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We all get a little jaded at times. Even though music plays a major part in our lives, there are times when we all feel that we've heard it all before, that there really isn't anything new and exciting that really touches us. This feeling thankfully doesn't usually last too long and one of the reasons is because an album like Martin A. Egan's 'The Tune' unexpectedly lands on the doormat and ignites your passion for music once again.
The striking artwork on Martin's debut CD is the first sign that this album might just be that little bit different to most others released recently. I knew very little about Martin at the time except that he was a singer-songwriter hailing from Ireland, and it was easy to have preconceived ideas about how his music would sound, but little about the music that Martin A. Egan produces can be described easily. While Martin's music is instantly accessible, 'The Tune' is a complex set of songs that, even months down the road after initially hearing the album, it is still throwing up new surprises with each play.
Like many others Martin's name was a new one to me when 'The Tune' reached me. The fact is though that I'd been listening to some of Martin's music for years. 'Casey', a highlight on Christy Moore's 'Live at the Point' album, was written by Martin after the acclaimed Irish singer had heard a Martin original and asked to hear more. Martin has also worked with the Hothouse Flowers and Poppy Gonzalez (ex Mojave 3) amongst others. 'The Tune' is one of those rare albums that sounds at once familiar yet refreshingly new at the same time. It's certainly one of those albums that you will never tire of hearing.
But it appears that music is only one part of Martin Egan's life. Martin has had exhibitions of his art, which is as striking and captivating as the music he makes. He also writes poetry. It shows in the music that he makes that Martin takes chances. In spreading his talents over a number of different projects, it's amazing that one individual can be so successful in each area.
I admit to knowing next to nothing about art, but there is something in Martin's paintings that I find fascinating. I can lose myself in them. As for his songs, after more than four decades of listening, loving and growing to all types of music, Martin's songs never fail to move me.
Most people are good at least one thing, Martin seems to have the golden touch when it comes to music, art and poetry. From the little I've seen and heard from him so far, Martin always delivers the unexpected so when the opportunity arose to ask him some questions I jumped at the chance. Martin was very open in his answers, but even so I feel that we have only just scratched the surface of this talented man. With Martin currently working on a three-album project, I hope that we can catch up with him at a later date to hear more from him.
PB: You've come to our attention via your debut album ,'The Tune', but you've been painting for a number of years with some success too. Did your painting develop from your song writing or vice-versa?
ME: My painting came about as a result of a number of things, but started because I had two very good art teachers at school in London, John and Susan McLaren.
Prior to their arrival our art teachers were people like domestic science teachers teaching how to make Raffia table lamps, formal crow on a ditch paintings, or classical drawing techniques, pottery and such stuff, most of which I had no skills at nor interest in. The McLarens introduced me to a whole new world - Writers and poets such as Antonin Artaud, T.S. Eliot, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, and painters such as Van Gogh and the Blue Rider School. In fact Susan's first words on her first day (after producing a print of a Paul Klee painting on glass) were "Draw or Paint anything you like," and it went from there.
PB: You've had a number of exhibitions of your art but none very recently. Has your music taken over from painting now?
ME: For the moment, writing and at this stage finishing a triple album is my major focus, but I have also decided (finances permitting) to publish a book of poetry, with the lyrics of 'The Tune' and the first part of the triple album, and also some pastel drawings I have been doing over the last couple of years.
In Kerry in the South West of Ireland, where I used to live, I had an enormous studio up in the mountains. Now that I live in Dublin, I don't have the space to paint. Also I reached a point in 1997 with painting where I felt I had begun to repeat myself, and that is not what I began painting to do. So I took time out to try to find another way of painting that would lead me in a new direction.
PB: How did you get involved in writing songs for Christy Moore?
ME: I have known Christy on and off since the early to mid 70s. In fact the first place after Ireland in 1972 or so that I began to know Christy as a friend was in Edinburgh, when Planxty played the Aula Maxima in Edinburgh University where I was studying at the time. Every time I met him he asked me the same question - "Any gigs, man? Any gigs?" I was living in Rosemount near the whisky distillery at the time and singing at sessions in Rose Street and Sandy Bell's pub on Forrest Road when they arrived.
Then many years afterwards, in the mid to late 80s, Christy was on the upsurge that made him a household name and an international name as well, and he played a show at the Hillgrove Hotel in Dingle, County Kerry where I was living at the time. Prior to the show, he went to Dick Mack's pub in Green Street for a pint with the owner of the hotel, Tommy McCarthy, and where I was playing a gig.
I was singing a local satirical song I'd written about going to cut peat in the bog called 'Knightley's Trailer', and Christy waited till I had finished and asked me who wrote it, and when I told him that I did he said, "Have you got any more?," and I said, "A houseful," and the subsequent tape I sent him had 'Casey', the song about our notorious local bishop Eamonn Casey on it, and the rest is history as they say. He came down to Annascaul where I was living and spent the day with me going through songs, but 'Casey' was and is to date the only one he's recorded. And he had several goes at recording it before deciding that live was best.
PB: As far back as 1997 you were nominated for the German Music Award for your work on Mary O'Regan's 'Every Punch Needs a Kiss' album. So there was never any doubt about your musical talents. Why did it take so long for you to release your debut album?
ME: That's a good question. Mary O'Regan was and is a very fine singer from Tralee, Co. Kerry, and is also a very honest and ethical person. When she joined Draoicht, an Irish new age band, she sang my songs as part of her set, particularly 'At Rest' and 'Every Punch Needs a Kiss'. Draoicht toured Europe extensively, especially the German-speaking countries and recorded two very good albums upon which all their songs were written by Tom Mulcahy. They were also very popular in Scandinavia, where most of them now live, but ultimately they never recorded anything of mine, so when Mary eventually left she recorded those two songs plus 'This Time Round' and 'Welcome to the World', a song I had written as a means of saying all the things I had not had an opportunity to say to my deceased children, who were stillborn in 1980.
'Every Punch Needs a Kiss' was embraced by the Germans in particular, and she toured extensively there. 'At Rest' got an enormous amount of airplay and I did very well.
I had the good fortune to meet Rick Nowels, Madonna's and Stevie Nicks' producer at the time. He and his wife Maria were holidaying in Dingle and heard me busking outside a supermarket. In those days I painted all winter, and busked and held exhibitions in the summer. Rick took four songs back to America and played them to Madonna. What this did for me was to make me take my songwriting seriously.
PB: Why did it take you so long to put 'The Tune' out?
ME: To put it bluntly, I froze up completely. There was very, very little support or aftercare for bereaved parents in those times, especially in the middle of nowhere as we were. My ex-wife was completely devastated and so was I.
The difference was she expressed it and I buried it. I do not recommend burying anything to anyone. It can eat you up inside and it did me. I was very bitter and closed off for a long time, almost fourteen years before I started (when I had no choice) to deal with it. I was dealing with it all along, but trying to express it through music and later painting. It worked up to a point, but not at any great depth. It is easy to write about something. It is not easy to write from inside a traumatic experience like we had experienced. My ex-wife did better than I did to her credit.
