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I've mentioned on my other blog that there was a time in Japan when I was laid up with terrible back pain. The remedy according to the doctor I saw was to stay in bed and get up as infrequently as possible for up to three months. He insisted that I was risking a permanent crippling if I did otherwise.
After two months of this and not getting any better, I took matters into my own hands and started walking little by little every day. One of the things that I did was walk to the local Inageya market and buy 1.5-liter bottles of Diet Coke. The time when I concluded that "enough was enough" was near Christmas and there was a promotion going on in which they gave away adorable little ornaments with the famous Coca-Cola polar bears on them with the purchase of such sizes.
I could only carry two bottles at a time because of my back, but walking there everyday and trying to slowly acquire every single type of ornament provided with early motivation to keep conducting my personally prescribed "physical therapy". My back got better, and I had a full collection of the nifty ornaments.
Unfotunately, I didn't bring them back with me when I left Japan, but Coke is putting out a new set for those who'd like to start their own collection. These aren't nearly as cute as the ones I got (they were all polar bear themed), but they're still worth collecting. They're one of the more useful little freebies that you can get with a snack or drink. I'd also encourage people to give Coke some business because I have to give the company at least a little credit for pulling me through a very difficult time.

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Apropos of my exchange with Peter Suderman about the comic-bookification of the movies, Peter Bart has a piece (not online) in the latest Vanity Fair that's worth quoting:
Hollywood's seasoned corporate moguls, such as Brad Grey, at Paramount, and Alan Horn, at Warner Bros., acknowledge that the movie business is splitting into two distinct sectors, which have little if anything to do with each other. The principal focus of the major studios is to manufacture tent-pole pictures, most of them based on comic books and video games, and to connect these projects to a maze of ancillary promotions - toys, cars, tie-ins, etc. There has been growing skepticism about the "tween" films - not movies aimed at pre-teens but films such as Body of Lies and The Women, which despite stars qualify as neither franchise films made for teen males nor as "art" films for adults. In the tent-pole business, the concept is the star. Heath Ledger helped The Dark Knight, just as Robert Downey, Jr. added pizzazz to Iron Man, but they weren't the franchise. Tobey Maguire was almost replaced twice as Spider-Man when his demands became too exotic.
This leaves the art-house business to those veteran players who can cope with hardscrabble budgets and understand how to beat the bushes for acquisitions ...
I'm not really worried about the art-house business: Hardscrabble efforts like Rachel Getting Married or The Wrestler often turn out better than their glossier, "let's win an Oscar" counterparts anyway. (You could make five Wrestlers for what it cost to churn out The Reader, and I wish that somebody had.) But I am worried about the fate of the "tweener" - the mass-market, middlebrow films for grown-ups that the studios have traditionally excelled at making. Nobody should shed any tears over the box-office failure of The Women or Body of Lies, obviously, but they're useful stand-ins for genres that don't belong in the art house and don't come with a built-in teen-male audience: Genres like the smart action flick and the female tearjerker; the historical epic and the high-concept thriller, and so forth. In a Hollywood bifurcated the way Bart describes it, we wouldn't have had Jaws or Die Hard, Braveheart or Terms of Endearment, Pretty Woman or Silence of the Lambs or Saving Private Ryan. For that matter, we wouldn't have had original franchises like Indiana Jones or Back To The Future, Star Wars or The Matrix. Where's the comic book tie-in? The pre-existing audience? Why should a studio take the risk when it can just make another Friday the 13th instead?
This is an old concern of mine, and I don't want to overstate the problem: There are plenty of good middlebrow films being made, from thinking man's action movies like the Bourne saga to Pixar's high-concept family films to current hits like Slumdog Millionaire - which, like Juno last year, is earning mass-market grosses on an art house budget - and Coraline. (And of course, there are other dynamics at work besides comic-bookification: One reason that there aren't many big new historical epics being green-lit at the moment, for instance, is that we just endured a slew of lousy examples of the genre.) But as Hollywood adjusts to depression economics, I'm expecting the dynamic Bart describes to sharpen - and I expect that moviegoers will be the poorer for it.
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The Edinburgh Playhouse has had a colourful history. Designed by Glasgow architect, John Fairweather as a variety theatre, it was largely modelled on the Roxy Theatre in New York, but caught up in the new craze sweeping the country, it opened as a cinema on August 12th 1929 with the "talkie" The Doctor's Secret. Owned by the MacGuire family, it remained a cinema for 40 years until it fell victim to the cinema slump in 1973. Tender for demolition were invited by advertisement, and a "Save the Playhouse" group was set up, who collected 15,000 signatures against the closure. In 1974 the Playhouse was given listed building status. Then, in 1975 the "Edinburgh Playhouse Society" was formed, a second petition brought a further 13,500 signatures, helping tremendously in saving the building that stands here today. Over the next 12 years the theatre changed hands 5 times! Until Apollo Leisure took over ownership in December 1985. In 1993 a major refurbishment was undertaken, and The Edinburgh Playhouse was returned to its former glory, soon becoming one of the most successful theatres in Britain.
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I don't know about you, but my house is usually a mess . Books , pets and work everywhere .I usually slap a paint on , hope it will last, then get on with more interesting creative stuff like craft projects and goodness knows what else.
Cooking. Eating. Walking my dogs. Designing .
I am just too busy to paint and clean the outside and to worry about if the bedroom has the right kind of look right now.
These blue walls which you can see, I had for at least the last 10 years.
But, of course, in the meantime those walls got more and more ropey ( and mouldy) and the curtains weren't that great anymore either.
So when I got a call that my house was so pretty and could people come to take photographs, I really had
to get something going. Like cleaning . Painting.And making curtains and all those other things to make a
room pretty.
Here's some pictures to show you the stuff I did.
I painted all the walls a sort of beigey ( self mixed ) colour , upholstered a footstool in a matching fabric, and made some curtains which I designed and handprinted myself
The beige was dull as ditchwater so I decided to stencil something on top of it, inspired by Rockett St George's " Wild Meadow " wallpaper
It helps you to not to slash your wrists out of sheer beigey boredom .
I had some built-in cupboards with some plain white doors which had defeated me for the last then years so did a sort of Orangery style stencil on it.Not sure if this is the perfect solution but it will have to do for now.
I stapled some green-and white ticking around a hideous headboard I found,.. and painted a blanket box and side table pale green ( also a mix of paints I still had so don't aks me the name of the paint as it's just a fluke ).
Is life too short for house -makeovers ??
It practically always is.But if you hurry and speed up with the painting and don't spend too much time on the whole thing and what -have you, you are pleasantly surprised every morning you wake up.
"Heck" , you think" where the devil am I ? O, crikey it's my own house!" And then you think of the whole day you spend cleaning the walls before you could paint them , turn around in bed once more and try forget all about that bit .Because that is the part you really don't want to remember .
Anyhow, enjoy the pictures.I may show some more.
O. and the dogs are certainly relieved it's all over.
Have a great rest of the week, people!


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Bu gai zai lang fei li qi
Zuo xie yu hui de shi qing
Yong yan shenzhi jie dui ni qing sheng xi yu
Ni mei you bie de biao qing
Zong wei xiao zhuan guo tou qu
Qing yi jie kai wo chuan song de mi
Ru guo zhe yang hai suan bu shang you mo qi
Zhi shao neng dai biao wo men dou gou cong ming
Bu yong zai wen wei shen me
Bu yong zai shuo xie shen me
Liao liao dong le
Wo men dou yi zhi ai zhe
Bu yong zai dan xin shen me
Bu yong zai hai pa shen me
Lei le shui le
Qian zhe shou yi qi ru meng le
Yi zhi suan bu zhun tian qi
Cuo guo qi dai de chang jing
Mei zai cai hong chu xian na ke shuo ai ni
Ni yi ding shan jie ren ai
Zhi dao wo xiang de shi qing
Suo yi xia yu bu ji mang hui qu
(English Version)
I shouldn't waste any more energy,
On such circuitous stuff.
Using my gaze to convey sweet, gentle words directly to you,
You do not display other emotions;
Always smiling gently and turning your head,
Easily escaping the mystery that I try to convey.
If even this is insufficient to prove that we have great shared chemistry,
At least it shows that we are smart enough.
No need to ask why anymore,
No need to say anything more -
We understand.
We are constantly in love,
No need to worry about anything else,
No need to be afraid of anything.
Wearily we fell asleep,
Holding hands, we entered the dream realm together.
Always unable to predict the weather accurately,
Missing the scenery that we were looking towards.
I didn't say, "I love you" at the instance when the rainbow appeared.
I'm sure you knew my intention,
And know what I was thinking about.
Hence I am not in a hurry to go back when it rains.


