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The number of youngsters (from 18 to 24 years old) who leave school without having obtained an upper-secondary education degree and who do not follow any type of education is much higher within the Brussels Capital Region than the Belgian average. Furthermore, in comparison to the Flemish and Walloon Regions the numbers for Brussels also prove comparatively elevated. In 2014, the school dropout rate for the Brussels Capital Region was 14,4%, while 7% for Flanders and 12,9% for Wallonia.
For years, the logic course in the first year of our Bachelor in Computer Science was a serious hurdle for many students. Most of the students computer science perceive the formal and abstract mechanisms of logic as difficult and awkward to deal with. We have seen a lot of procrastination with regard to studying this subject.
GuideaMaps is a flexible tablet (iPad) app that supports the requirements elicitation phase for domain-specific software. It is usable by non-computing as well as computing people, as building domain-specific software requires the expertise of people with very different background. The app guides the users through the requirement elicitation by providing a (customizable) list of issues to consider. The app provides explanations, indicates which issues are required and which are optional, provides options and alternatives, indicates the impacts of choices, and documents choices made. The tool can be used in meetings or individually.
Friendly ATTAC will study and develop an innovative ICT tool to help youngsters deal with cyberbullying issues. By means of highly personalized virtual experience scenarios, providing players with immediate feedback in a safe computer-mediated environment, we will attempt to modify relevant determinants of behaviours related to the roles of bullies, bystanders and victims.
A first purpose of this project is to investigate the cognitive processing involved in educational games and its impact on learning. The second purpose is to investigate how we can influence these cognitive processes by using adaptive techniques. Among others, we investigate the impact of the personality, the learning style, as well as the motivational aspects of learning by manipulating different aspects of the educational game.
Within the Knowliah-VUB DART project, the main goal is on achieving a next level of JERI (Just Enough Relevant/reliable Information, when and where needed) in the increasing volume and increasing complexity of information and knowledge.
Within this project WISE focussed on enhancing the user experience for the knowledge worker. We investigated the visualization for context-aware recommender systems in the context of business intelligence.
In the context of an European epidemiological study EURALOC, WISE developed a mobile app to predict, track, calculate and simulate the eye lens radiation dose received by an interventional cardiologist during procedures.
The app, called mEyeDose, is free and available on http://www.meyedose.eu/
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In this project, WISE studied the problems related to the evolution of ontologies. As is the case with everything in the world that surrounds us, ontologies are not indifferent to changes. Ontologies evolve as a consequence of changes of domains they describe as well as changes in business and user requirements. Because ontologies are intended to be used and extended by other ontologies, and because they are deployed in a highly decentralized environment as the Web, the problem of ontology evolution is a far from trivial problem. The fact that ontologies depend on other ontologies means that the consequences of changes don't remain local to the ontology itself, but affect depending ontologies as well. Furthermore, the decentralized nature of the Web makes it impossible to simply propagate changes to depending artifacts.
In this research, aspect-oriented techniques are proposed to support adaptation engineering for Web Applications.
The major goal of this project is to develop a generic Design Pattern based methodology for specifying behaviors at a conceptual level for computer games and other interactive media applications such as virtual museums, virtual learning platforms.
The main purpose of this project is to introduce conceptual modeling concepts to specify complex 3D objects in Virtual World and to rigorously define the semantics of these new modeling concepts using logic.
SCOUT is a mobile application development framework, which supports the development of mobile applications that are aware of the user's context (e.g., profile, device characteristics, ..), his current (physical) environment, and the people, objects and places in it. By exploiting this knowledge on the user and his environment, such applications are able to provide personalized information and services to the user. SCOUT supports different sensing technologies to become aware of the user's surrounding environment (and the physical entities in it), and is primarily based on Web technologies for communication and data acquisition, and Semantic Web technologies for integrating and enriching the knowledge present in the decentralized data sources.
This project investigates distribution in querying on ontology-based data stored in a distributed collection of Semantic Web systems. With the data not being stored in a single repository, but being offered through a network of connected repositories, we come one step closer to a true Web-like platform for information sharing. Obviously, the querying and retrieval of data from that network needs to take the aspect of distribution into account without losing the benefits of the formal grounding for dealing with ontology-based information.
The goal of project is to research in a scientifically founded manner how ICT-based interventions (or intervention parts) can be used in the battle against (cyber) bullying. The emphasis is on the mapping of the problem of (cyber) bullying as well as on the developing and testing of dynamic, state-of-the art ICT applications in order to tackle the problem. In order to give this project shape, the so-called "intervention Mapping Approach" is followed.
GRAPPLE is a EU FP7 STREP project aiming at delivering learners with a technology-enhanced learning (TEL) environment that guides them through a life-long learning experience, automatically adapting to personal preferences, prior knowledge, skills and competences, learning goals and the personal or social context in which the learning takes place.
As a project partner, WISE is focusing on adaptivity for new learning media, specifically Virtual Reality, to enhance the personalized learning experience of e-learners.
In this project we want to combine the research activities done in the context of software localization with those done in the context of website design. We believe that research in localization and internationalization of websites (and software in general) may benefit from a cooperation between researchers from the software localization community (which are mainly linguists or computer linguists) and researchers from the web design community (mainly computer scientists). Such a corporation may give new insights and may result in new techniques in both domains.
The topic of the research project was "Foundations, Construction, Services and Applications of Ontologies. Their role in Database, Web Semantics, and Computational Linguistics".
In this project, WISE investigated how the use of ontologies can simplify and facilitate the (conceptual) specification phase of a virtual (web) environment. As a Virtual Environment is composed of objects it may be possible to extract properties of these objects and their relationships in the Virtual Environment from available ontologies covering the domain under consideration. On the other hand also, their specifications may be checked for consistency using such available ontologies.
QuTi is a research project performed in the context of iBrussels, a research project on Wi-Fi Architecture financed by the Brussels Capital-Region and supervised by Centrum voor Informatica voor het Brussels Gewest (CIBG). In QuTi, WISE developed a framework that provides real-time information on queue-sensitive events. QuTi relies on existing detection technologies to monitor crowds and measure bustle, and delivers this time-sensitive information real-time through a Web site and a mobile application. Based on this real-time information, visitors can decide when is the best time to visit.
The framework has been applied to measure the traffic in the student restaurant of the VUB.
The aim of TensiNET was to bring together all parties involved in the field of Tensile Structures (specialists such as urban planners, architects, designers, engineers, material suppliers, constructors and checking authorities as well as building owners, clients, citizens and educational institutes). All of these parties had different questions about the design and construction process and about the use of Tensile Structures. This project aimed to clarify the intrinsic qualities of Tensile Structures for the users as well as for the building industry.
In this project, WISE was responsible for building the web site, the Intranet and the knowledge base of TensiNET.
VariBru is a research project initiated in the framework of the Brussels Impulse Programme for ICT. It is supported by the Brussels Capital Region. The VariBru project addresses the strategic problems of software-intensive product builders. Its innovation goal is to perform research in four industrially relevant domains of software variability: software variability management, software product configurability, variability in live contexts, and variability in intention-aware products.
As a project partner, WISE is investigating the focussing on modeling the software variability. Read more on http://www.featureassembly.com
The proposed research will result in a set of generic concepts and techniques usable for conceptual modelling and realizing virtual environments. The ultimate goal is to facilitate and shorten the development process of virtual environments by means of conceptual specifications.
In the project, WISE will develop a set of generic concepts usable for the conceptual modeling of the static part of a virtual environment, as well as for specifying the behaviors required in the virtual environment. WISE will also investigated how the actual virtual environments can be realized by means of such high-level conceptual specifications (i.e. code generation). Also tool support will be developed.
