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It was pointless trying to make any further, completely futile attempt to sleep. The excitement was far, far too great. So after three hours of tossing and turning in the dark, I got up and showered and changed into my travel gear.
The Odyssey had officially begun. There was now no turning back.
At 4.30, my son Danny drove me into the Jolimont Centre in Civic and at precisely 5am the Murrays Bus pulled out on to Northbourne Avenue in downtown Canberra. There were just 7777 miles left to reach Los Angeles, as the coach and Delta Airlines crow fly. I was finally on my way, as ready<|fim_middle|> it looks like it was a great weekend. Thank you for this fantastic journal, and welcome to our side of the world! | as I would ever be.
A calmness had at last started to creep over me, and those milling thoughts of the adventure that lay ahead couldn't stop me nodding off by Watson. Thirty-five minutes down the Federal Highway, however, I was jolted awake, startled by the sound of screeching brakes. I looked up to see the bus skewing, almost now sideways, towards the ditch and high embankment on the left side of the road. As always in traffic scares like this, time went rapidly into slo-mo, allowing too ample an opportunity for all the worst of notions to course through my head: Would the bus stop before it hit the solid earth wall? Would I survive the crash in this darkness? Would I ever make it to Ohio in one piece? More importantly, would the typewriters in my case be OK? Perhaps Danny could post them on to Richard Polt, once salvaged from the wreckage, along with my decaying bones.
The woman beside me looked back in wide-eyed fright at her friend in the seats behind us. "Kangaroo," the friend said. One more road kill, not enough to end this pilgrim's progress.
"OK," she said, strapping a large, bright red "Heavy Baggage" label to my suitcase handle.
After the kangaroo scare at Eaglehawk 25 miles outside Canberra, by now already a distant, fading memory, the signs for a successful trip were starting to look very, very good indeed. The pre-flight safety video shown on board the Delta Airline plane featured – yes, you guessed it, a portable manual typewriter! It was a little Czech Consul, and the clip showed one how to stow it under an economy-class passenger seat.
Fortunately, the previous day the latest HBw-Aktuell had arrived from Peter Muckermann in Germany, so with Richard Polt's English-language summary, I had plenty of good reading material for the flight to LA. It was a reminder, too, that I would be covering the Chestnut Ridge gathering for Peter's magazine.
The Delta jet was pushed by tail winds right across the Pacific and on through the International Dateline and seven hour-wide time zones, so we landed in Los Angeles at 6am, 45 minutes early and 20 hours "before" I had left Sydney. We had flown from Australia at 10.45am on Thursday, October 11, 2013, landing in LA that very same morning. Yet the 7500-mile flight had taken 13 hours, setting me up nicely to win Herman Price's "longest journey to reach Chestnut Ridge" prize.
The only immediate problem was that United States customs workers don't clock on until 6.30, so we sat in the plane for half an hour waiting for them to receive us. I figured I still had a ton of time to clear border control and customs and catch my onward flights.
"They still use them?" the young man asked.
From there it was on to Kansas City and then Cincinnati, crossing three more time zones on the way. So it was 7pm when I reached Ohio (well, strictly speaking, North Kentucky). Richard Polt had emailed ahead. "Keep following the signs to baggage claim," he wrote, "and you'll find me." I knew I would. He had, happily, warned me he was six feet seven tall. And sure enough, from 30 yards ahead of me, to my left, a tall man sprung to his feet and waved. How often, I wondered, does one receive such a warm, friendly greeting from one of the greatest heroes in one's life?
Richard drove me to his home, where I met his charming wife Julia and daughter Amelia. We sat around, downing a couple of beers and chewing the fat on ancient global maps, boat people, the ills of Facebook and other world woes. Oh, and there was some talk of typewriters, too.
The next morning, while Richard took Amelia to school and got ready to go to Xavier University, I had the chance to have a close look at his incredible collection of typewriters, in his study and also downstairs in the basement, where there was a little gold mine of machines, all waiting for Richard's attention – and many of them destined for sale on behalf of WordPlay.
I went with Richard to his office at Xavier. There I had, to my utter delight, my first reaching-distance look at the very typewriters I have been coveting from images on Richard's The Classic Typewriter Page for at least a decade or more. I must stress reaching-distance, because while Richard encouraged me to take them down from their shelves and type with them, I sensed an overwhelming fear of being an Alice in Wonderland, and that at any moment a Mad Hatter would jump from the typebasket of a Crandall and it would all end in a sea of tears if not heartbreak. Coveted, did I say? I was a bull virgin in a Bunny Club!
With Richard's breathtaking collection of typewriters safely locked away, I sat in on two of his fascinating lectures, first on Plato's The Republic and then on Pascal's Pensées. Richard included me in the handout of questionnaires. "Why aren't 'metaphysical proofs of God' enough?" (pp 55-56). It took me a full day to find the answer, and it came in the shape of a Masspro portable typewriter in Fairmont. But more of that later. By mid-afternoon we were on our way to West Virginia, with plenty of other things to catch up on.
At Clarksburg Richard spotted what looked like a good place for dinner. But as he reached for the door of the restaurant, from the darkness to our left a giant, mechanical tarantula pounced, its red eyes glowing. It was just as well Richard only jumped two feet in the air, as at six feet seven, he might otherwise have bumped his head on the ceiling beam, as if he'd bitten into Alice's "Eat Me" cake. As it was, the tarantula attack did little to settle our digestive systems.
By 9pm we had navigated our way through the black autumnal forest of Fairmont and found the Chestnut Ridge Typewriter Museum - with, over the last mile, the help of Herman Price's "Typers" signs. I felt a pinch of trepidation as I walked inside. From unlit places outside the house, and from stairwells leading down to deep treasure troves of typewriters, one by one emerged the embodiments of all the other great men I have so admired so much for so very long: Herman Price, Will Davis, Peter Weil, Paul Robert, Martin Howard, Alan Seaver, Mike Brown. They seemed able to recognise me. Their faces beamed, they held out such welcoming hands, they said such kind, wonderful things. I was being embraced by the masters. They wanted to make me feel that I was one of them. There were even moments when I felt tempted to believe that that was possibly so.
Richard had begun to worry that, after two days of such arduous travel, the strain would start to show and I would begin to wilt. But the adrenalin was pumping. So many people to meet, so many typewriters to see. So much typewriter talk to exchange. The first night of the gathering flowed on into in the wee small hours of the second morning. I felt that, even after Richard and I had reached our hotel in Morgantown, I would still not be able to sleep. Did such excitement know any bounds?
NEXT – Day Two: The Presentations, the Awards and the Competitions. And the Chestnut Ridge museum typewriters!
Lovely write up. I'm looking forward to seeing much more!
Very glad you enjoyed your visit. Thank you for such a detailed post of your adventures.
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I'm Betsy Sullivan,<|fim_middle|> choirs
· Planning music, assigning solos, recruiting instrumentalists, and piano accompaniment for our monthly Taizé prayer
· Assignment of musicians for parish funerals
· Oversight of the maintenance of all musical equipment, including the piano and organ
· Attendance at staff meetings and gatherings, and support the music needs of other parish ministries
· Researching new music options
· Arrangement and adaptation of music for our particular situation
· Maintenance, organization and updating of music files
· Consultation in larger projects, such as our renovation a few years ago
A little about my background: I grew up in Richfield, where I attended Assumption grade school (one of the 'parent' schools of Blessed Trinity), and Holy Angels. I went on to receive a B.A. in Liturgical Music and Piano Performance from the College of St. Benedict, and an M.A. in Liturgical Music (with an emphasis on vocal/choral music) from St. John's University.
Prior to coming to St. Richard, I served as the Director of Music at Mary, Mother of the Church (Burnsville) for 13 years and before that, as the Liturgist and Music Director at Corpus Christi parish (Roseville) for 6 years. During my time at Corpus Christi, I married one of my volunteers, guitarist Mike Barrett. We now have two grown sons, Jack and Charlie, who are also musical and who sometimes get roped into playing their brass instruments for special masses at Saint Richard.
Besides serving as the part-time music director at our parish, I also teach singing to future priests at the Saint Paul Seminary, and sing professionally with the Minnesota Chorale.
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"Shelter Me"
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Recorded by St. Richard's music ministry (cantors John Kohlhaas and Donna Kavanaugh), Fr. J Michael Joncas' new hymn is a gift to us all during this time of pandemic. Until we can all gather to lift our voices to God together, pray with this in your home.
Reproduced with permission. Copyright 2020. The Jan Michael Joncas Trust. All rights reserved.
Spiritual Resources are Online Here
In addition to posting general information, we are committed to supporting our parish family spiritually through resources on this website. This includes links to online Mass broadcasts, reflections on scripture, even virtual Stations of the Cross and a guide to home reconciliation. We invite you to check back regularly.
Meet Our Staff: Betsy Sullivan, Music Director
- Betsy Sullivan
Betsy is the longest-serving member of our professional staff. If you have attended a liturgy at St. Richard in the past 17 years, you have heard the fruits of her ministry.
- Betsy Sullivan (2013)
I love Lent! I love the feeling of getting down to basics, cleaning out the junk in our lives, and making a fresh start. I love the sense that spring is coming, and winter is nearly done; even though our yards and roads are still covered by ice and snow and our trees are bare and gray, the light lasts a little bit longer every day.
RSS Feed More News | and I'm the Director of Music here at St. Richard's Catholic Church. I began by serving as our choir director/accompanist for the 9:00am mass in 2002 and I have been the Director of Music for the entire parish since 2009.
What does a Director of Music Do? I have the honor of overseeing and enhancing the musical prayer of our community. I work half-time (20 hours a week), including Masses, rehearsals and some office time. My duties include:
· Serving as pianist/organist for parish liturgies (weekends, holy days, school masses,)
· Recruitment, training, support, scheduling, directing and appreciation for volunteer cantors, choir members, and instrumentalists
· Selection all music for parish liturgies, after consulting with the Worship Commission, our pastor Fr. Mark, and our Director of Liturgy Cindy Nedved. Communication of music plans to all volunteers and accompanists, and evaluation of those plans
· Planning and directing weekly Tuesday evening rehearsals for our combined | 220 |
One of the boldest ideas I have ever encountered entered my awareness at age three. That was the first time I can recall hearing the song, "Row, Row, Row Your Boat." From the moment I heard it, I have been intrigued by that last verse: "Life is but a dream."
Maybe the verse is just poetic license--a whimsical notion intended only to amuse and delight. But what if it turned out that life really is a dream? How would we know? The main characteristic of a dream is that it is a product of our imagination. We fill each dreams with people, places, events, and other elements that we create ourselves. Everything in the dream is a product of our psyche. For example, we may take in the scent of a rose in the dream, but when we awaken, we know that this was not an actual rose--just a symbolic representation.
Waking life is the gold standard to which we compare our dreams. We know that a dream is not real because it differs in remarkable ways from the characteristics of waking reality. The practice of lucid dreaming as taught by my friend and colleague Stephen<|fim_middle|>."
Given the illusory nature of what we call waking reality, why can we agree on so many things? You and I would probably give identical answers to these questions: What is the date today? Who is the President of the United States? Which two teams are playing in the World Series? It would make sense that you and I share the same reality, which is the basis of our consistency with one another. But what if we agree to the extent that we are of like mind? Your reality and my realty might overlap only because of similarities in terms of how, when, and where we were raised, not to mention what we were taught and our common genetics.
Most of the time that you are dreaming, you are not lucid. In other words, you do not know that it's a dream. And for that matter, neither does anyone else that you encounter in the dream. Rarely does another individual approach you in the dream and say, "Hey, this is not real." Everyone in your dream is equally caught up in this reality that you imagined. Seeing through the facade is not easy.
The same might be true for the dream of waking reality. What would it take to experience "lucid waking"? How would you be able to recognize that the seemingly concrete reality in which you are immersed in your waking life is actually a product of your imagination? This is a major theme in all of my writings--especially Deep Creativity. If we can see through the very compelling illusion of objective reality (Einstein: "Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one"), then we are faced with some enormous and extremely exciting questions?
What would it be like to awaken fully from the dream of waking reality?
Who is the one that is dreaming this dream?
If this reality is just a dream, can we change it? If so, how do we do it?
What is the point of it all? Why do we have this dream in the first place?
When and how did this dream begin? When and how does it end?
How do we stay lucid? And what advantages are there to doing so?
Lucid dreaming can begin with the recognition that we are living in a dream, but the more advanced practice involves the use of intention to shift the direction of that dream. So, if this waking life is also a dream, and you could experience lucid waking, what would you change? How would you want the dream to proceed? To answer these questions requires vision, as I wrote about in a previous blog. Having a compelling vision for yourself, your community, and your world has to be the starting place for creating meaningful positive change. So, in our "Play Inspired, Stay Inspired" workshop this Saturday, October 27, that is exactly where we will begin! | LaBerge revolves around the notion of a reality check. In order to realize that you are dreaming while you are in the dream, you might move to a nearby wall and flip a light switch. If something out of the ordinary happens (e.g., a foghorn blares or fountains of water shoot out of the floor), then you have a clue that you are in a dream as opposed to waking reality.
But the problem with a reality check is that waking reality itself may not be all that real. The constructivist viewpoint in psychology says that everything we know to be true is a construction of the human mind. We create symbolic representations of everything we experience in our waking life: plants, animals, objects, locations, other people, and even ourselves. We might assume that beyond these symbols lies an objective reality that any sane person can recognize, but this assumption was dispelled by quantum physicists nearly a century ago. As one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics, Erwin Schrodinger, stated so eloquently, "The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one | 229 |
Ferguson Books & More in N.Dak. Opens Fourth Location
Ferguson Books & More held a soft opening and ribbon cutting last weekend for its fourth store, in Dickinson, N.Dak., the Dickinson Press reported. The company also has stores in West Fargo, Grand Forks<|fim_middle|>. I'm definitely not as well read as my staff, which makes us a strong company because they're, you know, flying through books left and right, while I'm flying down the highway, trying to get things going and taking care of my four boys." | and Bismarck, and offers pop-up book sales throughout the Dakotas, Minnesota and occasionally in Montana.
The new location was previously home to the Odd Fellows Lodge Bar, but development of the Dickinson Town Square enabled the group to move its bar events and lease the space to owner Dane Ferguson.
Ferguson Books is a regional chain started by the owner and his brother Taylor in 2010, during an economic recession, the Press noted. Dane Ferguson said there had been a public outcry in Grand Forks, which lost multiple chain bookstores: "I was like, 'Well I guess I'm foolish enough to start my own business at 24. So we'll give it a shot,' " He now runs the operation with help from his wife, Elizabeth, and business partner Roger Sutton.
Ferguson observed that he remains focused on connecting customers with the books they love: "We've made a lot of mistakes along the way.... We just try to persevere through it, keep a growth mindset and figuring out, you know, this is what communities want. We took a bet back in 2010, when everyone kind of wrote us off like Blockbuster because media was being streamed and consumed differently. But reading a book on a printed page is a totally different experience than reading something digitally on your phone or tablet. And we knew that."
Ferguson added that books are a family passion: "My wife and I, one of our pastimes is browsing for books. Like I've collected books my whole life | 311 |
In mathematics, a universal graph is an infinite graph that contains every finite (or at-most-countable) graph as an induced subgraph. A universal graph of this type was first constructed by Richard Rado and is now called the<|fim_middle|> with edges, and that bounded-degree planar graphs have universal graphs with edges. It is also possible to construct universal graphs for planar graphs that have vertices.
Sumner's conjecture states that tournaments are universal for polytrees, in the sense that every tournament with vertices contains every polytree with vertices as a subgraph.
A family of graphs has a universal graph of polynomial size, containing every -vertex graph as an induced subgraph, if and only if it has an adjacency labelling scheme in which vertices may be labeled by -bit bitstrings such that an algorithm can determine whether two vertices are adjacent by examining their labels. For, if a universal graph of this type exists, the vertices of any graph in may be labeled by the identities of the corresponding vertices in the universal graph, and conversely if a labeling scheme exists then a universal graph may be constructed having a vertex for every possible label.
In older mathematical terminology, the phrase "universal graph" was sometimes used to denote a complete graph.
The notion of universal graph has been adapted and used for solving mean payoff games.
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The panarborial formula, "Theorem of the Day" concerning universal graphs for trees
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Infinite graphs | Rado graph or random graph. More recent work
has focused on universal graphs for a graph family : that is, an infinite graph belonging to F that contains all finite graphs in . For instance, the Henson graphs are universal in this sense for the -clique-free graphs.
A universal graph for a family of graphs can also refer to a member of a sequence of finite graphs that contains all graphs in ; for instance, every finite tree is a subgraph of a sufficiently large hypercube graph
so a hypercube can be said to be a universal graph for trees. However it is not the smallest such graph: it is known that there is a universal graph for -vertex trees, with only vertices and edges, and that this is optimal. A construction based on the planar separator theorem can be used to show that -vertex planar graphs have universal graphs | 180 |
'Here for good' – Mourinho has last laugh as<|fim_middle|>ley Maitland-Niles transfer with reports stating the deal...
January 3 2022, 12:45 pm | Tottenham target commits to Roma
Date published: Saturday 2nd October 2021 10:11 - Samuel Bannister
Jose Mourinho said he was never in doubt after seeing his Roma captain Lorenzo Pellegrini renew his contract after links with his former club Tottenham Hotspur, as well as fellow Premier League side Liverpool.
Pellegrini has signed a new contract with Roma until 2026, the Serie A side have confirmed. It ends months of fears for them, given that his previous deal was due to expire at the end of the season. Even prior to then, he had a €30m release clause in his old deal that looked inviting.
The attacking midfielder is a Rome-born academy graduate of the club from the Italian capital. He spent two years away at Sassuolo before returning to his hometown club in 2017, where he has grown into a key player since.
Pellegrini became Roma's captain earlier this year and kept turning heads with his performances. Initially gaining a reputation for making many assists, he has also been adding goals to his game.
A number of clubs were thus interested, including Tottenham, whose Italian managing director Fabio Paratici was well aware of what Pellegrini would add.
In addition, Liverpool were believed to be looking after losing a key component of their midfield with the summer exit of Georginio Wijnaldum.
But they have all been disappointed after Pellegrini made the decision that always seemed most likely, officially committing to Roma for another five years.
Although not taunting his former club specifically, Mourinho was always confident Pellegrini would choose to stay at his disposal rather than leave for someone like Spurs.
"It's what I've already said before. He's a quality player, a talisman, a Rome kid and a Roma fan who has grown up here and become captain here," Mourinho said.
"From the moment I heard the ownership say they didn't want to lose him, from the moment Lorenzo told me face-to-face that he would definitely stay, even before any agreement, then from that moment it was all part of a process.
"It was in the hands of [Roma general manager] Tiago Pinto and Lorenzo's agent. It took a few weeks, but we knew it would finish as it has done.
"It's the right decision for the club and also for Lorenzo. We talked about it. For us as a club stability is important. I am here for three years; he's here for good now."
Pellegrini has been Roma's best player in their first 10 matches under Mourinho. He already has five goals and one assist from seven appearances under the ex-Tottenham boss.
But any hopes Premier League clubs had of signing him have now been ended for the foreseeable future.
Pellegrini explains decision
The player confirmed that the bond between himself and the club and city were key to his decision not to look elsewhere.
"It's impossible for me to explain this feeling. It's what I've always wanted – to cement this bond between myself and my team and my city," Pellegrini said.
"You couldn't imagine a greater feeling than this.
"I feel truly honoured that the ownership, Tiago [Pinto] and the coach have always considered me so important; I will try to repay that faith every day on the pitch by giving 110 per cent and doing everything I can to keep improving."
He also suggested Mourinho has had an impact on his belief in his current club's project.
"We're improving all the time, both individually and as a team. I'm sure we'll do well," the Italy international added.
"A while ago I already mentioned that I sensed something different in Trigoria this season, in the dressing room, on the pitch. It feels different. That's down to the coach and his staff and the way we feel going out to train.
"I always come in for training happy and proud to be here. I'm delighted to be able to show that by signing this new contract because I believe 100% in Roma."
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I was honored to be invited to speak the other day to a leadership conference of the American College of Surgeons about medical malpractice. They assured me I could leave my bullet-proof vest at home, and true to their word, the assembled surgeons were cordial and asked excellent questions. Even better, they told me how helpful it was to hear from an attorney for injured patients and how they plan to do it again.
Is this reform something you would advocate if the tables were turned, and instead of speaking for doctors you were advocating for a family member injured by care at some medical institution other than your own?
I feel honored to be here. You might see me<|fim_middle|> is fair to the participants, in several fundamental ways. I can think of at least three.
First, our justice system is even-handed. The same rules apply to both sides.
Second, our justice system respects the uniqueness of each human litigant. There are no pre-fab boxes that people are stuffed into. On the patient's side, that means you get to try to prove the full dimensions of the injury, with no artificial barriers like one-size-fits-all damages caps, or set schedules of payments like so much for an eye, so much for a brain. On the health care provider's side, it means proving what was unique to the care in your case that might justify the care and explain the injury.
Third, our justice system respects and maximizes the freedom of the litigants. Each side runs its own lawsuit. Each litigant hires whatever lawyer he wants, pays him whatever they negotiate, hires whatever expert witnesses they want, and then they present their cases in a courtroom presided over by a professional judge trained in neutrality, and usually decided by a jury drawn from a cross-section of the community. | as an adversary. After all, I have sued many of your member surgeons. In fact, I think we are natural allies. And I think the more we recognize how closely allied the leaders of the American surgeons are with attorneys who represent injured patients, the better we can make progress in our shared goals.
What do we both want? Your profession and mine both want high quality surgical care for all patients – where the right patient gets the right operation at the right time, done in the right way, by the right surgeon.
Second goal: to fix the harm to the individual patient. In the kinds of tragic injuries that I and other patient advocates work with – the patient's health cannot be restored. So our civil justice system uses money as a poor but necessary substitute – to compensate the patient with money for what cannot be replaced in kind.
"Compensate" comes from a Latin word meaning: to weigh one thing against another – literally to balance things out. That's what justice does.
Yours is an ancient and esteemed profession. Every day, surgeons across America cure disease, relieve pain, and make lives better.
I see what we attorneys for injured patients do as another form of healing – helping to restore broken lives to some measure of independence and dignity. Helping to balance things out.
Part of the legal healing process that health care providers should want to encourage is restoring the patient's trust in their own doctors and nurses. Trust is a vital ingredient in health care. When injured patients are treated fairly in the legal system, it helps restore their trust.
About our American civil justice system, I feel the same way that Winston Churchill felt about the democratic form of government: Democracy, he said, is definitely the worst form of government … "except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Likewise, the civil justice system is easy to criticize. It's too expensive, it takes too long to reach resolution, it can be emotionally difficult on all the participants.
But it's not broken. And like other democratic institutions, nothing better has been invented for the fair resolution of disputes. Our system | 424 |
Cut your grocery bill in<|fim_middle|>500 a month. Put it to good use.
What tips or tricks do you have to control your grocery spending? | half with simple tips you can start doing today.
Home in on your grocery bill and get a grip on your family budget.
Depending on the size of your family (and age of your kids) your average food bill will fluctuate.Work on devising a plan to curtail this MAJOR expense by using the list below for ideas.
Saving money on groceries has the potential to save your budget.
Shop sales, stock up during sales and match coupons with sale items.
Sign up for sales flyers from the stores you frequent. You can also hop onto their websites to learn what's on sale for the week. I keep a "stock up" list on my fridge that my husband and I update throughout the week with items we need. You can find it in my free downloads here.
Using the Sunday newspaper and printing coupons at SmartSource.com, I collect all my coupons and store them in my Couponizer. Most weeks I can totally match up several coupons with items on sale. Our average shopping trip is easily reduced by $50 – $70 using this method.
I totally recommend TheKrazyCouponLady for a complete education on clipping coupons and shopping sales!
Shop only 1-2 times per week with a weekly meal plan and a list.
You will spend less money if you're not at the store as often (pretty simple). Plus, if you head in there with a list and actually stick to it, you'll spend even less.
I usually have my Couponizer and the sales flyers (or website opened) and sit down at my desk to make out our meal plan for the week. I make meals out of what we already have on hand and with what is on sale for the week.
By incorporating some meatless meals into your meal plan, you will save a little more. Don't forget about your slow cooker (makes for easy meals) and incorporating seasonal produce into your meal plan.
Be sure to never shop hungry. When you're walking down the aisle's starving, you're setting yourself up for failure.
I found this awesome site, Yumm.com. It's basically an online recipe holder. Talk about making things handy when you can't think of any meals for the week.
Use what you have on hand, eat leftovers and use your freezer.
Of course, before you sit down to make out the weeks meal plan, check your cupboards first. Likely, you already have a meal or two you could plan for (or a least some of the fixins' for a meal).
Don't forget to assign one or two meals during the week as strictly leftovers. Here's a free download that I also keep on the fridge for the weeks meals.
Use your freezer to reserve in season fruits and vegetables and to stock up on good deals. You can also make a larger portion meal and eat half and freeze the other half. It makes for easy meals when you're short on time or just don't feel like cooking. EverythingMom has an awesome freezer meal cooking, tips and recipe resource you should check out.
Plant a garden, avoid dining out and cook from scratch.
Cut down on junk food and incorporate more fresh fruits and vegetables (and herbs). If you have the space, planting an outdoor garden would be ideal. Even growing a nice herb garden in your window sill would be cool. I've been wanting to do this for months. I just saw Martha Stewart on the Today Show talking about an indoor garden!
Eating out can easily drain your budget. Meal planning and brown bagging it will save you here. You can put aside a day each month and cook your brains out, freeze the meals and only have the microwave time for prep when it's time for dinner. Here's a link on this Mega-Cooking idea, for some tips and tricks.
Create a price book and set a firm budget.
Have a system for tracking prices. All it takes is a small notebook and pencil. This is a power tool for super market savings! It will help you recognize and establish a target price and tell you when to stock up. Here's a free price book template and some more directions from OrganizedHome.com.
Here's an excellent resource on how to set a grocery budget from FaithfulProvisions.com.
In order to know exactly where your money goes when it comes to food and household necessities, you need to start tracking it now.
It will be a huge help in eliminating all that nasty debt and in helping create a tidy budget.
Get a good handle on what you spend. It's easy to ball park an amount, but odds are you REALLY won't know unless you track it.
It's easy to toss a few bucks here for a burger and a couple bucks there for a cappuccino. Being mindless about throwing things into the grocery cart (especially if the kids are along) can become a very bad habit. Your spending becomes mismanaged. What do you have to show for it? Realistically… a few extra pounds (and less money).
Read through the list again and pick a couple things you don't do and incorporate it, today. You could easily shave an extra $200 – $ | 1,038 |
"I think this image really speaks to how much fun Pearl Jam have together as a band on stage. I guess it also speaks to my reflexes to be able to capture<|fim_middle|> have for post-grunge events like the Pearl Jam Mariners stadium shows I'm shooting this week. | this moment just as the mic is swinging under Stone's feet. I love it, because to me some of the best rock shots are those where the band is either interacting among themselves and/or the audience. And the best part of the shot: the guy way out in the audience, perfectly situated right in between Ed and Stone, standing with his arms outstretched, reacting to the moment. It's always the small details that make photographs perfect.
These Pearl Jam photos represent over 25 years of working with the band. They make me feel old and young simultaneously. I guess you could say these are part of what I'm now calling "The Grunge Years" which is also the working title of my next book I'm slowly assembling. A lot of this work (in fact most) was self-assigned, and the bands trusted me to do my thing and do well by them. It's still the agreement we | 186 |
Following Jesus requires sacrifice<|fim_middle|> Jesus is Lord, then he is the one who sets the agenda. There is no negotiating with him. The second someone attempts to negotiate the authority of a king then that person is no longer respecting or recognizing his authority as king. | . We must beware of any teaching that disregards this reality. Therefore, we must consider the question, "What has it cost me to follow Jesus?" And what are some things in life that could hold us back from truly being a follower of Jesus?
There's a scene in Mark's gospel that is the major turning point in the book and the decisive moment for the original disciples. Jesus is about to begin his journey to Jerusalem where he knows he will likely meet his death. His disciples cannot foresee or even comprehend what awaits him in Jerusalem, but in one more attempt to prepare them, Jesus declares what their allegiance to him demands of them.
The command is clear. If we want to follow Jesus then we have to devote ourselves to the denial of self. This means a complete willingness to turn away from the way we are currently thinking and living. We are no longer to live in order to satisfy ourselves; we are to live in order to serve Christ.
If Jesus is Lord, then he is the one who sets the agenda.
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Iran Offers to Take Steps Toward Easing Tensions with US
Iran signaled Thursday that it was willing to take steps to reduce the tensions over its nuclear program with the Trump administration.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told reporters in New York that Tehran would be open to more intrusive inspections of its nuclear program if Washington lifted its economic sanctions.
But the offer, which Zarif described as "a substantial move," was met with a tepid response.
A senior administration official told VOA on background, "The president has repeatedly said he is willing to have a conversation with Iranian leaders. If Iran wants to make a serious gesture, it should start by ending uranium enrichment immediately and having an actual decision-maker attempt to negotiate a deal that includes a permanent end to Iran's malign nuclear ambitions, including its development of nuclear-capable missiles."
The Trump administration has been tightening sanctions on Iran since the U.S. withdrew from the 2015 multilateral nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Program of Action.
Washington is trying to force Tehran to agree to stricter limits on its nuclear capacity, curb its ballistic missile program and end support for proxy forces in a regional power struggle with U.S.-backed Persian Gulf Arab states.
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مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد شیوه های مدیریت منابع انسانی و میزان آسیب های سازمانی – الزو<|fim_middle|>3).
مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد کاربرد فناوری دیجیتال در حرفه حسابداری برای دستیابی به اهداف تجاری – اسپرینگر ۲۰۲۳ 13 ژانویه 2022 - 19:05 | یر ۲۰۲۱
ترجمه عنوان مقاله شیوه های مدیریت منابع انسانی و میزان آسیب های سازمانی
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله Human resource management practices and organizational injury rates
نمایه (index) Scopus – Master Journals List – JCR – Medline
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مجله مجله تحقیقات ایمنی – Journal of Safety Research
دانشگاه Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada
کلمات کلیدی مدیریت منابع انسانی، صدمات، امنیت شغلی
کلمات کلیدی انگلیسی Human resource management – Injuries – Occupational safety
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2021.06.003
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Introduction: This study investigated the extent to which five human resource management (HRM) practices—systematic selection, extensive training, performance appraisal, high relative compensation, and empowerment—simultaneously predicted later organizational-level injury rates. Methods: Specifically, the association between these HRM practices (assessed via on-site audits by independent observers) with organizational injury rates collected by a national regulatory agency one and two years later were modeled. Results: Results from 49 single-site UK organizations indicated that, after controlling for industry-level risk, organization size, and the other four HRM practices, only empowerment predicted lower subsequent organizational-level injury rates. Practical Applications: Findings from the current study have important implications for the design of HRM systems and for organizational-level policies and practices associated with better employee safety.
The last three decades have seen considerable research interest in the effects of human resource management (HRM) systems on employee outcomes (e.g., Arthur, 1994, Becker and Huselid, 1998, Beijer et al., 2021, Boon et al., 2019, Delery and Doty, 1996, Huselid, 1995, MacDuffie, 1995, Toh et al., 2008, West et al., 2006, Youndt et al., 1996). A range of labels, such as 'high involvement management' (e.g., Forth & Millward, 2004), 'high commitment management' (e.g., Wood & de Menezes, 1998), and 'high performance work systems' (e.g., Huselid, 1995, Liao et al., 2009) have been used to describe various sets of organizational practices that aim to involve employees, generate employee commitment towards their work and the organization, and ultimately improve organizational performance.
Organizational practices that comprise HRM systems are "the specific methods and procedures that the organization adopts to implement the organization's principles and policies" (Posthuma, Campion, Masimova, & Campion, 2013, p. 1189). HRM systems comprise 'bundles' of these organizational practices that have complementary effects (Ogbonnaya, Daniels, Tregaskis, & Van Veldhoven, 2013), with each bundle of practices preferably "creating synergistic effects in which certain practices reinforce one another to increase organizational efficiency and effectiveness" (Posthuma et al., 2013, 1185). Many studies have focused on how these HRM systems are measured and how they affect performance (for reviews, see Boon et al., 2019, Godard, 2004, Wall and Wood, 2005, Wright et al., 2005). Most of these studies tend to concentrate on conventional financial and labor performance indices, to the neglect of more employee-centered criteria such as occupational health and safety (Delery and Gupta, 2016, Godard, 2004, Shaw and Delery, 200 | 921 |
The iPhone is a telephone evolved by Apple. The first iPhone changed into released in June 2007 and an updated model has been released kind of each 12 months on the grounds that then. Yet with all the capabilities there every now and then arises the want for phone maintenance.
Apple's first Internet-enabled smartphone, the smartphone combines the functions of a mobile telephone, Wi-Fi Internet tool, and iPod into one bundle. The Phone has a sleek, minimalist layout, and differs from different clever telephones in its loss of buttons. Most operations on the iPhone screen repair are achieved using the contact display. The iPhone screen repair 4, today's iPhone includes a 960 x 640-pixel "retina display," which has double the resolution of previous iPhone shows.
The Phone runs the IOS, a working system evolved with the aid of Apple for portable devices. There are hundreds of thousands of apps to be had from the App Store, which offer the iPhone with limitless capability.
What does an iPhone restore mean?
It can mean many various things so consequently the first step for you will be to apprehend precisely what the trouble is that you are having.
Is the glass cracked? Is the LCD behind it<|fim_middle|> organized if attempting a DIY restoration at home.
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Previous Post:Is You Ready for the Latest Internet speed test charter? | showing traces or is all of it white? If so, you want an iPhone repair known as iPhone 3GS Glass and LCD renovate. This would require many iPhone components and gear to be | 39 |
"Co-planning & Co-teaching Writing [MLA format]" by Kelly Chandler<|fim_middle|>, Janine; and Crandall, Bryan Ripley (2014) "Co-planning and Co-teaching in a Summer Writing Institute: A Formative Experiment," Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education: Vol. 3 : Iss. 2 , Article 3. | -Olcott, Janine Nieroda et al.
This paper reports findings from a two-year formative experiment (Reinking & Bradley, 2008) investigating a summer writing institute for students entering ninth grade at an urban high school. The three-week program was staffed by both university researchers and teachers. In contrast to traditional summer school, it was intended as enrichment, not remediation, for a heterogeneous group of students, and a learning experience, not just a teaching opportunity, for practitioners. The pedagogical goals of the intervention were two-fold: 1) increase students' writing engagement and skill, and 2) improve teachers' capacity to teach writing to diverse student populations. Findings focused on co-teaching and co-planning as supporting teacher learning, particularly in combination with each other.
Chandler-Olcott, Kelly; Nieroda | 176 |
The IMT recruitment process
The Physician Specialty Recruitment Office have coordinated recruitment to core level programmes in hospital medicine since 2008
The Physician Specialty Recruitment Office (PSRO) coordinates the recruitment process to the Internal Medicine Training (IMT) programme, which replaced Core Medical Training from August 2019.
The PSRO started life in 2008 based at the Royal College of Physicians and transferred to Health Education England, working on behalf of the four nations, in November 2018.
The team initially coordinated recruitment to core medical training (the programme that IMT is replacing) in England, with the process since growing to incorporate all four UK nations and acute care common stem (acute medicine). The team also coordinates recruitment to 24 specialties and the subspecialty of stroke medicine at ST3 level.
The process was intended to be fair, effective, strong, robust, transparent and efficient.
We believe that this has been achieved and the process receives very positive feedback each year from all stakeholders – candidates, clinicians and the four nations.
We work in partnership with the Royal College of Physicians to provide governance and intend to continue working to deliver a high-quality and robust recruitment process in future years, providing an excellent service to all stakeholders and helping to improve patient care by ensuring the standards required of new trainees.
The Royal College of Physicians plays a pivotal role in setting standards through a variety of activities, and influences the quality of medical practice. It conducts examinations, carries out training, education and research activities and advises the government and the profession on health and medical matters.
Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board
We also work closely with the JRCPTB in the management of the recruitment process.
What the JRCPTB do
The Joint Royal College of Physicians<|fim_middle|> in the UK on behalf of the Royal College of Physicians of London, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
This is achieved through excellence in curriculum design and implementation, and the recruitment and certification of trainees, while supporting the GMC in quality management. The JRCPTB aim to provide excellent service and support to stakeholders and aspire to the highest standards in physician training.
For more information please visit the JRCPTB website. | Training Board (JRCPTB) improves patient care by setting and maintaining standards for the highest quality of physician training | 23 |
Tweeting has rapidly become a mainstay in online communication, allowing people to share thoughts and observations that would otherwise remain in their head. Most students will be familiar with concept of tweeting; some may even have their own Twitter account. Tweeting can allow students to explore fun topics and be able to write more casually, since the structure<|fim_middle|>. You may want to repeat this activity once a week and change out the tweets each time. You could also start a class twitter account and post some tweets online.
If you are receiving this Tutor Tip through your email and the links above do not work, copy and paste each link into your browser to access the webpage. | behind tweets is fairly open. Learners can get creative with their writing without needing to follow stylistic conventions.
Select a topic that is of interest to learners, such as an upcoming field trip, a holiday, or a school event. You could also show a trailer for a movie, or preview a story that they are going to read in class.
Have the learners discuss the topic in small groups. The learners can talk about why they are interested in the topic, what they think they will see or learn, and ask any questions that they have about it.
After the groups have finished discussing, have each group work together to create a tweet about the topic. The tweets must be 140 characters or less, and should focus on one main idea. Bonus points in the groups include a hashtag! Once groups are finished writing their tweets, have them share them aloud with the rest of the class.
Tape the tweets up to a space on the wall so that everyone can read them | 198 |
The Internet has emerged as a versatile information repository tool that offers immense potential in optimizing the transactional dynamics of teaching and learning. In the context of a developed country such as Singapore, the Internet is an ubiquitous fixture in the ever expanding electronic learning landscape of the educational system. Hardware infrastructures are in place in schools in Singapore to enable them to be seamlessly connected to the Internet to tap the wide array of opportunities the Internet affords in providing a digital context of learning that extends cognitive apprenticeship from theoretical settings to applied, active instructional environments. However, having widespread access to Internet technologies doesn't translate to automatic positive learning gains. The power of technology needs to be combined with the expertise of pedagogy to form a potent partnership that elevates the quality of instructional delivery. This concern becomes particularly problematic when critical information literacy skills underpinning the success of Internet-based learning initiatives are self or peer taught, as it often happens in Singapore. Information literacy skills are too complex and diverse to be able to be readily learned through self-taught modes of knowledge acquisition by young learners. The baseline study elaborated in this paper attempts to document the Internet information search proficiencies of a sample of polytechnic students in Singapore to underscore the importance of systematic, intentional integration of information literacy skills within formal curriculum in schools.
Watson (2001) argues that actively seeking new information from a variety of resources, integrating the new information with what is already known, organizing the new information in coherent ways and explaining the newly understood knowledge to others are key skills that have to be developed in order to become successfully learners. Jakes, Pennington and Knodle (2002) support this line of inquiry with their assertion that unless students are trained in all the necessary process skills to be able to operate as independent learners, it will be difficult for them to manage the complexities of problem-based learning. They posit that meaningful implementation of a pedagogical approach based upon modalities of problem solving is directly tied to students' effective use<|fim_middle|> knowledge - the knowledge users have about the topic being searched.
Students can locate informational resources on the Web by either going directly to a target website, if known or using a search tool (Eagleton & Guinee, 2002). To facilitate the process of searching for information in the Internet, the Internet itself offers various search tools and applications to help us in our search endeavours. Directories, search engines and metasearch engines are some of the common Internet search tools (Monereo, Fuentes & Sanches, 2000).
Search engines and directories are the most ubiquitous tools that have been used to search for information in the Internet. Major search engines regularly undergo changes on a periodic basis to suit individual search requirements. Lawrence and Giles (1999) found in their study that many major search engines examined for coverage had minimal overlap of URLs in their return of results for each search query. Therefore, they recommended combining the results of multiple search engines to improve the coverage of web searches. Search directories such as the one that can be found in Yahoo! are databases that use hierarchical structures. Directories are an easy place to look for information on the web since people review the sites on them and group the sites into appropriate categories (Ackerman & Hartman, 2003; Jonassen, Howland, Moore & Marra, 2004). Search engines are the preferred tools when one is looking for very specific information whereas directories are useful when one wants to know more information on broad-based subjects such as general and popular topics. When one's search is carefully thought out with awareness of the exact term to be searched for, search engines serve best in locating relevant information. However, if one is unsure of the precise search term to use and wishes to avoid the overwhelming number of hits a search engine might return, then browsing directories will be more helpful in suggesting keywords and resources on the subject since directories tend to be better organized and selective. Though directories are much more focused and have higher quality links, they are usually smaller than search engines and thus, less effective when conducting exhaustive searches (Ackerman & Hartman, 2003; Schlein, 2003).
A meta search engine is one that searches across multiple search engines displaying records on the screen in any one of the different formats. Meta search engines are valuable because they provide a quick overview of what may be available on the web and make comparisons between the search results of the different search engines (Schlein, 2003). However, integration through cross-referencing from multiple search engines doesn't necessarily mean that meta-search engines are faster or more productive than regular, general purpose search engines. Results from meta-search engines are less precise since all regular search engines use arbitrary limitations on the number of results that are to be displayed and the acceptable length of time with no results. Meta-search engines also use only basic search procedures. They do not allow refinement of searches and do not have many of the advanced search services offered by individual search engines to handle complex searches (McGuire, Stillborne, McAdams & Hyatt, 2002).
In Singapore, the first Masterplan for Information Technology (IT) in Education (1997 – 2002) was a blueprint for the use of IT in schools. The required technological infrastructure and IT-enriched learning environments were put in place in Singapore schools (http://www3.moe.edu.sg/edumall/mpite/index.html).
The Masterplan II for IT in Education (MP2) was unveiled in 2002. The goals of MP2 were to consolidate and build on the achievements of the first Masterplan by focusing on the interaction amongst the components of curriculum, assessment, instruction, professional development, pupil learning and school culture and leveraging on technology to enhance these relations to bring about engaged learning.
As a result of MP1, Internet services which were only available in tertiary educational institutions up till 1993, are now available on a massive scale in all primary, secondary and junior colleges thus allowing all students an opportunity to be plugged into the global network. The Ministry, through MP1, has indeed rolled out an impressive technological infrastructure for schools to access the information highways of the Internet. The success of this technology roll-out initiative has to be measured based upon an evaluation of the effectiveness of the utility of technological affordances in schools towards facilitating more structured inquiry and engaged learning. Internet technologies alone do not guarantee automatic success of an educational endeavour. Rather Internet technologies need to be used to improve pedagogical processes by providing students with a platform to locate, verify and exchange dynamic information with one another. Students also need to be able to draw meanings by reflecting upon the content of the information they find online and make sense of its application (Jonassen, Howland, Moore & Mara, 2004).
The research site for this study was a polytechnic tertiary institution in Singapore. As a recently-established educational entity where premium is placed on innovative teaching practices, this polytechnic has implemented a problem-based learning methodology for all curriculum subjects and at all academic levels of study. This model hoped to encourage a pervasive learning culture of problem solving that would serve as the catalyst in provoking students to embrace new ideas, question the validity of both their own and others' viewpoints, engage in meaning-making and consensus building.
