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Continuing putting La Casita Yarn Shop Cafe in Brooklyn in the spotlight this week, I would like to highlight a very important part of this shop: its community. What gives La Casita Yarn Shop Cafe its life and soul is the tight knit community of knitters and crocheters. I love how there is always something happening. Jenn, the fabulous owner of La Casita Yarn Shop Cafe, makes sure that her community is entertained with classes, fashion shows, trunkshows, and simply gatherings of knitters and crocheters. Her keen eye on what is happening in the industry and what...
Situated in the Cobble Hill area of Brooklyn, resides an adorable yarn shop named "La Casita Yarn Shop Cafe". Petite in size, however grand in character, this yarn shop stole my heart when I first found it when I had just arrived in New York City back in 2010. As I entered the shop rather shyly, I was immediately taken by its friendliness and I couldn't help but feel being "home". I took at a seat at the bar, ordered a latte and and simply soaked in all the good energy that was floating around. In the background, I could hear merengue music soflty...
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My biggest mistake for the past 3 years, is not updating my website. Not showing up, not writing, not taking pictures is a big no no when you want to have some sort of an online presence. I have failed miserably in this regard. And when one fails there are two things you can do: you stay down... or... you get up again. What have you been up to, Nancy, for the past 3 years? Oh dear, been working hard, trying to get noticed in the city of all cities. I have had, just like anybody else, my ups and my downs. And just like anybody else, I have had my doubts and...
The elections are over and Obama is still President of the United States of America, a terrible storm named Sandy wreacked havoc on the Eastcoast, the Piscean age is about to end (or so I have been told), and I am still in NYC. While things have been very quiet around here, I have been terribly busy trying to fit into NYC and to make it my own. It's hard not to disappear among the millions of people that walk these busy streets. I was terribly intimidated and had a real hard time, but as the Universe is my witness, I am still standing. Many wonderful opportunities...
Last Tuesday my latest trunkshow kicked off at La Casita Yarn Shop Cafe in Brooklyn. I was planning on writing about this weeks ahead to keep you all informed, but alas, suddenly it became so busy in my life that I completely dropped the ball. What can I say... I have been horribly busy knitting other people's designs. Ah, but moving forward now while I am putting my excuses aside! Come have a glass of wine with me at La Casita! My trunkshow in which my designs for Jade Sapphire are being showcased started last Tuesday and will stay at La Casita until coming Tuesday....
Over the past weekend, Hurricane Irene passed through our region. She made landfall last Saturday in North Carolina and made her way through Virginia to the state of New York and further up north. Needless to say that we had some very anxious moments. Just the fact that a hurricane is coming straight at you is quite scary, I tell you. We were well prepared for Irene's visit: our fridge and pantry stuffed with lots and lots of groceries, candles and flashlight ready to go and a battery operated radio in case of a power outage. Luckily we could stay put in our little apartment, no...
Hi there, stranger! Long time no see... How has your summer been so far? I know, I know... I haven't been around here much. I am sorry, I didn't mean to leave you hanging like this... My summer has been good in many ways, but also challenging here and there. One thing is for sure though, I have been knitting all through summer! Still getting used to NYC It has almost been a year since we moved back to Manhattan and although I am very happy to be here, at times this energetic city can be a hard place to be in for me. This city is intense, I tell you. I have never ever...
Several months ago, right before summer started, my friend from the blog Knittoo, posted an inspirational picture of several lace shawls on Pinterest. When I saw those gorgeous shawls made by the talented NJSTACIE, it inspired me to make lots and lots of lace shawls myself. I decided that I was going to carefully "study" lace knitting and boy did I have fun doing so. I have made 8 shawls in total over the last couple of months and I enjoyed making every single one of them. Today, I would like to share several of my favorite shawls with you, all of which are modeled by my gorgeous...
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Raised in Manchester-By-The-Sea, MA, Jessica grew up on the beaches and in the woods New England. Her passion for nature in all shapes and forms brought her to Boulder for college and lead her to pursue a career the field of sustainability and the world of non-profits. The vast and mountainous Colorado terrain fed her desire for adventure and exploration while the unique entrepreneurial scene in Boulder kept her engaged and proactive in efforts to preserve her local environment. Jessica is a systems thinker with a fierce knowledge in water accessibility and conservation. Her passion for this vital resource drew her to Second Mile Water in hopes of making a difference by granting families permanent access to clean water.
Life Goal:
Backpack around the world until her little feet can't take her any further.
Guilty Pleasure:
Aladdin. The original Disney animated motion picture.
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Jessica was born with one tear duct and could only cry from one eye (until she got surgery – she cries out of both eyes now, like a normal person).
"The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better." – Robert F. Kennedy

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Officially termed the Preston School of Industry, Preston Castle is a boys' reform school established in 1894 in Ione, California. I had the good fortune to go tour it this weekend.
The first thing you notice upon entering is that this place is falling apart. At one point, the plan was to demolish the behemoth and its roof was taken off. Years of rain damaged the interior until a new roof was put on. It's on the National Register of Historic Places.
|What many of the floors look like
The wards of Preston were boys as young as 8 and as old as 16, we were told. They were there as juvenile delinquents, including for the "crime" of being homeless. The entire building radiates sadness. The site is really very remote and was likely more so at the turn of (that) century.
|Hallway upon entering
|Upstairs boys dormitory
We were taken upstairs to the boys dormitory, where 50 beds once nestled close together. The ceiling is really quite extraordinary, with criss-crossed wooden beams. Boys had carved their names up there in the rafters. I wondered if the gorgeous ceiling must have been covered with a dropped ceiling back in the day, to make the room easier to heat or cool. As we left the room, a vintage photograph did indeed make it look like the ceiling was dropped and mundane.
|Pigeon-stained rafters with carved names
|The dormitory with beds & dropped ceiling
|The adult guardian's bathroom in the dormitory
|I'm not sure if that plunging method works
|Maybe the one pretty thing there?
Next, we went to the infirmary. Very uncomfortable-looking metal bed frames and the hint of illness still circulating...
|Original wicker wheelchair
|What is that machine? Many guessed it delivered electroshock therapy
|Can you guess?
|Another skeleton, in construction hat. Not sure why?
In the room where the skeleton pensively looks out the window, surgeries were performed on the floor. You've had enough time to think about the machine--post your guess in the comments?
I guess in some way I can't fault the impulse to position skeletons around; the place really does seem like a stereotypical Hollywood haunted reform school. And then we learned about the ghost.
|The kitchen
We were told that the young cook came upon two boys in the kitchen, scolded them and told them to leave. As she went to climb the stairs up to her apartments, they pulled her back down and bludgeoned her to death. Or, well, the story goes that one of them did. He stood trial and benefited from a hung jury, in part because the other boy informant was known to be a big liar. The acquitted boy went on to later stand trial for two other murders.
The cook's body was stowed in a room off the kitchen, under the stairs.
So here's what's wierd. I tried to photograph the staircase she was pulled from. I couldn't. My cell phone's screen was black. I thought for a second the phone had turned off. I kept trying to get a picture of it, but blackness seemed to be seeping, exuding from the stairs. The best I could do was to capture the door frame of its entry. After the tour moved on, I remained, thinking that I could get a picture now that no one was standing in front of the room's window blocking the light. No. Still no light to illuminate that photograph. Here are my three tries:
|A pool of blackness
|Still can't get it
|Much better now the room is empty, but still can't see the steps
I'll be the first to admit my cell cam is pretty crappy, but it was odd it just couldn't show me the steps. Now, the only reason I knew about Preston Castle was that I attended the book launch of Angelica Jackson, whose book Crow's Rest is in part set there. (I'm halfway through the book and totally, enthusiastically recommend it!) The night of our visit, I continued reading and came across mention of the main character's camera's failure to work properly at the castle. I got a little frisson of shock reading that.
|The plunge
Across from the kitchen is the plunge, adorned with coffins (sigh). A plunge is an old-time word for swimming pool, and my opinion is that that's what it is. However, we were told it was once filled with lye and was used to decontaminate new boys, even down to the chilling detail that a long stick would hold you under until you swam the entire length. I'm a little dubious about a huge vat of lye devoted merely to registering new boys.
|This place lends itself to disquieting photography.
|Downstairs dormitory and door to freedom
|"I will not bludgeon other students"
Also in the cellar was the schoolroom. The chalkboard displayed more macabre humor.
|Ceiling showing light from floor above: not sure what room
In the schoolroom, I noticed slung netting covering portions of the ceiling. In that netting were some pretty big chunks of ceiling plaster. I'm glad the net was there to protect our heads. It wasn't until we exited the structure via the boys' dining hall that I looked back and saw this above the door:
Well, so that gave me pause.
|Aesthetically pleasant exterior with curving ramp
Out in the courtyard, we were shown a metal ring and told bad boys would be chained there and beaten. I didn't photograph it because if it was true, I'd be a ghoul. But I don't think it's true. We saw three more of those rings out in front of the castle.
You'd like to think maybe this was a place of true rehabilitation, and that the boys were treated well and fed well. I'm fascinated and want to learn more. Preston closed in 1960, and so there are surely many boys still out there now men, with their stories.
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P.S. Logging in the next day to say I hope I wasn't too hard on the docent and the volunteers that run Preston Castle. It's certainly worth discussion, the idea of how we talk about places where traumatic things happened. For instance, I was personally appalled to learn that the site of the Lizzie Borden murders is now a B&B... yet without its being preserved in such a way, the public wouldn't get a chance to go and look. What do you think? And I want to go on record as saying THANK YOU for the volunteers of the foundation who donate time and energy to keep Preston Castle open. It is a great gift.
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We were delighted to hear this week that the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) has accepted the consensus statement on cricket injuries that David has been working on for the last year or so with an international panel of doctors and physiotherapists. This is an update on the original consensus statement that David worked on in 2005. the paper 'International consensus statement on injury surveillance in cricket: a 2016 update', will be published later in the year.
David commented "this is a major update incorporating changes not only in the professional game but also in the recreational cricket. It is no minor achievement to get 25 authors to agree let alone when the majority of the work has had to be done by email. We owe a huge thanks to John Orchard who has lead this project from its inception 12 years ago. We are also indebted to South African Richard Stretch, who was a major driving force throughout this project up to his death last year."