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It has been over a month since the last time, but last weekend we got back together with our class to learn and discuss about project management. On Saturday we checked out each other's Master's Thesis presentations, but in this blog post I'm going to focus on Friday when we were privileged to be lectured by Wolfgang Steffens, a lean and agile coach working currently at Nokia Siemens Networks.
We were told beforehand that Wolfgang has a provocative way of giving speeches and he said it also himself that some of the things might not be as black and white as he says, but he wanted to shake us up a little bit, take us away from the routines we are used to and give us some food for thought.
Well, Wolfgang's approach to agile methods was very direct :) Solid opinions like "in Scrum there are no project managers", "middle management is not needed" and "never do multitasking" are few examples that I was rolling around in my head during and after the lecture. Mission accomplished! Though I don't completely agree about everything he said, it lead me to do a lot of thinking afterwards.
I'm not even going to try to summarize everything we went through, but I'll write about the things that I felt had the most impact on me. First topic is about estimates and how I totally agree with Wolfgang on this one.
By definition estimates are wrong
This is something I learned the hard way in our own product development. When I started at Humap almost six years ago, agile was making its way into our product development. Back then I considered estimations being one of the hardest things. Initially we tried out two week sprints and for each sprint we (our development team) planned quite much all Monday. Out of 10 working days we were using 1 day, 10% of our working time, just to plan our sprint. Though sometimes planning didn't take all day, try sitting in a meeting for 4-6 hours planning complex schemes and then try to concentrate on a demanding programming or architectural design issue, it just doesn't work very well. Later on we tried solving our issues with wrong medication and we moved to 4 week sprints, then planning really took the whole day.
So what made our planning so slow? The fact that we tried to achieve something impossible, we tried to split our sprint into fine grained hour level tasks. What makes it even harder is that our work at Humap is very innovative and somewhat unstable in a positive way. We are flexible and one of our strengths is that we can adapt to changes very quickly. That system we were using back then was not supporting this flexibility very well. We realized quite quickly that estimates didn't correlate very well with reality, that's why they are called estimates. We started letting go of precise hour based estimations and started first using granularity of days, then the modified Fibonacci sequence of days (the series was something like 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 30, 50 or 100 days). This was already good, but little did we know how much there still was to improve.
After estimating days we moved to story points, but we colored our units a bit. I can't remember the exact units we had, but they were something like mouse, rabbit, horse, whale and planet. At this point we had come a long way from those wearing all day long meetings where we tried to foresee how many hours a single task would take though we were talking about such details of certain projects that we hadn't even properly started planning. Nobody really knew whether it takes 2 or 4 hours to modify commenting AJAX based show/hide functionality, but we knew that it was a rabbit compared to a planet size feature of creating a complete layout editor for our system. After few sprints we started seeing some patterns how many mouses, rabbits or whales we can nail in a single sprint.
Things started to roll quite well, but the variety in our burn down success got us thinking what is still going wrong in our processes. This leads to the second point in the lecture that I want to highlight as a title.
Stop doing iterations
We noticed that during two weeks, our sprint plans might change from top to bottom. Someone nails a sweet deal and its priority jumps to the top, we notice a nasty bug that takes quite a bit of time to fix, customer support tends to consume us in spikes or we just come up with such a great idea that we want to do some prototyping as soon as possible even if it would mean leaving some earlier planned tasks out of the sprint. Don't get me wrong, changes were almost always good, but our system just wasn't supporting that very well. Looking at an unfinished burn down chart at the end of the sprint and figuring out "what went wrong" didn't feel very motivating, but we just didn't realize that we were almost always doing the right things that supported our business strategies.
I can't remember the exact day when we decided to stop using Scrum and therefore stopped using iterations, but it sure has been working for us ever since. By that time we had never heard of Kanban, actually I heard it for the first time just a couple months ago. Nevertheless, our current system is much closer to Kanban than it is to Scrum, but I want to be careful when using those names as we are not using any particular method in our procedures. GTD has certainly affected our ways of working, but I haven't read the book so my knowledge relies on the discussions I've had with my colleagues. Some might consider this as Scrumbut, a term that also popped up during the lecture, but nevertheless we have a system that is working quite well for us. I wrote about our project management in my earlier post so I'm not going to repeat myself here, instead I'm moving on to the second last point I want to highlight from the lecture.
Traditional project management triangle is insufficient
Traditional project management triangle consist of time, scope and budget. In this traditional graph, one side of the triangle cannot change without affecting the others. If your budget cannot change but you need to get the job done faster, you need to take something away from the scope of the project, if you don't cut the scope then time cannot change and so on.
But then we encounter real world. Customer cannot put more money to the project, all the features in the scope of the project are vital and deadline cannot slide because the customer needs results by the time they are having some important organizational meeting, development days etc. On top of all this we know that this project is important to our business and would work as a good reference in our marketing so we cannot just say no to the project. Having more resources is also a no can do, because we are dealing with such complex core level development issues that it would take months to lead a new developer into being able to work with this project.
This has lead into refined version of the triangle and quality/performance has been added as a constraint. This allows some "magic" to be done and make the impossible happen. We take shortcuts, quickly copy-paste code from one place to another without designing proper architecture, write code that is hard to test, leave out unit tests completely and do not think of all the consequences of our actions. Now this is not completely unacceptable, we just need to be aware that this leads into design debt that needs to be paid later on. If you just go on and on taking more and more design debt, it eventually leads into completely messed up source code that is impossible to maintain or modify.
We face these situations in Humap too, but we try to take as little shortcuts as possible and replace them with innovations. In the triangle it means not to cut from quality, but increase performance. Increasing performance doesn't mean typing your source code twice as fast ending up with sore fingers and brain totaled from trying to think triple fast "because we are in such a rush". No, trying to hurry up usually leads to making mistakes and slowing up the process even more. Sometimes that little extra pressure might just lead into inventing some brilliant ideas how to solve issues by intelligently utilizing something existing, new ways of working, new technologies and some innovations in such way to the goal can be reached faster without quality loss or sometimes even with better quality than what was originally planned. Nobody's perfect, you can't always come up with pearls that solve all your problems, but it sure feels good when you get it right :)
This post is getting long enough already so it's time to check out the last one.
Never do multitasking
There was a very good example about multitasking from project management point of view. Imagine you have one week sprints and you need to complete four tasks, each estimated to take one week. In the beginning of first sprint you start to work on all those tasks and they all are progressing steadily at same pace. After three weeks, you have completed 75% of all four tasks, but what have you actually finished? Nothing.
What if you had started doing just one task and move on to doing next task once the on going task is finished? You would have finished three of the four tasks. Consider this from risk management point of view. It's not that hard to see that doing one thing at the time is the way to go.
Another, more technical example. When I first heard of Serial ATA, I though that how could it be faster than Paraller ATA? Same ideology applies. While PATA can move multiple bits side by side, bits arrive to the other end of the cable in bit different times so they have to be synchronized with separate logic. Sending data in serial reduces overhead and data transfer rate can be much higher so it becomes faster than "multitasking".
As said, this was not all we went through during the lecture and Wolfgang had good examples about Lean methods. But now it's time to close this one up and leave some space for future blogging too ;)
Project Management Studies 18th and 19th of November
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Low in High School – album review
Morrissey has always been one of the most controversial figures in the music industry since we met him during 1982 when he was the frontrunner of the band The Smiths. 35 years later, he's back with his 11th solo album Low in High School. Mercifully, the title itself shows us that perhaps there will be a spark of the old, witty Morrissey that fans are familiar with. In true Morrissey fashion, this album has divided critics and caused controversy in the music world. Whilst it's predicted the album will sell, the very nature of Morrissey's contentious views means the album could not have been released at a worse time; particularly regarding his views on recent sexual assault allegations in the media. That being said, Morrissey's music still remains popular amongst its consumers and he has stayed relevant for over 3 decades. His latest album presents us with a new twist on his familiar sound and unique voice.
It is a shame then, that this album is not the music that Morrissey once made. What had the potential to be great music is spoilt by unnecessary spite. Granted there are hints at the past and there is a sense of familiarity – for example, promotion of this album has been completely overshadowed by his inclination to state his rather controversial views in interviews. Recently he revealed in a podcast that he thought the UKIP leadership contest was rigged so that Anne Marie Waters – an openly anti-Islam candidate – couldn't win. This attitude of supporting anti-Islam views is quite blatantly stated in the closing song of the album, Israel. With its questionable lyrics such as "And they who reign abuse upon you/They are jealous of you as well" It's no wonder that Moz's attempt to address the Israeli conflict has been met with some heavy criticism. If we all implied that the people who criticised Israel's actions are simply "jealous" the world would be an even bigger mess than it already is. If nothing else, Morrissey may have managed to achieve the honour of saying the most ridiculous public statement on the Arab – Israeli conflict to date.