The participants of this study came from a class of 25 first-year students for the module of 'cognitive processes and problem solving' that the researcher facilitates. The students in the class ranged in ages from 17 to 19 and were an even mix in terms of gender distribution. Though coming from different schools of disciplinary specialization such as applied sciences, engineering and information and communications technology, this module of 'cognitive processes and problem solving' is a common subject for all first year students and thus, brought the participants together within the same class.
The main sources of data collection for the analysis phase were a structured survey and reflection journal entries. The survey consisting of six open-ended questions was administered to students to determine the levels of Internet information search literacy skills development amongst participant students during one of their regular classes (see Appendix). The survey addressed areas of students' conceptions about the Internet and the strategies they adopted during their periods of engagement with the Internet in search of educational information materials. At the end of each of the problem solving sessions, as an integral component of overall assessment and in response to a reflection journal trigger, students are instructed to post their thoughts on the learning gains for the day in their electronic reflection journals. For the specific purpose of this study a reflection journal trigger eliciting students' perceptions of the role of the Internet as an information diffusion medium and the techniques they employed in optimizing information searching was presented. Students' contemplative feedback in their electronic reflection journal entries on these issues of interest served as a rich source of data for analysis.
The descriptive data collected was primarily analysed through content analysis. Content analysis is a research tool that is widely used to determine the significance of certain words or concepts within texts or sets of texts. Researchers identify and analyze the presence, meanings and relationships between such words and concepts, then make context-specific inferences about the representative messages embedded within the texts.
The first question that was posed in the survey was "How did you learn to use the Internet?" This introductory question was meant to evaluate students' comfort levels in basically using the Internet. This question would provide evidence supporting the key presupposition that Singapore students are indeed largely left to their own independent devices in learning Internet information search skills. These skills are not intuitive and are not easily picked up through self directed learning or peer-tutoring.
Twenty-two out of the twenty-five students mentioned that all their attempts at learning to use the Internet was mainly through self-taught efforts, random trial and error or help from novice fellow students or friends. Only three students indicated that they learnt to use the Internet through intentional instruction provided by their primary/secondary schools. Most educational institutions have ample on-site Internet access points but providing access alone is simply not enough. The student feedback to this first question provided evidence that there is a lack of formal learning of information search literacy in schools and tertiary institutions. This issue is of significant importance and directly impacts polytechnic students since for many of them the polytechnic might be the last stage of their formal education before entering the adult working world. The business community is increasingly becoming digital information oriented, with prevalent dependence upon the Internet for information to enable problem solving and decision-making.
Only three informed students indicated in their responses that they would analyse the information requirements of a given problem solving task to examine for key words on the subject matter to be researched upon. One of these students commented thus, "Yes, I usually plan my information search. I first investigate what needs to be searched in the Internet by listing certain key words that might provide me with the information that I need or is close to what I need " (student H). However, interestingly, it was noted that none of these students explained the rationale behind generating keywords in carrying out information searching or specified how appropriate keywords could be effectively formulated.
Another eight students underscored the necessity of planning their Internet information search before actually embarking upon the search itself. Generally, these students knew that as with any other common everyday activity, planning is a crucial pre-requisite in Internet information searching endeavours to ensure attainment of successful problem solving outcomes. For example, one student (student Q) suggested that establishing a plan was critical for a fruitful search in order to narrow down the scope of search results and avoid being overwhelmed by an avalanche of irrelevant search hits. Student Q further reasoned that narrowing down the output of search results to more precise ones improves the search performance and facilitates finding needed information in the shortest possible time.
The fourth question in the survey probed students' patterns of preferences in using search engines and their supporting reasons. Not surprisingly, a majority of the students i.e. twelve students mentioned Yahoo! and another eight students stated Google. Yahoo! and Google have been found to be the two most popular choices of search engines amongst all Internet users. Three students also specified MSN, Ask Jeeves, Lycos and Ask.com.
Some of the reasons attributed by students to their preference for Yahoo! and Google include the wide popularity of these search engines, unfamiliarity with other search engines, the perceived relevance of the search results listed and the convenience of the features provided including offering of tool bars and presentation of brief information statements on each search result. Only one student (student X) made the compelling statement that "there is no one search engine I stick to …. usually, I run multiple searches simultaneously and get a variety of results to choose from." Another student (student Z) stated his preference for Wikipedia in looking for information pertaining to basic sciences. One well-informed student (student F) referred to Dogpile since it integrates the searching powers of Yahoo!, Google and Ask Jeeves. She argued that Dogpile's capability to present an integrated compilation of the search results of multi search engines positioned it as a better and more relevant information search tool.
The fifth question was an extension to the fourth: "Do you use multiple search engines in doing your information searching? Why so?" The objective of this question was to investigate students' familiarity with the plethora of available search engines and their awareness of which of these search engines best suited their contextual needs. Vansickle (2002) argued that using multiple search engines allows for more extensive searching of the Web since even top ranked search engines have a relatively low degree of coverage overlap with one another. Todd (1999) stated that students needed to be informed that simple searches using a single search engine will not always return the best results since even the best search engines are slow in indexing information. Howe and Tillman (1999c) cautioned that searchers should learn how to use approximately two or three search engines well rather than learning just the bare necessities of several.
The sixth question that was posed to students in the survey was "Do you think there are any similarities/differences in the ways different search engines work? What would they be?" This question was framed in alignment with the objective of investigating students' awareness of search engines and the structural similarities/differences of the search methodologies employed by these search engines. This question was also intended to elicit students' perspectives, if any, on the strengths and shortcomings of popular search engines in their responsiveness to dealing with information requests. Nine students provided the honest feedback that they did not know or were not sure if there existed any differences/similarities in the ways in which the variety of search engines operate, with one student commenting that he never really felt it was a critical issue to want to find out more. Six students were of the erroneous opinion that there are no differences between the different search engines in terms of their functional attributes. They had the misconception that all search engines search for information in the same manner and the information displayed upon initiating a search request would also be similar. Students' feedback reinforced the dominant finding that participant students obviously lack robust Internet information search literacy acumen.
The remaining few students understood correctly that there were some underlying similarities as well as differences between the search engines. The similarities include the aim of searching for relevant information and ranking the search results according to a defined algorithm. Some differences between search engines that were highlighted include the distinct ways in which information is processed and presented, the differential search scope and output as well as varying emphasis on particular keywords. From a conceptual level of analysis, a number of entrenched misconceptions were again exposed in students' explications. For example, one student (student K) commented that some search engines require a few keywords to execute a search whereas other search engines need part of a sentence or a complete sentence to perform a search. Student K failed to provide necessary supporting evidence to back-up his unsubstantiated claim. Another student (student D) had the misconceived notion that search engines produced varying output due to the differences in speed at which the search engines work to retrieve information!
What are your views on using the Internet as a learning tool to search for information?
What strategies or techniques do you use in conducting an information search in the Internet?
The first part of the trigger was aimed at eliciting students' perspectives on how they perceived the usage of the Internet as an information medium in accomplishing problem solving. Students' anecdotal perceptions, preferences and dispositions towards Internet information searching were also analysed from these responses. In the tertiary institution in which the participant students are enrolled in, the Internet plays a vital role in shaping their learning activities. Thus, students have rich, first-hand experiences interacting with the Internet on a daily basis and are able to comprehensively present authentic feedback on the use of the Internet as an electronic educational information platform.
The second part of the trigger hoped to draw informed understandings of the catalogue of strategies and techniques, if any, employed by students in their attempts at navigating through Internet information in search of needed answers. This could provide meaningful insights into students' current knowledge, perspectives and competencies on how they model their information searching approaches.
Students' responses showed that generally they were aware of the potential of the Internet in furthering learning. Due to the long durations of exposure to the Internet, both at home and in school, for educational as well as entertainment purposes, students have a reasonably good overview of the structure of the Internet and the ways it functions. Most students were generally able to distinguish between the benefits and pitfalls of working with the Internet.
An overwhelming majority of twenty-two participating students underlined the positive impact of positioning the Internet as a vital information provider and problem solving enabler in tertiary institutions. Only three students expressed scepticism on the constructive role the Internet could play in promoting meaningful learning. Even then, some of the concerns raised by these students were neither substantive nor convincing. For example, student C highlighted the difficulties encountered in navigating through and locating desired resources within the expansive information landscape of the Internet. He likened the endeavour to searching for a needle in a haystack. He pointed out that surfing on the Internet, exposed the computer/laptop system to the menace of viruses, risking disruption to the healthy functioning of the system. Student J felt that at times the Internet search harvests information output that is too generic, unfocused and diffused. Though there is some credibility to these claims, students did not realize that developing sound information searching and PC maintenance skills is the key to resolving many of the stated problems without resorting to rejection of the Internet and its information potential.
Twenty-one students repeatedly used words such as 'convenient', 'helpful' 'useful' in describing how the Internet helps them in their information searching. They found the Internet to be a powerful, invaluable and versatile information vault that facilitated quick and easy access to a wealth of educational resources at the click of a fingertip. Student S commented that the information found in the Internet is presented in multimodal formats, involving a combination of text, pictures, audios and animations, whereas traditional textbooks features information in predominantly textual representational modes. This she reasoned explains the positive correlation between Internet-oriented problem solving experiences and improvement in learner motivation. Student Z remarked pertinently that training students to be effective Internet users prepares them to operate comfortably well within the increasingly prevalent technology-centric culture of workplaces. Student H suggested that the Internet unlike traditional pedagogies "allowed for independent learning and inspired creativity." Moreover, updated information on global happenings such as recent breakthroughs in scientific research, developments in the international business scene could instantly and easily be accessed in the Internet.
Though emphatic in stressing the strengths of harnessing the power of Internet, surprisingly, fifteen students also discussed at length the immanent drawbacks of the Internet. It is indeed commendable that without being carried away by the Internet hype and erroneously believing in the absolute good or infallibility of the Internet, these students had reflected on the potential instructional conundrums posed by the Internet. Some of these students were able to articulate well the caveats associated with Internet usage. Nine students mentioned that the copious amounts of information presented by the Internet in response to a query often could be overwhelming and distracting, with many of the listed hits being irrelevant to the search focus. This results in laboriously scanning the hits for their appropriateness and sieving out the relevant ones from those irrelevant. Students complained that this often required excessive amounts of time being spent, with the problem becoming exacerbated when the search query had been poorly constructed. Twelve students underscored the difficulties faced in assessing the credibility and fidelity of information hosted by the Internet since anyone can easily erect a website and post information in cyberspace. Thus, the quality and reliability of many online resources are invariably questionable. Students, especially those with a lack of competent information literacy skills are susceptible to accepting inaccurate, biased information to be valid. This could result in misinformation being appropriated by students.
Some of the responses on this theme also highlighted varying degrees of students' misconceptions. For example, student E had the flawed understanding that only Google had features that allowed configuring a search to be limited to a localized focus on Singapore websites or websites hosted by Singapore-based web domains. Student C was of the opinion that since the now defunct Yagoohoogle search site juxtaposed the search results of both Yahoo and Google search engine, by default, it was the best. He seemed not to know that though Yagoohoogle presented a combined presentation of the individual set of search results from the search engines, this was a compressed version of the total search output of the two engines.
Only two well-informed students, F and X mentioned that besides search engines, periodically they also make use of search directories. They justified their choice of using search directories by correctly reasoning that search directories, having been developed by human indexing, tend to produce more reliable and relevant search output listings. Based upon prior anecdotal search experiences, student F noted the drawbacks of typing in long search query phrases that have been reproduced word for word from the research questions in the given task. The user is then faced with the laborious task of having to sieve through an avalanche of search results to locate the ones that accurately match the search focus. Student F intelligently suggested the strategy of maximizing the number of search queries and minimizing the number of words per query by breaking down the main research question into its component sub-parts. The information collected in response to each of these queries could then be integrated into a coherent composite whole and presented as the solution.
Only two students (students L and X) mentioned the use of the helpful '+' arithmetic Boolean operator when constructing keyword search phrases. Applying the '+' operator ensures that the search output produced by the search engines is more precise and corresponding to the search quest. Of concern was also the finding that only student L pondered over the necessity of entering quotation marks to define search terms more precisely and instruct the search engine to locate web content that contains the specified words in the order mentioned within the quotation marks. These indicated students' ignorance of the utility of Boolean operators in streamlining the search process and ensure its successful fruition.
The findings of this study emphasize the cognitive complexity of Internet information literacy skills, the learning of which is non-trivial to be left to students' own independent devices. Due to the extensive exposure they receive on a daily basis through their interactions with the Internet both in and outside school, students in Singapore are largely familiar with the Internet interface and the multiplicity of tools it offers. However, it was found in this study that students generally seemed to lack fluency in the core 'soft' skills of information literacy to structure learning to become more focused, engaged and productive. They were also not well acquainted with the broad repertoire of information search strategies and techniques that would enable them to plan for and execute their information search actions in efficient and efficacious ways. This was primarily due to the fact that there are currently no mandatory programs in Singapore schools during formal curricular hours specifically aimed at intentionally training students to become information literate. Hence, students generally were deficient in their understanding of the search capabilities of the Internet to be able to fully exploit the educational computing potential of the Internet in fostering dynamic, independent learning environments. This study significantly highlights the need to consciously train students to be aware of the strengths, limitations and situation-specific utility of the different search devices of the Internet for them to take better advantage of these search tools in accessing, processing and applying online information in educationally meaningful ways. Students also need to be familiarized with the various strategies and techniques of effective information searching to better harness the pedagogical strengths of the Internet. These outcomes in the opinion of the author of this article is best achieved through the explicit articulation of educational goals centering upon the attainment of mastery in digital information literacy within the broader framework of formal curriculum and systematically embedding competency-based information literacy instructions either as a stand-alone or integrated multi-disciplinary subject in school syllabus.
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How did you learn to use the Internet?
Do you plan your search before actually carrying it out in the Internet? If so, how do you do it?
Which search tools do you use to find information in the Internet? Give reasons in explaining your choices.
4) When using search engines, which search engines do you normally prefer to use? Why so?
5) Do you use multiple search engines in doing your information searching? Why so?
6) Do you think there are any similarities/differences in the ways different search engines work? What would they be? | of the Internet for acquisition of needed information. This is due to the fact that timely information retrieval and use are critical factors in ensuring success in learning and the Internet is undoubtedly the largest digital information repository hosting information that is immediately and easily accessible.
Morris and Brading (2007) cautions that those who are not comfortable enough in locating and using the wide array of educational resources available in the information rich Internet might become disenfranchised in their learning. Schaster, Chung and Dorr (1998) found in their studies that most students generally lack crucial information searching skills and rarely employ efficacious search strategies or select appropriate search terms. They also observed that students generally spend little or no time planning their searching. The study explicated in this paper specifically sets out to analytically examine the Internet information search competencies of a class of polytechnic students in Singapore.
The Internet is an extensive system of interlinked yet independent computer networks connecting millions of computers together globally (Jonassen, Howland, Moore & Marra, 2004; McGuire, Stillborne, McAdams & Hyatt, 2002). This worldwide network of networks consists of a set of rules that allows computers to connect and communicate with other computers as long as they are connected to the Internet. The Internet has in recent times emerged as the most vital and powerful digital information medium to shape and define the educational field.
Bruce and Levin (1997) argue that the Internet provides tools for active educational inquiry. The Internet facilitates finding sources of information appropriate to a task, working to understand the information resources and how they relate to the task, and applying this understanding in an appropriately, productive way (Grabe & Grabe, 2000). By enabling students' access to resources from the outside world, including experts in the field and direct collaboration with them, the Internet enhances students' knowledge construction. Thus, exposure to real life contexts trains students to face the uncertainties of the ever-changing outside world (Labbo, Reinking & McKenna, 1998; Michaelson, 2003). Otherwise, students who are not competent in using the Internet might end up being insufficiently armed with necessary skills to function effectively in the technology-infused workforces they will face when they graduate (Leu, 2002). It becomes inherently vital that students be trained to become proficient users of the Internet.
Today, traditional societies are being transformed into knowledge societies all over the world (Adebayo & Adesope, 2007). Therefore, in the knowledge based societies of today, meaningfully searching for and retrieving a wide spread of comprehensive information from the Web has critical importance. Skills essential to effectively finding information on the Web have become indispensable (Monereo, Fuentes & Sanches, 2000). Locating appropriate information on the Internet requires a variety of skills, such as the ability to use Internet tools, knowledge of search techniques, cognitive capacity to organize a search, and ability to execute the search (Carroll, 1999). Effective use of the Internet to glean relevant information requires the ability to apply boolean logic rules and an understanding of how information is organized - critical thinking skills that allow the searcher to make informed choices and acquire a working knowledge of Internet functions.
Other necessary skills involved are general knowledge about the subject of the search, specific prior knowledge of the topics being scrutinized, narrowing and expanding topics, appropriating certain language capabilities and recognizing usefulness of information (Eagleton & Guinee, 2002; Eagleton, Guinee &Langlais, 2003; Nachiamas & Gilad, 2002). Mariani (2000) advocated that Web navigation entails integration of cognitive abilities such as searching for information, scanning and skimming information and metacognitive strategies such as planning, monitoring and evaluating.
Besides these generic skills, Allen (1991) had, in addition, proposed four types of prior knowledge affecting the interaction of users with information systems such as the Internet: (a) world knowledge - general knowledge that might affect the information searching (b) system knowledge - the knowledge users have about the system they are using (c) task knowledge – users' ability to carry out a search task (d) domain | 888 |
Triangles are all the rage these days. Just a glance through DIY décor ideas on Pinterest will tell you that much.
Seeing as our friend Perrin PimPim has been bitten by the triangle bug, Taloline and Clelola decided a homemade triangle baby blanket would make the perfect baby shower gift for her. They weren't wrong!
Taloline and Clelola sneakily made use of Pinterest's secret board feature and created the distractingly named "Choco" board just for us. From there, they went a-searchin' for triangle patterns.
They decided to go for crochet because it seemed quicker and simpler than knitting for making triangles.
The pattern they decided on is an easy step-by-step tutorial by MorganOurs they found on Pinterest. The slight modification we made was instead of simply not crocheting the last stitch on each end, we decided to do a decrease stitch on the ends for a cleaner look.
The girls decided on a color scheme of 7 complementary colors and visited Mouliné Yarns here in Montreal to pick out the best yarn.
The yarn had to be, of course, machine washable for practicality! So they picked out an old, reliable option: Berroco Vintage yarn. It's a wool-acrylic blend and it comes in a wide variety of beautiful colors.
We each had to do at least 4 triangles, and those of us with more experience crocheting did<|fim_middle|> bit tedious but worth it for the result. Look how cute!
I made the blanket a little bigger than the pattern called for, but I really found it way too small in the original.
Next up in my line of projects, an amazing chain link scarf from Knits for Life. | a couple more. The pattern said to use a 4.5mm hook, but since we were three different people with three different tensions, we all ended up using different sizes to get the final triangle size right.
After a couple of screw-up attempts (Taloline and I found ourselves decreasing too quickly), we finally got the hang of it and started producing our beautiful triangles.
I crochet in the back, while the girls crochet in both.
I learned to crochet in the back loop only (see figure) rather than in both loops. The others crochet in both loops.
We decided, though, rather than have me do my triangles over again, that the different textures looked quite nice when put together. We would just have to be sure to mix my triangles in well with the others'.
In one evening, after finishing up our last triangles and deciding who was to make which half-triangles and in which colors, Clelola set about placing the colors in the right order.
This was delicate because we didn't want colors to repeat too frequently within a row or a column. Clelola spent quite some time placing the triangles on the floor, trying to decide what would work best.
We probably could have used some kind of Excel spreadsheet to place them so that they were mathematically correct, but whatever. It looked fine to us.
I was given all the finished triangles to block, and took this responsibility very seriously!
Some people block simply by ironing the piece with a towel placed between the iron and the crocheting, to avoid squishing the pattern too much. I learned, though, that the best way to block is to fully wet an item and pin it out to dry.
So that's what I did. Using my new washing machine's delicate wool cycle (how I love it!), I washed all the triangles and pinned them out on my bed over some towels. It was a tedious process, and I had to do a lot of stretching and measuring to try to get them all the same size.
In the end, I finally also ironed them for good measure. Oh well.
We were each assigned a row or two and our homework over the next couple of weeks was to sew our designated rows together. I, of course, finished mine just before the girls came over to assemble all the rows together (whoops! Procrastinator!).
To add a touch of class (and to incorporate another craft) to the project, we visited Effiloché and picked out a great fabric to add as a backing to the blanket.
Normally, if sewn correctly, there is neither a "right side" or a "wrong side" to a blanket like this (it's a bit like a granny square blanket). But we liked the idea of making it feel like a quilt-crochet combo.
Perrin PimPim's other half is a photographer, so we thought he'd enjoy this fabric on the baby's blanket.
Needless to say, we were all mightily pleased with the result, and Perrin PimPim was delighted, both by her surprise baby shower and by her homemade gift for her little bundle of joy.
Thank you to Taloline and Clelola for organizing the gift idea and for a fun time putting it all together!
Brand: Cascade Yarns. Color: Natural. Ribbon: Offray brand in chocolate brown.
There is some unevenness and I'm not exactly sure why. My stitch stayed pretty even throughout but I think there's one row where it got tighter than the others. Ah well, as my Chico said, "It shows it's a work of art." Hehehehe, or something like that!
The yarn is ecological wool, and it's very soft. The only problem is that it's not machine washable. It has to be hand washed in cold water with Woolite or something similar and dried flat. Probably not the best for a baby blanket, but the quality of the yarn couldn't be beat.
The ribbon threading was a | 816 |
Bamboo compares to cotton as cashmere compares to wool. The clothing feels soft and hangs loosely over the skin, with an attractive shine that resembles silk, but with greater durability.
Research conducted in India concluded that bacteria doesn't thrive in bamboo fabric. This means there will be less harmful bacteria close to your child's skin, and bamboo clothing will not get smelly as quickly as cotton.
Bamboo fabric blocks 97.5% of those harmful UV rays from the sunshine, meaning your child's skin will not be exposed to damage during those blistering summer days.
Bamboo fabric is gentle to allergy-prone skin. It also resists the build-up of static charges, so it sits comfortably against the skin of young children.
Bamboo fabric is known to absorb moisture away from the skin, so your child will be kept drier to avoid discomfort from damp skin.
Bamboo fabric will keep you warm, thanks to the hollow microfibres from the wood-like composition. It is also breathable, so temperature is well regulated.
Supporting the use of organic bamboo clothing is a great way to help the environment too. It grows extremely fast and will yield the same amount of usable fibre as cotton from only a tenth of the land area. It flourishes without the need for chemicals like pesticides or fertilizers, and it is 100% biodegradable. Very little water is needed to grow bamboo, and it does little or no damage to<|fim_middle|> get on board and enjoy the benefits of organic children's clothing for yourself. | the soil it grows in.
Bamboo clothing is a great way to promote health and comfort in your children, whilst simultaneously supporting the cause of those who push for greater environmental protection. If you care about your child's health, and you care about the environment, then organic cotton clothing made with bamboo fibres is a no-brainer. At Tilly & Jasper, we have a great range of bamboo clothing for you to browse, so | 88 |
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Cock And Pye
To make a Peacock Pye. Pick it, and leave the Feathers on the Neck, cut the Neck off close to the Body, skin the Neck close to the Head, and cut it off; put a Stick tight into the Skin up to the Head, dry it in an Oven; cut off the Legs, and keep them, then draw it and singe it; keep some of the short Feathers of the Tail; truss it as for boiling, break down the Breast Bone, season it with Pepper and Salt, skewer it, put a Piece of Butter into the Belly of it, roast it about half enough, and let it cool; raise a Pye for it, or make it as you do a Ham Pye; put in the Belly of the Peacock ten Yolks of Eggs boil'd hard, blanch half a Dozen Sweet-breads, cut them in Dice, lay them round the Bird so as to make it even at Top, lay over that some thin Slices of interlar'd Bacon, and Butter over all; close your Pye, and make a Funnel in the Middle; garnish it as you'll see in the garnishing of some of the other Pies, which will direct you how to place the Head and Feet; you must make a Piece of Paste like the Rump, stick five or six Feathers in it after the Pye is bak'd, place the Head at the Head of the Pye, and carve the Outsides; when it is bak'd, fillthe Pye up with clarified Butter, and keep it for a standing Dish to ornament the Middle of your<|fim_middle|> there "is a small grate in the road where you can see (and smell) the sewer flowing beneath."
PS. After spending some hours researching and writing this post, I came across an article that said that the origination of the Cock & Pye name accredited to the lower classes could well be a bit of Victorian romanticism. One other credible theory is that the name derives from a tavern called the Cock & Magpie. There was another tavern of the same name that stood in Drury Lane around the late 1600s. There are instances of Magpie being spelled Magpye , so it does have some credibility. However, I'm going with my original story as I do like a pie (or two), which will neatly lead into a forthcoming post.
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John Thacker. The Art of Cookery. 1757
Well, I'll certainly be adding all of those ingredients to my next Ocado delivery.
The Peacock Pie or as it was known to the classes that were unlikely to be able to afford to eat it, Cock & Pye, was considered a delicacy from Tudor times onward. The nearest the labouring classes ever got to one was drinking in the Cock & Pye Tavern which stood in Little St Martin's Lane (now Upper St Martin's Lane).
The tavern sat on the boarders of an area called Marshland. Long before the tavern appeared the area was described as "Wet & soggy ground bordered by many ditches". The first map to record its location is Fairthorn & Newcourt in 1658, where it is shown as St Gyle's Fields, the church of St Gile's in the Fields being just to the north.
In time these ditches became joined and bordered the area, while following the line of St Martin's Lane to flow into the River Thames just by where Embankment tube station is today. It appears that these combined ditches were known after the Tavern and by 1682 William Morgans map shows the area as Cock & Pye Fields.
During the 1680s the area was still mainly wasteland and the ditch had a reputation for being "A foul and public nuisance". The MP Thomas Neale proposed a plan in the early 1690s to clean up the area and to develop it in the same style as nearby Covent Garden. The ditch was enclosed by brick tunnels to become a sewer and the field itself was transformed by the building of six converging roads, although this was later increased to seven. A sundial column was built in 1693 with six faces, with the column itself acting as the gnomon (the part that generates the shadow) of the seventh dial, and the area became known as Seven Dials.
This layout produced triangular plots, maximizing the frontage of houses to be built on the site, as rentals were charged per foot of frontage rather than by the square footage of properties.
Neale had speculated to attract wealthy residents. This was not to be the case and the area gradually deteriorated. At one stage, each of the seven apexes facing the column housed a pub. By the 19th century, Seven Dials was among the most notorious slums in London, The area was described by Charles Dickens during 1835 … "streets and courts dart in all directions, until they are lost in the unwholesome vapour which hangs over the house-tops and renders the dirty perspective uncertain and confined."
"The stranger who finds himself in the Dials for the first time…at the entrance of Seven obscure passages, uncertain which to take, will see enough around him to keep his curiosity awake for no inconsiderable time…"
Legend has it that the column supporting the sun dials was toppled by a mob in 1773, who were under the illusion that a bag of gold had been buried beneath it. However, it is recorded that it was deliberately removed by the Paving Commissioners in an attempt to rid the area of "undesirables" congregating beneath it. A replacement sundial column was constructed on the same site in the 1980's, to the original design.
During the 1840s Seven Dials was a major meeting area for the Chartists in their campaign for electoral reform. However, the intended uprisings there were thwarted by police infiltrators.
By 1851 sewers were laid in the area but poverty intensified in the Seven Dials although the population began to decrease as workshops and breweries began occupying some of the houses. It remained a byword for urban poverty for another 80 or so years and in the late 1920s the crime writer Agatha Christie based her book "The Seven Dials Mystery" in the area.
During World War Two, the area was still run down and developed into the center of the Black Market. It was home to a dapper gangster, Billy Hill, who would emerge from the war as the leading figure in the capital's underworld.
The area escaped the Blitz relatively lightly with only seven recorded bombs landing.
Today, there are only two remaining houses from the original Thomas Neale development of the 1690s; 61 Monmouth Street and 64 Neal Street.
It will come as no surprise that there is little evidence remaining for either the ditch or the tavern, which was later renamed Two Angels and Crown before being demolished in the late 1840s.
An Indian restaurants sit on the site of the tavern in a modern building complex. I've had a look on the menu and there is no Peacock, curried or otherwise to be had.
Having read Paul Talling's "London's Lost Rivers" he says of the ditch that just up from the restaurant | 1,048 |
Joe Dorish Sports: What's the Average Salary of a Big Ten College Football Coach in 2017?
Do you know what the average salary of a Big Ten football coach is in 2017? The Big Ten is certainly one of the most powerful and highest paying college football conferences in 2017.
But what does the average Big Ten college football coach make in 2017? To answer that question here are all the salaries of each of the 14 college football head coaches in the Big Ten in 2017.
The highest paid Big Ten college football coach in 2017 is Jim Harbaugh who will make $9 million if he completes the 2017 season. Harbaugh is making<|fim_middle|> money if you can get it considering the average salary of a United States worker in 2017 is $44,668. | $7 million this season plus he gets an additional $2 million in a life insurance annuity if he completes this season as the team's head coach.
The lowest paid Big Ten college football coach in 2017 is Tom Allen at Indiana who is making just $1.82 million. The average salary of a Big Ten college football coach is reached by simply adding up all the salaries of the head coaches and dividing by 14. The answer is right below the list of how much each Big Ten college football coach is making this year.
The average salary of a Big Ten College Football head coach is $3.86 million in 2017. Not bad | 139 |
The Joy of Lunar New Year Is So Much More than Red Pockets and Lucky Clothes
Toronto food pro Sonia Wong and her daughters ring in the new year with their delicious traditions
Ask anyone who celebrates Lunar New Year and they'll tell you it's about more than just hanging up red decorations, exchanging pockets of money and buying new (lucky) clothes. While those are fundamental and fun preparations, the start of the Spring Festival is really a time for joyous family gatherings. And nothing brings people together quicker than food, which is why it's one of the most important parts of the celebration.
Dishes whose names sound auspicious are popular choices (fish for abundance, lettuce for prosperous business, noodles for longevity), but while dishes vary according to different family customs, the one crucial dish that's eaten across the board is dumplings. They represent fortune and prosperity thanks to their money pouch appearance, but also signify togeth<|fim_middle|> tortoise shell Céline sunglasses, amassed north of $2 million, benefitting medical research and a scholarship for women in literature.
The writer's Le Creuset cookware alone raked in more than $14,000. Ironically, the lots nearly didn't make it into… | erness because many families wrap them together. (Picture Michelle Yeoh's character, Eleanor Young, wrapping dumplings with her son's new girlfriend in Crazy Rich Asians.)
Sonia Wong and her daughters, Aubrie and Elise, wrapping Wong's favourite dumpling, the Shanghai wonton with ground pork and bok choy filling. Photo: Lance McMillan/Toronto Star
While buying frozen dumplings at the supermarket and cooking them at home doesn't make them less lucky, making them from scratch is a joyful way for the family to spend time together. And that's exactly how Sonia Wong, Toronto food photographer and content creator behind @saltnpepperhere, and her family are preparing for the new year. "When we're wrapping dumplings, everybody's at the table," says Wong, whose mother is Cantonese and father is Shanghainese. "Dumplings and wonton are big for us from the Shanghainese side." Her favourite type is the Shanghai wontons with ground pork and bok choy, which she grew up eating and is also her father's dumpling of choice. "To me, that is the ultimate dumpling—but it takes so much work."
Wong, who is known for her mouthwatering and nourishing recipes, has been gearing up for Lunar New Year by doing the ultimate food countdown on her Instagram. She's been sharing time-honoured dishes enjoyed during the holiday, and the stories behind them, from her paternal grandmother's Lion's Head meatballs, fluffy and gluten-free, to braised rice cakes, named "leen goh" in Cantonese, which sounds like "year tall," symbolizing a year of growth. And her daughters' favourite treat: glutinous rice dumplings with sweet black sesame filling. "That's not something I make any other time of the year because it's laborious," says Wong. "I only make them for New Year's. But it's been meaningful to see people messaging me that they're making them and loving it."
In Wong's household, cooking is a family affair. Photo: Lance McMillan/Toronto Star
In Wong's household, cooking is a family affair: Her 110k followers are treated to occasional sous chef appearances from her two daughters, Aubrie, 12, and Elise, 9. "During the pandemic, we cooked a lot together, and that's when I taught them more labour-intensive stuff like making dough or wrapping dumplings and spring rolls," says Wong. "The girls do a pretty good job, too. At the very beginning, they were more of a hindrance, but now they're actually really good."
Now, Wong is a font of inspirational recipes, but the former chartered accountant didn't always love to cook. Growing up, she was grateful for her live-in maternal grandmother who cooked for her and her family every day of the week. When she and her husband got married, they were both working six-day work weeks and had little time or energy to cook. But when their older daughter started experiencing chronic stomach pain and eczema flare-ups, Wong saw a naturopath who guided them toward the paleo diet to reset her gut, which ultimately made her look at food differently.
"It taught me a lot about reading labels and understanding what actually goes into our food," says Wong. After a couple of years of a strict paleo diet, Wong started to introduce different things back into her daughter's diet, and now she can eat almost everything, including rice, with minimal reactions. "I do try to let my girls experience everything other children do, like Oreo cookies and whatever," says Wong. "But I wanted to teach the girls what's in things. Now, they always joke about how I hate artificial flavours and colours."
Aubrie and Elise, Sonia's sous chefs, wrapping their own Shanghai dumplings. Photo: Lance McMillan/Toronto Star
This year, the girls are especially excited about a new-to-them tradition: the Tray of Togetherness. It's a platter or box made up of six or eight (lucky numbers) compartments filled with hold sweets for families to enjoy themselves or offer to visiting guests around Lunar New Year.
"It was such a fun tradition that I loved growing up, and now I'm doing it with my girls," says Wong. "I introduced them to Haw Flakes [sweets made from hawthorn fruit] this year and they loved them so much, we put them in one of the sections. It's a definite highlight."
It's also supposed to be enjoyed by all, which is exactly what makes Wong's approach to food so special. "My north star is always, what can we all eat together? I firmly believe that the whole family should eat together."
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This dress is absolutely gorgeous!<|fim_middle|>umptious!! You have captured the essence of this runway photo! Beautifully done! So glad that you join the fun with us at RIC!
What a beautiful interpretation of that dress. | Just look at at all those layers and colors! And there is more than meets the eye at first glance…if you zoom in on the fabric, in addition to all those dots, you'll see several hearts, spades, diamonds and clubs. I decided to mix in a few hearts to pick up on this playing card theme in my design. I really wanted to capture the layers so I made a vellum pocket and put one layer of punched shapes inside and another on top, all framed in a nice thick textured white card-stock. This was a completely new technique for me and I really love how it turned out.
Since this card ended up with a window, I am also entering it in Moxie Fab World's Make a Card with a Window Challenge.
Thanks everyone! This was definitely a new style card for me but I had a lot of fun with it and LOVE the inspiration piece!
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Q: Find out the cut-off frequency directly from the transient response of buck<|fim_middle|> despite the loop closure. This is because there is not enough loop gain at \$f_0\$ and any excitation in the output reveals the oscillatory response you've shown. This is not a loop instability - the Bode plot shows adequate margins - but the system does not have enough gain at the resonant frequency and cannot fight the perturbation: no gain, no feedback!
The proper compensation strategy for the buck operated in voltage mode is to select a crossover frequency that is 3-5 times higher than \$f_0\$, making sure the system will have enough gain to fight the \$LC\$ oscillations. When this is the case, the closed-loop output impedance no longer shows peaking as shown below:
The violet curve shows the open-loop output impedance while the red curve illustrates a closed-loop output impedance with a very low crossover, well below \$f_0\$: the response of this converter will obviously ring considering the untouched peaking at \$f_0\$. Now, push crossover to 4 kHz and the black curve shows how the new closed-loop output impedance looks like without peaking anymore, bringing a good transient response this time.
| converter In Chapter 4 of the book Designing Control Loops for Linear and Switching Power Supplies A Tutorial Guide, the author designed a buck converter using a PID controller. The cut-off frequency of the buck converter is 10 kHz, and the phase margin is 80°. The transient response of the buck converter is as follows:
Then the author said:
If you look carefully, the oscillations do not correspond to a 10 kHz signal (our crossover point) but to the 1.2 kHz LC network resonant frequency.
Because the system is a second-order system, I calculated the resonant frequency is 1.2 kHz using the equation:
$$f_0=\frac{1}{t_d \sqrt{1-ξ^2}}$$
What puzzles me is that from what I understand, the author means that if you design a good system, the resonant frequency of the transient frequency should be the cut-off frequency. Could anyone explain why?
A: In this example, I wanted to show that if you blindly compensate a voltage-mode buck converter using a PID by placing two complex zeroes for compensating the complex double poles of the \$LC\$ network then you end up with an oscillating response as you show.
What dictates the small-signal response of a switching converter operated in closed loop is its output impedance. For an open-loop voltage-mode-controlled buck converter, this output impedance \$Z_{out,OL}\$ is resistive, then inductive, resonates and then capacitive to eventually land on the capacitor ESR. Once you close the loop, the stepped output current - which is seen as a perturbation - is rejected by the sensitivity function \$S=\frac{1}{1+T(s)}\$ in which \$T(s)\$ is the compensated loop gain. The closed-loop output impedance \$Z_{out,CL}\$ becomes \$Z_{out,CL}=\frac{Z_{out,OL}}{1+T(s)}\$. This is what the below graph shows:
However, because of the flaw in the compensation scheme, you can see the original \$LC\$ filter peaking is not damped at all and shows up | 446 |
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Book — xiii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Francis Edward "Ab" Abernethy served as the Secretary-Editor of the Texas Folklore Society for over three decades, managing the organization's daily operations and helping it grow. He edited two dozen volumes of the PTFS series and wrote the three volumes of the Society's history. This publication of the Texas Folklore Society celebrates Ab Abernethy's years of leadership in collecting, preserving, and presenting the folklore of Texas and the Southwest. The prefaces to some of the more memorable edited volumes are included, along with articles he wrote on music, teaching, anecdotes about historical figures and events, and "cultural" examinations of the<|fim_middle|> and people to life by making them relevant to us. Several articles examine the cultural roles women fill. Other articles feature folklore of particular groups, including oil field workers, mail carriers, doctors, engineers, police officers, horse traders, and politicians. There is also an article on how teachers can use writing in the classroom as a means of keeping alive the storytelling tradition.
Helsinki : Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2006.
Book — 521 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Helsinki : Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, c2005.
Book — 241 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. | things we hold dear. In all, these pieces tell us what was important to Ab. In part, these topics are also what was-and still is- important to the Texas Folklore Society.
Book — xv, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Stories and recipes from the Trans Pecos mountains and basins.
According to Renaissance woman and Pepper Lady Jean Andrews, although food is eaten as a response to hunger, it is much more than filling one's stomach. It also provides emotional fulfillment. This is borne out by the joy many of us feel as a family when we get in the kitchen and cook together and then share in our labors at the dinner table. Food is comfort, yet it is also political and contested because we often are what we eat-meaning what is available and familiar and allowed. Texas is fortunate in having a bountiful supply of ethnic groups influencing its foodways, and Texas food is the perfect metaphor for the blending of diverse cultures and native resources. Food is a symbol of our success and our communion, and whenever possible, Texans tend to do food in a big way. This latest publication from the Texas Folklore Society contains stories and more than 120 recipes, from long ago and just yesterday, organized by the 10 vegetation regions of the state. Herein you'll find Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson's Family Cake, memories of beef jerky and sassafras tea from John Erickson of Hank the Cowdog fame, Sam Houston's barbecue sauce, and stories and recipes from Roy Bedichek, Bob Compton, J. Frank Dobie, Bob Flynn, Jean Flynn, Leon Hale, Elmer Kelton, Gary Lavergne, James Ward Lee, Jane Monday, Joyce Roach, Ellen Temple, Walter Prescott Webb, and Jane Roberts Wood. There is something for the cook as well as for the Texan with a raft of takeaway menus on their refrigerator.
Book — ix, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society has something for everyone. The first section features a good bit of occupational lore, including articles on cowboys-both legendary ones and the relatively unknown men who worked their trade day by day wherever they could. You'll also find a unique, personal look at a famous outlaw and learn about a teacher's passion for encouraging her students to discover their own family culture, as well as unusual weddings, somewhat questionable ways to fish, and one woman's love affair with a bull. The backbone of the PTFS series has always been miscellanies-diverse examinations of the many types of lore found throughout Texas and the Southwest. These books offer a glimpse of what goes on at our annual meetings, as the best of the papers presented are frequently selected for our publications. Of course, the presentations are only a part of what the Society does at the meetings, but reading these publications offers insight into our members' interests in everything from bikers and pioneers of Tejana music to serial killers and simple folk from small-town Texas. These works also suggest the importance of the "telling of the tale, " with an emphasis on oral tradition, as well as some of the customs we share. All of these things together- the focus on tradition at our meetings, the fellowship among members, and the diversity of our research-are what sustain the Texas Folklore Society.
Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, c2012.
Book — xi, 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
1897 / Jo Virgil ; The hidfolk of Texas / Claire Campbell ; Curses! ("!?*#ZX?@") / Jean Granberry Schnitz ; Monsters in Texas / J. Rhett Rushing ; The folklore of plants: growing up in the Hill Country / Acayla Haile ; High art versus the oral tradition / Gene Young ; The Hispanic shaman / Charles B. Martin.
"The Texas Folklore Society has been alive and kicking for over one hundred years now, and I don't really think there's any mystery as to what keeps the organization going strong. The secret to our longevity is simply the constant replenishment of our body of contributors. We are especially fortunate in recent years to have had papers given at our annual meetings by new members-young members, many of whom are college or even high school students. "These presentations are oftentimes given during sessions right alongside some of our oldest members. We've also had long-time members who've been around for years but had never yet given papers; thankfully, they finally took the opportunity to present their research, fulfilling the mission of the TFS: to collect, preserve, and present the lore of Texas and the Southwest. "You'll find in this book some of the best articles from those presentations. The first fruits of our youngest or newest members include Acayla Haile on the folklore of plants. Familiar and well-respected names like J. Rhett Rushing and Kenneth W. Davis discuss folklore about monsters and the classic `widow's revenge' tale. These works-and the people who produced them-represent the secret behind the history of the Texas Folklore Society, as well as its future."-Kenneth L. Untiedt.
Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, c2011.
Book — xi, 367 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Gone 'a hunting / Len Ainsworth.
Fishing for whoppers / Henry Wolff, Jr.
Caney Creek night hunting: a saga of dire situations and scared prayers / Wildwood Dean Price.
What would cause someone to withstand freezing temperatures in a cramped wooden box for hours on end, or stand in waist-high rushing waters, flicking a pole back and forth over and over-in many cases with nothing whatsoever to show for his efforts? Why is it that, into the twenty-first century, with the convenience of practically any type of red meat or fish available at the local supermarket, we continue to hunt game and fish on open waters? The answer is that no matter how sophisticated we think we are, no matter how technologically advanced we become, there is still something deep within us that beckons us to "the hunt." This desire creates the customs, beliefs, and rituals related to hunting-for deer, hogs, and other four-legged critters, as well as fish and snakes, and other things that perhaps aren't physically alive, but capture our interest as much as the prey mentioned above. These rituals and customs lead to some of our most treasured stories, legends, and practices. This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society includes serious, introspective articles on hunting and fishing, as well as humorous tall tales and "windies" about the big ones that got away-all lore that reminds us of that drive that calls us to become predators again.
Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, c2009.
Book — xi, 420 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Under the influence / Robert J. (Jack) Duncan.
The Texas Folklore Society is one of the oldest and most prestigious organizations in the state. Its secret for longevity lies in those things that make it unique, such as its annual meeting that seems more like a social event or family reunion than a formal academic gathering. This book examines the Society's members and their substantial contributions to the field of folklore over the last century. Some articles focus on the research that was done in the past, while others offer studies that continue today. This book does more than present a history of the Texas Folklore Society: it explains why the TFS has lasted so long, and why it will continue.
Helsinki : Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2009.
Book — 2 v. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 cm.
v.2. The peoples of Eurasia (Finno-Ugric peoples; Samoyed peoples; Keltic peoples; Mongolic peoples; Tungusic peoples; Nivkhs; Yukagirs; North-eastern palaeosiatics; Eskimo-Aleut peoples; Ainus); Source texts (Eurasian; Norse and other texts related to Germanic traditions.
" ... presents the main features of Siberian shamanism, as they are relevant for comparison with Norse sources, and examines the Norse texts in detail to determine how far it is reasonable to assign a label of "shamanism" to the human and divine magical practices of pre-Christian Scandinavia, whose existence, it is argued, in many cases resides mainly in the imaginative tradition of the poets." -- Back cover.
Helsinki : Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, c2008.
Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, c2008.
Book — ix, 275 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Death provides us with some of our very best folklore. Some fear it, some embrace it, and most have pretty firm ideas about what happens when we die. Although some people may not want to discuss dying, it happens to all of us - and there's no way to get around it.This publication of the Texas Folklore Society examines the lore of death and whatever happens afterward. The first chapter examines places where people are buried, either permanently or temporarily. Chapter two features articles about how people die and the rituals associated with funerals and burials. The third chapter explores some of the stranger stories about what happens after we're gone, and the last chapter offers some philosophical musings about death in general, as well as our connection to those who have gone before.The Texas Folklore Society has been collecting and preserving folklore since its first publication in 1912. Since then, it has published or assisted in the publication of nearly one hundred books on Texas folklore.
Book — 313 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Denton : University of North Texas Press, c2007.
Book — xi, 307 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
The adventurous spirit of Texans has led to much travel lore, from stories of how ancestors first came to the state to reflections of how technology has affected the customs, language, and stories of life ""on the go."" This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society features articles from beloved storytellers like John O. West, Kenneth W. Davis, and F. E. Abernethy as well as new voices like Janet Simonds. Chapters contain traditional ""Gone to Texas"" accounts and articles about people or methods of travel from days gone by. Others are dedicated to trains and cars and the lore associated with two-wheeled machines, machines that fly, and machines that scream across the land at dangerous speeds. The volume concludes with articles that consider how we fuel our machines and ourselves, and the rituals we engage in when we're on our way from here to there.
Helsinki : Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia ; Academia Scientiarum Fennica, c2007.
Value considerations in folkloristic research ethics / Judy Rangnes.
Helsinki : Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia ; Academia Scientiarum Fennica, c2006.
Book — 406 p. ; 24 cm.
Tales found in catalogues with different classification criteria.
Helsinki : Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, c2006.
Book — 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, c2006.
Book — xi, 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Mi fronteridad in the classroom : the power of writing and sharing stories / Meredith E. Abarca.
Folklore is everywhere, whether you are aware of it or not. A culture's traditional knowledge is used to remember the past and maintain traditions, to communicate with other members within a community, to learn, to celebrate, and to express creativity. It is what helps distinguish one culture from another. Although folklore is so much a part of our daily lives, we often lose sight of just how integral it is to everything we do. If we look for it, we can find folklore in places where we'd never think it existed. "Folklore: In All of Us, In All We Do" includes articles on a variety of topics. One chapter looks at how folklore and history complement one another; while historical records provide facts about dates, places and names, folklore brings those events | 2,622 |
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Each cabin is 30 square meters and can accommodate four to five people.
The cabins consist of CLT, aluminum sheet cladding and full-height glass. | immerses guests in the wild beauty of northern Norway
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On a remote island above the Arctic Circle, Norwegian architecture firm Stinessen Arkitektur has created the Manshausen Island Resort, an eco-friendly getaway with spectacular views that has also been recently expanded with a new extension. Located on the Steigen Archipelago off the coast of northern Norway, the resort comprises a series of contemporary cabins carefully sited and elevated off the ground to minimize site impact while maximizing individual panoramic views. The new addition, which was completed three years after the resort's opening in June 2015, includes new cabins and a sauna that was constructed from materials leftover from the first stage of construction.
Sandwiched between mountains and sea, Manshausen Island features a dramatic landscape and a harsh climate with long winters and temperamental weather conditions. Despite the short building season, remote location and disagreeable weather conditions, the architects succeeded in developing a low-maintenance and sustainably minded resort with cabins designed in the image of the island's two main existing structures: the old farm-house and stone quays. Each compact cabin was crafted for minimum impact on the landscape; the resort team plans to make the island self-sufficient by 2020 and all waste is already treated on the island.
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As with the original cabins at the resort, the new cabins in the extension — dubbed Manshausen 2.0 — have been built from cross-laminated timber, aluminum sheet cladding and custom, full-height glazing that allows for unobstructed views of the landscape. Prefabricated elements were used for "plug and play" installation of the shelters. Each 30-square-meter cabin was designed to be as compact as possible yet can comfortably accommodate up to four to five people and includes a kitchen and plenty of storage space.
"Although [the new cabins] enjoy much of the same undisturbed sea views, the positioning in the landscape offers a unique approach to the design," the architects explained. "Wave heights, extreme weather conditions and also future raise in sea level were studied to determine the exact positions of the cabins."
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From 210 hotels. | , Pittsburgh has activities to suit them. They can splash down a waterslide, ride a roller coaster, or enjoy nature in a public park. For animal lovers, the city has a zoo, an aquarium, and an aviary. And while most museums have exhibits for children, some in Pittsburgh were created especially for them.
Waterslides and roller coasters
If you want to get your children wet and cool, the 60-acre Sandcastle Water Park can help out. They can speed down 15 waterslides, which have varying speeds and angles to suit every confidence level. On dry land, you'll find Kennywood around 10 miles southeast of Downtown. This theme park first opened in 1898. Today you can choose from 31 different roller coasters and other adrenaline-pumping rides.
Sandcastle Water Park
Covering 60 acres, this park has 15 waterslides to suit punters of all ages, and other watery distractions for the youngest visitors.
1000 Sandcastle Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15120Tel: +1 412 462 6666
Sandcastle Water Park website
Open for more than a century, Kennywood has 31 major thrill rides to entertain children and adults alike.
4800 Kennywood Boulevard, West Mifflin, PA 15122. Tel: +1 412 461 0500
Kennywood website
Animal distractions
The city offers several attractions for animal lovers. Pittsburgh Zoo allows you to get close to tigers, Komodo dragons, and elephants, while at PPG Aquarium you can walk through 2 underwater tunnels with polar bears and sea otters frolicking above you. In Allegheny, the National Aviary is an important sanctuary for rare birds. You can see over 600 winged creatures here, from 200 different species.
Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium
This 77-acre zoo and aquarium is home to Komodo dragons and tigers. From 2 underwater tunnels, you may see polar bears paddling above your head.
1 Wild Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15206. Tel: +1 412 665 3640
Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium website
National Aviary
This aviary gives sanctuary to 200 different species of rare and exotic birds, brought in from every continent.
Allegheny Commons West, 700 Arch Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212. Tel: +1 412 323 7235
National Aviary website
Child-friendly museums
Nearly all Pittsburgh's museums are child-friendly, but the Carnegie Science centre goes a step further. It has over 200 interactive exhibits for all ages. You can explore a real submarine, check out a robotics exhibit, or catch a movie in the Omnimax theatre. In Allegheny, the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh was created to inspire kids' creativity. You'll be able to get them involved with interactive exhibits, and participate in acting performances.
Carnegie Science centre
Carnegie Science centre has hundreds of hand-on exhibits. You can also walk around a 2-storey replica of the International Space Station.
One Allegheny Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15212. Tel: +1 412 237 3400
Carnegie Science centre website
Pittsburgh Children's Museum
The exhibits at this museum are designed to bring out younger kids' creative sides, using hands-on play and learning.
10 Children's Way, Pittsburgh, PA 15212. Tel: +1 412 322 5058
Pittsburgh Children's Museum website
Pittsburgh has numerous green spaces where you can walk, ride a bike, or let the kids run about. Most have playground areas, but Highland Park features a "Super Playground." This wooden castle-like structure has climbable turrets and connecting catwalks. In Oakland, the Discovery Garden at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens encourages children to use their senses to understand nature. You can wander around gardens designed to attract birds, butterflies, and bees, visit a bog garden, or investigate a woodland stream.
Children's Discovery Garden
The garden has areas designed to attract wildlife. There is also a Water Garden, and a Bog Garden with Venus flytraps.
One Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Tel: +1 412 622 6914
Children's Discovery Garden website
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Helix Sleep also offers two mattresses with dual-firmness, the Helix Dual Balanced (with balanced support and targeted cushioning) and the Helix Dual Extra (with moderate cushioning and extra support). Both of these models have one 'Soft' side and one 'Firm' side, making them suitable for couples with differing preferences. Last, the Helix Nightfall is a hybrid developed for larger, heavier individuals. This model has an extra layer of memory foam for optimum support.
Cover – Originally, all Helix mattresses have the same cover, made of 100% polyester. I thought it to be thin and pliable, allowing for some great breathability. However, if you prefer something more amped up, you can choose to swap out the regular cover for the brand's UltraCool one, which is composed of a phase change fabric for temperature regulation.
Comfort Layer – On top, you'll find a heavy layer of memory foam. This material has a slow response to pressure, which means you are likely to experience some great body shaping. While it might seem strange for a purportedly medium firmness bed to feature a memory foam comfort layer,<|fim_middle|>, made for side sleepers), or Dawn (the firmest variant in the line).
According to my research, Helix Sleep surpasses expectations for hybrids in this space due to the quantity and quality of foam it contains, as well as the pocketed coils which help keep motion at its source. If you're a light sleeper afraid that motion from the other side of the mattress will bother you, you should not have a lot of concern with this mattress. I'd say that all of the Helix mattresses would be a good choice for couples.
When purchasing a new mattress, the majority of men and women would like to know whether they will feel as though they are sinking "into" the mattress or laying "on top" of it.
Even though you are likely to encounter a little immediate sinkage from the soft foam on top, by the time you sink through these layers, you'll reach the individually-wrapped coils and feel great support. This combo will appeal to a wide assortment of individuals, but will satisfy back and stomach sleepers in particular.
While I do feel the memory foam compress as I sit close to the edge of the Helix Midnight, the coils prevent the mattress from collapsing too much . I feel very secure seated on the mattress.
In my view, Helix mattresses are well above average when it comes to edge support compared to other bed-in-a-box brands, and this is due to their freshly updated edges that contain reinforcement in the coil unit. There may be some compression in the comfort foams when you sit with all your weight on the side, but laying on the side will feel comfy and secure. Partners who need more space to stretch out typically appreciate strong edges.
Laying down, I also feel like I could get close to the edge of the bed without feeling like I will roll off or be pushed off the bed. Overall, I think that the Helix has nice edge support.
One of the best features of purchasing a mattress-in-a-box online is the sleep trials that they usually come with. Helix is not any different. You create the mattress that's meant for you, place your order, and within two weeks, it is delivered to your door. From the moment you click to purchase the mattress, you've got 100 nights to check it out (minus the time for delivery, so it's more like 90 nights). If it is not perfect, you can return it free of charge, and receive a complete refund.
The Helix Mattress includes a generous 10-year guarantee that covers flaws, but it has some limitations, exceptions, while the burden of proof is on the consumer (like most warranties). Of course, you should be the original owner of the Helix to make use of the guarantee, and you will need to be sure you keep your receipt as proof of purchase.
Provided that you follow all of the manufacturer's expectations for use, your warranty is valid. That means you will need to have a proper foundation (no adjustable bed frames or slats over 4 inches apart) and that you don't use the mattress improperly – no jumping on it!
If you are certain that a Helix mattress is excellent for you, you will see the pricing and size info beneath. However, please bear in mind that these prices indicate standard pricing, and doesn't consider my special discount. Click here to get my special discount and get up to $125 off your mattress today.
For routine cleanup, it is suggested to use cold water along gentle dish soap to clean any stains or dirt. Be sure that you wash using soft circular movements, rather than rubbing.
The attributes of this mattress were thoughtfully manufactured to deliver options whether you were searching for a mattress that keeps cool all night, in the event that you wanted one to cradle your curves with a thick comfort system, or both! The reinforced coil unit should provide good edge support and motion transfer is minimal with their individually-wrapped construction.
Hopefully, I've given you some notion of what the typical customer can expect from the Helix, but it truly does provide an impressive assortment of customization with an option for literally every specific need or desire. Your next best sleep might just be a short online quiz away. | it is crucial to remember that the existence of deep sinkage does not always translate to softness; in actuality, most of the time it generates quite a firm feel.
Transition Layer – After getting past the comfort layer, you'll discover a transition layer of poly foam. This layer of foam works to curb the sinkage of the comfort layer and establish a supportive, medium firm feel as you hit the pocketed coils underneath.
Support Layer – The majority of the mattress is made up of this section of individually wrapped coils. This system gives a supportive lift into the structure, working to place the sleeper "on top" of the bed, as opposed to "in it". Because these coils are wrapped individually, they're also likely to give additional breathability as air flows through the spaces in the coils.
Base Layer – Last, you'll find a thin segment of high-density poly foam. This layer doesn't affect the feel of the bed too much, working mostly to provide the individually wrapped coils something off of which to respond.
The firmness of the Helix is going to vary widely depending on which variant you choose. The Helix Dusk and Midnight, have moderate firmness levels, which will be very versatile and thus best-selling. If you have more specific needs, however, Helix Sleep is happy to provide you with more options.
Laying down on the Midnight, the uppermost foam layer feels soft and generates some quality body contouring, while the other materials in the Midnight work to control this and make an overall firmer structure. The individually-wrapped coils and the firmer support foams also help with re-positioning.
For those who sleep on their back, there is enough good comfort material here to conform to your lower spine while supporting your whole back in a neutral position. For heavier sleepers or people who want a firmer bed, there are 2 more options for you in the Helix Twilight and Helix Dawn variants.
Majority of side sleepers should feel perfectly comfy on the Midnight, but, if you're needing less pressure while still going with a flexible medium firmness, you might decide to take a look at the Helix Dusk, which utilizes a body-conforming latex-alternative foam that is breathable and provides the surface a small bit of bounce.
Those who sleep on their side typically have to be mindful of pressure because they sleep with most their weight on a tinier region. People who are smaller than average or those in the market for lots of pressure relief may want to stay with the plusher variants.
Stomach sleepers will feel comfortable in the Midnight, especially if this is not their primary position or they tend to switch things up a lot. Firmer mattresses may be preferable for exclusive tummy sleepers so they can make sure their hips don't dip and over-arch their spine.
Finally, Helix Sleep recommends Helix mattresses for sleepers up to 350 lbs or partners that weigh up to 250 lbs each. If you or your spouse are substantially larger than average, Helix has also created a bed called the Nightfall that's made to accommodate a total weight of 1000 pounds.
Keep in mind that if neither of those options seem right, you may always have a look at the four other beds in the newest collection: the Sunset (plush, softer than the Moonlight), Dusk (medium feel, a little firmer than the Midnight), Twilight (firm | 701 |
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They lasted 13 minutes before conceding, then shipped another 7 that night. As can be seen in the figures below, this meant that the worrying upward trend of goals conceded per game in tournament qualifiers continued to haunt the '<|fim_middle|>. | whipping boys' of European football.
The numbers seem to raise a question. In a game of increasing professional standards, where is the place in football for the predominantly amateur side? Will San Marino just keep getting worse? Should football's governing bodies let them play against such vastly superior sides if their inexorable slide shows no signs of stopping?
San Marino is not a team of stars, merely an independent sovereign state and full member of the UN, accounting for their place at Uefa and Fifa's table. Their players hold down a 9-5 (or whatever hours bar work demands nowadays) in addition to representing their country. Only two players in the national side ply their trade as professional footballers, and they play in Italy's fourth and fifth tier. They are, to all intents and purposes, an amateur side.
But then It is easy to forget now the influence that a team of amateurs like this once had on the history of the game. The history of Corinthians Casuals is a shining example of the amateur heritage of football's past.
The citizens of classical Corinth were proverbial for their wealth and profligacy. "Corinthian" has been a metaphor for a rakish "lad of mettle" since Shakespeare's day (Falstaff uses it). In the Regency the "Corinthians" were a group of hard-living aristocrats dedicated to sports, particularly pugilism and horse-racing. By the late 19th century the word had lost the hard-living, high-betting associations of the Regency term and kept only the idea of gentlemanliness and amateurism (source).
Corinthian (later Corinthians Casuals) were the living embodiment of the values of amateur sportsmanship in the early 1900s, to the point that they refused to take penalties, invariably responded to an injury by sending a member of their own team off to even things up, and even then still gave the opposition the run-around.
Such was the admiration of Corinthians that Real Madrid adopted their white shirts as their own and there are clubs in Brazil and Malta and a tournament in Sweden named in their honour. The only consideration taken into their game was an adherence to fair play and an upholding of that indefinable majesty that we often refer to as the 'spirit of the game'. Football as an entity has undeniably changed since then but in those principles lies the spirit of amateurism and the values that football should look to remember when thinking of teams like San Marino.
As I have said in articles past, I believe one of football's greatest strengths is in its egalitarian nature. As easy as it is to criticise a team like San Marino for them being 'not good enough' we should not deny any team the right to play on the predication that they are inherently inferior. To do so is to deny the principles of equality and upward mobility that define the sport.
Would we deny those teams not blessed with the trappings of wealth, population or stylish backdrops their day in the sun? Football is a fluid arena where 10 years can change the world. Take Stockport County for example.
On the 13th October 2001 a League 1 encounter saw them draw 2-2 with Manchester City. Almost 12 years to the day on the 12th October 2013 they lost 1-0 to Rushall Olympic in an FA Cup 3rd Qualifying Round while Manchester City battled their way to 4th in the league that they won two seasons ago.
There are numerous points in all three of the teams journeys where they could theoretically have been denied involvement in a competition should a kind of pre-meditated denial of opportunity, like some suggest should be enforced upon San Marino, have been possible. It's too easy to say that a 'quality barrier' would only apply to international football, but it cannot. It sets a precedent for elitism in a game already in danger of losing touch with its defining roots.
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Nostalgia and dissatisfaction with the<|fim_middle|> our personal films we live keeping in mind the film we continuously are making. Gradually we step back into our rooms and perform our work and family life only via TV screen unable to cope with un-mediated reality.
This article is interesting for few reasons. Firstly, soon after Ballard used this idea to write two short stories "The Intensive Care Unit" (1977) and "Motel Architecture" (1978), both picturing a society in which people live separately in screen-filled studios. Secondly, it is worth noticing that 1977 is long before the invention of virtual reality, therefore he quite rightly anticipated the development of media. Thirdly, compared with earlier texts on SF – engaged artistic manifestos teaching how to write, read and think – this article shows his disappointment in SF, which he now treats as a plaything only. Lastly, we can see here Ballard's growing obsession with TV screens and media culture, very much characteristic for his fiction (and journalism ) at the time. | contemporary world with its stupid escapist fables made Ballard concentrate on history of SF rather than its present state. The ability to probe deep down our psyche is the ultimate goal of literature. Nevertheless, in the 1970s something wrong happened to SF and culture at large. For some years Ballard kept toying with SF ideas in playful and less serious way. A good example of this kind of journalism is his cooperation with Vogue. In the late 1970s he published in this magazine a few impressions on future. Easy and nice to read they described a make-believe 21st century. In "The Future of the Future" (1977) he talks about the world dominated by TV. Each one of us lives in a room full of TV screens that report on our daily life and bodily functions. People spend their evenings editing the material recorded by cameras – their own talks and interactions with the family and friends. The actors in | 195 |
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The free version is available on the web and with apps or iOS and Android devices.
The Berlin-based startup has made its 'Mood Player,' which generates playlists based on a selected mood and curated playlists the centerpiece of its new free music service. There are also radio-like stations for composers and artists.
"Our world is becoming faster, more hectic and more competitive every day. For many people, this is too much of a challenge. Classical music is timeless, global and grounded: it enables us to pause," says IDAGIO CEO and founder Till Janczukowicz. "A central part of our mission is to bring its beauty and calming power to people everywhere – regardless of age, origin or income. With IDAGIO Free, we have taken a decisive step in the democratization of classical music."
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It may not come as a significant shock that the Forbes list for the 2015 Most Stressful Jobs includes the likes of military personnel, law enforcement, and firefighters. Adding event management professionals and event operations staff to that list, however, may be surprising. The key word there: surprise.
The majority of the jobs mentioned on the list all incorporate dealing with unforeseen problems and last-minute changes solved only with a skill set primarily attained through experience. These problems<|fim_middle|> an oversight by a sales team member (this never works out well).
In order to overcome the separation typical of event sales and operations teams, there needs to be transparency. Better communication comes as a result of clarity between departments. If a business operates using disconnected platforms like spreadsheets, Word documents and text messages, they are creating an environment designed to miss details.
Having singular documents and systems that anyone can peer into to view changes, updates or details is vital to more efficient communication. Although this may seem like an impossible challenge to venues currently working between various platforms, it is a necessary step to eliminate communication issues between sales and event operations.
All the different teams inside of your event business should be able to work as a whole and understand the daily challenges of each entity. Take this scenario for example; a sales representative sees an open date on the calendar, so he books it for a very large event at 6 AM. He did not take into account the previous day's client using the venue until midnight. This saddles operations with a large turnaround in a very short amount of time; a situation destined for challenges.
Until the sales team understands the trials and procedures of operations, they may not understand how negative this kind of experience could be; nor do they understand the cost implications that the short turnaround could have on the bottom line. In turn, the operations team needs to understand the struggles of the sales side. Perhaps there are missed opportunities because of the lack of capabilities or flexibility? Many venues find it productive to address these kind of pain points intensively at weekly meetings.
Although surprises are bound to arise, those directly relating to internal issues can be minimized, if not dissipated, by aligning event sales with event operations. By implementing a consistent sales process, creating a transparent platform, and collaborating to understand each other's challenges, the template for a less stressful and more successful business is created. | not only stress out the event managers, they can cause major issues for events-based businesses as well. In the event industry when the customers' expectations are not met because something was not captured during planning; the effects can be negative and long-lasting.
Most of these disconnects can be prevented up-front, but overcoming the chasm between sales and event operations is the primary hurdle. This means that there are many event businesses out there that have current processes that are directly creating undue stress within the organization. If your event business always feels out of control then there is a good chance that strengthening the synergy between your event sales and event operations will prevent this potentially disastrous disconnect.
Many event venues have sales processes that focus on the big picture but are lacking when it comes to the details that contribute to their customers' overall satisfaction with their events. In some cases, the event will come with a list of detailed expectations while others are all over the map. The blame for this can often be placed at the feet of the client (for not planning properly); however this can be mitigated by having a sales process that guides prospects through a capture protocol that provides greater clarity regarding expectations and requirements for future event operations.
This sales process will ensure that operations receives the information they need up front, and doesn't have to go digging for things later; while also setting expectations across the business as to what the customer is expecting (providing a greater chance of customer satisfaction). No one wants to be a venue that estimates one cost and delivers something much more expensive due to | 308 |
The truth about neoliberalism
"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next"
--John Stuart Mill
And so tyranny naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme form of liberty.
--Plato, The Republic, Book VIII
Since we're on the subject, I thought I'd share this interview featured on the BBC podcast Thinking Allowed a while back. It's about the history of neoliberalism, and why it's become so dominant. I think the critical point made by author Philip Mirowski in the interview is that neoliberalism claims it's in favor of small government, but nothing could be further from the truth! In fact, since markets are always created by government, it needs a large, activist government to impose its will on society. In fact, the size of government has historically been driven by the size of the market - these things aren't opposed, they're complementary. Thus "getting government out of the way" is just a smokescreen peddled to the rubes for the rich being allowed to do whatever they want to the wider society to maximize their profits. It also discusses some of the underlying philosophical issues that we have all just internalized, which is why there is no resistance to these ideas:
It begins with the show host asking for a concise definition of neoliberalism:
Philip Mirowski: Neoliberals are not conservatives, and they don't believe in laissez-faire. They believe in a strong state that has to impose certain kinds of market societies that they think should exist. And they have a few key doctrines - the one I'll mention here is that they believe that the market is an information processor much more powerful than any human being. The beauty of stating it in that short way is that that's their argument against socialism - all attempts at planning must fail because no human being can know what the market knows. But interestingly enough, it's more than just economics, it's also a philosophy about what it means to be a successful human being.
Laurie Taylor (host): It is surprising to hear that it is in favor of a strong state. the assumption is that neoliberals are infavor of a weak state and allowing the market to rule all.
Philip Mirowski: Right. Well, we can follow up on that by pointing out that they have different ideas on how people should understand their own movement. And to say it in a very short way, they have ways of dealing with crises that develop different responses in different time frames. And so, for example, in the short term, one of their ideas is to create a fog of doubt in the public to neutralize any immediate tendencies to blame the market. And so that's where you get some of this confusion about 'are they really hostile to the state or not?'
Laurie Taylor: So we're talking about - it is a belief in markets - markets have knowledge which will solve all our problems. But from time to time Neoliberals would want to believe in a strong state which does something to enable the development of new markets, is that right?
Philip Mirowski: Yes, because, that's another part of their project. Let's say that people believe that markets have gone awry or failed in some sense. Their immediate-term project is basically to propose new and stranger markets to fix any problems with old markets or previous markets. And, in order to do that, this doesn't just happen by itself. This is why need a strong state, because it takes a strong state to impose these new market forms to supposedly address the crisis. One can see this in the economic crisis with various maket-based forms of saving the banks and saving finance rather than simply nationalizing the banks and causing them to shrink and reorganizing them.
Laurie Taylor: So, if you talk about this development of new markets, what would be an example of that? How would the government enable the development of new markets which would be in line with neoliberalism's requirements?
Philip Mirowski: Well, a nice clean example has to do with global warming. The common way to address problems of carbon emissions recently since Kyoto has been to develop these markets in carbon emission permits. So instead of having the state cause various emitters to emit less, instead we have a marketplace of permits which will supposedly cut down on the amount of emissions that are being emitted. And so what's interesting about that is that even though these markets are very popular with certain--for example, in finance--that they don't actually reduce the amounts of emissions. So what happens is that you introduce various markets to fix problems, but really what it does is it just sort of spreads out the problem over the longer term.
Laurie Taylor: Now I said in my introduction that you look in great detail at the origins of neoliberalism in the thirties and forties; The Mont Pelerin Society, Hayek and Friedman and the group of thinkers which evolved into the neoliberal thought collective. You use the analogy of a Russian doll to talk about the development of neoliberalism. Why that analogy?
Philip Mirowski: Because there are a number of concentric rings of institutions that constitute the neoliberal thought collective. I tend to think that the center, perhaps the smallest of them all, is the Mont Pelerin society itself, founded in 1947 which was a discussion society for these various figures to rethink classical liberalism. And the figures that were involved in that history are people like Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, George Stigler, Lionel Robbins, Karl Popper, Gary Becker and many others. Then, as time went on, they developed a concentric ring around that discussion group built up out of think tanks, and these think tanks would be think tanks that some people are aware of like IEA in Britain, Heritage, Cato, Atlas, the Stockholm Network. And then you have a next layer, which is a layer of sort of media and promulgation of the ideas in various national contexts. One example woud be the Murdoch empire in America...
Laurie Taylor: Doesn't this sound a bit conspiratorial? I mean mightn't these think tanks and academic departments be deciding that this was the particular approach to economics that they want to adopt because they believe it to be true?
Philip Mirowski: See, I find that objection interesting because, remember, I'm also a historian of science. And it seems when people make that objection, they think either all thought is individual, you know a genius and their followers, or else it's a conspiracy, when in fact, even in the history of science, there's been a long discussion of what it means to have collective movements of thought and the ways in which people hold together their thought collectives, and in fact the whole idea of a thought collective is taken from Ludwig Fleck who theorizes about biology.
So why do I call it a Russian doll? I call it a Russian doll because in these different layers, the same people can perform different functions. And that what's interesting about it And that's what holds it together is that people can act in different ways in the different parts of the layers, and yet...
Laurie Taylor: Sorry to interrupt, but I want to move you on because time is limited. Neoliberalism's success lies in the fact the we all have to varying degrees internalized its logic. We've all become neoliberals. And indeed, this explains why we've returned to neoliberal solutions after the financial crisis which might have been thought to have subverted that type of thought forever.
Philip Mirowski: This is not anything novel or original with me, I mean this goes back to the work of Foucault who essentially says that the neoliberal agent is an 'entrepreneur of the self.' Now why do we need an entrepreneur of the self? That's because people never know as much as the market, so because we're a flawed thinker, we must learn to transform ourselves to take in these packets of truth delivered by the market and alter ourselves to respond to them.
So in this view, there's no true self you should remain faithful to. And I'll give you some examples. Like education is no longer about finding myself or my true self or about becoming a solid citizen, its just about investing in human capital for a future payoff. Or another way of thinking about this, is that all my failures are personal, either because I didn't take enough risk or else a risk went bad, so in that sense whatever happened to me was all my fault.
So I tend to think of this as, 'your credit score is as important as your blood pressure, and its *your* job to monitor both,' see health is your fault.
Laurie Taylor: So this emphasis on your fault would seem to be one of the reasons we cant have any political mobilizations against neoliberal idea, because were all locked into that notion of individual fault.
Philip Mirowski: Well, that's part of it, but I also think that there's this larger idea that people who don't care about politics at all imbibe this kind of neoliberalism from their environment. For example Ilana Gershon has this lovely series of articles showing how Facebook is a device for training youth how to be neoliberal agents, because it takes your information for free, it sells it to others for profit and what you're supposed to do is, you're supposed to construct a profile so you can play around with being a person who's different from who you really are and then you get little metric about how many friends you have and so forth and so on. I mean what it is, is you have this sense of yourself as this wierd agglomeration of parts that you can put together.
Laurie Taylor: It's a very defeatist message isn't it, given the pervasiveness of neoliberalism? How on earth can we produce counter-narratives or visions that will help us to get out of it?
Philip Mirowski: Well, that's what the book is for. The book suggests the left these days has nothing as sophisticated as this combined political project plus a philosophical project, and instead it tends to fight one battle at a time, or make an argument about this kind of regulation, when in fact the way to fight this I would argue, and I do in the book, is that we have to change the notions of what markets do, just like the neoliberals did starting the nineteen thirties and forties. Before the Great Depression, markets were treated as a classical allocation of scarce resources to given ends. What the neoliberals have done is they've made it an intellectual project; they've made markets to be information processors. The left needs a different story about markets in order to tell a story about why we should have different kinds of social arrangements.
Work and Consumption; Neo-liberal Economics (BBC). The truimph of Neoliberal economics in the post Recession world. Laurie Taylor talks to US Professor of Economics, Philip Mirowski, about his analysis of why neoliberalism survived, and even prospered, in the aftermath of the financial meltdown of 2008. Although it was widely asserted that the economic convictions behind the disaster would be consigned to history, Mirowski says that the opposite is the case. He claims that once neoliberalism became a Theory of Everything, providing a revolutionary account of self, knowledge, markets, and government, it was impossible to falsify by data from the 'real' economy. Neoliberalism, he suggests, wasn't dislodged by the recession because we have internalised its messages. Have we all, in a sense, become neoliberals, inhabiting "entrepreneurial" selves which compel us to position ourselves in the market and rebrand ourselves daily? Also, why do work almost as hard as we did 40 years ago, despite being on average twice as rich? Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, suggests an escape from the work and consumption treadmill.
Here's a suggestion: we can start getting people to think of markets as what they really are: basically just giant casinos. We run our entire economies as a casino, and we wonder why it keeps turning into disaster.
Democracy versus capitalism
"I believe that oligarchy follows next in order. And what manner of government do you term oligarchy? A government resting on a valuation of property, in which the rich have power and the poor man is deprived of it."
There's some talk about an extraordinary book soon to come out in America. The book, like so many important things, was originally published in French by economist Thomas Pinketty. Here's a summary by Thomas B. Edsall:
Piketty, a professor at the Paris School of Economics...contends that capitalism's inherent dynamic propels powerful forces that threaten democratic societies.
Capitalism, according to Piketty, confronts both modern and modernizing countries with a dilemma: entrepreneurs become increasingly dominant over those who own only their own labor. In Piketty's view, while emerging economies can defeat this logic in the near term, in the long run, "when pay setters set their own pay, there's no limit," unless "confiscatory tax rates" are imposed....Conservative readers will find that Piketty's book disputes the view that the free market, liberated from the distorting effects of government intervention, "distributes," as Milton Friedman famously put it, "the fruits of economic progress among all people. That's the secret of the enormous improvements in the conditions of the working person over the past two centuries."
Piketty proposes instead that the rise in inequality reflects markets working precisely as they should: "This has nothing to do with a market imperfection: the more perfect the capital market, the higher" the rate of return on capital is in comparison to the rate of growth of the economy. The higher this ratio is, the greater inequality is.
According to Piketty...[T]he six-decade period of growing equality in western nations – starting roughly with the onset of World War I and extending into the early 1970s – was unique and highly unlikely to be repeated. [T]hose halcyon six decades were the result of two world wars and the Great Depression. The owners of capital – those at the top of the pyramid of wealth and income – absorbed a series of devastating blows. These included the loss of credibility and authority as markets crashed; physical destruction of capital throughout Europe in both World War I and World War II; the raising of tax rates, especially on high incomes, to finance the wars; high rates of inflation that eroded the assets of creditors; the nationalization of major industries in both England and France; and the appropriation of industries and property in post-colonial countries.
At the same time, the Great Depression produced the New Deal coalition in the United States, which empowered an insurgent labor movement. The postwar period saw huge gains in growth and productivity, the benefits of which were shared with workers who had strong backing from the trade union movement and from the dominant Democratic Party. Widespread support for liberal social and economic policy was so strong that even a Republican president who won easily twice, Dwight D. Eisenhower, recognized that an assault on the New Deal would be futile. In Eisenhower's words, "Should any political party attempt to abolish Social Security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear from that party again in our political history."
The six decades between 1914 and 1973 stand out from the past and future, according to Piketty, because the rate of economic growth exceeded the after-tax rate of return on capital. [That period, Piketty suggests, represented an exception to the more deeply rooted pattern of growing inequality.] Since then, the rate of growth of the economy has declined, while the return on capital is rising to its pre-World War I levels.
"If the rate of return on capital remains permanently above the rate of growth of the economy – this is Piketty's key inequality relationship," [Branko] Milanovic writes in his review, it "generates a changing functional distribution of income in favor of capital and, if capital incomes are more concentrated than incomes from labor (a rather uncontroversial fact), personal income distribution will also get more unequal — which indeed is what we have witnessed in the past 30 years."
The only way to halt this process, he argues, is to impose a global progressive tax on wealth – global in order to prevent (among other things) the transfer of assets to countries without such levies....The Piketty diagnosis helps explain the recent drop in the share of national income going to labor and a parallel increase in the share going to capital.
Piketty's analysis also sheds light on the worldwide growth in the number of the unemployed. The International Labor Organization, an agency of the United Nations, reported recently that the number of unemployed grew by 5 million from 2012 to 2013, reaching nearly 202 million by the end of last year. It is projected to grow to 215 million by 2018. Piketty does not treat worker ownership as a solution, and he is generally dismissive of small-bore reforms, arguing that they will have only modest effects on economic growth worldwide, which he believes is very likely to be stuck at 1 to 1.5 percent through the rest of this century. Piketty joins a number of scholars raising significant questions about how the global economic system will deal with such phenomena as robotics, the hollowing out of the job market, outsourcing and global competition.
His prognosis is extremely bleak. Without what he acknowledges is a politically unrealistic global wealth tax, he sees the United States and the developed world on a path toward a degree of inequality that will reach levels likely to cause severe social disruption. Final judgment on Piketty's work will come with time – a problem in and of itself, because if he is right, inequality will worsen, making it all the more difficult to take preemptive action.
Capitalism vs. Democracy (New York Times)
Here's Brad Delong's summary:
If I had to summarize the lessons that I drew from Piketty's book powerpoint presentation for his Helsinki Lecture, I would say that they are four.
First, that inequality is driven by the dynamics of capital (and more broadly, wealth–wealth includes land and also rent-extraction position as well) accumulation–the capital-to-output ratio and the capital share of income–and by the dynamics of wealth distribution. A society with a high savings rate and a low growth rate will have a high wealth-to-income ratio and a high capital share in income. A society with multiplicative dynamics–in which the return on wealth are such that wealth makes more wealth rather than wealth getting taxed or stolen or bombed or consumed away–will be one with an unequal distribution of what wealth there is. A society with both of those things will be an unequal society.
Second, from roughly 1930 to 1980, the North Atlantic had neither of these. Rapid productivity and technology population from the Second Industrial Revolution coupled with the population explosion of the demographic transition era raised the denominator of the wealth-to-income ratio. Wars, progressive taxation to finance wars, the sticking of progressive taxation even after the wars were over, and a popular demand for social democracy and social insurance inhibited multiplicative dynamics by which more was given to those who had.
Third, meritocracy? Make me laugh. In my view meritocracy does not produce inequality. Rather, true equality of opportunity produces relatively small income differentials because there is always somebody almost as good eager to bid for your high-paid job. Inequality emerges either (i) when this generation's human capital is last generation's wealth, or (ii) when other non-meritocratic factors are creating jobs that are the equivalent of covering yourself with glue, standing outside at a corner in Canary Wharf, and watching the money stick to you as it blows by.
Fourth, now with the end of the demographic transition era and with the possible slowing of technological progress, we face a world with a much higher capital share of income than over 1930-1980. And multiplicative dynamics are back with a vengeance–largely, I think, because unequal wealth poisons politics and creates a powerful class interested in making sure that multiplicative wealth dynamics persist.
But what does Piketty say?
In his Helsinki lecture, Tomas made six major points:
As growth rates decline in the Old World (Europe and Japan), we will once again see the dominance of capital: a greater proportion of the wealth of society will<|fim_middle|> "by our special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion." For the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, however, rights to the land required more than a "mere motion" or a flick of the hand. Ownership, like their Puritan faith, relied on hard work and self-reliance. This argument for the concept of property as a natural right settled their consciences in regard to the native population, who were not tilling the land or building permanent homesteads.
A century later John Locke would argue, in a similar fashion, that the earth was common to all men but that "every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his." His labor could give him claim to land once thought communal. Locke's argument for natural, embodied rights to private property is neatly counterpointed by Hobbes's claim that ownership of the earth must be a creation of civil law enforced by a Leviathan-style state. Both ideas of private property, though, merged seamlessly from an agrarian to an industrial society. The structure of landowner-tenant-laborer was translated into shareholder-manager-worker, and the ideas behind the common law of property could easily encompass intellectual property as the fruits of (mental) labor.
Book Review: 'Owning the Earth' by Andro Linklater (Wall Street Journal) A novel idea sprang up in 16th-century England: that an individual could own land outright, without obligation to earthly or heavenly masters or to tribes and families.
Barely two centuries ago, most of the world's productive land still belonged either communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch or church. But that pattern, and the ways of life that went with it, were consigned to history by, Andro Linklater persuasively argues, the most creative and at the same time destructive cultural force in the modern era—the idea of individual, exclusive ownership of land.
Spreading from both shores of the north Atlantic, it laid waste to traditional communal civilizations, displacing entire peoples from their homelands, but at the same time brought into being a unique concept of individual freedom and a distinct form of representative government and democratic institutions. By contrast, as Linklater demonstrates, other great civilizations, in Russia, China, and the Islamic world, evolved very different structures of land ownership and thus very different forms of government and social responsibility.
The history and evolution of landownership is a fascinating chronicle in the history of civilization, offering unexpected insights about how various forms of democracy and capitalism developed, as well as a revealing analysis of a future where the Earth must sustain nine billion lives. Seen through the eyes of remarkable individuals—Chinese emperors; German peasants; the seventeenth century English surveyor William Petty, who first saw the connection between private property and free-market capitalism; the American radical Wolf Ladejinsky, whose land redistribution in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea after WWII made possible the emergence of Asian tiger economies—Owning the Earth presents a radically new view of mankind's place on the planet.
Owning the Earth (Bloomsbury Publishing)
The Death of the Car
I'm not sure why the Peak Oil community isn't making a bigger deal of this - Americans are abandoning cars, both by choice and by necessity due to high costs and declining incomes. Of course, I don't think this means Americans are abandoning suburbia yet; rather, I think Americans are doing less "discretionary driving" - vacations, pointless errands, etc.
In fact, what we're seeing is counterintuitive from what some Peak Oil commentators have said in the past. Rather than moving back to big cities and walkable communities because they can't afford gasoline and insurance, downwardly-mobile people are being pushed ever farther out into the sprawling suburbs because this is the only place where rents and housing prices are low enough for them to live with their minimal incomes! Books like Average is Over have predicted Mexican-style shantytowns with nonexistent municipal services developing along the fringes of America's sun-belt cities for the teeming masses of Americans who will end up impoverished by automation and outsourcing.
So even though the price of gas has gone up, the price of housing has gone up even more, making it economically impossible to live in walkable communities, so people are forced to live far from their job and commute in, even with the high gas prices. That is, if they even have a job - a lot of young people are probably trapped in their parents suburban chalets bought in the fifties and sixties at the margins.
Meanwhile, walkable vibrant urban communities have essentially become winner's circles for elite Americans because, as Kunstler and others point out, they're just better to live in! As cities become gentrified, the suburbs become soulless ghettos for America's new poor, especially the white poor ("slumburbia"). So, perversely, the very people who can easily afford higher gas prices don't need to because they have shorter commutes and can walk everywhere. This is reinforced by America's extreme spatial balkanization along income lines - the rich live by the rich, and the poor have to live with the poor, and more and more that seems to be the suburbs. It's yet another way everything in America is geared to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.
Related: These 2 Cities Are Now Exclusively For Rich People (Huffington Post)
Nevertheless, the trend is clear - driving in the developed world is going down, and fracking doesn't seem to be saving it. I've noted before that in Europe, bicycle sales have surpassed car sales for the past couple of years.
Vehicle Miles Driven (Business Insider)
Has the Developed World Hit "Peak Car Use"? (Naked Capitalism)
It's not the economy, stupid; young people really are turning their backs on cars (Treehugger)
Young people have turned to transit because they can't afford vehicle ownership. Yes, the proportion of young drivers has dropped in the last decade. But HLDI [Highway Loss Data Institute] data suggests that drop has coincided with the economic downturn – which has not only hammered youth employment, but also has had an impact on parents who might otherwise help their kids take the wheel. As HLDI points out, "There was an inverse relationship between the growing unemployment spread and the falling ratio of teen drivers to prime-age drivers." As unemployment rises, youth driving sinks.