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Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
Williams, Tad
Working name of US writer Robert Paul Williams (1957- ). TW's first novel was Tailchaser's Song (1985) an Animal Fantasy featuring Cats, but his principal contribution to the genre has been the High-Fantasy Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy: The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Stone of Farewell (1990) and To Green Angel Tower (1993; vt in 2 vols Siege 1994 UK and Storm 1994 UK). This is explicitly a Revisionist Fantasy, intended as a criticism of the alleged implicit racism in J R R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955) and more generally of the assumption throughout Genre Fantasy that Good and Evil can be simply allocated along national or species boundaries; there is a Dark Lord in the trilogy, and he has his bodyguard of undead, but his particularly horrible scheme of Debasement in response to genuine wrongs. Neither humanity nor its elven rivals, the Sithi, is native to Osten Ard; it is explicit that both arrived in historical time, the Elves ahead of various waves of human incomers, each of them semi-cognate with nations of Earth – the usual quasi-Vikings, Slavic plains folk, etc. – and that a genocidal war, largely won by humanity, ensued.
Much of the novel is centred on the Hayholt, castle of Prester John (nothing is made of this coincidence of names at a literal level), who is High King and dragonslayer, whose death after a long life of apparently benevolent rule opens the way to the intrigues of the undead Ineluki and his human pawn, John's heir Elias. The Hayholt, also formerly Ineluki's stronghold against humanity, is an Edifice full of tunnels, forges and Labyrinths; it is a haunted palace of the mind, symbolic of the recesses in which humanity has hidden its bad conscience about the Sithi, as well as the location for the climactic Night Journey undergone by the Ugly Duckling and Hidden Monarch Simon in the final stage of his heroic attainment.
Much of the trilogy is a tour of the Water Margins of Osten Ard undertaken by Simon and his various allies – Elias's virtuous daughter Miriamele, her uncle Josua and various members of the League of the Scroll, a secret order of scholars and mages (> Wizards). The collection of artefacts, notably the three Swords which give their name to the trilogy, is not the usual Plot-Coupon collection but a search for knowledge deliberately suppressed – TW makes effective use of the Time Abyss as symbol for the guilt of attempted genocide. The swords are taken severally to the Hayholt in an attempt to defeat Ineluki. The interpretation the League of the Scroll places on this event is disastrously wrong; this is one of several points in the trilogy in which TW sardonically reverses LOTR. Where suffering in LOTR hardens the will of the virtuous against the wicked, though the actual act of destruction is done inadvertently by the already corrupt, in TW's work Simon's crucifixion on a waterwheel creates in him an empathy and compassion which enable him to refuse Ineluki from the moral high ground, just as Miriamele's rape by a minor villain provides the sympathetic analogy which makes her capable of killing her father to free him from Possession by Ineluki – TW's enlightened moral relativism extends to the creation of an entirely virtuous parricide.
At the same time, TW owes much to Tolkien, in his marshalling of multiple secondary protagonists; his critique of Tolkien's absolutist morality is as much a killing of the father as the gradual uncovering of the truth about Prester John, who turns out not to have been quite the benevolent old patriarch he seemed. Of all the bestselling high-fantasy sequences of recent years, this is perhaps the one in which the author's intelligence is most effectively embodied in plot, character and vividly described action and backdrops. TW's only real weakness, though it is at times a damaging one, is a tendency to sentimentalized psychologizing, which comes to the fore most in his dialogue.
TW's other published works are two novellas – Child of an Ancient City (1992 chap) with Nina Kiriki Hoffman, an interesting exercise in cross-cultural empathy which places a traditional encounter with a Vampire in a specifically Islamic Arabian-Fantasy storytelling context, and Caliban's Hour (1994), another Revisionist Fantasy in which Shakespeare's Caliban's getting of language and attempted rape of Miranda are complexly and interestingly deconstructed. [RK]
Robert Paul Williams
This entry is taken from the Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997) edited by John Clute and John Grant. It is provided as a reference and resource for users of the SF Encyclopedia, but apart from possible small corrections has not been updated.


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Hello and welcome to my new blog, Confessions of a Digital Novelist (CoaDN for short). Now you may be asking the most important question that anyone wishing to create a blog should ask themselves.
Why on earth would you start a new blog when there already 800 gajillion blogs already out there? What would you talk about when everything under the sun is already discussed ad nauseum in cyberspace?
Well, to understand why I chosen to create a new blog, you will have to understand a little bit about my current situation. For the better part of a decade, the exact duration escapes me, I have worked on my debut novel, Evermore: Call of the Nocturne. After ten years following first conception, it is finished and I am extremely happy with the result. It is complex, fast-paced, and exciting. It conceives of a world that is unique to literature, fills the world with fascinating characters, and lets them explore themes and issues that work on multiple levels. It is far and away the best work that I have ever done or ever will do. It is my masterpiece.
And it will never be published.
You see, once I had finished the manuscript, and trudged through eight revisions of the text. I sent it out to every publisher I could think of.
And nobody wanted to publish it.
For you see, I had failed to understand that you need three things to get published: You need Talent, You need Marketability, and You need Luck.
Now, I am talented and Evermore: Call of the Nocturne shows that. However, when I decided to write it, I was focused on creating the best novel that I was capable of. I, for the most part, ignored marketability. Whereas marketable novels align themselves into genres, I blurred them. Whereas marketable novels utilize tropes, I dissected them. Whereas marketable novels tell the same stories over and over again, I subverted them. In the process, I created a terrific novel but it is a novel that would only appeal to very small number of people.
And as for luck, I have never had much success with luck.
Also working against me was the consequences of the revolution that is the Personal Computer. The invention of the personal computer, and the rise of scores of software designed to help write the novel that you've always had inside, the number of prospective authors has exploded over the last twenty years. At the same time, the number of books available to the public as remained the same or in some cases decreased over the last twenty year as books have been forced to compete with more interactive forms of story-telling such as video games. Thus whereas thousands of authors had been competing for tens of millions of readers, now millions of authors were competing for the same number of readers. The result has been that the odds of getting published have gone from difficult to astronomical, akin to winning the lottery.
Now you can't blame the publishers for this, although many frustrated writers do. The publishers are in difficult battle for survival. They don't have the luxury of giving new authors a chance, although some do. They need books that they know will sell. They need books that are safe and already have a dedicated reader base. Hence the transition from pure-writers to platform-based writers, that is from writers who have only ever written fiction like Philip K. Dick to writers who have built up an audience base either through journalism, film production, or reality TV like Lauren Conrad. This is coupled with the fact that the publishers' "slush pile" has grown from thousands of new novels a year to millions of new novels a year. To sneak through this clogged grate, when everyone else is trying to do the same requires not just talent, but an act of god. There is simply only so much space for authors under the traditional publishing model.
And so, my options exhausted, I saw the futility in continuing my efforts to get my work published. Then one day, I rode a bus in Ottawa and saw a curious sight. Three separate individuals were reading books …. on their iPhones. Three of them, on a single bus. Thus arose my curiousity, so I bought an iPhone, went home, and began to read the ancient classics that were available for free on Stanza.
I was blown away. The reading experience was much better than I expected. The small page sizes kept me actively engaged in the story as I flipped quickly from page to page. Instead of losing my place, Stanza remembered it for me. Rather than lying awkwardly down with a book, reading in bed and in the dark become comfortable and soothing. To my surprise, I enjoyed reading on the iPhone far more than I've ever enjoyed read a book.
What my fateful trip on the bus demonstrated was that the iPhone had created an entirely new market of readers whose demand could be met without going through a traditional publisher.
It was at that moment that I made a decision. Rather than let my novel, a work that I had spent a third of my life writing, go to waste, I might as well try to sell it to consumers directly through their iPhones.
Once I examined the technology available and decided to give this crazy idea a shot, I also came to the realization that my journey from manuscript to direct download might make an interesting tale to follow in a blog.
Rather than write about videogames or movies or music, ground well-covered by millions, I could write about something unique. I could write about something very few people were experiencing.
Thus Confessions of a Digital Novelist was born.
Over the next year, I will write about my experiences, my trials and tribulations, in taking my manuscript and turning it into a professional product available in the palm of your hand. As I proceed, I will talk about my strategies, the technologies that I use, and the steps that I will follow. I hope that by doing so, I will create a community around digital publishing and tread a pathway that others will follow.
Publishing is entering a period of transition. Much like music and movies before it, digital publishing will transform our industry in ways that we are only beginning to understand. Through this blog, I hope that you will join me in exploring this undiscovered country. I hope that you will follow my Confessions of a Digital Novelist.