PB: You are working on the trilogy. Is there a theme connecting all three albums?
ME: Yes, I can't really quantify it in any sense until it's out there, it's a huge canvas. I have been extraordinarily lucky in the people that have become involved. James Marsh was the graphic artist for all the Talk Talk Albums and Kevin Whyte, the engineer, worked at Mayfair Studios and Trevor Horn's Sarm 2 Studios for many years. James worked with one of my paintings, and has used it as the basis for all the artwork for the three albums. I waited a year for Kevin to set up his studio in order to work with him.
I have also got the cream of the crop if you like in the new generation of experimental Irish musicians - Brian Conniffe who has re-mixed Nurse With Wound; Dara "Dip" Higgins who plays with Irish Noise/Experimental Band, the Jimmy Cake, and Tommy O'Sullivan from Estel, who not only recorded but played on the last Iggy and the Stooges Album. He engineered the demo sessions in Ashtown Studios, and has also played drums and guitar, along with Paul "Binzer" Brennan who was the original drummer with the Frames, on 'Part 1'.
Musically it's difficult to talk about or describe. It's more to be experienced than written or talked about. It will speak for itself. It's like Samuel Beckett said about 'Finnegan's Wake' - "It is not about anything. It is the thing" That's not quite the story with the trilogy, but there are elements of that in it. Suffice to say it is very, very, different from 'The Tune'.
PB: Planning a three album set is a mammoth task. When are you hoping it will be completed? I would think that you want to release them as close together as possible.
ME: Yes, in 2009 I inherited some money which allowed me to release the debut album, and I must say that psychologically it has been an enormous help and a massive rite of passage. I was still vacillating between putting 'The Tune' out and trying to make 'Part 1' at the same time that I met Billy Bragg after a show he did in Vicar Street. I was waiting to have an operation for a shoulder injury, and was telling Billy the problems I was having playing the guitar, and his response was "Well, hire a bloody guitar player and make the record." He said it very nicely and humorously I hasten to add, but very directly as only Billy can. So that was that.
I set up my own label Slinky Vibe and put 'The Tune' out. 'The Tune' thankfully has thus far paid for recording and rehearsals to mixing and mastering 'Part 1', and paid for the peripherals like the album artwork which is absolutely beautiful. I went into debt to finish it but I don't regret it for a moment.
At the moment the dichotomy is between spending what I have on putting 'Part 1' out and using that to fund 'Part 2' or recording 'Part 2' first. I get distinctly uncomfortable if I let writing and/or recording rest for too long.
PB: If you have the material written already for three albums, presumably the songs that make up 'The Tune' were written some years ago. By getting what I guess are the older songs released has that in some way closed a chapter on your past so you can now move on musically?
ME: Some years ago is a bit of an understatement. It feels like half a lifetime ago. Most definitely I feel that I have finished a huge chunk of my past. But at the same time the most wonderful thing about songs is that they are shape-shifters in the most eerie fashion. They seem to resonate very strongly especially with my female fans. My fan-base for that album is a good 75-80% female.
Most of the set that I do acoustically now are from that period and a slightly later period, but by some quirk have begun to take on completely new meanings. For instance 'The Tune', which I wrote as a means of reaching out to my parents, a sort of palm leaf gesture of understanding towards them (we had quite a difficult relationship), has taken on a completely different meaning since they both passed away. I prefer to think I have become more forgiving and compassionate with age and certainly more understanding of their experiences, and I experience the song from that point of view these days. They sacrificed a lot of their dreams for us, and I'm only beginning to appreciate that now.
PB: With a diverse mixture of styles covered successfully on your album, which is one of its major attractions, as it appeals to a wide audience, it's difficult to make a guess as to what music Martin A. Egan listens to for pleasure. Do you listen to much music and who?
ME: Oh, God, How long do we have? I joke that I live in a corridor, one side of which is books and the other is vinyl, CDs and paintings, and at the end of the corridor is the bedroom and bathroom. I have a vast collection, most of which gets an outing at some point in every year.
But the current favourites off the top of my head would be Annie Briggs, (whom I discovered I had seen with Johnny Moynihan in London in the 1960s. I just didn't know her name); Kate Rusby's current album, 'Make the Light', which I think is an extraordinarily honest, courageous and beautiful piece of work; Dick Gaughan's early work up to the 'Handful of Dust'/'Different Kind of Love Song' years; all the Talk Talk albums to which I was introduced by Poppy Gonzalez, formerly of Mojave 3 and Sing Sing (when I was working with her and her Hush Collector on their Debut EP, 'Flowby', which I co-wrote); and of course Mark Hollis' solo album. They get played to death regularly, as does Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, and Tim Buckley and his 'Blue Afternoon' especially. I have the Box Set on CD, but cherry pick my favourites like "Song to the Siren'.
I like Tim Hardin, Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, Guy Clark as well, and just about anything by Mark E. Smith and the Fall, and the Irish Band Whipping Boy, and primarily 'Heartworm' and 'Submarine' and not just because I wrote their current single, 'No-One Takes Prisoners Anymore', with them.) I think Fearghal McKee and the Whips are the only band that could give the Fall a good run for their money.
I also like Martin Bramah and Factory Star (I've been a Fan of Martin's solo work since the Blue Orchids days), Jonathan Beckett of Moscow Circus, Scott Walker, Richard and Linda Thompson and Richard's solo stuff up to the current album, 'Dream Alley', Sigur Ros, George Moustaki, Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf, Elbow, Pentangle, the late great Bert Jansch, Nic Jones, Planxty, Tommy Potts, Altan (Mark Kelly is a great friend and played with me at my Coming out of Retirement Show), a Band from the UK named Tri whose song arrangements I find amazing, the Unthanks, Damien O'Kane and particularly the solo Album of Belfast songs he's just recorded called 'Summerhill' (I love his song 'Raven's Wing' as well. It is quite bitter in its lyrics, but all the better for that. Sincerity in lyrics isn't and shouldn't always be about the more attractive emotions.), and of course all the usual English folkies. We'd need a much longer interview to cover the rest.
PB: What inspires the music you write? Do you ever write from your own experiences? 'Nearly Got Glassed' from 'The Tune' is a remarkable story-song that sounds like it comes from the heart. It sounds like that at least a part of Martin A Egan is in there.
ME: Oh God, Just about anything musically as you'll hear when 'Part 1' comes out in May. It is presently being reproduced. For instance 'This Time Round' was inspired musically by a five bar tubular gate that the cross bars fell off of and the wind blew through the holes, so it came from Aeolus the God of Winds if you like, and its lyrics by the fact that I was living beside one of the oldest pre-Christian Sites in Western Europe, a place on the Dingle Peninsula called Kinard. It means High Point or High Head in Irish.
My lyrics are nearly always personal concerns, but I have written many topical and local and national, but not nationalist songs purely to poke fun at the usual human and professional failings.
