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Eye-Fi, a company that produces wireless-transmitting memory cards for cameras and tablets, announced today it has raised $20 million in its fourth round of funding.
The company makes SD memory cards that can transmit photos and other stored data wirelessly between cameras, tablets, and computers. The card uses Wi-Fi to share pictures without needing to take a memory card out of one device and plug it into another. Eye-Fi cards are especially helpful when you want to share pictures you took with your digital camera on-the-go with a smartphone. You can transfer the file to your phone and then upload it to all social networks you belong to.
Eye-Fi was the first on the scene, but other companies have followed suit. Toshiba's FlashAir card will be available this year and Panasonic is developing a similar WiGig supported SD card, which will transit files at gigabit speed over short distances.
The company also announced a partnership with Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo, which also served as the lead investor in this fundraising. The partnerships includes plans to integrate Eye-Fi technology with the carrier's personal cloud system. NTT Docomo customers will be able to send photos they take to their phones and share them with social networks.
Eye-Fi is using the funding to add Michele Don Durbin, a former Skype and eBay exec, to the team as vice president of marketing.
Eye-Fi was founded in 2005 and is based in Mountain View California. The company has been funded by Opus Capital, Shasta Ventures and TransLink Capital and has raised more than $40 million.


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Mar 28, 2017
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happy friday!
not much time before i have to go open the bar. and i still have to make my lunch. rushy rushy.
i realized a few days ago that providence feels like HOME. like real home. homey HOME. whenever i'm heading back to the apartment from the north (boston) or the south (work), i get a rush of warm happiness as soon as i turn a curve on 95 and see the modest (but beautiful) providence skyline.
last weekend i spent some time with mr. boston, walking and putzing around my new neighborhood (moving on the 1st). and i'm in love with that, too.
i'm starting to fall in love with my new car, but something MUST be done about the radio. for being kinda tone deaf, i'm also kinda an audiophile. the tinniness has GOT TO GO.
a lot of allcaps today. sorry about that.
i love bartending. i was made for this sort of work. standing around a bar socializing all day? striving to be engaging and intelligent and being rewarded for your efforts in CASH? sweet.
and god bless new england sarcasm. i've missed it so.
got a stacked weekend ahead of me, and i can't wait. most of it involves mr. boston, who is really starting to kick an awful lot of ass. this weekend is going to be back to back to back funstuff, capped off by dave attell in newport on sunday night.
wednesday night, i made an offhand comment that i had heard that death cab for cutie was coming to lupo's. a band i've grown an affinity for at one of my most favorite venues. i added that it will probably sell out rather rapidly, and the conversation moved on. mr. boston called me the next day to let me know that, through some sort of secret CONTACT, he'd secured four tickets to said event a day before they even went on sale.
it's nice knowing people who know PEOPLE. it's even nicer when they do nice stuff for you.
i owe people emails. some of you owe me an email. i'd say we could just call it even, but that's not really a form of communication, is it...
off to work... happy weekend to all!
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Joan Cusack
Joan Cusack is an American actress. She received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in the romantic comedy-drama Working Girl and the romantic comedy In & Out as well as one Golden Globe nomination for her performance in the latter. She has appeared in other films such as the romantic comedy-drama Broadcast News, the comedies Stars and Bars and Married to the Mob, the romantic comedy-drama Say Anything..., the dark comedy Addams Family Values, the mystery thriller film Arlington Road, the romantic comedy Runaway Bride, the music-themed comedy School of Rock, voicing in the computer-animated comedy adventure film Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3. She is also the narrator of the children's television series Peep and the Big Wide World.\nCusack was a cast member on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1986. Cusack currently stars on the Showtime hit drama/comedy Shameless as Sheila Jackson, a role for which she has received five consecutive Emmy Award nominations.WIKIPEDIA


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This one reminded me of a special type of light house. Got lucky with the quotation.
Today's Gratitude Item: "Exam Survival Kits". These were handed out by the head of Technology to everyone in the Tech department this morning. Said kits included clever items like a Time Out bar (because that's all the time out you'll get today), nuts (you are not nuts, exams are), a nail file (to take the edge off), some coffee (please don't sleep on the job) and two panadol (in case of headaches). There was more in the box and all of it was thoughtful and fun resulting in a cool start to what will be a busy week.


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The lads discuss hipster bartenders ruining classic drinks, "decimal point" bumper stickers, the passing of Nintendo's CEO, and a few "gum" movies.
In the Studio:
Cocktail du Jour: White Russian
Quote du Jour: "I know of at least 127 words… and I still prefer 'fuck.'" Billy Connolly (stand-up show)
Pics & Links:
New Orleans Best Cocktails – The Mint Julep
Super Marios Bros 2 – Mouser Boss Battle
5 Bizarrely Specific Ways Every Movie Trailer Looks the Same
Seriously, ALL TRAILERS ARE THE SAME
Satoru Iwata Speech ("On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.")


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Marvel movies, whether from Sony or Disney, have taken on different types of genres when making their movies. Spider-Man: Homecoming is loosely based off of a 1980s John Hughes movie, Captain America: Civil War took inspiration from spy movies, and the upcoming Infinity War has been compared to a heist movie. And now, it looks like Ant-Man and the Wasp could be Marvel's first romantic comedy, which will sit well with some fans and more than likely alienate others. It's hard to please everybody, but a Marvel rom-com has to be better than a normal one, right?
A new report out of the Russian entertainment market seems to give us a hint about the genre of Peyton Reed's Ant-Man 2, noting that it will be Marvel's "first rom-com." The news was released at the Kinorynok event in Russia and it's hard to make out the rest of the translation, even with Google Translate. But, the message that is clear, is that Ant-Man and the Wasp is reportedly going to be a romantic comedy and it makes sense. There was definitely some chemistry laid between Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) in the first movie and it seems only natural that there will be a romantic comedy element to the sequel.
Though not much else is clear about the plot for Ant-Man and the Wasp, Evangeline Lilly may have just let some information slip in a recent interview with Vanity Fair. She implies that Ant-Man and The Wasp may have a larger part to play within the MCU and in the later version of a possible multi-verse comes into play. She goes on to say that she isn't the writer, but she imagines that it can go in that way. Evangeline Lilly had this to say.
"Those characters are experts in the quantum realm. In Ant-Man and the Wasp, they are trying everything in their power to safely enter the quantum realm and return back from it because they have evidence from the first film that Scott Lang was able to do that. If he can do it, why can't we? If we do succeed in Ant-Man and the Wasp, then that does open a whole entire new multi-verse to enter into and play around in. I'm not the story creator, so I can't tell you what they're going to do with that. But I definitely see the potential there."
Evangeline Lilly's thoughts on the MCU gives a pretty solid idea of how interesting these storytellers are probably going to get with the future of the MCU. Opening up new dimensions and heading back into the quantum realm open up all kinds of ideas of where the MCU can go and with The Wasp being a major part of the new movie, you can almost bet that quantum realm will be a factor in the sequel. We'll just have to wait for some more information to come our way, which is expected to be soon.
Ant-Man and the Wasp being a romantic comedy does sound like quite the gamble, but it also makes sense for the MCU. Ant-Man is already pretty divisive within the MCU, so why not continue that and do whatever they want with the characters? It will also be interesting to see where Ant-Man and the Wasp fit into Infinity War and Avengers 4, knowing that there could be more to the story with the quantum realm. You can read more about the Russian translation and the possibility of Ant-Man and the Wasp being a romantic comedy courtesy of CBR.