Elsewhere on the album, there is still this level of spite and controversy. For example, there is the 7 minute long I Bury the Living in which Morrissey mocks a soldier and then when he is shot sneers at his bereaving mother. Arguably the song could be read in a different way – some have argued that here Morrissey is trying to reiterate the 'hate the war, support the troops' mindset. Although, with lyrics such as "You can't blame me, I'm just a sweet little soldier…give me an order, I'll blow up yer daughter" it isn't hard to see where the confusion has come in. It's the way he sings it too – slowly, almost sneering – that has caused the confusion. Who is Moz sneering at? Is it the solider and his mother? Is it the government? Does he give any concern to the civilian victims of war? I guess only Morrissey himself would be able to tell us that.
Unlike Low in High School, I do not want to end on a wholly negative note. Dotted around the album there are lyrics which give a flash of what Morrissey's early music used to stand for – "I'm not my type" in I Wish You Lonely shows evidence of self-reflection and perhaps even self-criticism. In fact, the whole song could easily be a nod towards Moz trying to work out what his real problem is. In My Love, I'd do anything for you the lyrics "We all go our own ways/Separately in the same direction/And here am I every night of my life always missing someone" offer a bittersweet outlook on what it means to grow up. It shows that although we all progress through life we leave our friends behind in the hopes of a good career or a better life. Ultimately though we always look to the past and still end up missing someone we once held close.
Morrissey's 11th solo album, Low in High School is out now.


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The Kurt Busch of old made an appearance at Richmond International Raceway Saturday night. The former champion known for his short temper, led for a time and looked to be in a position to contend for the win. A late race caution however derailed his hopes and led to some extracurricular activity both on and off the track.
The race ended with a green-white-caution finish with Busch lined up inside the top ten. In the melee that ensued when the final green flag dropped, Matt Kenseth shoved Busch out of the racing groove. This came just after Busch had made contact with the Chevy of Tony Stewart shoving him up out of the way.
On the cool down lap, things were anything but cool. Busch sped up to Kenseth's Toyota and gave it a hard tap shortly after receiving the same from Kenseth. Stewart showed up on the scene shortly after and pushed Busch's Chevy into the wall. Busch retaliated and the two cars kept making contact until they got to pit road. MORE>>>


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|Mexican Haystack (assembled & photographed without the help of a food stylist ; )
but both healthier & tastier : )
This is another "build your own" sort of meal - which is perfect when you have diners with a variety of allergies, sensitivities, or with strong food preferences. You simply put a layer of chips - or your other favorite base layer- such as rice - and build from there. This is a naturally gluten-free meal, if you have diners who need that option : )
What's really great is that with a freezer stocked with some seasoned beans - or with store bought ingredients - this meal can come together really fast. If you have several friends get together - each one can bring or prepare one ingredient.
The links in the list take you to my recipes for these ingredients.
You simply set out the ingredients in bowls, choosing from the following:
- Tortilla Chips of your Choice (I'm a fan of Baked Tostitos - they're widely available, tasty, and healthier than many other options)
- Your choice of seasoned Beans. Black Beans are my favorite in this recipe - but Refried Beans are pretty yummy, too!
- Rice (optional - but some diners might prefer it in place of, or on top of, the chips)
- Shredded Lettuce
- Tomatoes
- Salsa - Homemade or Storebought
- Guacamole - Homemade or Storebought
- Diced Onion or Scallion - if desired
Tip for dining with Omnivores: If you like, in addition to the above options, you can set out any or all the following for Omnivores - Fajita Style Chicken or Beef Strips, Taco Meat, Shredded Seasoned Chicken or Pork, Sour Cream, Shredded Cheese.
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When we take time to get to know God more, however we do that, He always meets us. People are able to grow in their experience of God and are transformed.Taryn from Reading
I felt extremely privileged to have heard from some excellent, experienced speakers, who shared their very personal stories, through easy-to-follow but thought provoking teachings, and who challenged us in our Christian commitment.Mark
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Did you realise that the Lymphatic system is the third part of the circulatory system? Vital to our health, but one that is easily overlooked.
Immuno-Lymphatic Therapy is one of the best ways to ensure that it is working properly. It is very helpful for people recovering from surgery which has resulted in an accumulation of fluids in the tissues – whether this surgery was for a medical condition or cosmetic surgery. Lymphoedema can be uncomfortable and distressing, so the earlier treatment is started the better.
It is a very gentle, relaxing and de-stressing form of massage It is exquisitely gentle – most people relax very quickly and often drift off to sleep during a treatment, resulting in a wonderful feeling of wellbeing.
The following effects have been reported:
- It cleanses and purifies the connective tissue so that the body heals itself more quickly
- It drains congestion and swellings including sprains, speeding recovery
- It balances the Nervous System, reducing the effects of stress
- It reduces or eliminates pain, including chronic pain
- It strengthens the Immune System so preventing illnesses
- It tones the muscles and improves the skin
- it is very helpful with weight reduction and cellulite dispersal
The Lymphatic system is involved with the following conditions :
Any stress condition – tiredness – fluid retention – cellulite – swollen ankles – lymphoedema – ME – MS – rheumatoid and osteo-arthritis – sports injuries – acne – scars – headaches and migraine – digestive problems – sinusitis – labyrinthitis – lowered resistance to infections – glaucoma – tooth extraction – joint swellings – overworked muscles – general aches and pains – weight reduction, before and after surgery to speed recovery, reduce scarring, and also to prevent the development of stretch marks in pregnancy.
We have also found that Immuno-Lymphatic Therapy is very helpful before osteopathic or chiropractic treatment giving fuller relaxation of the muscles, thus making those treatments more effective.


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Sen. John McCain says the cause of rebels fighting Syria's President Bashar Assad has been obscured in the rapid-fire military and diplomatic events following a chemical weapons attack near Damascus.
McCain says, quote, "I feel very badly for my friends in the Free Syrian Army today."
The Arizona Republican tells MSNBC he's not against negotiating to defuse the chemical weapons issue. But McCain also argues, "There's nothing that will drive Syrians more into the hands of extremists than to feel they have been abandoned by the West."
One of the persistent questions about U.S. policy in war-ravaged Syria is to what extent the terrorist network al-Qaida is involved in the efforts to end Assad's rule. McCain said President Barack Obama should have acted more forcefully against Assad many months ago.
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installing EasyPHP
I wanted to contribute to a PHP project but under Manjaro I couldn't test it locally. I got a "
Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init()" message that I didn't manage to resolve, though the line "
extension=curl.so" was present in my
php.ini :(
After a few hours of trial and error, I decided to develop this project under Windows. I have Windows in VirtualBox, I put the PHP project in a shared folder, so my idea was to edit the source under Linux and visualize the result under Windows.
I chose EasyPHP and installed the latest EasyPHP Devserver that provides a complete development environment.
When I opened the project I got the same error since curl was not enabled by default. On the dashboard I could edit the
php.ini file and uncommented the line "
extension=php_curl.dll". However, after restarting the webserver I got another error:
libssh2 is missing. I found the solution here (ken's comment):
"I had to also also copy libssh2.dll into my Apache24 folder for this to work with my PHP 5.6.2 installation. So altogether I had to do the following: Move to Windows\system32 folder: libssh2.dll, php_curl.dll, ssleay32.dll, libeay32.dll Move to Apache24\bin folder libssh2.dll Uncomment extension=php_curl.dll"
I found all these files in the install folder of EasyPHP. There are two versions of each, one in a "…vc11…" folder, while the other one in a "…vc14…" folder. I worked under PHP 5.6 so I copied the vc11 versions of each file mentioned above.
After this Apache restarted without any error.
limit the CPU usage of Firefox / Dropbox / etc.
I have an older dual core laptop where Firefox sometimes uses 120%-130% CPU and slows down the machine completely. Restarting Firefox solves the problem for a few minutes but then again, it eats up the CPU. What to do?
I don't have many tabs open but I still have this problem. I also uninstalled the Flash plugin but it didn't solve the problem.
However, I found a nice tool called cpulimit:
"Cpulimit is a tool which limits the CPU usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in CPU time). It is useful to control batch jobs, when you don't want them to eat too many CPU cycles. The goal is prevent a process from running for more than a specified time ratio. It does not change the nice value or other scheduling priority settings, but the real CPU usage. Also, it is able to adapt itself to the overall system load, dynamically and quickly. The control of the used CPU amount is done sending SIGSTOP and SIGCONT POSIX signals to processes. All the children processes and threads of the specified process will share the same percentage of CPU." (from the README of the project)
The following setting worked for me:
$ cpulimit -l 80 firefox
Firefox uses several threads but as mentioned in the documentation, they will will share the same percentage of CPU.