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Go to Google Maps. Type in the address of someplace you lived growing up. OK if you can't remember the exact address, you can always take a stroll down the road till you get to your childhood home. And thanks to Jing Project for making this possible!
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PENTAX Q - Overview
The smallest mirrorless
- 12 MP CMOS back illuminated sensor
- Full HD Video, Codec H264
- New range of dedicated lenses
- Shake Reduction System
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The world's smallest, lightest camera body, featuring newly developed Q mount system
|The PENTAX Q features the newly developed Q mount, with a mount diameter shortened to approximately two-thirds of that of the conventional K mount. This was made possible by reducing the flange back (the distance from the lens mount surface to the image sensor surface) to nearly one-fifth of that of the K mount, as well as by optimizing the size of image circle of its lenses to be proportioned to the size of the compact image sensor. The Q mount system also eliminates an optical finder, mirror box, focusing plate and AF sensor, making the PENTAX Q's body the smallest and lightest in its class. The body has been made of magnesium-alloy, which gives an elegant, high-quality texture to the compact, lightweight camera body while improving its durability.
Exceptional image quality thanks to digital interchangeable lens system
The PENTAX Q comes equipped with back illuminated 1/2.3-inch CMOS image sensor, which delivers beautiful, high-resolution images with approximately 12.4 effective megapixels. This is made possible by its high efficient light gathering optical construction that assures excellent high sensitivity and low noise characteristics and a high speed readout of image data signals. The PENTAX Q also features a new generation imaging engine integrating the best of PENTAX's state-of-the-art digital imaging technologies, developed and accumulated over many years of digital SLR camera development. By coupling this imaging engine with exclusively designed, high performance Q mount lenses, the PENTAX Q delivers clear, high contrast images rich in gradation and texture, even at edges. With high sensitivity noise minimized, the photographer can use the entire sensitivity range — from ISO 125 to the highest ISO 6400 — without worrying about annoying digital noise. By taking advantage of the HDR (High Dynamic Range) function that produces one composite photo from multiple images, it's easy to create beautiful images with an extra wide dynamic range and free of white-washed and blacked-out areas.
Innovative creative tool to add personal touches to the images with great ease
The PENTAX Q offers a totally new style of photo shooting. By coupling the new Smart Effect function offering nine distinctive visual expressions via the easy access Quick-Dial positioned on the camera's front panel, the photographer can effortlessly add a desired finishing touch to an image, while previewing the effect on the LCD monitor. The Quick-Dial has four positions, to which four favourite Smart Effect modes can be assigned in advance. The ever-popular Custom Image and Digital Filter functions have been further enhanced to provide an even greater range of image processing tools. In order to customize the PENTAX Q to accommodate specific shooting styles and user preferences, the user can also assign other options such as a custom image setting, a digital filter or an aspect ratio setting to the Quick-Dial.
Smart Effect modes
- Brilliant Colour: Creates a lively atmosphere by raising the saturation level almost to the point of colour saturation.
- Unicolour Bold: Creates an extremely high contrast image that retains one particular colour in the image.
- Vintage Colour: Produces a toy-camera-like effect, with a choice of several different finishing touches.
- Cross Processing: Produces a unique image with unusual colours, as if treated with the cross processing** used in film photography.
- Warm Fade: Creates a low contrast image with the white balance slightly shifted to pink shades.
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** A film development technique that uses an unconventional film developer to create a distinctive finishing touch with dramatic colours.
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The PENTAX Q comes equipped with a Full HD movie recording function employing the H.264 recording format, allowing user to capture high quality, extended movie clips (1920 x 1080 pixels) at a frame rate of 30 frames per second. The user can also take advantage of interchangeable Q-mount lenses to produce distinctive perspectives, or make effective use of the Smart Effect modes*** and other in-body movie editing tools to produce creative, dramatic visual expressions with great ease, even during movie recording. The PENTAX Q also provides a micro-HDMI terminal (type D), which allows the user to simultaneously output both Full HD movie clips and sound to external devices via a single terminal.
*** The frame rate may vary when a selected Smart Effect mode requires nonstandard image processing.
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Designing Connected Products
Last week I gave a talk about designing connected products, lean hardware, and the future of a discipline that bridges the physical/digital divide. This is that talk, in a blog post. Enjoy.
As a term, 'connected products' is pretty loose, so let's narrow the definition a little; I'll be talking about purpose-specific physical products that exist as part of a digital service ecosystem. Fully featured devices such as phones, tablets, and to some extent, Google Glass sit slightly outside of this, but many of the principles discussed will be relevant.
Connected device projects are exciting, in part because there's loads of 'things' to get excited about from the offset. Apps, web portals, physical devices. Most people in design agencies and companies like making stuff so the biggest temptation is just to go off and design all the things.
I've seen this happen a number of times and its the first big mistake. Designing such a broad range of outputs inevitably leads to work being chunked up and sent out to separate groups of smart people with good intentions (even within a single organisation). A few months down the line these elements have become disparate and a big effort is needed to pull them back together to form some sort of coherent experience. It's often too late.
What's more, when it comes to creating a smooth connected experience, focusing on the 'things' from the start can actually be somewhat of a decoy. Spend some time with any service or product that relies on data jumping from place to place and you'll quickly realise it's in the 'gaps' between things that design really matters. Problem is, gaps are easy to overlook, incredibly tough to design for and much less sexy than the 'things'.
Avoiding Waste
The third and most dangerous problem is even more fundamental. Although it seems crazy, all these exciting possibilities around physical devices and data often blind people to the most important question; "are we building the right thing?".
This obviously matters a lot, because spending money and time building the wrong thing can be a catastrophic waste. And in this context, where a single proposition needs to tie together a suite of potentially disparate elements, it's even more important. So, how do we approach a connected device project in a more healthy way?
1. Forget The Things
Ignore all the possible design outputs for a minute. Lets start from the beginning. A connected product is a physical device, with a digital service at it's heart. So, to begin with, this is an exercise in service/experience design, nothing more, nothing less.
2. Experience First
Start agnostic of any design outputs. Sure, we've got an expanded palette that includes physical devices but we first need to ask what value we're looking to offer to the user, without getting bogged down by any preconceived notions of what we need to build.
At Made By Many, we use lean methodology to reach this value proposition as quickly and with as little waste as possible. We sketch, prototype fast, test assumptions, learn from users, and repeat until we've got an evidence based proposition that we're confident will deliver value to the user. We can do the same for a connected product experience.
It's only once we're someway down this road that we should even think about specifying design outputs and 'things'.
3. Be Lean
Much is written on the interwebs about 'lean hardware', mostly in relation to using vapourware on Kickstarter as a form of customer validation, which often ends in tears. I think there are two key things we can pull from the lean approach:
Physical experience prototyping
Lo-fi, cardboard, hacked products, Arduino, cheap sensors, Processing, Raspberry Pi, 3D printing. The barrier to physical prototyping is now so low that 'sketching in electronics' is considered an actual thing. So, do it. Find someone who can sketch and model 3D form. Forget disciplinary barriers for a moment; they mean nothing to the end user. What matters is quickly and effectively prototyping experience. (Even the Glass team did this)
Minimal Viable Object
Connected devices are not new, but in the past, most of the functionality had to be crammed into the device itself. Without phones, tablets and ubiquitous connectivity as an intermediary, they had to be largely self-sufficient. This led to bloated, feature rich devices with firmware that rarely changed after launch; the antithesis of a MVP.
Luckily, things are now different. Putting the 'smarts' on the web or in apps means we can take the brain out of the connected device and make something that is ruthlessly simple, stable and cheap. A minimal viable object, with just enough technology to be powerful, no more.
The benefit of this approach is the freedom it gives us to build a core digital experience for launch that we can iterate, develop and even pivot on if we need. The Fuel band is a great example of this and it'll be fascinating to how Nike develop the digital experience around a hardware element that remains fixed.
What next?
Delivering this talk at Made By Many was intended as somewhat of a call to arms. I've spent the last 6 years between the industrial design world and the digital industry, and experienced many attitudes and approaches to this space from either side. What's clear is that success will rely on true collaboration between the two industries.
But as the hardware and sensor tech that make up these devices becomes increasingly commoditised, mining data is the easy bit. The real challenge is translating this data into something that has meaning, emotion, and value to the user. And it's the toolkit of the interaction designer that holds the key to that.
In many ways, it was the Industrial Design approach that taught the digital industry how to use research and insight to design for the user. It's now time for interaction design to bring the physical world into the age of digital experience. The future of both industries depends on it.