Meanwhile, in the "developing" world:
Beijing 'plans congestion charge' to ease traffic woes (BBC) and Sao Paulo: A city with 180km traffic jams (BBC) and 10 monster traffic jams from around the world (BBC)
Degrowth and the Internet
Internet provocateur Evgeny Morozov endorses the Degrowth movement:
For a very long time, the assumption of infinite growth—with GDP as the sole benchmark for assessing government policy—has ruled supreme here as well. The first dissident voices in the early 1970s quickly drowned in the free-market sloganeering of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, but the critical questioning of growth as the sole focus of economic activity resumed during the last decade, driven by concerns over global warming.
Today, this critical agenda is being pursued by the adherents of the "degrowth" movement—popular in Europe but enjoying very little traction in the United States. The goal of this movement is not just to scrutinize the ecological wisdom of continuing in the current pro-growth mode but also to question the wisdom of using indicators like the GDP to assess and formulate public policy. As Yves-Marie Abraham, a Canadian sociologist and one of the proponents of the degrowth agenda, puts it, "[T]his is not [about] the decline of GDP, but the end of GDP and all other quantitative measures used as indicators of well being."
This is not the time or place to assess the merits of the degrowth agenda with regard to the economy. But it's hard to deny that it has presented many interesting intellectual challenges to mainstream economics. A robust defense of the pro-growth agenda today requires addressing concerns over climate change as well as explaining why there's no simple linear relationship between growth and happiness. If more growth doesn't make us happier, why should it guide our economic policy?
As an alternative paradigm for arranging productive activity, the degrowth agenda has resulted in at least some provocative new thinking about politics and economics. There is no such alternative paradigm with respect to information yet. The existing efforts to think of different ways to relate to technology and information smack of privatized and transcendentalist solutions that work at the level of individuals, not collectives: We are encouraged to explore "digital detoxing" to reinvigorate our sense of reality, to install apps that would make us more "mindful," to spend time in camps that ban gadgets from their premises.
None of these solutions offers a coherent intellectual alternative to the current paradigm of "more information is always better." Degrowth theorists invoke the convenient but real bogeyman of global warming to reorient our thinking process. The vision of such a disaster, however, has so far been missing from the information debate. All we see are concerns about personal health, shortening attention spans, distraction. These are concerns about individuals, not collectives. No wonder they lend themselves to private solutions like apps to regain mindfulness.
Why You Should Embrace the "Degrowth" Movement (Slate)
Although I'd have to agree with this comment: "I wonder if the author's back is hurting from all the stretching required to maintain that very awkward parallel. Both the information theory and macroeconomic topics are great but the only thing they really have in common here is the issue of "growth". Maybe it was assigned as two essays but the author ran out of time and just combined them to up the word count." I don't see the parallel either, except that ever-more information is no better than ever-more stuff - both are subject to diminishing returns. But it's good to see the idea of growth being criticized by more people, even if it probably won't do any good.
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Shifting Baselines in Action
I've seen this excellent XKCD comic in a number of places because it perfectly illustrates the idiocy of using the recent attack of the polar vortices (vortexes?) to suddenly convince ourselves that all's well and good with the climate. It's too bad the term 'global warming' caught on because, while it is accurate - the globe as a whole is heating up - what that translates to on in any single location is weird, unpredictable, unusual weather, and that's exactly what we're seeing. Climate change is a better term, but oh well. Is there any issue that isn't just decided by marketing?
As Treehugger explains: Cold waves used to be more frequent, and now that we're not used to them, they seem worse:
Our rather short-term human memory means that we quickly forget how things used to be decades ago (if we were even alive back then), and so if things that used to be more frequent become more rare, they could seem like evidence that things are moving in the opposite direction because we're not used to them anymore.
A good example of this is that people who are younger than 28 have never lived a month of below average global temperatures. So what seems normal to them is actually part of an abnormal warming long-term trend. In other words, a long-term normal temp would seem unusually cold to these people based on personal experience.
The only way to have an informed, scientific opinion about long-term trends like climate change is to look at the hard data over long periods, which is what climate scientists are doing. You can't just anecdotally look at regional weather and compare it to what you remember to make up your mind.
The calculations...show that overall there is a downward trend in the number of extreme cold nights like we're currently experiencing – although there are variations in a few cities. This trend is consistent with climate studies showing that overall, winters across the contiguous U.S. have warmed by .61°F per decade since 1970, and every region has warmed at least somewhat over that time.
…For example, in Minneapolis in the 1970s (1969-79), there were an average of 14.7 nights with temperatures below minus 10°F. But in the past decade (2002-2012), that number has fallen dramatically, to about 3.8. The calculations run from July through June of the following year, so that we wouldn't break up the winter season.
In Detroit in the 1970s, there were an average of 7.9 nights with temperatures below zero degrees. But now, that number is closer to 2 nights. And in Washington D.C., the number of nights with a low of 20 or below was 13.5 in the 1970s, but was closer to 8.3 in the past decade. The overnight low at Reagan National Airport on Jan. 7 was 6°F.
And in St. Louis, the 1970s featured an average of 3.8 nights with a low of 0°F or below, yet in the past decade, the average for such frigid nights fell to zero.
Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism comments: I hate to sound like the old fart that I am, but in the 1980s, every winter, there would be at least one 2-3 day period when the daily high was below 5 degrees in NYC, sometimes below zero. The problem is with over 20 years of not having spells like that, no one has the right clothes for it when it does show up. Wear more layers!!! I seem to recall winters being colder and snowier in my youth. Of course, back then I didn't care. See also:
Polar Vortex in U.S. May be Example of Global Warming (Climate Central)
This is a perfect example of what I've talked about before: shifting baseline syndrome. I found this excellent description of shifting baseline syndrome on Edge Magazine by Paul Kedrosky under their question of the year 2011 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT WOULD IMPROVE EVERYBODY'S COGNITIVE TOOLKIT?
When John Cabot came to the Grand Banks off Newfoundland in 1497 he was astonished at what he saw. Fish, so many fish - fish in numbers he could hardly comprehend. According to Farley Mowat, Cabot wrote that the waters were so "swarming with fish [that they] could be taken not only with a net but in baskets let down and [weighted] with a stone."
The fisheries boomed for five hundred years, but by 1992 it was all over. The Grand Banks cod fishery was destroyed, and the Canadian government was forced to close it entirely, putting 30,000 fishers out of work. It has never recovered.
What went wrong? Many things, from factory fishing to inadequate oversight, but much of it was aided and abetted by treating each step toward disaster as normal. The entire path, from plenitude to collapse, was taken as the status quo, right up until the fishery was essentially wiped out.
In 1995 fisheries scientist Daniel Pauly coined a phrase for this troubling ecological obliviousness - he called it "shifting baseline syndrome". Here is how Pauly first described the syndrome: "Each generation of fisheries scientist accepts as baseline the stock situation that occurred at the beginning of their careers, and uses this to evaluate changes. When the next generation starts its career, the stocks have further declined, but it is the stocks at that time that serve as a new baseline. The result obviously is a gradual shift of the baseline, a gradual accommodation of the creeping disappearance of resource species."
It is blindness, stupidity, intergeneration data obliviousness. Most scientific disciplines have long timelines of data, but many ecological disciplines don't. We are forced to rely on second-hand and anecdotal information - we don't have enough data to know what is normal, so we convince ourselves that this is normal.
But it often isn't normal. Instead, it is a steadily and insidiously shifting baseline, no different than convincing ourselves that winters have always been this warm, or this snowy. Or convincing ourselves that there have always been this many deer in the forests of eastern North America. Or that current levels of energy consumption per capita in the developed world are normal. All of these are shifting baselines, where our data inadequacy, whether personal or scientific, provides dangerous cover for missing important longer-term changes in the world around us.
When you understand shifting baseline syndrome it forces you to continually ask what is normal. Is this? Was that? And, at least as importantly, it asks how we "know" that it's normal. Because, if it isn't, we need to stop shifting the baselines and do something about it before it's too late.
I've heard a lot of claims recently about how much "better" our environment has become under neoliberal capitalism. Even if that were true, we're judging it against what's "normal" and a lot of that is the extremely polluted, overexploited world of the very recent past. And, of course, the pollution hasn't gone away, it's just been dumped in the backyards of people even poorer than we are - Chinese and African peasants, for example. That was a major point of this post, particularly the following quote:
"...the hunter-gatherers of the old days weren't forced into marginal areas. They were living off the fat of the land in the best areas in the world, killing mammoths and so forth, even in the Ice Ages and so forth. So they were living in the highest carrying capacity areas in the world. I mean you read about the hunter-gatherers in the Nile. I mean, this is a good life, man! You go in there, and you gather, and there's so many fish, and there's so many birds, and there's so many animals that they practically fall into your hands. People have no idea how lush the world used to be."
And, of course, shifting baselines apply to more than the environment. A lot of what we consider "normal" today - going heavily into debt for college, minimal taxes of wealth and capital gains, large amounts of people making minimum wage, politicians bought out by special interests, tenuous employment with no benefits - was anything but "normal" in times past. This is tied into the concept of "creeping normalcy." What was once an outrage just becomes "the way things are."
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
--CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
BONUS: Maybe we should move to Alaska, which is now too warm for sled dog racing (and about 30 degrees warmer than here): 2nd Iditarod qualifier yields to warm temperatures (AP)
The Golden Age of Big Apple Manufacturing
Given our latest topics of discussion, I thought this was an interesting find:
This map, printed by the Merchants' Association of New York in 1922, shows industrial activity in the city, as reported to the 1919 Census of Manufactures. The map was meant as a promotional tool—beige areas represent areas "available for industrial development"—and to boost the city's profile in the larger business community.
In the upper right-hand corner of the map, a box lists the "lines" (or types of manufactured goods) in which New York's factories competed. In 1919, this list shows, New York produced more than 50 percent of total national output in 12 lines of manufacture, and was competitive in many more.
Geographer Richard Harris, writing about industry in the city between 1900-40 in the Journal of Historical Geography, points out that because of the particular products New York was known for (lapidary work, women's clothing, millinery), many industrial workers were women. In 1939, they represented 36 percent of the total workforce. Workers in Lower Manhattan, where many garment factories were located, were particularly female.
Harris points out that although factories tended to move outward into the boroughs after 1919, before WWII the city did retain many factories in its central core, bucking the nationwide trend of suburbanization of industry. In 1940, 60 percent of New York workers had manufacturing jobs.
In the midcentury period, however, development trends turned toward offices and corporate headquarters. Zoning regulations made building more factories difficult...In recent years, the city's economy has rested on the service and financial industries. While manufacturers still do set up shop in the city, the scope of their activities is specialized. According to the New York City Economic Development Corporation, industry now provides just 16% of private-sector jobs.
1919 Map of New York City's Manufacturers Shows a Bygone Industrial Landscape (Slate) Interesting year. Note that when workers made the stuff they consumed, we had steadily rising living standards (though still terrible poverty). This led to the roaring twenties (along with Henry Ford paying his workers five dollars a day). then it came crashing down in the 1930's - a period which coincided with the mass industrialization of agriculture. Coincidence?
The Mancession and the Sheconomy
Perhaps you've noticed that's it seems to be lot easier for women to get jobs these days than men. Most of the jobs being "created" today are some sort of cubicle-warming position with "manager," "representative," "associate," "coordinator," or "specialist"in the title. These jobs consist mainly of attending meetings, delegating authority, patiently explaining things to other people, and some form of useless paper shuffling.
The "jobs of the future" are things men simply don't want to do (I know I don't) - things like changing diapers, mopping up vomit, emptying bedpans, drawing blood, taking care of a roomful of children, waiting tables, planning weddings, and so on. Most of the remaining jobs are dead-end "service" jobs, which men, who instinctively compete for status, tend to dislike, as it requires obedience, docility, and a "may I help you" attitude that many men simply don't possess (or affect while internalizing suppressed rage). Not to mention the salaries are abysmal - hard to woo women or start a family earning that kind of money.
The things that men like to do are the ones that have disproportionately been taken over by machines, like manufacturing. The resulting oversupply of male labor (including bottomless unskilled labor from Mexico) has driven male wages down, even for jobs which can't be shipped overseas like pipefitting, landscaping, HVAC installation, auto mechanics and so on. Now, a new wave of automation is coming for things like truck driving, the mainstay of blue-collar males since deindustrialization (check out all those pickup truck ads. What are all those guys doing anyway, and why are they baling hay?). Improvements in auto-production and a shift to electric cars may reduce the need (hopefully) for auto mechanics, oil changers, etc. Those areas that men tend to work in, like building construction, have taken a beating thanks to lack of capital. We can't just go on building more buildings every single year forever - for one, the entire earth would be paved over, for another, we'd run out of materials, and another, we wouldn't even have enough people to put in them, especially if population is declining.
Even the few remaining fields where men have a small numerical edge (science, engineering, mathematics, computer programming, construction), the common lament you always hear is "how do we get more women to get interested in this profession?" WTF? There aren't enough jobs right now for all the men in these professions, and you want to get more women into them? Shouldn't you be more worried about the quantity of jobs rather who is doing them? If a job is getting done, what does it matter if it's a man or a woman doing it?
In general, men prefer movement and action. They like physical things and don't like sitting still for long amounts of time. They are good at focusing on a specific task, but their attention varies, and they are less docile, generally. Many men have less-than-desirable social skills. School is almost perfectly designed to turn men off from learning and education, and our "college for all" culture provides few opportunities for the average man to become a decent, productive member of society (unlike, say Germany with their apprentice systems), instead preferring to lock them up and throw away the key. Non-college jobs are denigrated in American society, attracting people who see themselves as "rejects" for college, and leading to poor-quality service. At the same time, like twenty people all crowding together trying to enter into an elevator at the exact same time, students are encouraged to go to college so they can get "prestigious" jobs that don't exist, and graduate with nothing but debt to show for it.
Women, by contrast, have an easier time sitting behind a desk all day, cooperating, behaving, smiling, and being social, which is what jobs tend to be all about nowadays. I once read someone's opinion that the "women's lib" movement was actively encouraged so that women would enter the workforce en masse, competing against men and driving down salaries. Plus, women were more docile and easier to control - they didn't talk back to their (male) bosses, rock the boat, ask for a raise, or try and outcompete or outshine their (male) bosses. There was a sense that, since women were considered a "second" income, that you could pay them less, and this is probably why women still tend to earn a little less than men in the same positions (although this is greatly exaggerated). It seems believable enough, especially since this seems to be the only mass movement since the War that the oligarchy has not strangled in its crib.
Of course, schools were originally designed to churn out obedient soldiers and factory workers as John Taylor Gatto has so aptly demonstrated. Now that the factory work is gone, they seem to do little more than keep people out of the workforce until they turn 18, and then they can become either prisoners or debt donkeys. But this "sit still, be quiet, behave, do exactly what you're told, stand up and sit down when the bell rings;" type of mentality is inherently easier for girls to go along with. Mass education has only been around for 50-60 years (even before World War Two it wasn't uncommon for people to have only a primary school education, and many of these people were smart as a whip), and that's way too little time for evolution to mold all men and boys into obedient little workers, especially since the previous few million years before that encouraged the behavioral traits I listed above for reproductive success. Thus, I doubt men are simply going to behave as the robots economists use for their models and transform into home health care aides, third-grade teachers, nurses, and so on. I tend to agree that schools treat boys as "defective girls" and try to medicate away the problem:
Being a boy can be a serious liability in today's classroom. As a group, boys are noisy, rowdy and hard to manage. Many are messy, disorganized and won't sit still. Young male rambunctiousness, according to a recent study, leads teachers to underestimate their intellectual and academic abilities. "Girl behavior is the gold standard in schools," says psychologist Michael Thompson. "Boys are treated like defective girls."
These "defective girls" are not faring well academically. Compared with girls, boys earn lower grades, win fewer honors and are less likely to go to college. One education expert has quipped that if current trends continue, the last male will graduate from college in 2068. In today's knowledge-based economy, success in the classroom has never been more crucial to a young person's life prospects. Women are adapting; men are not.
What Schools Can Do to Help Boys Succeed (Time)
Lest you think any of the above is an exaggeration, I advise you to check out the following link:
The glass ceiling illustrated in one 'meet the staff' web page
This also leads to the loss of class mobility and concentration of wealth, as men now no longer have to compete against just upper-class men, but upper-class women as well. Now members of both genders who are "to the manor born" can hoard opportunities, making sure there's no room for people from the lower classes to rise up the ladder as was more likely in times past. There's only so much room on each level of the pyramid, after all.
At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust (New York Times)
And this has caused the feeding of men's insecurities, especially those of white males. Predictably, these insecurities have given birth to a whole host of "movements," the Tea Party movement, Libertarianism in its varied forms, including the latest Neoreactionary movement (bring back the aristocracy!), the militia movement, the men's rights movement, the "pickup" community, sovereign citizens, survivalists, the NRA (what it's become) and the John Birch Society (which has now captured the entire Republican Party). I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting.
FOX News is specifically designed by its creators to appeal of this fever pitch of anxiety, anger and insecurity. Exhibit A: FOX News propagandists Bill O'Reilly and Brit Hume arguing that the corrupt, obese bully Chris Christie is just "too manly" for a "feminized" culture like the United States. Predictably, Christie's numbers shot up among what is essentially now an aging white male party. Exhibit B - Elizabeth Hasselbeck, one of FOX's endless stable of pulchritudinous, square-jawed, blonde, Aryan Überfrauen, has stated that "wussified" men are now a threat to national security! You can almost cut the anxiety with a knife. Of course, outlets like Rush Limbaugh pioneered revelling in "political incorrectness," depicting opponents of their entire message as "shrill harpies," and themselves as "just one of the guys" chatting in the locker room after the game. "Feminazis" were one of the major targets of him and his clones, and you can see why these types of shows are played on AM radio outlets that used to be known primarily for sports talk radio (blue-collar men listen to radio in the truck or on the job site). There are a whole genre of books about "how to be a real man," and things like "the Man Show" are out there to supposedly define what a man is "supposed to be" (unfortunately, in America that seems to be one particular type of man - loutish, big-mouthed, arrogant, aggressive, sloppy, unintellectual, incurious, and beer-and-sports-obsessed). Note how you didn't see stuff like this forty years ago.
Presumably, Larry the Cable guy is a "real man" 'cause he's driving a monster truck!
History shows that Whenever you have a large amount of unemployed or unemployable men, you have a recipe for trouble. If men don't have work - they'll make work, and that work is likely to be crime, rape, violence, vandalism, vigilantism, and all sorts of other mischief, including picking up guns and heading to town hall meetings or policing polling stations for "voter fraud."
All of which is prelude to this crunching of some dire data from Matt Yglesias:
Catherine Rampell recently noted that all the net job growth in December was accounted for by women's employment while men gained zero net jobs. Month-to-month numbers can get noisy, and you shouldn't attribute too much significance to net zero as a threshold, but it is true that the labor market in the United States is highly gendered. It's not just a question of various disparities that arise inside particular firms—there are systematic sectoral gaps between what jobs women hold and what jobs men hold. So an economic trend that's bad for construction workers lands very heavily on men, whereas one that's bad for teachers lands very heavily on women.
Taking the long view, we can see that American women have regained the employment level they were at before the recession. Men, by contrast, have not. The much-hyped "manufacturing rennaissance" is a bit of a myth, and to the extent that it's happened, it hasn't made up for construction job losses. There's a very real male-dominated boom in natural resource extraction jobs, but that sector just doesn't employ that many people.
Younger women were hit by the recession but have also more than recovered their losses. Young men's employment level is way down from where it once was. Optimistically one might hope this represents a surge in young men enrolling in college and learning useful things, but to the best of my knowledge the gender gap in college attendance and graduation continues to favor women.
All told, it's very much an End of Men scenario—with the particularly striking fact being that you see the end of men more strongly in the younger cohorts. The population of people over the age of 55 is both large and growing, so the experience of older people carries a lot of weight in national aggregates. But the younger you look the more you see men's disemployment as a theme. For younger workers we really are slouching toward gender equity—we're just doing it more by men becoming worse off than by women becoming better off.
Four Charts Show the Gendered Labor Market (Slate)
See also: U.S. Women Last Month Regained All Jobs Lost to the Great Recession; Men Still 2.1 Million Short (September 12, 2013) (IWPR)
And it's likely to get worse:
In the next two decades, 47% of US jobs are at risk of being automated away, an alarming Oxford study found last week.
But computers create as well as destroy jobs: Economist Tyler Cowen points out that an unmanned Predator drone requires 168 workers to keep it in the air for 24 hours, whereas one sortie by an F-16 is backed by fewer than 100 workers. Our economic future will increasingly be a story of those who complement computers. And though it may be counterintuitive to say so, that means big potential upside for women.
Why, when the computer-programming field remains dominated by men? Because women are more conscientious. Women are also more likely to ask for help or acknowledge their limits. Women are more modest, and modesty, it turns out, will be an invaluable trait in the future.
How does this play out in terms of gender? Keep in mind that one of the most common and preventable sources of deadly infections in hospitals is failure to wash hands. One study found that women doctors washed their hands after 88% of patient contact, but for men that figure was 54%. That's arrogance, a belief that you are such a great medicine man that you couldn't possibly be ferrying disease.
Changes in higher education will reward superior female conscientiousness. Today college is essentially a four-year vacation from reality for the children of the well-off that produces a valuable credential. But free online universities are turning that model upside down: Within a few years, students who paid nothing for their tuition but crammed intensely and learned much more than the average kid at Party U. will be presenting themselves to employers, who will not fail to notice the new source of talent.
The most conscientious, self-motivated students, regardless of where they came from, will eat the lunch of the kids who didn't bother to learn a useful skill in college. Cowen points out, "women are more likely to follow instructions and orders with exactness and without resentment. . . . There is plenty of evidence that women are less interested in direct workplace competition and more likely to work well in teams."
Women have a new word for the masculine tendency to belittle feminine input while asserting expertise they don't necessarily possess: mansplaining. In an increasingly meritocratic and linked world, mansplaining will prove to be a costly flaw.
"If you're a young male hothead who just can't follow orders, and you have your own ideas about how everything should be done," writes Cowen, "you're probably going to have an ever-tougher time in the labor markets of the future. There won't be much room for a 'rebel without a cause' or, for that matter, a rebel with a cause."
Men have already been punished by de-industrialization that values office skills more than physical strength. Now we'd better learn that we can't mansplain our way through the e-economy.
Which workers will survive the robot age? (New York Post)
The bottom line is: must men fail for women to succeed? I say no. I say we rise and fall together. There's no other way. Otherwise, too many men with nothing to lose will tear the system down anyway.
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Things best said by others in 2013 | be held in the form of physical and other non-human-skill assets, and inheritance and position will matter more and individual effort and luck less.
In fact, given relatively high average rates of return on capital and thus a large gap vis-a-vis the growth rate, wealth concentration is likely to reach and then surpass peak levels seen in previous history as the superrich become those who started wealthy and benefitted from compound interest and luck.
America remains an exceptional puzzle: it looks, however, like it is headed for an even more extreme distribution of wealth than is the Old World.
Remember, however: the evolution of income and wealth distributions is always political, chaotic, unpredictable–and nation-specific: not global market conditions but national identities rule wealth distributions.
High wealth inequality is not due to any "market failure": this is a market success: the more frictionless and distortion-free are capital markets, the higher will wealth inequality become.
The ideal solution? Progressive global-scale wealth taxes.
With that as a guide, let's jump in…
Tomas Piketty: Capital in the Twenty-First Century/Inequality and Capitalism in the Long Run: The Honest Broker (Equitablog)
Last Year Was the 4th-Best Year Ever for the Top 1 Percent (Atlantic)
Pinketty's work is more of a bombshell that it may seem. While, many of the arguments he puts forth might be familiar to readers, it is unusual for a respected professional member of the economic elite (albeit a French socialist one), using the tools of capitalism, to conclude that capitalism inexorably allocates wealth to a smaller and smaller slice of the population leaving the vast majority behind. His argument flies in the face of neoliberal free-market fundamentalism, concluding that this is not some "flaw" in the system in need of correction – that this is how the system is designed to function! He-who-must-not-be-named made this argument in the nineteenth century, but it's had to be strenuously ignored and refuted ever since. His claim that massive concentration of wealth is a threat to popular democracy is also remarkable.
The more money you have, the more opportunities you have to make money, thus it becomes a snowball effect. Many of the Internet billionaires were rich venture capitalists who could come up with massive sums to exploit the new technologies. Look at all the Harvard Grads and venture capitalists who invested in Facebook. Jeff Bezos of Amazon was a Hedge fund guy. The Google billionaires were at Stanford. Basically, there's a tiny sliver of places to be to get wealthy available only to elites. The new inventions of the future just make the existing investor class even more money which they also use to buy up the world's common resources and turn them into revenue streams.
One argument I often hear is that inequality is not important – that it's the absolute living standards of the poorest people in a society that matters, and even the poorest people have indoor plumbing and heating, sneakers, cell phones and the like. Some points:
1.) This has less to do with capitalism as it does with mass production and energy surplus. When you can produce enough cars for everyone in the U.S., of course they're going to get cheaper and more people are going to have them under whatever economic system you have - capitalism, socialism, whatever. The same goes for cloth, durable goods, furniture, computers, iPods, whatever. That's part of the natural progress of human invention regardless of the economic system. It's one place where trickle-down really is true. After all, even the rich can only consume so many houses, cars, clothes, etc.
2.) Absolute living standards for the poorest people are now starting to decline in absolute terms. Life expectancy, far more valuable than any durable good, is now falling for the poorest members of society. Homelessness is rising, as is child poverty. The last ten years have seen no significant gains.
As I've pointed out before, for the vast majority of people, their lives actually got worse under capitalism until about 1870 (Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848 - a year of revolutions across Europe). Widespread government intervention after that time began to improve living standards (clean water and sanitation measures, closing debtors' prisons, outlawing child labor etc.). The Great Compression you see above is due almost entirely to government intervention, as well as the historical forces mentioned above. As David Brin has put it, "...most of the West has lived a miracle for half a century - in societies wherein the well-off and empowered Middle Class has - for the first time in human history - actually outnumbered the poor." Is that ending?
Interesting to note that according to the above, the slowing of the growth rate is a critical factor in all this. Although not mentioned, we know that the slowing of growth is caused by 1) Reduced net energy - energy return on energy invested, 2) Maximum fossil fuels per capita as the developing world tries to industrialize along the Western model 3) Stabilizing or decreasing populations in developed countries and overpopulation in poor countries 4) Limits to resources such as fresh water, phosphorus, rare earths and the like, combined with the costs of pollution (including climate change) 5) Falling rates of education in the developed world, and the reduction of people in the work force, 6 )Diminishing marginal utility of new inventions as the low-hanging fruit is harvested first. Slow growth and debt are two sides to this coin - symptoms rather than causes.
As the economic elite becomes more powerful, two additional things are happening – they are becoming an international wealth class, able to transfer their money anywhere in the world, and they are finding ways to sabotage democratic governance to lock in their gains and make change impossible. I've noticed that failing capitalism is tending to look a lot like failing communism - a tiny, unaccountable, gated elite holed up in the dachas surrounded by mass poverty. Ever more strident and hysterical propaganda to try and keep people from suspecting the system is failing. And the construction of a mass surveillance state, the persecution of whistleblowers, and the intimidation and silencing of the citizenry who don't like the state of affairs.
I think the central question is, will the social progress of the twentieth century be preserved as we return to the wealth disparities of the eighteenth century? And will reform be impossible - is this tyrannical system now essentially permanent?
P.S.: One of the comments to the Edsall article mentions this book: Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order
Where real power comes from
Matt Yglesias wonders why we listen to the rich:
The presumption of the annual World Economic Forum meeting is that leading policymakers and scholars ought to mingle with very, very, very rich businessmen (and, yes, it's overwhelmingly men) to talk about the leading issues of the day. The idea, in other words, is that CEOs and major investors have unique and important insights on pressing public policy issues. After all, they're so rich! How could they not be smart?
Outside the business world, we tend to take it for granted that just because you're good at one thing doesn't automatically make you a mastermind at other things. Nobody expects Taylor Swift to make important contributions to a panel on sustainable growth in Africa or rethinking global food security. But the Davos panels on such topics always include a rich executive from the business world. Because who better to solve the world's problems than the people who benefit from the status quo?
Of course, if there were just one somewhat obnoxious conference like Davos, it wouldn't be a big deal. But the Davos mentality—the assumption that managing a for-profit enterprise gives you special insight into social ills—is all around us, from the Aspen Ideas Festival on down. It has also infested more formalized policymaking settings. Rich businesspeople wield disproportionate interest in the political system simply through their ability to make campaign contributions and hire lobbyists. But over and beyond that, they are regularly invited to enter policymaking circles.
In the early months of his administration, President Obama held a summit with bank CEOs to discuss the state of the financial system. He did a big roundtable with tech CEOs in December. Back in 2011, he made a big deal out of creating a council on jobs and competitiveness headed by General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt and largely composed of other business titans. And yet a staple of Republican criticism of Obama during his first term was that he didn't do enough of this kind of thing and his administration lacked firsthand business experience. Finance whiz kid Mitt Romney was supposed to turn things around with his business savvy.
It's not impossible to be multitalented. Bill Gates was a great innovator and businessman and also has pretty smart ideas about global public health. But the fact of the matter is that he's an important figure in global public health because he's both extremely rich and extremely generous, not because he's the No. 1 most insightful thinker on the subject. To say that some billionaires are insightful on subjects outside their core area of expertise is just to say that billionaires are people too—and for every Gates, you have a dozen business leaders who can't tell the difference between policy insight and knee-jerk prejudice. They're up there on the panels, in the meetings with policymakers, spouting off on CNBC, being quoted in newspapers, and writing the occasional op-ed. All because of the unwarranted presumption that being rich and successful makes you insightful.
Either Yglesias is being deliberately obtuse or deliberately naive. The reason politicians and the media listen to and consult with the rich and business leaders has absolutely nothing to do with any presumption of their knowledge, experience, insight or competence. Anyone can see that. The reason the rich have exclusive access to politicians and the power to make policy and allocate resources is because we live in plutocracy. It's as simple as that. A plutocracy, by definition, is rule by those with money. That's what the word means! And that's why people use it all the time - because it's a far, far better and more accurate description of our current political system than democracy.
Plutocracy (from Greek πλοῦτος, ploutos, meaning "wealth", and κράτος, kratos, meaning "power, dominion, rule"), also known as plutonomy or plutarchy, defines a society or a system ruled and dominated by the small minority of the wealthiest citizens. The first known use of the term is 1652. Unlike systems such as democracy, capitalism, socialism or anarchism, plutocracy is not rooted in an established political philosophy and has no formal advocates. The concept of plutocracy may be advocated by the wealthy classes of a society in an indirect or surreptitious fashion, though the term itself is almost always used in a pejorative sense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy
The wealthy rule the world. Period, full stop. What they decide becomes law. What they oppose does not. It's that simple. What do they want? To increase their wealth, naturally. How can that be done? By making the rest of the world poorer is one way. By stripping away laws limiting their power is another way. Everything the wealthy advocate is designed to increase their fortunes, regardless of the effect on society. You don't need to know any more than that. That, in a nutshell, is why global civilization is failing. As Salon put it:
It is impossible to get elected president without the backing of a cadre of multimillionaires. It is nearly impossible to get elected to the U.S. Senate without a couple in your corner. The multimillionaires and billionaires fund every effective political interest group in the country, from gun rights to gay rights groups. What makes the wealthy persecution fantasy so risible is that our political class is responsive almost solely to the priorities and views of the rich, but the fantasy serves a purpose: It prevents Congress from actually acting to address economic inequity. As long as the rich perceive even ineffectual social opprobrium as an existential threat, politicians will be too terrified to advance any actual redistributionist agenda.
And a commenter to the Slate piece:
The trouble is, we, and our government can't stop listening to the super wealthy. They speak much more loudly than the rest of us through ownership of the media, and ownership of politicians, and all the influence over public policy, laws, and our freedom to consume what they are selling that that buys. It's obvious and easy to say that we shouldn't (shouldn't have to?) listen to some of these besieged billionaires, but we have to in more ways than we should. It is our version of official state corruption, not so different from the systems in Russia and China. It creates cynicism and apathy and is the enemy of real democracy.
Increasingly, the wealth class rules directly rather than indirectly: Half of US Congressional politicians are millionaires (BBC) Democrats were slightly more wealthy than Republicans.
Wealth and democracy are inherently incompatible, and they're taking us back to the Gilded Age, and possibly pre-Enlightenment. More on that tomorrow.
Why Do the Super-Rich Keep Comparing Obama to Hitler? (The Atlantic)
The Brittle Grip, Part 2 (Talking Points Memo)
Plutocrats Feeling Persecuted (NYT)
Why the rich are freaking out (Politico)
Twisted minds of the super-rich: Why insane Nazi analogies have become so common (Salon)
Realities of money and class in America
It's always amusing to watch pundits wake up to reality. It's even more amusing watching Americans wake up to reality. After forty solid years of declining incomes, outsourcing, insourcing, de-industrialization, de-unionization, financialization, automation, and predation by the nation's elites, and five years into a punishing depression that seems to have no end, Americans are realizing that there is no longer a middle class, and that they are downwardly mobile.
First up, Paul Krugman, who discovers what I've previously called the "but they have cell phones" argument:
My post on Americans starting to recognize class realities has brought some predictable reactions, which I'd place under two headings: (1) "But they have cell phones!" and (2) it's about how you behave, not how much money you have.
My answer to both of these would be to say that when we talk about being middle class, I'd argue that we have two crucial attributes of that status in mind: security and opportunity.
By security, I mean that you have enough resources and backup that the ordinary emergencies of life won't plunge you into the abyss. This means having decent health insurance, reasonably stable employment, and enough financial assets that having to replace your car or your boiler isn't a crisis.
By opportunity I mainly mean being able to get your children a good education and access to job prospects, not feeling that doors are shut because you just can't afford to do the right thing.
If you don't have these things, I would say that you don't lead a middle-class life, even if you have a car and a few electronic gadgets that weren't around during the era when most Americans really were middle class, and no matter how clean, sober, and prudent your behavior may be.
Now, according to that Pew survey, in early 2008 only 6 percent of Americans considered themselves lower class — far below the official poverty rate! — only 2 percent upper class, and 1 percent didn't know. So 91 percent of Americans — roughly speaking, people with incomes between $15,000 and $250,000 — considered themselves middle class. And a large portion of these people were wrong.
Consider health insurance: many Americans with incomes significantly above the poverty line are, or were until very recently uninsured, and many more were at risk of losing coverage. That, to me, says that they weren't middle class on that basis alone. Many, probably most, low-wage workers have hardly any financial assets, no retirement plan, etc.
What about opportunity? Public schools in America vary widely in quality, and lower-income families can't afford to live in good districts. College education has become far less accessible as aid to public institutions falls. The chance of finishing college varies drastically with family income (pdf).
I could go on, but surely it's obvious when you think about it (and if you have any sense of the realities of life). A lot of Americans — quite arguably a majority — just don't have the prerequisites for middle-class life as we've always understood it....The sad thing is that our fetishization of the middle class, our pretense that we're almost all members of that class, is a major reason so many of us actually aren't. That's why the growing appreciation of class realities on the part of the public is a good thing; it raises the chances that we'll actually start creating the kind of society we only pretend to have.
Money and Class (NYT)
According to a new Pew survey (pdf), there has been a sharp increase in the number of people calling themselves lower class, and a somewhat smaller rise in the number calling themselves lower-middle, so that at this point the combined "lower" categories are close to a plurality of the population — in fact, closing in on, um, 47 percent.
This is, I believe, a very significant development. The whole politics of poverty since the 70s has rested on the popular belief that the poor are Those People, not like us hard-working real Americans. This belief has been out of touch with reality for decades — but only now does reality seem to be breaking in. But what it means now is that conservatives claiming that character defects are the source of poverty, and that poverty programs are bad because they make life too easy, are now talking to an audience with large numbers of Not Those People who realize that they are among those who sometimes need help from the safety net.
The Realities of Class Begin To Sink In (NYT)
And Kevin Drum:
If you actually take a close look at the numbers, it turns out that of the people who identified as middle class in 2008, nearly a third of them now identify as lower middle or lower class. And as dramatic as that sounds, it's actually even more dramatic than those bare words suggest. Class self-identification is deeply tied up with culture, not just income, and this decline means that a lot of people—about one in six Americans—now think of themselves as not just suffering an income drop, but suffering an income drop they consider permanent. Permanent enough that they now live in a different neighborhood, associate with different friends, and apparently consider themselves part of a different culture than they did just six years ago.
I'm going to repeat that: A third of the people who identified as middle class in 2008 now identify as lower middle or lower class. And that happened in a mere six years.
One-Third of Americans Who Were Middle Class in 2008 Now Consider Themselves Lower or Lower Middle Class (MoJo)
And a big contributor to this is associative mating - the wealthy are now as inbred as the English peerage system:
Why Elizabeth Bennet could not marry Mr. Darcy. Nor could your daughter. (Fabius Maximus):
America's social structure changes slowly and unnoticed, taking us to a future with the class system of the past. Jane Austin would understand this New America, and her books might describe our children's lives.
Last week I described one such change: how the increased concentration of wealth had created an aristocracy in America, a national class with stronger ties to each other than the elites of their communities. This class then use their increased power to restructure our social institutions to more closely reflect the shape of this New America, subjecting local institutions to centralized control — turning grassroots leaders into functionaries.
Our economic structure regresses to that of the Gilded Age (e.g., crushed unions, shrinking middle class, precarious prosperity of blue collar workers). Similarly the social structure of New America's aristocracy and gentry echos that of Georgian England, in which marriage customs further concentrated wealth, and social divisions widened to match those of wealth...These classes were broken over several generations by economic changes created by the industrial revolution. Unfortunately the phases of the current technological revolution appear to be having the reverse effect, further concentrating wealth and power.
Assortative mating and income inequality (Marginal Revolution)
No, the Decline of Cinderella Marriages Probably Hasn't Played a Big Role in Rising Income Inequality (Mother Jones) This is a little deceptive. for example:
...they conclude that rising income inequality isn't really due to a rise in assortative mating per se. It's mostly due to the simple fact that more women work outside the home these days. After all, who a man marries doesn't affect his household income much if his wife doesn't have an outside job. But when women with college degrees all started working, it caused a big increase in upper class household incomes regardless of whether assortative mating had increased.
Yeah, that's kind of the point. And then there's this fascinating post at Marginal Revolution:
...Consider Janet Yellen, her recent confirmation to chair the Fed has made her the most powerful woman in the world, the most powerful woman in world history, the world's second most powerful person, or the world's most powerful person depending on who you believe. In any case, Yellen is powerful. Moreover, Yellen is married to Nobel prize winner George Akerlof. The fact that two such outstanding individuals should be married to one another is an illustration of assortative mating. Yellen-Akerlof are the 1% of the 1% and all that political and cultural achievement concentrated in one family is an example of the growth of inequality. Tellingly, one of the drivers of this inequality was greater equality of opportunity for women.
Now consider, President Obama's nomination for Fed vice-chairman, Stanley Fischer. Fischer was born in Zambia, holds dual Israeli-American citizenship and was most recently the governor of the Bank of Israel. In all of US history there is almost no precedent for a former major official of a foreign country to become a major official of the United States. Given all the economists in the United States one might have thought that a suitable candidate could be found without this peculiar history and yet it's not hard to understand why President Obama has nominated Fischer–to wit, I wouldn't be surprised if everyone President Obama asked for advice on this question to told him that Fischer would be one of the best people in the entire world for the job.
Indeed, many of the people Obama spoke to, including Ben Bernanke, would have been Fischer's students, themselves a large subset of the tiny elite of the world's top monetary economists. Perhaps the world of monetary economics is an inbred clique, a supplier-controlled cartel. Maybe so, but I see this as part of a larger story. Stanley Fischer, rather than thousands of other nearly equally-qualified people, is being nominated to the U.S. Federal Reserve for the same reasons that large firms, compete madly for a handful of CEO's (in the process bidding up their wages to stratospheric levels).
Consider that even in the rarefied world of monetary policy Fischer's appointment isn't unique. In 2012, the British appointed Mark Carney, a Canadian, to be the Governor of the Bank of England, the first non-Briton to ever hold the role. When even Great Britain and the United States find that their home-grown talent isn't good enough that tells you that the demand for talent is immense. My favorite example of this from the business world is Sergio Marchionne. Marchionne is the CEO of Italy's Fiat and the Chairman and CEO of Chrysler, among several other positions. He commutes between Italy and the United States, lives in Switzerland, and has dual Italian and Canadian (!) citizenship. Appointments and potential appointments like those of Carney and Fischer illustrate that the demand for talent and the winner-take-all phenomena of a globalized world are not limited to the business world.
Small differences in quality at the top have a greater impact the larger the firm, the market, or the economy. How many truly great decisions did Bill Gates make at Microsoft (compared to another plausible CEO)? I would guess that fewer than 10 decisions made billions of dollars of difference. And if Yellen-Fischer make just a few better calls than their next best counterparts, well that could easily be worth hundreds of billions.
Inequality and the Masters of Money
The global ruling class
Which reinforces what I've said earlier - the wealth class is now an international class with exclusive access to elite institutions and social circles (on full display recently at Davos, and will be again at the Winter Olympics). While Marx predicted solidarity for the workers of the world, the real people who united were the rich of the world from all different cultures - Europe, China, Africa, Russia, the U.S., Latin America, and so on. Wealthy elites have never been more unified. And the presence of women and non-Europeans is constantly used to bolster the claim that it's all down to "merit." Meanwhile, the working classes of the world have never been more divided - by ethnicity, nationality, class, religion, etc. In Europe they use immigration, in the U.S. it's gay marriage and guns, but the idea is the same.
This is why the warfare of the twenty-first century is going to increasingly be intranational instead of international - elites against their own people. Hence the massive security state apparatus, local police equipped with armored personnel carriers and tear gas, government controls on the internet, widespread surveillance, spying on activist groups, fears of "terrorism," "free speech zones'" etc. For example, the FBI (America's internal police force) recently changed its mission from law enfocement to "national security," whatever that means. Telling. We're already seeing it all over the world.
Meanwhile, some are trumpeting the fact that a new economic study claims that social mobility has not declined at all. This is apparently seen as some sort of validation for the status quo. Dig deeper, and you'll find a few other disturbing facts. As Ross Douthat of the Times (!!) tweeted: "Policy debates aside, isn't there something *existentially* unsettling about idea that US social mobility hasn't changed in 50-60 years?" As another commentator put it with a different spin: "A Better Headline Would be "Mobility Stagnant as U.S. Economy Doubles". Apparently, all of us who think we're downwardly mobile are just "wrong." Relax everybody, the economy's doing great! I wonder if the social mobility study included the massive amounts of debt it now takes to be "middle class," and how easy it is to fall out of it. I'm guessing no. John Cassidy adds:
Now for the bad news: the Horatio Alger myth is still a myth. Relative to many other advanced countries, the United States remains a highly stratified society, and most poor kids still have few prospects of making big strides. I've already mentioned the finding that the odds of a child moving from the bottom fifth of the income distribution to the top fifth are less than one in ten, and have been that way for decades. For children who are born in the second fifth of the income distribution, those who might be categorized as working class or lower-middle class, the probability of moving up to the top quintile has fallen significantly. For someone born in 1971, it was 17.7 per cent; for someone born in 1986, it was 13.8 per cent.