As to 'Nearly Got Glassed'? There is actually a long story to that song that I tell during shows. The song was inspired by an incident outside Trinity College between a drunk student lying in the street, a young guy and his girlfriend, a briefcase and me after one of my Dublin gigs. Suffice to say that it's about what the song says it is, a meditation on whether violence and viciousness are inculcated in the individual by ill-treatment as a child or as a spur of the moment random reaction (usually fuelled by booze or drugs.) At this stage I think it's probably both.
PB: What is a typical day in the life of Martin A. Egan? You have your music, poetry and art. Do you have certain things planned for each day or just go where your muse takes you?
ME: My usual day starts at between 3.30 and 5.30 a.m. when I wake up and begin writing. If I'm feeling particularly disorientated, I do a couple of pastel drawings. I'm not much of a doodler. It's been going on now for so long in that vein that I just accept it.
I get up and read some poetry or some other kind of writing or listen to some music on headphones until something surfaces. I rarely watch TV because frankly the majority of it is so formulaic and boring it's not worth watching. It goes under the general heading in Ireland of "Awful Shite". I have a vast collection of film DVDs and music documentaries and videos, so hardly watch TV at all.
Then I write until about 8.00 a.m. and possibly eat and have something to drink (tea mostly) while I'm working. If I wake up in the middle of something I was dreaming (not very often lately),I will work on that immediately using journals I keep beside my bed. In my younger days I used to lie in bed cursing my luck until I got the message to just get up and write. My brain would like me to stay in bed and worry about the rest of the day, or better still the rest of my life and how little of it I have left. It is important to get moving as fast as possible with the work in hand.
I usually have at least twenty different pieces in various stages of construction, not just songs but short stories and poems so it is easy to hop from one to the other. I painted like that as well, and would tape canvas to the wall and work my way round the room. With songwriting I nearly always write the words first.
If none of this works I'll watch a DVD of someone talking about their work process and how they deal with the difficulties of writing, because one of the realities of writing is there are always obstacles to be overcome. I have a library of books about writing, not just songwriting but every kind of writing.
If I am really tired, I will go to bed for three or four hours, and then get up at about 11.00 a.m., make and have lunch and begin writing again. When I have done what I feel I need to with writing, I deal with e-mails, online stuff, promo post, go for a walk or do the shopping. I stock up regularly so I don't have to shop every day. I try to meet up with friends at least two or three times a week, and I also talk to close friends on the phone for some portion of the day. If I'm going away, I deal with tickets online or if I have rehearsals I book the room, co-ordinate all the musicians and make sure I have things like strings, batteries etc all stocked up.
I use the local library as a resource as well. I have a huge collection of modern literature that I am always adding to and spend a lot of time in various book and record shops (which are getting harder to find all the time) around the city. I write in cafés as well around Dublin. A couple of evenings a week I'll go out for something to eat with friends or to a movie. I have some good female friends I like to spend time with. I don't really feel that a relationship is of the utmost importance at present, as, to be honest, I'm too busy making the triple album and I just don't have the energy for one. I suppose I'm simply focusing on what's important to me at the moment. I'm enjoying myself immensely.
PB: You have the art book planned which takes in both your art and poems. Can you tell us a little about that?
ME: Yes, I'm working on the book on and off in between all the other stuff, I have all the drawings, all the lyrics and all the poems ready to go but doing things like trademarking names and images takes forever alongside all the other stuff that I usually do.
I am a one-man band if you like, and I have found lately – It must be something to do with hitting 60 - that I get tired far more easily than I have previously, and I also think that its time I delegated a lot more. I'm proud of myself for getting it all back together in spite of myself, but I do seriously need to find someone to run the day to day business end of things from now on. I have approached a couple of people that I know via other artists, and am going to be approaching a couple of more in the near future to cover management and agency and so on.
'PB: The Tune' album consists of nine songs. You've added two bonus tracks to the album. Why were those two particular songs not considered part of the album?
There were at least eighteen songs recorded over ten days for the original album, and the two extra songs, which I worked on with Peter O'Toole, were recorded a good five years after the original album Tracks.
I was not happy with some of the songs, even though both of the bonus tracks were recorded in the initial session. I had a song called 'Lakes' where the word "lakes" came out sounding like "legs" because I changed the tempo from slow to very fast, so we dumped that one and another one named 'Bringing It All Back Home', which was frankly about the "Kick the dog" syndrome. I didn't like the tempo on that either because it suffered from being played in sessions and so sped up in one or two places ,and I had in fact also dealt with the subject matter in 'Nearly' albeit from a different perspective. "
'At Rest' got major airplay in Germany, Austria and Switzerland from the Mary O'Regan Album, and, as it was a very melodic acoustic version, I wanted an alternative version on my album and that's what happened. Des O'Byrne of the Irish Band the Golden Horde played the very loud electric guitar on it which juxtaposed (as far as I was concerned) with the very gentle lyrics. I felt it signified the more intense side of the loss for me, and it bound whatever hurt angry and childlike part of my psyche needed to bind itself to the cover image and the attempt to talk to the ghosts of the children that I expressed in 'Welcome to the World'. I liked the version so I put it on.
'Welcome to the World' was included after I decided to use the painting visualizing what my dead children would have looked like if they had been born. I wasn't allowed to see my wife for twenty four hours after the birth of the twins, and the hospital refused pointblank to let me see the remains of the children citing upset as the reason. I was at that time an organic farmer and delivered animals myself all the time, so it really annoyed and upset me and my ex-wife also. I really resented the hospital's attitude to us both, so it seemed very important that I included the song to complement the cover art as they were integrally interconnected and shared meaning and expression.
PB: To end on another question about 'The Tune' album ; the vocals are outstanding. Especially on the title track, 'I Know' and 'Touch'. Which songs did you take all the vocals on? The background vocals on those particular songs are brilliant.
ME: Oh dear, my apologies, I forgot to include Nuala Finnegan who was then using her married name of Marchetti in the credits. Nuala is a wonderful Irish singer whom unfortunately I rarely see these days. She sang backing vocals on 'Every Punch Needs a Kiss', 'I Know', 'Touch' 'Sweeter Side' and 'At Rest'. Donal Lunny and Nuala did the backing vocals on 'Welcome to the World' along with me as far as I can remember. That's what comes of waiting nearly twenty years to put an album out.
I did all the vocals on 'The Tune' itself purely because it was such a personal song. But then most of my songs are personal. It reminds me of an interview I heard Leonard Cohen doing on YouTube. The interviewer asked him why he always wrote about himself, and his answer was, "I don't know anything about anyone else." That's about it.
PB: Thank you.
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Yay Martin Knowing about yourself certainly is worth Knowing..Nice words to follow for others in search of Inspiration..Love the Language of the Tongue..the story of the Mind..the Rambles , the TRUTH..from the mouth of a complicated world.
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Target Bird: Redstart
A very early start at 5am sent Dad and I to Ardura Oak Woodland to try and crack the Redstarts. We got there and could here the local Wood Warbler, and then I heard a familiar sound. It was the Redstart. We had both Canon Cameras, and tried to locate it. When we did, it was a cracking male. We took tonnes of pictures, but they were all blurred!!