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Early last week, my sweet friend Deb (also a special needs mother) sent me a link on Facebook for The Great Bike Giveaway. It's a program run by Friendship Circle and they hold an annual contest giving away adaptive bikes to special needs children and young adults like Hallee.
I started looking at these bikes years ago for Hallee, but they pretty much cost the KBB value of my car. Really. In case you're wondering, an adaptive bike is a bike that's built for people with special needs. Some have two wheels, some have 3. Some have seats with back and arm rests..it just depends on the ability (not disability, thankyouverymuch) of the rider. The Great Bike Giveaway had 8 different kinds of bikes in the contest and people could donate money to buy even more bikes to be given away. I saw the perfect bike for Hallee..the Flagstaff and even though the contest had started two weeks earlier, I signed her up thinking, "Well, it can't hurt to try".
The contest ran from March 3rd to March 25th and we signed up around the 16th. For sure a late start, especially considering that some of the kids already had thousands of votes. But nothing ventured, nothing gained, right? There are two ways to win one of the bikes that best fit your child's needs. One will be won by the most nominations, the others will be won by raffle. I figured if I hounded my family and FB friends, Hal would get a couple hundred nominations. I don't mind saying that I was wrong
just this once. I was really, really wrong. And it was amazing.
I asked my family. They shared Hallee's nomination page. My parents, siblings, cousins, aunts. I asked my friends. Fellow BDN blogger and AM (autism mom) Heather wrote about the contest on her blog, The A-Word. She signed her sweetheart son up for the contest, too. It got shared and shared and shared again. The numbers went from 100 to 200, to 300, 500, 700..I couldn't believe it. All of these people willing to help give Hal and kids like her a chance at a little bit of a normal childhood. I'm not gonna lie, y'all. I cried more than once. Verklempt.
Last night with just a handful of hours left in the contest, we were stuck pretty solidly at 790, had been there for a couple of days. I had
stalked and probably frightened all of the friends and family that I had into nominating Hal already. And then, I went back to a certain group of ladies. I call them my Irish Mommies. They're a group of ladies in an online support group for mother's of kids with autism. Most are from Ireland, lots in the UK and even a few of us Yanks. I don't even remember now how I found them, but they are my go-to girls. My light in the dark, my hands to hold when things in the wobbly, disjointed world of autism get to be a bit too much for me. Friends, not just online names that I'm familar with. Friends. I know their kid's names, husbands, partners, hobbies, loves and dislikes and they know mine. Nothing is too gross for them, to embarrassing, too heartbreaking. We share it all and I adore these women, each and every one for the support I've gotten from them when I didn't feel like I could ask for it from anyone else. *Sniffle*
Anyhoo, last night I asked my ladies for a little help, hoping we could break 800 before the contest ended. It was like lightning. "Done." "Done" "Done" "Done and shared, good luck!" It went on and on and on and by the time I woke up this morning we were well over 900 and finished the contest at 920.
Need something done right? Ask an Autism Mom. We are masters at getting it all done and getting it done RIGHTNOW. I sat here this morning just completely overwhelmed with gratitude. It blew my mind that so many people, many whom have never met Hal nor myself, want her to have one of these bikes. There have been so many times during the years, you guys…so many times that I felt very, very alone in our journey. I have a wonderful, loving family, but they all live away. I have close friends, but they either live away or have families and busy lives of their own. I hated to feel like I was burdening anyone by telling them how hard it could be. How lonely and scary. So I didn't. Unless you count the handful of times I called my mother or sister crying and just emotionally fried. Hi Mom, Hi Rob..I love you. Thank you.
And it took this contest for me to see that I'm really not alone, really never was. That there's always someone willing to give a minute of their time, a little bit of their kindness, if you're willing to ask for it. I wish I had known this back then.
The contest winners will be announced tomorrow and I'm so excited. Not just for Hallee's chances, but for the many kids that will win and have their lives changed by these bikes given by this wonderful group. As a mother, my heart is so glad for the kids who will win tomorrow. Our kids suffer enough, this little bit of freedom, this little bit of "normal" is a huge blessing for them and I am so grateful.


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Hold tight, hold tight,
Want some Sea food, Mama
Steamers and sauce
And then of course
I like oysters, lobsters, too,
And I like my tasty butterfish.
When I come home from work at night
I get my favorite dish, Fish!
Hold tight, hold tight,
Shrimpers and rice, they're very nice!
Eye-rolling Harlemites have long chuckled over the way the usually prissy white folks' radio has been going to town for a month on Hold Tight. In Harlem Hold Tight's fishy lyrics are considered no ordinary clambake stuff, but a reasonable duplication of the queer lingo some Harlem bucks use in one form of sex perversion. Harlemites...


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True story:
ArlingtonDES et al pretty much block me now. Something about me being a citizen petitioning my government for redress or something.
Well the steel plates on Old Dumb / Lee at Wakefield were buckling under cars. I know. I know. I helped cars. Sigh. Anyway, I tweeted to ArlingtonDES, ArlingtonVA, and Arlingtonpopo a piicture of the plates buckling. I never heard from them.
I did hear from VDOT, who asked for forgiveness for eavesdropping - contacted Dominion Gas - and had the plates secured within two hours.
That's the way its supposed to work!


