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Why am I so suspicious of laughter? Not that spontaneous kind that bubbles up from a lively conversation or a shared observation of life in its many tricky forms. No, not that kind. I'm thinking of the canned variety, the forced ho ho ho of a dodgy looking Santa, or a comedian laughing at his own jokes. Maybe it's too many hearings of The Laughing Policeman on Two Way Family Favourites as a child? Too many occasions of not seeing the joke and sitting stony faced in a room filled with empty hilarity? Or more often seeing the joke coming a mile off and knowing that it won't be funny when it lands like a dead bird in my lap?
Why is the analysis of comedy much more entertaining than the comedy itself; the intellectual endeavour more engaging than the damp squib silliness that results?
Why, when someone asks me to explain that piece of unhelpful writing advice show don't tell, do I always use humour as my example? If I read a description of something as 'hilarious' (or that theatrical review cliché 'rolling in the aisles with laughter'), that's an example of ineffective telling, as my automatic assumption is that something entirely unamusing except to an idiot has occurred, and I am bounced out of whatever world the writer was attempting to create. In contrast, if I read a scene which brings a twitch to the corner of my mouth, then that is genuinely amusing, and the author has shown me something funny, and I have stayed in their world.
Is 'funny' even an objective measure? Why do so many people insist so doggedly that X and Y are funny, apparently allowing no room for a different opinion, brooking no debate?
Maybe I could do a PhD on why comedy isn't funny. Would there be a market for that, I wonder? I could have lots of good arguments along the way – so long as I didn't have to go to any stand up comedy gigs. The last one of those was less than successful for all concerned. It really wasn't my fault the compere interpreted my hard fought for 'neutral face' as antagonistic. I should just have relaxed into looking as bored as I felt.
I'm working hard here to avoid falling into another rant against the conformity of so called alternative comedy, canned laughter and the herd mentality…… Just so long as no-one tells me I simply have to see XYZ as 'they're really funny, honestly'.
Life might be so much easier if I were easily amused. There would be so much more to watch on television for a start. I might have to confess, though, that I spent six days at the Edinburgh Festival and didn't see a single comedy act; apart from the fat fellow off one of those boys clubs TV shows who took the taxi we got out of at Bristo Square. He was wearing a surprising amount of eye liner for a big bloke at 4 o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon, Edinburgh notwithstanding.
Is that funny? Interesting, incongruous perhaps, but no, not a titter, not even a twitch.
Let's think instead of times that I have laughed, or had to bite the inside of my cheek to stop myself…… that wedding of two young lawyers where the vicar progressed slowly, sliding inexorably, no way to stop him, from talking about how well they would have been trained in resolving disputes towards the topic of divorce. Even when I gained control of my own suppressed laughter, I could feel the wooden pew shaking where someone further up the row was failing in their own attempts.
Or that Russian production of Anne of a Thousand Days where Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey dressed in tight lycra, striped to the waist and fought each other with whips….over the future of the Church of England.
But then, neither of these were comedies.
I always sound like a real misery. Can't tell a joke; doesn't like comedy; gets bad tempered in a farce. Just so long as no-one starts to counsel me about the fact that I do have a sense of humour. We've been down that road before, when I had to endure a whole week of effective communication training being positively encouraged any time I said something remotely amusing. It's hard to tell someone so seriously sincere and yet so lacking in basic intuition that you were joking.


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Vintage Girl with a Twist by moderngirlstyle featuring Roberto Cavalli
My first Polyvore set! I thought I had an account, it turned out I didn't, why not throw together some amazing pieces for the life I'd love to have! I mean when is the last time I thought to wear anything like those crazy black boots. I need to learn to live a little!! LOL!!
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Chloe Bow-detailed asymmetric silk blouse, $2,055
Roberto Cavalli Studded wool trench coat, $1,598
Black belted pencil skirt, 28 GBP
Roberto Cavalli Leather thigh-high boots, $2,500
Roberto Cavalli Swarovski crystal-embellished sandals, 995 GBP
Here are some other looks that I fell in love with today...
Tagged by suchita s(Celebrity contest) featuring Marc by Marc Jacobs bags
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Philosophy di Alberta Ferretti Boned strapless satin dress, $895
Joan & David Demille at Zappos.com, $204
Marc by Marc Jacobs Nylon Q Wristlet at Zappos.com, $132
Giles & Brother Six-strand chain necklace, $255
MICHAEL Michael Kors Short Leather Astor Glove w/ Zipper at Zappos.com, $98
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Alexander Wang Jersey drawstring playsuit, $420
Rene Caovilla Gold Leather Rose Detail Rhinestone Flat Sandals sz 38.5..., $244
Product: Mary Frances "Sweetheart" Evening Bag, $210
Stephen Webster Scale Bracelet With Mother Of Pearl Inlay, $2,431
Catherine Malandrino Cities Bracelet Paris New York, $450
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Monsoon Accessorize - Leatrice Cocktail Dress, 85 GBP
Kelsi Dagger Rosabella - Aubergine, $200
Red Python Berkley Letterbox Clutch by Michael by Michael Ko, 270 GBP
Jewellery - Bangles - Ginseng Ebony Bangle, $425
Copper Dreaming Art Deco Style Drop Earrings, $32
Dedicated to all vintage lovers...<3 by suchita s(Celebrity contest) featuring Jeffrey Campbell shoes
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Vintage Style Files - Part 2, $105
Koh Samui Designer Clothing London | Boutique & Vintage Clothes, 192 GBP
Jeffrey Campbell 'Pearl' Flat, $110
Yumi Rose bag, 45 GBP
2028 Casablanca Copper Tone Classic Y Drop Necklace, $42
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Dear Earthlings:
This was one of my happiest and most spontaneous keynotes. The theater was packed and the audience was wonderful. Ecosexuality as a vernacular culture at its best. Amazing questions. Curious as to what this orgasmic revolution might be all about? Listen!
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In any event, heartfelt acknowledgements to Gabriella Cordova, Teri Ciacchi, and all the other generous organizers.
Oh, and whether you're a presenter, an attendee, or a writer, poet, blogger, reporter, artist, practitioner, researcher interested in ecosexuality, please send us your contribution for the ecosexual anthology we plan to put together. We expect a closing date of September 1st. Read all details in the Call for Papers.
Until next time then.
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The new book Good + Simple by the super glamorous Hemsley sisters has popped onto my desk and the first page I opened it on had me squealing with glee. It's a recipe for Coconut Roasted Sprout Pops with Gomashio. Yeh, yeh, forget the coconut and Gomashio bit – they're basically doing sprouts on sticks – joy oh joy oh joy (repeat ad infinitum).
I'm not sure why this has pleased me so much other than it's another option when it comes to eating a veg that is seriously good for you (see my post on many other things to do with sprouts for more ideas). I'm aware that sprouts are a love hate thing – I have a sprouty sweet spot – if they aren't cooked enough I can't bear them, if there too mushy I'm not a fan. My patented sprout cooking technique involves me seeing if I can cut them with a spoon – the point when I can just do it is the right point for me. (NB: This is why no-one is offering me a cook book deal any day soon). Anyway, the Hemsley's are also sprout fans but the reason they do have a cookbook deal is that they can impart useful bits of advice like the diference it makes if you try roasting them in coconut oil saying
"The natural sweetness of the coconut counterbalances any bitterness in the sprouts – while the roasting process sweetens it further with some light caramelisation."
In other words – coconut oil makes sprouts yummy! On top of that, the method to make Sprout Pops couldn't be easier…
- Preheat the oven to fan 200C/Gas Mark 7 and add the coconut oil to a large roasting tin and place in the oven to allow the oil to melt
- Slice of the end of the sprouts and remove any brown or yellow leaves. Remove the roasting tin from the oven, add the sprouts and very carefully, toss them in the hot coconut oil.
- Roast for 30 minutes, then remove any that are starting to caramelise. Stir the remainder and roast for a further 3-5 minutes when done.
- You then serve them in a dish with cocktail sticks, spear each sprout with a stick and dip them in your condiment/dip of choice
In the Hemsley's case this is gomashio which is a Japanese condiment made from ground sesame seeds and salt which gives them a yummy crunchy coat rather like savoury sprinkles (you'll need to buy the book to get the recipe for that) but you could use a little garlic butter, salsa, sour cream or whatever it takes to get you eating the sprouts and using the sticks.