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The goal of these Mother's Day activities is for you to give your mom a break from her life.
We often forget just how much our moms do.
Even now we've moved away from home, they're still in our lives, keeping watch on how we're doing.
We also forget how moms are independent women in their own right – with their own hobbies and ambitions.
So what better opportunity than to use these Mother Day celebration ideas to help your mom with her goals!
Maybe she's already too busy doing them – or maybe she can't get started. Let's really make M-Day the day to give her what she wants (as well as making her smile).
Which Mother's Day are we talking about?
The date varies between country.
- In the US, for example, Mother's Day is held in May.
- But in the UK, it's in March.
- In Norway, Mother's Day is celebrated in February.
- But in Thailand, it's in August.
So make sure you're in the right Mother's Day, so your mom knows to expect a call from you!
Switch onto these Mother Day celebration ideas
If you're making reservations for weekends away or day trips, book well in advance. This is so you avoid Mother's Day activities being sold out.
Think You Know Your Mom…?
Moms love to talk, don't they? So why not play a mom trivia quiz, to test your knowledge of her life, including life pre-mom. Her questions might be like:
- "What does she like to cook for herself?"
- "What did she wear at her first prom?"
- "What was her least favorite subject at school?"
Each of your mom's answers will probably contain a lot of (unheard of) stories, right?
If you're still in question-asking mode, why not interview your mom and let her reminisce.
This is a great activity to record for you, her and other family to watch over again.
Where Does She Want To Go?
Why not ask your mom to choose a weekend getaway she'd like.
A massage, hiking, tickets to a musical, museum hopping… are all ways of creating a relaxing day. Make sure to book in advance anything that needs it.
Pay It Forward For Mom
Is there something big your mom's been unable to do in her own life – for years? That could change things for her if it was sorted out?
You fixing it for her is the goal of this activity. For example:
- She wants to work part-time, at the old people's home – yet she doesn't haven't the courage to enquire. Arrange a meeting and tour with the home's manager. Help her with her resume.
- Or, your mom wants to learn the web – but English isn't her first language. If you haven't the time to teach her, gift her classes that are suitable. Join her on the first few, to show support.
These Mother's Day activities will extend above and beyond Mother's Day itself. Show your mom how much you care about her life and her success with this idea.
Mom Miss Her Family?
Or her hometown?
If so, spend this Mother Day celebration taking her to visit either (or both, if they're in the same place). Show your mom you care about her family by bring her to those she loves.
Oh, but what if her family lives out of town? Consider buying her a ticket so she can fly out.
If visiting isn't a practical option, why not arrange a video call using your computer?
A Day of Mini Trips
If traveling out of town is not possible, then creating a Mother's Day made up of mini trips in her local area is a fun alternative.
Find out first what your mom likes to do, or is wishing for, or wishes she has done. Maybe there are lingering life dreams she's eager to get to.
- Arrange this by first asking her about them – in general conversation. But don't let on why you're asking.
- Then plan your day with three to four of these Mother's Day activities together.
You might even inspire your mom to sign up to these activities for real.
Mother's Movie Night
Quality family time is important for most moms and finding that time can be tricky, if kids are still around or their own lives are busy.
So center your Mother's Day activities on a special movie fest in her honor.
Let your mom choose her movies, whilst you provide the dinner, the snacks and the setting. Rope in other family to join you.
Work on a Project Together
Give your mom a hand with a few household projects. In fact, why not round up the family to help her out?
Odd jobs could include house repair, painting and carpentry.
Clearing the house of old junk might be another task your mom hasn't gotten around to doing. You could mow the lawn or sort her paperwork.
Plan a Mother's Day brunch, too, around the odd jobs, ending the day with a big celebration.
Mother's Day activities like this can be no-cost, fun and productive.


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Sometimes the best respect you can say about a piece is "thank you for giving me something to disagree with". Since I don't believe in Devils, I shall become an advocate of something else.
Using big words doesn't make you someone who has found a thesaurus. After all, I needed to be introduced to it seven paragraphs down. (Thesaurus? Listen critter, go back to the Jurassic and I'll catch up to you when I catch up to you and Peter. Oh right, his name is spelled differently.)
It's rather tough to make anyone dive for a dictionary. That requires having a dictionary. And diving. Which requires swim lessons. This is the Google Age, so the correct phrase is "making someone race to Google the word". Which they do. Watch them. They love it. And Google loves the ad revenue. It's a Brave New World and I think Aldous Huxley's estate even allows fair use of the title.
I don't expectorate. I never have. So being given a false choice, I refuse to be reduced to spitting, 'cause that's vulgar. Lemme see ... nope, the Listerine bottle isn't helping. Closest I can come is Rinse. So with that red herring paragraph dispensed with, what's next?
I will be bold and daresay you DO mean that some of wish others of us would "dumb ourselves down". At least, I've been told that a few times. The downside of the LoL Rofl age is that people's vocabulary has been (9*decimated). That's right, decimating it once is not enough, because decimate used to mean "reduce by ten percent", not "reduce down to ten percent". It's the power of the popular media to reinvent any word however they like because what you hear 21 times is more important than what's right.
Hmm. "Even Shakespeare used small words at times"? Maybe, but he is the last intersection of words no one uses at all, so much so that he gets remade because no one can understand him in the original. My vocabulary is decent, but he's tough. But there's ranges in between Will and chat messengers.
P.S. Velociraptors made the movie studios a lot of money. Big box office returns justify any word.
My vocabulary increased at a geometric rate several times, because I was fortunate to be raised in a household that respects books. Nice juicy ones, that you can thump with your tail and sink your talons into. See Billy build a house. Build Billy Build. See Billy forget to waterproof the foundation. Wanna dive for that thesaurus now?
I have learned that because there are few *people* left who will teach me awesome new words, I shall have to let the zombies of the past teach me instead. Pshaw, 25 cheeseburgers to feed them is cheaper than an English Degree at a college. So I churn into the books, try to discern the definitions, and incorporate them into my vocabulary like a wanna be Olympic coach who realizes he is past his prime before he figured out he had anything worth sharing.
Wanna know why? Because when a little kid uses huge and unexpected word, they're DEFINITELY viewed as showing off! That's because their dumbed down audience doesn't know words like "intellectual elitist" and "precocious" ... which are huge unexpected words, and the logical loop here could power the electric needs of Painesville Ohio. Nay, I am sorry to say, such stuff just gets you shoved against the dumpster. So a little kid who isn't good enough to run parallel universe tracks of every thing he wants to say decides not to learn new words at geometric rates.
Fortunately, this changes about Sixth Grade when the worst of the Masses fail the tests which are full of such words, and they get shuffled off to courses like Home Ec and Wood Shop, where they learn Hotel Management and Specialized Trim Carpentry and make more than your average smart kid working at McDonalds along with every other college kid with the B+ average.
Vocaulary isn't a class. It's a side effect from discovering that Arthur C. Clarke is a better friend than Jimmy who now acts like a jerk to impress his new girlfriend. Our hero starts hunting for words, because he notices that the dismal vocabulary made George W. Bush the most ridiculed President in History, and the first Black President in history has a good vocabulary.
In these times when life is expensive but books are still cheap, vocabularies begin to expand. Is this a bad thing? No. We piss and bitch ... er, excuse me, lament, the decline and fall of the American Educational Empire, because somewhere along the way we developed a culture that doesn't respect nice words any longer.
I don't get sick and feel like shit. That's called feeling sorry for yourself. I got a cough last year that lingered like a tax audit, but I still gotta work, 'cause ya can't call in to work sick for 3 months straight. (That's right, nice and slangy there. Because alternating erudite diction and breezy talk is called creative dissonance, or some goddurned thing.)


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Levon Helm took the Americana Grammy for "Ramble At The Ryman," a live disc. The drummer won the award over "Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down" by Ry Cooder; "Hard Bargain" by Emmylou Harris; and "Blessed" by Lucinda Williams.
"Paper Airplane" also won a Grammy for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. The award went to Neal Cappellino & Mike Shipley, engineers; Brad Blackwood, mastering engineer.