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This world is broken.
That fact is so painfully true. That fact describes the people living on the streets, those suffering, sinning, hating, crying, breaking, all because sin entered the world.
Sometimes that makes you wonder: what was life like before this world was broken? Will it ever be healed again?
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.Genesis 1:31 | NIV |
God originally created this world perfectly. And God saw that it was good. That phrase pulses through Genesis 1, repeating over and over to give a point: The world was good.
There was no brokenness; no suffering; no sin; no hate; no tears; no pain. There was no night, there was no sickness. The world was whole, and God walked side-by-side with man.
But then came the fall. Sin entered the world, and God no longer dwelled with man because He cannot be around sin. And that perfect world was gone.
For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.1 John 2:16 | NIV |
But then Jesus came.
When Jesus sacrificed everything, took the form of an imperfect human, and died on the cross to take the punishment of our sins, we could finally enter Heaven. Someday we will be with God again. Someday we will belong to a perfect world.
I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.John 16:33 | NIV |
In Revelations 21, the Bible talks about the new Heaven and the new Earth being like a new Eden. A perfect, amazing world where God dwells with the people and everyone is happy.
For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.1 John 5:4 | NIV |
So in your pain, in this broken world, know that there is hope. Someday the world will be made new.
Dear God, please help me to have hope. Help me to know that you are always there for me. I can't wait for when the world is made new and when I will see You someday in Heaven. I know You are coming back someday. In the meantime, help me to do all I can to help make this world a better place. I love you, God, and I know you love me. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
Hi everyone! I hope you enjoyed today's devotional.
Look at me being on time and actually posting this on Wednesday, haha. This topic is really important to me, and I believe that everyone needs a reminder that everything is going to be okay and that there is hope in this broken world.
On Saturday, guest post submissions will be open, so keep an eye out for that! Bye guys!
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Fall 2018
Week 0
Course Logistics
Welcome to the Rails Decal! Class will be every Thursday in Kroeber 160 from 5-7PM. Check out the syllabus and HW0: the course entry survey below :)
Week 1
Introduction to Ruby and The Web
This week, we will be discussing class logistics, the basics of the Ruby language, and a cursory overview of how the mysterious entity that is "The Web" works!
Week 2
Intro to Rails
An introduction to how Rails, a web server, receives and handles requests.
Week 3
Rails Lab + Models
Now that we've dipped our feet into the world that is Rails, we're going to spend some time in-class trying it out and getting comfortable with it. Towards the end, we will introduce models and databases.
Week 4
Models and Databases
Today, we're going to dive into how to represent data and how Rails makes this as easy as possible for us!
Week 5
More on Models and Rails
We're finally bringing it all together! This is the lecture where we'll finally have talked about the entire process of building a robust Rails app! We'll learn more about creating models and the scaffolding Rails generates for us :)
Week 6
Advanced Models and Conventions Revisited
Now that we've finished learning the core fundamentals of Rails. We're going to take a step back and look at it all again. We will also discuss advanced model relationships so that you can create even more powerful applications
Week 7
Using Ruby Gems
Power up your rails projects by including code written by other people to help make things simpler! Today we will discuss some important gems that everyone should know about as well as talking about how to tell if a gem is stable enough to use.
Week 8
Integrating into the Web Ecosystem: APIs
In this lecture, we will discuss how to interact with outside API's in your Rails application so you can extend it's functionality! This lets you do what we did in HW 2: getting the current weather from a weather service and so much more. We will be doing this through some fun examples and using an important Gem called Faraday.
Week 9
Schema Diagrams and WebHooks
In this lecture, we're going to be spending some time discussing some tips for starting a fresh project from scratch (like in project 2!) as well as talking about the three typical ways you will interact with API's: Read, Write, and Hooks!
Week 10
Webhooks and Deployment
We're finally going to finish off the semester by talking about webhooks and how to deploy your websites onto the internet!
Week 11
Project Presentations
We made it to the end! Today we'll just be going through everyone's projects. Make sure to submit!


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What's one secret to launching a billion-dollar startup? Continually innovating your business model, not just your product or service, says Michael Baum, founder and former CEO of Splunk, which creates software that helps companies glean insights from machine data and was one of the most successful IPOs of 2012.
Baum was the featured speaker at the 12th annual Haas Celebration at Gap Inc. headquarters in San Francisco on March 18. Nearly 400 alumni, students, and friends of Haas attended the event, which this year highlighted the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship. The evening also included a one-minute pitch competition for teams of alumni and students.
In a conversation with Lester Center Executive Director Andre Marquis, MBA 96, Baum spoke about how he built Splunk and the changing landscape of entrepreneurship education. Baum's 25-year entrepreneurial career has included six startups and five acquisitions that have created more than 3,000 jobs, more than 150 millionaires, and more than $10 billion in shareholder value.
One way Splunk innovated its business model in the early days, when it was competing with companies like IBM, was to buy Google AdWords on troubleshooting topics users might have with a competitor's software. For anyone seeking help with a problem, Splunk repeatedly appeared as the solution.
Baum also stressed that success is about execution, not ideas. That's why Splunk cofounders weren't concerned with competitors seeing the product roadmap they posted online for two years to crowdsource feedback from potential customers. They knew they could deliver the software faster and better than anyone else.
Baum's current startup is FOUNDER.org, which works with colleges, universities (including Cal), and research institutes to help students become successful entrepreneurs. Its initiatives provide students funding, education, and mentoring to prepare them for long-term success. Baum's goal for FOUNDER.org is longevity (he's aiming for a hundred years), so he made it a nonprofit. He says it may be one of the first nonprofit venture capital projects.
The evening also included a one-minute pitch competition among Haas and Cal student and alumni representatives from 10 startups. Audience members could learn about each startup during the cocktail hour and voted via text message. Teams pitching their ideas represented Brandizi, Twindom, Eko Devices, Magoosh, Modify Industries, OCHO Candy, PlushCare, POWr, Xcell Biosciences, and YadaZing.
The winner of Cal swag and bragging rights was Eko Devices (coincidentally affiliated with FOUNDER.org), which helps clinicians amplify, digitize, and analyze patient heart sounds through a smart device that attaches to a stethoscope. Traditional stethoscopes can't diagnose most heart conditions but an Eko Device can. "We want to put a cardiologist in every doctor's pocket," said Eko cofounder and CEO Connor Landgraf, BS 13 (Bioengineering), during his pitch.
Guests at the event also enjoyed access to the renowned modern art of Gap founders Doris Fisher and her late husband, Don Fisher, BS 51, whose collection includes works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Cy Twombly, Sol LeWitt, and many others.


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Our client was stood on a traffic island waiting to cross Hammersmith Broadway when she was hit by the defendants motorcycle. As a result our client suffered injury and loss.
Our Client's Injuries:
Break to left knee, bruising on left knee and knee ligament partly ripped. Bruising to left side of body and back ache.
What did Hayward Baker do to help?
Ria Tallack one of our experienced claims handlers took on the case on a No Win No Fee basis. Ria submitted the claim to the defendant insurers via the low value personal injury insurers portal and stated that they were to blame for the accident due to the following reasons:
You failed to observe the presence of our client, did not keep your vehicle under any or any proper control and drove your vehicle in such a way that endangered other road users, in particular our client.
The location of the accident was on a busy London high street upon which there are many junctions at which pedestrians can cross. It was therefore reasonably foreseeable there would be numerous pedestrians crossing and waiting at the edge of the pavement to cross the road. The Defendant should have taken this into consideration and ensured there was sufficient room.
Your driver failed to keep his vehicle under any or any proper control and drove it in such a way that endangered other road users, in particular our client who was a pedestrian on the pavement.
This mean't that provided that the medical report confirms our client was injured as a result of the accident, they have agreed to pay her compensation, and Gary will discuss with the Litigation Friend the level of compensation after receipt of the medical report.
The insurers acknowledged the claim and shortly after informed Hayward Baker Solicitors that liability was admitted. What this mean't was that provided that a medical report confirms our client was injured as a result of the accident, they have agreed to pay her compensation. The level of compensation will be discussed with our client after receipt of the medical report.
Ria sent off for copies of our client's medical records and once received she forwarded them to the medical expert who would be examining our client and who will also be formulating a report on her injuries.
On receipt of the report Ria reviewed the content and noted that the injuries were consistent with the accident. A copy of the report was then sent to our client for approval along with a copy of her schedule of out of pocket expenses which included travel expenses and the costs of medical items purchased due to her injuries.
Ria valued the claim by using the medical report and previous case studies and notified our client what she could receive in the way of compensation. Our client agreed with the report, out of pocket expenses and Ria's valuation of the case and sent back the relevant signed authorities allowing Ria to negotiate settlement with the defendant insurers.
Ria negotiated a settlement figure of £4,700 for our client.
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|Our TAB art room layout. Students could create tiles at any of our work tables while the wire mesh frame could be transformed into the image of Weir Cook at our mural center.
Once the steel frame and grid was delivered to our room we began to experiment with the construction of the clay tiles. Considering the work would be exhibited outside, we consulted with Amaco-Brent Ceramics company for the best clay and glazes to use. They recommended White Clay#25 and Teachers Palette Glazes.
I created portable menus for the project and a white board diagram for students to examine. I explained the project to our students. Their participation would provide them with an opportunity to be a part of something very special! Most of my students were involved in their own projects, but several seized on this opportunity and enthusiastically began producing clay squares. Unfortunately, a quality control problem soon became apparent. The tiles had to be perfect one and three quarter inch squares and a quarter inch thick. Not all of the tiles produced could be used for the mural. Some of the children, either because they lacked manual dexterity, focus or patience, were not able to execute with precision the square tiles that were required. More practice would be needed or a new method would need to be explored. We came up with a new method.
The tiles would be rolled out into a large slab, trimmed, measured and re-cut into uniform tiles that would be perforated then glazed.
|Not only did we have to cut precision tiles, but we would have to create custom colors by mixing glazes together in numerous combinations. There were 14 custom colors that we would have to create for this composition.
Working with larger batches of tiles became much more tenable. We loaded the kiln with glazed tiles in addition to our regular output of ceramic projects over the course of the project and fired our kiln up! Most of the time, we were happy with the results!
The kiln was fired to a temperature of 1800 degrees. Temperatures lower than 1800 degrees did not produce a finished glaze quality to out satisfaction. Our kiln got quite a work out!
|Tiles would have to be formed, hanging holes perforated, glazed, fired and then attached to the grid.
|Student on the right is rolling out a clay slab while another student attaches a tile to the grid.
Finding the correct position on the grid and selecting the right color for the grid position and the tile was a complex mental task that several of the children enjoyed doing. It only had to be done 1247 times. Twisting two wires to attach each tile required hand strength and dexterity that may of the children did not have so I did some recruiting.
|Selecting the right color of tile, attaching and then reflecting on the work in progress requires higher level thinking. The selection and assembly of numerous tiles in order to be true to Owen Sickels plan was one of the most complex tasks of this art experience.
Sometimes, students who worked on the project for long periods of time took a break in order to work on other collaborative experiences. In our Teaching for Artistic Behavior studio setting..there can be 20-30 different projects going on simultaneously.
Over the course of 13 months, with steady effort, we were able to complete this work.
On September 28, 2018, Ellen and personnel from the Greenfield Parks Department arrived at New Palestine High School to pick up the finished work! Some of the students helped load the mural into the trailer. We had finished what we had started! What a thrill!
We set the work carefully into the trailer, strapped it in for safe passage and waved goodbye!
The work now rests in downtown Greenfield, Indiana mounted on concrete inside the "Living Alley."
Thank you to the City of Greenfield, Hancock County Arts Commission, the students of New Palestine High School, Owen and Chris Sickels and of course, the Family of Harvey Weir Cook!
Best Wishes!
|With members of the Weir Cook Family, Owen Sickels, art teacher Monica Holden, Monica's students who created banners throughout the gallery space and the Mayor of Greenfield!