But it's not just the sticky sprouts that I like about the book. The premise of Good+Simple is that good food doesn't have to be complicated – and, as the sprout recipe shows they're definitely fulfilling the brief. I admit there's still a lot of ingredients in a lot of the recipes, but they've really pushed the boat out when it comes to creating some intriguing ideas. I've spotted a porridge made from butternut squash, pancakes made from chestnut flour (what the heck is chestnut flour? – I thought I knew this stuff), scrambled eggs with lime, beetroot mash, an amazing looking celeriac and kale carbonara and a healthy fish finger coated with almonds.
Well done ladies – I admit that most of the healthy cookbooks that have plopped on my desk recently have looked lovely but have also felt like 'same ideas, same ingredients, different person on the cover' – but you've impressed me and that takes some doing…..Now, I just need to get my butt in the kitchen and actually make some of the yumminess myself.
If you want to find the full recipe, it's on pages 94-95 of the new Hemsley and Hemsley book Good + Simple out now and published by Ebury Press.
Note: NYNHB is a member of Amazon Affiliates – if you click the link above and make a purchase I get a small commission.


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I remember when I was a junior in high school. In my English class, we kept a journal. It was a very odd time in my life. Probably my worst year of school. My grades slipped terribly. It definitely complicated my status as President of the Honors Society. Most of that year is a blur. I was just starting to admit to myself that I was gay. That's sort of beyond the point for what I wanted to write about.
At a certain moment in the year, I stopped writing in my journal. I started listening to a lot of alternative music. I remember being completely enthralled with a couple of Big Country records. One of them was The Crossing. The other -and the one I'm listening to at the moment- was The Seer. When I stopped writing my original thoughts, I started copying lyrics into my journal. It was a way to keep writing, even though I wasn't coming up with anything on my own. It maybe was a cop-out.
Now that I'm much older I made a little effort to do well in keeping up with the blog for a little over a month, and suddenly, a monthgoes by and I've forgotten to keep at it. There's no real excuse either. My life has been returning to a new kind of normal. I've been playing tennis again with some regularity. This is a good thing, in that I've been playing early in the morning. The 7:30 a.m. court time means I have to leave before 7 since it's a 30 minute walk. I often get through a couple of news-related podcasts on my walk there and back. A cab ride would probably cost me about $1.25, but I prefer to walk. Besides, I can use that $1.25 later in the day to pick up some bread (my favorite bread in the world is readily available in Quito). Plus, it's a safe-ish time of day to walk around and I always miss my late night walks from when I lived in Portland, ME.
I digress. Back to my junior year. I would go to the library downtown about once a week. Especially when I had to get some books for research. Back in my day, one's library card was the Internet. In my case, it was a way to learn about and listen to music. There were about four or five albums that I would borrow repeatedly: Fleetwood Mac's Tango in the Night, the aforementioned Big Country records, and The Cure's Disintegration. All of them, vinyl. It was a kind of a neat time to be alive.
So, Santiago decided it was time to get a third chihuahua. I think the unspoken, informal deal is, I'll be cool about the third chihuahua, and in exchange, I get to spend more time doing stuff I used to do before we became my mom's guardians, such as tennis and music (been playing guitar, trying to remember Spouse songs for some upcoming shows). I've also been working on a few things: trying to advance a couple of improvements professionally, and trying to spend more time with myself. I forgot how much I enjoyed spending time on my own projects, on work, on exercise, etc. It also has the added bonus of making the time that Santiago and I spend together, (making meals and eating, running errands, or just chilling out for a little while with the dogs), all the more meaningful.
Anyway, we went from a family of five to a family of four and back to a family of five.
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The Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership has released the National Professional Standards for Teachers, " a public statement of what constitutes teacher quality." I believe this not only provides a definition for teacher quality, but also an excellent framework for teachers to inform and plan their journey as educators and as life-long learners. As such I aim to structure my teaching and my own professional learning around the following standards as outlined on the AITSL website:
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The National Professional Standards encourage teachers and other educators to engage in reflective practice with the aim of constantly reviewing and improving professional performance. With four defined career stages (Graduate, Proficient, Highly Accomplished and Lead), they provide a continuum along which teachers can assess their work so far, and determine what steps they need to take to reach the next stage of their career.
In the last three years, I have been working with the National Professional Standards and AITSL to set and achieve goals for the improvement of my teaching practice. I have also been involved in the Leading Curriculum Change modules and the Supervising Preservice Teacher professional development offered online by AITSL.
The Australian Council of TESOL Associations has also brought out a series of elaborations on the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers specifically for EAL/D teachers to use in their work. These are extremely useful and can be found here.


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This homemade costume for families entered our 2015 Halloween Costume Contest.
A word from Courtney, the 'Hotel Transylvania 2' costume creator:
Our family loves this movie and we love the tradition of dressing up as a theme of some kind. This movie made us all laugh so we decided to dress up as Mavis, Dennis, Frankenstein, and the dad!


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I want to include some video clips from a samsung phone on my home video. I got Wondershare for converting them but although they now load into Video studio 11, they dont play during the playback. just a black screen with sound? Any help appreciated
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What format did you convert them to ? If you don't know use mediainfo (view=>text) . Does the converted video play in other applications like media players (e.g. MPCHC, VLC etc...) and only fail in video studio ?
If the conversion actually worked fine in other programs, perhaps the format and/or settings you used were incompatible with movie studio. In that case, you can try converting to a format this is actually supported
" I got Wondershare for converting them "
what did you convert them into ? what format
and what orientation did you use when recording
did you hold the phone vertical or horizontal ?
vertical is not DVD compatible
Thanks for your replies. I tried avi and mov they do play as individual clips in video studio but when i insert them in my timeline with other clips from my camera they dont play during the finished video , just a black screen and sound. I thought it might be a memory thing with my pc?
Thats all I have. I just tried converting to mp2 and that seems to work better
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Accessing open office document style.xml file
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So this time last week, I was enjoying a family fun weekend in London. We'd had an Air BNB disaster but lived to tell the story. The main reason we were there was to support my two brothers running the London Marathon. Watching the programme every year, I've always been desperate to go and support the… Continue reading Anxiety and exercise.
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A little perspective.
Happy Easter all… currently ploughing my way through my first Easter egg since returning from Milton Keynes for the weekend and feeling slightly nauseous. So this weekend I was with my boyfriend for the first time in 5 weeks. Our plans for Saturday were shopping, dinner and cinema. We trawled round the usual shops, I… Continue reading A little perspective.
Sunday night blues.
For as long as I can remember, I have always hated Sunday evening. Even as a kid, I would hate everything about Sunday and what it was leading up to. I particularly remember showering one night crying my eyes out because I didn't want to go to school (more so because I was so afraid… Continue reading Sunday night blues.
The anxiety bail.
I have lost count on the amount of times I have cancelled plans at the last minute. It all seems well and good at the time, arranging a meal or a night out with friends except the day before, the doubt creeps in. The options, the excuses, the desperate need to just stay at home.… Continue reading The anxiety bail.


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Last summer I made an Appenzeller in honour of my Grandfather who had passed away and named it Josef. I still have a small wedge of that cheese left that I am saving for the return of my friend Addie from India, but it was time to make another one, this time bigger and possibly better! I still have use of Addie's Roaster Vat and I wanted to make a larger one than last time. Please note that some of the pictures were taken with my camera and some with my iPad.
The make went pretty much to plan, but I did have to wait a bit longer than I had planned for a clean break.
After the curd was cut and rested it was time to stir the curd and heat to 40C, this took about 30 minutes, it was made all the more difficult given I had to stir two vats at the same time. I ended up alternating between vats to make it easier.
After stirring and washing the curd it was time to try out my new draining bag/mould liner. I loaded up the curd and let it drain in the bag for 5 minutes before transferring to my mould for pressing.
I pressed for 30 minutes at 20 Kg, then for 5 hours at 36 kg, then overnight at 72 kg. I love my press, and now that I have the hang of it I am getting great results.
Like always I weighed the cheese out of the press and I was surprised to see that it was 3139 grams or 6 pounds 14 3/4 ounces, I know it will lose weight in brining and then again during aging, but wow that was a great yield.
I had to switch out the larger board for a smaller one because the cheese was touching the lid and I did not want that to happen. This time next week I will be well into the washing cycle for Josef and I will update in a few weeks once the colour shows up. I will have more pictures up on the Facebook Page later in the week.