The VR-WISE research started some years after WISE was founded. The focus of this research was on the conceptual modeling of Virtual Reality Environments.
WISE developed as one of the first few a Web site design method, called WSDM (1998). This method followed a completely new approach in designing Web applications, called the 'audience driven' approach, which is nowadays followed by many Web design methods. The original WSDM method, and its associated modeling formalisms has evolved over the years to a complete 'semantic' web design method, both applying and deploying semantic web technology, and supporting the generation of semantic annotations. Different master student and PhD students have considered and still consider a variety of additional design issues, such as adaptivity, localization, accessibility, and social tagging, while others have focused on code generation and tool support.


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At Korean-owned factory in Cavite EPZA:
Daily protests as countdown to strike begins
Wednesday-Friday (April 6-8): Workers to hold daily protests from 1:00 p.m. onwards at Seung Yeun Technology Industries Corp., Cavite ecozone, Rosario, Cavite
Friday (April 8): Mediation meeting between management and union at NCMB Imus (MYP GBY Building, Bayan Luma 7, Aguinaldo Highway, Cavite)
After a majority of union members authorized the holding of a work stoppage in a strike vote last Saturday, workers of Seung Yeun Technology Industries Corp. (SYTIC) will hold daily protests this week as buildup. The law provides that the union should wait for seven days after the holding of a strike vote before actually launching a work stoppage.
The SYTIC workers union had filed a notice of strike due to union busting. Twenty SYTIC workers, majority of whom are elected union officers and the rest union members, have been retrenched in a blatant attempt at union busting in the country's biggest export zone, the Cavite ecozone in the town of Rosario.
The workers have recently formed a union in an effort to address workplace problems including violations of labor standards. Among the most egregious violations are that part of their wages are not paid in cash but in the form of meals, non-payment of overtime due to an illegal compressed workweek schedule and the lack of a company nurse, doctor and hospital bed.
SYTIC is a Korean-owned plastics company that is part of the electronics industry supply chain. SYTIC's main customers are local subsidiaries of big US multinationals like ON Semiconductor, Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, Maxim Integrated and Cypress.


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I woke up at 8:15 this morning! Unheard of for my day off. I ended up going to bed really early last night though, I suddenly felt really tired and decided to turn in. It's good really because it means that (assuming I don't sleep in) I won't wreck my sleep schedule mid-week and feel rotten tomorrow.
I ended up not working out yesterday, I decided to give my legs a rest instead. I woke up this morning feeling much better though, and have just finished doing 10km. I will try to do more later to make up for the day I missed, and I made sure to stretch out afterward so I'm hoping my legs will adapt to it a little better. I'm at 85km done! My weekly goal is so close! I have until Friday night to complete it (I weigh in on Saturday morning so my 'week' begins then), so I may well end up going over it because I want to try and work out at least 5 days a week. The plan is that for every week I complete successfully, I will put the resistance on the bike up one level (there are 9, I'm only using level 1 at the moment). If I don't complete 100km on a particular level one week then it won't go up until I manage it.
My scale still isn't budging! *headdesk* If it doesn't get going soon (as in, by next weigh in) I'm going to start doing monthly measurements.
Now, I need help. I was working out this morning with just music and it wasn't working for me. As I've said before, I've got my bike set up in front of the TV and usually work out to Hairspray the movie. I chose it because most the songs are fast and it's a fun film, so it's easy to keep going with. It makes you want to move. Can anybody out there recommend more musicals that I could watch while biking so I can change it up a bit? The songs should be quite often, and as upbeat as you can.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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I woke up at 8:15 this morning! Unheard of for my day off. I ended up going to bed really early last night though, I suddenly felt really tired and decided to turn in. It's good really because it means that (assuming I don't sleep in) I won't wreck my sleep schedule mid-week and feel rotten tomorrow.
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Labels: Exercise, It's all about me, My body (and all it's charms)
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- Princess Dieter aka Mir said...
I would think FLASHDANCE would have "movable" songs, but use a DVD, right? That way you can just click past the narrative bits and get right to the music. You should also consider renting Bollywood flicks. I love TAAL and a couple of the songs are great to dance to. Those Indian DVDs also often have an option to just watch the musical numbers. :)
HACKERS has some really nifty energetic music, and you can see a young Angelina Jolie be all pouty and rebellious.
Action fantasy/sci-fi flicks often have very energetic soundtracks. Might be worth browsing YouTube to see which one would work for you. Think along the lines of CROW or MATRIX or ULTRAVIOLET or CRANK or KILL BILL and such. If it's an action flick, it tends to have an action soundtrack. It's not a musical, but may have enough energy to power you through a workout. Browse anime flicks, too. :)
Consider renting compilation DVDs of various artists' music videos. That way, no movie, all music.
Remember. You can watch videos on your computer, so if no movie is around, just do a google for artists you like with great fast music and watch videos on Youtube or elsewhere online. :)
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- February 11, 2009 at 3:36 PM
- fighting_fat said...
Mamma mia would be great. I felt like breaking into dance during the songs and they are very energetic too,
good luck:)
- February 11, 2009 at 5:41 PM
- Anonymous said...
Hmm... I don't think I've ever watched a musical so I can't help you there... But good job on working out so much, you're doing great!
- February 11, 2009 at 8:35 PM
- Cammy@TippyToeDiet said...
Five days a week is an excellent target!
Can't help with the musicals, sorry. Not my thing. (My grandmother's repeated viewings of "Oklahoma" kind of killed it for me.*g*)
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Too early to say, but generally I'm happy with the Ayodhya verdict. No – not because Ram Janmabhoomi is now accepted by the court. Not because Muslims got a share. Not because 1/3rd of the jury was Muslim, so that there's fair representation. And, not at all because a temple is going to be built in Ayodhya.
I'm happy because my country is not burning. Happy for the thousands who could possibly have lost their lives. Waris Mazhari*, editor of Urdu magazine Tarjuman-e-Dar-ul-Uloom reacted: "I think if the Sunni Waqf Board would have won the entire case then our community would have suffered more. I strongly believe a large number of Muslims are fed up of the Babri mosque issue and we want to move ahead."
It is a fact that a unilateral ruling would have ignited unprecedented passions. It is also a fact that a lot of political mileage could have been drawn from such a verdict. Thankfully, that's all over. Indian judiciary has prevailed.
I'm reminded of the Maha Bharath in which the Kauravas denied the Pandavas even the space to plant a needle. That obstinacy led to one of the biggest wars in mythology. We can be thankful for the fact the heads of the Allahabad High Court did not think like the court of Duryodhana.
I had written in my last post about the perfect storm. Part of it has been averted. It is in moments like these that you believe in God!
@ Waris Mazhari and everyone:
Allahabad means the City of God in Persian (I think the obvious reference is to Allah). It is in the City of God that the honorable judges declared their verdict. Incidentally, Allahabad is also called Prayag, which in Sanskrit means place of sacrifice. Let's sacrifice our egos and move ahead. Both these religions believe God is omnipresent - with or without a place of worship.
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How to dress for a professional work environment has long been a challenge faced by many women. Men are often the lucky ones, as they can easily decipher their required dress code and wear a sharp-looking suit and tie. For women, however, it is often a much more difficult process.
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It is the latter question where we have firmly laid our sights. If a professional woman wants to wear a dress to work, what are her options?
Kaftan Dress
While the kaftan dress is a traditional Islamic garment, kaftan and similar designs are a popular choice for many women around the world. Muslim women favour kaftans as it preserves their modesty while providing a functional yet stylish piece of work-wear. While women from other cultures may not wear a kaftan for religious reasons, they still find the comfort and other benefits of such dresses appealing.