The CPU usage may jump higher than the specified value, but
cpulimit will push it back in a few seconds.
My old laptop has become useable again :)
Update (with Dropbox)
I noticed that Dropbox also loves my CPU. Here is how I could limit this greedy beast. Originally, I started "$HOME/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd" automatically at each startup. Create the file "$HOME/bin/cpulimit_dropboxd.sh" with the following content:
#!/usr/bin/env bash cpulimit -l 50 $HOME/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
Make it runnable (
chmod u+x cpulimit_dropboxd.sh) and call this script (
cpulimit_dropboxd.sh) when your system comes up. Here I give 50% CPU for Dropbox but you can play with that value.
Linux: install Windows fonts
I wanted to create a meme image manually in Gimp but I didn't have the required font (Impact). What now?
The remedy is here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microsoft_fonts. I have a dual boot machine with Windows and Linux, so I decided to put a link on Windows' Fonts folder (I didn't want to copy 550+ MB fonts).
# ln -s /mnt/Windows/Fonts /usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts # fc-cache
The prompt "
#" means a root shell. Restart Gimp and the Windows fonts will be available.
show my position on the map
The site http://ipinfo.io/ gives you back not only your IP address, but your geolocation too. Example (with a fake IP):
$ curl http://ipinfo.io/ { "ip": "734.675.653.542", "hostname": "No Hostname", "city": "Debrecen", "region": "Debrecen", "country": "HU", "loc": "47.5333,21.6333", "org": "...", "postal": "..." }
Let's visualize my location:
<img src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=47.5333,21.6333&zoom=9&size=480x240&sensor=false">
Debrecen, Hungary, center of the world :)
email notification from a script
I have a Digital Ocean VPS box where several scripts are running. Some of them run for a day. I would like to get an email notification when a particular script starts / ends, or when something happens.
In short: how to send an email from the command line?
First, do the necessary configuration to be able to send emails from the command line (more details here).
Sending email without a body:
mailx -s "subject" < /dev/null "email@example.com" 2>/dev/null
Sending email with a body:
echo 'this is the body of the email' | mailx -s "subject" "email@example.com" 2>/dev/null
I also made a Python wrapper for it that you can find here.
How to update Windows 7 SP1
A friend of mine asked me to install Windows 7 on his laptop. I installed Windows 7 SP1, but something changed because when I tried to search for updates, it didn't want to finish! I waited for 12 hours but it was still looking for… Damn, how to do an update?
Download manually these updates: KB3050265, KB3102810, and KB3125574 (this last one is a big one, a convenience rollup update). Do the following with each update:
- Start an admin terminal and stop the Windows Update service: "net stop wuauserv".
- Install the update. Restart the machine if you are asked to.
- Take the next update and repeat.
There is no need to restart the WU service manually since it is started automatically after a reboot.
When these three updates are installed, the Windows Update will find the updates "quickly" ("quicly" is relative; for me it was about 15 minutes).
Windows: convert .docx files to .pdf in batch mode
I had 60 .docx files that I had to convert to .pdf. How to do it in batch mode? One thing was sure: there is no way that I'd do it manually…
I found the solution here.
The necessary scripts are collected here.
Usage: collect the .doc(x) files in a folder, put the two scripts next to the documents and launch the .bat file.
Note: this solution also works with .doc files (but then modify "docx" to "doc" in the sources). I tried it with Word 2007.
Firefox: disable detach tab
Clicking on a tab and then moving your mouse in a downward motion causes a new window to open.
Install this patch: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bug489729-disable-detach-and-t/ and in its GUI select "Disable detach tab".
Frankly, this FF "feature" was driving me crazy.
untruncated output of "ps"
You must have noticed that when you use the Unix command "
ps", the output's length in truncated to fit the screen's width. How to get the full output?
Note: Instead of "
ps" I usually use "
ps aux".
Use the "ww" options too:
ps auxww
Are you interested in one particular PID?
ps ww PROCESS_PID
(This is another thing that bugged me for years but a quick Google search enlightened me.)
[vim] run current file with Python
You use (neo)vim for editing your Python code and you want to execute the source code in your editor. The output of the script should appear in the editor.
I came up with a dynamic solution, i.e. the interpreter is taken from the first line of the code. If you specified "
#!/usr/bin/env python2", then
python2 is used; if you have "
#!/usr/bin/env python3", then
python3 is used.
But what if you use Anaconda and you have for instance "
#!/opt/anaconda3/bin/python3" in the first line? Then simply this interpreter is used.
Here is the snippet from my config file:
" run python script {{{ function! RunWithPython() let first = getline(1) let first = substitute(first, "^#!", "", "") let first = substitute(first, "\n", "", "") let exe = "" " the Python binary to call if first =~ "/usr/bin/env " let exe = split(first)[-1] elseif first == "/opt/anaconda3/bin/python3" let exe = first endif if exe == "" echo "Error: unknown Python interpreter in the first line." return endif " echo exe echo system(exe . " " . expand('%')) endfunction au FileType python nnoremap <buffer> <F9> :call RunWithPython()<cr> " }}}
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So Donald Trump is the 45th President of the United States. You can guess, I suppose, by reading this blog that I would not be a fan and on that you would be correct. This is a dispiriting day for … Continue reading
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Elliot Rodger, misogyny and guns: Can these killings be prevented?
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Page revised in January 2017.
All images © by Roberto Piperno, owner of the domain. Text edited by Rosamie Moore. Write to email@example.com.
Page revised in January 2017.
(1900 Times Atlas of the World)
|Key dates (due to the lack of historical records some dates are based on evidence related to nearby Egina and Napoli di Romania):
XIVth century: Venice acquires the island which in ancient times was called Pitiousa: the island is renamed Spezzie or Spezzia, maybe a reference to spezie (spices)
1540: the island is ceded to the Ottomans
1687: the Venetians reoccupy Spezzia
1715: Spetse returns to the Ottomans
The island of Spetse is located just a few miles off the coast of Morea (Peloponnesus) at the entrance to the gulf of Napoli di Romania (Nauplia).
View of Kastelli, the site of the Venetian town
Today the town of Spetse stretches for a couple of miles along the eastern coast of the island: in the past the inhabitants lived on the eastern coast but on a low hill protected by walls and by the ravines caused by two small streams. The site was (and still is) called Kastelli after the It. castello (castle).
A remaining section of the old walls
In 1770 (in the context of the Russian - Ottoman war) the inhabitants of Spetse made an attempt to drive out their rulers, but the revolt failed and the Turks set fire to Kastelli, so today very little is left of the Venetian fortifications.
Old churches of Kastelli: Taxiarches and Ayia Triada
After the 1770 fire the site was almost entirely abandoned and the inhabitants moved towards the natural harbour to the south of Kastelli: today the majority of the buildings have a relatively modern appearance: there were many churches in Kastelli: only a few still exist.
Animal life in Kastelli
While just half a mile away modern Spetse has a very cosmopolitan appearance with luxury hotels and cafés, Kastelli has a very rural appeal. At times one feels he is visiting a farm.
Tower near the old harbour
The Venetian system of defence was completed by towers at key points of the island for the early detection of enemies.
Spetse played a key role in the Greek fight for independence: a lady from Spetse, Laskarina Bouboulina, led the Greek fleet in the successful blockade of the Malvasia fortress.
Introductory page on the Venetian Fortresses in Greece
List of the fortresses
|Geographic area
|Ionian Islands
|Corfù (Kerkyra) Paxo (Paxi) Santa Maura (Lefkadas) Cefalonia (Kephallonia) Asso (Assos) Itaca (Ithaki) Zante (Zachintos) Cerigo (Kythera)
|Greek Mainland
|Butrinto (Butrint) Parga Preveza and Azio (Aktion) Vonizza (Vonitsa) Lepanto (Nafpaktos) Atene (Athens)
|Peloponnese (Morea)
|Castel di Morea (Rio), Castel di Rumelia (Antirio) and Patrasso (Patra) Castel Tornese (Hlemoutsi) and Glarenza Navarino (Pilo) and Calamata Modon (Methoni) Corone (Koroni) Braccio di Maina, Zarnata, Passavà and Chielefà Mistrà Corinto (Korinthos) Argo (Argos) Napoli di Romania (Nafplio) Malvasia (Monemvassia)
|Aegean Islands
|Negroponte (Chalki) Castelrosso (Karistos) Oreo Lemno (Limnos) Schiatto (Skiathos) Scopello (Skopelos) Alonisso Schiro (Skyros) Andro (Andros) Tino (Tinos) Micono (Mykonos) Siro (Syros) Egina (Aegina) Spezzia (Spetse) Paris (Paros) Antiparis (Andiparos) Nasso (Naxos) Serifo (Serifos) Sifno (Syphnos) Milo (Milos) Argentiera (Kimolos) Santorino (Thira) Folegandro (Folegandros) Stampalia (Astipalea)
|Grambusa (Granvousa) Castello (Kasteli/Kissamos) La Canea (Xania) Souda Candia (Iraklion) Rettimo (Rethymno) Spinalonga and Castel Mirabello Castles on the southern coast Sittia and Paleocastro
You may refresh your knowledge of the history of Venice in the Levant by reading an abstract from
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General Motors CEO Mary Barra unveiled the 2017 Chevy Bolt at CES this week. It's Chevrolet's full-time all-electric vehicle. The new specs are impressive, with the ability to drive up to 200 miles before running out of electrons and needing to be charged.