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iA while ago I was doing some visual research for some workshops I am involved in. One thing led to another, website after website, I found myself going from the protests of UK Graffiti Street artists to a study of the Berlin Wall prayers and on to the Sagrada Familia Church of the beloved Spanish architect/artist Antoni Gaudi.
Hundertwasser – Friedensreich Hundertwasser's colourful work intrigued me when I saw his show in Baden Baden, Germany. I took this opportunity to read his bio as I surfed, energized by enthusiasm. The lives and motivations of these people are infinitely intriguing, as is their work.
It really is true that the best way to learn something is to teach it. As I pass on what I learn, I in turn, receive inspiration for my own work and my life. We are each individually, differently, creative.
"Practice these things: whatever you learned, received, heard, or saw in us. The God of peace will be with you."
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Investigators are looking into whether the man who planted explosives in New York and New Jersey over the weekend took a train into New York Penn Station with the devices, senior law enforcement officials told NBC 4 New York.
Officials said it's not yet clear how Ahmad Rahami got to and from Manhattan the night that two bombs were planted in Chelsea.
A criminal complaint says that a car belonging to Rahami's family entered the Lincoln Tunnel that night at about 6:30 p.m. and returned at 11:30 p.m. But officials said surveillance camera coverage of the tunnel does not allow them to see who is driving.
Officials said that investigators are also looking into the possibility he got to the city by other means, including a train to Penn Station or a car-for-hire service such as Uber or Lyft.
It comes after sources familiar with the investigation told NBC 4 New York that Ahmad Rahami likely learned how to build the mechanisms that could trigger a bomb while in community college in the United States.
Rahami took an electronics class while a student at Union County Community College, and the sources said he would have learned how to build a triggering-type device while in that class.
The college said on Friday afternoon that Rahami enrolled in several non-credit courses at the college that are open to the general public. It said that there was no additional record that he went to class or enrolled in any additional courses.
The college added that it is cooperating with the investigation.
Rahami faces federal charges that he planted bombs last weekend in New York and New Jersey. One of the New York bombs exploded on 23rd St., injuring 31 people.
He remains in a hospital after a shoot-out with Linden, New Jersey police on Monday. One of the questions investigators are trying to answer is whether he had any terror training during a variety of trips abroad.
The sources also said that investigators have now spoken to Rahami's wife, who has been traveling for months and was apparently unaware of his plans.


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Colorado's Natural Leaders talk about the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion in the outdoors. Learn more.
Calling Young Leaders: Legacy Camp Returns to Colorado!
August 24-26, 2018
C&NN returns to Colorado for a second Regional Legacy Camp in partnership with Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO). Legacy Camp will take place Friday, August 24 through Sunday, August 26 at YMCA Estes Park. There is no cost to attend camp. Colorado leaders between the ages of 18 and 26 who are interested in connecting to nature, developing their leadership skills and taking action in their communities are invited to apply. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until spots are filled.
We launched our Colorado Regional Legacy Camp partnership with GOCO in 2016. This statewide effort recruits young adult leaders from Colorado's Inspire Communities, GOCO's five-year strategy aimed at inspiring Coloradans, particularity children, to appreciate, enjoy and protect Colorado's great outdoors. Our goal is to support GOCO in developing capacity of young leaders across to state to help reconnect their communities to the benefits of nature and to protect Colorado's incredible outdoor heritage for generations to come.
At Colorado Legacy Camp, participants develop leadership, community organizing and action planning skills—and discover the power of their own personal narratives. Legacy Camps are guided by the foundational principles of equity and inclusion in order to empower a diverse, representative corps of young community leaders.
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The Meteoric Rise of Social Gaming Apps – Update from 99th Social Media Breakfast
Posted by teaminfobase in Social Media, Social Media Breakfasts, Writings on Social Media on April 6, 2012
Who hasn't heard about 'Draw Something' yet? It is the game which is dominating the social graphs and app stores these days. This simple game is growing phenomenally. It took 9 months for Facebook to get to 1 million users, it took 'Draw Something' 9 days! At the 99th Social Media Breakfast, this is what we set out to discuss and understand. How the Social Gaming Apps are changing the landscape of Apps and Games.
The Rise of Mobile Social Gaming
Social gaming became talk of the town when we started getting Farmville updates from friends. Mafia wars and Farmville started like wildfires, almost everyone was hooked or talking about it. That was the high point of Social gaming and games were being developed to tap into the rising social networking phenomenon. What changed this game and added a rocket fuel to this rise was the coming of mobile based social gaming. Mobile social gaming has suddenly skyrocketed in popularity. There continues to be tremendous growth in this industry. With the rise in smartphone users worldwide, backed by solid operating systems on these mobile devices, there is but naturally a proportionate increase in the number of game developers for these mobile systems. Social gaming leader Zynga made headlines few days back when it bought start-up gaming developer Omgpop for about $200 million. Omgpop was the start-up responsible for 'Draw Something', the 99 cent game which has been downloaded more than 35 million times in matter of weeks. The meteoric rise of OMGPOP is a case in point for the value shift away from traditional console games towards social and now mobile social gaming.
Update from 99th Social Media Breakfast
The group discussed the huge impact Social Gaming Apps have been making to the industry and the way they have been engaging our attention. These clever, engaging and addictive Social games are getting into an online movement of their own. To quote the most recent example of "Draw Something" that has been able to rope in 50 million Users in about 50 days of its launch !!! Launched by OMGPOP in Feb'12, the game rose to be the No. 1 paid app in iOS App Store in this short period, dethroning Rovio's flagship rocketship – Angry Birds Space (another gaming runaway hit). This meteoric rise boils down to more than 6 billion drawings shared on "Draw Something" platform at the speed of about 3000/sec. Which is simply phenomenal. Zynga, the No. 1 company in the gaming domain, bought over "Draw Something" recently for about $200 million and promoted the CEO, Dan Porter as the VP and GM of Zynga, New York.
In the recent years (around 2009), the evolution of Social Gaming Apps was spearheaded by Zynga, the developers of Farmville, City Ville, The Sims Social and many more. Statistics show up that Farmville developed by Zynga currently has more "Farmers" than the real no. of farmers in the United States. This game caught up like addiction and since it needed the help of the Social circle, it used the platform to grow in multitudes. During 2010 and 2011, the runaway hit in Social Gaming was ANGRY BIRDS. Angry Birds has over 700 million downloads across all platforms including Desktops, smart phones, handheld devices, gaming consoles etc. By March'12, Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio has become so immensely popular that it engages 1 million hours of game time each day and around 3.3 million hours of game time each day across all the forms. On the Christmas Day of 2011, total of 6.5 million downloads happened on a single day !!!
So, what makes these Social Games click? "Ease of sharing" updates, participation, invites etc. remain most critical factors for the huge popularity of these Social Games. Also, the proportionate mix of Desktops, handheld devices and smart phones over the years, have changed in favour of providing easy access to the Gaming enthusiasts. Further, organizations are taking calls of launching their gaming applications only on mobiles and tablets segment – whose nos. are itself on a steady rise.
If we look into the history of Gaming and the evolution of Social Gaming – we would all accept to the fact that "Games" were always intrinsic to Desktops, laptops or mobile devices / smart phones. Games have always been a big draw and during the years 1985-87, games like PC Man could get in huge interest and Offline "social activity". With evolution of the Internet, the forum and the engagement moved to the next level wherein one could pull in his social circle at different locations and invite them to participate, engage and register too. A particular case was cited in which the User moved from Orkut to Facebook only because "Poker" was available at Facebook and his friends were playing Poker there. He made the shift and others too followed suit.
The group discussed and analyzed the components of a successful Social Gaming App. Following features were agreed upon –
– The game should provide for some really engaging "virtual rewards"
– Like any other Offline game, there should be a "rating / scorecard" at the end that the player can circulate to his / her social circle
– Should be extremely "easy to play and share"
– Must be able to bring in a feeling of "collective engagement"
– Proper "Audience Profiling" study and catering to their interest
– Ability to create ample noise at its launch and to continue the noise thereafter
– Should have version updates, and should raise the bar of excitement and challenge higher always
– User-experience should not be compromised in any case
– Speed of access is a critical factor, looking into the huge Concurrent sessions that will happen across various platforms
Social Gaming is one domain that has been seeing huge capitalization and investments, however, a long-term monetization model looks quite a challenge. Display Ads on the Gaming screens remain the prime revenue channel for now, as the revenue generated through "virtual buying" is not significant yet. More engaging and in-depth revenue models can definitely bring in more smiles to this industry and make it a win-win situation for the developers, users and the advertisers. Till then, Games remain a passion and will drive engagement across ages always.