We went back to the hotel and woke up Mum (she was already awake actually - LOL) and headed back to Ardura with better light in our favour. We got there, and he was still singing. We even got better pics!
We also got the Wood Warbler.
We also got Spotted Flycatcher too.
We had already clocked Cuckoo, Tree Pipit, Stonechat, Whinchat, and Willow Warbler, when I looked up and saw 4 White-tailed Eagles together!
Here's 3!
We then got a Golden Eagle flying over too. We then went to Grasspoint again, and we got to the viewpoint. Someone pointed out 2 White-tailed Eagle sitting in the tree top which was a nice sight. I then had to check my hearing because I could hear a Grasshopper Warbler reeling from the long grass. I went ot have a look, and it flew out of the grass and onto the top of a heather for all of a bout 5 seconds. Cracking stuff. First for the year! We headed to the Golden Eagle nest back in Glen More, but the White-tailed Eagles we had seen from the car park at Grasspoint, we sitting right near the road!
We got to the Goldies nest, and a adult bird was on the nest.
I got a Crossbill flock flying over our heads chipping away, but I couldn't see them.
I've been in really bad form in terms of Golf these past 2 weeks, but I'm playing today, so hopefully that will change.
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#BBCtrending: Egyptian public sceptical about military's HIV 'breakthrough'
On Saturday the Egyptian government claimed that its military had achieved a "scientific breakthrough" in the detection and treatment of AIDS and hepatitis. But ordinary Egyptians - and the scientific community - are not so sure.
Around this time last year, a story surfaced in Egypt of an exciting new tool in the fight against AIDS and hepatitis. The new "device" promised to revolutionise the detection of the diseases - instead of a blood test, patients would just need to be zapped with something that looked like the controller for a radio-controlled car and was said to be adapted from a device for detecting bombs. The device was supposed to work by detecting electromagnetic waves "emanating from" the virus.
Now the story has resurfaced, with the Egyptian government issuing a press release at the weekend saying that the army has "achieved a scientific breakthrough by inventing systems for diagnosing hepatitis and AIDS without any need to take a sample of blood from the patient". The claims went further, with the C-Fast device supposedly capable not just of diagnosing, but also treating the diseases. But the scientific community is highly doubtful. Emma Thomson, a specialist in infectious diseases at the University of Glasgow, took a look at what appears to be a patent application for the device for BBC Trending and said: "I can find no evidence to support the claims that this device detects hepatitis C or any other viruses as mentioned in the patent, nor any clear theoretical rationale for how it would work."
Egypt has the highest rate of hepatitis C in the world, with around 20% of people either suffering or having recovered from the disease according to the World Health Organisation. Sunday's announcement has caused a stir, with a video of the inventor being shared 12,000 times on Facebook and an ongoing Twitter discussion under the hashtag "Virus C miracle". A few of the tweets were supportive of the government, but what is striking is that the majority were satirical and questioned the science. "There is no such thing as secret military reports in medicine," TV presenter Khalid Muntasir told his 20,000 Twitter followers. "For a medical discovery to be recognized and be declared as such, it must be revealed to the public."
Other comments drew a link between the announcement and the upcoming presidential elections. The army's chief, Field Marshal Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, who was mentioned in the press release, is seen as a frontrunner in the election. One user tweeted: "I suggest you inject Al-Sisi with the virus and then cure him using the army's invention as means to inaugurate it and prove its efficacy." Yesterday, Egypt's president Adly Mansour was reported to have stressed that all scientific results should be reviewed properly before being announced.
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Tis the season! Wedding season that is. The spring and summer months are peak wedding time which means old friends getting together, dreaded family reunions, awkward ex interaction, hours on the dance floor, humidity, nervous sweating and of course – happy tears.
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Meet your new best friend – Eyeshadow Primer. Eyeshadow Primer will keep your eye makeup in place from day to night. I love Urban Decay's Eyeshadow Potion in Original. Simply apply a thin layer with your finger tip on clean skin.
Insider Tip: Push any excess product towards your temples and under your eyebrows. This will help keep your eyebrow product in place as well as any eyeshadow or liner that you may wing out!
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Using ABLE's Cat Eye 101 liquid liner draw a clean, black cat eye. The formula will take to the primer and base to ensure an extra-long wear. Cat Eye 101 is 3 easy steps. 1st Line your lash line as thin or as thick as you would like. 2nd Place the rubber edge at your desired wing position. 3rd Trace the rubber edge to achieve a perfect cat eye! You can go back and add if you're a 'more is more' fan.
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Sad news, everyone. Comedy Central has opted not to renew Futurama for an eighth season, effectively cancelling the animated series that found new life on the cable network. The series initially ran for four seasons on Fox before being cancelled due to low ratings, but its popularity soared with reruns on Adult Swim, and Comedy Central subsequently revived the show for four feature-length films (which, divided into half-hour episodes, make up the fifth season) and eventually a sixth and seventh season.
The final batch of 13 episodes, which represent the second half of season seven, will begin airing on June 19th (watch the trailer here), with the series finale set for September 4th. Executive producer David X. Cohen and creator Matt Groening weren't exactly surprised by the news of Comedy Central's decision not to renew, but they feel like these are their best episodes yet and may indeed look for yet another home for Futurama. Hit the jump to see what they had to say.
News of Futurama's cancellation comes via EW, who spoke with Cohen and Groening about the decision:
"We've been in this situation before and it's tempting when you're doing episodes that are as good or better than anything you've ever done to continue doing it," Groening tells EW. "We're catching our breath and seeing what the fans have to say. The experience of this show has been so much fun from the very beginning to now — everybody is so happy to work on this show — that it'd be a shame if we all went our separate ways… We would love to continue. We have many more stories to tell. But if we don't, this is a really great way to go out… I think these episodes are the best ones we've ever done."
Nevertheless, Groening adds that if this indeed the end, the series finale is "satisfying" and "epic." Of course, Groening and Cohen have already written Futurama's series finale twice before, once when it was going off the air on Fox (season four's "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings") and once when the four films came to an end with the conclusion of Into the Wild Green Yonder. I'd love to see Futurama continue just because I adore the characters, but seven seasons is certainly an impressive run—especially considering the wild ups and downs the show has gone through over the years.


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Thanks to your individual contributions, Windows on Haiti has reached its collective goal of raising $1,000 for the Barack Obama campaign.
I don't know how to thank you other than inviting you to keep united in pushing for the ultimate satisfaction of getting rid of the era of unregulated corporate greed and government irresponsibility that has characterized the last eight years of the Bush-Cheney administration enabled by the full support of Senator John McCain who promises to continue the politics of Bush and Cheney, except with greater abandon.
To see the results of our campaign, go to: http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach ... enforobama
Once again, thank you for your participation and for exceeding our stated goal of $1,000 by October 1.
I look forward to toasting to our victory on November 4, 2008 which should become one of the most historic dates in our lives.