It has been known for some time that social mobility in the United States is lower than in most European countries, and that it trails some of them, such as the Scandinavian nations, by a great deal. The new study doesn't challenge this finding, nor does it contradict the fact that other indicators of future economic success for young people—such as test scores, levels of parental involvement, and the extent of social connectedness—have exhibited a growing socioeconomic gap, leading Robert Putman and others to predict a sharp fall in social mobility. Indeed, the paper notes, "An important question for future research is why such a plunge in mobility has not occurred."
Finally, the new study doesn't mean that the effects of inequality aren't more serious than they used to be. With inequality rising, particularly at the top, the rewards for clambering up the income distribution are greater, and so are the costs of getting stuck at the bottom. "The consequences of the 'birth lottery'—the parents to whom a child is born—are larger today than in the past," the paper notes. Or, as Saez said to the Times, "The level of opportunity is alarming, even though it's stable over time."
And why?
Back to the future in New America: our new class structure (FabMax)
Why are US corporate profits so high? Because wages are so low (Reuters)
Profits Up, Wages Down: What Economics Has to Say (NYT):
The economist Lawrence Katz, an important thinker is this debate because of his deep contributions to the literature on education as a wage determinant, agrees: "The only moments we've had of broadly shared prosperity have been in tight labor markets."
Absent more individual and collective bargaining power for the vast majority of workers who lack it, some of whom have college degrees, we will be hard pressed to turn these wage trends around. Such power is not the only determinant of wages, but it may well be the most important and the one most sorely lacking.
And see this: Why There's No Outcry (Robert Reich)
Serf's up!
This land is your land, this land is my land...
'How much land does a man need?" Leo Tolstoy asked in his jewel of a story. Never quite satisfied with the plots of land allocated by the local commune, or mir, the peasant Pahom sets out to acquire ever more and is finally faced with the opportunity to buy cheap land from the nomad Bashkirs, a people "as simple as sheep." The going rate on a piece of Bashkir steppe is "one thousand rubles a day"—1,000 rubles, that is, for as much acreage as Pahom can walk around in one day.
Quite apart from its literary qualities, the fable of Pahom's temptation and greed was highly topical when published in 1886. Tolstoy, himself owner of the 4,000-acre Yasnaya Polyana estate, worked by 350 peasants, had once bought land off the Bashkirs. Yet his story shows that Tolstoy despised the attitudes that went with private property and nostalgically favored the old order of the mir and its communal control of arable land. Two decades before writing "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" Tolstoy, with the rest of Russia, had experienced a great historical change in liberty and ownership, as all serfs were freed in the Emancipation Reform of 1861. At one time people had belonged to the land—and its self-appointed owners—but possessed the right to occupy it. Now they were free to fend for themselves, but could no longer rely on support and protection in times of shortage and conflict.
Present-day distinctions among governments and societies across the globe, Linklater argues, are the result of land ownership evolving along different lines. In one of these lines, the history of the modern Western world takes as its starting point a novel concept introduced in 16th-century England, toward the end of medieval feudalism: the idea that land could be owned individually, without obligations to earthly or heavenly lords and masters or to communities, tribes and families. This was a gradual process but well-developed by the 1540s, when Henry VIII sold off half of the land that he had confiscated from the monasteries, mainly to well-positioned courtiers. Within two generations some of this land had already changed hands as a new class of moneyed men—London merchants, sheep farmers and government officials—entered the property market.
The idea of individual, exclusive land ownership has affected modern history more than any other—in Linklater's words, it has proved to be "the most destructive and creative cultural force in written history." He later refers to individual ownership as a paradox. On the one hand, it shattered traditional civilizations, robbing communities of their land and thus of their sense of themselves in the world. On the other hand, individual ownership freed the English peasants as they emerged out of the Middle Ages and, slowly but steadily, led to revolutions that demanded liberty and equality for all, to the end of serfdom and the abolition of slavery and to representational government and democracy.
Views on how individual rights to land are achieved or granted—and how they may be controlled—vary over time and across continents. When the Earl of Carlisle was granted Barbados by charter of King Charles I in 1627, the charter stated that the king had officially made the grant | 6,873 |
Welcome to the<|fim_middle|> District is a very special place. | Bloomfield School District. We serve grades KG-12 on one campus – which includes Bloomfield Elementary School (KG through Grade 6) and Bloomfield Jr.-Sr. High School (Grades 7-12). Our students are pushed to learn and achieve academically through a variety of core curriculum and support services that meet the unique educational, social and emotional needs of each child. Our faculty and staff work with students and their parents to provide quality educational opportunities in a structured, safe and supportive learning environment.
As superintendent, I am proud of the opportunities our district continues to provide for our students. In August, we launched our Engineering is Elementary curriculum in the Elementary School as we wish to inspire innovation in today's classrooms to engage students in discovering their inner engineer as they become lifelong STEM learners. Bloomfield Jr.-Sr. High School continues to offer students an outstanding opportunity to participate in our Early College programs to earn college credit. At the start of the 2018-19 year all students in grades 7-12 were issued Lenovo 11E Chromebooks as we move forward with our Digital Learning Initiative. We support an active FFA, as well as a world class NJROTC program. It is one of the few in this area and has maintained an excellent reputation for being very active. In addition, Bloomfield was recently awarded a Ready Schools grant from the Regional Opportunities Initiative, Inc. in the amount of $130,000. Our goal for the grant is to engage business leaders, community stakeholders, parents and students in meaningful discussion about what success means for Bloomfield and to develop a strategic plan that will help BSD obtain that success.
These are just a few examples of the wonderful activities taking place in our schools. If you are interested in joining the Bloomfield community, please contact me directly at (812) 384-4507. I would love to share with you all of the reasons why Bloomfield School | 406 |
My most recent drive is on the home page. Archived reviews<|fim_middle|> accommodate the final three hard covered Harry Potters without even trying. There are also four drawers of reasonable size, under the seats.
My personal "mummy bus" favourite item is the extra mirror, rotatable through a wide range, that is just the ticket for keeping an eye on the real trouble maker in the back seat. It probably has an official use, but I like my version better.
I also like the electronic parking brake that sets itself automatically when you switch off the engine, provided you have the brake pedal depressed as you do so. For stopping on hills, you pull a square handle on the dash next to the steering wheel and when you drive off again, the brake releases itself just as the clutch takes up – no feeling for the clutch to reach its critical point before releasing the brake lever by hand.
Head- and leg room is plentiful, while Dominic Raw, the service manager at Renault PMB, told us that older clients like the branch's Navigator courtesy vehicle because one sits up high in the car, which is more comfortable than having to get down into it.
Apart from that, it has a very nice sound system, automatic aircon and electrically operated power steering that works very well. All in all, the Navigator is a very competent people mover with a certain amount of class, which feels compact and stable with none of the top-heaviness found in some of its contemporaries.
Test unit from Renault SA press fleet
The price of R238 000 includes a 5 year/60 000km service plan and a 5 year/ 150 000km warranty.
Vital statistics from Car magazine
Engine: 1998 cc, inline four-cylinder, naturally aspirated
Power: 99 kW @ 5500 rpm
Torque: 191 Nm @3750 rpm
Gears: Six-speed manual
0 – 100 km/h: 10.7 seconds
Fuel consumption Index: 9.7 l/100 km
Luggage: 360 – 1248 dm3
Tank: 60 litres | and opinion pieces are in the active list down the left side. Hover your cursor over a heading or manufacturer's name and search through the drop-down menu that appears.
2008 Renault Mègane Scenic Navigator
"Mummy bus" favourite
First Posted: March 13, 2008
There are various soft-roaders, crossover SUVs and mini MPVs quite capable of tackling occasional awful roads without resorting to the unnecessary expense of full 4x4 capability and the resulting tar road discomfort. Add the price premium you pay for the 4x4 image, and you're probably wasting money.
Renault recently launched its mini MPV, the Mègane Scenic Navigator. Known as Conquest overseas, this top-of-the-range 2.0-litre Scenic has an extra 20mm of ride height, a more compliant suspension setup with long-travel shocks, electronic stability program, traction control, reverse assist and scuff protectors on the sides and underneath. It also comes with a Nokia cell phone-cum-street pilot.
Much is made in road tests and company literature of the "extra 20mm," but no mention can be found anywhere of what its ground clearance actually is. Ever in search of The Truth, your loyal scribe interfaced with the vehicle at grassroots level in order to find out. What that means is that he parked the car on his front lawn and scrambled underneath with a measuring tape.
Apart from suspension components that move with the wheels, all other parts of the underbelly are 200mm or more above ground level, while the tender bits are well tucked away between body cross members or protected by the front and rear skid plates.
What we have, after this build up, is a very capable family or corporate transporter with enough power to tackle hills and suspension to deal with Pietermaritzburg's humps and whatever rough surfaces you are likely to find on the Meander.
Inside, the car is upholstered in leather, is nicely carpeted and boasts twenty storage compartments apart from the boot. Two compartments in the floor in front are capable of swallowing a Jilly Cooper novel and some oddments each, while those in the back can each | 457 |
The next generation of real estate.
Formed in 2013, Realty Executives Platinum was founded on the notion that being average is not good enough. Excellence must be at the forefront in all facets of real estate, and thus began the standard this brokerage was established on.
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails. That is us. That's the difference between mediocrity and excellence," quotes Matt Den Hollander, Broker of Record and<|fim_middle|> career with Realty Executives Platinum is not your average. It is executive. | Owner. The need for Realty Executives became evident to Matt Den Hollander, when realizing that times are changing and advancing, yet traditional brokerages are not. "We are starting from the ground up. We are relevant, and are not satisfied with complacency," affirms Matt.
With offices in Exeter, Mitchell, Seaforth, Goderich and now Bayfield, our agents cover all of Huron and Perth Counties. Realty Executives is one of the only in its area that has the expertise and experience to handle all types of real estate. Residential, Commercial, Multi-Family, Farm, and its own Property Management Division.
Realty Executives Platinum demonstrates to the public the best and most efficient means of marketing property. Harnessing technologies like social media, film, sponsorships, and community involvement. We are equipped, connected, and ready to assist you.
Our slogan has been carefully picked: the next generation of real estate. That is us! We are dialed in to the next 10 years of real estate. From the ground up, our decisions, moves and advancements are to equip our team for a rewarding career.
We are not building a workplace, but creating a culture. Picking the right people creates that culture that we are all about. Offering the industry's best compensation is something we can then do naturally. Giving you the tools and looking around the corners in this ever changing industry is what we will do. This will make you your best.
We have the angles covered. Whether you want to join us as a realtor, property manager, or part of our administration team, you can be assured a | 333 |
The Bath Half Marathon 2019 takes place on Sunday 17 March and is the most popular city centre road event in the UK. We'd love you to join Team Dotty<|fim_middle|> half marathons or their own personal half marathon). Check out the Dorothy House Roll of Honour to see what feats our Team Dotty runners achieved. Our fabulous team raised an amazing £51,000 for Dorothy House…from an event that didn't happen. Wow!
We are so grateful to our runners for your amazing support and what an incredible impact each and every person has had in helping us to provide vital care when it counts over the last 17 years.
emily.knight@dorothyhouse-hospice.org.uk or on 01225 721 480. | and be part of it!
Applications have now closed for Silver Bond places.
Once you've joined Team Dotty we'll send you a fabulous dotty running vest or T-shirt, sponsor forms and Running Handbook full of info and tips to maximise your fundraising and enjoyment of the day.
Dorothy House will also have a dream team marquee in the runner's village on the day to welcome Team Dotty runners before and after the race. We will have refreshments, lots of cake and the ever-popular free leg massages! There will also be a cheering squad along the route to support our amazing runners along those 13.1 miles.
Dorothy House Hospice Care has been privileged to have charity places in the Bath Half Marathon since 2002. Over the past 17 years we've had 2,037 amazing runners taking part for Team Dotty. These legendary runners have raised an absolutely phenomenal £659,000 for the charity and we are so proud of every single person who's been part of the team.
The Bath Half Marathon is Dorothy House's second biggest annual fundraising event and is extremely important to us. In 2018 the event had to be cancelled due to the snow. We were blown away by how incredible our Dorothy House runners were by taking on other alternative runs (be they official | 277 |
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Crusaders to unleash All Black magic in quest for perfect 10
Issued on: 20/06/2019 - 04:02
Wellington (AFP)
The Canterbury Crusaders have named a full-strength team for the first time this season as Super Rugby's pace-setters take their quest for a third straight title<|fim_middle|> were lucky simply to make the finals, saying his players were itching to "have a crack" at their highly fancied neighbours.
"We've had people sticking the knife in but we're confident with our game and where it's at," he said. "The scoreboard is nil-all at the moment."
- Brumbies 'representing Australia' -
Sharks coach Robert du Preez also took a potshot at critics after a last-gasp win over Western Stormers completed an unconvincing run to the finals, labelling sections of the media "cockroaches".
His team faces a Brumbies outfit on a six-match winning streak, bursting with confidence and out to give inspirational captain Christian Lealiifano a victorious send-off.
Cancer survivor Lealiifano, who revealed this week he is off to Japan at the end of the season, has sparked talk among the Brumbies' faithful of the team recapturing the glory days of the early 2000s.
Coach Dan McKellar said the Brumbies were also playing for national pride as the sole Australian team to reach the finals.
"There's a sense that we're representing the country," he said.
"You get a bit sick of rugby getting beaten up in Australia for one reason or another. I'd love for us to keep working hard and put some really positive stories together."
The Brumbies beat the Sharks to win the 2001 title and have never lost a playoff to a South African side.
The Hurricanes have won the most matches of any team this season with 12 victories, but did not meet the Bulls, who have troubled them in the past.
The Hurricanes, who will be back to full strength after resting several key players last week, have a 11-10 winning record over the men from Pretoria.
The last time they met was February 2018, when the Bulls edged a 21-19 victory at home.
The Jaguares will host a playoff match in Buenos Aires for the first time after finishing second on the ladder in a standout season, losing only one of their past 10 matches.
However, they were defeated in their only two previous meetings at home against the Chiefs.
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The content you requested does not exist or is not available anymore. | , and 10th in all, into the competition's knockout phase.
The defending champions, packed with All Blacks stars, are overwhelming favourites to maintain a daunting home record and down South Island rivals Otago Highlanders in the quarter-finals on Friday.
They have not lost a playoff in Christchurch since Super Rugby launched in 1996 -- a sequence of 21 matches -- and are currently on a 27-game unbeaten run at home dating back to July 2016.
The return of front-row forwards Owen Franks and Codie Taylor will only shorten their odds, allowing the Crusaders to field the entire All Blacks' tight five of Franks, Taylor, Joe Moody, Scott Barrett and Sam Whitelock.
In the other last eight match-ups, ACT Brumbies play Coastal Sharks, Wellington Hurricanes face Northern Bulls and Argentina's Jaguares host Waikato Chiefs.
The Crusaders topped the regular season ladder at a canter despite many of their numerous All Blacks being injured or rested for long periods.
Senior players such as Kieran Read and Whitelock have been trickling back, with the return of Franks (torn shoulder) and Taylor (broken finger) finally giving the defending champions access to all their stars at the sharp end of the season.
Franks said he was wary of the Highlanders, who scraped into the last eight but have been boosted by the return of All Black fullback Ben Smith after more than a month out with a hamstring injury.
"A lot of people thought they might not be in there so they've almost got that nothing-to-lose feel, which is pretty dangerous to play against," he said.
Highlanders coach Aaron Maugher bristled at suggestions his side | 355 |
Sunny Greetings from La Gomera, Canary Islands!
<|fim_middle|> community and would like to introduce our school and ourselves.
Our school, founded in 2004, is located at the centre of San Sebastián – the capital of the island of La Gomera. Surrounded by the local community, five minutes' walk from the bay of San Sebastián and with the mountains and national park as a backdrop, the setting of our school couldn't be more idyllic.
The 2018 season starts June 17th and will continue through until August 26th 2018. Our most popular course is our 1-week Culture & Education Tour. Students choose to study Spanish, English, German or French all taught by our qualified native teachers. Afternoons are for adventure and exploring! Students can participate in yoga sessions, island excursions, water sports as well as visiting exciting points of interest.
Island Learning is more than just a language school. We offer a total immersion experience where students have access to many different opportunities to learn and practice their communication skills and to connect with local Spanish speakers. Excursions have been designed for students to come away with a richer understanding of the island's unique history and culture. Students can experience diverse excursions such as climbing to the highest point on the island, Alto Garajonay, hearing the UNESCO protected whistling language, Silbo, or watch men scramble to the top of a palm tree to tap it's syrup called Miel de Palma.
Also known as the magical island, La Gomera is one of the smaller islands of the Canary Islands archipelago. Nevertheless, it has an enormous amount to offer each and every visitor. From water sports to mountain hikes, gastronomic delights to yoga on the beach at sunset, La Gomera has something to offer everyone and visitors can't help but be captured by its spell. Only a stone's throw from better known Tenerife, La Gomera couldn't be further away from the hustle and bustle of the busier islands. Our school is ideal for students who want to participate on a short course, learn while on vacation and experience island life first hand! | We are pleased to have newly joined the Schools & Agents | 11 |
Overnight pear cobbler is a delicious fall slow cooker recipe. Sweetly spiced pears, paired with a light, biscuit-like topping cook overnight, making breakfast (or dessert) really special.
Let's take just a moment to discuss the seriously underrated pyrus communis, otherwise known as the Bartlett pear. Sure, apples get all the nostalgic fall glory, but pears are no slouch come harvest time!
From their crisp green color, fading<|fim_middle|> dozen half-pints of spiced pear jam later, we still had a lot of chopped pears left on the counter!
The only reasonable thing to do was to toss those chopped pears with a little sugar-and-spice-and-everything-nice and let it get all wonderful and fragrant overnight in the slow cooker.
I tell ya what, Friends–Overnight Pear Cobbler might not look like much, but man! We awoke to the tantalizing smell of cinnamon, pie, and biscuits all rolled into one! Those sweet pears bathed in sugar and spice are so warm and welcoming under the quick cobbler topping! So much so that I scooped up big bowls, poured a tiny splash of milk over top, and we ate dessert for breakfast!
Cobbler for breakfast is totally A Thing.
In fact, this Overnight Pear Cobbler recipe easily adapts to substitute apples or peaches for the pears so that mornings can be All Cobbler All the Time.
So assuage my guilt and have dessert for breakfast, too.
Enjoy this Overnight Pear Cobbler Recipe!
Sweetly spiced pears pair beautifully with a light biscuit-like topping that cooks overnight in a slow cooker, making breakfast (or dessert) something really special.
Butter the crock of a slow cooker before adding the chopped pears and apples. Sprinkle the cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt over the fruit, and toss to coat. Beat together the baking mix, softened butter, milk, granulated sugar, eggs, and vanilla until well blended, and then pour it over the spiced pear mixture.
Whisk more baking mix with brown sugar to combine. Cut the cold butter cubes into the sugary baking mix until pieces are the size of peas. Evenly distribute the topping over everything in the crock.
Cover the crock, and cook on the low setting for 6 to 7 hours, or until fruit is soft and topping is set and browned. Serve with a healthy splash of milk or cream over top.
Fresh apples or peaches may be substituted for the pears with the same, tasty results.
Mmm, mmm, mmm... I love warm, spicy baked pears in the fall. You (and your yummy pear cobbler) are just too fabulous for words. And in the slow cooker overnight? I don't know how you could sleep through that glorious aroma. Now could you pass me a bowl?
I'd love to scoop a heaping bowl of cobbler and send it your way. I just love waking up to that cinnamony smell. Things That Can Cook Overnight in the Slow Cooker are my new favorites.
OMG...I LOVE pears!! And...I wish I'd used your friend for a CSA. Really not happy with ours and Steve is not even willing to try another one next year. This would be a great recipe for Church!! I'll fill up the BIG crock pot! Thank you! | to a sunny, golden yellow hue when the fruit is ripe, to the sweet juice running down your arm the minute you take that first delicious bite…pears deserve equal time in our hearts, and on our plates.
I just adore juicy, sweet, drippy pears.
Last week, my BFF and CSA Farmer Nic called with news that she was up to her elbows in ripe pears. Seems that her little farmstead was once an apple and pear orchard. After having no harvest last year due to the warm-spring-then-frost, this year her trees were working double-time, cranking out fresh fruit. When she asked if I would come take some of the pear bounty off her hands, I was jazz-hands excited to oblige.
So I called an early recess in our school day, loaded up the Sons, and we zipped over to Stibbes Acres to take the edge off a Sister's Plothera o' Pears.
I'm a good friend like that.
The Sons and I set to picking, and in no time flat, we had gallons upon gallons of juicy pears. I can't be sure, but I'm fairly certain that we ate at least one of those gallons on the drive home. Those suckers were so good!
After munching to our hearts content and putting up a few | 274 |
Kara Eaker Conquers The Best Of Utah Meet
WEST VALLEY, UT – Kara Eaker was a big get for the Red Rocks in last season's signing class, but unfortunately, fans had to wait a while to really see her in action. The wait was definitely worth it.
The Team U.S.A. alternate for the Tokyo Olympics started out strong for the Utes last season until an accident warming up on vault for the Rio Tinto Best of Utah Meet derailed what looked to be a very promising freshman season for the talented gymnast.
Fast-forward a year later, and Eaker shined for the Red Rocks earning their first perfect 10 score of the 2023 season on beam- conquering the Best of Utah Meet that delayed her collegiate career just a season ago.
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Eaker's ability on the beam is jaw-dropping with the amount of confidence and beauty she is able to portray on four-inches raised four-feet off the ground. It's a huge compliment considering the Red Rocks' entire beam rotation can be described as "poetry in motion" with one solid routine after another.
Just two meets into the 2023 season and the Utes already posted a 49.675 team score on the event which puts them at mid-season form early on.
"I don't know what to say about balance beam," head coach Tom Farden said. "It's probably the best balance beam- I keep saying that every year, but it's pretty incredible. It's jaw-dropping. I don't know how else to describe it besides poetry."
The Red Rock's stellar overall beam performance was of course anchored by Eaker's perfect 10 on the event. For Farden, seeing his athlete overcome the setback from the same meet a year ago to slaying it a year later could not be more rewarding.
"Last year she had a different dismount so we're really proud of that," Farden said. "That was a monkey-wrench thrown into things. Five of our athletes have new dismounts so to pop off that score with all new dismounts? That's pretty good and for Kara? Thankfully we see 10s in practice all the time. I get to see four or five 10s a week and then we got to see one with all of her friends- all of our 6,000 friends which is even cooler."
For Eaker, it was all about just controlling what she could control. In that case it was pure perfection.
"It was really exciting," Eaker said.<|fim_middle|> happen." | "I just really went up there wanting to do my personal best and focusing on controlling what I can do and just let everything else | 26 |
24 Popular Types of Lilies – Complete Guide
Lilies are a wonderful addition to your garden, but with so many varieties, it can be hard to choose just one. Before you plant just any lily bulb, take a look at these 24 popular types of lilies.
How Many Types of Lily Flowers Are There?
Lilies are classified in the genus Lilium and there are 90 species within this group. Lily flowers are often categorized as Asiatic lilies, Aurelian lilies, and Oriental lilies.
Lilies come in many different shapes but they all thrive in full sun to partial shade. Most bloom in late summer although there are a few varieties that bloom in late spring or early summer.
Popular Types of Lilies
Fire King (Asiatic Lily)
Burning bright, Fire King lilies really own up to their name. They are various hues of red and orange, and pop quite boldly in the summer.
They grow to be 3 to 4 feet tall and bloom in late spring to early summer.
Casa Blanca (Oriental Lily)
These white flowers are rather ostentatious. They have large blossoms that are outward-facing.
In the middle, you will find a thin green pattern that is so delicate it is often overlooked. The edges of the petals are a bit scalloped, adding to a lovely design.
Pumilum Lily
Quite unique-looking, Pumilum lilies have an almost delicate look to them. They are small and only 2 inches wide buy you can expect up to 30 blossoms on each stem.
The recurved petals seem to connect back on each other, exposing the stamens, making the flowers a bit of an optical illusion.
Silk Road (Orienpet Lily)
Silk Road lilies hang downwards, which is a shame as they have so much color in their middles. The edges of the petals are a pure white which transforms into a vivid crimson color.
These are tall lilies, and can reach heights of 6 feet.
Grand Cru (Asiatic Lily)
Anyone who wants to capture the beauty of sunshine will fall in love with Grand Cru lilies. The bright yellow of these flowers will surely add a smile to anyone's face.
The petals all open skyward so you get a full appreciation for the hue. Inside, towards the center heart of the blossom, is a slight brush of burgundy.
Rosella's Dream (Asiatic Lily)
Not shy about color, Rosella's Dream lilies are a gorgeous combination of pink and orange. The middle of the pedals is a peachy-orange color which fades outwards into<|fim_middle|> lilies will grow to 4 to 7 feet tall. The petals fold back, allowing the anthers to be really prominent.
Brindisi (Longiflorum-Asiatic Lily)
Lovely, delicate, and full of life, Brindisi lilies are simply delightful. They have a vivid pink color that fades to a slightly darker hue in the middle.
The petals are long and open upwards. You can expect 6 to 7 blossoms per stem.
Citronella (Asiatic Lily)
While the Citronella lily won't unfortunately ward off mosquitos, it will look beautiful all summer long. It has a vivid golden orange color with pin-prick brown dots over all the petals.
Citronella lilies have pendent blossoms that hang down. After a few years, you can expect each stem to produce up to 20 blossoms.
Belladonna (Orienpet Lily)
Not to be confused with the poisonous belladonna plant, this type of lily is the picture of sunshine. However, like most lilies, it is toxic to cats.
Belladonna flowers have a gorgeous, bright yellow color to them. Their blossoms are wider and shaped like a bowl, and can grow to be 7 inches wide.
Patricia's Pride (Asiatic Lily)
This vibrant lily is also known as Purple Rain, thanks to its violet color at its heart. The petals of this lily are a creamy white, which then fades into an almost black-purple.
Patricia's Pride has upward-facing blooms and the plant can grow to be 4 feet tall.
What are Pink Lilies Called?
Lilies come in all shades of colors, and there are plenty of pink ones. Some of the more popular species are Brindisi lilies and Pink Perfection lilies.
What are White Lilies Called?
If you find yourself searching for white lilies, you may find them under their other name, Easter lilies. While they don't really bloom at Easter time, they do come out in early summer, which is earlier than most other varieties.
With so many lilies to choose from, it can be hard to narrow down your selection. However, whether you want large flowers or soft blossoms, there is a variety that will look amazing in your garden.
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Also around the middle of the flower are brown spots. They grow to be almost 3 feet in height.
Tiny Todd (Asiatic Lily)
You would think this would be a small lily, but in actual fact the flowers are quite large. The pale pink flowers open brightly and have a slight fragrance to them.
Mature plants will have 7 to 9 blossoms on each stem but only grow to about 2 feet in height.
Pink Perfection (Trumpet Lily)
If you're looking for a stunning pink lily, then the aptly named Pink Perfection variety is perfect. This deep pink color is a real show-stopper.
The edges of the petals are white while the inner heart becomes a deeper pink color. As an added bonus, they are incredibly fragrant.
Brunello (Asiatic Lily)
The contrast between deep orange flowers and bright green leaves makes Brunello lilies simply stunning. The blossoms are shaped like a bowl and they face upwards.
Brunello lilies are quite large and can measure up to 8 inches wide. You can expect 10 to 12 flowers per stem.
Regale (Trumpet Lily)
Need a show-stopper in your garden that is also incredibly fragrant? Regale lilies offer the perfect combination.
Regale lilies have long petals that form downward-facing trumpets. While the outside is colored purple, which fades outwards into white, inside you will find a golden yellow at the center.
Claude Shride (Martagon Lily)
Quite delicate looking, Claude Shride lilies are bursting with color. Their petals are a very dark mahogany color with deep orange spots in the middle.
It's a shame that these lilies hang downwards as the spotted color is so unique. They will grow up to 6 feet tall and add a burst of personality to your garden.
Lady Alice
A hybrid lily, Lady Alice petals have a unique orange tint to them. While the majority of the petals are white, this fades into a bright orangey-peach color that really stands out.
To round out the design, there are light brown specks. These are larger lilies, and will grow to 4 feet over time.
Altari (Orienpet Lily)
Gorgeous and fragrant, the Altari lily is two-toned, with a red raspberry shade inside, fading to pure white on the outside of the petals.
Expect the blossoms to be 6 to 12 inches wide and the plants to grow 3 to 4 feet in height.
Black Out (Asiatic Lily)
While not completely, black, the Black Out lily is a very deep red, with the center almost fading into dark. Unlike other lilies, there is no white to be had on this species.
You can expect 4 to 5 blossoms on each stem of Black Out lilies. They are a bit shorter than other varieties, and will grow to 2 to 3 feet tall.
Monte Negro (Asiatic Lily)
Looking for a real frenzy of color? Monte Negro lilies have a deep crimson color that will make them the highlight of any garden or bouquet.
These lilies are bowl-shaped and quite large. The blossoms grow up to 8 inches wide and mature flowers will produce 7 to 10 flowers per stem.
Dizzy (Oriental Lily)
Dizzy lilies are bold and unashamed. This vibrant lily has white petals with a deep pink stripe down the middle. They are further ornamented with deep pink speckles.
These outward-facing blossoms can self-seed and will sure to be the focal point of any garden.
Incredibly fragrant, African Queen lilies have a trumpet shape to them, which is why they are also known as trumpet lilies. They have a deep orange, almost apricot hue to them.
You can expect African Queen lilies to grow between 36 and 40 inches in height.
Arabian Knight (Martagon Lily)
There's a lot to love about Arabian Knight lilies. They have smaller blossoms that are golden and dark brown in color, which usually face downward.
After growing for a few years, you can expect up to 50 flowers on just one stem, making them quite versatile.
Arabian Knight lilies can grow to be 3 to 6 feet tall and can self-seed. You will want to give them plenty of space when you first plant them.
Black Spider (Asiatic Lily)
If you're looking for contrast, Black Spider lilies won't disappoint. The edge of the petals are a creamy white that then fades into black at the center. Dark purple spots add to the texture of the fading.
Each stem of Black Spider lilies will have 5 to 7 blossoms that face upwards.
Black Beauty (Orienpet Lily)
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Pat Healy talks The Innkeepers, ghosts, and questioning authority [INTERVIEW]
February 7, 2012 · by The Wolfman · in Interviews. ·
Considering my fandom for the work of Ti West, when I saw who he had cast in his latest film, The Innkeepers, I had complete trust over who he had picked. I had seen Sara Paxton in a few other horror movies, but the name "Pat Healy" didn't trigger anything for me. I looked at what else he had been in, and even though he was in a few movies I really love, like Magnolia and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, I was still having difficulty placing him. I started to follow him on Twitter, and then saw all of these tweets about a movie he was in that had just debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. Specifically, Mr. Healy was retweeting lots of responses about the crowd during the Q & A after it, and lots of those messages were from people who were cranky. Why were there so many angry people during a Q & A? What could this movie be about that made people so angry? That film, which is called "Compliance", involves Healy making a prank call to a fast food restaurant (can those be called restaurants?) where he pretends to be a police officer. His character is then able to convince other employees to interrogate someone accused of "stealing", all over the phone. Thanks to twitter, I went from knowing little about this guy to knowing quite a bit about the movies he was involved in, as well as his sense of humor. When I found out he was going to be at a screening of The Innkeepers, I sent him a tweet to ask him if he could chat for a few minutes. I was surprised to see him respond, but figured that was just his way of being polite. After all, he's a busy guy who I'm sure has a lot going on. When I introduced myself, I was taken aback by the fact that he stepped away from a group of friends just to speak with me, a stranger, about his work. Despite his, I'll say "eccentric", sense of humor, he was very welcoming and quite humble, which made speaking with him all that much easier.
WolfMan: During the movie, before the movie, did you believe in ghosts? Do you believe in ghosts? You kind of said up on stage (during a Q & A after The Innkeepers) that you didn't feel like you were making a "ghost movie", but considering everything I've been hearing about this hotel for so long, did anything weird happen to you that kind of helped you feel the character out a little bit more?
Pat Healy: I feel very much like the character in the movie (Luke) … I think of it as an Agnostic … in terms of God and ghosts and spirits and extraterrestrials and things. I always feel like there's a psychological or emotional explanation for all of those things that can be figured out if you just stop and think about them. I'm like Ti (West), I don't immediately jump to ghosts, sort of like the character in the movie. Without spoiling things too much, we have the feeling that he believes in that but in actuality he most likely believes in it because he has sort of an unrequited love for the other character that Sara (Paxton) plays. That could be like me too. I believe in certain things because I believe in people and I want to believe what they believe. I don't have those kinds of experiences. I know plenty of my friends, who have, and I have no reason to doubt the veracity of their claims. I was told when I came there, for example, that I would have really strange dreams, and then of course the first night I was there, I had really strange dreams, but I think it was because everyone told me I was going to have strange dreams, and I was tired. I had flown from L.A. to Connecticut, but after that, really not anything. The place is strange, it's constructed strange. After long days of shooting, especially if you've had a few beers or something, the walls start to feel a little weird, along with the carpet on the floor.
WM: I enjoyed how right from the beginning, your character really just exuded this affection for Claire. There weren't any stereotypical longing glances or any awkward physical contact, you just knew it. You said it was heartbreaking to film a scene where you confess your love, and it was heartbreaking as a viewer knowing you were gonna say all this stuff, she's not going to feel the same. How challenging did you find it to get in that mindset and know that there wasn't going to be an easy way out by using those more conventional devices?
PH: I'm kind of like Ti in that way, in that I don't want to do things the way that they've been done. There's so many conventions in filmmaking, and in acting as well. You see a lot of actors now that are sort of carbon copies of imitations of other things that you've seen. Things are written that way too. I'm not interested in that. I studied acting most of my life and, without sounding pretentious, I'm interested in the truth, so I think more about how I might have felt or how I have felt being in situations like that, or how I have felt being on the other side of situations like that where I've been the one who's been breaking somebody's heart. I've been crushed many times, too. I looked for those things and I looked for those behaviors to make that manifest. I don't want to indicate to the audience, "This is that". It's already in the writing, I just play it as it is and it comes out naturally and funny and interesting because it feels true. That's what interests me and interests Ti, too.
WM: With this movie, it's based on "real" events and real people and this real hotel and these actual weird experiences. Your character was even based on an actual employee who had his own amateur ghost hunting website. Did you try to contact that employee? What kind of research did you do to figure out what an amateur ghost hunter would do in these situations?
PH: He's there, he works there. His name is Luke, he works the night shift at the desk. They knew him from shooting House of the Devil, which I didn't work on, so I didn't know him. I didn't actually meet him until I went to go shoot the film. I did see his website and those kinds of things and I've seen a lot of those ghost hunters shows where, as Ti will tell you, they've been on for 10 years and no one's found a thing.
WM: I caught this time where you bump into the light chain and it startles you and you say "Ugh, spiderwebs," which is something that happens all the time, that they just get startled by spiderwebs.
PH: Yeah, and that's actually something that really happened, it was dark in there and I bumped into the light chain and thought it was a spiderweb.
WM: And going along with the "based on true events", you were just at Sundance with your new film Compliance. While you were making that movie, which was based on true events, did you have any idea the kind of reaction you would get? The polarizing of people commending it, others condemning it, did you know that's what the reaction was going to be while making the movie?
PH: I certainly knew that it was, first reading the script, that it was going to be a very challenging and difficult movie for people. The reaction was so strong, both positively and negatively, but mostly positive. Really the super-outraged people were few and they just happened to be louder than everyone else. It's a difficult, challenging film. I knew we were making something really great. I was a little bit shell-shocked by the reaction, it's strange to be in the middle of it. I almost brought it up in there (the Q & A for The Innkeepers) because it's the polar opposite of this movie, where you sit in the audience and everyone has this great release of screaming and laughing. That's a movie that tightens a knot in your stomach and you want to get out of your seat and leave but you can't turn away from it. I like both kinds of experiences, I like doing both, but I'm both surprised and kind of elated that it's gotten that kind of reaction. I think it's an important movie about an important thing and I think that when the dust settles, people will realize that their reaction to the film, whether they liked it or not, was provoked by something that the film brings up either emotionally or intellectually. It's something that we all should think about and it's bothersome because we have to address it within ourselves so I think that's what's going on. I don't want to speak for everyone but I think that as we see it play more and it comes out and is released, I hope, and this is probably (director/writer) Craig Zobel's hope too, that it ignites some sort of debate. Not just about the movie but about the subject itself.
WM: That you don't necessarily leave thinking "I liked it" or "I didn't like it" or "I liked this" or "I didn't like that", but the concepts that are brought about in the movie, people just have a discussion about them.
PH: We're in a place right now in America where we're very much just bowing to authority and being told that we're in a certain place financially and we're in a certain place politically, and we find that not to be true a lot and there's a lot of people in power keeping us in positions. Why do we believe them and why do we go along with it, I think it's really the right movie at the right time; I don't like to be a politician or get up on my soapbox about it. It wasn't that I felt that so much in making it, I just thought we were making a great story, but in seeing it with an audience, you really see it's going to be a very hot button movie and bring up a lot of those issues.
Pat Healy spoke on stage about how many movies he had seen at the Music Box Theatre (where the screening was held) and how he had a job in a theater growing up. Not just any theater, mind you, but a theater that was just a short commute into the suburbs from the theater we were in. Even if he didn't say much while up on stage, he made mention of how he had grown up seeing movies there and seeing people<|fim_middle|> about a movie I was in. Wait…the theater in my hometown is only 130 people. THAT'S NOTHING! I speak to thousands of people every single day at work. I take back that whole "I could only hope…" thing, because I think that would be a step in the wrong direction.
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I was planning on asking your opinion of it, but then I remembered you typically check from your phone and wouldn't be able to see it. I was told it was a little TOO Satanic, which might mean I need more pentagrams.
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Borough President James Oddo, along with The Bini Foundation, is excited to announce that two big summer concerts are coming to Staten Island next month. The borough will be welcoming Vito Picone and the Elegants on Saturday, August 14th at 6:30p.m. at Turtle Circle in Midland Beach. Local musicians Lina Fiscardi and The Expressions will be joining this concert as the band's special guests.
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It was the engineers that provided the technical and professional back up for the rest of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and produced the know-how to keep the men in the front line supplied with all manner of necessities for their work. The Royal Engineers were working on the first day of the landings and were amongst the last to leave on the evacuation, and their story includes all the major engagement of the campaign. It also includes the sometimes difficult tasks of providing infrastructure to the peninsula handling all kinds of engineering works, from piers to land the stores, to roads and railways to distribute the equipment to the various parts of the line.
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There were no flower crowns or burning effigies at this ground-breaking 1983 Mojave music gathering.
Before the era of Burning Man, Lollapalooza and Coachella, Desolation Center drew punk and industrial music fans to the far reaches of the Mojave Desert for the first of five events, "Mojave Exodus," in April of 1983. Traveling by rented school bus, hardy devotees journeyed<|fim_middle|> by Sonic Youth, Meat Puppets, Minutemen, Einstürzende Neubauten, Survival Research Laboratories, Redd Kross, Saccharine Trust, Savage Republic and Swans, and paved the way for the mega-festivals that have become a crucial part of music and alternative culture in the 21st century.
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According to KCET's recent feature on the exhibition, "SoCal native Stuart Swezey was barely 20 when he started producing and promoting live shows for local post-punk bands such as the Minutemen and Savage Republic. Continuing the DIY spirit of early California punk, Swezey set out to keep an emerging genre of alternative music out of nightclubs and inside mysterious warehouses and rehearsal places. This was in accordance with the principles of what would become known as Desolation Center, a consortium of post-punk aficionados who resisted the concept of money-making in favor of truly egalitarian experimental live shows with no guest lists, no paid advertising, and no solicitation of the press. 'The name came from the feeling of metaphoric desolation that I felt from Los Angeles and its surrounding sprawl in the early 1980s,' Swezey tells Artbound. 'Then when I came up with the idea of taking the music events to the desert to get away from those surroundings, it also applied to the more pure sense of desolation of that environment.'"
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NEW HUDSON Assisted Living
Assisted Living in NEW HUDSON, MI
There are 25 assisted living facilities in NEW HUDSON, Michigan area. These facilities provide assisted living apartments and help with everyday tasks to elderly seniors. NEW HUDSON assisted living facilities also provide memory care assistance for senior citizens with dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Some facilities are part of larger senior living communities in NEW HUDSON and provide continuing care options.
Grace Rae's Place
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25 Assisted Living Facilities in NEW HUDSON, MI. List of 25 best senior living options in NEW HUDSON for 2019. | 6 55 and older adults at a time. With a location at 30292 Grace Rae Ct, in the 48165 area code inside Oakland county, Grace Rae's Place assists those 55 and older adults who need help with daily tasks. Some of the amenities offered by Grace Rae's Place include community and cultural events, numerous educational activities and arranged transportation. Grace Rae's Place has an active license by Michigan to provide assisted living care, with license number AS630289048.
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Jamestowne Clf
Jamestowne Clf specializes in providing senior assisted living in Oakland county, Michigan. It includes a total of 6 one bedrooms and studios for senior citizens. Jamestowne Clf is pet-friendly and can provide assistance with bathing, dressing and transferring to any seniors living in Novi, MI and surrounding areas. Jamestowne Clf is located at 24243 Jamestown, 48375.
Dignitas, Inc/orchard Lake House 2
When searching for assisted living in Farmington Hills, Michigan, you will find Dignitas, Inc/orchard Lake House 2 as an excellent luxurious senior care option. It has a total of 6 assisted living units and includes services such as recreation and social activities. Its license number is AS630315897. Dignitas, Inc/orchard Lake House 2 provides assisted living not only to Farmington Hills residents, but also to all Oakland county residents as well.
Westlyn Home
If you need help with daily tasks, Westlyn Home can help you or your loved one to locate the assistance and care you need in Lake Orion, Michigan. Westlyn Home has a total capacity of 6 older adults. It includes services like fully secured premises, wellness center and multiple dining options daily. Westlyn Home is licensed with Michigan and its license number is AS630012491.
Helpquest
Helpquest has a capacity of 6 senior citizens and includes amenities such as housekeeping and laundry services. It is located at 24123 Samoset, and it is fully equipped to provide assisted living to Southfield, MI older adults. Helpquest is licensed with Michigan and its license number is AS630274388.
Located at 471 Maplehill Road, inside 48306 zip code area in Oakland county, Hay provides assisted senior living to Rochester, MI senior citizens and includes amenities such as scheduled transportation to appointments and a busy calendar of social activities. Hay can accommodate up to 1 seniors at a time. Hay has official license # of AF630287197.
R.c. Mahon Home
Situated at 4765 Tullamore, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 48304, R. c. Mahon Home can help any Oakland county resident with daily living activities and includes amenities like wi-fi, landscaped grounds and more. R. c. Mahon Home can provide long term care and assisted living to a maximum of 5 residents at once. Its license number is AS630307091.