PS – ***Breaks off and logs in to check the Highest score of the day on Angry Birds.***
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Interesting Discussion Around Social Media Case Studies at the 98th Social Media Breakfast
Posted by Aashish Chopra in Social Media, Social Media Breakfasts, Writings on Social Media on March 30, 2012
Today we completed 98 straight meetups of the Social Media Breakfast. In the last 98 weeks, we have discussed, dissected and analysed all possible dimensions of Social Media. What makes this interesting is that the game keeps evolving, the players keep changing and so do the rules. It is survival of the fittest all over again. The topic of discussion today was Social Media Case Studies. The focus was to share the stories behind social campaigns, campaigns run by our participants or the ones which impressed us.
Behind The Scenes
It was wonderful to hear behind the scenes stories of how social campaigns are run and how different people approach their objectives. Aashish shared how a weekend campaign on Twitter brought in high levels of engagement by bringing together a team of 15 people, who had no experience using Twitter. The key was the process and brief training on that process, which made them Twitter crackers and kept the Twitter account buzzing with RT's and Mentions. Nivesh shared his case of bringing the revenue up for Mobile Apps by his unique campaign on Twitter. Kaushik made a point about the important of measurement, measuring sentiments is fast becoming a standard practice for social media marketing.
What was common in our experiences was the persistence to adapt, we only figure out what works by trying and eliminating what doesn't and when something works, you bring it front and center. That's how a best practice is born 🙂
The Challenge?
What brought a quick challenge in the meetup was an opinion expressed by two participants that Social Media is not working for them, hasn't work for them and they don't belive it can. Both sell products online and have had their presence for a while. Find below a quick list from what was discussed.
- No one gives a damn about your product, stop peddling on Twitter/Facebook
- Start by building a community around your product.
- How can you enhance the lives of your users with your product? Your content strategy will be based on this
- Develop themes around how your product can enhance lives (If you sell flowers, think 50 ways of how flowers can enhance the life of a person)
- Start a Blog, an active blog where you provide posts or videos around the theme.
- You build credibility and a brand as you go along
- Interact with your community, help them. Think conversations not campaigns
- It is a long term strategy, for short term, go for Ads
- In the end it is about selling more Products, but with inbound marketing
- Creativity: The tools are everywhere, its how you can weave an idea from it
- Have fun while at it 🙂
There is but one challenge here – about rising through the chaos of content and the only fitting solution is about 'Survival of the Fittest' and the most important and differentiating factor – Creativity, which sets apart winners from everyone else.
Social Media for Social Cause
Towards the end Kaushik shared the case study of how an Open Heart Surgery was live-Tweeted. We felt strongly about contributing our skills towards a social cause, or perhaps taking the Social Media Breakfast in a complete different direction after the 100th. 'Social Media For Humanity' is the suggested topic for next meetup.
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Campton Hills rehab center plan draws more public ire
Facing another onslaught of criticism about a proposed addiction treatment facility, members of the Campton Hills Plan Commission said there was only a 1 percent chance they'd cast a vote on the project Monday night.
A barrage of questions by audience members stretched the public hearing late into the night.
More than 100 residents filled a church gymnasium to pepper commissioners and representatives for the proposed Kiva Recovery Center with questions about the police, fire and water/sewer infrastructure needs of the project. At least that's what residents were supposed to ask about.
Audience grumbling quickly moved to attempts to shout down answers to questions. If it wasn't apparent after the first public hearing on the proposed drug and alcohol addiction treatment center, neighbors made their opposition loud and clear Monday night.
Perhaps the most substantive line of questioning came via a series of questions about whether such a treatment center is a legal special use under the zoning guidelines for the land, which is owned by the Glenwood School for Boys on Silver Glen Road. Audience members suggested local zoning laws set the only medical use allowable for the land as a hospital, nursing home or convalescent center.
But Patrick Griffin, an attorney for the Kiva Center, indicated he believes the drug and alcohol treatment center they propose falls under that description. Indeed, Griffin said his organization's application actually restricts his client's use of the site to only an addiction center use, rather than the broader use of a "nursing home."
Village staff members addressed the opposing viewpoints only by saying the disagreement would be noted in the public record and further investigated.
But other issues regarding the project became more clear. An engineering report gave the center clearance to start operating from day one in terms of its irrigation and sewage capacity. However, future growth beyond 110 people at the site at any one time could require $685,000 worth of upgrades, a report stated. That price tag would be a low hurdle for the project. The average 30-day stay for a patient is expected to cost $30,000.
Fire district officials also signed off on the project as not being overly burdensome to local fire and paramedic services. Kiva Center officials have agreed to pay the costs of calls to the treatment center for anything above and beyond normal use. One projection sets that normal use at fewer than 10 paramedic calls to the facility per year.
Kiva Center has also agreed to cut a check to the fire district for the property tax revenue the district will miss out on receiving from the center until tax collections officially begin about 18 months after the center opens. The property is expected to sell for $8 million if the village approves the project. That would equal about $6,000 a year in property tax revenue to the fire district.
Plan commissioners will likely take a vote on the project at their next meeting. The date for that meeting has not yet been announced.


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The move into the new house is complete and it's time to get back to business. With Summer on the way out, there's no better way to see it off than with one of the most impressive Belgian Witbeirs I've ever tasted, Orchard White from The Bruery right here in Orange County — Placentia, California. And to make things even better, we're steaming a big pot of clams in the beer in the classic French manner. It's the perfect pairing, and a good way to get things back on track.
Also in this episode:
• Michael Phelps and his 12,000 calorie-a-day diet
• Bourdain's show may be jumping the shark
• The Edible School Yard
• Veritas Farms
• Taco Trucks (aka "The Roach Coach")
• A salute to Groucho & CHUD
• Self-Milking Cows
• Alinea The Cookbook
Music in this episode: "Here to Stay" by New Order. Download it in the iTunes Store.
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Phil, love the show. I think the worst commercial is the Rosetta Stone one with Phelps. He's pimping that he got it to learn Chinese before the Olympics but yet he NEVER SPEAKS IT in the commercial.
I may have to feast n clams if you make it. I can't stand most seafood but you make it seem enjoyable. I used the beer that sickpuppy made also. The taste was bad but it was EXCELLENT for putting in a crockpot all day to cook homemade kielbasa.
I used to love school lunches. I blame them for the ripped up stomach I have right now, not all the alcohol I've drank 🙂
Great episode, Phil! I'm going to have to make up a batch of clams very soon. I'm working on putting together my food pairing / recipe section of the website– mind if I include this recipe?
Phil… Great show… looks like great minds think a like…
yeah… it was the small bottles but still awesome…
Dude! I absolutely love this show, and am so happy you're all moved and getting settled in. Glad to hear some good stuff from The Bruery, Patrick's beers are simply amazing.
Hah! An hour show! Loaded with stuff – you must of worked your butt off!
Oh crap. Yum Brands Fast food feed bags – "it's hot steamy food in your face right now" – "I got the chipotle chicken loco cabeza" – "sometimes I don't feel like moving my arms ah so this way you can have it on your face close to your mouth so you don't have to pick any thing up." – "does away with the hassle of chewing or stopping to breath while eating". This totally killed me.
My next favorite line is "It makes my taco hot" from 16 year old Shawn Johnson. That'll be a really cool line when she turns 18!!
Cool shout out to Dick – I agree. BTW, you knocked that video promo out of the park.
Cool that the brewer Patrick Rue posted on your site! Patrick, I want some of your beers please.
I agree with your comments about states being responsible for school lunch – but then again the constitution does actually enumerate the powers of the federal government. People seem to forget that.
For those of you that missed the Kid Rock outro – go back and listen again. It's freaking classic!!!!
You brought the ingredients to life once again. One of the best parts of the show.
Great show Phil! Welcome back, and congratulations on your new home! You certainly do sound happy in it and it will be exciting to hear new things from all of the new restaurants in your area. This show was packed with material and it sounds like you worked very hard on it. Over an hour long too, which is odd for you.
Good to hear your show back. The beer sounds great, as to the clams. It's hard for me to find really fresh clams where I am, but I'll be on the lookout. I'd really like to try that beer. You made it sound so good!