Kindest regards,
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It took me a long time to get on board the Obama campaign. At first, I had simply resolved to defend Obama's right to be in the race for the White House, as a fully-accredited U.S. citizen, irrespective of race. To me, that was the fulfillment of Martin Luther King's dream of a nation where the content of a man or a woman's character should be determining of his or her opportunities, including that of becoming the President of the United States. That Obama is an African-American, that he is of "mixed race" or whatever they wish to consider him is indeed a significant factor in the modern-day civil rights movement in the United States, but I would entirely agree that this in itself does not qualify him to become the President of the United States. It would take much more than that.
My resolve to support Obama fully started to take shape when he delivered his major speech on racial relations in this country. Why, you might say? Well, that was the point when I realized that Barack Obama was truly interjecting in the race a new tone, strikingly different from the prevailing one of intimidation and fear of mushroom clouds; oft-repeated lies and deception; evasion and stonewalling; complete submission to Washington's supposed benevolent dictatorship (read as follow: "we know terror; we know best how to use terror to combat terror, as we have the supreme ability to match terror tactics with deadlier shock-and-awe tactics of our own; we may also violate your civil liberties at will because we only seek to protect you; furthermore, any resistance on your part will only land you on a list of terror suspects"); and finally, willful isolation ("God is on our side, and we don't give a damn as long as we survive").
I saw high school kids, college kids, recent immigrants and other ordinary folks being swept by the new dynamics of this political season like no other. I realized that this election is not truly about Obama but about the Obama generation. This election is not truly about Obama but about us. This could be a generational sweep. This could be an affirmation of who we want to be as a nation and a telling rejection of who we no longer want to be: a nation polarized by racism, cultural intolerance, and crude worship of power (financial and military). I saw Obama, imperfect as he may be, as the embodiment of their aspirations. And I had to ask myself: Why not?
Once again, this is way bigger than Obama. This is our historical rendezvous and we would be remiss not to be present when it really mattered. Sure, it might have been more satisfying to me to vote for Dennis Kucinich because he represents my positions better on the ideological scale. But what is the point really? This is a moment in time when I and others like me can be (or as close as we might otherwise ever be) in a position of power: the power to transform our political environment; not absolute power, not even dominant power, but the power of being in a position where we can create changes and where our voices will no longer be repressed or simply ignored.
So, as Obama traverses the political minefield that lesser-skilled politicians would not survive, I have to remind myself of all the reactionary forces that are arrayed against him and how he must also play their game in order to remain electable. Surely, he has disappointed me in a number of areas, such as: a) his obligatory tough line on Castro in lieu of pledging unequivocally to lift all travel restrictions, and the dictatorship-boosting economic embargo that never worked as intended in the first place, because the rest of the world does not follow it, for good reason; b) his obligatory surrender to the supremacist interests of the pro-Israeli lobby, because... he would otherwise torpedo his chances; c) his obligatory signal to the military complex that he is "a man with testicular fortitude", as in his reference to "the good war" in Afghanistan, an oxymoron if I ever heard one; d) his perhaps not so obligatory vote on the FISA bill granting retroactive immunity from civil prosecution to the Telecom companies for their illegal wiretapping of ordinary Americans, simply because Bush and Cheney demanded it.
At this point though, we have to be pragmatic and count our blessings: Obama offers greater hope on a sensible and comprehensive immigration policy (that used to be McCain's greatest selling point, but he betrayed it for aligning himself with the forces of fear and intolerance). Obama projects himself as someone who is really interested to know other viewpoints before doing the macho thing about being the greatest military superpower ever with license to kill and obliterate others as pleases him or as benefits corporate structures in a shortsighted kind of way.
Obama, not for Obama, but Obama for you and me, for our children and grand-children so they have a better chance of sorting out this mess we have created or let others create by our inaction. Obama, not for Obama, but Obama for living without the yoke of oppression imposed by the Bush-Cheney cabal in Washington D.C. and the designated inheritor of their policies, Senator John McCain.
Ask yourself, whom would you trust to choose the next person(s) to be on the Supreme Court of the United States: Barack Obama or John McCain? To me, the answer is a shut eye slam dunk. What about you?
Will Obama solve all or most of our problems? Not automatically, not by a long shot! ONLY WE CAN. But I assure you that with Obama as President of the United States, we will have a better footing from which to address our problems than if we continue to be governed by the SAME "neoconservative" pro-imperialist policies that have absolutely ravaged the standards of living and reasonable expectations of not only U.S. citizens but those of World citizens everywhere.
For those trusting Obama to do all the right things at every turn, they will surely be disappointed. First of all, the man will have to be the President of all Americans and manage all of their expectations. That is a job that I do not envy.
For those of us however, who realize that this may represent a historic change for a more enlightened leadership in the U.S. with the opportunity for us to wash our dirty linen, not all at once since our washing machine (the government) does not offer us that option or simply does not have that gigantic capacity, but with enough small change (we have to put it in) to produce loads and loads of clean laundry to make the world willing to accompany us on the way to saving this planet from utter destruction, there is simply no other choice. The brand is Obama. The agents of change are you and me.
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We are looking for a Drupal Developer contractor to join our team of talented developers, designers, and strategists. The roles include work on backend application development of large scale Drupal websites, architecting elegant solutions to client problems using the right mix of community modules and custom modules, developing new custom and community modules, and migrating content from legacy CMS systems.
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The Kiwanis Club of Erwin and Kiwanis International
Ordinary people performing EXTRAORDINARY WORK in our communities.
Kiwanis, through guidance and example, works to develop future generations of leaders. Every day, Kiwanians are revitalizing neighborhoods, organizing youth-sports programs, tutoring, building playgrounds, and performing countless other projets to help children and communities.
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Our main mission: Serving the Children of the World®.
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If you share our passion for community service, and particularly to our children and young adults, consider joining us for a fulfilling experience of fellowship and service. We always welcome visitors and guests to our weekly meetings, as well as volunteers at our service projects and donations of funds.
Our newest project focus, through the financing of the Erwin Kiwanis Foundation, is the planning & development of the special needs play and learn park along the Linear Trail in Erwin TN.
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Dark red or maybe slightly pinkish burgundy, I'm not quite sure what the best description would be, so I'm going for Cranberry which seems to describe it well.
Adventures in garment construction. (Plus random thoughts, photos of interesting places and stuff I've made!)
Friday, 23 October 2015
Berry Collection: Cranberry cowl neck top
6 comments:
- Anne said...
Nice. I must get on with sewing...
- 23 October 2015 at 23:31
- KathyS said...
These are such yummy colours, I have always loved them. Your wardrobe is shaping up beautifully.
- 25 October 2015 at 07:09
- Janine said...
You are very good at creating coordinating wardrobes in your colours .
- 25 October 2015 at 10:58
- Summer said...
Your new top is so pretty! And with the skirt, oh, what a great outfit!
- 26 October 2015 at 04:36
- Eva said...