The Tesla Model S can handle that range, but it starts at $70,000+. The Bolt will cost about $30k after federal incentives.
And for that price, don't expect it to be stripped of technology. It has a 10.2-inch touch screen display that can show you a plethora of information about the car, show a bright, clear view of what is behind you via the back-up camera, etc. The backup camera is pretty cool, it allows you to also display it on the rear-view mirror in a unique way. When you normally flip the switch on your mirror to night mode, you get a weaker reflection and less glare. In the Bolt, it switches from mirror to LCD screen view of the rear camera, allowing control of glare AND a wider view. The backup camera even has its own washer to keep it clean.
0-60 MPH is a sprightly 7 seconds, it offers a very relaxed ride. It's not meant to be sporty. With user-selectable regenerative braking, you can drive at slow speeds, completely controlling your car with just the gas pedal. They've built upon what they've learned from Volt consumers.
Pamela Fletcher, Chief Engineer for Electrified vehicles at GM, says that they have seen the ride sharing economy coming, and that plays into the recent announcement that GM is investing $500,000,000 in ride sharing service Lyft, and that the Bolt has been designed in part with that in mind, with a surprisingly spacious interior for a small car and very easy ingress/egress for multiple people, multiple times per day.
The front of the cabin has a floating infotainment system, with room underneath for storing whatever you normally bring into the car (purse, briefcase, etc.). There's a nice compartment for your tablet, with a charge port.
This is General Motors first full electric car since the Saturn EV1, sold from 1996-1999.
Editor's note: Keep in mind that the federal incentives that lower the price of the car also affect its resale value. The Nissan Leaf has a resale value far lower than a comparably priced gas-powered car because of this, and you can expect the same for the Bolt.


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Plum Paper Planner 2016
Of course, I knew about Erin Condren. Those planners are awesome. They are also crazy expensive. Too expensive to be not as customizable as other planners. That's when I discovered the Plum Paper Designs planners. You can see my first semi-review here. The MAAY planner ran from September through August. One of the great things about the Plum Paper planner is that you can order it with any start month you'd like. My first one was 16 months so I could get back to a January to December calendar and I purchased the add-on stickers. This year I went with a 12 month with no add-ons.
The very first thing I noticed with the new planner was the quality of the cover. The new one is smoother with better color. I desperately wish they would do away with the frosted plastic covers and go with laminated ones instead. This is not a deal breaker for me though. I've been using my first Plum Paper planner since last September and the frosted covers are still intact and working fine. The picture above is without the frosted covers.
They changed up their monthly colors around May. I love the new colors. The monthly cover being color instead of white is nice as well.
The monthly at-a-glace, pocket folder, and basic layouts stayed the same. I have the MORNING-AFTERNOON-EVENING layout. I briefly considered going with a family planner, but for me the M-A-E works great. Another thing I love about the Plum Paper planners are their four different layout options.
Now here is something really awesome. I usually just pack my planner in my bag. Sometimes the pages get bent or things fall out. Or in. A couple of weeks ago, someone in a planner group on Facebook posted a photo of a cover that a friend of hers had found at Wal-Mart. I thought it was very cute. The problem was (and still is) everyone was having trouble finding them. They aren't listed online and many stores don't have a good book/magazine section.
It is a bible cover y'all. I would never in a million years have thought to see if a bible cover would fit my planner. But they do and it is wonderful. Plus... $9.95. I've looked at planner covers online and they are always out of my price range. With my old Much Ado About You planner, I made my own cover, but it doesn't fit the current planner. When I saw these I knew I'd have to check my local Wal-Mart for one. Luckily, I was able to find this one at the second one I checked.
There are only a couple of things I wish Plum Paper could/would change. Laminate their covers and get rid of those frosted things that take away from the brilliant colors of their covers. Label the backside of their monthly tabs. I can get past these issues though because the regular planner is only $31 plus shipping, which is $8.75. There are usually 10% off discount codes floating around too so you can always get 10% off that price!
I am definitely a Plum Paper planner user fo-eva!
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That's awesome. I bought an Erin Condren planner last year and I love it so much, but it runs out in December and I'm starting to ponder if I want to buy another crazy expensive one or try a different company. Decisions, decisions.ReplyDeleteReplies
I do highly recommend Plum Paper Designs. They have so many options, from layouts to colors (you can even change the colors of ANY cover - just sent them the hex codes you would like to use), and their customer service is awesome. Even with the price of shipping, you will be spending less than an EC planner. The processing time is quite long right now, but I got mine in about three weeks. It shipped a full week before it was scheduled to. Don't get me wrong, I love some aspects of the EC planner, like those laminated covers. I'm hoping that in the future the Plum Paper people will convert to them.Delete
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i LOVE this bible case/cover... where did you get it?ReplyDeleteReplies
Walmart, in the magazine/book section. It's a Bible cover.Delete


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Challenging Iowa's Proposed Education Reforms: Part 1 of 3 (Increased Teacher Pay)
Filed Under: Department of Education, Education, Featured, Featured Local, Governing, Government Spending, Iowa General Assembly, Iowa Politics
Later this session the Iowa Legislature will debate various measures, namely the Governor's, designed to improve the performance of our state's K-12 schools. There are three main components to the Governor's proposal and in a continuing series we will look at each separately. Today we start with the most expensive—the $160 million for increasing the base teacher salary from $28,000 to $35,000 over the next three years.
First things first here, before they appropriate an additional dime of taxpayer money to this system it is both fair and prudent that at least three simple questions be asked and answered—Who are the great teachers in Iowa? Who are the average teachers? and Who are the bad teachers?
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I get a lot of compliments about my skin and am always asked what my skincare routine is. First, I think I was just blessed with good skin. In the last few years I have noticed more dryness though. My guess is it is a result of age. UGH...I'm getting old :( So this is my current skincare routine...
Love the Clarisonic (mine is the Mia2), it knocks out any texture on my face and gives a deep clean. I first heard about this product a few years ago at a beauty event at Nordstrom. Thought it was cool, but didn't believe the salesperson's pitch. Then I kept hearing from people they loved it, read about it on blogs, saw videos on YouTube and thought I better get one. I use the Clarisonic every night in the shower with Philosophy Purity, a 3-in-1 cleanser. If I need a quick face wash I reach for Purity.
For fast makeup removal or to make sure everything is gone (especially mascara) after using the Clarisonic I use Pond's Wet Cleansing Towelettes. I've tried a lot of wipes and I hate the ones that leave your face greasy. That does not feel "clean" to me. Pond's are my favorite and you can get them at any grocery or drug store. Typically purchase the original fresh scent, but occasionally I get evening soothe (mmm relaxing scent).
As I mentioned, I deal with dryness so I've added Origins GinZing to the routine. Morning and night. Since it's light weight and oil free I can put it on under my makeup and it won't affect my foundation/concealer's performance. Sometimes I like to just stick my nose in the jar because it smells sooooo good...like fresh oranges! Staying hydrated and having a good diet drastically changes your skin. Think about it....now go grab a bottle of water ;)
I'm always looking for something new to try. I plan on testing out Lush Cosmetics' Mask of Magnaminty Cleanser and Skin Drink Moisturizer, GlamGlow Thirstymud, and some of the Josie Maran skincare line.
What are your go to skincare products? Leave a comment so I know what I should test out in addition to the ones already on the list!
Until next post...xoxo Becca
All items were purchased with my own money and all opinions are my own.
This routine works for me and my skin, but it may not work for everyone.
This routine works for me and my skin, but it may not work for everyone.


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NEW YORK — When Tony Bennett and Tom Izzo crossed paths 23 years ago at the McKale Center in Tuscon, Ariz., they were secondary characters in what turned out to be an epic NCAA tournament first-round matchup.