Pelton House
Seniors looking for assisted senior living in Clarkston, Michigan will find Pelton House, located at 5260 Pelton Road inside 48346 zip code as a great choice for all of their care needs. Pelton House is able to care for up to 6 older adults and allows seniors to stay with cats and small dogs. Michigan records show that Pelton House has a license number of AS630012587.
North Pine Center
With a location at 2344 N Pine Center in Oakland county, North Pine Center excels at providing assisted living services for seniors in West Bloomfield, MI as well as those who live in surrounding areas. North Pine Center includes amenities such as medication management and emergency alert system. North Pine Center is capable of caring for a maximum of 6 West Bloomfield older residents and provides several levels of care. North Pine Center has an official license to provide senior living for Oakland, MI residents, with license # AS630012311.
Shenkman
Shenkman, located at 7372 Katrin provides senior assisted living services in West Bloomfield, Michigan and includes services such as scheduled family meetings, up to 3 delicious meals per day and caregiving staff that is available 24/7. Shenkman is equipped to care for up to 6 senior citizens from 48322 zip code in Oakland county and surrounding areas. Shenkman is licensed to provide assisted living services in West Bloomfield, Michigan, with license # AS630012458.
Jewish Apt. & Ser. Coville Iii
Jewish Apt. & Ser. Coville Iii provides assisted living care in Oak Park, Michigan. It can house a maximum of 20 55 and older adults at a time. With a location at 15100 W Ten Mile Road, in the 48237 area code inside Oakland county, Jewish Apt. & Ser. Coville Iii assists those retirees who need help with daily living activities. Some of the amenities offered by Jewish Apt. & Ser. Coville Iii include off-site outings and picnics, numerous educational activities and scheduled transportation. Jewish Apt. & Ser. Coville Iii is licensed by Michigan to provide assisted living services, with license number AL630276749.
Orchard Lake House
Orchard Lake House specializes in providing senior assisted living in Oakland county, Michigan. It includes a total of 6 studio and 1-bedrooom apartments for retirees. Orchard Lake House is pet-friendly and can provide assistance with bathing, dressing and transferring to any seniors living in Farmington Hills, MI and surrounding areas. Orchard Lake House is located at 24505 Orchard Lake Rd, 48334.
Briarcrest
When searching for assisted living in Farmington Hills, Michigan, you will find Briarcrest as an excellent luxurious senior care option. It has a total of 6 assisted living units and includes services such as recreation and social activities. Its license number is AS630290126. Briarcrest provides assisted living not only to Farmington Hills residents, but also to all Oakland county residents as well.
St. John Afc Home
If you need assistance with daily tasks, St. John Afc Home can help you or your loved one to locate the assistance and care you need in Southfield, Michigan. St. John Afc Home has a total capacity of 6 older adults. It includes amenities like 24-hour security system, wellness center and multiple dining options daily. St. John Afc Home is licensed with Michigan and its license number is AS630318282.
Clausen Manor
Clausen Manor has a capacity of 20 senior citizens and includes amenities such as housekeeping and laundry services. It is located at 2400 Watkins Lake Road, and it is fully equipped to provide assisted living to Waterford, MI older adults. Clausen Manor is licensed with Michigan and its license number is AL630007360.
Ardmore Community Living Center
Located at 63 North Ardmore Street, inside 48342 zip code area in Oakland county, Ardmore Community Living Center provides assisted senior living to Pontiac, MI senior citizens and includes amenities such as scheduled transportation to appointments and a busy calendar of social activities. Ardmore Community Living Center can accommodate up to 6 seniors at a time. Ardmore Community Living Center has official license # of AS630312744.
Care Assistant Living
Situated at 31521 W Stonewood Ct, Farmington, Michigan, 48334, Care Assistant Living can help any Oakland county resident with daily living activities and includes amenities like wi-fi, landscaped grounds and more. Care Assistant Living can provide long term care and assisted living to a maximum of 6 residents at once. Its license number is AS630301800.
Seniors looking for assisted living in West Bloomfield, Michigan will find Mansfield, located at 6180 Wynford inside 48322 zip code as a great option for all of their care needs. Mansfield is able to care for up to 6 senior citizens and allows seniors to stay with cats and small dogs. Michigan records show that Mansfield has a license number of AS630277642.
With a location at 23506 Church in Oakland county, Church excels at providing assisted living services for seniors in Oak Park, MI as well as those who live in surrounding areas. Church includes amenities such as medication management and emergency alert system. Church is capable of caring for a maximum of 6 Oak Park older residents and provides several levels of care. Church has an official license to provide senior living for Oakland, MI residents, with license # AS630294275.
Mt Vernon West
Mt Vernon West, located at 16320 Mt Vernon provides senior assisted living services in Southfield, Michigan and includes services such as scheduled family meetings, up to 3 delicious meals per day and caregiving staff that is available 24/7. Mt Vernon West is equipped to care for up to 5 senior citizens from 48075 zip code in Oakland county and surrounding areas. Mt Vernon West is licensed to provide assisted living services in Southfield, Michigan, with license # AS630278634.
Brandon Hills
Brandon Hills provides assisted living services in Brandon Twp, Michigan. It can accommodate a maximum of 6 retirees at a time. With a location at 3187 Hummer Lake Rd, in the 48462 area code inside Oakland county, Brandon Hills assists those senior citizens who need aid with daily living activities. Some of the amenities offered by Brandon Hills include off-site outings and picnics, on-site lectures and guest speakers and scheduled transportation. Brandon Hills is fully licensed by Michigan to provide assisted living services, with license number AS630306072.
Katzman
Katzman specializes in providing senior living in Oakland county, Michigan. It includes a total of 6 one bedrooms and studios for older adults. Katzman is pet-friendly and can provide assistance with bathing, dressing and transferring to any seniors living in West Bloomfield, MI and surrounding areas. Katzman is located at 5425 Pond Bluff Drive, 48323.
Pine Tree Place
When searching for senior assisted living in Clarkston, Michigan, you will find Pine Tree Place as an excellent luxurious senior care option. It has a total of 20 assisted living units and includes services such as recreation and social activities. Its license number is AL630079545. Pine Tree Place provides assisted living not only to Clarkston residents, but also to all Oakland county residents as well.
Edgewood Senior Homes
If you require assistance with everyday tasks, Edgewood Senior Homes can help you or your loved one to find the assistance and care you need in Commerce, Michigan. Edgewood Senior Homes has a total capacity of 6 older adults. It includes amenities like 24 hour security cameras, wellness center and multiple dining options daily. Edgewood Senior Homes is licensed with Michigan and its license number is AS630365233.
Orchard Manor I
Orchard Manor I has a capacity of 6 senior citizens and includes amenities such as housekeeping and laundry services. It is located at 25967 Power Road, and it is fully equipped to provide assisted living to Farmington Hills, MI older adults. Orchard Manor I is licensed with Michigan and its license number is AS630367886.
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When the World<|fim_middle|> | Trade Center became a part of Manhattan's jagged skyline in 1973, Angelo Amaranto saw opportunity. He left his job as a janitor at the Nasdaq and went to work at the twin towers in the same capacity. "He told me the pay was better and if they took him, he would have to work nights for a little while," said his wife, Maria. "He said it was worth it because it was a better building. He switched to days after two years or so. He loved those buildings."
Mr. Amaranto, 60, of Borough Park, Brooklyn, worked on the 87th, 89th and 91st floors of 2 World Trade Center, said his daughter, Rosanna. A native of Salerno, a city in southern Italy, Mr. Amaranto loved to provide for his family. He had three grown children. "He showed his love through work and buying gifts," said his daughter, who lives upstairs in the family's house. "He loved to buy apple juice for the kids and sometimes he would call one of my nieces to put it away. `Sara, I have a job for you.' I keep waiting to for him to walk in the door and say that." | 260 |
Bulgaria Pays Little Heed to Glasnost When it Comes to Minorities
By William Echikson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV's policies, in unleashing hopes of freedom in East Europe, have opened the door to a revival of age-old nationalist feuds. Hungarians are protesting Romania's treatment of their kinfolk; Yugoslavia is torn by ethnic strife; and now Bulgarians and Turks are battling it out, as Peter Manolov testifies. The bearded Mr. Manolov, a writer, is secretary general of Bulgaria's independent Association for the Defense of Human Rights. In an interview in Paris, he spoke of clashes this month between the Bulgarian Army and ethnic Turks. According to reports reaching an international human rights conference here, the violence has left more than a dozen dead and scores wounded, and has sparked the daily departure to Turkey of between 3,000 and 5,000 ethnic Turks.
Tension between Slavs and the Turkish minority has existed since Ottoman rule. The present chapter dates to 1984 when Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov required that ethnic Turks change their name to Slavic ones, banned public use of the Turkish language, jammed Turkish radio stations, and closed most mosques.
``This was before the Gorbachev era,'' Manolov says. ``Our intellectuals were unprepared to take a position.''
After the reform-minded Soviet leader's rise to power, organized dissent spread in Bulgaria. In January 1988, the unofficial rights group was founded. Composed at first mostly of Bulgarian intellectuals, it soon numbered<|fim_middle|> his family, given passports for the Paris conference, have asked for political asylum. ``I hope my exile now will be temporary,'' he says. ``Sooner or later, we must get a new leadership who will appreciate my work.''
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``We were inspired by what was happening in the Soviet Union,'' he explains. ``We just wanted glasnost and perestroika here.''
The Zhivkov regime responded harshly. In January, Manolov and six other activists were arrested. He was freed after he went on a hunger strike.
``I told my interrogators that we were doing the same thing as Gorbachev in the Soviet Union ... ,'' Manolov recalls. ``They would respond, `Stop talking about the Soviet Union, stop talking about that man.'''
Manolov refused. His group began to organize Turkish resistance to forced ``Bulgarization.'' It published a three-point proviso on May 18 calling for the return of original names, the right to speak Turkish, and the right to practice Islam freely. To press their point, Turkish activists went on hunger strike.
``The strike spread like wildfire, entire villages took it up,'' Manolov recalls. ``The government responded by picking up activists and expelling them.'' Pressure also increased on the Bulgarian activists. On May 19 and 20, three of Manolov's colleagues were arrested and charged with ``inciting revoution.'' Manolov's wife was stoned, and he received death threats. The regime also organized demonstrations in Sofia. In Manolov's view, ``By whipping up anti-Turkish hatred, our leadership hopes to mobilize public opinion and keep control.''
Turkish diplomats fear a mass exodus of the 1.5 million ethnic Turks living in Bulgaria. There are no signs so far that international criticism will force Sofia to relent. Mr. Gorbachev has not criticized Zhivkov.
``A liberalized Bulgaria is an even more unpredictable Bulgaria,'' Manolov says. ``It would try to free itself [from Moscow], and that's not in Gorbachev's interest.'' He and | 405 |
This venison Bolognese differs from the classic in just one way: the choice of meat. Here ground venison, not beef, is gently simmered with vegetables, wine, milk, and broth for hours to coax it into tender submission. Pasta was never so happy.
1. In a large heavy pot or Dutch oven set over medium-high heat, melt the butter. Add the onion, celery, and carrots and cook gently without browning, stirring often and reducing heat if necessary, until softened, 5 to 10 minutes. Sprinkle a little salt over the vegetables as they cook.
2. When the vegetables have softened, stir in the drained chopped mushrooms and tomato paste and cook, stirring often, until the tomato paste begins to darken, 3 to 4 minutes. Add the ground meat, the mushroom soaking water, and the broth or water. Bring to a simmer. Reduce the heat to medium-low and allow the mixture to ever so gently simmer, uncovered and stirring every great once in a while, until the liquid has mostly evaporated, 1 to 2 hours, depending on just how briskly your Bolognese is simmering.
3. Pour in the wine and continue to cook, uncovered and stirring occasionally, until<|fim_middle|> taste. Simmer gently until thickened, about 30 minutes more.
4. When you add the milk to the sauce, bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add enough salt to make it taste like the sea. Once the sauce has thickened, add the pasta to the boiling water and cook until it is al dente.
5. To serve, place the pasta in a large bowl and add a healthy ladle overflowing with sauce and gently toss to combine. Portion out the pasta and then top each with another ladle's worth (or more) of Bolognese sauce. Grate the cheese over the top and serve.
Venison Bolognese Recipe © 2016 Hank Shaw. Photo © 2016 Holly A. Heyser. All rights reserved. All recipes and photos used with permission of the publisher.
This venison Bolognese sauce is a wonderful way to use ground game meat of any kind.
This is something to save and savor on a weekend. The process from start to finish is a four to five hour process after all. The reward is an addictively rich sauce with overtones of game flavour (I used farm-raised elk) present but pleasantly so. For those new to cooking with game, this dish isn't overwhelming with the rich mineral flavor that some game dishes can have, especially if using meat from farm-raised animals.
The layers of flavor created in a savory meat sauce is traditionally served with tagliatelle but I had the penne, which the author uses in his presentation. I feel it's a better choice, too. The resulting pasta was served at the table with Pecorino Romano.
This venison Bolognese is a great "Sunday supper" dish! It does take some time to make but much of that time is hands-off so you can go about your business and just check the sauce every once in a while.
I kept the sauce simmering on medium-low and checked in on it every 15 minutes or so at the beginning and then every 10 minutes towards the end.
The finished sauce falls somewhere between a traditional pasta sauce consistency and that of a ragu—really rich and meaty but at the same time still moist and saucy enough to coat the pasta. The sauce itself is mellow, meaty, and rich with the woodsy flavor of porcini mushrooms. I had never cooked with ground venison before and was surprised to see that it had a very different texture from beef. The meat is almost creamy and more gelatinous than I had expected and it adds an unctuous quality to the Bolognese.
This is quite rich—a little sauce goes a long way. I served it on cavatelli pasta but I think that any chunky pasta with ridges to hold the sauce would work well. Served with a salad of curly endive dressed with a sharp vinaigrette dressing to foil the heaviness of the pasta. Molto Italiano!
The next day I used the extra venison Bolognese to stuff some bell pepper cups and halved zucchini. I mixed 2 cups sauce with 1 cup shredded mozzarella. After stuffing lightly steamed veggies with the mixture, I topped them with a combo of 1/2 grated Parmesan and 1/2 bread crumbs mixed with a little chopped parsley and a minced clove of garlic. I then baked them at 350°F for approximately 35 minutes until the veggies were tender and topping was toasty brown. Delicious! | the wine has mostly evaporated, 45 to 60 minutes. Add the milk, nutmeg, and black pepper and stir well. Bring back to a simmer and add salt to | 39 |
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How to Cite a Journal Article in MLA
This page is a how-to guide for using scholarly journals as sources and citing them correctly in your papers. Academic journals publish scholarly, peer-reviewed articles written by experts in a specific field. This guide will help you understand what journals are and why they are valuable for your research.
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Citing a journal article in MLA:
What is an Academic Journal?
The importance of peer-reviewed academic journals
How journals are organized
Where to find journal articles
Using a Journal Article in a Paper
Works cited references
Citation Structures and Examples: Databases
Citation with one author
Citation with two authors
Citation with three or more authors
Citation with no known author
Citation Structures and Examples: Web
Citation Structures and Examples: Print
Our guide will show you how to cite the journal article both in the text and in the Works Cited page following the guidelines of the Modern Language Association Handbook, 9th Edition.
Academic or scholarly journals are periodicals published by universities and other research organizations to present the findings of original research conducted in a particular field. These journals contain highly specific knowledge and are written by experts in that field.
Journals are different from other periodicals such as newspapers or magazines, which cover a broad range of topics and are written in easy to read prose.
Because journals are written by experts for other experts, they can be difficult to read. The writers often use jargon and other complex language that students may not understand. But that doesn't mean you should not use journals in your research. Journals are where the most recent research is published and provide in-depth information on a topic.
Tip: Reading the abstract and the conclusion first may help you to understand the article as you read.
Journals are good sources for academic research not only because they are written by experts, but because most (but not all) are also reviewed by other experts before the article is published.
Journals that are peer-reviewed have a board of experts in the field that review articles submitted to the journal. The peer reviewers scrutinize every article closely to validate its findings and ensure that the research was done properly. The process of peer review gives credibility to the journal because it means that every article published has been approved by other experts in the field.
Academic journals are organized in volumes and issues.
Volume: The volume is all of the editions of the journal published in a calendar year.
Issue(s): The issues are all the specific editions of the journal published in that year.
Tip: Journals frequently publish issues around a certain theme, so all of the articles in that issue will relate to a certain topic. This means that there may be other articles in a particular issue that you can use for your research. It pays to check the table of contents for the issue when you find an article that fits your needs.
You will need to include the volume and the issue numbers, and the page numbers in your citations so make sure to write those down when you take notes from a journal.
When you are doing scholarly research, you can't use popular search engines like Google, Bing, or Yahoo. These will lead you to popular sources that may not work for a school paper. You need to search for information using an academic database which will lead you to scholarly articles.
Databases are organized computer-based collections of data that allow researchers to find a large number of articles quickly and easily.
Examples of popular general academic databases include:
Examples of popular academic databases focused on specific subjects:
MEDLINE, PubMed Central — focus on biomedical and life sciences
Lexis Web — focus on legal information
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) — focus on education
Many of these databases charge fees for use. The good news? Many can be accessed through a school or university library. Check your library's website to see what databases it subscribes to and how you can access them.
You can use information from your research in three ways:
Paraphrase: Take the information from a specific paragraph or section of the article and rewrite it in your own words.
Summarize: Write a broad overview of the section or the article in your own words.
Quote: Repeat the exact words used by the author using quotation marks.
Whenever you quote, paraphrase, or summarize information in your paper, you need to follow that information with an in-text citation and create a corresponding reference for the source (in the Works Cited).
Journal Article In-text Citations
Citations within your text are important. Each in-text citation:
Alerts your reader that you are using information from an outside source.
Usually appears in parentheses at the end of a sentence.
Is short and only has enough information to help the reader find the complete reference listed in the Works Cited page at the end of the paper.
A MLA style in-text citation has two parts (MLA Handbook 227-228):
Name of the author or authors
If there is no author listed, include a shortened version of the title
A page number
While many online sources do not have a page number, academic journals almost always do, even when they are available online.
In most cases, the in-text citation is at the end of the sentence in parentheses. If you use the author's name in the text, you don't have to repeat it in the parenthesis at the end. Do not separate the author's name and the page number with a comma. See below for examples.
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A Works Cited page is included at the end of your paper. It lists full references/citations for all of the sources mentioned in your paper via your in-text citations.
MLA Containers
In the 9th edition of the official Handbook, MLA includes a new term for citing references, which was first introduced in the 8th edition — containers (134). Periodicals like journals are considered "containers" because they contain the articles that are part of a larger whole.
The container holds the source article and is crucial in identifying the source. The title of the first container, the journal name, is printed in italics and follows the article name. When accessing journals through a database, the database is considered the second container. This title is also printed in italics.
Another feature in citing sources is the DOI (Handbook 188). DOI stands for Digital Object Identifier, which is used to permanently identify an article or document and link to it on the web.
Although a website or database may change names, the DOI will not change and will help your readers locate the document from your citation. Whenever possible, list the DOI in place of the URL. When you have a DOI, you do not need to give the URL of the website. Indicate that a reference is a DOI by adding "https://doi.org/" before the DOI number of your source.
Another way to identify an online location is with a permalink. Permalinks are URLs that are identified as a stable link that the publisher promises not to change.
For journal references, the following elements need to be included in your Work(s) Cited entries:
The name of the author or authors. Since journal articles often have more than one author, it is helpful to know when to use et al. in MLA.
Title of article
Title of journal (the container)
Volume and issue number
Database (the 2nd container)
DOI, permalink, or URL
Date of access (supplemental, but should be included if the information has no publication date listed)
Citing a Journal Article in MLA (found in databases)
The following are examples of how to cite a journal in MLA 9, both in text and as a full reference in the Works Cited. These were all found via a database.
Note that "Date Accessed" is the day that the journal article was found and read. This information is supplemental and does not always need to be included.
Journal Article Citation With One Author
Author Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Journal Title, vol. #, issue #, publication date, page number(s). Database Title, DOI (if available) or URL (without https://) or Permalink. Access Date (supplemental).
Adams, Mark C. "Educating the Music User." Music Educators Journal, vol. 103, no. 1, 2016, pp. 64–69. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44677803. Accessed 15 Feb. 2020.
Cite your source
In-text citation
Example #1 Teachers who connect classroom learning with students' daily interaction with music can better serve student's needs (Adams 64).
Example #2 According to Mark Adams, music educators who connect classroom learning with students' daily interaction with music can better serve student's needs (64).
Example #3 In his 2016 article on music education, Mark Adams says, "music educators must connect classroom learning with how students use and interact with music in their daily lives" (64).
Journal Article Citation With Two Authors
1st Author Last Name, First Name, and Second Author First Name Last Name. "Title of Article." Journal Title, vol. #, issue #, publication date, page number(s). Database Title, DOI (if available) or URL (without https://) or Permalink. Access Date (supplemental).
McCorkle, Ben, and Jason Palmeri. "Lessons from History: Teaching with Technology in 100 Years of 'English Journal.'" The English Journal, vol. 105, no. 6, 2016, pp. 18–24. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26359250. Accessed 15 Feb. 2020.
*Note: When a source has multiple authors, you should always list them in your citation in the same order they are listed in the source.
Example #1 English teachers are often represented in the media as book-loving frumps (McCorkle and Palmeri 23).
Example #2 McCorkle and Palmeri point out that English teachers are often portrayed as book-loving frumps (23).
Example #3 As McCorkle and Palmeri point out, "When English teachers are represented in the popular media, we are too often still positioned as dated, book-loving frumps" (23).
Journal Article Citation With Three or More Authors
1st Author Last Name, First Name, et al. "Title of Article." Journal Title, vol. #, issue #, publication date, page number(s). Database Title, DOI (if available) or URL (without https://) or Permalink. Access Date (supplemental).
Portier, C. J., et al. "A Human Health Perspective on Climate Change: A Report Outlining the Research Needs on the Human Health Effects of Climate Change." Journal of Current Issues in Globalization, vol. 6, no. 4, 2013, pp. 621-710. ProQuest, ezalumni.library.nyu.edu:2048/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.alumniproxy.library.nyu.edu/docview/1627086437?accountid=33843.
Example #1 One of the likely outcomes of climate change is longer and more severe heat waves, which have the potential to harm a lot of people (Portier et al. 621).
Example #2 According to Portier et al., one of the likely outcomes of climate change is longer and more severe heat waves, which have the potential to harm a lot of people (621).
Example #3 Portier et al. say, "increases in the frequency and severity of regional heat waves–likely outcomes of climate change–have the potential to harm a lot of people" (621).
Journal Article Citation With No Known Author
"Title of Article." Journal Title, vol. #, issue #, publication date, page number(s). Database Title, DOI (if available) or URL (without https://) or Permalink. Access Date (supplemental).
"Climate Change and Cattle." The Science Teacher, vol. 77, no. 1, 2010, pp. 15–16. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24145045. Accessed 16 Feb. 2020.
Example #1 If geographic patterns continue as in examples of future climate change, cattle are likely to experience greater nutritional stress ("Climate Change" 16).
Example #2 According to the article, "Climate Change and Cattle," if geographic patterns continue as in examples of future climate change, cattle are likely to experience greater nutritional stress (16).
Example #3 As stated in the article, "Climate Change in Cattle," "cattle are likely to experience greater nutritional stress in the future if geographic patterns hold as examples of future climate change" (16).
Citing a Journal Article in MLA (Print)
Citing a journal from a print source requires less information than an online source. For a print source, you need the following information:
The name of the author or authors for articles with one or two authors. For articles with three or more authors, only the first author's name is used followed by et al.
The name of the article in quotation marks
The name of the journal in italics
The volume and issue numbers of the journal
The year of publication
The page number(s)
Author Last Name, First Name. "Article Title." Journal Title, vol. #, issue #, publication date, page numbers.
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While waiting for a plane back home at San Diego airport, I watched a granddad entertain his grandson with a few simple magic tricks. I have always been fascinated by magic. I know it's not magic and I always try to figure out how it is done. Sometimes I am pretty sure I know the answers, but it still fascinates me.
Watching the two having fun together, got me thinking; magic and marketing are in some ways very similar.
You think you know how something is done, but unless you know the secret and practice a little, you are not going to get the result you are looking for. Even the simplest marketing technique requires you to know exactly how to execute it and a certain amount of practice.
When making suggestions for marketing programs, I often hear "I tried that and it didn't work!" This is especially true in discussions with owners of services business, particularly professional services.
I frequently hear that nothing works to grow their businesses except for referrals and networking. While I can't deny their reality, the truth is that every business can benefit form some kind of direct outreach program like advertising and direct mail.
Could it be, that if it doesn't work for you, you are not doing it right? Could it be that you don't know the "secret"?
It is one thing to know about a technique, it is quite another to be able to execute it well.
The problem with many of the people who have tried a particular strategy and produced no results, is that they have assumed they know what to do and have followed the basic rules, and understood all the elements that have to be effectively executed to ensure success. Mostly this is not true.
For example, Ed has a successful business that sells<|fim_middle|> task of finding other suitable places to advertise, and placing the ad. If placed in the publications his target audience read, the sales should come flooding in. Had you spoken to this business owner just a month ago, you would have found him doubtful of the value of advertising in his business. If you feel that a marketing technique you tried in your business produced disappointing results, could it be that you fell into the same kind of traps Ed did?
The key is in knowing what to do, learning how to do it and actually doing it.
Unfortunately most business owners assume they understand what to do and so when they try to execute, fall flat on their faces and waste time and money.
So before you execute your next marketing activity, invest the time to learn how to do it right, or hire someone who does. That way you will generate a much better result.
Marketing that pays for itself is no longer a cost, it is an investment, but executing a marketing program without knowledge of the rules and skills to execute them effectively, is gambling. Marketing isn't magic but it takes insight and practice. | supports and pillows for people with back and neck pain and among other things has been advertising in one of those free booklets, full of advertisements, which get left in your mailbox. The results have been very poor. With each issue, he had had only 3-5 responses and no sales.
The lack of results is frustrating, it costs him money every time he runs the ad, but if he is to grow he knows he can't give up.
Was the ad wrong, was the publication wrong, was the offer wrong? He just didn't know.
So what was wrong? A great product, great service, money being spent regularly on advertising, but sales were few and far between.
After reviewing the ad, it became clear that even if it had been seen by his target audience, it would not have yielded the results he needed.
There was no attention getting headline; just his company name and logo. Many of us make the same mistake. Unless you are a household name, no one knows who you are and what's more no one cares. Your company name and logo are possibly the least important element of your advertisement.
What is needed is a strong headline that creates interest and encourages the reader to read on. It has been proven over and over again, the headline is the most important element of an advertisement. Simply changing it and nothing else in an ad can improve response by 200 or 300%.
However, there were other things wrong with the ad. There were too many items for sale in a limited space. There is an axiom in marketing; "If you try to sell everything, you sell nothing. If you try to sell everyone you sell nobody." His ad was trying to do just that.
There is another rule worth keeping mind. Never try to sell something in a medium where you can't afford to tell the whole story. Prospects need information to make buying decisions, and unless you give it to them they won't buy.
Clearly he had to change the strategy. He didn't want to spend more money on advertising until he knew it worked. He also couldn't buy a list of back pain sufferers, so direct mail was a challenge. Doctors and Chiropractors don't share that kind of information.
So he changed the strategy to finding back pain sufferers he could then market to. He decided to offer them one thing he could easily sell in the available space; a report on how to control and prevent back and neck pain. The report would help them understand their back pain and what they could do about it. It would educate them on how his products could help, and position him as the only logical choice.
The ad was recreated with a strong headline "How to Avoid Control or Eliminate Back and Neck Pain Forever." The ad offered a free report which they could get simply by phoning a 1 800 number.
So the space cost was the same, but there was a compelling headline to draw people in. There was an offer of something that his target clients would want; the message was clear and simple. More importantly there were clear instructions on what to do.
The results surprised even me.
Previous ads had generated no more than 5 inquiries. The results aren't complete as yet, but as I write, this new ad has produced more than 190 inquires. That is an improvement of more than 3000%.
This is leverage in action; getting a much larger result with the same effort and money. He got leverage, by changing his strategy and learning how to execute each tactic effectively.
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Ronnie Coleman Talks How Chad Nicholls Helped Him Become The King Of Bodybuilding
In the eyes of many, Ronnie Coleman is the greatest bodybuilder of all time. However he will be the first to tell<|fim_middle|> one year, to winning the show the next. Chad explained that it all came down to increasing the amount of food that Ronnie ate.
"We definitely ate more food. Everything was obviously very consistent, very structured in the off season. Ronnie was doing everything pretty good, but we became like a machine in the off season. It was very repetitive but the food amounts went up drastically. That's the one key that I remember," Nicholls said.
"Yeah he pretty much changed everything that I was doing, basically," Coleman added. "Everything except for my workouts. He increased my cardio, I was only doing like an hour a day. I went from an hour to two hours. I went from eating like 10oz of chicken and steak, turkey, to like 16oz. And it was the hardest thing I ever did in my whole entire life. I'm sitting there eating all this food, and I'm like man, I can't get this down."
Coleman said that he had to slowly increase the amount of food he ate, in order to avoid intestinal issues and to adapt to this diet. He slowly got used to it over the course of about two months.
"The thing is too, even when we got to that point, we just had to keep adjusting stuff because Ronnie just kept getting bigger. The bigger he got, the more food his body demanded," Nicholls said.
"So we just had to keep staying up with that. The body kept coming forward, kept coming forward. So the food amount obviously can't stay the same."
Obviously this decision worked out for Ronnie Coleman, as he went on to become the king of bodybuilding under the tutelage of Chad Nicholls. Because of that, he will go down in history as one of the greatest to ever do it. | you that this may not have happened without the help of his trainer, Chad Nicholls.
Coleman is an 8x time winner of the Mr. Olympia, tied for the most victories in this contest ever. However things were not always that way, as prior to his first Olympia win in 1998, his best showing to date was 6th place in 1996, even coming in 9th place the year before going on his insane run.
The difference, as he explained in a recent episode of his podcast, was working with Chad Nicholls. He and the longtime bodybuilding trainer explained that they were introduced to each other through Flex Lewis, and began to work on building a solid physique.
In fact, Chad recalled the exact moment that he knew Ronnie Coleman was going to win the Olympia. He said it was just a few weeks out of the show, when he received pictures from Ronnie of his physique, and upon seeing those and showing them to a few people, everyone agreed that nobody could stop the future legend.
"This was back in the day where you had to send pictures. So Ronnie would take pictures on Monday, overnight them to me, I would get them every Tuesday, it was like clockwork," Nicholls said.
"I remember talking to, like me and Tom Prince were really good friends at the time, and they were asking 'How's Flex looking?' and this was right before we started the diet for the Mr. Olympia… that was because he was kind of the heir apparent. Dorian wasn't going to be there that year, so everybody thought he was going to win, and they thought maybe it was going to be a little bit of a battle between he and Nasser (El Sonbaty).
"So they were like 'How's Flex looking, how's Nasser looking?' and I'm like 'They both look really good, but man I'm telling you, Ronnie looks crazy right now,'" Nicholls continued.
Chad went on to say that they did not really buy into it at first, until he decided to share the recent photos that Ronnie sent him. From there, they all knew that Ronnie was going to be unstoppable on the Olympia stage.
"This was about four weeks out from the Olympia. I had literally just picked up pictures from my PO Box and I was headed to the airport to pick these guys up. I had just received the pictures, it was four weeks out, and that was the point I realized that nobody was going to beat Ronnie that year," Nicholls explained.
"I got these pictures, and we're talking and stuff, and I go 'Hey man, I'm going to let you look at these, but you've gotta keep it on the down low. You've gotta keep these hush-hush.'
"I show these, and they just kept passing them back and forth and Tom goes 'Dude, does anybody know what he looks like?' and I go 'No, nobody knows what he looks like.'" Nicholls continued. "And he goes 'You realize nobody's going to beat him? They're going to s—t when they see him!' and I'm like 'Yeah I know dude, it's going to be crazy.'"
From there, Chad Nicholls and Ronnie Coleman discussed how different things were back then, where trainers had to wait to get pictures, and only get them once a week from bodybuilders. The challenges for coaches to time everything properly for their athletes made it more interesting.
"You had to literally be on the ball a hundred percent. There was literally no room for error. If we messed up something, it took another 24 hours to get the pictures, to see if we needed to make more changes. So you had to be very repetitive and right on the money," Nicholls said.
"Yeah, we were on the phone a lot, almost every day or every other day, something like that," Coleman added.
Chad Nicholls Made Ronnie Coleman Eat A Lot
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This fall, the biannual festival adds dozens of new events and moves into new city neighborhoods.
Swing dancing at South Station during last spring's ArtWeek Boston.
What have art and architecture bike tours, hojalata<|fim_middle|>.; Saturday & Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Studio portrait: $50. Saturday, Oct. 1, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Lesley University Lunder Art Center, 1801 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge.
ArtWeek Boston runs Sept. 30 through Oct. 9. Check out a full list of events at ArtWeekBoston.org. | workshops and pimped out pumpkins got in common? They are all part of ArtWeek: a 10-day, multicity, multidiscipline (and then some) arts festival, produced by Citi Performing Arts Center, which brings around 180 creative events to cities in eastern Massachusetts this fall.
This season's lineup is the largest since ArtWeek's 2013 launch, when it began with 25 events — and those were only in Boston neighborhoods.
Not only is ArtWeek unique in its accessibility outside the big city, but also it boasts come-one, come-all affordability: "Ninety percent of the events are under $25 or free — and over half of the events are free," says Holland. That includes the many events that are unique to ArtWeek.
The idea isn't just arts promotion, it's outreach too, completing the circle that starts with inspiration and ends with appreciation. Plus, even institutions like Citi Center need to "get out of the house" once in a while.
Learn about Boston's vast public art collection and iconic architecture, and have fun riding a duck boat, too. Tickets: $40. Sun., Oct. 2, 2-3:30 p.m. Prudential Center Duck Stop, 53 Huntington Ave., Boston.
The Charles Hayden Planetarium's celebration of Prince's "Purple Rain" includes a behind-the-scenes discussion with planetarium producers and animators for the museum's SubSpace series. Tickets: $12. Sun., Oct. 2, 6-7:30 p.m. Charles Hayden Planetarium, Museum of Science, Boston.
In addition to the ongoing Smithsonian curated "Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty," the selfie-obsessed (or exhausted) can pose for a portrait taken with a large-format camera. Exhibit: Free. Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Thursday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m | 403 |
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The following fellows attended the IETF 98 meeting in March 2017 in Chicago, IL, United States.
Agustín Formoso (Uruguay)
Agustín Formoso is a Software Engineer at LACNIC. He is heavily involved in research work at LACNIC, and was also part of the team that implemented RDAP. He is also involved in the operationalization and deployment activities of LACNOG. Agustín holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Telematics Engineering from the Universidad de Montevideo (Uruguay). He is interested in the REGEXT, SIDR, 6LO and V6OPS working groups and the MAPRG research group in the IETF.
Akanle Matthew Boladele (Nigeria)
Akanle Matthew Boladele is currently a Senior System Engineer in the Center for System and Information Services (CSIS) at the Covenant University in Nigeria. He is also a System Administrator for the Covenant University Bioinformatic Research Centre (CUBRe) and a Technical Training Lead for the Young Internet Professionals (YiPS) of Nigeria. He obtained a Bachelors degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering from the Federal University of Technology. Matthew is a Member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers and a Registered Engineer of the Council for the Regulation of Engineers in Nigeria (COREN). His areas of interest include but are not limited to cloud computing, cybersecurity, and IPv6 technologies.
Ana Montoya (Colombia)
Ana Montoya is an Undergraduate Student in Electronics Engineering and Telecommunications at the University of Cauca. She is currently working on her thesis and has submitted a paper to the IEEE ACCESS Journal titled, 'A YANG-Based Information Model for SDN Management'. It consists of the design of a YANG-based information model to perform configuration tasks in a heterogeneous SDN environment that consider different Autonomous Systems (AS). Ana is passionate about many topics, particularly software defined networks (SDN), network management, gamification (online learning games), and projects that impact society at several different levels.
Brent McIntosh (Grenada)
Brent McIntosh is currently the Group Lead for IP/MPLS Operations for Cable and Wireless Communications (CWC), the largest telecommunications service provider in the Caribbean region. In this role, he oversees the operations of IP transit capacity, 3rd Party CDN (Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc.), IXP deployments and IPng. Brent is passionate about IXP deployments and IPv6 technology on a whole. IPv6 deployment in the Caribbean is one of his personal and professional objectives, and as such, he is involved with many communities that are fostering this change such as IPv6 Forum and CaribNOG.
Diego Dujovne (Chile)
Diego Dujovne is an Associate Professor at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile. He is a Returning Fellow to the IETF98, having previously participated in the programme at IETF89 in London. Diego is active in the DETNET and ROLL working groups (WGs), and more recently in the LPWAN WG. He and the team at his university have developed a LoRaWAN simulator module for OMNET++ and an early implementation of the LPWAN SCHC (IPv6 over LPWAN networks). His working interests are IoT and Deterministic Networks, but he is also quite interested in Content-Centric Networks and Wireless Experimental Platforms. Diego is the Chapter President of the IEEE Communications Society of Chile.
Diego Londoño (Colombia)
Diego Londoño is a Postgraduate Student at the University of Chile where he is completing the Master of Science (MSc) in Electrical Engineering. He is also a Research Assistant at NIC Chile Research Labs. Diego's work is primarily in the areas of IoT, HTTP2, and application protocols in constrained networks. He is the Past President of the IEEE Communication Society (Comsoc) University Chapter at Icesi University. He is particularly interested in the CORE, 6LO, HTTPBIS, and QUIC working groups in the IETF.
Keolebogile Rantsetse (Botswana)
Keolebogile Rantsetse is a Lecturer at Limkokwing University of Creative Technology where she teaches modules such as Fundamentals of Internet Technology, Internet Security and Data Communications & Networking. She is very passionate about research on Internet technologies and cybersecurity, and is also interested in developing and nurturing young minds on emerging technologies. Keo actively participates in meetings such as AFRINIC and AfNOG, and is passionate about fostering the development of the Internet within the Southern African region. She is hoping to work more and more with girls and women to cultivate their interest in ICT and engineering in order for them to take up roles in male-dominated professions.
Muhammad Sajjad Akbar (Pakistan)
Muhammad Sajjad Akbar is a PhD Student at Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom. His research is centered around wireless body area sensor networks (WBASNs), and he specifically works with MAC and routing protocols while integrating them with Internet of Things (IoTs) devices and networks. Muhammad holds a Master of Science degree in Wireless Networks and Telecommunications from Muhammad Ali Jinnah University (Pakistan) and a Master of Information Technology degree from Barani Institute of Information Technology (Pakistan). He is interested in the 6LO and V6OPS working groups in the IETF.
Samwel Kwamanga (Kenya)
Samwel Kwamanga is the IT Manager for Sanofi East Africa. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology from the United States International University and a MBA in Strategic Management from the University of Nairobi. He has previously been employed with DHL Global and the International Committee of the Red Cross. He is interested in the HTTPBIS, AVT, | 1,215 |
My oldest son and I were able to tag along with my parents this past weekend to go to a family wedding in Seattle. We had a lot of fun - did some cool tourist-y things, and got to see some family that we hadn't seen in a long time. We're exhausted now, but it was worth it.
First things first, I promised a photo of my son and myself in our wedding outfits, complete with the<|fim_middle|> married in Seattle. LOVE that city! I miss it, especially the rainy weather which is my favorite. Your green clutch is so cute.
Y'all look great! Looks like you had a fun weekend.
Fun! Nice to have a day out and you look great!
Sweet outfit! It's always too short a visit to do all the things you want...you'll just have to go back again! I've never seen the glass exhibit, so definitely next time I go down I have to make that a priority.
You both look gorgeous! I need to get to the Chihuly exhibit next time I'm in Seattle.
The commenter above may have been thinking of Island Quilter which is on Vashon Island, just a short ferry ride from South Seattle.
Nice picture with your handsome man :) I think I might buy that pattern. I really like how you made it in a solid - works for something dressier.
Thank you for a dress pic. It's cute! Love the sweater, too. Looks like you two had fun.
You and your son look great. Always good to have a break, glad you enjoyed Seattle. The clutch looks cute with the dress and I think I can just make out the green in the dress. | pleated wristlet I made last week, so here you go! I notice in the photo that you can't see the green in the dress, but trust me, it's there!
On Sunday morning, prior to the wedding, we went downtown Seattle to take in some of the sights. We went to the top of the space needle and even had lunch up there. Very cool, and lots of fun! Probably a "must do" if you visit Seattle.
Included in the space needle ticket we purchased was admission into Chihuly Garden and Glass. This is a stunning display of colour and artistry, highly recommended. My 10yr old enjoyed it as much as the adults did. If you ever have the chance, do take it in.
Finally, what is a trip without a visit to at least one fabric store?? Granted, it was only at Joann's, but it was my first time there so it was still fun. The lines at the cutting tables were veeeeeery long so I didn't have time to choose any yardage since we were on a bit of a schedule as far as getting to the ferry in time, but I did pick out a colourful stack of FQs. So I did come home with a bit of souvenir fabric which is fun!
I would have loved to meet up with some Seattle bloggers (Jenelle, Debbie....), but alas this visit was just too short to fit that in. Next time we'll take a bit more time, bring the rest of the family, and take in more of the sights.
You two are so cute! Glad you had a good time in Seattle! There is a Chihuly piece at the Children's Museum in Indy that we've been to a few times. They really are spectacular!
Nice seeing you and your handsome date. Isn't Seattle great? I had no idea the Chihuly exhibit was there, I should make a trip over to visit a friend and go see that. Sorry you were not able to SHOP at JoAnn's, must have been a big sale weekend. Maybe next time you could go to Pink Chalk Fabrics - located on one of the islands I think.
Yes it is on Bainbridge Island. I've always wanted to go to the shop.
Very cute date you had there! I got | 471 |
You can obtain a driving test application form (DL26) from your driving instructor, any driving or theory<|fim_middle|> to undertake several set manoeuvres.
– Reverse parking behind a parked car or into a parking bay.
– Reversing round a corner.
During the test the examiner will tell you in good time which way to go. | test centre or by telephoning the driving test enquiry line on 0870 0101 372, between 8am and 6pm Monday to Friday. If you are deaf and need a minicom machine telephone 0870 0106 372. If you are able to pay by credit or debit card you can book a driving test appointment direct on the same numbers without the need to complete an application form. Alternatively, you can book online here.
You will however, need to quote your driver number from your provisional driving licence, your theory test pass certificate number and your driving school code if you are being trained by a professional driving instructor. Upon booking you will be given a booking number and sent an appointment card as confirmation within a few days.
You are required to give a minimum of 3 clear working days notice of your decision to cancel or postpone your test; otherwise you will lose your test fee. If you are unwell on the day of the test and can get a doctor to verify this, the DSA will refund the test fee.
The Driving Standards Agency (DSA) driving test for car drivers is about 40 minutes long. After signing your name and checking the licence, the examiner will ask you to read the number plate and ask you 'Show me' and 'Tell me' questions.
During this time the examiner will try to ensure that you cover a wide variety of different road conditions. From quiet low speed roads to busy high-speed roads and town or city centre driving. You will be required | 320 |
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Posted on 16 April 2022 by what sandra thinks
when we met. n/napkin.