Oh, what beautiful colours! And, I am happy to see two shorter skirts in there, as I really think this length looks great on you. Will we see some on-you shots? To practice those photography skills...? :-)
- 26 October 2015 at 17:32
- SewRuthie said...
Have been away for the weekend and work is busy so maybe later in the week.
- 26 October 2015 at 20:44
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Experts in aquaculture and industry development were in Karratha last week to discuss the opportunities for edible oyster farming off the Pilbara's extensive coastline.
A full day tour of potential aquaculture sites on the Dampier Archipelago, and a free evening information session were held on March 16 in Karratha. These were both initiatives of the Pilbara Development Commission (Commission), and highlighted the development opportunities of the industry in the region to key stakeholders and investors.
Commission Chief Executive Officer Terry Hill said the unique combination of environmental and economic conditions in the Pilbara presents an exciting opportunity to build a sustainable edible oyster industry in the region.
"The Pilbara's extensive and relatively population free coastline and inland areas offer suitable locations for aquaculture. Aquaculture is a major transformational opportunity for the region, supporting job creation and export potential", Mr Hill said.
Hexcyl Systems Managing Director and oyster grower Garry Seidl from South Australia said there was huge potential for aquaculture in the region.
"As far as I know no edible oysters have come out of the Pilbara yet, so the first oyster out of the Pilbara will be a very unique oyster in Australia. You need to decide what premium you want to put on that. What I have seen today, the potential to create a product that is absolutely unique is there," Mr Seidl said.
Mr Seidl called for government and industry to work collaboratively together to ensure the success of the development of the industry.
"It's really critical to maintain food safety and quality standards in the oyster industry to demonstrate the premium nature of the product. It's not that onerous, and other states have programs you can adopt," Mr Seidl said.
Wayne O'Connor, a preeminent oyster researcher with 30 years of oyster research and development experience, said as well as opportunities there are challenges to consider such as water quality and toxicity issues, diseases and other concerns that need to be considered prior to developing the industry in the Pilbara.
"You need to careful of the cyclone season, and that's why some sites identified can't be used, and you need to be selective to choose areas that don't have too much movement, however it all can be managed with technology", Mr O'Connor said.
"Doing it smartly there are ways to make it very commercially viable, you need to start with putting oysters in the water. Its tens of thousands of dollars not hundreds to start. A lot of groups and organisations are putting large sums of money into research and development. There is a lot of research out there to support investors and oyster farmers in the region", Mr O'Connor said.
Former New South Wales oyster farmer John Collison, has over 30 years' experience and currently investigating Blacklip Oysters in the Whitsunday Islands, Queensland said that it is a brilliant industry to be in, and is beneficial to the environment.
"Oysters are good for the environment. Oysters design their own area, river and sea grass will start growing, turtles will come in, and prawns will come and eat the grass. Bacteria in the sea eat oyster waste and turn it into nitrogen gas which feeds the trees, it is a cycle. It is the best thing for the environment", Mr Collison said.
Swanson Reed Principal, David Greatwich talked about the research and development tax incentives that are offered to Australia companies, and how investors in the region can fund aquaculture development opportunities.
"It encourages innovation. It is not a grant, it is a piece of tax legislation. When you make losses as many companies do in the first years, you can use the research and development tax incentives when you start making profit to reduce tax payable", Mr Greatwich said.
Commission Manager of Strategy Justin Fromm said the Commission are calling for expressions of interest from industry partners.
"We are looking for investors to work with to initiate the project and to get oysters in the water as soon as possible", Mr Fromm said.
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10 Dinosaur Days Out For Toddlers
A guide to roarsome dinosaur days out for toddlers in the UK. Discover the best dinosaur attractions for toddlers near you.
#1. Dinosaur Adventure Park, Norfolk
Dinosaur loving toddlers will love a day out at this award winning attraction in Norfolk. There are 85 acres of dinosaur fun including a Dinosaur Trail with an 8 metre Spinosaurus, T-Rex, Brachiosaurus, Stegosaurus and Triceratops. There is also a Secret Animal Garden, which is home to non-prehistoric pigs, wallabies, tortoises and other animals. A Dino Of the Day show takes place during peak times, and there is also a giant spiders web and a special Tiny Terrosaurs play area for Under 7s.
Cool off in Dippy's Splash Zone in summer – a fantastic new addition to the park with a 755 square meter water play area with 31 water features including a giant tipping bucket and slide.
Adults £12.30, Children £13.25, Under 3s Free
#2. Dinosaur Isle, Isle Of Wight
Dinosaur Isle is Britain's first purpose built dinosaur attraction located in the Isle of Wight. The building is shaped like a flying Pterosaur, and in the museum you can take a trip back to 120 million years ago to when dinosaurs lived. Toddlers will be able to meet life sized versions of the Isle of Wight's five dinosaurs and hear the pterodactyls flying above. There is even a robotic dinosaur that you can control!
Read More –13 Things To Do In The Isle Of Wight With Toddlers
Adults £5, Child £4.50, Under 3s are FREE
#3. Gullivers Lost World Of Living Dinosaurs, Milton Keynes
Meet over 30 dinosaurs and farmyard animals at Gullivers Lost World of Living Dinosaurs in Milton Keynes. The dinosaurs are animatronic so move aboutrealistically. There is also a reptile and bug centre, and play barn to visit afterwards.
Adults £9.95, Child £9.95, Under 90cm free.
Read More – Top 10 – Britain's Best Theme Parks For Toddlers
#4. Dinosaur Park, Tenby
Have a roarsome day out digging for dinosaur fossils at the Dinosaur Park in Tenby, Pembrokeshire. You can also go on an adventure on the mile long dinosaur trail deep in the woods, where you can spot 30 life size dinosaurs hidden in the undergrowth. There are also lots of non dinosaur related activities at the Dinosaur Park such as an astra slide, bubble ride, disco boats, moto quads, trampolines, motorised tractors and the only tube slide in Wales! There is an indoor adventure play in case it rains too.
Read More – A Mini Guide To Pembrokeshire With Babies And Toddlers
Adults £12.50, Child £11.25, Under 2s FREE.
#5. Lost Kingdom, Paultons
Get transported back in time at the Lost Kingdom at Paultons Park in Hampshire. The Dinosaur theme park has loads of dinosaur attractions including 2 rollercoasters, life like dinosaurs, Jurassic themed family rides and a dinosaur themed adventure play area. The Velociraptor is a family friendly roller coaster, and the Dino Chase roller coaster is especially for little ones. There is also a Dinosaur Tour where you can go on a 4×4 jeep where you will come face to face with dinosaurs. Little Explorers is an outdoor dinosaur adventure play are designed for little children.
And you can combine it with a trip to Peppa Pig World too!
Adults and children over 1m £29.25, Under 1m FREE
#6. Natural History Museum
The dinosaurs at the Natural History are world famous, and are unmissable for any dinosaur lover. At the NHM you can meet a T-Rex, see the skull of a Triceraptops and wander among fossils in the Dinosaur Gallery.
There is a special Dinosaur shop selling dinosaur themed gifts and toys, and a dinosaur trail if you are short on time.