Perhaps the biggest positive aspect of a kaftan is that it isn't blatantly formal or casual either way. One can wear it to work, look professional, and then head out to a social function or be comfortable when they get home without needing to quickly get changed.
Pencil Dress
When it comes to simple yet professional looking style, the pencil dress is definitely one of the global leaders. It's no nonsense sense of 'what you see is what you get' makes it another style favoured by women everywhere, and definitely has formal stamped all over it.
While it isn't necessarily something you would look to sit around the house in, pencil dresses are good to wear in either summer or winter conditions, as a small jacket or a thicker, warmer coat both look fashionable when worn alongside them.
Casual Style Dresses
Due to the nature of the dress making it a traditionally formal piece of attire, women can often get away with wearing casual style dresses filled with colour or patterns in a professional environment.
We're obviously not talking over the top in terms of colour, but contemporary designs such as stripes and polka dots are popular, as too are tasteful floral prints. With formal shoes and black tights, such styles will easily be accepted in most professional workplaces.
Women have a range of style options available when it comes to their work attire. Whether they choose a kaftan for religious or comfort reasons, or go for something sporting a modern print, women everywhere can head to the office comfortable and confident in themselves.
Aisha is a fashion stylist for the Islamic clothing market, specialising in kaftan dresses, that are predominantly aimed at Muslim women with multiple roles to play in modern society.


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Who doesn't love a carnival, nobody right? It was therefore great to hear that it was festival time in Camaguey while our group would be there. Havana maybe famed for it's nightlife but it would almost certainlyhave many more tourists too.
Perfect timing and the sound of a party on every street corner sounded too good to miss, it was with some anticipation that after a great pizza we went exploring the town.
Although there were street parties in the evening which were pretty cool, it was the daytime carnival which really caught my attention. Complete with fairground rides, loud music providing a constant beat everybody was there to enjoy themselves. There were smiles galore, plenty of dancing and the party was just beginning!
This group was an especially active one, regardless of the music being played they had a dance to suit, salsas, cha-chas, mambos and a few that seemed to be just their own form of moves. They really seemed to be having a great time, sharing good times, a few drinks and happily swapping partners, their enthusiasm was infectious.
They were very photogenic, an attractive group and I enjoyed capturing them with my lens but would happily have joined them for a few dances.
There were plenty of food stalls too, most of it looked really tasty but returning the next day when it was a little quieter it was a little disturbing to see lots of prepared meals just sitting on the counter. In the heat and considering how long before more people arrived, the swarms of flies buying any food seemed a really bad idea.
The party continued well into the evening and beyond, streets had been closed off and music attracted the young and beautiful from Camaguey and beyond. Partying Cuba style involves buying a bottle of Havana Club rum between friends, soft drinks are optional, during the course of the evening a few more bottles are likely to be shared.
The street feels a little like a club however, most people just hanging around drinking and talking, a few dancing, all just out for a good time.
Like all good things it had to come to an end, but then again as has been said before "tomorrow is another day!"
I travelled on a small group excursion with Intrepid Travel on their 'Best of Cuba' itinerary but all opinions are formed from my own carnival experience.


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Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center
Ellis Civic Fellowship Background
Robert Lee Ellis, a Seattle native, was killed in action in World War II.
In 2007, James Ellis honored his brother Robert — a person of high ethical standards and the willingness to help others — with a gift to the University of Washington. This gift became the endowment to support the Robert Lee Ellis Civic Fellows program.
The intention of the endowment and the Civic Fellows program is to support students who make a commitment to our community.


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Attention shoppers, it's time once again for the best deals of the month. Don't forget to follow me on Facebook, simply visit Real Penny Wise and click LIKE to receive the best tips daily. Be sure to SHARE with your friends too. Just a quick review before I list this months best buys…
Most bargains follow a predictable pattern:
- End of the model year (varies depending on product)
- End of the retail season (ends sooner than calendar season)
- Holiday sale (usually new, but sometimes older models)
- Directly after a holiday
- Off season
- In season (fresh produce)
The downside includes:
- Lack of inventory/choices
- Open box/damage/refurbished
- Older model/style
- Unable to use/test until season changes, long past refund date
Brick and mortar stores clear out first since retail space is at a premium, but many online stores will offer competitive pricing even though their inventory will linger longer. The longer you wait, the lower the price, but you could miss out on finding what you need. Remember that a retailer's season ends much sooner than a calendar season; that's why you'll find great deals on winter apparel in January & February, but you will hard pressed to find a winter coat in March when there's still a foot of snow on the ground. Don't forget to check out my post 15 Super Tips For Shopping Success to learn how to save even more on online purchases.
So here's where you can save the most in June:
- Tools (Father's Day sales)
- Cell phone (Graduation sales)
- Gym membership (negotiate best deal, summer business is slow)
- Apartment rentals (highest vacancies & best deals; negotiate too)
- Picnic/bbq condiments & supplies (store sales & coupons)
- House paint
- Antiperspirant (store sales & coupons)
- Diamond jewelry
When it comes to food, the best deals are to buy in season since there is a greater supply. Obviously holiday themed food bargains are best directly following the holiday, but do not overlook the perishables; starting January 2nd stores practically give away huge pork roasts that never made it to the New Year's Day dinner table. One disclaimer on the produce; because there is some controversy regarding what is truly "in season" as the USA has very diverse growing patterns and hothouses are often used, I have placed and asterisk next to the items that are generally agreed upon. Here are the best food deals in June:
- Apricots
- Beets
- Blackberries
- Blueberries
- Cantaloupe
- Cherries*
- Cucumber
- Corn*
- Green beans
- Lettuce
- Melon
- Nectarines
- Peaches*
- Plums
- Potatoes
- Raspberries
- Rhubarb
- Strawberries
- Summer squash
- Tomatoes
- Watermelon*
Often you can get first rate products for a bargain prices, it just takes a little planning & patience; but don't wait too long or you may miss out altogether. Want more posts like this? Let me know!


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By invitation from curator and architect Christina Capetillo, LETH & GORI and Reiluf Ramstad Architects presents a 1:50 scale model of the Diatoms Fur project at Vrå-Udstillingen 2017 (Vrå Exhibition) in North Jutland, Denmark.
The model itself represents the creation of the Danish landscape by the slow stratification of 40 layers of tracing paper into a modulating landscape of hills, valleys, moraines and cliffs. A landscape formed and carved by the fjord on one site and shaped by man quarrying for Diatomite sedimenton on the other.
The project is one of ten projects in Realdania and Naturstyrelsen's campaign 'Steder i Landskabet' [Places in the Landscape] celebrating ten unique places in the Danish landscape.
Diatoms Fur is the result of a successful collaboration between LETH & GORI and Reiulf Ramstad Architects.
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Par constructexpert le 8 Mai 2018 à 11:25
Building and construction management for public works is a valuable strategy for taking care of additional layers of intricacy beyond just what is experienced in building tasks for the private sector. Public works as well as building management remain in a means created each other because one seemingly overloads the building and construction business with federal government guidelines while the other is an excellent organizational device for assisting to puncture governmental red tape. Let's have a look in this write-up at the shared advantages such a pairing brings.
Construction monitoring as well as public works both have at their heart the interests of the "dwarfs" in the sense of not allowing huge, impersonal firms run roughshod over them. Federal government entities fund public jobs jobs, so they have to make certain that taxpayer money is sensibly invested in the spirit of equality instead of funneled off right into the pockets of those with narrow self-interests. Contractors utilize building administration techniques to obtain the particular style and also building information of the task pin down in a systematic way while not forgeting the impact research studies as well as additional oversight demanded of them by the government company funding the project.
