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Wondering where the party spots will be during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games? Below is a preliminary run-down of where the fun zones will be in Vancouver during February and March 2010.
Robson Square – GE Ice Plaza (Robson Street, between Hornby and Howe streets)
Robson Square's outdoor ice rink is being reopened for the 2010 Winter Games thanks to sponsorship from the Province of British Columbia and General Electric. The GE Ice Plaza (opening in November) is expected to be one of the major gathering points during the Games and will feature athlete demonstrations, family events and BC-focused programming. In addition, Robson Square will be the location of CTV Canada AM's daily broadcast and home of the BC International Media Centre (for journalists not accredited by the IOC). The nearby plaza on the north side of the Vancouver Art Gallery, complete with the Omega Countdown Clock, is also expected to be popular real estate for Olympic celebrations.
David Lam Park (access from Pacific Boulevard in Yaletown)
The False Creek North waterfront live site will feature giant screens to watch Games action and a nightly laser light and water show. The new Yaletown-Roundhouse Canada Line station, opening in November, will allow partygoers to be whisked in and out by SkyTrain. Trendy Mainland and Hamilton streets will become pedestrian thoroughfares to link the Larwill Park live site.
Larwill Park (Georgia Street, between Beatty and Cambie streets)
Larwill Park (across the street from the Queen Elizabeth Theatre) is the City of Vancouver's other live site. It was the city's original field sports venue in 1886 and in 2010 will feature giant screens, live performances, sponsor activations and broadcasters.
Vancouver Public Library – Central Library Atrium (350 West Georgia)
The Coliseum-shaped, Moshe Safdie-designed, central library will be the City of Vancouver's Host City pavilion, showcasing the city as a tourism, cultural and business destination.
Four Host First Nations Pavilion (Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza)
The Squamish, Lil'wat, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam First Nations bands will welcome all their relations from coast-to-coast-to-coast and visitors from around the world to share arts, crafts, food, stories and culture in a longhouse topped by a 20-metre-high, air-supported "snowball". fourhostfirstnations.com
Granville Island
The ever popular Granville Island is expected to be the centre of Government of Canada and Francophone community events during the 2010 Winter Games. Canadian aeronautical company Bombardier will provide a streetcar to shuttle passengers from the Canada Line's Olympic Village station to Granville Island.
English Bay Inukshuk (English Bay Beach)
This imposing rock sculpture, originally built for Expo 86, was relocated in 1987 to its current perch at English Bay. Visitors and athletes alike are expected to come from near and far to pose for photos at this iconic statue against the backdrop of the Pacific Ocean and Vancouver's North Shore mountains. For centuries, the Inuit people of Canada's Arctic stacked rock in human form to create the inukshuk, a steadfast guidepost that provided direction across the vast horizons of the North. The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games emblem is a contemporary interpretation of the inukshuk.
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For this Processing sketch, we are going to start with a simple but beautiful generative design by Matt Pearson and modify the sketch to inject the Attention and Meditation values derived from the Mindset Mobile Headset.
If we look at the source code, we are going to see that the randomness and noise applied to the lines that are drawn in every frame, make this generative pattern more and more interesting as the sketch runs.
//================================= global vars int _num = 10; float _angnoise, _radiusnoise; float _xnoise, _ynoise; float _angle = -PI/2; float _radius = 100; float _strokeCol = 254; //================================= init void setup() { size(500, 500); smooth(); frameRate(30); clearBackground(); _angnoise = random(10); _radiusnoise = random(10); _xnoise = random(10); _ynoise = random(10); } void clearBackground() { background(255); } //================================= frame loop void draw() { _radiusnoise += 0.005; _radius = (noise(_radiusnoise) * 550) +1; _angnoise += 0.005; _angle += (noise(_angnoise) * 6) - 3; if (_angle > 360) { _angle -= 360; } if (_angle < 0) { _angle += 360; } // wobble centre _xnoise += 0.01; _ynoise += 0.01; float centreX = width/2 + (noise(_xnoise) * 100) - 50; float centreY = height/2 + (noise(_ynoise) * 100) - 50; float rad = radians(_angle); float x1 = centreX + (_radius * cos(rad)); float y1 = centreY + (_radius * sin(rad)); // opposite float opprad = rad + PI; float x2 = centreX + (_radius * cos(opprad)); float y2 = centreY + (_radius * sin(opprad)); noFill(); _strokeCol += _strokeChange; if (_strokeCol > 254) { _strokeChange *= -1; } if (_strokeCol < 0) { _strokeChange *= -1; } stroke(_strokeCol, 60); strokeWeight(1); line(x1, y1, x2, y2); } int _strokeChange = -1; //================================= interaction void mousePressed() { clearBackground(); }
To explain a bit more, in every frame there is a line drawn. The rotation, the length and the lightness of the line are driven by the randomness and noise functions. As the visualization of the sketch evolves, new patterns start to emerge on the canvas.
