "ON pct1 WHERE pct1 BETWEEN lowlimit and highlimit" and I couldn't figure out a join that actually worked. So I ended up adding all 100 percentages (100 rows) as new rows. My 40 row data set has now become 196,000 rows.
The join values are a constant of 1.
With the data prep complete I had to build out the calculated fields. First I built the Sigmoid function modified T value.
Then I built the positions for each path. What I needed was the planned position from the original 40 paths. I can't use the psoitions explicitly, bu the offset from the start. I used the percentage value obtained by the linking to the percent dataset plus offsets for positions 2 and 3. In this way each produced path is identical in curve and shape, but simply offset from the original.
The curve calculation Is a bit trickier but is straight forward once you understand the direction changes.
IF [Pos 2]>[Pos 1] then
MIN([Pos 1],[Pos 2])+([Sigmoid Function]*ABS([Pos 2]-[Pos 1]))
ELSE MAX([Pos 1],[Pos 2])-([Sigmoid Function]*ABS([Pos 2]-[Pos 1]))
This is repeated for position 2 to 3.
Finally the piece I tripped on was to be sure to display the dimension T as well as the sum(T). Here is what one of the transitions looks like in design.
When I get a chance I will try to mask the data and package this for public consumption. For now I hope this is enough to get people started trying this on their own. It is a good viz, but tricky to set up and requires a lot of data prep. I have uses for it, but some real cost/benefit questions.


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Those who are struggling with issues of Domestic Violence involve not only the person experiencing that situation first hand, but also those around them who know or suspect what is going on. While there are a bunch of resources out there for people in domestic violence situations, the difficulty is in getting those resources to the people who need them. Not only that, but it can be difficult to disseminate the information in a safe manner.
My situation was helped by the fact I had a good support team. When I got married, I made a promise to myself to prioritize my friendships and relationships with the people I cared about. If you are going through a difficult time, I know it is hard not to hide away and isolate yourself, but try to keep or rebuild some connections. If you haven't, now is the time to slowly start establishing any relationship that is non-threatening to your abuser. Try and have something you do with enough regularity that it becomes routine and he or she hopefully doesn't question it. This might help give you a break, and will help you make contacts that may help you if you need to leave.
If you are in a dangerous situation I highly encourage:
- Have a safe word or phrase (or two). I had a safe word for "Call 911 and come right away, I am in immediate danger". I also had another safe word that was, "We need to move up my departure plans ASAP."
- Do not use any computer or phone that the abuser has access to, or that the abuser can access the history or contact records of.
- Be wary of your use of social media and instant messenging.
- Create an emergency bag you can store at a friend or family members home.
- Whenever possible, have someone else coordinate resources and plans for you, and perhaps be a point of contact. My mother did this for me. I barely had the mental capacity to get up in the morning, let alone function on any rational level due to my level of exhaustion. Below are some links you may find of immediate assistance.
Preparing to leave:
- (Getting Ready to Leave, Taking your children with you, After you've left.) http://www.womenslaw.org/laws_state_type.php?id=13422&state_code=PG
- Domestic Violence Hotline – http://www.thehotline.org/
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It is just four weeks since I took possession of my new car. It is a Toyota Aygo, 5 years old, and I am very pleased with it. Just don't ask how much it cost…
Having problems loading pictures, so these are two from the net!Mine is silver, has about 40K on the clock, and has already proved itself a nippy little runabout, very appropriate for the life I lead. With the back seats down, I can transport all the flowers for a wedding, or 8 of the stacking chairs from the church. Even with back seats in place, the boot will comfortably hold two sewing machines in their carrying cases and a bag of fabric. It has technological luxuries I have only ever dreamed of in the past [A/C, CD player, central locking, electric windows…] It seems to be very economical in terms of fuel consumption. And best of all, it goes into gear, and will go backwards as well as forwards!
And the name reminds me of that old Sally Army Song with the happy tune - I'll Go [Aygo] in the Strength of the Lord!
I'll go in the strength of the Lord,
In paths he has marked for my feet;
I'll follow the light of his word,
Nor shrink from the dangers I meet,
His presence my steps shall attend,
His fulness my wants shall supply;
On him, till my journey shall end,
My unwavering faith shall rely.
I'll go, Aygo in the strength,
I'll go in the strength of the Lord
I'll go, Aygo in the strength,
I'll go in the strength of the Lord.
I'll go in the strength of the Lord
To work he appoints me to do;
In joy which his smile doth afford
My soul shall her vigour renew.
His wisdom shall guard me from harm.
His power my sufficiency prove;
I'll trust his omnipotent arm,
And prove his unchangeable love.
I'll go in the strength of the Lord
To conflicts which faith will require,
His grace as my shield and reward,
My courage and zeal shall inspire.
Since he gives the word of command.
To meet and encounter the foe,
With his sword of truth in my hand.
To suffer and triumph I'll go.


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Editor, Manteca Bulletin,
Just watched a video clip of John Boehner on the news, he was entertaining two little girls with a mechanical wind-up monkey that he apparently keeps on his desk. You've all seen one of these, the Monkey has a cymbal on each hand, when you wind it up, it bangs the two cymbals together. Entertaining for a child, at least for a short period, but for an adult, it hardly gets a smile. But this time I got quite a kick out of it, not because of the cymbal banging monkey, but because of Republican Congressman and House Leader, said to the two young girls after winding the monkey up and letting it go. He said, "This is what I do all day!" Apparently, taking into consideration what has been produced by the House, this is what the entire Congress does — at least the Teapublican portion.
That monkey has been wound up at least 60 times just to repeal the ACA and all that has been accomplished has been a whole lot of cymbal banging. Now they are about to wind it up again. What is the useless cymbal banging for this time? Well, to sue the President or course! Why, because he is doing what they keep asking him to do — to get stuff done on his own. Take what happened in Texas, right after the suit was announced, Gov. Rick Perry asked the President to use his Executive Authority to do something about the humanitarian problem involving illegal children crossing the border. Apparently the Governor hadn't received the memo from John Boehner.
Congress is due to come back from vacation soon. I'm not entirely sure what they were taking the vacation from, maybe they needed to replace the worn monkey cymbals. So what is the Congress planning of working on upon their much anticipated arrival? Well, we got a good hint when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnel (R-Ky) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) were caught on a hot mic Wednesday discussing talking-points for yet another useless Government Shutdown. Over what? The ACA of course, heck, 61 times wouldn't do much to the cymbal monkey at this point, would it?
If you expect anything from Congress upon their return, you can bet it will involve a whole lot of GOP cymbal banging. Sounds like more monkey business to me.
Larry Baca


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Behind the Scenes | November 2014
- The Workshop Experience
workshop is one for the books! It mean, I knew about all of the surprises but I didn't realize just how epic they would be until they happened! We had 12 amazing women drive and fly in from all over the country for this November workshop experience! Florida, Kentucky, Texas, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Wisconsin, Georgia…. WOW!!! How incredible is that?! I'm blown away just typing those locations out!!! But not only did these awesome ladies make this an incredible workshop, there were TWO PROPOSALS!!!!! WHAT?! Not one, but TWO!!!! Ahhhh!!!!!