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Bistek = beef steak. I guess it's a play on words. But when you say bistek or beef steak in the Philippines, it refers more to the dish than the cut of meat. Sometimes the dish is also called bistek Tagalog—I don't know why, as I'm quite certain this dish is not only being cooked in the Tagalog region but also in the Visayas region.
Now this is a dish bursting with flavour, but with only a few and simple cupboard ingredients to add. Just imagine the taste of citrus and soy sauce, onions and black pepper in your succulent steak! There is a caveat however. I use a soy sauce which you will not find in the big supermarket shelves, but one you will definitely find in your nearest Asian store. The difference? The taste. It's got 20-27% soya ingredients. The expensive brand you'll find in the supermarket chains only has 9% in it (the cheaper ones only have 3%), and with so many additives they don't sound like food ingredients to me. And I'm afraid to say that they do not 'do the job' with most Philippine soy sauce-based dishes 😦
(How to find the mysterious soy sauce—I am not endorsing so I'll just give you a clue. There are two I could recommend: the first one has got a pineapple logo on it [it's my first choice]; the second one has got a swan logo [and there's a third one which I will not recommend as it has got MSG and a lower soya content, although it still tastes better than the ones from the supermarket—the logo is a tribal chief]. They're both made in the Philippines [or 'for the Philippine market'] . They come in 1-litre bottles—and cheaper than the 250ml expensive brand from the supermarket.)
oil for frying
2-3 cuts of beef steak (cut into 2-inch small pieces or strips)
1 large red onion or more (cut into rings)
ground black pepper (to taste, but plenty is great in this dish!)
½ lemon or 3 calamansi
½ cup soy sauce (with 20-27% soya content)
1. Marinate the steak in the soy sauce, onion, ground pepper and lemon juice (save some onion slices for garnishing at the end if you wish). Leave for 4 hours or overnight in the fridge.
2. Heat oil for frying. Fish out the beef from the marinade and fry until browned.
3. Push the beef to one side of the skillet and fry the onions.
4. Add the marinade. Cover and allow to boil then simmer for 10-15 minutes (depends how tender you like your beef). If the dish is drying, you can splash some water in.
5. If you've saved some onions for garnishing, you can throw them in the skillet (don't mix) 2 minutes before you turn off the stove.
6. Best served with plain rice.


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The latest release of the S&P/Case-Shiller (CSI) home price indices for February reported that the non-seasonally adjusted National index increased slightly from January with prices rising 0.20% while the non-seasonally adjusted Composite-10 city index increased 0.12% and the Composite-20 city index increased 0.19% over the same period.
On an annual basis, the National index increased 5.29% above the level seen in February 2015 while the Composite-10 city index increased 4.61% and the Composite-20 city index increased 5.38% over the same period.
On a peak basis, all three indices still show significant peak declines slumping -4.88% for the National index, -12.94% for the Composite-10 city index and -11.49% for the Composite-20 city index on a peak comparison basis.


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In an age of crisp, digital media, Stephanie Pui-Mun Law crafts ethereal creatures and luminescent backgrounds with a strong sense of motion using watercolors and media that hearken back to a handcrafted age. You'll find knights and ladies, dragons and faeries, and exotic botanic creations in her artwork.
Please welcome Stephanie!
Thank you so much for joining us here! Please tell us a little about yourself.
I was born in New York, and lived on the east coast for the first 7 years of my life. My grandparents had a piano school & store in the city, and we would drive over there from New Jersey on the weekends. I remember spending a lot of time sitting at the desk in the shop and scribbling drawings. Those are really my first memories of drawing. I wasn't ever really bored if you could just give me a pencil and paper.
We moved to California after that, and I kept my love of art, through high school and college; although I didn't think of it as a viable career path. As a result, I studied computer science at UC Berkeley. It wasn't until I was about to graduate that I did some soul searching one day after a career faire, and realized that if art wasn't going to play a central aspect in my life, I would be miserable. It was at that point that I set out with a plan for the following three years that eventually had me leaving the professional world of software and becoming a full time freelance artist.
Since them, I've done illustrations for many game, book and magazine companies. I've written and illustrated Dreamscapes (2008, North Light Books), Dreamscapes: Myth & Magic (2010, North Light Books), and Dreamscapes: Magical Menagerie (2012, North Light Books), a series on watercolor technique for fantasy. The Shadowscapes Tarot (2009, Llewellyn Worldwide) is a tarot deck that I wrote and illustrated, as well.
These days I primarily work in watercolors, but I sometimes mix things up a bit with ink, pens, metallic pigments, and gold and silver leafing.
What inspires your art?
A lot of my inspiration comes from nature. I love the fractal patterns and textures created by the growth of living things. The "magic" that I try to depict is that of being able to see past the surface preconceptions we have for the world around us and to try to really see the often unnoticed beauties that abound. Not just in that natural world, though as I said that is a major focus of my art, but in the man-made as well.
I find your artwork unabashedly 'handcrafted' for lack of a better word, something I find strongly appealing after decades of too crisp, acrylic fantasy covers. Can you share something about what has influenced your style? What opportunities or challenges does it raise?
I started off as a digital artist. In 1996 I discovered Adobe Photoshop 1.0, and Fractal Design Painter 1.0 (now known by the name of just Painter). I loved working digitally, but I think in large part it was reactionary to what I was doing in college. I went to school for the computer science program, but decided to feed my art hobby by incidentally doing a secondary major of art. Since I hadn't sought out the school for its art program, I was at the mercy of what was offered, which was a very modern abstract expressionist program. The professors were enamored with buckets of acrylic and/or oil splashed and dripped on huge canvases, and sandbags dropped on metal plates out of second story windows. Gluing/hammering/cobbling together pieces found from junkyards. Physicality of art and art-making was primary.
I wanted to be more illustrative. Telling a story with my art was what I loved, and I wasn't allowed to pursue that in the classes I was taking. So outside of classes I did my own work. And when I discovered digital as a medium it was just the contrast that I needed to so much excessive physicality.
When I left college and sent out my portfolio to various game companies, I was pleasantly surprised to hear back from Wizards of the Coast. The art director of Magic the Gathering expressed interest in my art, although he said that they were not really looking for digital work. If I could send a portfolio of a traditional medium….
This, of course, was in a time when digital was not yet accepted as a valid medium for art. People had the impression that there was a "paint wizard fighting dragon" button that an artist could push. Ironically enough, by the time I gathered together enough work for a traditional medium portfolio, the art director was pleased and gave me some art assignments, and then mentioned that they were also accepting digital art now.
However, I've got that initial letter from him to thank for setting me on the path to watercolors, which I quickly discovered that I loved. Having some distance from the college art program gave me a chance to appreciate that I did love a certain amount of physicality to my art. And having an original painting at the end was much more satisfying than pixels on a screen and bits on a hard drive.
Over the course of those next five years, I slowly phased digital art out and moved towards painting exclusively with watercolors. I can't say I've had any negative challenges since doing so. In face, I think it's mostly been positive. I've had an opportunity to write a whole series of technique books for watercolor through IMPACT books, and the fact that I am a traditional artist among more and more digital ones has made my art stand out.
There are many things I like about your artwork but several things stand out. One is the sense of motion, even in a seemingly static scene, such as a knight in repose . How do you infuse your scenes with such motion? Is a sense of motion something you consciously strive to for?
I mentioned nature as one of my inspirations. Dance is another major element of influence. I have been a dancer for over two decades, studying flamenco for a large portion of that time. In a way, dance and visual art feel like diametrically opposing types of art to me. One is very much grounded in the present, in each moment, changing as the human body moves to rhythms and music. The other is static, a captured and distilled instant. I try to capture the flow of movement and rhythm in my art, not necessarily only in the human figures I depict, but in the whole orchestrated composition and the interaction of all the various elements.
Your color palettes are another enchanting aspect of your work for me. Can your share more about how you pick a palette? Do you tend to do several pieces in a row with the same palette? Is that because you want to explore a particular color scheme or is a common palette more to serve the needs of the theme?
I actually try to vary my color palette from piece to piece. It's only when I have a series of images of the same theme that I try to recreate the same colors.
Even when intentionally trying to do so though, it can be difficult to recreate. I often forget what exact colors I used, and when using watercolors, layering them in a different order can result in varying shades.
Sometimes when I'm unsure of what colors I want for a piece, I scan the pencil sketch and the play around with various options digitally. It's a good way to push different combinations that I would otherwise not think to try if I were just working directly onto the paper from the start. A digital test-run gives me a space to experiment and see how things might look.
Doing a color rough digitally is also something that I need to do when working with art directors sometimes. Art directors will ask for a a color rough so that they can get a better idea of where an artist is going with a piece, before the actual painting work begins.
How about lighting? Some of your pieces seem to glow. With others, you set a somber mood with secrets hidden in the shadow. Do you sometimes do a piece just to experiment with light? How do you decide how to light a scene?
Lighting is key to conveying mood in a painting. Colors can be done on the fly. Details and textures can happen as I paint. But lighting is something that really has to be thought out and planned, because it's so important an aspect of composition and atmosphere. I always try to have a very firm concept in mind of the lighting before I begin a piece, and how it defines the negative space of the subjects.
How do you pick your subjects? Do you have favorites?
I like to have some kind of narrative thread that runs through my images. Sometimes this is from myth or folklore. Ballads, songs, poems. Sometimes it is from an internal mythos that I have created. A sort of over-arching world that my paintings have slowly circumscribed. These can go in cycles, especially when I have large projects that I am working on.
When I was working on the Shadowscapes Tarot, it was a world of connected archetypes that my paintings circled around. Currently I seem to find myself in a cycle of very dream-like images featuring many animals, and golden woods. I move from one subject to the next in a very fluid way. Sometimes certain characters or creatures make their way into a piece, and then I am inspired to do a sequence of paintings in these kind of snapshots of their existence.
I feel like I'm slowly uncovering pieces of this world as I explore and push its boundaries with each painting.
The three Nocturne images on this page illustrate such a progression.
What inspired your Tarot deck? How well has it been received?
I started the Tarot in 2004, and completed it in mid 2007, so it was a three and half year journey. Even before I began that project, I had many people telling me I should make a deck, because they saw what I eventually realized — that my love of mythology and folklore was ideal for a tarot deck.
It is especially clear in the 21 cards of the Major Arcana, where the archetypes that are represented are the basis of so many figures of various mythologies. It was a natural fit for me. I was anxious to embark on the project at first though because the prospect of doing 78 pieces of art was incredibly daunting! I had never worked on such an ambitious project before. But once I got going, it quickly became very rewarding, and I was actually a little bit sad when I finished the final card and suddenly had this empty space of free time ahead of me!
It's been very well received, and well worth the effort of the creation. The entire project from inception to publication has been such a wonderfully positive experience.
(Lovers and World are from the Tarot deck.)
You mention on your website that you do some digital artwork but I don't recall coming across anything that looks digital in your galleries. How do you make use of digital techniques? Is it just at a composition stage, for finish work or throughout for some pieces?
I started off as a digital artist, but around 2004, I had pretty much phased out any digital commissions entirely. For the past ten years I've been working entirely in physical mediums. Mostly watercolor, and most recently in the past year I have started incorporating ink and metallic powders and leaf as well. So at this point the only part a computer plays in my art is for conceptualization of my compositions, occasionally for doing color roughs, and for final scanning and digitizing for print.
For the compositional phase, I scan sketches that I do of various main elements for a painting. Then I can shift things around in relation to other parts, resize foreground/background elements, flip things if I decide I want them to face a different direction, and other such manipulations. Once I'm happy with the composition, I print it, out and then redraw and refine it all, and transfer that to my final painting surface.
There are a number of gamers that visit here. What did you do for Wizards of the Coast? What work for other game companies might we recognize?
I did some cards for Magic the Gathering, as well as illustrations for the Forgotten Realms campaign setting. I did a lot of Legend of Five Rings art as well, both while it was owned by WotC, and later when it was sold to Alderac Games.
Your website FAQ mentions that some of the quotes are from your own writing. What do you write? Are you published or trying to be published?
I don't have any current fiction plans. I did all the writing for my tarot deck cards, and other art books I have published. I write poems to go with my artwork.
Any upcoming projects we should keep an eye out for?
I'm working with a writer friend of mine, Satyros Phil Brucato, in collaboration for a new deck. This time an Oracle deck called the Dreamdance Oracle. It's based around our shared love of dance and explores the varied range of the human experience and emotion that can be expressed in dance forms from around the world.
It's a work in progress, and we're so far about 1/3 of the way through the project. You can keep abreast of that project here:
I also recently finished up the manuscript for my most recent installment into the Dreamscapes series of technique books that is published by IMPACT books. This forth volume focuses on how to paint fantasy landscapes. From the specifics of rocks and trees and clouds, to how to create an engaging world out of basic elements for viewers.
Do you do commissions?
Very limited. I mostly focus on my own projects, and I only take commissions if I have a connection with the subject. It has to be something that resonates with me because I want to create a good piece of art, and that's only possible when I feel passionate for what I am painting.
Have you had a chance to do a book cover yet?
Yes, I've done a lot of role playing game covers from earlier in my career when I was doing a lot of work for the gaming industry.
I've also done some covers for Harlequin, HarperCollins, Tachyon Publishing, and of course my own series of technique books, Dreamscapes through Impact Books.
Many of my readers are aspiring writers and there may be a few artists among us as well. Any suggestions for those seeking a career in the creative arts?
If you've got a passion for it, then do it. Don't try to second guess yourself and pander to what you think will sell or will be marketable — when you're doing what you're passionate about and what you absolutely love, it will show in the work. That's when you will be creating your best work, and the right audience will come for that eventually.
I came across your artwork through DeviantArt. Is that the best place to find your new works or do you recommend your Shadowscape site or another place?
http://www.shadowscapes.com Shadowscapes is my official site, and where I sell originals, prints, books, and other products.
http://shadowscapes-stephanielaw.blogspot.com Midnight Ramblings is my blog. I have occasional essays on creative processes, technique tips, insights into my inspiration, and lots of detailed in-progress views of my paintings.
http://www.facebook.com/Shadowscapes Facebook is where I announce a lot of my appearances, and where people can get notified of a lot of my new pieces, and catch glimpses of my process as I post in progress shots.
You can also find a list of my books at http://www.shadowscapes.com/listing_products.php?listing=7
Is your artwork available for purchase?
Yes it is. Look to shadowscapes.com for that!