Older children (aged 7+) can take part in the Dinosnores sleepover event.
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#7. Dinosaur Museum, Dorset
The award winning Dinosaur Museum is Dorset is devoted just to dinosaurs. The musuem combines life-sized reconstructions of dinosaurs with fossils and skeletons to create a hands-on experience for children. There are also multimedia displays to tell the story of the dinosaurs and how they lived.
Toddlers will love seeing the 'fleshed out' dinosaur reconstructions of T Rex's Stegosaurus and Triceratops – and the best bit is that touching is encouraged at the Dinosaur Museum.
Read More – 20 Things To Do In Dorset With Toddlers
Adults £8.50, Children £6.50
#8. World Museum, Liverpool
Come face to face with life size dinosaurs in the Dinosaur Gallery at the World Museum in Liverpool. See the Allosaurus about to attack the defenceless plant-eater Camptosaurus, see dinosaur poo and enter a time tunnel to see how life has changed through geological time. At the end you will find bones of mammoths and cave bears of the Pleistocene Ice Age
#9. Dino Park, Scotland
Step back 150 million years at Dino Park, and discover the giants who roamed the earth. Take a trip through the Dino Mine, hear stories and facts in the Dino Den, dig for fossils and have fun on the bouncy dinosaur. The perfect dinosaur day out in Scotland.
#10. Port Lympne Dinosaur Forest
Visit the Port Lympne Reserve in Kent, and get free access to the new Dinosaur Forest attraction. This is the home to 103 prehistoric creatures, and with more expected at a later date, it will become the largest collection of life sized dinosaurs in Europe. Marvel at the T-REX, stare at the Stegosaurus, see a Pterodactly, and see just how big a Diplodocus was!
Visitors are advised to download a virtual reality app beforehand to make the dinosaurs come to life.
Adult £22.50. Children £18.90, Under 3s FREE
Can you recommend anymore dinosaur days out for toddlers?
My son would love all of these places as he is dinosaur crazy, shame they are so far away. We went to Jurassic Kingdom when it toured and he adored that. x22nd January 2018
This is such a great post, what a comprehensive list! I think I might try Gullivers near MK, not too far from us. #Mondayescapes19th February 2018
I love it! We're past the toddler stage, but I bet my two could still get into these. We went to dino park in Scotland and loved it 🙂19th February 2018
My 3-year-old would LOVE this; it sounds like we could do an entire dinosaur-themed UK trip! We live in Los Angeles, and we have a few dinosaur toddler attractions, but not nearly so many! #mondayescapes20th February 2018
I'm saving this for later use! My boys are dino mad. We love our local attraction – https://www.allthingswild.co.uk/ its got a brilliant dino barn with moving, interactive dinosaurs and also a dino trail which you can either walk around or go around on a 'train'. I thoroughly recommend it if you are ever near Evesham Jo!22nd February 2018


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Photography Classes in Lyford TX
Are you looking to learn about photography in Lyford TX? No matter if you are a professional, beginner, or hobbyist, the most effective approach to improving your photography skills is through hands-on classes with professional instructors.
Texas features numerous recognized and accredited photography schools. Photography classes teach techniques such as lighting techniques, digital capture, outdoor photography, exposure, composition, and many other basic and advanced camera techniques. Being an accomplished photographer can result in a lifelong hobby or a prosperous professional career.
There are numerous Photography Classes in Lyford TX:
- Lyford Studio Photography Classes
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St Philip's College
1801 Martin Luther King Dr
San Antonio, Texas 78203-2098
Phone: (210) 486-2000
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San Antonio College
1300 San Pedro Ave
San Antonio, Texas 78212-4299
Phone: (210) 486-0000
214.43 miles away
The Art Institute of San Antonio
10000 IH-10 W Ste 200
San Antonio, Texas 78230
Phone: (210) 338-7320
221.17 miles away
Texas State University-San Marcos
601 University Dr
San Marcos, Texas 78666
Phone: (512) 245-2111
240.73 miles away
Saint Edward's University
3001 S Congress Ave
Austin, Texas 78704-6489
Phone: (512) 448-8400
264.39 miles away
The Art Institute of Houston
4140 Southwest Freeway
Houston, Texas 77027-9625
Phone: (713) 623-2040
270.55 miles away
Austin Community College District
5930 Middle Fiskville Rd
Austin, Texas 78752
Phone: (512) 223-7000
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University of Houston
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Houston, Texas 77204-2018
Phone: (713) 743-1000
274.78 miles away
The Art Institute of Austin
101 W. Louis Henna Blvd Suite 100
Austin, Texas 78728
Phone: (512) 691-1707
281.55 miles away
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Baltimore, MD. — Deluxe Payroll, a leading provider of online payroll, tax filing, and human resources solutions, has announced the successful completion of an independent audit for the Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements No. 16 (SSAE 16), specifically the Service Organization Controls Type 2 (SOC-1 Type 2).
The SOC-1 is a third-party assurance audit designed for service organizations, and is intended to examine that an organization has proper data protection, privacy, confidentiality, and reporting controls in place. The Type 2 audit that completed also is designed to test the controls to ensure proper design and effectiveness.
The audit was performed by the Moore Group, an independent third party auditor based out of Nashua, NH. The Moore Group provides SOC-1 certifications for companies throughout the United States, is a licensed CPA firm, and has auditors with CISA, CISSP, and CIA certifications.
The audit was performed according to attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). The Moore Group provided a report confirming thatDeluxe Payroll is operating in compliance with SSAE 16 SOC-1 Type 2 standards for controls related to the operation of all payroll-related business, specifically with respect to physical, human resources, and technical controls designed to safeguard client data security.
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Browser extensions
Every browser extension has a different purpose and can help us accomplish a different task. Due to their usefulness, we end up installing many add-ons, which provide the functionality we miss or simply improve the existing one. This is all great, but we don't always realize that fixing problems at the browser level can be expensive.
If we press Shift+Esc in the Chrome browser, this opens its task manager, where we can see the memory requirements for each particular process. The list of processes can be long, especially if we have installed lots of extensions. We can see how much memory each one takes. In my case, the average was around 15MB per extension, so with 20 installed extensions I could expect to have around 300MB RAM reserved for extensions alone. Whether we use these extensions or not, the browser is always running them in the background. Additionally, depending on the current utilization, a minimum of around 60MB is required for the GPU process, 60MB for the browser and 22MB on average for the first empty tab. As soon as we load a heavy web page, for example a YouTube video, these 22MB can grow to over 66MB, the GPU process requirements rise to 130MB and the Flash plug-in is started, which takes 60MB more (as opposed to 9-18MB when in stand-by). The Google Now plug-in that we neither installed, nor is asking us, is started periodically to take additional 8MB RAM. These numbers are taken on a 32-bit machine, which means that once we move to 64-bit, the size of any inefficiencies is multiplied by a factor of two. If we compare these numbers with those we can take from Ctrl+Alt+Del, we can see that they are generally much bigger. Starting a single empty tab is more costly than having three open files in Notepad++. It's not hard to see which one has a higher per-megabyte value. (Per-megabyte value is valid for hard disk space as well. A program that takes 7MB, but is able to clean 68MB of junk files is less efficient than another one that takes >1MB and could clean 84MB. This depends not only on the tools, but also on the context in which they run. As a side note, a program has to be able to carry multiples of its own weight.)