After his friend abandoned him for an admittedly cute girl across the room, Jackson found himself a stool at one end of the half-moon shaped bar. The bartender, Marcus, a friend of his, came over and put a drink in front of him.
"Thanks, Marcus."
"You got it. What happened to Will?"
They shared a laugh as Jackson picked up his drink. But before the glass reached his lips, he froze. At the other end of the bar sat the most enchanting women he had ever seen. Dark waves of hair fell over her shoulders, and a delicate vine tattoo wrapped around her arm. Jackson found it sexy as hell.
He could feel his heart racing from merely looking at her. He knew he'd never be able to talk to her. Instead, he waved Marcus<|fim_middle|> Still smiling to her, Jackson reached for another napkin. He held up a finger to her, silently asking her to wait a moment. It was getting late, but he didn't want her to leave. Looking down, he wrote once more. "What's your name, beautiful?"
Jackson looked back up and flagged Marcus over. He handed him the napkin and gestured towards her once more. Marcus walked it over, shaking his head and laughing to himself on the way. Once more, she smiled to Jackson, only looking away from him to read the napkin.
He couldn't take his eyes off her. He watched as she fumbled through her purse for a pen. She wrote and handed the napkin back to Marcus. Without a word, he knew to deliver it to Jackson. And when Jackson read her reply, his smile lit up his whole face. Something about having a name to go with this gorgeous woman made his heart pound.
He read her note again. "Mackenzie. You?" He looked up at her and smiled. She returned the gesture as Jackson quickly scribbled on the napkin again. "Jackson." By now, he was feeling a bit more confident. "Can I buy you a drink?"
When Mackenzie read his note, she smiled and tucked the napkin into her bag. Jackson loved that she kept it. She stood from her stool and excused herself, leaving Marty behind. For a split-second, he thought she was going to leave. But a moment later, she appeared by his side.
Her smile was radiant. "Hello, Jackson."
"Hello, Mackenzie."
p.s. — As we are now into the second half of the alphabet, I made a new title graphic. I don't know about you, but I was getting sick of the other one.
p.p.s. — Yeah, I find it hard to believe that a man who looks like *that* would be too shy to approach a woman. But it's my fiction… so there.
Hot guy: Italian model Simone Bredariol (Clearly the most attractive man in the world.)
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21 Responses to when we met. | n/napkin. #atozchallenge
Monty Vern says:
Psst… this is another cheat, but no one would know. I wrote it a very long time ago, but it was never on my blog. 🙂
Haha! I used some past works myself too.
TheDreamGirlWrites says:
See then it doesn't count!!!
This is so very cute!!!
That new title is 😍😍
Thank you so much. 🙂 ♥
aww I love it! ❤ ❤
Thanks ♥
Jeanne Bryan Insalaco says:
Awe… sweet
scr4pl80 says:
I think not all cute guys are self-assured. Very cute story.
shirleyjdietz says:
Believable writing and just the right amount of set up and detail. Beginning, middle and end, and so short. Good theme too. I like it. Hope you're enjoying a to z this year! http://www.shirleyjdietz.com
afshan18 says:
Your fiction is fun and exciting….Mackenzie…i like the name
Dropping by from a to z http://afshan-shaik.blogspot.com/
Operation Awesome says:
Interesting way to meet someone!
Dena visiting from Operation Awesome
It was fun to write. 🙂
JayashreeVats says:
Hope they gave Marcus a good tip 😀
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Jayashree writes
He definitely deserves it!
Liam says:
If only I knew this kind of thing would work, back in the day.
I don't know if it would anywhere other than my imagination. But maybe… | back over to him.
"Do you know who that is?" he asked, gesturing across the bar.
"No idea," Marcus said. "I haven't seen her in here before."
"What about that guy talking to her?" Jackson asked.
"I think his name's Marty. I've seen him around."
"She looks annoyed with him," Jackson said, smiling. Somehow, her annoyed face was both adorable and hot.
Marcus laughed. "She does. Maybe you should rescue her?"
Jackson wanted to rescue her. He wanted to have the most charming, most perfect thing to say. But meeting women in bars—he had no idea what he was doing. But he had to try something.
From the stack next to him, Jackson took a napkin and looked back to Marcus. "Got a pen?" Marcus gave him one. Jackson wrote on the napkin. "Hi. Is that guy bothering you?" He folded it in half and gave it to Marcus. "Will you bring this to her?"
Marcus nodded and walked over to her with the napkin. He handed it to her, and she stared at him, utterly confused. Marcus took a step back and gestured towards Jackson.
Her eyes met Jackson's. He was already smiling, and he felt a rush when she smiled back to him. She took her eyes from his and looked down to the note Jackson had written. He loved the way her smile grew as she read. When she returned her gaze to his, she just shook her head gently and rolled her eyes, all the while never taking her smile away.
She was definitely annoyed with "Marty". | 325 |
Q: Cast object type to another type I have class where I set type of range to IntervalRange
export class Test {range: IntervalRange;}
then in parent class I initialize the value:
export class TestInitializer {
Create(){
return <Test>{
range: IntervalRange.initialize(Database.GetByName('MONTH').id};
}
InitializeElement() {
let test = <Test>JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(configuration));
return test;
}
then in my other component I use this as:
@Input() range: IntervalRange;
However on function range.getRange();
I get: ERROR TypeError: this.range.getRange is not a function
Why is that? it says range is an Object, though it should be IntervalRange<|fim_middle|> want to build up a Test instance, and load the serialized data into it.
A: The TypeScript "cast" (<A>tmp or tmp as A) :
*
*makes structural type compatibility checking → it is unavailable if the source data has type any.
*has no runtime counterpart → TypeScript types can be compatible but runtime types can differ, for instance an object literal vs a real class instance.
When the data comes from an unsafe/external source, e.g. JSON.parse() or a WebAPI call, it's a DTO (data transfer object), with the any type. The TypeScript "cast" is unsafe too.
To ensure the cast operation, you can use a mapping function from the DTO to the "domain model" class. The key point is to return a real class instance.
*
*Object.assign(new IntervalRange(), this.range) (that you mentioned in a comment) satisfies this point.
*We can be even more stricter with a "field by field mapping": this.a = range.a; this.b = range.b; ...).
Both options are better encaspulated in a function: the class constructor, a static factory method in the class, an external function in the same module.
| .
I tried writing as IntervalRange, <IntervalRange> range
nothing worked. How to fix that?
Update: let type = typeof(this.range); prints "object"
method:
ngOnChanges() {
if (this.range) {
let type = typeof(this.range);
let ddd = this.range.getRange(); //<----- this is where I get error
}
A: A typecast only casts the type. Typescript doesn't exist at runtime. Therefore if JSON.parse doesn't return a proper Test instance (which it won't since methods won't get serialized), it will fail at runtime. Instead of typecasting you probably | 129 |
Churchnet Elects New Leaders
September 19<|fim_middle|>. Hill became Churchnet's second executive director in 2004. Churchnet's mission is to serve churches by fostering collaboration and hope for engaging new generations and cultures. Let us know how we can serve your church.
Brian Ford,Brian Kaylor Brian Kaylor September 19, 2016
Churchnet Elects New Officers
Baptist Network Responds to Cuba Travel Restrictions | , 2016 Brian Kaylor
Dr. Brian Ford
Dr. Brian Kaylor
The Churchnet Board of Directors elected new leaders to guide the ministry of the network in the coming years during its Annual Retreat at Windermere on September 10th. The Search Committee recommended Dr. Brian Ford for the position of Executive Director-Elect effective October 1, 2016 and become the new Executive Director upon the retirement of the current Executive Director. The Churchnet Board of Directors also approved the recommendation of the Search Committee to elect Dr. Brian Kaylor as Associate Director.
The Board approved a proposed succession plan presented by the current Executive Director, Jim Hill, at their December 2015 board meeting to allow the diverse roles and responsibilities of the leadership position to be gradually handed off over a period of approximately 9 to 12 months. The Administrative Team served as the Search Committee and worked with the current director to bring recommendations to the Board.
"I could not have been more pleased with the recommendations of the Search Committee, and I am delighted the board has approved them," Churchnet's Executive Director Jim Hill said. "Brian Ford and Brian Kaylor both bring very significant gifts to our ministry, and they bring a fresh, younger perspective as well. I look forwarding to working with them as we transition leadership for our ministry during the coming months, and I am confident God will bless their leadership in the years ahead."
Ford has served as pastor of Little Bonne Femme Baptist Church in Columbia, Mo., since 2003. He is a graduate of William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., and completed his M.Div. at Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Shawnee, Kan., in 2000, where he is currently serving as an adjunct professor. He completed his D.Min. at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minn., in 2012 with a focus on "Congregational Mission and Leadership."
Ford previously served as Associate Pastor at First Baptist Church in Independence, Mo., and Youth Minister at First Baptist Church in Lamar, Mo. He has served on the board of Churchnet, and was elected Churchnet's Vice President earlier this year. He has served as a board member for the Missouri Baptist Foundation and the Missouri Baptist Historical Society. He previously served as moderator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Missouri. He is a member of a state-wide advocacy organization, Missouri Faith Voices, as well as Faith Voices of Columbia. Brian is married to Holly and has two children. He will assume the Executive Director's role upon the retirement of the current director in 2017.
"I am honored and grateful for the opportunity to serve Churchnet in this role," Ford said. "I look forward to working with Brian Kaylor and the other staff. God is actively at work in the world and Churchnet has much to offer to assist churches as they find God and join in God's mission in their neighborhoods and beyond."
Kaylor is the longest-tenured member of the Churchnet staff. He was hired by H. K. Neely during the first year of the new convention's life. He has had a variety of roles during his tenure, but currently serves as the Generational Engagement Team Leader. The new role will allow him to have more time to utilize his gifts and skills and assist in providing leadership for Churchnet's ministry.
Kaylor is a graduate of Southwest Baptist University and earned an M.A. (in 2005) and a Ph.D. (in 2008) in communication from the University of Missouri. He has been a contributing editor to Ethics Daily since 2005. He was Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at James Madison University from 2008 to 2014. He remained a member of the Churchnet staff even during his tenure with the university. He previously served as pastor of Union Mound Baptist Church in Elkland, Mo., and as a ministry associate with Tri-County Baptist Association.
Kaylor currently serves as Vice Chair of the Communications Advisory Committee of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) and as a member of the Commission on Christian Ethics and the Awards Committee of the BWA. He is the author of four books, has written more than 400 news articles and columns, and has been a guest on various radio and television programs. He has been a regular writer for Word&Way and has received more than 20 awards for his writing. Brian is married to Jennifer and has a son.
"I am excited to serve the network in an expanded role," Kaylor said. "It's been a blessing to be a part of the ministry of Churchnet for the past 13 years and I remain hopeful about the future. I look forward to working with Brian Ford and the rest of the staff as we serve churches."
Churchnet, also known as the Baptist General Convention of Missouri, started in 2002. Churchnet's first executive director, Neely, served from 2002 until 2004 | 1,064 |
Elizabeth Farlie's latest body of work dismantles representation of the self, negotiating the seam between provided identity and the actual.
Consisting of an installation, a sculpture, writing, photographs and drawings as well as a sort of soundscape that the audience mutters, rereads and rechecks. The various elements are combined within the exhibition space to depict a<|fim_middle|> of expression that seeks to rupture definitions of identity, challenging the sense that we are separate.
tear is the second of a series of works by Elizabeth that function as a trial run for a larger work, deus ex machina or god from the machinery. | brutal processing plant.
tear explores the boundaries that can define but also entrap and threaten. Within this exchange there is necessarily uncertainty – Is this intimate space comforting or threatening? tear gets under the skin and explores its story, the point at which two realms collide moving the audience beyond the 'natural order' provided.
The exhibition asks the audience to enter into a different idea of representation and | 77 |
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Netflix Plays Its Q1 Cards Right
April 23, 2013 10:49 AM PT
The market is popping champagne corks over Netflix's latest<|fim_middle|> bleeding subscribers.
Competition from Amazon, Apple, Walmart's Vudu and other streaming services is a significant concern, Sizemore said. "Netflix needs to keep differentiating itself lest it get lost in this crowd."
Certainly, these competing companies are not going to give up their own subscribers without a fight, Scherer added. "All of these providers are fighting for the same subscribers, as well as for the same content."
Content costs remain a concern for Netflix, noted Covestor's Sizemore.
"They've been getting their material from the studios at very attractive prices, but as Netflix grows and comes to threaten the media status quo, the content providers are rethinking this. Higher costs for content, coupled with competition from competing services, mean that margins will likely shrink."
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5 Types of Shoppers and What They Want for the Holidays | earnings report. A day after the company delivered boffo results and beat Street expectations for the first quarter, its stock has soared by some 25 percent.
Among the goodies in Monday's report: Netflix posted net income of US$3 million, compared to a loss of $5 million a year ago. Profits were 31 cents a share, far more than analysts' expectations of 20 cents.
Netflix also announced that it has signed up more than 2 million new U.S. streaming subscribers in the first quarter, compared to 1.74 million in Q1 a year ago.
Astonishingly, even its DVD segment did better than expected.
"Netflix managed to squeeze a profit even out of this declining business, which shows that the company knows how to manage costs," Andreas Scherer, managing partner of Salto Partners, told the E-Commerce Times.
Much of the growth can be attributed to Netflix's decision to offer more original programming. House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey, has proven to be very popular.
The company also inked some significant U.S. licensing deals — a past source of concern for shareholders. It entered into a multiyear agreement with Turner Broadcasting and Warner Bros. Television Group for previous seasons of shows from Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation and Adult Swim.
Netflix's DIY Content
The deal with Warner Bros. Television Group is significant because "it illustrates our evolution to a curator of select programming," Netflix said in its letter to shareholders. The company acknowledged that many of its earlier deals included some shows that have not proven successful.
Of course that was not the main sticking point for shareholders. Rather, it was the cost of the content agreements — and the fact that networks held Netflix hostage with its business model — that had been the major source of worry, said Peter Cohan of Peter S. Cohan & Assoc.
"By making their own shows, they are bypassing that high cost to some extent," he told the E-Commerce Times.
Netflix all but invented the content-over-Internet model, which is quickly reshaping the way consumers view media, said Covestor Model Manager Charles Lewis Sizemore.
"Netflix and its competitors are the biggest shake-up to media since paid cable TV," he told the E-Commerce Times.
House of Cards has been a boost to Netflix's reputation in the same way that original programming vastly changed the way viewers thought about HBO and Showtime, Sizemore continued.
"I don't know anyone who buys HBO to watch movies; these days they buy it for its original programming — like the popular Game of Thrones. Netflix is trying to follow that model, and they are wise to. Otherwise, the company is a commodity seller of old content with nothing to distinguish it from its competitors."
Competition Looms
Not that it is clear sailing for Netflix going forward. Not that long ago, it was | 589 |
is like Disneyworld for foodies. From incredible dollar-slice pizzas to unassuming holes in the wall all the way to the top , there is no shortage of incredible food in the city that never sleeps. But forking the bill after an indulgent meal in some of the city's best restaurants can be a difficult pill to swallow. Most visitors gulp at the sight of a $17 dollar cocktail, but in NYC, it's merely the default price—and dishes are no cheaper.
That said, there is also a common misconception that Michelin-starred restaurants in New York are necessarily expensive. Yes, it<|fim_middle|>: In TriBeCa, serves up a multi-course New American tasting menu in a luxe, intimate atmosphere with countertop dining.
Located in the infamous Roberta's Pizza in Bushwick, , a New American tasting menu in a tiny open-space loft also holds two precious Michelin stars.
Musket Room: Tucked away on quiet Elizabeth Street in the heart of Nolita, serves a modern take on New Zealand cuisine in a rustic-chic atmosphere.
Uncle Boons: Possibly one of the cheaper meals in the Michelin list, , a creative underground Thai restaurant in Nolita serves up a surprising and dynamic cuisine that goes far beyond your average pad thai.
ZZ's Clam Bar: With only four tables, is possibly NYC's best-kept secret. Serving an incredible and inventive raw bar selection and some of the city's best cocktails, this place is a must-go (if you can score the reservation).
Next up: The will convince you to cross that bridge. | 's true that a meal at Masa—arguably the best 26-course omakase in the city—will set you back between $400 and $750 a person. But on the other side of town, Tim Ho Wan, a Hong Kong dim sum outpost that has one Michelin star in its own city, was named the world's cheapest .
Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare: Even though the has (ironically), now moved to Manhattan, it hasn't lost its three-star rating. The upscale 20-course French and Japanese fusion menu is arguably one of the best in the city.
Eleven Madison Park: The number one pick in 2017 for Best Restaurant in the World also happens to have three Michelin stars. Daniel Humm's serves an upscale American tasting menu in a newly renovated Art Deco–inspired atmosphere.
Aquavit: One of two outstanding Scandinavian-inspired two-star restaurants in NYC, midtown's serves tasting menus and prix fixe menus in a Nordic setting.
Atera | 212 |
Millbrook Group, the leading provider of engineering, trialling, safety, legislative requirements and performance support to vehicle manufacturers and system suppliers in the Defence industry, will be<|fim_middle|>3. | exhibiting at this year's DSEI event.
Development, modernisation and the sustainment of Army capabilities will be the key themes for DVD2016, hosted at Millbrook Proving Ground from 7 – 8 September 2016. DVD is attended by professionals from across the defence acquisition and support sectors, as well as military and industry stakeholders, with the event providing an opportunity to discuss the key issues affecting current and future equipment support and sustainment.
Millbrook, one of the world's leading independent military vehicle test and validation facilities will showcase its extensive capabilities within the defence sector at DSEi 2015 on 15-18 September at ExCeL, London.
Millbrook, one of the world's leading independent military vehicle engineering development and test facilities, will showcase its extensive capabilities within the defence sector at IDEF'15.
We provide a range of facilities and equipment to replicate every real-world climatic and environmental condition for performance analysis and the development of whole vehicle systems and components. Utilising a variety of industry-leading chambers for fuel, emissions and environmental measurement with a choice of controls and conditions including test schedules for which we hold accreditation by UKAS to ISO 17025; we ensure that products are capable of performing to the ever-increasing user demands of defence.
Defence and industry representatives involved in the land equipment sector gathered at Millbrook this week (25th and 26th June) to showcase innovative and efficient solutions for the support, upkeep and development of land equipment and capabilities that will feature in the Army 2020 structure.
DVD, the most important event in the defence diary for those involved in land equipment and support, returns to Millbrook for the eleventh time this June.
On 25 and 26 June, DVD2014 will once again bring together industry and defence in the land equipment sector at Millbrook to develop ideas and generate an increased understanding of the dynamic defence environment.
For the first time in its long history, Millbrook Defence will be showcasing its full testing capability at DSEI 201 | 432 |
In the case relating to the Biomet Hip Implant Litigation (In Re Biomet M2a Magnum Hip Implant ProductsLiability Litigation). The case involves over 19 million documents and is a great example for why plaintiffs must get involved early in document discovery.
The defendants applied a combination of keyword searches and predictive coding to arrive at a collection under three million documents from the over 19 million with which they started. It sounds as if the methods of search and culling were not agreed upon (or discussed) by the parties. The defendant did, however, offer to the plaintiffs to provide additional keyword search criteria (after the search had already been performed) and invited<|fim_middle|> the judge may have unknowingly allowed the defendants success in digital concealment of discoverable documents, but the plaintiffs sound like they sat on their haunches instead of actively participating…until it was too late.. | them to review samples of the output sampling from the predictive coding.
Here is the problem, as I see it, from the plaintiffs' perspective. If they had knowledge, they should have objected to the methods being used before the culling began. Once Biomet had conducted all the keyword isolation and predictive coding, they had already expended a large amount of money and resources.
The problem with Biomet's approach is two-fold. Keyword searching is only as good as the keywords and search phrases used. The fact that the plaintiffs were not involved in the keyword selection is a significant detriment to the plaintiffs. Being involved should have allowed them the ability to evaluate the way in which Biomet did business when it came to their hip implants and it should have allowed the plaintiffs to learn about corporate structure, terminology and other important details of the hip manufacturing section.
To have performed keyword searching before predictive culling may have narrowed the document group too much. The fact that keyword searching reduced the document collection from over 19 million to three million is telling, I think, in terms of how severely keyword searching must have been applied.
Predictive coding/culling is a process in which cross section collections of documents are used by humans; who review the documents and code the relevant field data from the documents (document type, dates, authors, etc). Once a sufficient number of documents have been reviewed and coded, the predictive software itself is tested to see if it can proceed with additional culling of the documents. The predictive coding software has been watching and (hopefully) learning from the data coded by the humans and at some point it reaches a point at which the software is competent to proceed with the same actions the human coders were performing. This learning process requires test batches and evaluation of the error rates in those test batches.
The predictive coding process provides for an opportunity for all parties to be involved in more detail with the culling of production documents without disclosing the specific details of confidentiality. So, all the parties should be able to reach a point at which they are satisfied with proceeding with the discovery and production process.
The research seems clear that when done properly, predictive coding is significantly more reliable than keyword searching or even human review. In this case, the judge has allowed use of a system that can be fraught with flaws (keyword searching) to arrive at a group to apply predictive coding. The defendants are then left with a much smaller selection and testing group than otherwise and incorrectly selecting the keywording could allow them to manipulate the ultimate grouping to which predictive coding would be applied.
Simply, | 512 |
Mad Men: Season 7, Episode 1–Time Zones
"There's someone above you, and someone below you, and everyone's buying everyone dinner."
It's a long overdue welcome back for the ladies and gentlemen (mostly gentlemen) of Sterling Cooper & Partners, in the first half of the final season of Mad Men. Yes, while Matthew Weiner's acclaimed drama may have one more episode than usual for this seventh, conclusive outing, the fourteen episodes are going to be split into two 'half-seasons', the first broadcast this April, the last next April. If you thought the 'mid-season break' was annoying in shows like Doctor Who or The Walking Dead, at least you don't usually have to wait an entire year…
Still, the split does raise the question of whether both halves of the season will be set in the same time period. As usual with a season opener of Mad Men, there was fun to be had from working out exactly when the new season is set, using the clues littered throughout the episode. The fashions don't seem to have changed much; neither do the cars. Remarking on the Californian weather, several characters pointed out that even in LA, "it's still January". So that's the month sorted out, but what's the year? It wasn't until near the end of the ep that we got a decisive clue, as Don was watching the first inaugural address of incoming President Richard Nixon – which took place on 20 January 1969.
Since the finale of season six took place around the end of November 1968, that means barely two months have passed since we last saw the SC&P gang. Consequently, most of the characters are pretty much where we last saw them; unlike the larger gaps between previous seasons, which have left the viewer to work out how and why the characters have ended up in new situations when the new season begins.
I actually rather enjoy that; Mad Men is a show that doesn't give an inch in terms of exposition, treating its viewers' intelligence with respect. Still, even with barely two months elapsing in the show's narrative, there have been changes, even though they were changes announced at the end of last season.
In keeping with the ambitious plans thought up by Stan Rizzo, nicked by Don Draper, then thoughtfully gifted to Ted Chaough, Sterling Cooper & Partners now has a permanent office in Los Angeles. And it seems to be headed by none other than Pete Campbell, now in the unprecedented situation of being happy (seemingly). What's the betting that won't last?
If Pete is indeed happy, he's in a minority (probably a minority of one). As ever in this show, nobody else is feeling particularly good, least of all Don Draper. It was actually a fair while into this season opener before the show's hero/antihero/villain (delete as applicable) put in an appearance – clearly he's still on that indefinite suspension from SC&P after his typically self-destructive behaviour last season.
In fact, the ep opened with none other than Freddie Rumsen giving a spellbinding – and Draper-like – pitch to Peggy Olson, director Scott Hornbacher conveying his unlikely magnetism with an extreme close up that ever so slowly zoomed out as Freddie went on. Peggy was clearly gobsmacked by how good Freddie's idea – for Swiss watch Accutron – was. It was so good it could have come from Don Draper himself. And it later became clear that in fact, it had. Don, still persona non grata at SC&P, is getting his ideas in through the back door, via Freddie's freelance credentials.
It's not like the Don we've come to know to allow others to take credit for his ideas. But then, he seemed to end the last season in a chastened mood, clearly wanting to atone for the wrongs he'd done to those around him – which was pretty much everyone in the show. Perhaps this uncharacteristic altruism is (yet another) New Don? Or does he have some convoluted plan in motion?
Whichever it is, we didn't catch a glimpse of the man himself until he rolled up at LA airport. Still dapper in his trademark suit and hat, he continues to embody stylish obsolescence in a world that's changing around him; what looked great in 1960 looks distinctly anachronistic in 1969, particularly in California. While Pete was embracing the local style (with regrettable consequences), Don must have been cooking in the LA sun in that suit.
He was out there primarily to visit Megan, who has indeed moved to Hollywood full time, pursuing her acting dream. She seems to be doing all right at it, too, with a proper agent (who's clearly flamingly gay, another indication of the changing times), and a house in… the Valley. Or is it the Canyons? Poor old Don, he's so hopelessly unhip he doesn't actually know which.
As it turned out, he only spent a couple of days there, acting like a fish out of water throughout. Clearly… 'admired' by Megan's agent, Don had the discomfiture of being constantly described as "bi-coastal", which was an amusing running gag. And yet it seems that the show itself may be bi-coastal this year, if so many of the regulars stay based in LA. That could make for some interesting plotlines, especially for Don, Pete, and Ted Chaough, who yet again displayed his alpha male similarity to Don by failing to embrace the California weather.
Back in snowy NYC, the script focused primarily on Joan and Peggy, which is always a good thing. They're two of the show's strongest characters, despite, or more likely because of, the formidable obstacles they keep having to overcome.
Despite that hard-won partnership, Joan is still having trouble getting anyone to take her seriously as a businesswoman, even though she's plainly more capable than half the men on the staff. After being taken down a peg for daring to chase an account herself last season, she was playing it more cannily when dealing with Wayne Barnes, the seemingly teenage representative of Butler Footwear, a client wanting to take their advertising inhouse.
Deputising for Ken Cosgrove (still sporting an eyepatch after his unfortunate hunting accident), she found Wayne (Cougar Town's Dan Byrd) unwilling to take her as seriously as Ken. Not just because she was a woman but because he had (gasp!) a Harvard MBA. Where Joan, of course, only has talent and years of experience.
Naturally enough then, it was off to see a NYU Professor of Business Studies, who immediately patronised her by asking her whether her firm used fee-based or commission-based contracts, then patronised her still further by asking her if she understood the difference. As we know though, Joan has a flair for business and a core of steel. Not only did she put the prof in his place, she then terrified young Wayne into actually asking her advice. Which, it seems, will keep Butler with SC&P. Way to go Joan! Not that Ken appreciated it, of course…
Peggy was also having a hard time, and unlike Joan not really managing to rise above it. Don's indefinite departure has left her saddled with one Lou Avery in his old role (even though Peggy herself would seem a natural choice to step up while Don's away). Lou, so old-fashionedly misogynist that Don seems like a feminist by comparison, has pretty much pushed Peggy two steps back in her standing in the office. He was so unwilling to take her input seriously that he pooh-poohed Freddie's (actually Don's) genuinely good pitch – purely because it was coming from her.
As if that didn't make work annoying enough, Peggy is still positively fuming over the betrayal of her former lover (and boss) Ted, whose very presence appears to be enough to send her spiralling into a rage. And there was no respite out of work either. Stuck with the ramshackle house she bought with her ex, Abe, she's now letting out rooms to some very demanding tenants, who even want her to personally fix the plumbing. No wonder she ended the episode curled up on the floor in tears.
At least Roger seemed to be having a good time. Continuing his dalliance with the counterculture following his infatuation with LSD, he now seems to have turned his house into some sort of hippy commune, at which he indulges in drink and drug fuelled orgies with people young enough to be his children. That might sound enjoyable, but it came across as yet another mid life crisis from which Roger may not emerge unscathed.
John Slattery continues to be my favourite actor in this ensemble, mostly because Roger's such a peach of a character to play. Apparently now happiest letting it all hang out (and he looks pretty good naked for a man of his age), Roger only grudgingly donned his trademark grey suit this week for a brief trip to the office and a rather strange dinner with his daughter, at which she forgave him. For everything.
Hard to know if she's become a Moonie or something, but it was at least a relief that for once, dinner in this show didn't end up in disaster. Roger ended the ep curling up in a darkened room with two young people of both sexes in the bed ("Anyone's welcome in this bed"). No wonder he seems so exhausted. Given that he's had at least two heart attacks, he'd best be careful!
Where's Bob Benson?
Continuing from last year, I'll be following SC&P's mystery man each week. Last season, we discovered that he may (or may not) be homosexual, he may (or may not) have fallen in love with Pete Campbell, and that he may (or may not) have been involved in the murder of Pete's mother.
One thing we do know – he's not Bob Benson. In fact, there is no Bob Benson; everything about this mystery man is a fabrication, designed to ingratiate him in his career of choice. He is, in point of fact, Don Draper MkII – even down to the alliterative name.
No sign of Bob so far – but he was mentioned in the office. Having shamed and humiliated Pete so badly that he moved 3000 miles away, Bob is still presumably in charge of the prestigious Chevy account. Let's see if his portentous presence is as dramatic this year.
Only one to speak of this episode – the televised inauguration of one Richard Milhous Nixon as President of the United States, fixing the date (if it was a live transmission) at 20 January 1969. It's worth remembering that way back in season one of Mad Men, the original Sterling Cooper were involved in Nixon's election campaign – the election he lost to John F Kennedy.
A difficult man to like, "Tricky Dicky" ended up gaining notoriety as the only sitting President to resign the office in disgrace, rather than face impeachment and imprisonment. Nevertheless, it's worth remembering that he (eventually) pulled US troops out of Vietnam, opened diplomatic relations with Communist China, and oversaw the first Moon landing. The name of America's most disliked President still adorns a plaque strapped to the leg of the Lunar Module in the Sea of Tranquillity.
On a less topical note, Don tried out Megan's huge new TV – and what should be on but Frank Capra's 1937 classic Lost Horizon, its prologue summing up the utopia that constantly eludes the show's characters:
Classic Wheels
Some gorgeous classic cars this week, all to be seen in the exterior scene when Megan picked up Don at LAX. The lady herself was driving an eyecatching British masterpiece – the Austin Healey 30<|fim_middle|> uniform. At least she was wearing a tea cosy on her head to dispel that impression:
Megan was as stylish as ever. Showing up at LAX to pick up Don, she seemed to have forgotten to change out of her nightdress. Naturally, on her it looked great:
A low-key start, then, to this most low-key of dramas; Mad Men was never a show to try and grab viewers with a slam bang season opener (though Megan's rendition of "Zou Bisou Bisou" at the start of season five came close). This had the feel of an establishing episode, Matthew Weiner setting out his players for the start of a new game.
And is this a new Don Draper we're seeing? Well, having firmly spurned the advances of Neve Campbell practically throwing herself at him on the plane back to New York, you could be forgiven for thinking so. But as the episode ended, we were back in familiar territory as Don sat shivering on his Manhattan balcony, looking wretched in his bathrobe and staring agonisedly into the middle distance. That's the Don Draper we know.
Author Simon FernandesPosted on April 16, 2014 Categories Mad Men reviewsTags Austin Healey, Dan Byrd, Don Draper, Joan Harris, Lost Horizon, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, Peggy Olson, Pete Campbell, Richard Nixon, Roger Sterling, Sterling Cooper, Time Zones
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Dedicated Followers of Fashion
Given that only a couple of months have passed in the show since last season, not much has changed in the world of sartorial style. Stan's still surgically attached to that fringed cowboy jacket, Ginsberg continues to sport a moustache that presumably inspired Ron Burgundy, and when Roger can be bothered to get dressed, he still looks fantastic in a well-cut grey suit.
You can usually rely on Harry Crane to provide the most eye-wateringly hideous fashion faux pas; but despite being based in LA, he was nowhere to be seen this week. It was then, up to Pete Campbell to fly the flag for men's historical fashion disasters, with this… this… I don't know what it is. But the trousers are truly horrible. Thankfully, his new girlfriend was there to offset it with something equally unrestrained:
As ever, while the men may have looked awful (well, Pete, anyway), most of the women looked pretty good. Though presumably that's not much compensation for still being second class citizens. Joan was, as ever, resplendent, in a simple purple dress:
Peggy too was looking pretty good, although the blue blouse/red white and blue cravat was oddly reminiscent of an old British Airways | 280 |
What's the World's Oldest Movie Theater?
Connor Phillips
The world's oldest movie theater dates back over 120 years. The Electric Cinema, located in the heart of London, opened its doors in 1902 and has been a staple of the city ever since. It is the oldest continuously operational movie theater in the world and its original design has stood the test of time.
The Electric Cinema was designed by prolific British theater architect Frank Verity, who was responsible for several other iconic theaters around London. The exterior features a beautiful Edwardian style façade and inside it is decorated with red velvet curtains, gilded accents, and elaborate wallpapers. The theater is also equipped with a grand pipe organ that adds to the grandeur of the experience.
The Electric Cinema has become a popular destination for film buffs over the years as they can watch some of their favorite classic films on its big screen. It offers an immersive experience with its comfortable seats, excellent sound system and large projection screen. The theater also hosts special events such as live music performances, film screenings, and Q&A sessions with filmmakers.
The Electric Cinema is a testament to the long history of cinema in London. It's a reminder that despite all of the changes that have taken place over time, some things remain timeless and can still provide us with joy for generations to come.
What's the World's Oldest Movie Theater? The answer is undoubtedly The Electric Cinema in London which opened its doors in 1902 and remains one of<|fim_middle|> and excellent sound system. From classic films to special events like live music performances, The Electric Cinema is an enduring reminder of cinema's long history in London.
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See: The Feelies Play 40 Years of Music in Brooklyn
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The Feelies | Brooklyn, NY | May 14, 2017
The Feelies wrapped up a weekend at Rough Trade NYC with a final performance as bustling and determined as though it was their first. In a two-act show, the Haledon, NJ group celebrated four decades of music, and the six studio albums which came of them. In Between, released this past February, continues a journey embarked upon by their penultimate album, Here Today. Both in studio and concert, In Between is rhythmically replete, buoyant in beat, with the acoustic fragrance of The Good Earth lingering in its sails. This made for pleasing, yet palpable live transitions between both albums (for instance, from the jangling, wispy "On the Roof" to the steady yet upbeat trot of "In Between.") For some fans, there is an emotional conflict that comes with moving from one song to the next after being wholly transfixed by the first. This state could be summed up by one audience member who cried "play that song again!" after the last chords of "Higher Ground," only to dance headlong into the next song's opening lines.
With forty years beneath their ever-outstretched wings, the Feelies lead us to wonder, what is the secret to their longevity? The answer may be found, perhaps, in an interview with the band during a period of inactivity from the 1985 documentary "Hoboken Sound." A young Glenn Mercer admits, "We always said when we started the band that once it wasn't fun we wouldn't do it anymore." In between two career-defining album releases, oblivious to the successes soon to come, Mercer patiently grasped the necessary component of joy—of enjoyment—when it comes to creating. Decades later, this past weekend, the same policy stood. In glowing hindsight of all their achievements, with no presumptions about the future, the Feelies brought fans onto this stop-and-start, yet always onward journey of joy.
About Chris Ryan
Chris Ryan is an accomplished promoter, event planner, producer, activist, counselor, poet and blogger. Within the course of two and a half years Chris Ryan has worked with some of NYC's most established promoters/event planners, been named 2007′s GaySocialite of the year, granted a promoter of the year award from NYC's most famous<|fim_middle|>, Spirit, Myst/Quo, Splash, The Ritz, Vlada, Roseland Ballroom, Heaven, etc. In 2008, Chris Ryan has begun to unveil some of the most innovative & unique parties New York City has ever seen. The Fusion events "fuse" together all disciplines of art into an event that remains diverse yet cohesive at the same time. ChrisRyanNYC.com won best gay promotions website from NYC Event Patrons in 2008 & he was granted an award from the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, Gov. Patterson & Michelle Clunie (QAF) saluting him for his hard work in nightlife. Chris Ryan has also begun working with many renown companies, including; doctors, lawyers, physicians, modeling agencies & more. Chris Ryan has been responsible for wide-scale promotions for all these companies & generating tremendous business. Chris Ryan has even started to become National with events taking place in LA & Miami this year. In May of 2009 Chris Ryan received the very prestigious honor of being named a "40 Under 40″ Gays in America by the Advocate Magazine. He also created three successful parties that generated over 1,500 patrons each. In January of 2010 Chris Ryan was featured as one of the top promoters to look out for in Noize Magazine Chris Ryan joined forces with legendary promoter/event producer, Lee Chappell and created one of the most talked about events of all 2010, Desire @ Capitale. Chris Ryan and Lee featured one of the most outstanding artists NYC has ever seen, "Oh Land." Her performance coupled with an exquisite and unforgettable set design added to this extravagant event that held over 1,000 patrons in one of NYC's most successful PRIDE events! Chris Ryan then joined forces with legendary Pacha promoter, Rob Fernandez in addition to Jake Resnicow and Tommy Marinelli to bring one of the largest and most successful parties worldwide to NYC, MATINEE. The event on Governor's Island saw over 2,000+ attendees and one of the most ambitious productions ever. In 2011 Chris Ryan started Emerge Music Promotions with business partner Darren Melchiorre. Emerge Music promotions began signing artists with plans to develop and market the artists to the community at large. Emerge Music promotions has big events planned for 2012 and 2013. Chris Ryan debuted the IMAGE events which took place on top of two of NYC's most beautiful rooftop venues, Rare View and Indigo Hotel. The events were blogged everywhere and featured the fashion designs of several clothing designers, artists and photographers. Chris Ryan felt that fashion and art should be displayed at every event and attracted the likes of Malan Breton, Calvin Klein and even Katy Perry. Chris Ryan began an extremely successful event which incorporated the concept of a house party into a nightclub atmosphere. The event Twist'D at G Lounge has been one of the most talked about events in NYC and allows it's audience to play nearly-naked Twister, beer pong, flip cup & more with other attendees. Chris Ryan was granted an excellence in volunteering award from AVP (Anti-Violence Project) for all his efforts in supporting the organization. 2013 has a very promising landscape on the horizon and Chris Ryan is complacent in saying "you haven't seen anything yet!"
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Music alternative rock electronic blues Eno NYC brooklyn singer-songwriter soul dance. hip-hop funk post-punk electronica Folk punk singer/songwriter indie alternative LA r&b rock indie rock audiofuzz indie pop dream pop dance pop pop music Americana | gay establishment, Splash. He's worked in some of NYC's top venues including; Avalon, Capitale, Cipriani, Cielo, Pacha, Element, Le Poisson Rouge, XL, G Lounge, Plumm, Hilton Hotel, Indigo Hotel | 57 |
WOW!! Thats akk I can say... I wish I could see all of life through your lens Heidi!!
Oh Heidi....I just love looking at your pictures. They are all so dreamy. My boys love visiting farms and I am glad too that it is not one more thing on my list that I have to do either!
Q: I love the picture of your son with the red hat sitting on the hay. Which "action" did you perform on that picture?
Incredible<|fim_middle|> cool is it to get to visit and be so close to that turkey!
wow, that last picture is awesome.
These pictures make farming look idyllic. I am still at the beginning stages of photography. Do you use Photoshop Elements?
I live in Southern California, 30 miles outside of one of the largest urban centers on earth. I have four hens in a coop in my garden. Each time I collect eggs, I would swear I'm on the farm.
But cleaning the coop inoculates me from any real desire for farm life.
Ruth~ Right now I am using the full photoshop with purchased actions. Too much fun!!
Jana~ Yes, we have definitely considered just doing chickens. There is a good chance we'll take that on in the next year or two. | shots. What an wonderful experience for the boys.
Your pictures inspire me to try new and different angles in which to shoot my boys. You (and Holly from June Cleaver Nirvana) were "at" the pumpkin patch with us yesterday - I stopped trying to pose any shots and just let the boys run and discover. I'll post some this coming week - I think a couple turned out pretty cool.
Looks like a great day.I do so love seeing the world through your lens. Do you use some filters??? Everything is so soft and comforting, even dreamy and a little idealistic. Would love any tips that you can offer.
Still, minus the responsibility, how | 136 |
To inspire class members to follow Nephi's example of faith and willing obedience.
How Might Isaiah 48-49 Be Likened to Lehi's Family?
The Nephite Prophets were masterful record keepers. In 1 Nephi 6, 19, and Jacob 1, they write openly about their purposes. This article explains the patterns for historical writing one may find in the Book of Mormon, which leads to a fruitful reflection on what might be a "perfect pattern" for recording personal and church histories in modern times.
Many books and papers have been written on what Nephi experienced as a learner under the tutelage of the Spirit and the angel in 1 Nephi 11–14. Ironically, his experience as a student on the mountaintop was immediately followed by many opportunities for him to become a teacher in the wilderness to his family. Nephi's interactions with the Spirit and the angel likely served as more than just a vision and discovery of eternal truths; his divine tutelage could also have served as a teacher-training experience. This idea leads us to ask the following questions: (1) What information exists in the chapters immediately following Nephi's vision that reveals what kind of learners Laman and Lemuel were compared to Nephi? (2) Is there any textual evidence in chapter 15 that Nephi employed the same methods and approaches with his brothers that had been so effectively used on him by his<|fim_middle|> the Old and New worlds could have very well collided before 1492 through water passage.
This article treats several examples in the New World of Old World influences and seeks to provide evidence of transoceanic contact before Columbus.
This article uses modern weather patterns and geographical analysis to provide possibilities for the sea route Lehi may have taken. The article first discusses the possibility of Lehi crossing from Arabia through the Indian Sea to Indonesia. Sorenson then discusses a possible route across the Pacific ocean. Sorenson also discusses voyage length and concludes that the voyage could have been completed in a little less than half a year.
Through radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis, scholars are able to date agricultural trends in Mesoamerica and the New World. While cotton, native only to the Old World, was originally thought to have been brought to the New World by European colonists, radiocarbon dating indicates that cotton was in use in the Old World for several thousand years before that. | own heavenly tutors? (3) What can we discover about learning and living by comparing and contrasting Nephi and his brothers through their wilderness wanderings in chapter 16? And finally, (4) what implications might these chapters and their principles hold for teachers and students of the gospel in our day?
To the many studies of what has been called the Exodus Pattern in the Book of Mormon, comparing the exodus of the children of Israel out of Egypt and the exodus made by the Lehites from Jerusalem, I add two additional parallels. The first deals with the death of Ishmael in the desert and the second with the transfiguration of Nephi (1 Ne. 17).
In 1 Nephi 17:42 we learn that Lehi's family was "led forth by [God's} matchless power into the land of promise." Throughout this lecture, Hugh Nibley discusses the many ways in which the Lord guided Nephi as he built a ship and led his family toward the promised land.
Hamblin discusses the symbolic use of Nephi's bow as a political symbol, and also discusses ancient weapon technology. If a bow was replaced, the arrows also had to be replaced to match the specifications of the bow.
On November of this year, Warren Aston sat down with Neal Rappleye for an interview about his life-long study of the Book of Mormon. Warren Aston was the archaeologist of Nahom, the purported place where Ishmael was buried.
Biographical entry on what is known of the Book of Mormon figure Ishmael.