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2nd African Head and Neck Society (AfHNS) Annual Scientific Conference in association with the 5th Otorhinolaryngology Society of Ghana meeting and Joint Meeting with the American Academy of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery (AAOHNS)
Report by: Anna Konney, Consultant Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana.
In 2005 there were no specialist head and neck surgeons in Sub-Saharan Africa, north of South Africa. By 2018 there were 14 fully trained head and neck surgeons in 11 Sub-Saharan African countries who had completed a full year of training through the University of Cape Town Karl Storz Head and Neck Fellowship (12) and the PAACS/Hopkins Head and Neck Fellowship in Cameroon (2). This group of head and neck surgeons established the African Head and Neck Society (AfHNS) in Rwanda in 2016. The 1st AfHNS conference was held in Mombasa, Kenya in 2017. The 2nd was held in association with the 5th Otorhinolaryngology Society of Ghana Meeting and was a Joint Meeting with the American Academy of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery (AAOHNS). The 3rd AfHNS conference is planned to be held in Harare, Zimbabwe in 2019.
A preconference head and neck dissection course was held at the anatomy department of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital with objectives to teach trainees and young specialists surgical anatomy of the head and neck; and to demonstrate and practise basic head and neck surgeries, as well as to acquire practical tips on the management of head and neck surgical patients. Twelve otolaryngology residents from Ghana and Kenya participated in the course. It was exciting for all of us to have among us Prof Johan Fagan from University of Cape Town, South Africa, as the main facilitator and our mentor, who worked tirelessly and made all lectures comprehensive and yet simple. His lectures with demonstrations using videos of his surgeries were invaluable to understand even the most difficult areas e.g. the parapharyngeal spaces. We had varied lectures on salivary glands, the thyroid gland, laryngectomy, neck dissections, and some flaps for reconstruction. Practical sessions on cadavers were the most exciting for all and were facilitated by all African Head and Neck Fellows as well as facilitators from the American Head and Neck Society, namely Dr Mark Prince and Dr Jeff Moyer from University of Michigan, Dr Douglas B Chepeha from the University of Toronto, Canada, and Dr Mark Zafereo from MD Anderson Cancer Center. They made practical sessions and demonstrations on cadavers so easy by giving valuable tips to approaches, especially in a low resource environment where improvisations are often necessary to make all surgeries possible and successful. A preconference hands-on ultrasound course was facilitated by Dr Mark Zafereo, with Dr Merry Sebelik of Emory University also partnering in the organisation of the course. Twenty participants enjoyed interactive ultrasound lectures followed by hands-on training with volunteer patients. The participants developed a good understanding of basic ultrasound principles and neck anatomy, with plans to build on this knowledge base with a more advanced ultrasound course in association with future meetings.
During the two-day scientific meeting, we shared work and research results with participants. It was noted that since the head and neck surgeons had returned to their hospitals after their fellowships, there had been much improvement in managing head and neck cancer cases. It became evident that we have to improvise to achieve good results in head and neck cancer. It was also noted that it is difficult to apply international cancer guidelines in low-resourced centres, mainly due to patients being unable to afford expensive investigations and treatment, and a lack of diagnostic and therapeutic equipment. Most patients present with advanced stage disease and may not have access to multidisciplinary treatment regimens including radiation and chemotherapy, further complicating treatment planning.
We hope this is only the beginning of a strong collaboration between the AfHNS and international organisations such as the AHNS and AAOHNS with regard to exchanging ideas and research about head and neck cancers in Africa.


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Modernizing Sales Departments without Sales Productivity Dips While
Everyone agrees that new realities of customer buying is driving changes in sales organizations and Cheatham discusses how to approach change and not get slammed in the process.In the book "Selling Vision" co-author Rick Cheatham takes us through the origins of the book and how change doesn't have to mean one or two quarters of lower revenue when salespeople adjust. Change is a risky proposition for all sales organizations because change means confusion, hesitation and chaos as salespeople adjust to the company's vision of a new sales approach driven by changed customer buying habits. RICK CHEATHAM leads the US Sales Practice for BTS. He works with clients such as Google, Accenture, Metlife, and IBM to drive their sales efforts into the future. Rick leads a team of over 20 consultants and conceptualizes many of the BTS solutions deployed in the US.


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Courtney Larson and her husband, Cameron, never expected to have quadruplets.
They'd been trying to have children for years, eventually turning to intrauterine insemination – which caused Courtney to fall pregnant with not one, not two, but four babies.
It's safe to say that Courtney and Cameron weren't exactly prepared.As soft play centres reopen, here's what parents and children can expect
The quadruplets – two boys, named Brody and Cooper, and two girls, named Ashlyn and Kylie – were born two months early, raising concerns over whether they would survive.
The children each spent months in the neonatal intensive care unit and underwent multiple medical procedures and surgeries.
Eventually they were able to brought home. And with that, the parents' hectic life caring for quadruplets began.
Over the last two years, photographer Jackie Molloy has dedicated herself to capturing the reality of this life, photographing the four children going about their days in the family home.
The project started in Jackie's junior year of college, when her professor asked her class to photograph a family story.
Jackie's friend put her in touch with a mother she'd met in the park – Courtney.
'Once I met the Larsons I was hooked,' Jackie told metro.co.uk. 'I loved their family dynamic – how things would run like a well oiled machine one minute and then become pure chaos the next.'
Jackie began her project by spending a full day with the family and watching their daily life unfold.
'From the beginning there was a lot of love in that household, good morals and beliefs that I could see meant a lot to the family,' said Jackie.
Over the next two years Jackie visited the house to document what life is like with quadruplets – and grew closer to the family in the process.
'When I first started documenting we spent some long days together,' said Jackie. 'Courtney and I used to take naps on the couches in the living room when the kids were at school.'
Even now that the project's completed Jackie and the family still stay in touch, talking on the phone each month and sharing pictures of their lives.
Looking into Courtney's life and seeing how well she and Cameron handle quadruplets has given Jackie a great deal of respect and admiration for the parents, and has made her form a bond with each of the children.
'Courtney and Cameron handled it all so well, it was hard to not be inspired by them.
'Plus then there were the kids, who each have their own little personalities that have been incredible to see develop more as they continue to grow up.
'Courtney is an incredible mother, wife, and overall person. She cares so much about the people in her life and surrounds herself with positivity.
'I think I admire her dedication the most. She is so dedicated to being a good mother, wife to Cameron, volunteer at their Mormon church, friend, and neighbor.
'She is so humble; she never asks for thanks, she truly just does it from her heart.
'She told me once she worries that she doesn't get to spend enough individual time with the kids. There are four of them and two parents – clearly they're outnumbered.
'But I was always drawn to how Courtney and Cameron managed to make time for themselves, one another, and each of the kids.
'As the kids grow up it's beautiful to see them coming into their own, as well as seeing how Courtney and Cameron grow together.
'The Larson family is full of life challenges, happiness, a touch of chaos, and a little humor, but mostly love and I hope people feel that when viewing the images.'
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My Danish ancestors arrived in Utah dreaming of utopia. The Mormon Church played a more socialist tune back then and attracted followers as discontent with the emerging capitalist order as with traditional Christianity. But what my ancestors found when they arrived was a utopia under siege by theocratic pressure and political instability. Over time, they learned the hard way that utopianism rarely delivers on its promises.
I reflect on this now after years spent ignoring my Mormon past. My feelings toward the Church found expression in teen angst during my formative years only to end up in the dustbin of adult ambivalence later on. I barely consider Mormonism or my Mormon upbringing anymore except to contemplate its socialist origins and my own queer politics. The Church rarely factors into my day-to-day experience of the world.
But I am also white, cisgender, male, and heterosexual. I may not be Mormon, but I occupy a body and adhere to social expectations that many Mormons associate with authority and virtue. I can do more than "pass" as Mormon. My race, gender, and sexuality allow me to enjoy the privileges associated with Mormonism. So Mormon Country is pretty easy for me to navigate when I want it to be.
Many of my loved ones have had a different experience. They have suffered the onslaught of racism, sexism, and classism that now plays hegemonic on the state's feedback loop. I cannot speak directly to their feelings on these issues—because my embodied perspective is nothing like their own—but I can be quiet, listen, and try to put myself in their shoes. This kind of exercise in compassion goes against my conditioning. Patriarchy sank its hooks deep into me at a young age and keeps me tangled in comfortable positions of privilege. (Hooks aren't like splinters. They can't be simply extracted with tweezers. They have to be maneuvered from the flesh and dug out.) So I question my conditioning and adopt new ideologies.
I suspect that the dreams of my ancestors still haunt the "cultural halls" that stand tall and proud throughout Mormon Country. Their voices continue to echo in spectral reverb even as they're drowned out by the booming masculine drone that attempts desperately to maintain authority in space supposedly anointed for it. If we find the quiet corners outside the profane noise that pollutes every sterile hallway of every church in every valley, can we commune with the dead? If so, what will they say? "This land is your land, take it back!"