Public tasks might be small-scaled, however typically they are huge sufficient to specify several separate frameworks to be built. Service providers skilled in building and construction monitoring have the ability to streamline all the job as well as deal intelligently and systematically with the organizing, funding, and also governing concerns that continuously develop. This increases the likelihood of delivering the large facilities tasks in a timely manner and within spending plan.
The term "public works" inclusives a broad group of projects, making construction for it a tough task. Plainly the fundamental purpose is to supply the area at large some kind of advantage. Nonetheless, this advantage could be health-related, safety-related, tailored in the direction of employment problems, or concentrated on recreational activities.
A public task can imply the building of public buildings (e.g., hospitals, institutions, courthouses). Additionally, it might mean the enhancement of public areas (e.g., community squares, coastlines, parks). A 3rd interpretation is the structure of transport infrastructure (e.g., roadways, bridges, pipes).
Service providers in this field face an added difficulty because theoretical layout and application tackle a multidimensional nature. Unlike for personal business building and construction, contracting for public tasks needs taking into consideration special variables pertaining to the general public arena. Oftentimes these take the type of review and oversight necessitating multiple legal, affordable, visual, environmental, and entertainment perspectives.
With the a lot more recent problems referring to ecology as well as climate has come an increased desire (or even need) for structures to be green and also lasting. Many people share in the objective of improving the lifestyle for everyone, not just a select few. Nonetheless, there is usually a stress between the nobler facets of public jobs and the functional logistics of bringing the construction projects to fruition.
This is where building and construction administration is crucial. Political impact has the tendency to germinate in calculated misrepresentation and optimism bias, which subsequently cause the common threats of expense overruns as well as deficiency of need. The specialist needs a technique that can filter out the fog and maintain sight of the numbers, the money, as well as the legislation.
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Such an approach is essentially large-scale job monitoring on steroids. Public works require of the general professional special skills and experience. He must regularly be on the lookout for threats and reduce them lest expenses leave control.
Taking care of selections of regulations and also bureaucracies will be impossible unless he possesses outstanding communication abilities. This includes being eminently clear. Moreover, the service provider has to be experienced at analyzing constructability and also accurate in his evaluations of timetables as well as budgets, for he will certainly have to juggle these factors constantly.
However, if the service provider accepts the reasons and also fads behind public works, this type of building can be very gratifying. With correct knowledge as well as the right collection of construction administration tools, the general public works sector will be successful for him.
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Posted by Shevonne Hunt at November 17 2017, 3:14pm
Shevonne Hunt hosts Kinderling Conversation every weekday at 12pm.
Christmas is such a special time. I love Santa, and recreating the magic I experienced as a kid. I know there are many out there who say I'm lying to my kids, that I'm contributing to a consumerist tornedo but you know what? It's one time of the year when I can spoil my children and I'm going to do that.
And it doesn't have to be all bad. While I want my kids to learn about giving, they're too young to understand the whole goat-on-front-of-a-card thing. That may work for older kids, but mine would just dissolve in a flurry of tears (mainly because they won't actually be getting a goat).
Still. I want to add a bit more heart to my Santa Sack, and I've found some gifts that have the double impact of making your child smile and helping someone else in the world.
1. Gorgeous toys that help make a mother's life easier
Among the many toys and products sold to raise money for Hamlin Fistula Ethopia, you will find some very cute knitted animals. Last Christmas I bought a Lion Mama and her baby, and a Cheeta Mama and her baby for my kids.
They are hand-knitted by local women in Zimbabwe and are incredibly well made. Each toy comes with a tag that tells you the name of the animal, and who they were made by.
Hamlin Fistula Ethopia was started by an incredible Australian woman, Dr Catherine Hamlin, and her husband Dr Reg Hamlin in 1974. Many women in Ethiopia endure childbirth for days unassisted, and often end up with a fistula. This fistula causes permanent incontinence, leaving the woman ostracised from her community. Hamlin Fistula Ethopia gives women free surgery, counselling, physiotherapy and loving care.
2. Buying their favourite book and give to another
My daughter is currently obsessed with Harry Potter. We always end up renewing each book at the library as we read it over and over. Buying the book outright would save on library late fees.
Enter Better World Books. These guys will not only give a book to someone in need (when you buy one), they also make sure that your shipping is carbon neutral.
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You can make sure your kid has their favourite book on hand for that final snuggle on Christmas night, knowing a child somewhere else is enjoying a good book to read.
3. Toys that help communities in the developing world
It's an oldie but a goodie. Oxfam has been sourcing and selling ethically produced goods since 1965. Their aim is to lift people out of poverty by paying a fair price for their goods, and bringing them to you. It's all about getting local communities around the world into a position of stability and health.
There's a whole section on music and toys, so there's a lot to choose from. My favourites are the instruments (check out the Peruvian Occarina whistle - it has to be better than a recorder right?) and there's an incredible looking Connect Four game made out of wood!
4. Arts and crafts that will light up disadvantaged schools
What child doesn't love to draw, colour and glue? Yoobi have a selection of stationary, including glitter glue pens and colourful gel pens. For every item you buy, they'll donate another to a school in need (in Australia).
5. A Christmas cake to make the kids smile
Some people love to cook at Christmas time, and I envy them. Really I do. But I am not a cook, nor do I enjoy it very much. I am, however, a big fan of cakes.
I've used Cake 2 The Rescue a number of times to make amazing cakes for my kids' birthdays. They're amazing and easy to make (apart from that time I didn't read the instructions and used a whole bottle of black colouring dye).
They happen to have a great selection of Christmas Cakes (I've got my eye on Rudolph) that the kids will love.
Cake 2 The Rescue want to give cakes to families in need. They're donating $10 from every Christmas Cake Kit to a fund that will give birthday cake kits to families doing it tough. It's through a not-for-profit charity called Puddle Jumpers Inc.
You get to look like a whiz in the kitchen, the kids get a gorgeous Christmas Cake and you're contributing to more joy throughout the year! A win all round.
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In my previous post from our Farnborough series, I mentioned the CRESCENDO project as an insight into the future of modeling and simulation of digital aircrafts. Now, how about collaboration? Collaboration is indeed key when it comes to complex multi-tier supply chains such as in the Aerospace industry. And in order to get a single source of truth, cloud-based collaboration is a must. For that matter, BoostAeroSpace is another great European project fostering cloud-based collaboration for the Aerospace industry (you can also follow @BoostAeroSpace).
Better than any amount of words, check out the video below to see what we mean by a Collaborative 3D Experience in the Aerospace industry, from the passenger experience to the airline operator and to the aircraft manufacturer. All of it happening in the cloud, of course 😉
What do you think? Wouldn't it be awesome if a wish you'd share in an online community would turn into reality in the next manufactured aircraft?


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Fragrance Hotel Riverside
The hotel does offer free wifi facilities but they change the password every day. Guest need to get the password on the daily basis if one wish to use the wifi every single day.
I am rather satisfy with my stay here. With all the conveniences just a few minutes walk away, I will be sure to come back again in the future.


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Mix of the week : Tyson Ballard (Voyeurhythm)
Lovely selection of deep and dubby house with the odd hint of disco in there. Plenty of vocal hooks and spoken word to keep it interesting. Recorded live at D-Edge in Sao Paulo in March 2011, still doing it for me.
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CrossFit is an exercise trend that seems to keep increasing in popularity. Chances are the intense exercise has opened up nearby to you, and someone you know is spruiking its benefits. However, CrossFit also has its fair share of critics. Here, we go through some of the pros and cons, so you can decide if it's right for you!