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Jodi Arias On Death Penalty: I'm Ready To 'Meet My Maker'
Just minutes after Jodi gave an emotional plea to the jury on May 21 about why her life should be spared, she told a reporter that she still has a lot of 'hope.'
Jodi Arias wants to live. Jodi is awaiting her fate as the jury deliberates her first degree murder sentence and she says in a new interview that she hopes the jury doesn't sentence her to death. Jodi was found guilty of brutally murdering her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander in 2008 but she believes that she can do a lot of good if allowed to carry out a life sentence in prison.
Jodi Arias On Death Penalty — Ready To Meet God
Jodi said she was "shocked" when she was found guilty of first degree murder on May 8.
"I didn't expect to walk away," she said. "But I did not think it would be first degree."
Although she previously said she wants the death penalty, she is begging for her life.
"Well I'm ready to meet my maker," she said. "If that time should come, but if that's their decision it would drag on for years and years so its not really contemporaneous."
Jodi also told the reporter that she often has nightmares in jail.
"I've been told I scream and cry in my sleep and several times I've woken myself up screaming," she said. "I don't have memories of the nightmares, so I'm not sure what I'm dreaming about.
WATCH: Jodi Arias Begging For Jury To Give Her Life In Prison
— Chloe Melas
More Jodi Arias Sentencing News:
- Jodi Arias Wants The Death Penalty — Watch Interview: Killer Begs For Death Sentence
- Jodi Arias Death Penalty? — Why The Jury Will Likely Sentence Her To Life In Prison For Murder
- Jodi Arias Faces Death Penalty — Jury Deliberating Sentence For First Degree Murder


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Bart Kimman at Northrop & Johnson in Hong Kong gets in touch to say there's a $915,000 price drop on the 27m motor yacht Pacific Conquest.
A Sunseeker 86 delivered in 2009, she's equipped to a very high specification and sleeps eight guests in four staterooms. Twin 1,822hp MTU diesel engines give her a cruising speed of 23 knots. Pacific Conquest is fitted with air conditioning to operate comfortably in tropical areas. Her swim platform is hydraulically lifted and carries a RIB tender.
Lying in Hong Kong, Pacific Conquest is down from US$4,615,000 to US$3.7 million.