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The Adore Power Swan is a wireless addition to the Swan Vibes luxury rechargeable range. This rabbit-style vibrator is one of the lengthiest Swan Vibes available also one of the curviest. Run by Swan's trademark Power Bullet technology, the Adore is not only powerful but smooth at 100% silicone and phthalate free. Here are the Adore Power's vital statistics:
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Adore Power Swan Details:
- Ergonomic design made to distribute vibrations
- Wireless rechargeable vibrator 12 hour charge with 8.5 hours of run time.
- Simple two button usage with varying speeds
- 100% silicone and phthalate free
- Separately controlled vibrators
- Waterproof – splash proof
- Travel ready
- Length 10 inches with an insertable length of 6 inches
- Portable design
- Features Swan Vibes pattern quietness, simplicity and smooth running
What you get
The Adore Power is 100% silicone and soft to the touch. It is also named for the extra punch it packs – the Adore Power is one of Swan Vibes' most powerful rabbit vibrators. It's also powered by dual motors in the stem and clitoral portions of your vibrator which are individually controlled.
Ergonomically shaped to the contours of a woman's body, this vibrator is rather unique along Swan Vibes in being one of few to require absolutely no wires to connect to your vibrator in order to charge it. It comes with a magnetic charging stand and uses electromagnetic energy to charge your vibrator directly.
What's more, your Adore Swan also claims to provide triple stimulation with the rotating tip. Your Adore also comes with a year's warranty and some fun extras which add to the presentation and preservation of your toy.
Powerful by name, powerful by design?
The dual motor technology is undeniably powerful, using the acclaimed Power bullet technology. Run in two separate motors and locations, the rotating stem and clitoral points of the Adore vibrator, the controls are set up along the inner bottom handle of the vibe. Consisting of just two buttons, one each for the clitoral and vaginal stem motors, the Adore is fairly easy to control as well as varied to use. You simply hold down either button to increase your vibration speeds while a simple click will suffice to turn either off again.
The motors themselves have been highly praised by users as well as the simplicity of the vibrators operation:
"This vibro is genuinely well made, with powerful twin motors that are almost silent. All sex toys should be made to this quality."
– says Happy1 on http://www.passion8.co.uk/swan-adore-luxury-rabbit-vibrator-91500-reviews.html
"This is a very powerful rechargeable rabbit vibrator it really surprised me as to just how powerful it is when its on full, which is why I was also surprised by how little noise it makes."
– says Boobaloo at http://www.boobaloosreviews.com/2013/05/review-of-adore-beauty-swan-luxury.html
"The vibration is very quiet but also very intense – the girl in the shop was raving about it, and I think she is right. By far the best vibrator I have ever tried."
– says Cat9 on http://www.passion8.co.uk/swan-adore-power-rabbit-vibrator-91501-reviews.html
Yet another hit on the vibration front – the Adore Power certainly lives up to its name. But just how does this curvaceous, ergonomically designed rabbit fare?
Shapely or Shapeless?
One of the foremost claims of Swan Vibes are their products ability to fit to a woman's contours and curves. The Adore Power Swan is said to have one such ability. With a small ridge just between the stems and the rabbit's trademark rounded ears, the Adore is a little more faithful to the classic rabbit design as opposed to the Kissing Swan or the Swan Princess. One reason for this is that we girls are quite picky when it comes to the types of clitoral stimulation we enjoy and this is part of what makes your rabbit a tricky thing to make a decision on.
This particular style has rather elongated ears and the clitoral arm is quite flexible meaning that during penetration it will stroke up and down your clitoris in motion. Take a gander at the product to scale in this video here to see what we mean:
The shaft is firm but rotates on the end and is pointed towards the G-spot area – a feature not found on all higher end luxury vibrators and one favoured by the bigger budget Swans such as the Royal Swan. The shapely feature along with the rotating nature of the rabbit is meant to make the Adore Power Swan a firm all rounder. But does it deliver?
"It's very flexible and very soft just like the real thing 🙂 If your single, look no more! If your married, be more MERRY!!!! Yes every woman should have one."
– says everywoman on http://www.swanvibes.com/shop/adore-power
"The clit bulb works great and hits just the right spot. The shaft is
a great size- perfect for me, actually!"
– says Taibby19 on http://www.risqueboutique.com/rabbit-vibrators/adore-luxury-rechargeable-vibrator-by-swan.html
"The shape of this rabbit is very ergonomic and it feels good to hold in the palm with a smooth balled end."
– says Suze http://sextoysbuzz.com/vibrators/adore-petite-elegance-rabbit-vibrator-by-swan
Nevertheless, the clitoral arm does require some repositioning and carries with it some of the age-old positioning problems rabbits across the board have faced:
"The other problem that I have always had with rabbits is how fiddly they can be to get the rabbit ears to sit where they need to be, this one is no exception and it did take a little bit of fiddling and wiggling to get it into position. I find this to be one of the most annoying things about rabbits especially rabbits with little ears like this one"
– says Boobaloo on http://boobaloosreviews.com/2013/05/review-of-adore-beauty-swan-luxury-rabbit-vibrator-from-simplypleasure-com/
Again, clitoral ladies might suffer a little bit in the short term. If you're looking for a long-drawn out playtime this particular toy is well worth the wait. However, fans of hardcore clitoral stimulation might need a bit of help/practice in repositioning the ears.
Silky Smooth?
The Adore Swan boasts a 100% silicone, seamless texture. This is not only designed to be healthier but is also a more desirable feature of the Swan Vibes range. The feel of Swan Vibes alone makes them a pleasurable as well as alternative choice to latex based products:
"The swan rabbit is made from some lovely soft none sticky silicone, it doesn't have any annoying seams and feels nice and warm and tactile in the hand."
– says Boobaloo in http://boobaloosreviews.com/2013/05/review-of-adore-beauty-swan-luxury-rabbit-vibrator-from-simplypleasure-com/
Clearly the Adore Power is no exception to this particular rule.
Wireless Wonder?
This is where the Adore Power varies slightly from its predecessors. Coming with an attractive charging stand, the Adore Power Swan clips directly into the power bracket (connected to a mains power socket) and charges by way of an LED light system. When the lights go out, you're ready to play.
Yet this alone surely doesn't warrant the extra £39.99 price tag over Swan's average of around £90 – £99? (prices taken from LoveHoney.co.uk). So what's different?
The battery life for a start. Charging for a mammoth twelve hours might seem inconceivable after having waited for your Swan Vibe to arrive. However, popping it on before bed or leaving it to charge while at work will surely pay off to the tune of 8.5 hours of run time, more than twice the run time of a standard Swan rabbit style vibrator. The Adore Power certainly takes the gold over other products such as the Je Joue Fifi which run for less than half the time it takes to charge them. While this run time may vary on stronger settings, users generally haven't found their Swan toys to fall short of this by much:
"This vibe runs for seemingly forever! It has never "died" all of a sudden on me."
– says Taibby19 on http://www.risqueboutique.com/rabbit-vibrators/adore-luxury-rechargeable-vibrator-by-swan.html
Battery life and stability is a must for Swan Vibes and widely known to be true of all of their products along with the quiet motor and waterproofing that comes as standard.
While Swan do demand a lot from their customers, this particular vibrator coming in at around £139.99, they do deliver. Coming with an additional satin storage bag and various universal adaptors for your wireless port, Swan more than provides customers with their money's worth.
Their vibrators are also waterproof which is a plus for shower time fun or cleaning. They also come with a one year warranty and are non porous which means that they won't retain any undesirable odours or extraneous liquids. The self sealing recharge socket makes using your vibe safe and durable.
Beginner friendly?
This vibrator is middle of the road as far as this particular question goes. Here's why:
If you're a seasoned user of rabbit vibrators, you'll have found that varying levels of clitoral or g-spot stimulation often impact upon your choice. This is a classic rabbit design and though is generally thought of as one of the most effective rabbits of its kind out there, this doesn't necessarily mean that it is for you.
This rabbit's clitoral arm is flexible and soft though long. With a bit of positioning it can be a blast to use though if you're looking for a firmer massaging motion you might wish to consider a firmer, rounded head such as others within the Swan Range such as the Whooper Swan or the LELO INA range.
Similarly, if you haven't come across a rabbit vibrator while this one is simple to use and surprisingly effective you might wish to check out LoveHoney's guide to the rabbit here. Simple scroll down and watch the video: http://www.lovehoney.co.uk/product.cfm?p=28074
For those a little unsure at the time of reading this review, this vibrator seems far from hit and miss though may leave some clitoral girls disappointed. For a cheaper alternative, check out LoveHoney's own Happy Rabbit Realistic Range.
Where To Buy
A solid, steady product with Swan's typically high standards, the Adore Power is certainly effective. The battery life and charging ability is much loved by its users while the Power Bullet technology and shapely design largely deliver on a grand scale.
However, if you're looking for solid, all around stimulation a little bit of research or prior experience is advised. Clitoral stimulation results are mixed though so this is probably a product for more experienced users to invest in who know the range of their own kinks and soft spots.
Overall, a great addition to the Swan range, up to snuff and more in every area with the exception of that elusive 'perfect' clitoral massager. Buy according to your own kinks and experience and do your homework. For the right person, the Adore Power is a dream.