The best aspect of CrossFit is that it has made exercise, particularly resistance training and weight lifting, even more popular. CrossFit is getting both men and women off the couch and lifting weights, encouraging people to pushing their bodies to new limits. The clean and jerk and the snatch are no longer left to the realm of weightlifters and professional athletes.
CrossFit is more than just exercise; it is a way of life. It encourages individuals to adopt a healthy lifestyle, not just the obvious training program, but also following a paleo-style eating plan and generally being more active. You don't need to be an expert to see this far outweighs a lifestyle of inactivity and processed, low -nutrient foods.
A major downfall of CrossFit is the often poor exercise programming. CrossFit sessions are based around large, compound movements. These require many learning sessions to perfect. Unfortunately, though most participants are thrown straight into the deep end and given high-repetition numbers, with little rest period, using heavy loads.
These programs also neglect to consider long-term goals and outcomes. As a general rule, power and strength exercises, such as the clean and jerk, and the deadlift, require low repetition numbers, with lots of recovery. CrossFit programs, though, primarily ask for maximum reps in the shortest period of time for these movements. The end result is participants following a generic program, with no thought of any long-term, achievable goals. Furthermore, CrossFit devotees are also at a high risk of injury due to the poor programming.
Many CrossFit trainers have little more than a short CrossFit qualification course. This means many lack an in-depth, scientific understanding of exercise and the human body.
The CrossFit Games produces some incredible athletes, who perform almost superhuman feats. Surely this is an argument for the benefits of CrossFit? Unfortunately no. These star CrossFit athletes follow a specific, planned program, tailored to their performance outcomes. Strength, aerobic capacity, speed and weight lifting are all specifically-trained. The only time most of these athletes perform a WOD is the day of competition.


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Now you can add Spurgeon's The Pastor in Prayer to your library—absolutely free!
This 175-page book contains a collection of Spurgeon's prayers and includes the Scriptures which inspired them.
You may already be familiar with Spurgeon's works, but it is particularly inspiring to read the prayers which invigorated this man whom Mark Driscoll has called, "the greatest Bible preacher outside of Scripture."
In The Pastor in Prayer you see Spurgeon's pastoral heart on every page:
"We do pray for all who are out of the way; for such in this congregation as remain unsaved. Lord, let them not die in their sins. Have mercy upon some that have had a godly training, but remain ungodly. Oh condemn them not, we pray Thee, with such a mass of guilt upon them; but save them yet. Lord, have great mercy upon such as are ignorant of Christ, and therefore sin, but know not what they do. Let them become trophies of Thy wondrous love. Gather them in; oh, gather them in to-day."
"Our Father, for that is the sweetest title by which we can address Thee, we pray Thee save us entirely from sin. There are many in Thy presence who are resting in the peace which comes of justification by faith. We know that we are righteous through the righteousness of another, even Jesus Christ; but we pant and pine for personal likeness to Thyself. If Thou be our Father, then upon every child of Thine should be the Father's image impressed: so let it be."
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Fifty posts. It's been a long road to get here, and there were times I thought the day would never come. But here we are! I thought I would use this special occasion to discuss one of my favorite bands to ever come out of the Kansas City music scene: none other than that which was known as the Revolvers.
This is a band I hold dear to my local music heart, so much so that it would be out of my character were I to go one chance without heckling the former members for a possible reunion (before you get your hopes up, it has been all but confirmed as downright implausible). There have been times when I've gone weeks at a time with having their lone full-length on repeat in my car, singing along to every single word as though I were rehearsing for KC music karaoke. Now that I write that out, it doesn't sound like such a bad idea.
The core of the Revolvers was vocalist Justin Petosa, guitarist Mike Alexander and bassist Chris Wagner. The three essentially grew up together, and formed a band in the mid '90s as a youthful outlet to play Ramones-driven pop-punk with a lyrical prowess that elevated above many of the more popular bands of that era. In the years they were an active band, the Revolvers seemed to have gone through an average of one drummer a year, the previous one leaving typically for no more than artistic differences or conflicts of scheduling.
Though they experienced the same hardships and tour mishaps that any band venturing out on the road is bound to confront, they stayed a frequent name in the local music scene until early in the 21st century, when after the release of their self-titled debut CD (and two self-released 7 inches before that) they slowly sputtered out and eventually stopped playing shows altogether. By the time the members parted ways, it was difficult for a conversation to be had among them.
All things eventually pass, and with time, conversations were had once more, and friendships grew more strong than they had been in the years prior. Justin decided to bow out of music, leaving a gaping hole in the hearts of teenage-minded punks yearning for songs about girls, love and the eventual sorrow that comes from a broken relationship.
Mike, who before the Revolvers played in the Breakups, joined the final incarnation of the (at this point no longer ska) Gadjits before they became the Architects, in which he was the guitarist until parting ways to pursue other career interests, which led to he and Wagner forming Hipshot Killer in a reclamation of vigor and revival of their punk roots. In the interim, Alexander also performs with bands that play country (Starhaven Rounders), Irish rock (Blarney Stoned), and Americana (John Velghe and the Prodigal Sons).
Chris Wagner's musical output beyond the Revolvers has included in part the previously mentioned Hipshot Killer and Prodigal Sons (wherein he performs bass), Velghe's earlier project the Mendoza Lie (as a guitarist), the abrasive and metallic Hundred Years War (whose Jason Hall was also in The Secret Club with Wagner), indie rockers Jackie Carol (with members of The Casket Lottery, The Believe It or Nots, and Proudentall), and The Glitter Kicks (featuring a post-Frogpond Tawni Freeland, music producer extraordinaire Ed Rose, and a rotating drummer including Kliph Scurlock of Slackjaw, Craig Haning of Moaning Lisa, and Chris Tolle of The Creature Comforts).
As mentioned, the band went through a variety of drummers, but on recording had Thomas Becker on the first 7 inch. Becker was serving duty in multiple up-and-coming bands in the area, including Nuclear Family and the earliest version of The Get Up Kids, but dropped them all to attend college in California. The second 7 inch and full-length featured drumming by Jon Paul aka Buddy Lush of the Buddy Lush Phenomenon, Sin City Disciples, and The Big Iron.
Enough with the word vomit. Now we get to the point: free stuff. Below, you can find a link to download each of the Revolvers releases, ripped to the best of my current capabilities. Listen, enjoy, and share with your friends a band worth celebrating. And if you see the guys out at a bar some night, try not to heckle them too much.
Album: She's Out Of Your Life 7″ – download here
Label: Locket Love Records
Release Year: 1996
Track Listing:
Side A: She's Out of Your Life / Never Said
Side B: Christmas Eve in June / Anjali
A forefront of melodic, classic pop-punk with hints of the '60s pop the band leans toward in later recordings.
Album: Marley 7″ – download here
Label: Locket Love Records
Release Year: 1996
Track Listing:
Side A: Marley / Marrianna
Side B: Ten Seconds Then / Far Between
You can hear the punk shell slowly begin to crack, giving way to a more musically-geared sound.
Album: Revolvers CD – download here
Label: Locket Love Records
Release Year: 1999
Track Listing: All I Want to Know / Better Off Alone / There's a Heart / Devotional / Marley / Annie / The Only One / Not Really Blue / New Depression / Standin' Sadly / Torch / The Angel's Share
The band's final output, a much better production quality that features a fully fleshed out sound that is at once punk and pop, and better showcases the songwriting ability of both Justin and Mike. The album is a complex layer cake of melancholy, anger, hope, and a general malaise toward the growing up that one must eventually accept. The band's style ranges from fast, straight to the point power-punk, to downtrodden, emotionally dejected songs that border on country. It's a damned shame if you don't grab this right now.