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But now, Bakken and Flowers have something that no other woman in the world can lay claim to: an Olympic bobsled gold medal. Flowers, 28, of Alabama, also found herself with another honor she is the first black athlete, male or female, from any country in the world, to win gold at the Winter Games. Who knows? By the end of the week, she and Bakken may not only have an agent, but a deal or three.
Theirs was a surprise finish in the inaugural women's Olympic bobsled competition, which was expected to end with either Racine, a two-time world No. 1 driver, or one of two German teams, whose drivers ranked first and second this season, on top of the podium. Bakken, who has been hampered by injury and poor performance, hasn't won a World Cup event for years and was ranked sixth coming into the Games. But a record-breaking start time led to a track-record run in the first heat, and her USA 2 sled made a clean, relatively quick second run to win.
"This is an amazing feeling," a giggling, sometimes teary Bakken said afterward. "There was a lot of tough competition, so we definitely had our work cut out for us because of the Germans. But it was a lot of fun."
Before the Games fun was pretty scarce as the country's three top drivers Bakken, Racine and Bonny Warner battled for two Olympic berths. Each was looking for the best possible grunt, or push athlete, for their sled. And in bobsled, drivers have the power to pick who sits in the back seat, with coaches playing only an advisory role.
Warner started things rolling in October, when she refused to guarantee Flowers that she would remain her push athlete through the Olympic trials. Flowers quit, and went home to Alabama thinking her bobsled days were over.
Bakken, 26, a seven-year bobsled veteran, had spent the past season sliding with her best friend, Shauna Rohbock. But she got to thinking about the potential of Flowers, a seven-time all-America track and field athlete, and decided to organize a push-off. "It was very difficult of me to ask, and it was very difficult for Shauna to have a push off, but she did because she's an athlete and she knows the game," said Bakken yesterday, crediting Rohbock with playing an important role in getting her to the Games. (Even after Rohbock lost her seat, she continued to help Bakken prepare her sled, and was on hand Tuesday to celebrate.)
Bakken's bake-off also had a third contestant: Gea Johnson, a newcomer to the U.S. bobsled team who was posting incredible start times with Warner. When Johnson won the push-off, Racine decided to act, and, as America's top gun pilot, laid claim to the top gun grunt. She told her partner and best friend, Jen Davidson, that she was out and Johnson was in. (Racine had reassured Davidson that their slowing times would not affect their partnership.) Warner lost the push athlete she wanted, and failed to perform up to speed at trials. Davidson took the matter to arbitration, but ultimately withdrew her claim. Racine was vilified in the press for what was seen as a betrayal at worst, a poorly handled sporting decision at best. But she and Johnson immediately posted improved times, and it looked as though the end would justify the means.
Bakken and Flowers were able to stay comfortably in the shade even after all teams began training in Salt Lake as, through no fault of her own, Racine continued down the twisty tabloid course. Back home in Michigan, her father David was facing a charge of sexual child abuse, the allegation involving a 13-year-old friend of Jean's younger sister. Then Saturday, Gea Johnson busted a hamstring on a training run. This time, Racine made a strange decision: rather than putting athletic potential above friendship and replace Johnson with a healthy alternate, she would keep her on and hope the leg healed. It didn't. "Imagine someone stabbing you with a knife and scraping it down your leg, deeper and deeper and deeper with every step you take, and it being on fire at the same time," Johnson told TIME of how it felt to sprint while pushing about 400lbs of sled. USA 1 went from posting some of the strongest start-times on the women's circuit to the third-worst on the first run of Tuesday's competition, and the second-worst on the second. Still, they came in fifth in a field of 15.
"It's not like we crashed and burned," a tear-stained Racine said. "I'm very proud of that fifth place, especially when I know more effort went into our fifth place finish than anyone else tonight." Effort that could result in surgery for Johnson, depending on the results of an MRI scheduled for today.
None of the hoopla surrounding Racine and Johnson, however, should overshadow what was a historic, heroic performance by Bakken and Flowers. They are the best in the world never again will they be just the "other team."


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Multiferroic material breaks symmetry with layers
An international team of scientists have made a material capable of both piezoelectric and ferromagnetic behaviour. The discovery opens up the possibility of a new class of polarisable and magnetic compounds, and could lead to better devices for storing electronic information.
New data storage techniques are in demand to meet the ever-increasing use of digital information. Present methods rely on the writing and reading of computer bits by electricity, and require a high electrical current. This generates heat so the amount of data that can be stored on a drive is limited by how efficiently the device can be cooled.
One possible solution is to read the bits electronically but write them magnetically, thereby removing the need for high electrical currents and cooling mechanisms. This method requires a material in which the electrical polarisation can be controlled by changing the magnetic field, but so far no such materials have been discovered.
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The Last Click is a blog about attribution in (online) marketing by Mark A. Jansen and Stijn de Roover.
The inspiration for the name The Last Click comes from the default attribution model that is applied to most online marketing campaigns. The multi-device, multi-channel world needs a more suitable model, which is the topic of our articles.


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Time to blow out the candles, cause it's my Blog Birthday at closed doors open windows! Four years ago I really began to dig into my journey of self discovery with some major doors closing in my life, leading to some incredible open window opportunities. I've shared things across the gambit here: joys, sorrows, updates, my family life, recipes, crafts, home decorating, business tips… I've shared some of my life's lows — from my Mom's battle with Cancer and her passing — and highs — my Engagement and starting out as an Entrepreneur. Wow, how life has changed in these past 4 years, and its gratifying to look back and see some life-defining moments captured here!
It is my hope that in a world where we are bombarded with information, that at some point these ponderings by yours truly have brought even a bit of delight or a moment of reflection. Thank for joining me in my little space on the interwebs, for celebrating my Blog's Birthday, and for taking time to share some of yourself with me here. Writing is one of my first loves, and using it to connect with other people one of my greatest joys, so sincerely…I'm grateful. I am blessed.
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USET Sovereignty Protection Fund
USET Community Development Financial Institution (USET CDFI)
Established in 2016, the USET Community Development Financial Institution (USET CDFI) is a private financial institution dedicated to delivering responsible, affordable lending capital to help Tribal Nations strengthen their economies and prepare for mainstream financing options that will lead to more strategic investment of community projects and spark job growth. The overarching purpose is to administer assistance and opportunities to USET Tribal Nations.
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A team of scientists analysed the potential impact of a new strategy to control malaria in Africa which takes a similar approach to that used to protect travellers going to malaria endemic areas and found that even with moderate levels of coverage it could lead to significant public health improvements.
Malaria experts see this new approach, called seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC), as an exciting new tool in the fight against malaria. The study highlights the areas of Africa where this approach could be used most effectively and will assist deployment of this new control measure where it is needed urgently.
The study, published in Nature Communications, was led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and involved a collaboration of researchers in the UK and Africa.
In some parts of Africa, malaria is only a major problem for a few months of the year during and immediately after the rainy season. In these areas, providing monthly courses of a cheap antimalarial drug combination (sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine) to young children during the malaria transmission season when they are at highest risk has been shown to prevent approximately 80% of severe and uncomplicated malaria cases.
It has been found that large-scale administration of antimalarial medicines once-per-month on repeated occasions can be carried out successfully, that it is very safe and that it provides protection even if children are sleeping under insecticide treated bed-nets. Currently, the main approaches to malaria control are use of insecticide treated bed-nets and spraying of homes with insecticide, combined with prompt diagnostic testing and effective treatment of malaria patients with artemisinin-based combination therapies.
Combining satellite maps of rainfall with information on the malaria burden in different areas of Africa, the researchers identified the regions where seasonal malaria chemoprevention would be useful and cost-effective. The largest impact would be in countries of the Sahel and sub-Sahel, a wide-belt of Africa ranging from The Gambia and Senegal in the West to parts of Sudan in the East. Key countries are Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali, where approximately 14 million children under five are at risk in areas suitable for this approach.
Following a review of the evidence including these findings by its Malaria Policy Advisory Committee, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently formally recommended seasonal malaria chemoprevention as policy for malaria control in the Sahel and sub-Sahel. Some of the countries in West Africa identified in this study may wish to introduce SMC into their national malaria control programmes.
The team also estimated the number of children at risk of malaria in these areas, and the number of malaria cases and deaths that could be prevented if seasonal malaria chemoprevention is widely used. There are approximately 40 million children under five living in parts of Africa suitable for SMC who could benefit from this intervention and around 150,000 childhood deaths from malaria each year. Making realistic rather than optimistic assumptions about how many children could be reached and how effective this approach would be, the researchers estimate that around 11 million cases of malaria and approximately 50,000 deaths from malaria could be prevented per year if SMC was fully implemented.
Lead author Dr Matt Cairns, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: "Providing insecticide-treated nets is an important way of protecting children from malaria, but in some areas it isn't enough – children need additional methods of protection. We have identified two large areas of Africa where monthly seasonal chemoprevention could be an effective addition to existing approaches that reduce exposure to mosquitoes. If this control measure could be deployed widely it could prevent many millions of cases of malaria and tens of thousands of deaths every year."
Professor Sir Brian Greenwood, one of the senior authors of the study and a leading expert on malaria control, said: "Excitingly, this is something that is available to put into action immediately, so children will start to benefit from this approach now rather than in three or five years' time. The key is to ensure that the promise becomes a reality."
Dr Robert Newman, Director of the WHO Global Malaria Programme, remarked: "This intervention has great potential to contribute towards the achievement of the health-related Millennium Development Goals in the Sahel sub-Region of Africa; the opportunity for policy adoption and implementation should be seized quickly."
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1. Cairns, M. et al. Estimating the potential public health impact of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in African children. Nat. Commun. doi:10.1038/ncomms1879 (2012)
2. The collaboration included the College of Medicine, Malawi; Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; Imperial College London; URCN/IRSS Centre, Burkina Faso and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
3. Image: Community health workers delivering SMC in Senegal. Credit: Paul Milligan
4. Map: Yellow and orange indicate areas with highly seasonal rainfall, where seasonal malaria chemoprevention is likely to be effective. Credit: Nat. Commun. 3: 881 / 10.1038/ncomms1879 (2012)