I would love to try that beer. Their web site is very nice and the blog is a great idea for him. Patrick you sound like a really nice guy making great beer!! When I'm in California again on business I will look for it.
The Michael Phelps diet made me a little ill to be honest. Does he really eat that much? That's more than what weight lifters eat on a daily basis. And what's with the fried things? He's an athlete. Athletes don't eat fried food do they???
Enjoyed this episode, and my congrats on the new house as well. I'm not sure where you were living before but it sounds like you are happy wherever you are.
Funny show. The Onion promo, the self-milking cows (I was sure was a joke), and your take on Bourdain's show. All great. I'm hit and miss with seafood, but you always make it sound so good. I have no idea what the "sea" smells like but I know what bad fish smells like and I know I don't like that.
Welcome back! Keep em coming.
Hey Phil! Another entertaining show! I will have to disagree with you on the "cooking with bad beer" comment. This particular beer just had a bad yeast taste to it. I gave a few to Spoon as stated above and it turned out great.
Also, the Bullshit segment as a foodie you may have missed the point as I think you are looking at it with a foodie point of view and i look at it as proof that most people can be manipulated with the right push and atmosphere. It was more a human behavior segment than anything else in my eyes.
This was my first time listening to your podcast … love it! Gonna have to have the hubby download it for me so I can listen to it on the way to work … Keep up the good work!
Wow… Great show! It had everything! Even praise for TBR??? Too nice… Thanks!
The best part about this show… It told me how to go about cooking muscles. I have to admit that living in the Midwest (Land of the Betty Crocker CB) has left me at a loss on how to do this. Good tips! Nice tips on the bread as well!
Is it really as easy as rubbing raw garlic on the toasted bread??? If so… I am stealing that!
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The Bunting Bash: Making a Mini-escape
Our carriage rental included a private ride that, before the wedding, I wasn't entirely sure if we would have time for or not. I wasn't too worried since we could always redeem it after our big day, but once we were in the moment we wanted to take it right then. We knew our guests would be entertained in the meantime by the beauty of the park and the dessert table and refreshments we had set up for them to enjoy. And having had our family and formal photographs taken before the ceremony certainly meant we had no where to be immediately following our recessional.
"Do we have time for the ride?'
"Yes, yes we do."
"See you all again soon!"
I don't have any photographs to show you of our private and scenic carriage ride since it was just the horse, the carriage, our drivers, the two of us, and the road, but I can at least tell you it was amazing and relaxing and wonderful. We made a large circle around the area, and every single car that passed us waved and grinned and congratulated us. One vehicle even slowed and asked if they could take our picture, and there were several little girls in the nearby houses that came out to wave as we strolled past. I do have one regret… an ice cream truck passed us and we did not flag him down. Neither Mr. Bunting or I had any money on us, but I'm pretty sure he would have given us a treat nonetheless. Okay, I'm making assumptions, but in my mind we almost had free ice cream with our wedding carriage.
When we returned to the park after our little ride, we paused in the parking lot for some more photos.
Daddy Bunting had left his cowboy hat in the carriage after he removed it to walk me down the aisle, so Mr. Bunting took the opportunity to put it on. We joked that Daddy Bunting would be amused, and sure enough, the first thing he says is, "Aw, man, you take my daughter and now you're taking my hat!"
When we rounded the corner to the pavilion, I was surprised to be welcomed with more applause and cheers from our lingering guests.
We mingled and chatted for awhile until more and more people left the park to head to the reception hall downtown.
I'm sure you're dying to see how our dessert table turned out, so don't worry, the next post will be all the lovely details! And boy are they delicious.
*Marked photos are copyright Bryan and Mae Photography. Unmarked photos are personal or guest photos.
Follow the adventure:
- We had a fluffing party and rehearsed.
- I woke up and got ready with my girls.
- I step into the prettiest white dress I'll ever wear.
- Mr. Bunting recounts getting ready at the Man Cave.
- Wishin' and prayin' and hopin' and thinkin' for perfect weather.
- I received the most important Post-It Note. Ever.
- We race toward one another for our first look.
- Mushy-lovey photos ensued shortly after.
- We strutted our stuff as one big happy Bunting Bunch.
- Our guests started to arrive: welcome to our wedding.
- I went into hiding… and panicked.
- Our wedding party assembled on time, but the bride was missing.
- I arrive fashionably late in a horse-drawn carriage.
- We listen to a reading and turn to wave at our guests.
- We exchange our vows, which inspire both tears and laughter.
- Mr. Bunting slips on my wedding band, and I his.
- Collected sand and earth offer a twist for our Foundation Ceremony.
- Mr. Bunting just can't wait any longer to kiss his bride!
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It's not just you who enjoys a little fun and libation on an outdoor patio when the weather gets nice. Your pooch wants in on the action. And at the following reader nominated spots, both you and your four legged companion will find something to love.
Cottonwood, 3422 N Shepherd Dr, Houston, TX 77018
Many readers mentioned Cottonwood as a place that's dog friendly. Manager Dave Minda said that they have water stations and paper bowels placed on the ground so dogs don't get dehydrated. Dogs are welcome on all uncovered patio areas – Minda says if they need shade there are plenty of umbrellas on the uncovered part.
There's a park next door that's connected to Cottonwood and Minda says that the extra green space gives dogs a chance to stretch their legs. And if you want to give Rover a birthday party? Minda says they've done them before.
Henderson Heights Pub, 908 Henderson St, Houston, TX 77007
Megan Long, the owner of Henderson Heights pub, says that they are very dog friendly on the patio. "We love our fur babies at Henderson Heights pub," she said. "We offer ice cold water with special dog bowls, free dog treats, free dog leashes and bandanas, and we even sell Bowser dog beer."
They also host a pet adoption on our patio once a month. The first one will be Sept 18th from 1-5 p.m. with the new mobile SPCA adoptions.
Barking Pig, 2307 Ella Blvd, Houston, TX 77008
Reader Jennifer Molloy raves about a perfect set up for pups at the Barking Pig. "Dog treats, water bowls, fans, a doggy bag station for when your pup has an accident," she says. "The staff is very welcoming."
Owner Kristen Powell says they have the health code requirements of a dog station, hand sanitizer, poop disposal, plus the permit. She confirms that they do offer dog treats if the dog owner wants to hand them out.
Petrol Station, 985 Wakefield Dr, Houston, TX 77018
A neighborhood favorite is now dog friendly. The Petrol Station recently got the city permit for dogs. They say they offer water and have a lot of patio space.
Karbach Brewing Co., 2032 Karbach St, Houston, TX 77092
Their Biergarten is dog friendly and there are water coolers available to fill your dog's water bowl. The manager says there is no shortage of dog lovers that work at Karbach.
Common Bond, 1706 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX 77006
Loren Allardyce with Common Bond Café says that dogs are definitely welcome on their small patio and they are city permitted to allow them on the patio with the regular rules and regulations the city requires.
"We gathered the permit more as a courtesy for our guests walking the Montrose area with their dogs who want to stop and enjoy a coffee with their pooch," she said, noting that another restaurant under their umbrella, Mia's, is also dog-friendly: "That patio is large and the staff has been known to bring out water bowls."
Other reader suggestions:
- Nan Hayden takes her dogs to Plonk!: "We can walk there, have a little vino and pizza then head back home! They also have fans in case it's too warm. They bring water out for the pups, too."
- Patrick Boylan says Cyclone Anaya's on Durham offers complimentary dog treats from Fluff Bake Bar, in addition to the standard bowls and water.
- Cj Lloyd likes Barnaby's on 6th: "They love dogs! They bring out water and treats."
- Alice Sarmiento: "Becks Prime, but I'm biased."
- Jamie Hunt says she likes Catalina Coffee's outside tables if she's out with her dog.


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On a gloomy Wednesday in March, Artscape Wychwood Barns twinkled with fairy lights and beckoned with good smells.
A modest and mixed crowd drifted between tables at Trashed & Wasted – an event held to promote food waste awareness – grazing canapés prepared by Oliver & Bonacini, the sustainable fishmonger Hooked and other well-known local purveyors.
Peter Sanagan, who owns a popular eponymous butcher shop in Kensington Market, coaxed an apprehensive trio into sampling dainty open-faced sandwiches topped with puréed lambs' brains and tender slices of pickled tongue from the same fleecy infant animal; things they'd never, ever buy on their own in a butcher shop.