Spring is in the air, Kansas City! All over town, the trees are fighting to bud, and the midtown crackheads are beginning to bloom, shuffling up and down Broadway without direction. Each night that passes will see more and more people flooding out onto the sidewalks in front of crowded bars and venues offering a spot for music fans to dwell and catch up with friends over beers. In less than a month, Westport will be a mass of asymmetrical haircuts, tight jeans, denim jackets, and PBR cans as far as the eye can see. The second year of the Middle Of The Map Festival is upon us, bringing in over 80 bands from around the city and across the world, and the sounds that will be heard around the central hub will vary from electronic pop, to any variety of indie rock, to the occasional thrashy metallic hardcore band.
What you may not hear, though, is a large assortment of punk rock. Outside the additions of touring bands like Mission of Burma and Fucked Up, or local weirdos like Cher U.K., the inclusion of punk is wholly non-existent in the festival. This did not go unnoticed by the local punk scene, and a few members of the community pulled together their friends to put on what they have cheekily dubbed the Center Of The City Festival. The two-day, 21+ event will be held the nights of April 6-7 at The News Room (3740 Broadway) and will provide a shelter for those who wish to avoid the festivities occurring just south, while still getting their fill of live music (though you can still expect to see just as many asymmetrical haircuts, tight jeans, denim jackets and PBR cans).The schedule is below, with links to music. Keep up with any changes that may happen here:
Friday, April 6th:
07:30 The Rackatees (Lawrence)
08:15 Smash The State! (KC)
09:00 Dead Ven (KC)
09:45 Bent Left (KC)
10:30 Iron Guts Kelly (Lawrence)
11:15 The Alerts (KC/Lawrence)
12:00 Red Kate (KC)
12:45 Dismantle The Virus (Lawrence)
Saturday, April 7th:
07:30 The Bad Ideas (KC)
08:15 Brutally Frank (Joplin, MO)
09:00 Hipshot Killer (KC)
09:45 Death Valley Wolfriders (KC)
10:30 They Stay Dead (Oklahoma City)
11:15 Bombs Over Broadway (KC)
12:00 Pizza Party Massacre (KC)
Entering the RecordBar around 10:00 last Friday, one could not walk through the narrows without rubbing shoulders amid those throughout. The venue was particularly crowded for an all-local lineup, though as the night raged on, the audience noticeably waned from a college-aged demographic to a weekend warrior vibe. As though it were filled with drunken Cinderellas, the place all but cleared by midnight, save for some table or booth clusters and a pack of patrons standing near the patio door.The night opened at 10:05, as The Sawyers launched into a 40 minute set of No Depression alt-country lifted from the altar of Tweedy and Farrar, with some elements of honky-tonk thrown in for good measure. The band is led by local songwriter John Greiner, and is backed by Chad Rex on guitar. Rex fronts The Victorstands and previously played in Colorado's own No Depression purveyors Armchair Martian with St. Joseph, MO, natives Jon Snodgrass and Steven Garcia, the latter of whom now plays in KC powerpop trio Deco Auto. Betse Ellis of The Wilders played the fiddle at stage right, and Chris Wagner (most recently of punk trio Hipshot Killer) filled in for the group's recently departed bassist. Jonathan Kraft, a sound engineer who has spent time with SSION, and in another life, played with Florida screamo band Kite Flying Society served as the drummer. That was a mouthful, but I thought it necessary to document how varied the backgrounds are of the five members that shared the stage.
Over the duration of the band's time on stage there was very little audience interaction. I don't require a story when watching a band play live — and there are many artists that don't really know when to shut up and play — but at the close, I was left wondering if there exists a tangible album that could be purchased, and remained without answer as nothing of the kind was mentioned.
Author note: I'd like to apologize to those reading this as a casual music follower. What you are about to see in the next two paragraphs is nothing short of conspiratorial six degrees of Kevin Bacon nerding out. If you can't keep up, feel free to skip through it. I won't take offense.
John Velghe (née Evans, as the man took his matrilineal surname for the stage to stand apart from the other musically inclined Evans' in the area, of which there are apparently many) was joined on stage by the full-band form of The Prodigal Sons. Tonight, this included Mike Alexander, who as of this writing plays punk with Hipshot Killer, country with Starhaven Rounders, and Irish rock with Blarney Stoned. Alexander has done everything short of playing the part of Neil Schon in a Journey tribute band. Wait, what's that? Oh, he has totally done that as well, and will undoubtedly be forming a new band by the time you finish reading this sentence. Chris Wagner pulled a double shift on bass, and in addition to playing with Alexander in a band now mentioned twice (not to mention the Revolvers), provided the rhythm section for Velghe in The Mendoza Lie, a post-Famous FM/Saint Jude band that had a backbone provided by Dan Dumit, who is still billed as a drummer for the Sons, though he did not make an appearance on this night. "Go-Go Ray" Pollard sat behind the kit, and is a nationally recognized performer who has served as the touring drummer for a few major label bands which, if mentioned, would sully the anticipation that you as a reader have surely built about this lineup.
But wait, there's more. On trombone was Mike Walker, who played in the well-received, though tragically defunct Olympic Size (with Wade Williamson and Kirsten Paludan, both of whom play in Alexander's Starhaven Rounders) as well as The Maytags, a "neo-dub explosion" led by Zach Phillips of the Architects and The Gadjits, of which Alexander was also a part for some time. On saxophone was the illustrious Sam Hughes, also seen as part of the seven-piece horn ensemble in Afrobeat jazz sensation Hearts of Darkness. Additionally, Hughes was in good company with Walker as a five-piece horn section on the most recent release by The Hearers, a country-spanning membership whose horn section can also be seen in various pairings in the jumpin' and swingin' Grand Marquis, roots reggae group The New Riddim, soul revival band The Good Foot, and almost any other act in town requiring some brass. Last, but certainly not least was the talented Hermon Mehari on trumpet, who moonlights in the Diverse trio, playing compositions that pay homage to the 18th & Vine sound that put Kansas City on the proverbial jazz map long ago.
Whew. Now that I have that out of the way, let us continue with the live performance. The band played an hour-long set that alternated from the full lineup that I made a passing reference to above, to an electric four-piece with the addition of Betse Ellis lending her fiddle and vocals. I spoke with Velghe briefly before they began hauling their gear up on stage, at which point he acknowledged his twenty year musical crush on Ms. Ellis, so for her to contribute those talents to a few songs ("Assume the Ground") from his upcoming full-length, Don't Let Me Stay (to be released on Lakeshore Records, the label that brought us The Belles' Omertà), must be a thrill. The set meandered very little from a full-bodied country-tinged Americana rock with strong horn presence ("Blood Line"), but the instrument changes were plenty.
Acoustic guitars and mandolins replaced electric Telecasters and hollow-bodies for portions of the set ("Stage Inside the Main"), and near the end, the full band took the stage once again for what Velghe referred to as a part of the set in which they will be playing some songs in the key of Paul. Following this, he plucked the opening notes to The Replacements' "Can't Hardly Wait," which they played at the Sonic Spectrum tribute series for the 'Mats at the same venue nearly a year ago. The lone song that saw Velghe without a guitar around his shoulder was a set closer of The Jam's "Town Called Malice," which brought a little less excitement from the crowd than one would think, but it was a fitting end to a very energetic, if instrumentally attention deficit set.