Steve Smith was the big deal that day, hitting a game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer to lead No. 5 seed Michigan State to a 60-58 victory against scrappy No. 12 seed Green Bay. Izzo was an assistant to Michigan State coach Jud Heathcote in 1991, while Bennett was a junior playing for his father, Dick Bennett, at Green Bay.
In '91, Izzo and Tony Bennett were still cutting their teeth in the game. It was just the start of things to come.
Now, Izzo has attained legendary status at Michigan State (28-8) with six Final Fours and a national title on his resume, while Bennett's star at Virginia is still on the rise, but they're both architects of all the hoops hysteria on their respective campuses. Though Bennett is only 15 years younger than the 59-year-old Izzo, Bennett speaks of Izzo with almost reverential awe.
"He's a special coach," said Bennett, who will lead top seed U.Va. (30-6) on Friday night against No. 4 seed Michigan State in the East Region semifinals at Madison Square Garden. "I have the utmost respect for him and, yeah, just going back from the experiences I've had watching him, certainly my father, (Izzo) does it the right way. He builds his program the right way."
In the regional semifinals, Izzo and Tony Bennett will intersect on a basketball court in the NCAA tournament for a third time, including the 2000 national semifinals when Izzo topped a Dick Bennett-coached Wisconsin team that had Tony on the bench as a volunteer coach. Izzo went on to win his first and only national title in the 2000 season at Michigan State.
Izzo knows a thing or two about Bennett's pack-line defense and slow pace. Izzo has seen Bennett's style morph from its infantile stages, thanks to Izzo's exposure to Dick Bennett.
Though U.Va. has rightfully earned its status as one of the nation's top defensive teams, Izzo's Michigan State teams have long been known for clubbing opponents over the head on defense.
"I think they just kind of have that rep," U.Va. guard Joe Harris said. "That's the way they're going to play. You always know they're going to bring it. They're just tough kids. All the players they've had over the years are always just those tough-minded guys that do the little things, whether it be setting solid screens, rebounding, playing well defensively and playing physical. It just seems like that's kind of their mantra."
Izzo and the Bennett family have stayed connected through coaching ties, but the relationship was forged long before Izzo and Dick Bennett squared off against each other on opposing sidelines as coaches.
"My father told me — he coached at Stevens Point, coach Izzo was playing at Northern Michigan at the time, and (Dick) said how (Izzo) played was similar to how he coaches," said Tony Bennett, whose team is first in the nation in scoring defense (55.5 points per game). "My dad wasn't a great player, and I don't know if coach Izzo was a great player or not, but my dad said, 'I wasn't a great player, but I was going to play as hard as I could and defend and all that,' and you can see that about coach Izzo, how his teams are."
Izzo also remembers as a kid working at camps run by Dick and Dick's brother, Jack. Jack retired in 2005 after winning back-to-back Division III national championships as the coach at Wisconsin-Stevens Point. In Izzo's estimation, the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree when it comes to Tony's coaching acumen.
"I think (Tony has) just taken a lot of the same principles," said Izzo, who counts his four wins against Dick Bennett's Wisconsin team in the 1999-2000 season as one of his greatest coaching achievements. "They're solid. They don't take chances. They're physical from what you can do nowadays. They help each other. They move together. You can call it pack, you can call it whatever you want.
"This is as home as it gets for me as far as knowing who I'm playing, knowing the style they play, but I don't think it's any advantage because it's not like (U.Va. is) that much different than a lot of Big Ten teams."
While Tony Bennett will be coaching just his second game in the regional semifinals, including a loss to North Carolina in 2008 when he was at Washington State, Izzo-coached Michigan State teams are an institution in the Sweet 16.
Izzo, who took over at Michigan State in '95 from Heathcote, will be coaching Friday in his 27th game in the regional semifinals or beyond. That level of experience brings a comfort level in the NCAA tournament.
"Coach never changes," Michigan State sophomore guard Denzel Valentine said. "That's what makes him so good, because he never changes his approach to things no matter if we're losing or we're winning. He stays consistent and does the same things. He's always on us, and then he's on us a little more now because everybody is picking us to be the No. 1 (team)."
Bennett and Izzo may share little more than a handshake and a few kind words with each other Friday night on the Madison Square Garden floor, but Bennett knows who he's facing.
"He's great for the game," said Bennett, who already has earned $400,000 in bonuses this season based on winning Atlantic Coast Conference coach of the year honors and his team reaching the Sweet 16. He could earn up to another $900,000 if his team wins the national championship. "He really is, and he's advanced because his teams, they're efficient offensively and they don't take possessions off and they're tough minded.
"So, certainly he's been great for us younger coaches. I'm not that much younger now, but…that's how you want to build your program."
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Recently some questions were posed to me by Dee Dee M Scott at her author interview blog.
Dee Dee: When did you write your first book, and how long did it take you to complete?
Roy: My first attempt at a novel was undertaken when I was in high school. I abandoned it after a few chapters but showed enough commitment to convince myself that I had full novels in me some day. This was later proven when I completed Patches of Grey. The first draft took me a couple of years to finish as it was written while I was first a full time college student and then a full time working stiff. I continue to be a student of life with a 9-5 gig. Patches then went through a substantial amount of revising over the course of a year as the literary agent who represented me submitted it and obtained feedback from various publishers. After parting ways with my agent and having grown weary of the pursuit of publication, I put my novel aside for awhile and returned my focus to something I enjoy far more than the query and submission process – writing. Much changed in the world of publishing as I worked on novel # 2. Self publishing rapidly grew as a viable alternative to the traditional route, as did the number of success stories that resulted from it, and what had once been something I held my nose up at transformed into an acceptable option. I knew I would eventually get back into the hunt for an agent and publisher once my second novel was done, but in the meantime rather than letting Patches of Grey collect dust as a manuscript in a drawer, I decided to put things in motion towards the day when people beyond a select few would have the opportunity to read it. Last year I reached the end of my journey, at last holding a printed copy of my first novel in hand. Since then I've learned that it wasn't really the end of a journey, but the beginning.
Dee Dee: Several of your short stories have been published in anthologies. Please tell us about them?
Roy: I've written somewhere between 50 and 100 short stories over the past couple decades. They have been published by a wide variety of print and online publications. As you noted, several of them have appeared in anthologies. It is often the case when I find out about an anthology seeking submissions that there is a theme to it. I like to write on a wide variety of topics and in a range of styles. Therefore no matter what the theme is, a story or two of mine frequently fits the bill. The Game: Short Stories About the Life sought gritty, urban stories and they accepted two tales of mine that can be described as such. Prose to Read Aloud is an anthology put together specifically for students who enter competitions. As the title indicates, the stories chosen would potentially be read aloud at such competitions rather than silently to yourself, so I evaluated my body of work with this in mind and submitted a piece that fit the criteria. Most recently one of my short stories appeared in Ménage à 20 which is an anthology of "tales with a hook", as in a surprise ending. I had plenty of pieces to choose from since one of my earliest short story writing influences was the master of the twist ending – O. Henry. On occasion I will write a new story specifically for an anthology. An example is the one I wrote for Proverbs for the People. Each story in it was to be inspired by an African proverb, so first I selected a proverb and then I wrote a tale with it in mind.


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Andrew Dubber – New Music Strategies
Jay Taylor – The Ruby Lounge
Al Farquhar – Modern Art
Bill Devon – School of Sound
Ruth Daniel – Fat Northerner Records
Nick Fitzsimons – Un-Con Belfast / Penny Distribution
Chris Long – BBC
Colin Consterdine – Sound of Monkey
Mike McNally – McNally Consulting
Jeff Thompson – Fat Northerner Records
Howard Mills – Humble Soul
Michael Cassidy – I think music, Barcelona
Michael Fuller – AIM, London
Mark Meharry – Music Glue
Phil Ellis – Manchester College
Sarah Purcell – Concrete Recordings
Howard Monk – The Local, London
Carolyn Gamble – Urbis, Manchester
Mark Brown – Mark Brown Studio, Manchester
Pete Jobson – I Am Kloot
Vic McGlynn – livefrommanchester.com
Andrew Dubber – New Music Strategies
Andrew Dubber is an Arts and Humanities Research Council Knowledge Transfer Fellow in Online Music and Radio Innovation and a Senior Lecturer in the Music Industries at Birmingham City University, UK.
Originally from New Zealand, Dubber moved to the UK in 2004 to begin a research project in Online Music Enterprise. With a background in both the radio and the music industries, and with an academic record that includes numerous articles, book chapters, and conference presentations about digital media, the music business and media ecology, Dubber has fast become one of the UK's leading experts in the field.