"It's blended with mustard, so it doesn't taste like brain," Sanagan assured his guests. They mumbled mid-chew that it wasn't so bad after all. (It was delicious.)
At a booth built from produce skids, Kim Montgomery Rawlings dished out fried chicken butts. The commonly trimmed, nutrient-packed nubbins were slashed with mustard from her restaurant, Montgomery's, and were highly addictive between gulps of a crisp pale ale brewed by Rainhard with leftover rye and sourdough from Blackbird.
Everyone hovered around a simple, stand-out snack from Actinolite: a deeply flavourful loaf of bread made from the spent grain and wort from Burdock Brewery. It was smeared with butter made from whey, the often-discarded byproduct of cheese and yogurt.
Near the exit was a weathered cornucopia of perfectly edible produce donated by an urban food distribution centre: heads of lettuce with wilted outer leaves, a tumble of mottled okra, bruised tomatoes and wrinkled banana peppers for people to load into paper bags and carry home, gratis.
With just over an hour left of the event, heaps of unclaimed vegetables remained, an eerie reminder of just how much food gets rejected or scrapped.
Unless it's putrefying on our doorsteps, the nearly 200 kilos of food each Canadian wastes every year is mostly out of sight and out of mind, like a half-eaten burrito shoved to the back of the fridge.
As food waste becomes a more widely publicized issue, the way in which we're influenced to think about it matters. Headlines leading up to Trashed & Wasted, urging readers to eat "garbage" for a cause, were effective clickbait. But Brock Shepherd – who organized Trashed & Wasted in conjunction with Second Harvest, a longstanding food rescue and redistribution charity – acknowledged that the term "food waste" needs a new marketing spin.
Why and how is there so much wasted food when there are so many people who are hungry?
"Get rid of the word waste altogether and talk about food loss and food rescue. I think that's something people can understand: we're losing food," he says. "Waste is always going to have a connotation with garbage, but 'lost' means missing out on something because you're letting it go bad."
Recovering otherwise squandered sustenance isn't necessarily about dumpster diving or noshing on trash. It's about mindfulness and stepping outside of habit and privilege to use ingredients to their full nutritional potential, whether that's via canning or committing to eat leftovers for a few days. There's nothing gross about it, but what is gross is the incredible amount of food that rots while people need to be fed.
"There's this hot topic of food waste, but I think that the duality is the question of why and how is there so much wasted food when there are so many people who are hungry," says Kim Montgomery Rawlings, who owns Montgomery's at Queen and Ossington with her husband, chef Guy Rawlings.
"Food waste should actually not exist. There's enough business opportunity with these food products that if we were mindful, we could make sure it was all utilized."
"Food waste" might be an emerging buzzword, but it isn't a fad. It's a problem, and most of us are complicit.
Stats from Value Chain Management International indicate that $31 billion worth of food is wasted in Canada every year. Most of this takes place at the consumer level (consider all the rubbery carrots, cartons of petrified takeout and curdled milk we've tossed over the years).
Accustomed to the convenience of prepared meals and the luxury of ample portion sizes, we order extra dishes to flood our social media feeds with bounty and then leave them half-touched on the table. We let an expiry date tell us when to throw away an unopened can of tuna instead of employing our senses. In a culture of excess, we're conditioned to view food as disposable.
What we physically drop into a bag destined for the dump (or hopefully, the compost heap) is just the end of the food waste chain. Food is spoiled at every turn: in fields and greenhouses, warehouses and factories, supermarkets, cafeterias and of course, in restaurants.
Other developed countries are rallying to rescue food. Last year, France banned food disposal in grocery stores. A voluntary food waste reduction program in the U.K. saved participating businesses £67 million over the course of three years. Awareness initiatives and Wefood, a chain of supermarkets that sells surplus food and "ugly" produce at discount prices, have helped Denmark cut food waste by 25 per cent in five years.
But despite its necessity and economic importance (which runs along agricultural, distributional, manufacturing, service and consumer capillaries), food has never really been a political priority in Canada. That's not to say that it can't become one.
Locally, the Toronto Food Policy Council (TFPC), a subcommittee of the Board of Health, has been working since the early '90s to advance food policies and projects focused on health, diversity and sustainability. Currently, the TFPC is developing an initiative targeted at restaurants in an effort to gauge and heighten awareness about food waste in the industry.
Montgomery Rawlings, who became an elected board member of the TFPC last October – two months after she became a restaurateur – notes that there's been surprisingly little dialogue between the council and food industry until recently.
"Restaurant" is a broad term – a rural Tim Hortons franchise has little in common with an uptown steak house – which is probably why there are no exact numbers (that I could find, anyway) on how much edible food is discarded in Canadian restaurants.
Consumers are the leading food-losers, but restaurants and other service outlets on whose conveniences we depend (hotels, caterers, airlines, the prepared foods section of a grocery store) are also hemorrhaging foodstuffs. Establishing lines of communication between the restaurant industry and policy makers is an important step to take.
Food is viewed as expendable because we've become disconnected with where and who it comes from
"This initiative is not trying to shun restaurants for being huge food wasters. It's more like an opportunity to be more self-aware of where food waste might be happening within their business lines and promoting the fact that if you're mindful about your waste then you can get economic returns," says Montgomery Rawlings.
Food is viewed as expendable because we've become disconnected with where and who it comes from. Which is why agricultural connection is a core value at Maizal, a Mexican restaurant in Liberty Village that operates at zero food waste.
Every week, owner Iván Wadgymar drives to Cavaleiro Farm, an agricultural collective in Schomberg, Ont., with the trunk of his car stuffed with organic waste from Maizal.
What the fowl, sheep, pigs and donkey don't devour gets composted and turned back into the land, where Wadgymar grows a portion of corn that he grinds and forms into tortillas for Maizal. He also cultivates other Mexican staples like beans, amaranth, epasote, squash, flowers and tomatillos for salsa verde. (In 2015, Wadgymar won the Premier's Award for Agri-Food Innovation Excellence for his efforts.)
Lately, he's been taking patrons and staff members along for the ride. He considers it his responsibility as a farmer and a restaurateur to instill a holistic food knowledge in others.
"It's very cultural here to just leave food on your plate, but if you go to other parts of the world, it's blasphemy," he says. "I think we're made to believe that we have excess food. You go to a supermarket and you'd never think that the world would run out of food, it's so stocked. But when you look to other parts of the world, you know what famine is and what food shortages are. It brings a whole different perspective."
For Justin Cournoyer, chef and owner of Actinolite, reclaiming a relationship with the land and those who tend it is the cornerstone to grasping food's worth.
Cournoyer works closely with local organic and biodynamic farmers and he also grows, forages and preserves ingredients for his restaurant's seasonal menus.
"Really, it comes back to respecting the land and the people who are providing us with this food. A hundred and fifty years ago, you were lucky to get a little bit of meat on a Sunday and nobody would waste it," he says. "Now, the value of our food is so low that we're wasteful with it. At Actinolite, anything we touch we think of a way to utilize it."
This focused approach to seasonal, local cuisine requires a lot of preparation, but for Cournoyer it's the surest way to respect food and to live sustainably.
He dehydrates, pickles, ferments and infuses, making miso from meat scraps, flavour-packed oil from blackcurrant wood and vegetable seasoning from fermented and dried celery root. These unique flavours are applied year-round to whatever's in season.
"We need to go back to basics," he says.
"Start over and connect with our land, learn from our mistakes but utilize our technology and our culture to move forward."
While preparation can be a golden route to sustainability, it can also be a conduit to wastefulness.
While preparation can be a golden route to sustainability, it can also be a conduit to wastefulness. When restaurants make too much food, it often ends up in the garbage.
Second Harvest has done an excellent job of redistributing meat, dairy and produce to those in need for over 30 years, but it's against the law to donate prepared foods for health reasons. Feedback, an emerging Toronto-based technology, may help narrow that gap.
The app, which aims to launch this summer, would alert users to bakeries, lunch spots and pizza joints with remaining food just before closing time. Users would pre-pay at a deep discount and then fill a biodegradable container with what's left.
Feedback incentivizes both user (with discounted food) and restaurant owner (with partial payment for what would have otherwise been a loss), but co-founder Josh Waters is really hoping to spark awareness.
"People might initially download the app as a way to save on a sandwich or a slice of pizza, but then start thinking, 'Wow, there's so much food that would have been thrown out if I didn't come for it," he says.