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Important Papers to Pack in Your Bug Out Bag
It's like that chore you know you have to do, but you just don't want to do it. But having said that, I realize it is very important, and I just need to make the time to finish it!
Collect copies of all of most critical documents and place them in a waterproof envelope like the one in the picture. Then you can add them to your bug-out bag. While you're at it, it'd be smart to make a third set for your safe or safety deposit box.
Another idea is to scan your papers into your computer, and save them on a flash drive Then you can store the flash drive in a water proof container or envelope. Of course, that assumes that you'll have a working computer to use if anything happens. You can always save your documents on paper and on flash drive for back up. It's always best to have a back up to your back up.
What should you copy?
- Birth Certificates
- Marriage Certificate
- Passports
- Drivers Licenses
- Insurance paperwork - home, car, umbrella, business, and life policies
- Medical/Health insurance
- Medical prescriptions with prescription number, issuing doctor and pharmacy listed
- Doctor's contact information
- Credit card statements with account numbers
- Bank Statements with account numbers
- Social Security Cards
- The deed to your home
- Your mortgage information
- Car titles
- Wills
- Immunization records
- Baptism records
- A home inventory
- Any appraisals you have for personal items
- Investments - stock certificates, bonds, CD's etc.
- Include some extra cash as well if you can
- Important contact phone numbers
Also, throw in an extra set of keys to your house and cars, and bug-out location (if you have one), safe and safety deposit box.
I think I'm going to just set aside a few hours and get this checked off my list. How about you?


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Ironbridge museum's moonlit dinner to be out of this world
People in Shropshire have the chance to dine in the shadow of the moon at a major fundraising event in the county.
Guests are being invited to the evening at Enginuity in Coalbrookdale in October – dining below the Museum of the Moon exhibition which is currently touring the world as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the first Apollo moon landing.
The event will also feature a speaker from the Lunar Society and will be raising money for Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust's Fund for the Future campaign, which is aiming to raise £1 million by 2021 to take advantage of match-funding – securing the heritage of Ironbridge for future generations.
Adam Siviter, fundraising manager at the trust, said: "The moon landings were probably the greatest technological achievement of the human race and we are inviting people to be part of the celebrations and help us raise vital funding at the same time.
"Our Ironbridge by Moonlight dinner will be an evening of celebration within the centre of historic industrial innovation in the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site and we are asking anyone interested in supporting our campaign and marking the Apollo landings to book tickets and join us on the night.
"The evening will include a champagne reception, three-course dinner, raffle, live auction and the guest speaker from the Lunar Society."
Tickets are available at £55 each or £500 for a table of 10 and the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is hoping to attract businesses and other organisations along with private individuals who would like to experience dining under the moon.
The Museum of the Moon exhibition is a touring artwork by UK artist Luke Jerram, measuring six metres in diameter and featuring detailed NASA imagery of the lunar surface. At an approximate scale of 1:55,000, each centimetre of the internally lit sculpture represents five kilometres of the moon's surface.
It will be at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum from October 21 to November 10.
"Over the past three years, the exhibition has toured around the world and appeared at venues like The Houston Museum of Natural Sciences USA, the Commonwealth Games in Australia and the Natural History Museum in London," added Mr Siviter.
"We are delighted to be able to have this wonderful event here at Ironbridge in the year of the 50th anniversary of the landing - and to be able to open our doors for visitors to enjoy such a unique experience.
"Funds raised from the evening will help support our ongoing heritage conservation and education work, as well as contribute to our Fund for the Future appeal.
"Our goal here is to hit the £1 million fundraising target in under two years. Whatever we manage to raise by the deadline will be match funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund through money raised by people playing the National Lottery."
Six Apollo crafts have landed on the moon with 12 astronauts walking on its surface – the world watched on July 20 1969 as the Apollo 11 landed and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's walked on the moon.
To book for the Ironbridge by Moonlight dinner on October 24 go to ironbridge.org.uk/events
For more information visit my-moon.org
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DJ Hustle provided great music for Purina ONE event at Santa Monica Place in Santa Monica CA. This event well have a number of elements to it including a photo activation, dog tag engraving area, dog lounge, and a Purina ONE food truck.
The reason we're so invested in the quality of our food is because we love pets as much as you do. You'll find pets in our homes, and even sitting by our feet as we work in our offices.
Our passion for pets goes beyond pushing pet nutrition forward, and into forging partnerships in the pet welfare world and raising awareness of what pets truly need. After all, we've seen firsthand how powerful the bond with a pet can be, and the many unique ways that pets can strengthen our families and bring our communities closer.
Because we want dedicated and passionate employees on our team, we make sure that Purina is a great place to work. You can tell from the moment you walk in the door that our world revolves around pets, whether you're seeing the art on the walls or the many cats and dogs that employees bring to work every day. HustleTV
Recently, Glassdoor.com ranked Purina No. 3 on their 2015 Best Places to Work – an Employees' Choice Award list. For eight consecutive years, we've been recognized by the St. Louis Business Journal as the "Best Place to Work" and for the past three years, Purina has been recognized as the best place to work in St. Louis by the St. Louis Post Dispatch. We're proud of the fact that we help make our employees happy.
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I love Audible and I hate it. If you are an audio book fan, they have the latest releases with the best narrators around. The quality is premium compared to their only real competitor, the library. However the pricing/distribution structure is antiquated and unacceptably high. I would be an enthusiastic booster for Audible if it ran on the newer model like Netflix or Spotify and allowed users access to ALL of its content for a subscription fee, rather than a monumentally high subscription fee for access to a single audio book. Audio books being the length that they are, no one could over use the service to excess and we'd all feel like we were getting a great deal. The current pricing/distribution structure is too cost prohibitive for anyone new to audio books to bother even trying them out, leaving this as an exclusive service to an exclusive audience with a dwindling population. The lack of a formidable competitor has turned this potentially awesome service into an overpriced monopoly.
For my own part, I've decided to save the $17 a month and queue up the digital selections that are available for free through my local library service.
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Defining Covered Entities, Business Associates, and HIPAA Breaches
By Julie Sheppard, BSN, JD, CHC
Are you a covered entity? HIPAA defines a covered entity as one of the following: healthcare provider who transmits transactional information in an electronic form; health plan; or healthcare clearinghouse. Most providers are covered entities, managing insurance-related transactions electronically, like submitting claims to a health plan. Covered entities have several requirements under HIPAA, such as managing the business associate relationship and complying with the breach notification rule.