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We love Elephant & Piggie at my house! We are so excited to partner with Disney-Hyperion on an Elephant & Piggie Party sponsored post to celebrate 10 years of the series!
Reading is very important in our house and part of our nightly routine. My husband and I are avid readers and we've definitely passed the same love of books onto our children. One of our favorite children's authors is Mo Willems, creator of the beloved Elephant & Piggie book series. Did you know that this month marks the 10th anniversary Elephant & Piggie? I threw my kids an Elephant & Piggie Party to celebrate!
Elephant & Piggie Party Decor
I was sent some fun party supplies to really bring our celebration to life with Elephant & Piggie including books for my kids and themed wrapping paper. I couldn't resist adding some of the wrapping paper to a silver frame to honor the duo.
We also received pink and gray paper lanterns and cutouts to create our own Piggie and Gerald.
Cute, right? You can download this free printable with instructions to create your own Elephant & Piggie lanterns and get some fun activity sheets for your kids or guests.
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The paper lanterns featured here are the 10 inch size. You can find them at your local party store or have them shipped directly to you from Amazon!
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I kept things simple for a snack and made popcorn and them in fun snack cups.
Elephant & Piggie Party Punch
I used an extra nose cutout to create our very own Piggie Punch, using this pink Strawberry Sherbert Punch Recipe.
The kids loved the Piggie touch on the punch bowl!
We also received some adorable straws with cutouts featuring Mo Willem's characters.
The kids were quick to notice the small details including the 10 made from Piggie's dress ribbon and Pigeon being featured on Gerald's cane.
The punch was a huge hit with the kids, especially my middle son. If you've never made a sherbert punch before, you must give it a try at your next celebration!
Elephant & Piggie Party Books
We own several books from the Elephant & Piggie series, but not all of them. I was so happy to see we only owned one of the five books we received already. I wrapped three of the others up so each of the boys could open their very own book and used the others for party decor.
Warren wasted no time reading and was soon finding "Easter eggs" in his book. Mo Willems like to connect his books with characters like The Pigeon appearing in his other books and my boys get excited every time they spot one!
Wesley loves the books from Mo Willems so much that his joy really couldn't be contained to know he'd have several new ones to enjoy. The Elephant & Piggie book series contains 25 different titles. I chatted with my five year old to come up with our favorites:
10 Favorite Elephant & Piggie Books
- We Are In A Book
- Let's Go for a Drive
- Waiting is Not Easy
- I Really Like Slop
- I Am Going
- I'm a Frog
- The Thank You Book
- Should I Share My Ice Cream?
- Are You Ready to Play Outside?
- My New Friend Is So Fun
The Good for Nothing Button
We also celebrated the newest release in the Elephant and Piggie Like Reading! series, Elephant & Piggie by Charise Mericle Harper that is recommended for ages 4- 8.
Yellow Bird has a button. It does . . . nothing! It is a good for nothing button.
Red Bird and Blue Bird are excited to try the button. But when they press it, they discover that the button makes them happy. Happy is something! A flabbergasted Yellow Bird insists the button does nothing. But it sure does seem to be making him mad. Mad is something!
The hilarious debate that follows takes readers on an emotional roller coaster that pokes at the power of imaginative play.
Wesley loved this book with the button and was quick to press it as often as possible. I've now had to move it up to enjoy only when reading, for my own sanity. However, it is such a fun prop to use while enjoying the book.
Throw Your Own Book Party
Our Elephant & Piggie party was a bright spot over our holiday weekend which was mostly filled with rain. Books really are a reason to celebrate anytime. For your next birthday party, play date or just because, consider picking your child's favorite book series and creating a party around the characters!
We can't be the only ones that get to celebrate 10 years of fun with Elephant & Piggie! Enter the giveaway below to win a fun prize package!
One lucky winner from Finding Zest will receive:
- The Good for Nothing Button
- 4 books from the Elephant & Piggie series
- Plus Elephant & Piggie stress balls and temporary tattoos!
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Productivity: 20sets
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Random observation of the week:
There is never a shortage of Kansas LPs at the record store.
Stepping back into 1990
This week, my bathroom has featured the music of Poison in the form of "Flesh and Blood." I went through a phase where I was ashamed to like hair band rock, but I'm ashamed no longer. Gems from this album are: the bass line in "Unskinny Bop" and the driving riffs in "Valley of Lost Souls." However, my particular favorite is "Let it Play." When I was a young girl, I longed for a wake timer CD player function so I could wake up to that song. I was certain it would drive me out of bed. When I finally got my wake-timer function, I woke to Cece Deville's electric incantations. It's a better song to hear while you're in the bathroom preparing for the day…
You can even use your toothbrush as a microphone if you promise not to get toothpaste spittle on the freshly Windex'd mirror.
Let it Play
Did you ever get up on the wrong side of bed
With an achin' head and just fall apart?
You're running late, the boss is bitchin',
It's cold outside, and the car won't start
Well I don't mean to bitch I swear
Cause we all got our cross to bear
But when I hear the music
All my troubles just fade away
When I hear the music
Let it play, let it play
When I hear the music
Sure as darkness I can see the day
When I hear the music
Let it play
Let it play
Life's just rented space getting laid to waste
When the lines on my face say I'm growing older
Just a stitch in time gonna save my mind
When the weight of the world lies on my shoulders
Soon I won't have a place to fit
But I'll cross that bridge when I come to it
Go ahead and try it some morning and let me know if you don't have a day where you hum to yourself throughout the day. I will warn you, though, even though we all might ponder what the hell "un-skinny bop" actually refers to, the song will parade around in your decaffeinated mind for the better part of the morning.
Suggestions for other great wake-up tunes? Leave 'em here. I'd love to hear 'em.