So what if the food waste problem was repackaged as economic opportunity? If we start looking at every swampy box of greens as a monetary loss, then maybe we'll start paying attention to the crop of advantages that comes with respecting our food.
We'll be healthier eaters and more creative cooks with lighter carbon footprints and a deepened satisfaction in simplicity.
That's an opportunity worth rescuing.


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Where's The Roadmap To The Future?
Experiencing An Outage Is Bad Enough.
Until Your Users Are The First To Know.
At that point, things can go from bad to worse in a hurry. That's what happened to a large IT services company facing:
- A high number of frequent, long outages witnessed by end-users first
- An operational environment rapidly becoming more unpredictable
- Internal IT feeling the brunt of employee frustrations all the time
To make matters particularly confusing, the company was committing far too many tools – 39 in total – to its monitoring issues. Managers knew they didn't need anywhere near that amount of tools, but which ones would they keep? Which would they part with? It was a nightmare of a landscape for C-suite executives in the business to know which technical issues to prioritize.
Obviously the business had to find an optimal mix of tools, metrics and thresholds to completely cover all of its requirements. Yet our team at Silent IT was also determined to identify fewer tools while accomplishing that comprehensive goal. So as we developed a future state roadmap, we reduced the existing tool set by 85%, going from 39 tools to 6.
By identifying a better, more efficient set of tools for the customer, Silent IT helped them realize a cost savings of over $4 million. The process created a culture shift within IT Operations that improved operational predictability, performance and recovery.


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If you are new to steaming TV, you may want to check out what a Roku box is. Then, come back and check out my review of the Roku 3.
It's difficult to stand out in an industry filled with competition such as Google and Apple. However, Roku has managed not only to stand out, but lead the pack when it comes to over the top streaming devices.
It appears Roku intends to stay on top as they have added voice search to their Roku 3 for 2015. Considering Roku already had the best search function of any streaming devices, it comes as no surprise that their voice search is a stellar addition.
While Apple fans may want to stick with Apple TV for Airplay and iTunes, everyone else may want to take a look at the Roku 3 when exploring how to watch TV without cable.
Roku Channels
Roku owners will have over 1,800 available channels to choose from (some paid, some free). As one can imagine, a number Roku channels are narrowly focused (Like Spies, P.I.s & Bounty Hunter Channel). However, all the major names in steaming are available.
Roku is also quick to add new channels and partner with with quality content providers. For instance, not only can you now watch Sling TV on Roku, but you can get 50% off a Roku 3 when signing up for Sling TV.
Here are some examples of other top tier Roku Channels:
Movies and TV: Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Instant Video, Sling TV, VUDU, M-GO, Disney, PBS, HBO GO, Crackle TV, PBS, Google Play Store and more
News: CBS News, Fox News, Sky News, The Blaze, Weather Nation, and more
Sports: MLB.TV, NBA League Pass, NHL Game Center, NFL Now, WatchESPN, WWE Network, Dishworld Sports, UFC Online, and more
Internet: YouTube, Break, Vimeo and countless niche channels
Plex: Roku supports Plex Media Server with an official Plex channel. I recommend picking it up if you are interested in streaming your own media. It's easily the best way to view personal content on a Roku device.
Aside from video content, there is a plethora of music Roku channels to choose from like Pandora, Spotify, and Slacker. There aren't enough hours in the day to enjoy all the available content on Roku's numerous channels.
Roku Remote
The included remote control contains a built in headphone jack. This is a fantastic feature for those that want to watch TV without disturbing their roommate or spouse. Simply plug in the headphones and the Roku mutes the TV's speakers and enables the Roku's private listening mode.
Furthermore, volume control on the Roku remote only affects the headphones volume while in private listening mode. So if someone cranks their headphones up to full volume, the TV volume will remain at the volume level prior to plugging in the headphones.
Roku has even included a decent pair of ear buds to encourage folks to try out the feature. Users essentially receive a fully functioning wireless headset with their Roku 3.
Also, Roku opted to use Wi-Fi for their remote so users do not need to have line of sight with the Roku 3. Roku even sells a $10 kit to mount the Roku 3 on the back of the television.
Roku also provides a remote app for your smartphone or tablet. However, instead of just simulating the remote functions, the app allows users to browse channel selections on their smart device.
While this might not sound important, you quickly realize that it's better than apps that simply double as a remote. Typically, there is no tactile response on a remote app forcing users to look back and forth between their TV and phone. This fully functional remote menu app alleviates that problem.
Roku Miracast
Roku also employs Miracast technology allowing users to mirror compatible mobile device displays. This enables the user to push their phone's screen to the television. While the picture quality pales in comparison to the quality from native Roku Channels, it is acceptable.
Miracast provides a means to view content not normally available to the Roku 3. While Miracast on Roku is a fairly new feature, the functionality can be upgraded in the future via updates downloaded to the Roku device.
Roku Interface
Roku's interface is intuitive and feels more responsive than menus from other streaming devices. The interface displays 9 channels at a time, and the responsiveness of the menu allows users to quickly glide through program choices
With over 1800 Roku channels available, The Roku 3 provides more content than any other streaming device on the market today. Roku's Channel Store is integrated into the menu.
Previously, the Roku Store was in a separate interface requiring users to sit through a long load period before browsing the Channel Store. With the store integrated into the menu this is no longer an issue.
The Menu items are very well categorized into subjects like Internet TV, Movies, and News; allowing users to quickly jump to channel groupings. Small touches like small check marks on already installed channels, and animated menu transitions provide many reasons to love Roku Interface.
Roku Voice Search
Ultimately, the function that sets Roku apart is its universal search capability. Now with voice search added in 2015, there is no question that Roku 3 leads the pack in this area.
Roku 3 voice recognition works just as well as the other devices on the market with voice search capability. It makes the occasional mistake, but is generally useful. What sets Roku 3 apart is how voice recognition is paired with Roku's existing search function.
Roku has crafted it's search to crawl 17 of the heavy hitting streaming services, including Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu Plus, Crackle, Fox Now, FXNow, HBO Go, M-Go, Time Warner Cable and Vudu. Simply speaking into the remote allows you to search all the content available in various channels for a specific show and the results are returned by price. While other devices attempted universal search, no one does it better than Roku.
For those uncomfortable with speaking into the remote, typing the search works just as well as it always has.
Roku Setup
The Roku 3 connects to the internet by both Ethernet and Wi-Fi. The device makes a USB port available to connect content stored on an external hard drive, allowing users to view personal videos and photos on the television.
Connecting a Roku 3 to your television requires and HDMI cable, which must be purchased separately. The Roku setup screens are user friendly and once connected, the onscreen guide walks users through the setup with ease. The Roku setup is so intuitive, that it truly requires no instruction.
Roku MicroSD Slot
The Roku 3 contains a microSD slot. This isn't for storage. It expands the memory of the Roku device. With so many channels currently available and new ones being created every day, this allows Roku owners to easily upgrade the Roku 3's internal memory.
If Roku owner installs enough channels, the channel information may consume a large portion of the device's memory causing the Roku 3 to become sluggish. The microSD slot provides a means to increase the memory on the Roku 3, thus increasing the speed of the device for users with an extremely large number of installed channels.
Bottom Line
With the exception of folks heavily invested in the iTunes ecosystem, or mainly own iOS devices (for you I recommend reading this Apple TV review), I would recommend purchasing a Roku 3.
Roku's interface, remote, channel availability, and universal voice search put it ahead of any other device currently available. It's easily my favorite streaming device, and this is coming from iOS/Apple TV user. If it wasn't my use of HBO Now, iTunes, and Airplay, Roku 3 would replace my Apple TV today.
Product: Roku 3 (2015 Edition)
Reviewer: Dennis Restauro on May 16, 2015
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7 Handy Tasks QuickTime Player Performs for Free
When it comes to the wide variety of apps and tools available on a Mac, QuickTime Player is often overlooked. It can't hold a candle to VLC's usefulness and is usually opened by mistake when you click on a .MOV file. You've probably changed the file association so QuickTime never gets used, so you've probably overlooked its bounty of useful features.
QuickTime is better than you think, and performs many tasks you'd expect from premium software for free. You might think differently about this bundled freebie once you've seen what it can do!
Movie Recording
When you have QuickTime open, and it is sitting in the dock, simply right-click on the icon and at the bottom, you will see the following:
You can also use the File menu at the top of your screen. This is useful if you suddenly have the urge to make a video of yourself and send it to YouTube, as it uses your Mac's in-built webcam as a direct recording source. When you click on "New Movie Recording", this box will appear:
When you are ready, hit the red button and off you go. Once finished, you have the option to save the file in .MOV format.