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Academic Programs
Music Education Major, B.M.E.
If you are interested in teaching music in a K-12 school, choose the Bachelor of Music Education program at MSU Denver. Our diverse, inclusive and progressive environment allows you to flourish as you develop the music and teaching skills you will need to be a successful teacher.
As an MSU Denver Music Education student, you will be well-prepared for your future career by faculty who are great teachers and performers with regional and national reputations. Your imagination will be sparked by the creative, innovative curriculum they have developed.
One important feature of the B.M.E. program is that you will get plenty of experience observing and working with practicing teachers — and student teaching yourself — in diverse classrooms across the Denver metropolitan area.
The result: You will graduate confident that you are equipped to teach a variety of music at any level in today's K-12 school environment.
Learn about scholarships for Music students.
Program Options
Bachelor of Music Education (PDF)
The Department of Music also offers:
B.M. with a Concentration in Composition
B.M. with a Concentration in Jazz and American Improvised Music Performance
B.M. with Concentrations in Piano, Organ, Guitar Performance
B.M. with a Concentration in Vocal Performance
B.M. with Concentrations in Woodwinds, Strings, Brass, Percussion Performance
Benefits of Earning Your Degree at MSU Denver
Each year brings a wide range of music celebrations for piano, jazz and winds; visiting artists, including guitarists, flutists and opera singers who perform and teach master classes; and choir festivals and performances by artists-in-residence. MSU Denver also has a vibrant musical theatre program that each semester produces musicals such as "Side by Side by Sondheim" and "Guys and Dolls."
Career Opportunities for Our Graduates
As a Bachelor of Music Education graduate, you can anticipate a median annual salary of $47,000 for a K-12 teaching position and $50 an hour (national average) as an individual instructor, according to CareersinMusic.com.
Hear from our students:
"My degree set me above other graduates in my application pool because of the involvement of MSU Denver's students and faculty with local districts. I think the high level of involvement is unique, and I feel like schools took a closer look at me because they knew MSU Denver and the quality of its music program. I spent a lot of time in classrooms as part of my education, and that experience has been invaluable."
—Tillifinney Smith, MSU Denver '12, is an elementary music teacher.
Carla E. Aguilar
Director of Music Education and Associate Professor Carla E. Aguilar has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Music and Music Education at Indiana University, DePauw University and Indiana State University. Her research interests include policy related to Music Education, access to Music Education, student-centered learning and arts integration. She is the faculty advisor for the MSU Denver chapter of the National Association for Music Education and performs with the 38th Infantry Division Indiana Army National Guard Band as a flute and piccolo player.
David Kish
Professor David Kish is director of bands and conducts the Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band. Kish has taught instrumental music at all educational levels. His writings on wind literature, conducting pedagogy and music education have been published in The Instrumentalist Magazine, Journal of Band Research, Music Educators Journal and four volumes of the popular resource texts, "Teaching Music Through Performance in Band." Volume VI of his book series, "Guides to Band Masterworks," was recently published by Meredith Music Publications.
Learn more about MSU Denver Music faculty.
Alumni at Work
Graduates of MSU Denver's Music Education program are working as teachers in every major school district throughout metropolitan Denver, including Denver, Jefferson County, Littleton, Cherry Creek and Aurora, and in cities throughout the state, such as Avon and Evergreen.
MSU Denver Music Education alumni have also pursued post-graduate education at Regis University, Colorado State University, University of Colorado Denver and Canyon University, among others.
Sample Classes
As a Music Education major, you will take private instruction in your primary performance area, participate in ensembles, attend recitals, have supervised field experiences and take required courses such as:
You'll also take General Studies/Education requirements such as:
Facilities and Resources
As a Bachelor of Music Education major, you'll be able to study and perform in the King Center performing arts complex on the Auraria Campus. The center features a 520-seat concert hall, the more intimate recital hall, a theatre and numerous production studios.
Program Accreditation
The MSU Denver Department of Music is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music. The Bachelor of Music Education degree program is accredited by the Colorado Department of Teacher Education.


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Upper-Division Seminar : J.M. Coetzee: Ethics and the Other
Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize, J.M. Coetzee writes fiction that is situated at the crucial intersection of postmodern literary experiment and the contemporary turn to ethics. Although politically engaged, Coetzee's texts tend to resist supporting such easy antinomies as black and white or revolutionary and reactionary. Focusing principally on his novels, but also addressing his autobiographical and critical writings, this seminar will take on such questions as who writes or speaks for the Other, translation, language and silence, postmodernity and contemporary South Africa, feminism in a South African frame, and the politics of literary revision or retelling. If the course is full, you can go to this url https://waitlist.ucsb.edu to sign up on the wait list.


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We live in a world of people. People who have group-identity. Everybody recognizes this, even when they pretend not to. And we can either embrace our group-identity, or resent it; there is nothing inbetween.
I understand your hesitation; we are a fiercely-independent, almost religiously-individualistic people. We eschew collectivism. We are loyal to the point of fanaticism, brilliant to the point of obsession, and ultimately charitable to the point of insanity.
And that is part of the Problem.
They make fun of us for wanting to preserve the environment; for concerning ourselves with whether or not the coffee-beans in our Soy Lattes are "organic," and locally-sourced. These are called first world problems for a reason: we invented them.
We invented them because we ran-out of other things to do! And if this condition preceded the age of conquest (and subsequent-Colonialism), then there's no possible way that it could have come at the expense of anybody else; even though the cultural-Marxists are constantly insisting that it must.
Not only that, but such trivial concerns are the mark of any successful civilization. In-fact, we got so good at perfecting the art of survival (and thus, its subsequent abundance) that we decided to spread it all around the world! And that's where all the trouble started...
See, most White people have been brow-beaten, shamed, and even physically coerced into playing this game of pretending like group-identity doesn't matter; because, unlike literally every other race on the planet, we were the first (and possibly, only) to undergo a little something called the Enlightenment period.
This was the age of reason - the dawn of egalitarian individualism (although Antifa would have you believe its glory can be reduced-down to nothing more than an age of banal imperialism and conquest...) The birth of Protestantism, and yet also the harbinger of innovations in both culture and technology that would steer the course of the world in an entirely new direction from anything previously seen by Humanity, at-large. In fact, this period is still guiding the development of Human Civilization across the globe, and it is our contention that these egalitarian principles have been gradually hijacked since their inception, and are now being systematically used against the very people whose ancestors created them.
For-instance - have you ever noticed how at the same time as whites are being gradually and increasingly told to abandon our in-group identity, everybody else is simultaneously being encouraged to embrace theirs – and, often enough, to do so in direct-opposition to ours?
This, even as we are simultaneously being harried and harangued into thinking that our group doesn't even exist! Well, it's pretty hard to defend something that isn't there, isn't it? And that's exactly the position our civilizational-opponents want us to be in.
Much of this stems from the new mythology of the twentieth-century. A mythology that was used to supplant what existed before, which was an abiding belief in our own divinity and purpose (as well as a recognition of our inherent flaws).
Christianity, for-instance, previously acted as a sublimation for our in-group preference, for it represented a set of ideas rather than abject racial coherence.
However, intellectuals such as those managing this website spent a great deal of time slaying that dragon, realizing that the inherent irrationality of faith was both tyrannical and illiberal in its application.
What we did not count on was the persistence of the mind of the masses in requiring a religious-order to cling to at all times, and what rushed-in to fill the void is the enormously perverted "Social-Justice" dogma of the left.
Under this new dogmatic system the Government is God, protector of all equality; Feminists are the new high-priest(esse)s, demanding ever-further concessions and 'tributes' from their disobedient flock; trans-sexuals and gays are the 'celibate' nuns, who sacrifice their fertility to martyr the cause; and, most strikingly, being born a White Male is (arguably) the latest-incarnation of Original Sin.
By the way… notice how religions always start by attacking our Sexuality? Yeah – that's no coincidence.
Sexuality is the basis of life – it is a tangible representation of our continuation as a people. As religions of the past have claimed these essential biological-functions as their mechanism for control, the new "egalitarian" movement has seized them as a basis for persecution and extermination.
It's not an accident that white males everywhere are cutting their own dicks off. Do you see this programme of extermination being directed at any non-white cultures, by any chance? The Japanese, for instance (not that they need any help in perversions of sexuality); the Middle-Easterners? The Chinese? Various African tribes?
No, you do not. And this, too, is by-design also.
What's different about the Dogma of Social Justice, however, is that instead of redemption providing the light at the end of this dark and dreary tunnel we call the 'scope' of our mythological-experience, the only way to atone for the "sins of the [founding] father" nowadays is to literally celebrate the advent of one's own destruction. Enter White-Genocide.
What we need to understand is that a certain percentage of the population is always going to not only be capable of accepting two contradictory beliefs at the same time, but as we've been seeing recently, insisting upon them as well.
Take the "minimum wage debate," for instance. At the same time as leftists claim that raising the minimum wage will somehow address the issue of poverty and "fairness," what they're not telling you (probably because they're too stupid to even realize this) is that implementing an increase in the minimum wage, in the presence of a pre-existing progressive income-tax, not only negates any nominal-increases to the gross-income of a worker, but only succeeds in enriching the government!
How can raising the minimum wage make any tangible difference, when the more you earn, the more you're charged for taxes? It doesn't make any sense. And where are these taxes of ours going-toward, anyway? The same foreign, no-win wars that the left pretends to vitriolically oppose. Consistency, anyone?..
So, in-short, we are resisting this idea that racism is only bad when white people are doing it. That colonialism is only bad when white people are doing it. That group-identity and in-group preference are only bad when white people are doing it. And MOST OF ALL: that we owe anybody anything, merely by virtue of existing as white people; especially when those demands are placed-upon us from the moment of our birth, as if to impose yet another twisted perversion of universal Social-Contract (a concept we invented, lest we forget).
If that is to be our new Social-Contract – to service every other race, at the expense of ourselves – then we're opting-out.