Although the browser is trying to minimize memory usage over time, there are many places where memory leaks can happen and the prolonged use of certain extensions or websites can cause the browser to slow down over time until it eventually needs to close and release all resources. We still seem to think that the PC was made for a single program and a single tab, which is severely limiting what people can do with their machines. A machine that has only 512MB RAM, 2/3 of which are taken by the OS, doesn't have much room for a fancy browser. It is taking more resources than it is able to empower the user.
When testing websites, we rarely have only one browser open. Except Chrome, there are also Firefox, Opera, IE, Safari. They also have memory-hungry extensions. Although these extensions may have the same names, they reside multiple times in memory as they use different hosts. This can make a system less responsive. Although, extensions very often promise to make our life easier, they quietly steal machine resources. Running extensions and plug-ins can be costly, because they compete with the open tabs for the same available resources. The more active extensions we have, the less tabs we can open and the worse the browsing experience becomes. The web designer may not always be guilty that a website is slow, when a third-party extension can adversely impact the user-page interactions. In Chrome it is recommended to use an incognito window, which prevents the extensions from starting without uninstalling them. This is much easier than seeking where to enable/disable them before each run. When we need an extension, we can always open a normal window. A more radical approach would be to uninstall most extensions, especially the ones that we use only occasionally, but are constantly taxing the system. Depending on their number, we may notice a certain speedup in the browser response time when dealing with tabs and loading new content. Another option is to close certain non-critical processes when they occupy inadequate levels of memory. But this is hardly repeatable.
The number of tabs we keep open has a growing tendency. This can affect performance and make us believe that we need extra RAM when we already can't utilize effectively the one that we have. Our hardware is only able to soften, but not solve our software problems. For this we'll need better programmers with the right combination of skills. People that refuse to participate in 1000-component systems simply because they work in a company of 1000 people. Otherwise the best we can do is to hope that our website won't be loaded in a "late" tab after we have warned users to disable their extensions.


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Building a Startup is Navigating an Obstacle Course
Posted by Martin Zwilling on December 9th, 2012
It would be no fun if starting a business was simply plotting a straight line between your idea and success, with no challenges along the way. Zigging and zagging amongst the obstacles is the fun part of being an entrepreneur, and it's what sets you apart from the average worker who knows exactly what he or she has to do every day to get paid. Relish it, or if it scares you, don't try it.
That doesn't mean that starting a business should be a random walk into the unknown. There are certain foundational elements that every entrepreneur must build on to succeed, as well as some critical tools we all need. I found these tried-and-true principles summarized very well in a recent book "The Zigzag Principle" by serial entrepreneur Rich Christiansen:
- Assess your resources. At some point financial capital if usually needed to meet business goals. But it's not a substitute for the other critical resources, mental capital (domain knowledge, skills, and passions), plus relationship capital (friends and advisors). Money results from mental and relationship capital, not the other way around.
- Identify your beacon in the fog. Start with a big audacious goal to guide you, so that every once in a while you can hit a smaller goal, to provide a break in the fog and catch sight of the beacon before those next steps into the darkness. Goals need to be written down, measurable, and realistic. Expect your fair share of zigzagging to get there.
- Create a catalyzing statement. This is a key element of every elevator pitch, with enough specificity and fuel to keep you and everyone around you moving toward the beacon in the fog. This quantified big dream should be a long-term goal that your short-term zigzags are all leading to. Use your values as the foundation.
- Drive your startup to profitability. A first zig of getting to profitability is important to every business, because being broke and always fighting for funding can cause a lot of pain. More importantly, profitability can drive you to find hidden assets, zag to interim revenue sources, and force you to pace yourself in getting to that final destination.
- Define processes and add resources. After the initial zigs and zags to get profitable, it is time to formalize and document the processes that worked. Only then can you expand those things that led to your initial success. It also means that it's time to stop micro-managing, hire some of the right people, and start giving up some control.
- Scale the business. This is implementing a model that you can replicate, to get your product or service out across the country, and around the world. Scaling models charge by the transaction, or subscriptions, or have digital assets with no cost to reproduce. Switch to a mindset of working "on" your business, rather than "in" your business.
- Stay within your guardrails. Set up some rules to constrain your zigs and zags to prevent "out of control" situations. Common controls include some spending limits, time commitment limits, financial milestones. These guardrails should be closely aligned with your values. Practice the art of saying "no," and the discipline of delegating.
- Develop reward systems. To keep you and your team from burning out, you need to define a simple system of motivators and rewards. Too much reward leads to an entitlement mentality. As you hit each zig, you need to take a break from the intensity, celebrate, and enjoy the fruits of your labor.
The alternatives to planned zigzags are a planned straight line, or a planned random walk. Neither of these are realistic for an entrepreneur seeking success, but I still see them every day, and I see the pain that results. Smart entrepreneurs are nimble and flexile, bootstrap to the maximum degree possible, and pivot for emerging opportunities. Be one.
Written by Martin Zwilling
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Arlington County Police have arrested a man in connection with three sexual assaults.
Melvin Perez Bonilla, 19, of Arlington was arrested Wednesday morning after he was spotted getting off a bus in the Courthouse area.
Bonilla is believed to be responsible for three of at least 10 sex assaults in the county since July, police said.
About 1:20 a.m. July 25, a man pushed a 25-year-old woman into bushes in the 1900 block of 15th Street North and sexually assaulted her, trying to shove his hand into her pants, police said. The victim described the man to a police sketch artist.
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Once upon a time I would sit by passively as other adults decried "youth these days." I can do so no longer.
One of the things we geezers seem most unsettled by is seeing a couple (we assume they are a couple) sitting together who both have their mobile phones out.
Seriously; people go from 0 to full-deride faster than Road Runner escaped Coyote! You've heard it, too. Perhaps you too have lamented. "Can you believe, people sitting there next to each other, ignoring each other, to talk to, or text to, someone else!"
I wonder, and nowadays I ask, how that is worse than this.
I mean, really! It didn't take the invention of cell phone technology for a couple not to talk to each other. I've seen that dynamic for years.
For that matter, I think we all have to admit that CELL PHONES ARE NOT THE PROBLEM!
This is not to say that the ubiquity of cell phones is not a challenge to us. We must all learn to deal with cell phones and other technology in the context of being people in relationship with one another.
I would dare say that cell phones have never caused a relationship issue. They have, perhaps, brought an issue to the surface more quickly than otherwise. They have definitely helped make our relationship issues more public and, likely, harder to hide. In them there is, then, the seeds of healing as well.
May you use your cell phone(s) wisely and with care; especially (if for no other reason than) to model appropriate relationship behavior for others.


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