Around 700 BC, a wealthy man in southern Arabia donated three limestone altars to a temple dedicated to Ilmaqah, the moon god. Inscribed on each altar was a text identifying him as the grandson of Naw'um of the Nihm tribe. The three altars were unearthed in 1988 by German archaeologists amid the ruins of the Bar'an temple near Marib, in modern Yemen. They provide the earliest known reference to the Nihm, who today, nearly three millennia later, retain the name and are one of Yemen's largest tribes.
Biblical "minimalists" have sought to undermine or de-emphasize the significance of the Tel Dan inscription attesting to the existence of the "house of David." Similarly, those who might be called Book of Mormon "minimalists" such as Dan Vogel have marshaled evidence to try to make the nhm inscriptions from south Arabia, corresponding to the Book of Mormon Nahom, seem as irrelevant as possible. Rappleye and Smoot show why the nhm inscriptions still stand as impressive evidence for the historicity of the Book of Mormon.
This study considers the Book of Mormon personal names Josh, Nahom, and Alma as test cases for the Book of Mormon as an historically authentic ancient document.
This piece discusses the etymology and ethnic origin of the NHM inscription discovered in southern Arabia in order to corroborate the historicity of the Book of Mormon.
This article dissects the Book of Mormon term Irreantum and delves into its linguistic characteristics to determine whether the term could have originated from Hebrew, Egyptian, ancient South Semitic, or another language.
In the past, experts have assumed that primitive sailors would have found it impossible to cross the oceans between the Old World and the New. However, John Sorenson here concludes that the evidence for transoceanic contacts now drowns out the arguments of those who have seen the New World as an isolated island until ad 1492.
Even in early Church history, individuals sought to discover where the Book of Mormon took place geographically. As one of the earliest attempts at Book of Mormon geography, Frederick G. Williams proposes Chile as a possible location for Lehi's disembarkation.
This article notes that because of all the striking similarities between the New and Old Worlds, these similarities must have developed either independently, or arouse out of transoceanic contact. Jett explores the possibility that | 826 |
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ATLANTA — If you thought state<|fim_middle|> be a bellwether for public tolerance," she said.
One possible rescue could come in the form of more stimulus money from Washington, but the prospects are uncertain. States last year were able to tap President Barack Obama"s economic stimulus package to soften the blow of budget cuts, mainly in education and health care, and some of that money is still left.
In New Jersey, incoming Gov. Chris Christie has promised not to raise taxes his first year in office despite a $9 billion shortfall. He"s looking at budget cuts of up to 25 percent in state agencies.
And in Idaho, Republicans are pushing to cut individual and corporate taxes by more than one-third over the next decade, saying it would breathe life into the state"s sputtering economy.
States" budget problems are the result of plunging real estate values and home sales; unemployment, which is taking a toll on personal income tax collections; and plunging sales tax collections.
Associated Press writers Brad Cain in Salem, Ore., Angela Delli Santi in Trenton, N.J., Curt Woodward in Olympia, Wash., and John Miller in Boise, Idaho contributed to this report. | budgets were in bad shape last year, just wait: 2010 promises to be brutal for lawmakers — many facing re-election — as they scramble to find enough money to keep their states running without raising taxes.
The crunch could also mean new tolls to fund road projects, more prisoners being released early to trim corrections budgets, and the end of welfare programs that don"t bring federal matching dollars.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities offers a bleak forecast: State budget shortfalls are likely to reach a whopping $180 billion for the coming fiscal year, double the size of Texas" annual budget.
Mary Ann Neureiter, who runs an adult day care center in suburban Atlanta, saw her state aid cut in half in 2009. The Cambridge House Enrichment Center once offered state-subsidized care to 10 low-income clients with disabilities such as Alzheimer"s. It"s now down to three, and Neureiter fears the funding could dry up altogether this year.
"It"s heartbreaking because I foresee, in the coming year, it"s going to get even worse for services for the elderly," she said.
That"s because state tax collections lagged behind even projections revised downward to be more pessimistic.
"It really could | 256 |
When we moved into the country, there was no cable television. We decided on Starchoice satellite TV at that time and generally things went well. There were weather? related outages many times per year, sometimes at the very worst of times (February 1, 2003 – The shuttle Columbia disaster).
Since then the subscription price has gone up, much faster than inflation. About 1 year ago it had reached over $120 and we said enough!
We then attempted to cut back on various packages and choices and in the end, the amount was even more than before. This was because of there pricing scheme..always trying to get you to go for just a little bit bigger package.
A year later, it was still over $1<|fim_middle|>! We are talking about you! Put your prices out in clear easy to find text! | 00/month and we were entering into the spring and summer seasons of being outdoors most of the time and not watching TV. So it got axed.
So far, three weeks later, no harm no foul, no bad afteraffects.
We did decide to try out Netflix.ca and at $8/mo it has turned out to be an excellent choice. The simple ability of it remembering where we left off when binge-watching a particular series is great. IN the past, we would have to rewatch bits and pieces of episodes to try and decide where we were.
and some things we are watching for the 1st time: Glee, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and more.
Future series to watch that we never have before include: Lost, Mad Men, Breaking Bad and again, a lot more.
The local cable tv company now does service our area, but try as you might, you cannot get prices from their website on TV packages. Very frustrating. Sometimes one does not want to expose oneself to a marketing person, no matter how much you may be interested.
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Merlins Hill Hillfort
A Scheduled Monument in Abergwili, Carmarthenshire (Sir Gaerfyrddin)
OS Grid: SN454215
Mapcode National: GBR DJ.SCFW
Mapcode Global: VH3LJ.C73P
Entry Name: Merlins Hill Hillfort
Cadw Legacy ID: CM231
Schedule Class: Defence
Category: Hillfort
County: Carmarthenshire (Sir Gaerfyrddin)
Community: Abergwili
Traditional County: Carmarthenshire
The monument comprises the remains of a hillfort, which probably dates to the Iron Age period (c. 800 BC - AD 74, the Roman conquest of Wales). Hillforts are usually Iocated on hilltops and surrounded by a single or multiple earthworks of massive proportions. Hillforts must have formed symbols of power within the landscape, while their function may have had as much to do with ostentation and display as defence. Merlins Hill hillfort is a triangular hilltop enclosure with an entrance on the south-west and another on the north-east. The interior is sloping. The main rampart and ditch is well preserved on the north side, but less impressive on the steeper south side where they form a break in the slope. There is also the faint line of an inner bank enclosing a smaller area, incorporating a scarp on the north, but forming a faintly traceable break in slope on the other sides. The entrance on the north-east is especially interesting and well preserved. The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of later prehistoric defensive organisation and settlement. The site forms an important<|fim_middle|>arthen Roman Town Defences (part of)
Defended Enclosure 300m west of Pant-glas
Ffynnon-Newydd Standing Stones
Llanegwad
Carmarthen Roman Town (part of)
Maes y Crug round barrow | element within the wider later prehistoric context and within the surrounding landscape. The site is well preserved and retains considerable archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of evidence relating to chronology, building techniques and functional detail. The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Round Barrow 200m SSW of Felin-Wen-Isaf
Abergwili
Roman Amphitheatre
St John's Priory
Carm | 104 |
Tucked away in The Highlands of Sandy Springs, 7615 Glisten Avenue is a three-story mini-palace with 5 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms and oodles of flexibility.
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Trying to buy just the right home Intown is a challenge. Downright frustrating in many cases. Those reports of over a "thousand people a month" moving Intown are true, and housing inventory is at an all-time low. Many buyers are left with the feeling they will have to snap up almost anything that pops up or be left behind. If you've had the discipline to wait for the ideal home to appear, your patience may be rewarded here.
The address is 7615 Glisten Avenue
The price is $549,900.
The main takeaway of 7615 Glisten Avenue NE, a mini-palace tucked away in The Highlands of Sandy Springs, is flexibility. With 5 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms, all anchored by oodles of hangout space spread across three floors, there's more than enough room for a (large) family to do its own unique thing, with square footage left over for pursuits both personal and professional.
Front-Facing Family Room
Before diving into the tour, a little about the location. Located four miles north of the Perimeter, the Highlands neighborhood opens right onto Roswell Road, while less than a half mile away is the onramp to the 400 Parkway. No matter which way you slice it, access to the heart of Atlanta is a breeze, and you get to hang your hat well away from the hustle and bustle of the big city.
Fireplace-Equipped Living Room
But, back to the home itself. It starts on the main floor, through the brick-lined entryway that leads into the foyer — a sort of hub that opens into a quaint, front-facing family room, the main floor's half bath, and access to the two-car garage, as well as the basement level (more on that in a moment). But walk straight ahead for the centerpiece of 7615: an oversized, wide-open central space where (we have a feeling) the majority of household time is going to be spent: a fireplace-equipped living room flows effortlessly into an expansive hyper-modern chef's kitchen that boasts dark wood custom cabinetry, stainless appliances, stone countertops, and a centerpiece island that serves as<|fim_middle|> morning routines (evening hours will definitely see some time taking advantage of the deep garden tub). Down the hall, another pair of bedrooms each contain their fair share of closet space, while a single bathing space separates a pair of sinks, each in their own room: a dream come true for teenage siblings.
Over-Sized Master Suite
A family home in the truest sense of the word, 7615 Glisten Avenue balances modernity and taste with more than enough modularity to adapt to evolving lifestyles. $549,900
The seller is represented by Joshua Keen & The Keen Team.
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Questions / Comments: | a natural gathering spot for nights spent entertaining. The west-facing dining area enjoys some serious natural light; for times of year when the weather is agreeable, the back door opens onto a sprawling, red-toned back porch that overlooks a privacy fenced, impeccably manicured back lawn.
Ultimate Netflix Binging Den
Downstairs, a modular finished basement space is almost a home in-and-of itself. A secondary living room could serve any variety of purposes. Our gut says home theater for the ultimate Netflix binging den, but feel free to use your imagination when it comes to defining your notion of "rec-room." On this level as well, a pair of bedrooms share a full bath, with enough space left over for an unfinished nook that's separate enough from the rest of the home to serve as a catchall for random utility storage. Leading onto the lawn, a back patio rests underneath the porch for a hangout spot (plus a tiki bar?) with a little extra shade.
Hyper-Modern Chef's Kitchen
On the top floor, the east-facing primary bedroom dominates with square footage to spare and a tasteful recessed ceiling. Adjoining, a tile-lined master bath gives a wide berth for | 245 |
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Travel Photography Tip: Comparing 35mm vs 50mm Lenses
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If you're just getting started with travel photography and have been browsing around for some tips on the best lenses to use, this 35mm vs 50mm comparison should help.
Are you an aspiring travel photographer who can't decide between 35mm and 50mm lenses as the better choice for the job? In case you're still looking for tips and resources, Australian fashion and portrait photographer Julia Trotti comes to the rescue with a quick comparison video for both focal lengths during her recent trip to Gdansk in Poland. Since Trotti specializes in portraits, it's only proper for her to begin the comparison with a bunch of portrait shots. She works mostly with prime lenses given her genre of choice, hence the focus on 35mm and 50mm prime lenses for this comparison. She also shot with the Full Frame Canon 5D Mk IV, so keep in mind that you'll get different results if you shoot with a camera with crop frame sensor. Since this is about travel photography, she made sure to give examples for portraits we'd typically shoot during a trip: mostly half body or full body shots with careful attention to include the landmarks behind or around the subject. Apart from portraits in both half body, full body, and close up, Trotti also provided some examples for other popular subjects in travel photography: food and landscapes.
From these examples, we can see a noticeable difference between the two focal lengths. As Trotti pointed out, the 35mm gives a more realistic or editorial look to the photos because it captures more of the scene. Meanwhile, the 50mm compresses the scene and creates some sort of "romantic" feel to it. Another way to put this is that the 35mm gives you the big picture, while the 50mm allows you to zoom in on the main subject of your scene. It's also great that she showed us what it's like when shooting with these lenses in tight spaces or when you don't have a lot<|fim_middle|>'s comparison results, we can conclude that 35mm is the more versatile of the two focal lengths. Still, it ultimately depends on the look and feel you're going for, and even the scope of the scenes you're capturing. So, it wouldn't be so bad to use both in your travels! Check out Julia Trotti's YouTube channel if you want more of her photography tips and tricks.
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As of 8th March 2021, Our Return to Office template has been updated to The Remote & Office Management Solution template. If you are new to the template please see here instead. If you are looking for support for your app built before 8th March 2021 continue reading the below.
Use the Return to the Office template to manage the new rules related to Covid-19 and streamline all your management processes by utilising technology to enforce, communicate and notify staff.<|fim_middle|>
The status options can be configured to display the status' you require.
This screen uses the form component, for more information see here.
This screen provides users with the ability to check-in and check out of a space using QR codes on mobile devices.
On web, the manual check-in and check-out options are used.
QR codes are printable within the app by the office manager.
Provides a survey for colleagues to complete to determine their health before allowing entry to the office.
Will either lead the user to an approve or deny access screen upon completion of the survey, depending on the user's answer.
Staff members should complete this before attending the office.
This survey can be configured to include any questions required but would require updates to the code.
This screen will allow the user to book a space within an office for a given day or a block booking over a given number of days.
By default, bookings are automatically approved until capacity is reached, in which case the booking will be waitlisted to be approved by the office manager.
This can be configured to have all bookings needing office manager approval before confirming the booking.
Users can view their current and future office bookings using this screen. The booking will indicate whether it has been approved or waitlisted.
Users can also cancel existing bookings from this screen.
You can configure this screen to display the required booking information.
This screen uses the list from data source component, for more information see here.
This screen can be used to check the Covid guidance when working in the office.
The screen can be configured to display your specific guidance for either the firm or the office.
This screen uses the list and text component, click for more information.
This screen can be configured to show news. You can use this to show firm news, covid news, sync to a database or use an RSS feed.
The default option uses the list from data source component. See more here.
For RSS feed see here.
A user can use this screen to update their profile information and configure their app notification settings.
Fields can be added or removed to meet requirements.
This screen uses the form component, for more information see here
This screen will display your staff directory and images as well as displaying the status information of each staff member.
This screen can be configured to include any information required and uses the list from data source component. See more here.
This screen provides information on your offices and the space availability on a specific date.
This screen can be configured to include all relevant office information and office managers will have the ability to amend and update this information.
This screen uses the list from data source component. See more here
This screen provides a public question and answer forum for colleagues.
This screen can be configured to allow commenting and liking, questions can also be pre-populated, or from a set list.
This screen uses both the list from data source and form components.
This screen allows users to report an issue when using the office space. The relevant office manager will then be alerted.
This form can be configured to include whichever fields are necessary.
This screen displays all the notifications that have been sent to the user.
Notifications are sent automatically when there is new news, bookings are modified, the user is mentioned in comments, or an admin sends an in-app notification via Fliplet Studio.
This screen uses the notifications component, see here for more information
Office Manager Screens
Office managers can use this screen to add a new news article, make edits to an existing article or delete an article.
This screen will allow the office manager to access the button to edit office spaces.
This screen allows office managers to create and edit office spaces. This is where the capacity is set per space.
QR codes can also be accessed and printed from here
This screen will allow the office managers to generate and QR codes that can be used for colleagues to check into spaces.
This screen will display the current bookings and allow office managers to review and edit any bookings.
They can also use this screen to create a new staff or guest booking.
OM – Office Risk Assessment
This screen can be used by the office manager to perform a risk assessment of the office.
This checklist can be configured to reflect your preferred assessment tasks.
You can also configure who is alerted via email with the report for review.
Admin Screens
This screen can be accessed by admin and office managers to make any amendment staff profiles.
This screen is for use of office admins and managers.
The office capacity and availability will be displayed here as well as display the status of everyone who is booked in and checked in.
Can be configured to display specific client information
This screen will display a list of the completed health survey submissions and can be accessed by office managers and admins to see who has completed the survey and what their status is.
This screen uses the list from data source component and can be configured to display the information submitted from the survey. | Employees can use the app to book a desk space and ensure they're complying with social distancing measures.
The Return to Office app can be configured to allow you to create a bespoke app that reflects your specific business needs. The purpose of this article is to provide you with a view of the screens that form the application and provide you with an understanding of the configuration opportunities that exist within the app.
Roles and Features
Screens for all users
Login or SSO Login
Screens for staff
Update my Status
Check-in/out using QR Codes
Screens for office managers
OM – News
OM – Edit Offices
OM – Generate QR Code
OM – Manage Bookings
OM – Risk Assessment
Screens for admins
Admin – Manage Staff Directory
Admin – Dashboard
Admin – Health Survey Submissions
This screen introduces the user to the app and the various functions that it provides.
This screen can be configured to display on the first use of the app only.
You can configure the number of slides to display and the text and imagery can be changed to create your desired look.
This screen uses the onboarding component, for more information see here.
This screen will display the terms of use text and will be displayed on the first use of the app only.
The text displayed can be amended to reflect what is required.
This screen uses the text component, click for more information.
This screen provides security for the app allowing access to only registered users.
This screen can be configured to reflect your security preferences. Login can be via SSO, email and password, or email only.
By logging in this will also define the user role and ensure the correct permissions are shown per user.
Click to learn more about the login and SSO components.
This screen provides the ability for users to register for access to the app and can allow guests and third parties to join and use the app.
This screen can be configured to include any requirements needed.
This screen uses the form component, see more here.
Alternate views are displayed depending on user type.
Users will see a list of all the key features once they are logged into the app. Depending on the user role one of 3 menus will be displayed.
This menu can be configured to display links to the features you chose to make available for the user.
This feature uses the list component, see here for more information
Screens for Staff –
Users can update their status to ensure colleagues are aware of whether they are working and where. The status will appear in the Staff Directory.
Status options include: Working from home, In the office, Not working, or On holiday | 521 |
Going for growth in garment printing
Garment printing is widely regarded as not only one of the most profitable areas of the industry, but also one of the widest-reaching. Rob Fletcher finds out more.
The term 'garment printing' covers a whole host of applications, and while this may be good news in terms of the amount of work on offer, it also means that the choice of kit and materials becomes more difficult. Technology for producing one type of garment print not be as effective for another area.
This is where events such as FESPA 2017 can help; by featuring a host of leading manufacturers from the garment print sector, visitors will be able to learn more about the latest kit on offer, and the type of work it is capable of producing. The event will run from May 8-12 in Hamburg, Germany.
One of the companies exhibiting at the show this year is MHM Screen Printing, which offers a range of garment printing machines. A spokesperson for the firm revealed to FESPA that, with its partners Arioli Digital and Tesoma, it will present a number of solutions on Stand A22 in Hall A4.
Products on show will include the MHM iQ Digital, a hybrid digital/screen press that was launched late last year.
Boasting a top speed of 1,080 pieces per hour, the machine has a maximum print area of 63 x 120cm and can produce a range of work, including direct-to-garment applications. Pre-orders for the iQ Digital began in January and FESPA 2017 will allow visitors to gain further insight into the device.
Elsewhere, on Stand A7 in Hall B6, Aeoon Technologies will be talking visitors through its own garment printing solutions. The company offers a number of digital direct-to-garment machines, including the new Aeoon Compact Series, which can print up to 950 t-shirts per hour in A4 size, depending on the image and resolution required.
Also in Hall B6, Polyprint will be on Stand C80 to educate attendees about its TexJet<|fim_middle|> a visit to FESPA 2017 can benefit your business and register today. | series of direct-to-garment print machines. One of the latest additions to this range is the TexJet echo, which can print designs up to 42cm x 60cm, thus covering all sizes of t-shirts.
Also in the TexJet portfolio is the TexJet PLUS Long, another direct-to-garment machine that is able to print on bigger surfaces for larger applications such as dresses and sheets. The maximum printing area available on the TexJet PLUS Long is 41cm x 95cm, and for higher production, users can opt for a double platen, sized at 36cm x 40cm each.
In addition, the co-located Printeriors will showcase opportunities in the interiors market, where garment print has an important role to play. To find out more about these features, see part two of this special series.
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Available from Polyprint, the new TexJet echo can print designs up to 42cm x 60cm
Taking place from May 8-12 at the Hamburg Messe, in Hamburg, Germany, the exhibition will play host to many major brands from across the global market.
For more information on FESPA 2017, the companies that will exhibit and to sign up to attend as a visitor, please visit: www.fespa2017.com
Delegates can save 70€ entry fee to the exhibition by registering via the website and quoting reference code: FESG702. Discover how | 324 |
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By 2025, the global KVM market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 2.7% during the forecast period, reaching USD 1,155.8 million. Market Research Future (MRFR) includes market segments and driving factors in its report to better understand the market in the coming years. In addition, keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) have multiple advantages, including cost-effectiveness, energy efficiency, and space saving. These advantages have been increasingly used in media and entertainment, healthcare, and government departments. KVM is a switch that helps control, monitor, and access a large number of computers. Technology has been in the market for decades, but with the advancement of technology, the system has developed greatly.
competition analysis
The major players in the global KVM market are Black Box Corporation (USA), Guntermann & Drunck GmbH (Germany), Aten International Co., Ltd (Taiwan), Adder Technology Ltd (UK), SmartAVI, Inc. (USA), IHSE GmbH (Germany) ), Raritan (USA), Vertiv Group Corp. (USA), Icron (Canada), Gefen (USA), Austin Hughes Electronics Ltd (Hong Kong), ABB (Switzerland), APANTAC LLC (USA), Evertz Technologies Limited (Canada) , KVM Tech (Austria), Raloy Inc (USA), Network Technologies Inc. (USA), Matrox (Canada), RGB Spectrum (US) and Thinkologic (US), etc.
In August 2019, IHSE GMBH recently launched an IP module for location-independent access to the KVM matrix. This provides remote users with seamless and secure access to closed and self-contained Draco KVM installations.
In June 2019, ATEN International, a leading AV/IT connection and management solution provider, announced the launch of the latest product of its KE series of KVM over IP extenders-KE9950/KE9952, which supports DisplayPort video resolutions up to 4K and KE6910/ KE6912, it is tailored for air traffic control (ATC) applications. With the release of these two new models, ATEN's IP matrix system KVM product series now not only supports the most popular video interfaces (DisplayPort, HDMI and DVI), it can meet the needs of most control room environments and provide advanced features to meet 24-7 Specific requirements of ATC environment.
In January 2019, Adder Technology, a global expert in connectivity and IP KVM, announced the launch of the ADDERLink INFINITY 4000 series (ALIF4000), which released the world's first dual-head, high-performance 4K IP KVM matrix on a single fiber. ALIF4000 can provide pixel-perfect image quality, audio and USB for single or dual 4K screens through a single fiber link.
The global KVM market has been segmented according to type, product, control, operating system support, vertical and region.
Based on products, the global market has been subdivided into KVM switches, KVM extenders, KVM matrix managers, etc. The KVM switch market segment accounted for the largest market share in 2018; the compound annual growth rate is expected to be 1.8% during the forecast period. The KVM extender market was the second largest market in 2018, valued at $170.8 million. A KVM switch is a hardware device that allows operators to access, monitor and control a computer or the entire data center through one or more keyboards, video displays, and mice. These switches have been used for decades to access multiple computers, saving a lot of cost and space. The KVM extender is a hardware device that increases the distance between the keyboard, monitor, mouse (KVM system) and the computer. KVM Matrix Manager is a software that can provide IT administrators with a process for centralized control and management of KVM extenders in an IT environment.
Through control, the market has been subdivided into USB, Ethernet, RS-232, infrared, RS-485, etc. The USB segment accounted for the largest market share in 2018. The higher realization of USB (Universal Serial Bus)-USB keyboard, mouse and I/O devices make it the most commonly used connection device for KVM switches. The KVM product over IP allows in-band and out-of-band network access to all servers connected to the KVM switch. RS-232 (recommended standard 232) is a standard for data serial communication transmission introduced in 1960. Infrared remote control is one of the methods to configure or monitor various video and KVM products. The wireless infrared remote extender extends the remote control of the device to a distance of hundreds of feet. RS-485 is a standard that defines the electrical characteristics of drivers and receivers used in serial communication systems.
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, IHSE GMBH recently launched an IP module for location-independent access to the KVM matrix. This provides remote users with seamless and secure access to closed and self-contained Draco KVM installations.
Adder Technology, the world's leading connectivity and IP KVM expert, announced the launch of the ADDERLink INFINITY 4000 series (ALIF4000), which released the world's first dual-head, high-performance 4K IP KVM matrix on a single fiber. ALIF4000 can provide pixel-perfect image quality, audio and USB for single or dual 4K screens through a single fiber link.
According to type, product, control, operating system support, vertical and area are subdivided.
KVM extender over IP range wins NAB award1392
The FLEXline series of Austrian manufacturer kvm-tec has a wide range of uses, with an ultra-small enclosure and unlimited number of endpoints that can be used.
Austrian manufacturer kvm-tec won the "Product of the Year" award at the NAB Broadcasting Technology Exhibition with its Flexline series of IP expansion KVM extenders.
Composed of four main products-SMARTflex, MASTERflex, MAXflex and USBflex-There are many different versions of the full HD KVM extender in the IP range: copper and fiber, redundancy, PoE, embedded sound, mouse glide, and software "Switch" function, suitable for the maximum distance of copper wire 150m / 492ft and the maximum distance of optical fiber 160km / 99m, the resolution is 1920 x 1200 @ 60 Hz. This makes the product series flexible and easy to implement in different applications. The Industryflex variant can even be used in areas with an ambient temperature of up to 55C / 131F.
Most importantly, FLEXline has an ultra-compact housing-up to 4 single channels or 4 dual channels (up to 8 video streams) can be contained in a 1RU, and it can work with a delay time of 1.38ms-thanks to the house.
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'Big Bang Theory' star Kaley Cuoco engaged
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<p>LOS ANGELES, CA -<|fim_middle|> night has been perfection."
Cuoco and Cook have been dating for nearly two years.
This will be Cuoco's second marriage.
She was previously married to tennis player Ryan Sweeting for three years.
Cuoco has starred on CBS's hit comedy "The Big Bang Theory" for 11 seasons. | JANUARY 29: Actor Kaley Cuoco attends The 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. 26592_012 (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for TNT)</p>
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"Big Bang Theory" star Kaley Cuoco had a big reaction her engagement, and it was all caught on video by her new husband-to-be.
Equestrian Karl Cook proposed to Cuoco, 32, on Thursday and promptly posted footage of the actress's tearful acceptance on Instagram.
"This is the best night of my life," Cook wrote on in a caption accompanying the video.
Cuoco later reposted the video on her own account saying, "every part of this | 187 |
Association of American Literary Agents / Mary C. Moore
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Mary was an early reader. She surprised her mother by learning to read at age four. Her love of reading continued through her first career path as a biologist, spurring her to write fiction during her off time. She earned a Bachelor of Science: Evolution<|fim_middle|>
Children's: Fantasy | , Ecology, and Conservation from the University of California San Diego, became a veterinarian's assistant, then a field biologist in Ghana, Costa Rica, and Hawaii, and then a zookeeper at the San Francisco Zoo, while she wrote her first novel. Inevitably her passion for reading and writing drew her to publishing and she made a career change in her early thirties. She graduated from Mills College, Oakland with a MFA in Creative Writing and English, dabbled in freelance editing and copy-writing, and started an internship at Kimberley Cameron & Associates. She quickly fell in love with agenting, and dedicated two years as Kimberley's assistant, before beginning her own client list in 2015. In 2019 she officially began agenting full time, and became a member of the AALA in 2020.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA July 19, 2016 – Marin Software Incorporated (NYSE: MRIN), a leading provider of cross-channel, cross-device, enterprise marketing software for advertisers and agencies, released research findings today forecasting paid search and mobile performance for Q4 2016. The research results, actionable analysis, and key takeaways for the upcoming 2016 shopping season are published in The State of Shopping Ads: 2016 Cross-Channel Marketing Report.
To create its report, Marin looked at month-over-month variations, and factored in seasonal shifts in performance, to forecast where<|fim_middle|>00,000 per month on Google and Bing text ads and Product Listing Ads (now called Shopping Ads). As such, the data and findings skew toward the performance of larger retailers, and may not reflect performance trends for small retailers. However, the size and diversity of the dataset enables a comprehensive analysis of shopping ad performance. | digital retail advertising will be by December 2016. In addition, Marin sampled the Marin Global Online Advertising Index, to analyze a representative set of enterprise retailers spending over $1 | 37 |
Ва́куумне лиття́ () — заповнення ливарної форми рідким металом у вакуумі.
Основні принципи вакуумного лиття
Принцип лиття з використанням вакуумного засмоктування полягає у тому, що розплав заповнює ливарну форму під дією розрідження, створюваного у її порожнині, після чого при затвердінні металу утворюється виливок. Швидкість заповнення форми розплавом можна регулювати, змінюючи різницю між атмосферним тиском і тиском у порожнині форми.
Вакуумне лиття здійснюється вакуумним засмоктуванням металу у форму, розміщену над розплавленим металом, або вакуумним засмоктуванням з використанням металостатичного тиску у форму, що міститься під розплавленим металом. Крім того, застосовують вакуумно-відцентрове заливання, лиття у вакуумі під тиском (у машині для лиття під тиском з вакуумуванням прес-форм), заливання форм вільно спадним струменем у вакуумній камері тощо. Вакуум залежно від методу може бути у межах 40…0,3 Н/м² (0,3—2×10<|fim_middle|> — К.: Вища школа, 2002. — 374 с. ISBN 966-642-033-3
Литейное производство / Под ред. А. М. Михайлова. — М.: Машиностроение, 1987. — 256 с.
Ливарство
Вакуум | -3 мм рт. ст.).
У процесі вакуумного лиття заповнення форми металом супроводжується видаленням з неї газів, що сприяє одержанню щільних, високоякісних тонкостінних (товщина стінки до 1 мм і менше) виливків. Щоб виготовити тонкостінні виливки, з матеріалів, що швидко тверднуть, вдаються до попередньої дегазації у ковші, вакуумній камері тощо.
Використання
Вакуумне лиття застосовують у виробництві продукції з титану, цирконію, урану, берилію та інших металів і сплавів. Вакуумне лиття в поєднанні з вакуумною плавкою поширене при виготовленні відливок із спеціальних сплавів і сталей. Найчастіше метод використовують для лиття заготовок втулок, вкладишів, підшипників ковзання з дефіцитних та дорогих мідних сплавів, у ювелірній справі.
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Лиття металів під тиском
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Технологія конструкційних матеріалів: Підручник / М. А. Сологуб, І. О. Рожнецький, О. І. Некоз та ін.; За ред. М. А. Сологуба. — 2-ге вид., перероб. і допов. | 507 |
The Stanley Hotel, near the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.Photo: Scott Dressel-Martin
The 11 Most Beautiful National-Park Hotels in the U.S.
These design-forward accommodations can be part of a foray to the woods, desert, seaside, or mountains
By Becca Hensley
Sometimes humans crave the reset button that only nature provides. Long before technology ruled our every minute, John Muir, one of the world's peerless naturalists, took note of the restorative powers of the wild. "Thousands of tired, nerve shaken, over civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home, that wilderness is a necessity," he wrote. Though he died in 1914, before the establishment of the National Park Service two years later, he advocated for the first organized movement to celebrate the outdoors, and paved the path that led to the stellar collection of national parks in the United States that welcome visitors today. While many outdoorsy folk choose camping in tents or stays in rustic cabins, the parks historically have offered its pilgrims more opulent alternatives, both within established boundaries and in their verges. Whether it's Death Valley's newly restored four diamond–rated Inn at Death Valley (once the honeymoon haven of Clark Gable and Carole Lombard), La Quinta Resort and Spa (where Frank Capra wrote It's a Wonderful Life), or the Great Smoky Mountains' farm-to-fork, design-centric Blackberry Farm, to quote Muir, "Nature's peace will flow into you."
The Lodge at the Presidio
The Presidio National Park, San Francisco
Photo: Ben Davidson
To most people, a national park conjures visions of far-flung places. But a visit to the historic Presidio in San Francisco, wedged between the bay and the Fog City's famous hilly landscape, will quickly challenge that presumption. Once home to a Spanish fortress, then a 19th-century military outpost, the 1,500-acre territory, which holds 24 miles of hiking trails, includes the show-stopping Golden Gate Bridge. Packed with restaurants, museums, residences, biking trails, outdoor art, beaches, scenic overlooks, and yoga studios, the urban retreat offers the PresidioGo shuttle, a bus to help visitors get around. Relax between activities at the newly opened Lodge at The Presidio (sister to acclaimed Inn at the Presidio), the closet lodging to the Golden Gate Bridge. A fine example of adaptive reuse, the 42-room hotel, once a 19th-century military barracks, shows how the preserved and the contemporary can combine. Structurally conceived by Architectural Resources (ARG), built by Plant Construction, and designed with chic references to its past by LC Interiors, the hotel wows with Golden Gate Bridge, bay, city, and forest views. Room to book: Choose Room 218 for the best window to gaze at the bridge. presidiolodging.com
The Oasis at Death Valley
Photo: Courtesy of The Oasis at Death Valley
Who knew the lowest, driest, hottest place on earth could lure luxury travelers for R&R? Philip Anschutz, the consummate eco-conscious hotelier, did. He's just reopened his refurbished version of a nearly century-old Mission Revival classic amid a dramatic desert landscape in historic Death Valley—a place of sand dunes, date palms, ghost towns, pink skies and otherworldly rock formations. Adorned with Anschutz's own prized collection of Western art, the Oasis enclave comprises two hotels: the Inn at Death Valley, redone to evoke its 1920s heyday, and the<|fim_middle|> the Kardashians), Amangiri keeps things earthy with minimalist decor, huge windows to frame the views, and activities meant to entice guests outdoors. About two hours from both Bryce Canyon (known for its rocky outcroppings) and Zion (well regarded for its red cliffs), Amangiri is the closest luxury stay to either park. Room to book: Go for the Amangiri Suite, kitted out with a sky (rooftop) terrace for sleeping and personal lap pool. aman.com
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By Mayer Rus | more family-friendly Ranch at Death Valley. Anchored by the world's lowest-altitude golf course (a par-70 at 214 feet below sea level), The Oasis has a spa, two spring-fed pools, four dining venues, and horses for desert rides. Home to the Borax Museum, full of history and unforgettable vistas, Death Valley takes Western Vibe to new heights. Room to book: One of the stand-alone, 600-square-foot Inn Casitas, opened late last year. oasisatdeathvalley.com
El Tovar
The Grand Canyon, Arizona
Photo: Courtesy of Grand Canyon Lodges
One of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, the Grand Canyon, a billion-year-old spectacle, brings many first-time viewers to tears. Colorful, stunning, haunting, it can be descended by foot or atop a mule, but most visitors will just stand on the rim of the 10-mile canyon, jaws dropped in awe of the vista. Book a room at El Tovar, listed on the National Register, to sleep just 20 feet from the canyon's plummeting South Rim. Experienced by luminaries such as Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, and Oprah Winfrey, this Swiss chalet–meets–Mission Revival villa opened in 1905 as the most elegant hotel west of the Mississippi. Its architect, Charles Whittlesey, was hired by the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad to fulfill their vision to build destination hotels in areas made newly accessible by train. Whittlesey ensured sense of place by incorporating Native American motifs, hand-built Arts and Crafts furniture, and local elements such as limestone and pine. Room to book: Choose the Charles Whittlesey Suite, which boasts walls with original drawings by the architect. grandcanyonlodges.com
La Quinta Resort & Club, A Waldorf Astoria Resort
Joshua Tree National Park, California
Photo: Courtesy of Waldorf Astoria Hotels
Joshua Tree National Park, abundantly populated with its candelabra-shaped namesake trees, colossal boulders, cacti galore, and countless species of wildlife feels like nature's own art gallery. Home to two ecosystems (Colorado and Mojave), the park has countless otherworldly, untrammeled nooks to be hiked, biked and camped. But for travelers who'd rather forgo sleeping in the wild, La Quinta Resort & Club provides a luxurious home base less than an hour from the park. A favorite of bygone silver screen idols for its proximity to Hollywood, the 45-acre, Eden-like property attracted the likes of Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, and Frank Capra. Today's guests enjoy the property, a manicured swath of both historic and newly built Spanish Colonial bungalows, just as much. With 41 swimming pools, 23 tennis courts, seven restaurants, and a state-of-the-art fitness center, La Quinta provides plenty of post–Joshua Tree diversion. Room to book: The romantic Hacienda Grande Suite has two fireplaces, a private pool, and a hot tub with mountain views. laquintaresort.com
Blackberry Farm
Through an invisible borderline made of trees so tall they seem to reach the sky, you can walk into Great Smoky Mountains National Park from Blackberry Farm, a Relais & Chateaux resort. Down a dirt road edged by a white picket fence in Walland, Tennessee, this 4,200-acre, family-owned homage to the landscape could well be the true definition of farm-to-fork living. With graceful rough-hewn touches that marry Italian linens with hand-carved beds, the getaway wins worldwide accolades for its restaurant, The Barn, a garden-supplied culinary phenomenon. But it also gets points for the way it connects guests to the land. Meaningful activities, such as yoga classes held deep in the woods, gardening seminars, cooking classes, and truffle hunting with the retreat's irresistible Lagotto Romagnolo dogs, ensure that guests delve deeply into the region to trigger personal harmony. Room to book: Choose a Carriage House Suite—each one has a sweeping view of the park. These newer rooms reflect the resort's signature sophisticated, casual style. blackberryfarm.com
Acadia National Park, Maine
Photo: Courtesy of West Street Hotel
Bar Harbor's West Street Hotel has Maine's only rooftop pool. From it, you can preview Acadia National Park, Frenchman's Bay, and the outer islands, a coastal panorama of postcard perfection. A snazzy property with contemporary nautical motifs, West Street reflects Atlantic chic with Tommy Bahama mahogany furnishings, leather upholstery, white-painted wood elements, and windows positioned to draw in the region's ethereal light. Private balconies frame ocean and harbor views. Tarry here to partake of Bar Harbor's array of mom-and-pop shops, restaurants, galleries, and marine activities such as whale watching. In Acadia National Park, the U.S.'s second-most-visited park, just a short drive from the hotel, historic carriage roads and flowered meadows incorporate more than 120 miles of wildlife-abundant trails (take note, bird watchers). Gear up for hiking, biking, horseback riding, and canoeing. Those who'd rather ride can enjoy the hotel's trolley service, which ferries travelers to the park. Room to book: Bring the kids and take over the Two Bedroom Suite, which overlooks the Gulf of Maine. theweststreethotel.com
Rusty Parrot Lodge & Spa
Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, Wyoming
Photo: David J. Swift
Not lions or tigers—but bears, plenty of bears. That's what you'll see (along with elk, lynx, moose, bison, and bucket-list natural features such as Old Faithful, possibly the world's most predictably erupting geyser) when you set off on a wildlife tour of neighboring Grand Teton and Yellowstone Parks. Connected by the John D. Rockefeller Memorial Parkway, Grand Teton (best known for its peaks and wilderness) and Yellowstone (the world's first national park) provide outdoor enthusiasts with year-round options. While camping space and rustic lodging opportunities abound within park boundaries, travelers seeking more sumptuous digs will want to settle into Jackson, Wyoming's hippest town, located a short drive from both destinations. Choose the Rusty Parrot, a Small Luxury Hotel of the World, which welcomes guests to its cozy, Western-style digs. With just 31 rooms spread across three floors, the hotel features deep soaking tubs, hand-carved wooden furniture, a spa, and fireplaces in most rooms. Room to book: The Owner's Suite encompasses two guest rooms, making it ideal for families. slh.com
Lajitas Golf Resort and Spa
Big Bend National Park, Texas
Photo: Dennis Murphy-D Squared Productions, Inc.
"The stars at night are big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas." Every Texan child can croon this tune, but you'll be singing it too, the moment you arrive at rugged Big Bend in southwestern Texas. Encompassing a huge portion of the Chihuahuan Desert and the Chisos Mountains, this landscape of steep cliffs, orchid-colored buttes, salmon-hued mesas, and the rushing waters of the Rio Grande exudes raw soulfulness. At its perimeter, Lajitas, a town so small it has a goat who serves as mayor, stands out as an old-time trading post and port of entry from Mexico. At the threshold of Big Bend National Park, Lajitas Golf Resort and Spa offers rough-hewn luxury amid the hinterlands. With sections bearing names such as Officer's Quarters, Cavalry Post, and Badlands Hotel, the resort, adorned with Western art and handmade furniture, plays to its historical setting. Activities on site include clay pigeon shooting, horseback riding, and golf. Room to book: Bring some friends and rent the 2,485-square-foot Lajitas Villa, known for its sunset vistas. lajitasgolfresort.com
Photo: Scott Dressel-Martin
"Wendy, I'm home," taunted lunatic character Jack Torrance in The Shining, a film set at Colorado's historic Stanley Hotel. Though Jack's nefarious fictional motives aren't the norm at the retreat, most guests walking the white Georgian Colonial Revival mansion's storied halls will, nevertheless, find themselves humorously quoting a line or two from the popular movie. Renovated, the hotel offers tony guest rooms, which run the gamut from contemporary apartment-style quarters to period-preserved classic suites. Its restaurants and Whiskey Bar (which serves 1,500 varieties) draw locals and tourists alike. Base here to experience the nearby park, a high-altitude haven of hiking and driving trails, abundant with Big Horn Sheep, bear, eagles, and elk. Spectacular views of 14,259-foot Longs Peak can be viewed from most of the Stanley's front-facing hotel windows for those who'd rather a visual summit. Room to book: Choose Room 217, which inspired Stephen King to write his best-selling novel, The Shining. stanleyhotel.com
Triple Creek Ranch
Glacier National Park, Montana
Photo: Courtesy of Triple Creek Ranch
Established in 1910, Glacier National Park, which runs along the Canadian border, garnered the nickname "America's Switzerland." A breathtaking combination of snow-capped peaks, emerald valleys, and woods, the park lures fitness buffs and nature lovers with 700 miles of hiking trails (many also come to spy a grizzly). Because of the Swiss comparison, the lodges built for tourists in the park in the early days were chalet-style—many, such as historic Many Glacier Lodge, remain open for business today. But for a less rustic stay, consider following the lead of luxury travelers who hole up at upscale dude ranches on the outskirts of the park. (Note: "Outskirts" in Montana translates to hours away.) Try adults-only Triple Creek Ranch, a Relais & Chateaux hideaway located in Darby, Montana. Bedecked with the owner's collection of Western art, home to fine cuisine and an exquisite wine library, the all-inclusive ranch has classic cabins complete with the best amenities. Horseback riding, fly fishing, and panning for sapphires keep guests busy between visits to Glacier and other off-property outings. Room to book: Each unique cabin has its virtues. Choose between one- and two-bedroom units depending on your crew. triplecreekranch.com
Bryce and Zion National Parks, Utah
Photo: Courtesy of Aman
You can get lost in the boundless infinity of southern Utah, a place where the earth continues to yield ancient dinosaur bones, fossils, and artifacts, where there's nothing but open space between you and the horizon, where the stars absolutely glitter like the heavens' sparkly chandeliers at night. That's why it's best to make your temporary home at Amangiri, an oasis close to Lake Powell and the Arizona state line. A miraculous dreamscape of spires and mystical promontories and pinnacles, this unusual terrain, located just four hours from Las Vegas, specifically inspired the resort's architecture and design. Observed from afar, the cube-like resort blends into the landscape—like a mirage. A favorite of a new breed of celebrity (guests have included Mark Zuckerberg and | 2,404 |
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