Want Some Alternatives?
In OS X mainstay iMovie, there is the option to make a video and have it inserted into a movie you are making. This might be handy if you're working on a larger project.
Audio Recording
Just like movie recording, right-click the QuickTime logo and choose "New Audio Recording" or open QuickTime Player and find the same option under the File menu. This option is useful if you want to send a friend or relative a quick personal message or record a short podcast. Here's my humble effort, made on a MacBook Air. QuickTime uses the in-built microphone as a default recording location, though you can change this under System Preferences > Sound > Input.
Want Some Alternatives?
Tim recently rounded up the best free and cheap audio editors for Mac OS X The 9 Best Free and Cheap Audio Editors for Mac Here are our picks for the best free and cheap audio editors for Mac, from simple apps to professional tools. Read More . When it comes to audio recording on a budget, Audacity tops the list.
Screencasting has become more viable in recent years as storage, Internet speed and bandwidth limitations recede. Bloggers such as myself need it, and there's a good chance you've probably used an instructional screencast to solve a computer problem before.
You can access QuickTime Player's screencasting function under the File > New Screen Recording menu, or by right-clicking the dock icon. You'll see the familiar red recording button; click it and away you go.
Want Some Alternatives?
The big player in this arena is Camtasia, although it costs well over $100. If the price tag is enough to make your eyes water, then the same company has a free alternative called Jing.
Trim Video & Audio
If you want to cut out a particular section of a video or audio file and discard the rest, QuickTime Player has you covered. Open the file in QT, click Edit and then Trim. A yellow bar will appear at the bottom of the screen. Use the edges to adjust the capture range and move the selection if you wan, hit Trim and QT bins the rest.
When you trim a video clip you are presented with thumbnails of the entire video at the bottom. Sometimes the thumbnails look the same and it can be difficult to know where to trim. Enabling the audio track might make it a little more obvious.
To change the thumbnails to the audio track, select Edit then Trim. Next, navigate to View then Show Audio Track.
Want Some Alternatives?
iMovie does this too, but if you want to step outside Apple's walled garden, then we have profiled the best cheap video tools for Mac The 8 Best Free Video Editors for Mac Need to edit video on a budget? These free Mac video editors let you perform essential video editing tasks at no cost. Read More , including VLC and Blender. Don't forget our OS X audio editor round-up The 9 Best Free and Cheap Audio Editors for Mac Here are our picks for the best free and cheap audio editors for Mac, from simple apps to professional tools. Read More , too.
Combine Two Or More Videos
You could have a situation where you have two videos and you need to merge them – so how do you do that?
First, have one clip open in Quicktime. Then go to Finder, find part two, and drag it into the Quicktime screen. Use the mouse or trackpad to dump it where you want it (at the end presumably). Hit Done and QuickTime will perform its magic.
Want Some Alternatives?
Check out our previously mentioned video tools round-up for Mac OS X The 8 Best Free Video Editors for Mac Need to edit video on a budget? These free Mac video editors let you perform essential video editing tasks at no cost. Read More if you're looking for more capable editors. The only other credible one I have been able to find is iSkysoft Video Converter for Mac. Do you know of any others?
Upload to YouTube and Vimeo
This might not seem like a biggie to you, but it is really useful to be able to send the video straight to YouTube or Vimeo from the player. It saves you the bother of opening your browser, going to YouTube and fumbling around with uploading settings.
Next to the play/pause button is the Share button, which looks like a little curving arrow coming out of a box. Click that and you will see that you can send your video marvel by several methods. For YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook or Flickr you will need to sign in with your credentials, or visit System Preferences > Internet Accounts.
Want Some Alternatives?
Your best bet is probably a browser at this point!
Rotate Clips
We've all been in the situation where, when shooting video on your iPhone or iPad, you realise that you have been recording in Portrait Mode, instead of Landscape Mode. This is called vertical video syndrome and it ruins your clips – or does it?
Nope. Just export them into your Mac, and open them with QuickTime Player. Go to Edit in the menubar and you'll see the Rotate Left and Rotate Right buttons, along with tools for flipping the video.
Want Some Alternatives?
Again, iMovie can manage to do this job with its digital eyes shut and is free for every Mac user – but it's not as quick as QT player. Do you know of any others?
Anything Else?
So now you can see that your neglect of QuickTime was in error, and you should welcome it back into the OS X fold immediately.
Do you know of any other things Quicktime can do that we haven't mentioned here?
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French IT customer service Analyst 24/7 - Barcelona
Are you already IT savvy or interested learning more about IT in a customer satisfaction focused, vibrant environment?
Do you have a positive, can-do attitude and would enjoy taking ownership of finding the best solution for our customer?
We're looking for a team member to join our small and friendly team at within Computacenter in Barcelona.
The company:
Computacenter is a leading international IT company focusing on Customer Satisfaction, We've become Europe's leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services by being open, upfront and straightforward.
Based in Poble Nou area.
Multicultural environment with a big focus on sustainability, honesty and diversity.
Your role
To be part of a friendly team responsible for finding practical solutions related to IT.
Manage incoming contacts via different contact methods only Business to Business and no sales involved.
Understand the user's business challenges by adapting excellent listening and communication skills, both written and verbal.
You will know exactly what's expected of you as your manager takes a genuine interest in your performance and comfort at work.
What we offer:
Great team spirit in a small French Team with individual coaching and teambuilding.
Fully paid IT training. A Team Leader committed to your life and work balance as well as meeting your professional training and development needs. An environment where people support and respect each other
36hrs/ week - 24/7 rotating shift from Monday to Sunday, due to the 24/7 rotating shifts you have the benefit to have periods with longer time off in a row between shifts.
Salary aligned with market standards: 18.309 euros gross/year Career opportunities, job rotation opportunities and leadership development programs
Some of our Benefits
Ticket restaurant and Private health insurance.
Weekly fruity days.
Free in company Spanish, French and English language classes
Bike Parking and excellent Kitchen Facilities.
Fluent in French, English and Spanish is required.
Availability to work Intensive and night shifts is required
Required availability to do a rotating 24x7 shift: 36 hours contract - 24*7
Experience in an environment with a customer focus
Excellent telephone manner
Good communication and listening skills
Enthusiastic attitude
Organised mind
Good team player
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TPS12: Look Far
Zachary flies solo in this episode and he takes a deep dive into planning, goal setting and looking ahead.
The Productivity Show, Episode 2: Journaling
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Hello Zachary,
Great solo podcast. You were very honest and inspiring!
Like Filipe, I would like to know more about those audiobooks…
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If most of us appreciate the low cost of silver, some women still look for the most expensive earrings in the world. Of course those can be found in Hollywood's, preferred jeweler to the stars, Harry Winston's store.
The world's most expensive Rubik's Cube is the Masterpiece Cube produced by Diamond Cutters International in 1995. The Masterpiece Cube contains 22.5 karats of amethyst, 34 karats of rubies, and 34 karats of emeralds and the cube is made of 18 karat gold. The estimated value is about .5 million.
Diamonds are a girl's best friend, and most women would melt at getting some. Then again, they don't come cheap. If you've got your heart set on buying jewelry for your girl, save a little money each month for just that. A beautiful pair of diamond earrings isn't as expensive as you may think (about 0), so you'll have those studs in no time.
Sam does just that. He plans a romantic proposal at sea. It doesn't work out either, somehow. Sam and Diane are suddenly at their feuding best again. Yet, somehow, it's not until the two end up in court that things reach a boiling point. It's not until Sam proposes under court order to get out of going to jail, that Diane is able to accept.
If the receiver loves jewelries, you must also know what kind of jewelry she prefers. Does she like to wear bracelets than necklaces? Or does she loves stud earrings than chandelier ones? Or does she love wearing chunky bangles than simple bracelets?
What you want to keep in mind though is that the more complicated the veil, the less you want to do for your jewelry. It's another case of the competing looks and balancing the overall effect of the details. You don't want to have so many things going on that people forget to look at your face.
Silver earrings endure throughout the ages. In an around the year 200 AD (CE), riche and well known Greek women would decorate their lobes with silver hoops, reminiscent of the creole fashion that we all love. Sometimes these would include precious stones like rubies or sapphires.