His research includes a project on online fandom within the BBC's Audio and Music Interactive division; explorations into jazz and other specialist music consumption online; the social impact of iPods; and post-graduate work on digital radio and deregulation. He is the co-author of a book about new technologies for broadcasters in developing nations, commissioned by UNESCO, and has been a member of the steering committee for the Radio Studies Network.
He has written articles for Computer Music Magazine and sections on blogging and podcasting for the Alternative Media Handbook (Routledge, 2008). He is currently co-authoring an undergraduate textbook on the Music Industries.
When he's not teaching and writing, most of his time is spent travelling, presenting seminars and workshops across the UK and around the world; as well as consulting independent music businesses – from established record labels and retailers to entrepreneurial online music start-ups.
In his spare time he hosts whisky tasting events, rides bicycles, plays chess and Go, takes photographs and collects jazz records.
Website: www.newmusicstrategies.com
Jay Taylor – Promoter / Venue Director
The Ruby Lounge
Jay Taylor has been variously… In-house promoter at Manchester's Night & Day Café and Manchester235 Casino, a radio presenter, studio producer, illustrator, music journalist, shoe model, Gold Blade guitarist and partner in the great folly that was Manchester's first urban beach project. In recent years he has worked on live events alongside XFM, Urbis, Channel M, BBC 6 Music and BBC GMR among others. Jay is currently carving up his time between promoting at Manchester's superb Ruby Lounge venue, working as promoter's rep for SJM Concerts, as A&R panelist and live advisor for the annual In The City Music festival alongside toiling away on a film soundtrack to a UFO road-movie documentary.
Website: www.therubylounge.org
Bill Devon – Director Of Operations
Bill started in the music industry as a session bass player working with various bands around 1985. He frequently rehearsed and recorded in Spirit Studios in Tariff Street before the studio became the School of Sound Recording (SSR). Bill's varied musical career has seen major recording and publishing deals with Chrysalis Records, Rob's Records and Warner Publishing. He has toured across Europe and has recorded in the UK and America. Bill was also a studio owner/producer for 10 years and worked as a live sound engineer before moving into education. Bill now works full-time in education and specialises in careers advice for the creative media industry.
Website: www.s-s-r.com
Modern Art
Ruth Daniel – Co-Chair Un-convention
Website: www.fatnortherner.com
Nick Fitzsimons – General Manager
Penny Distribution
Since 2007 Penny Distribution has handled physical, digital distribution and marketing for it's affiliated artists and labels. In addition, Penny Licensing offers an automated system for the licensing of musical works for use in a variety of different media and has worked with NBC, PBS, Miramax Films and others over the years. Efforts are driven by a culture of non-exclusivity, a desire to achieve marginal profitability for artists and music businesses while strengthening artist and label brands and band-to-fan connections.
Website: www.pennydistribution.com
Chris Long – Producer
BBC Manchester Introducing
Chris has been knee-deep in Manchester's music for the best part of a decade, seen hundreds of bands – some amazing, some appalling, most somewhere in-between – and interviewed everyone from the cutting edge to the old hands. Now he's in charge of BBC Manchester Introducing, which means he's devoted to new music, from first rehearsals to debut albums. As a music obsessive who loves nothing more than sharing the latest undiscovered brilliance with the big, wide world, he couldn't think of a better job.
Website: www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/introducing
Colin Consterdine – Label Manager Sound of Monkey
Colin Consterdine has worked in broadcast TV, print media and at Independent Record Labels. He has enjoyed a successful 18 year career as an artist, in Zion Train, and is now putting into effect the lessons of a creative lifetime, as Label Manager at Sound of Monkey Records in Swansea. He created his first artist website (wobblyweb.com) in 1995 and has worked as a web developer and beta-tester for music hardware & software.
He ran Wibbly Wobbly World of Music Studios for 15 years. With Zion Train, he played 500+ gigs over 14 years and, alongside running the band's label, Universal Egg, was signed as an artist to China in the UK and Warners worldwide. This experience of Indie and Major labels, and a 15 year involvement in music on the Web, feed into his current development of a web-based centre of activity for artists in control of their own works.
Website: www.colinconsterdine.com
Mike McNally – McNally Consulting
Mike's industry career started in a basement of an Our Price Records store – and then in a fit of poverty driven enthusiasm continued in the commercial departments of various media including the NME & Melody Maker – where he was the advertising manager of the seminal and once influential music weeklies in the early 90's – and Richard Branson's Virgin Radio – where he spent three happy years before being moved to the front of the office for being mildly disruptive.
In 1996 he joined EMI. After nearly a decade of hits, misses and general good times he left EMI soon after his new label MD suggested that the the core purpose of all the label staff at EMI was 'to enhance shareholder value'. Mike still thinking naively that it was really about the music gracefully jumped ship.
He then joined the influential and innovative music and management company Nettwerk – owned by Terry McBride – where he ran the UK label operation and worked closely with the management teams of artists including Josh Rouse, The Submarines, Datarock,The Be Good Tanyas and many more.
At the start of 2008 Mike opened his own consultancy, McNally Consulting. He specialises in developing marketing and branding strategies with independent artists and labels.
He is also a member of the marketing committee of the Association of Independent Music (AIM) and is proud to be on the board of UnConvention. In addition he lectures on various industry topics at the Academy of Contemporary Music and Bucks New University.
Website: www.mcnallyconsulting.co.uk
Michael Cassidy – Founder, I Think Music
Michael Cassidy is the founder of I Think Music, a professional tool (a platform) used by independent retail brands, labels and artists to build their own independent music stores for a industry beating 5% share of RRT. Already hundreds of record labels and artists use the platform. As well as enabling indies to list their own catalogue, the platform enables labels to stock releases from other labels. In practice this has created a network of independent store brands all cross-selling each others content. ithinkmusic.com replicates the physical distribution mechanism for independent labels in the digital realm, at low cost, enabling users to create profitable specialist download stores championing the music they love.
Michael has been working with music and multimedia since leaving university in 1991. He has worked as a music promoter in Birmingham, Cophehagen and Barcelona. Michael was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Central England, and head of new media on the BA Visual Communications degree course. He still runs a small independent record label, Softly Records.
Website: www.ithinkmusic.com
Michael Fuller – AIM
Michael is a qualified New York Attorney-at-Law and has worked in the music industry for over 15 years with a major label and several independent record companies and artists and has project managed several one-off events including the industry-supported Sound Advice tour. Michael has worked at AIM since 2001, is the Company Secretary and Head of Business Affairs and sits on the AIM Board, Business Affairs and New Media Committees and has coordinated the implementation of several collective New Media licensing deals. Michael continues to work closely with the independent sector and is currently overseeing the development of an online networking application.
Website: www.musicindie.org
Mark Meharry – Music Glue
Mark Meharry started his first music technology company in 2003 with The Barfly as his first client. As a result the entire Mama Group portfolio of venues (including the Barfly chain, The Forum, ULU, Hammersmith Apollo etc) operate their entire online operation via the system built by Mark's company. Furthermore the Great Escape festival in Brighton also runs on a sister system which includes ticket sales. Recently Mark started Music Glue ltd, which is the world's first system allowing artists to distribute music via existing file sharing networks in a way that is interactive and profitable. Clients include: Marillion, Enter Shikari, Feeder, Little Fish, Hot Leg and Saving Aimee.
Website: www.musicglue.com
Sarah Purcell – Concrete Recordings
Sarah is one half of husband and wife team Concrete Recordings. The label's creation in 2004 was in reaction to the huge amount of unheard talent throughout Manchester. So named as the side project to Mike's other life at 'Manchester and Cheshire Construction Company' responsible for some of the finer details of our great City. (Ever noticed Potato Wharf Bridge, the retaining wall and its funky lighting opposite our illustrious cathedral or how that Chinese Arch got a recent lick of specialist imported paint? Well, that'd be Mike Concrete)! The label was lucky enough to become involved with The Glastonbury Festival from its early days producing compilations of the Emerging Talent finalists and going on to curate the Festival's Late N Live stage for several years. As trendy as a slab of reinforced concrete, and as artistic as a pair of bricks they simply enjoy representing those who seek to make our world a little less uniform. Together they have produced a number of releases and events and are currently working as management for Power pop punksters Orphan Boy, country-groomed folk popster Jake Flowers and Pogue-like pranksters Frazer King.
Vic McGlynn – Radio DJ / livefrommanchester.com
Former BBC 6 Music lunchtime hostess and new music sourcer-ess, Vic McGlynn, was raised from a young age on a healthy mix of The Smiths; Tears for Fears, Wings, Labi Siffree and The Who. At 17 she was Djing in clubs and dens, delivering schmindie and funk to schmindie funksters. At the age of 18, she blagged her first radio graveyard shift and cocked about in the small hours. Landing a specialist show in Liverpool, she was able to fill her alternative boots and get tickets to the gigs. Via Manchester she headed to London and 6 Music and then 3 years later did one to Australia and cycled 3000-miles across the desert – you know, just for a laugh.