Whether by choice or by chance, the lineup thus far had built up to a swelling climax that could have potentially come crashing down if someone closed the night and was not prepared to hand the crowd their asses on a plate of rock (don't let that imagery slip past you). Lucky for the audience, Katy Guillen (of The B'Dinas) took the stage and dished out a three-course meal of ass (already regretting that metaphor) and Go-Go Ray was there to serve as the second musician of the night to pull in some overtime. Taking a look at the two of them on stage, an obvious reaction would be to assume you are about to hear something of the White Stripes or Black Keys variety, both two-piece bands who built their reputation out of playing stripped-down blues rock in their own, weird ways. Well, you would have been wrong to assume that, and should be ashamed of yourself.
The reality is that the assumption is not a complete fallacy, but the sheer force with which Katy and Go-Go exerted sound as a two-piece, with Ray given the chance to show off on extended drum fills, and Guillen slinging out fast-paced blues riffs while the two kept in perfect stride with one another was something impressive. The two jammed a full 45 minutes until the house lights came up and the bar was ready to start kicking people out into the cold, and then they played one more song even after that. The two-piece is expected to release an album in late March, and a new one from Guillen's full rock band is due out in the near future as well.
I would be a fool to hunt down and post every local show happening in the coming months. The metro area is experiencing a musical boom, and has been for the past few years, so I suppose limiting myself in the amount of shows I post here is both good and bad. Good that there are so many choices, but bad in that I don't wish to show preferential treatment against those I choose to exclude. These days, most local events are pretty easy to track via the bands, venues or promoters participating in them, so if you miss out on something you only have yourself to blame.
CANCELED: The September 29th Unwritten Law show at The Beaumont Club has been canceled, likely due to co-headliner The Ataris inexplicably dropping off the bill. The show previously had three KC bands in support, including Hipshot Killer, Bent Left, and Le Grand. Hipshot Killer is one of the best melodic punk bands to come out of KC in a long time. If you haven't already, you can pick up the band's debut 12 inch at Vinyl Renaissance on 39th Street. For the tech savvy, a digital version can be purchased from their bandcamp here. Bent Left has been a mainstay in the local punk scene for the better part of a decade, and has many politically-charged albums and EPs which can be purchased either through local stores or directly from the band. Le Grand, while not my bag, probably has a built-in fanbase with high schoolers who love auto-tuned and frankly generic pseudo-punk and/or radio-friendly "screamo." Not trying to put baby in a corner or anything, but I have to call it like I hear it.
09/23: Kansas City via Chicago (or vice versa) space rockers The Life and Times are heading up an event at Crosstown Station for those who want to punish their eardrums (in a good way, of course). Not only will this be one of the venue's last shows before their untimely demise of being turned into an urban church, but it will be one of only two times the headliner will make an appearance in our town before the end of the year (the other being an opening slot on the 11/04 HUM show at recordBar). Opening the Crosstown show will be thirty-something favorites Dirtnap (Are they together? Are they split up?), Larryville newcomer indie-pop sensations Cowboy Indian Bear, and Cherokee Rock Rifle, a hard-rockin', hard-drinkin', hard-sexin' foursome with only one release under their belt, but a steadily growing local following due to the charisma of bar tending front man Nathaniel "Dutch" Humphrey.
10/01: Crosstown Station will be saying it's goodbyes with a final live music show on October 1st. The list of names on the bill is long, not the least of which is a rare reunion from Giants Chair, co-creators of a '90s indie rock sub-genre lovingly referred to by some as the "Kansas City sound" (shared in part with Molly McGuire, Shiner, et al). Also performing as part of the festivities will be Be/Non (the ever-changing sounds of the prolific Brodie Rush), Thee Water Moccasins (a side project of Roman Numerals), Minden (new project from members of Kelpie), Olivetti Letter (a brand spankin' new band with members of To Conquer, Season to Risk, Doris Henson, and many others), Olympic Size (a mostly one-off project between members of Doris Henson, The Belles, and Roman Numerals that still pop up for an occasional gig), local jazz outfit Diverse (who often team up with other local musicians to pay tribute to past influences), and the synth-heavy sounds of Parts of Speech. Other unannounced and unbilled (Major Games) special guests are expected to appear, and if you are free that evening, you would be wise to attend.
10/15: Kansas City label The Record Machine is releasing a new split 7 inch between locals Soft Reeds and Minden, and The Brick will serve as host to their record release on October 15th. Also opening will be TRM newcomers Deadringers. The event will be 21+, and the cover will probably be $7. Even if the flier says $5, bring $7, as the venue in question has a history of magically increasing their cover charges the evening of the show. Hear Deadringers' single publicly released demo track here, and while we're on the topic of TRM, go here to stream and purchase the debut LP from Ad Astra Arkesta. New releases (and coinciding release shows) can be expected from Capybara and Max Justus before the end of the year as well. If 2010 treated The Record Machine well, and 2011 has placed them in a local spotlight, it will be interesting to see what 2012 has in store for the label.
10/25: Last but not least, Season to Risk will be playing a very unexpected second gig this October, opening for the once great Helmet (or, as they have become since reuniting, Page Hamilton & Co) at Riot Room. Locals Waiting For Signal will be rounding out what is currently only a three band bill, sure to give at least some in the crowd a migraine due to either S2R's smoke machine, or the deafening wall of noise coming from much of the lineup. Helmet has reportedly been playing a respectable amount of their older material, covering a lot of songs from Betty, Aftertaste, Meantime, and Strap It On. But, as is to be expected, at least part of their set will involve some of their newer, inferior songs as well. Season to Risk revealed before their first show of 2011 last month that they have now written two new songs as an inactive band. There is hardly any chance they will ever be recorded, so if you want to hear them, you know what you need to do.


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Happy 4th of July
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
~Elmer Davis
Wishing you and your family a Happy 4th of July!
Stop Annoying Robocalls this 4th of July Weekend!
Just about a year ago, we did a newsletter featuring Nomorobo, an award winning company that offers a FREE service to stop bothersome robocalls. (They won the FTC Robocall Challenge.) I signed up and since then, we almost never get those annoying calls. If you have not signed up yet, click here to register today so you can enjoy the holiday weekend!
Back in January, Nomorobo founder, Aaron Foss went before the FCC to plead on behalf of consumers for protection against unwanted calls. He brought along a visual aid - 25 cases of logs containing over 15 million robocalls that were blocked in 2014. After months of discussion, on June 18, the FCC ruled in favor of stronger consumer protection against unwanted calls and texts. The ruling grants phone companies the ability to block calls if consumers request it. Consumers can now control the calls they receive. For more information on this ruling watch this informative video below.
Have a safe and Happy 4th of July!


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Lavender Days - Lower Meadow, WV
April, 2012
The Beckoning - South Nuttal, WV
September, 2011
Summersville Lake, WV - Deep Water Soloing
August 2009
Indian Creek - Serrator Crack
March, 2009
McAfee's Knob, VA - Appalachian Trail
June 2008
Black Canyon, Gunnison, CO - Journey Home
July 2008
Cathedral Spires, CO
August, 2008
Yosemite - Pointing down to Camp 4
2nd pitch of Good Book - Rocktober, 2008
Stinson Beach, CA
August, 2007
Squamish, B.C. - The Chief, 'Split Pillar'
August 2007
Bugaboos, B.C. - 4th Pitch of Sunshine Crack
August, 2007
Less Fluff, More Action!