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OK, so these episodes of Office Hours are always my favorite. This week I left the topic open ended and planned on discussing various items in EMS that are making the news etc. Josh began with an overview of his EMT CC course and then it evolved into EMS exams, their short comings and how they don't necessarily mean a provider knows what they are doing by passing them. While I agree most EMS exams don't give an accurate picture of competence, I think they can be a tool that is part of a bigger evaluation process. Take a listen and be sure to post your comments below.
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Thanks to Tim and Bob for joining us and lending their insight.
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Looking for some easy healthy recipes this spring? Try these Caprese Skewers that is simply prepared Italian salad using cherry tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, fresh basil, and olive oil. Prepared in less than 15 minutes, it looks good on the table and tastes just as good. The best part? It's a great recipe for your little ones to help with. Spring lunches are meant to be easy, healthy, and full of fresh ingredients. Whether you love fresh vegetables and fruits or you enjoy fresh meats that are grilled or baked, we think you'll love this Caprese Skewers recipe.
Spring Lunch: How to Make Easy Healthy Recipes
Easy Healthy Recipes: Caprese Skewers
Yields: 10 servings
30 cherry tomatoes or grapes
30 fresh basil leaves
4 ounces part-skim mozzarella cheese, cut into ½ inch cubes
2 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Healthy Lunch Directions:
- Thread tomatoes, basil leaves, mozzarella cheese cubes alternatively onto 10 (6 inch) wooden skewers. Place them on a serving platter.
- In a small bowl, combine vinegar and oil, and stir well with a whisk. Drizzle vinegar mixture evenly over skewers, and sprinkle salt and pepper. Either serve immediately, or cover and chill until ready to serve.
More Healthy Lunch Ideas
Spring is finally upon us and it's time to eat fresh using local ingredients. If like us, you love picking up seasonal vegetables, but are wondering what to do with your bounty, these healthy salad recipes will inspire you next time you are in the kitchen.
We love these other healthy lunch ideas:
- Cooking Light features delicious healthy lunches that are time savers too!
- Fitness magazine has a yummy article featuring 10 healthy sandwiches
- These healthy bowl lunch recipes are perfect for workdays!
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These Caprese Skewers are perfect for those looking to add some easy healthy recipes to their spring menu. Each layer is loaded with bold yet fresh flavors that combine in a bite that is beyond description. Make loads of these because they won't last long!
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Bailey Coffee Table
If you have been on a quest for the perfect coffee table, we're pleased to introduce you to the Bailey Coffee Table in Oak. This table is just the right size to tuck into the middle of your living room, between a couch and a few chairs. It can hold drinks on top, and on the bottom you can store items you tend to leave scattered around the house, such as TV remotes and magazines. Once you add this to your living room, you'll wonder how you ever went without it.
You can customize our Bailey Coffee Table in Oak to match your existing décor. You can choose from five different types of wood, including cherry and maple. You also get to pick the stain for your wood. Want something a little lighter? Choose MX or Fruitwood. Need to go darker? Acres and Asbury may be your best bets. Other features of our coffee table include:
– Tapered feet
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– Full-extension drawer slides
Our Bailey Coffee Table in Oak is crafted by Amish artisans, who learned the trade of furniture-making from their parents and grandparents. They were schooled in the traditional ways, which they continue to use today. Why not employ newer technology? Because the traditional way works. Our furniture is sturdy and durable. Many of our customers keep it for years, eventually handing it down to their own children.
We offer an everyday discount of up to 33 percent off our regular prices. We also help you save more money by posting monthly specials on our homepage. Get in touch with us today to receive more information about the Bailey Coffee Table in Oak.


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if anyone there was familiar with any of the Slavic languages
The Wicked Witch calls herself Zelena. Which literally means green in Czech, Slovak and Slovene, and sounds familiar to green in a bunch of others, like Polish and Russian.
If they knew that connotation, they'd at least be slightly more suspicious about her Storybrooke persona.


text: I started my career at Regis Salons in Rosedale, I was selected as one of the top 65 colorists in the nation, in four separate competitions. I went to business school while working as a stylist so I could have my life long dream to open my own salon. Meghan and I established Hair Matters in 2001 and have developed a substantial clientele. Most recently, I have earned the title of Ambassador for TIGI, As an Ambassador. I attend hair shows on the latest trends in hairstyling and products as well as provide training to other stylists as and educator on TIGI products. The only thing I want people to know about me is that I truly enjoy going to work every day. Not many of us can say that. I have been doing hair since 1995 and have enjoyed establishing long term relationships with my clients. I've seen many of them marry, have kids and now I'm the one they go to for their kids first haircuts.


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Soapstone is a natural stone that consists mainly of talc and chlorate. This is very dense stone weighing an average of 20 pounds per square foot! It is a non-porous stone and will not absorb liquids and stains like other natural stones will. Soapstone is also heat resistant. Setting a hot pot on your soapstone countertop won't scorch or burn it. In fact, some cookware is made of soapstone. If you decide on a soapstone countertop, don't cut on it. Soapstone is soft, so soft that it can be scratched with a fingernail. Over time, the edges will soften and you will start to see small nicks, scratches and indentations. If you like the aged, antique look, the patina of this natural stone may be perfect for you. It will age gradually and gracefully. Soapstone is best known for its heat retention. It is used extensively for fireplace wood stoves, masonry fireplaces, fireplace liners and pizza ovens because of it's high resistance to heat. It's also used for sinks, countertops, island tops, chess sets, sills, flooring and shower stalls.
A traditional use of soapstone was the laboratory tabletop in chemistry labs. That application alone should serve as a great testimonial to the chemical resistance of the materials.


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AJS becomes Wood Protection Association memberPosted: 5th June 2018
A&J Scott are delighted to announce membership of the Wood Protection Association (WPA).
The WPA is the technical and advisory organization for the wood pre-treating industry in the UK dedicated to improving the performance of wood as the sustainable construction material of choice.
One of the goals of the WPA is to improve the time of use of treated timber through a unified treatment standard. In order to achieve this the organisation takes part in preparation and provision of British treatment standards and is advisory body in implementing the standards.
A&J Scott treat in excess of 80,000m3 of sawn timber annually using Tanalith and Tanatone preservative solution at the company's Northumberland site. Robert Scott, Managing Director, said, "As one of the UK's leading independent suppliers of pressure treated timber fencing products, it's a pleasure to be joining the UK centre of excellence for wood protection technical and quality developments".


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Me and My Pony is a nice dress up game featuring a farm girl and her faithful steed. Not only do you have a variety of options for setting up the beautiful horse, but you can pick out the attire and hairstyle for the girl as well! The background of red barn, blue sky, and green grass gives a strong basic palette to the scene and lends itself to a variety of clothing options.
Me and My Pony begins with the horse and the girl both not wearing anything (except knickers and a halter top on the lass), and you can choose between various skin and main colors for the horse, and hair color for the girl. That's just the beginning, however.
The eager equine can also be fitted with a variety of saddles, and the lovely little lady can be given belts, two different styles of cowboy hats, boots, jeans, daisy dukes, shirts, or odd midriff baring but long sleeved shirts. All told, there are more than 50 options, possible combinations and permutations available in Me and My Pony game.
My personal favorites: blonde hair, green plaid midriff shirt, brown jeans, and brown boots. Also, red hair, brown belt with gold buckle, brown boots, brown gloves, blue plaid shirt, and white jeans with no hat.
Pro Tips: Don't use the Reset button if you want to remove a given item. Just click again on the item that's already showing, and it will disappear entirely.
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