She's currently exploring hip hop and metal (again) and is struggling to understand bitcore.
Vic is soon to co-launch livefrommanchester.com – a not-for-profit podcast broadcasting from a great Manchester boozer with a healthy and varied output of top draw fodder – unsigned, semi signed, news, reviews – all helping the music community gain attention.
"All we ask is that bands give us their music for the intents of broadcast, and in return we can give them exposure and help the cause in delivering that sweet, sweet music to our sweet, sweet ears."
Website: livefrommanchester.com
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Summer Housing and Apartments
Check out city-specific resources for finding summer and full-time housing.
Connect with Polar Bears on the BCAN group on LinkedIn or on Bowdoin Switchboard for housing offers sublet leads. Also ask about neighborhoods and transportation and commuting options in larger metropolitan areas.
If you are staying in the Brunswick area for the summer, consider Bowdoin's own Student Summer Housing.
If you're interning in Portland, University of Southern Maine (USM) has limited housing available for non-USM students on a first-come, first-served basis. Contact the USM Residential Life Office at 207-780-5240 for more information.
- San Francisco Housing Services
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- SUPost (Palo Alto Area)
- UCSF Short Term Housing Guide


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Philadelphia, PA – November 15, 2010 – Xyntek, Inc., a leading global provider of Healthcare IT consulting and integration services is proud to announce the consolidation of its Biometrics offering into its suite of XyNexus™ Healthcare Integration Services. The Biometrics solution will facilitate staff user authentication and patient identification across numerous computer-based systems and applications within the hospital IT environment.
The solution includes integration with numerous readily available biometric sensor technologies. Fingerprint, palm vein reader, and/or iris scan may be utilized for system access. Xyntek's Biometric solution provides rapid and convenient log-on to all software applications in the hospital or eligible professional environment. The Xyntek solution also provides an "out of the box" addition of biometrics log-on to installations where SSO (single sign-on) software is in place in a hospital setting. Additional authorization, certification, and e-signatures within individual applications can be developed with Xyntek's integration services.
"We are pleased to be able to provide medical professionals with a simple, secure, and HIPAA compliant solution to log on to healthcare IT, which has become crucial to a productive environment," said Mac Hashemian, P.E., President of Xyntek, Inc. "Providers and healthcare organizations will gain from reduced liability when logging onto an HIE with minimal integration, as web access is traceable through a built-in audit log."
Xyntek's Biometrics XyNexus™ Healthcare Integration Service offers medical staff easy access to IT resources – specific to their authorization level - while eliminating costly password support. Administrative fines and penalties associated with unauthorized access to confidential patient information are virtually eliminated. Providers are able to gain access to diagnostic and medication/treatment information through integration with a variety of other technology systems.
Meanwhile, patient registries benefit from quick and efficient information verification and ultimately safety for the patient. Patients can be properly identified, even in the case of being non-responsive. High security identifies proper insurance status and protects against fraud. Available solutions include biometric identification, wristbands, ambulant treatment documentation, and national/private health insurance cards.
Xyntek, a global leader in IT, Automation and Compliance solutions, has had its focus on healthcare information technology since its inception in 1986. Earlier this year, Xyntek introduced XyNexus™ Healthcare Integration Service, the consolidation of its healthcare IT services that address healthcare information technology (HIT) integration and development aspects as well as electronic healthcare records (EHR) infrastructures. XyNexus™ is expected to be especially attractive to customers in pursuit of ARRA funding for implementation of Meaningful Use requirements. Additional news and information about Xyntek solutions, products and services is available at www.xyntekinc.com or by calling +1-215-493-7091.
Xyntek Press Contact:
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With so many advantages it's no surprise that double glazed sash windows are becoming an increasingly popular choice for period property refurbishment projects. It's a far simpler solution to replacing sash windows, especially for listed buildings where timber effect window and glazing options are limited.
What is double glazing for uPVC timber effect windows?
Double glazed sash windows incorporate two panes of glass that trap a layer of air or gas, which is a natural insulator. This high-performing method means that the draughts are kept out of your home whilst the warmth is retained, meaning your double glazed windows will significantly improve your homes' energy efficiency and could even save you money on your heating bills. This is a much more modern alternative than older sash windows with single glazing or secondary glazing can offer.
Double glazing is classed with different window energy ratings, G being the lowest and A providing the highest levels of thermal performance. Charisma Rose and Heritage Rose sash windows can be designed with double glazing that achieves energy ratings of C, B or A.


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Ground red pepper adds the "devil" to these crab cakes. If you want a milder flavor, omit the pepper in both the crab cakes and the sour cream mixture.
How to Make It
Heat a 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium-high heat; coat with cooking spray. Add red bell pepper and next 4 ingredients; cook 2 minutes. Remove from heat; cool slightly.
Combine mayonnaise and next 6 ingredients in a medium bowl, stirring with a whisk. Stir in red bell pepper mixture. Fold in crab and 1/2 cup breadcrumbs. Divide mixture into 10 equal portions, shaping each into a 3/4-inch-thick patty. Dredge crab cakes in remaining 1/2 cup breadcrumbs.
Wipe pan with paper towels. Heat 2 teaspoons oil in pan over medium heat. Add 5 crab cakes; cook 3 minutes. Reduce heat to medium-low; coat tops of crab cakes with cooking spray. Turn crab cakes, and cook 3 minutes or until done. Keep warm. Wipe pan with paper towels. Repeat procedure with remaining oil and crab cakes. Serve immediately with Hot Peppered Sour Cream. Garnish with cilantro leaves, if desired.
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Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD Student Wins Major Award
July 26, 2016 – Civil & Environmental Engineering PhD student Caleb Buahin has won a major award at the 8th International Congress on Environmental Modeling & Software. He received one of the best student paper awards at the event held in Toulouse, France July 10-14.
Buahin specializes in water resources engineering, component-based modeling and hydroinforamtics under major professor Dr. Jeff Horsburgh.
His works involves solving complex environmental and natural resource problems using computer simulation models to examine potential effects of different management choices.
"The complexity of many environmental issues often requires integrating models from different fields of study to avoid making decisions based on limited scientific information," he explained. "My research work revolves around how to best integrate models from different scientists and even different scientific domains into next-generation, predictive models that more accurately and holistically represent complex environmental systems. I aim to provide environmental modelers and resource managers with better modeling tools to support more informed decision making."
Horsburgh said Buahin's award is a well-deserved recognition at an international conference.


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I have to tell you, I'm pretty darn excited about my new gig with ADORNit :) It' been really fun meeting the other Ambassadors and seeing their work. Because ADORNit has so much to offer, there are three different groups. The Art Play group for Colorers and papercrafters, the fabric and sewing group and then the fashion group of girls. If you didn't know about all of those... check them out on their website here, and also like them on Facebook and Instagram so you don't miss anything. ( l love that now they have larger sizes for us "curvy" gals. lol "The ADORNit Curvy Collection".
Today I'm sharing a little banner I made for the nursery of a new great nephew that is to arrive any day. Another grandchild for my friend and one time sister in law who passed away last year, Sally. I know all her grandchildren have a special guardian angle in heaven to watch over them.
This banner will be for baby Leo when he arrives. I used parts from two different ADORNit collections to make it "hopefully" match his nursery.
The banner die is AccuCut. Pennant Fags Die
Aren't these little owls adorable! The babies room as some woodland animals so I'm hoping this will fit in.
Like I was saying, I combined a could of Collecting. ( I love when you can do that). I used some papers from the Timberland Collection to pull all the colors together for his nursery.
Owl Coral Paper Pack
I thought I'd show you the sticker sheet also, because they are adorable! They have these Clear Stickers... and.....
also , Cardstock stickers.
And here is the Timberland Collection.
Like I said you can find every thing here at ADORNit, and see the paper, clothes and fabric they have to offer along with every thing else.
What else is new around here this week. Pretty Chill so far. I do have a new addition. lol I have always loved Edamame, but had never tried these Dry Roasted Edamame. Ohhhh my! Tasty!!
But if that doesn't strike your fancy... how about Rubens? Dan and I both love them. He mentioned the there day that we hadn't had them for "so long". ( his way of say.. "Can you make some"?) lol They really did hit the spot.
My week my have been pretty boring so far but tomorrow night...... I have ticket to see my favorite band! Whoo Hoo! Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers will be in Omaha. Amy ( Wes's girl is going with me). She's never seen them, so I hope she likes them half as much as I do.
Here is a little music to leave you with.I hope your weekend is fantastic! Vic