- Levi Rose
- Fayetteville, West Virginia
- Sometimes you have to lower your standard of living in order to raise your quality of life.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Summer Squash
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Summerlee Bioremediation Project
Most of you know by now that I enjoy playing in the outdoors, but most people don't know what I do with the other 1% of my time (just kidding, more like 60%). At the forefront of my ideals and beliefs, comes a passion for environmental activism. Over the last five years I have been working on issues that stretch from the headwaters of the Columbia River to the drainages in Puerto Rico. Lately, I have been working on water quality issues associated with the New River in West Virginia, but more specifically local issues around Fayetteville. The predominant issues in this area are fecal coliform bacteria (spawned by the mismanagement of waste water treatment, and agricultural runoff) and abandoned mine lands. It may be news to some, but the Lower New River made it on the EPA 303(d) list as an impaired stream as defined by TMDLs for fecal coliform bacteria. While this news has not hit the main stream media (and it is public info), it would be devastating for the rafting and tourism industry. Over the last 12 years the Plateau Action Network has been working on combating these issues, and has recently developed a comprehensive Watershed Based Plan (WBP) for the Wolf Creek Watershed. The WBP allows our organization to submit proposals for federal and state funding to work on nonpoint pollution management.
Over the last month I have been working on a 319 proposal for an Acid Mine Drainage site at the headwaters of Wolf Creek. My proposal was finally accepted by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Proposal Coordinator today, and will be submitted to the EPA for further review! Below is an executive summary of the proposal.
Project Summary
In conjunction with previous work by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and the Office of Abandoned Mine Lands & Reclamation (Phase I), this project is being proposed as a modification to Phase I of the Summerlee Site. The Summerlee Refuse Pile, located at the headwaters of the Wolf Creek watershed and discharging into an unnamed tributary at river mile 8.7(WVKN-10-M), is the most significant source of acid mine drainage (AMD) within the watershed. Streams within the Wolf Creek watershed are impaired by high levels of iron, aluminum, and fecal coliform bacteria, as well as low pH. In addition, biological impairments are caused by organic enrichment and sedimentation. Total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) have been calculated for the Wolf Creek watershed as part of a broader TMDL report for the New River (Tetra Tech, 2008).
Continuing on going efforts, PAN has several priorities outlined for 2009, each aimed at load reductions for iron, aluminum, and fecal coliform as specified by the TMDL. In order to achieve our goals for 2009, funding is being requested for: 1.) Phase 1 modification of the Summerlee Site (planning and development of a bioremediation terrace at the foot of the refuse pile and wetland restoration 2.) Community outreach and education on the impairments of Wolf Creek, and the measures taken by PAN to remediate these impairments. The Watershed Basin Coordinator of Wolf Creek will manage these projects and track their progress.
The goals of this project:
- To reduce the iron and aluminum discharging from the Summerlee site, by constructing a terraced landscape that will promote low pH iron oxidation, and modification of an existing wetland to increase its ability to retain metals and add alkalinity. By utilizing the low pH-iron oxidation process, water with a low pH and high in ferrous iron (indicative of the water at the site) reacts to the sudden association with atmospheric oxygen to change the ferrous iron to ferric iron. During this ferrous to ferric conversion, iron and acidity are removed from the water, resulting in reductions as high as 60% of the iron and 40% of the acid. Load reductions for iron are estimated at 165,679 lbs/yr. and aluminum at 11,132 lbs/yr by the implementation of this project.
- Evaluate the performance on load reductions from the modification/implementation of Phase 1 before moving on to Phase II.


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I am not a martial artist and I doubt I really ever will be. But back in the day, after I was a Christian (~2002) before I was an atheist (~2007), I picked up Bruce Lee's book Jeet Kun Do: Commentaries on the Martial Way thinking it would teach me something about Jeet Kune Do. How to move my fists, feet, body, be cool, etc. When I saw the book's title in the store the "Commentaries on the Martial Way" were in little letters so I didn't read them. It didn't take me long to realize I had purchased a compilation of Bruce Lee's philosophical notes related to martial arts. The martial way, training, motivation, teaching, and more in the form of short quotes or page-long notes. It was a good accidental find for me in a shiftless period and got me into kung fu movies.
Waiting for Dovahkiin
Have you ever heard of Skyrim? It's an adventure world of swords, dragons, and Nordic-medieval grit and you get to play the dovahkiin, a human with kinship to the dragons. It's basically your job to adventure around and beat things up with the ultimate goal of saving the world from a pending apocalypse at the hands of an evil dragon. It's pretty awesome if you're into that sort of thing.
Anyway, I was doing something monotonous the other day and amused myself by wondering what it would be like to be in the game as one of the random town people, bandits, or various other things you come across as a player. Dragon's don't show up until he starts his reign over the land and even then they don't come to town until the %#$ dovahkiin comes along bumping into people, knocking things over, and pawning pillaged wares on our shops for every scrap of gold.
Generally speaking the non-player characters don't associate you, the dovahkiin, with their overall hardships. On the contrary you're the guy who helps them. This morning I helped a town leader by paying off hired blades squatting in his town's mine. As a reward the town leader pays me more than what I payed the mercenaries, so the guy was able to help himself the whole time if only he had the programming. And I have no sympathy for his workers, who were complaining about going back to work. I started off in wandering around in rags and bindings and managed to make a decent amount of coin as a vigilante doing odd jobs for people. Contrary to what you'd think based on my previous paragraph towns and shop keepers don't seem to mind my bloody pilfered goods as long as I didn't steal it from society.
There is a minor point to this post besides just bsing my tales in Skyrim… there are quite a few people that I have ran into in my life who remind me of non-player characters. Content to live a life without variation where change is a matter of anxiety because it's outside of their control or willingness to reach out and take control. In reality each individual is the protagonist in their own life; there is no way to walk out of your own story.
Government Commune
I wonder what would happen if voting got tied in with paying taxes via what I've started calling in this article a "tax ballot." With the development and availability of modern information technology it's possible for voting and taxes to occupy the same time frame for every state, provide a "paper trail" in the form of a series of digital exchanges that the voter/tax payer initiates and can track personally.
A system like this would also open the door to true government transparency. I spent a while trying to figure out where my tax dollars go and couldn't get further than the typical pie-graph of defense, medicare/medicade, social security, and various other black box systems voted on by representatives. Whatever happens in the black boxes obviously money goes into the pool and expenditures come out another side, for many of them to the aid or paycheck of another citizen. In the system I'm wishing for privacy precautions should apply which means that the system shouldn't be able to display on basis of individual or business except for the case of the individual or business logging in. Displaying pools by county with additional drop down pools for public offices and organizations as well as fed and state tax expenditures.
In time this kind of system can be revised and expanded to include functionality for bidding in or out various services that are new or obsolete in local government which can be expanded wider until it reaches a federal level. This process would give tax payers some self-representation and, therefore, personal responsibility for the way the local, state, and federal government distributes services. A government for the people could start to becoming of the people and by the people.


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Ludlow Bromley Yacht Club
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Ludlow, KY 41016
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Feed all five senses at the Ludlow Bromley Yacht Club. Watch the sun set over the Ohio River. Dock your boat at the marina. For the uninitiated, LBYC is a totally laid-back outdoor bar on the Ohio River that serves beer in cans and only takes cash. It caters to both the moneyed and the mulleted. Each weeknight, it has a different food theme: steak on Monday, mixed grill on Tuesday; pork chops on Wednesday; ribs Thursday; and fish on Friday.Show more


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When it comes to stealing the spotlight and having the slighted party thank their stars for the privilege, no one comes close to Bill Murray. This indomitable party crasher seems to have a soft spot for wedding related festivities.
While in South Carolina last month, Murray delighted the Internet by giving an impromptu speech at a random stranger's bachelor party. Charming, eccentric, but an isolated incident right? Not exactly.
Another couple, Erik Rogers and Ashley Donald, were having engagement photos taken in Charleston by Fia Forever Photography. When lo and behold who should appear but our benevolent Internet Saint of Photobombs.
So the moral of the story is if you want to catch a wild Bill Murray, your best bet is to haul ass to South Carolina and use 'Impending Nuptials.' It's super effective!