Now it is time to modify the sketch, simplify it temporarily and use the A/M Values to see the effect of them over the patterns generated. The first thing that we will do is to disable the wobble effect.
... size(500, 500); ... float centreX = width/2; float centreY = height/2; ...
Then we copy and paste the needed code from sketch 02 and initialize Neurosky in Processing.
Just to see if the system is working, before any further modification, we are going to test the headset and connection. It is always a good idea to test the headset first with a simple sketch or the default Brainwave Visualizer program. Another point is when the Brainwave Visualizer is running in the background, the initial starting time of the sketch becomes faster as the Bluetooth connection will already be active.
As we run the sketch, we get no error messages or warnings. We did not make any connection between the generated lines and the EEG device yet.
To make the first connection, we relate the radius of the lines with the attention value. The higher values of Attention will be translated as long lines and vice versa. We will also observe the attention value from the Brainwave Visualizer.
The second step is to relate the stroke color of the line with the Meditation level.
noFill(); //_strokeCol += _strokeChange; //if (_strokeCol > 254) { _strokeChange *= -1; } //if (_strokeCol < 0) { _strokeChange *= -1; } stroke(120,floor(meditation*(2.55)),120, 90); strokeWeight(1); line(x1, y1, x2, y2);
So higher Meditation levels will be represented by green and lower levels with purple. Higher Attention levels will be visualized by long lines and lower levels with short lines.
This was only one way of injecting Attention and Meditation levels into any given sketch. By playing with and modifying the code, new ideas and sketches may appear based on the foundation discussed above.
You are welcome to share the sketches you come up with, as a comment to this post.
The final sketch file can be downloaded from here.

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HYDERABAD, (Pakistan Point News - APP - 23th july, 2016) : The Sub-Divisional Officer HESCO Operation Division Umerkot has filed an application with the police station concerned for registration of a case against those who attacked an HESCO team which disconnected the electricity connection of Rana Jagir village of Umerkot for non-payment of bills. According to an HESCO spokesman, the when disconnected the electricity connections of Rana Jagir village, a group of residents attacked it.
The spokesman said electricity connections of defaulters were being disconnected without any discrimination. The HESCO management would not allow the people to use electricity without payment of outsyanding dues, he added. He said HESCO teams also carried out operation in Hyderabad, Nawabshah, Sakrand, Qazi Ahmed and other parts of the region and removed 200 illegal connections, besides recovery of Rs 1.45 million from defaulters.


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I Take Photos of Dank Weed for a Living
Marcus Gary "Bubbleman" Richardson makes his living photographing dank nugs and hash. Though he's been passionate about weed since he was a teenager, Bubbleman's spent his whole adult life working in Canada's almost-legal weed industry. After moving to British Columbia in the 90s, he began working at the medicinal dispensary The BC Compassion Club, growing cannabis for terminally-ill patients. In 1999, he and his wife decided to start their own business selling Bubble Bags—plant essence extractors used to make bubble hash at home—and he needed to photograph the product in order to sell it online. This was the start of his two-decade passion (and side hustle) shooting the types of photos that make your average #weedporn snaps look like mere shake.
After shooting Bubble Bags and a few of his friends' hand-blown glass pipes, Bubbleman "went a little bit deeper, and because of that I attracted like-minded people. These were people who wanted [to document] the best weed, but also had a little more vision." Such people included weed advocates and contributors to publications like High Times, National Geographic, and Cannabis Now, all which have since featured his photographs of gorgeous, crystal-covered herb. I sat down with the Bubbleman to discuss life as a cannabis photographer, what makes his work stand out from the excess of weed porn that saturates the web, and how he's managed to earn a huge online following and the respect of some of the country's most vocal weed proponents.
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text: AP Science Writer Debris crews slogged through the fields and forests of east Texas in heavy rain Thursday as they searched for fallen pieces of the space shuttle Columbia that could reveal clues to its destruction. So far, none of more than 12,000 individual pieces of debris found in 38 counties and two dozen Louisiana parishes have provided critical answers for why the shuttle broke up Saturday. The heavy rain was slowing the collection of evidence, and experts feared it could further degrade or bury the debris. "Clearly, we're concerned that the debris be recovered quickly and in as undamaged a condition as possible, and obviously rain will impede that process," said NASA spokesman John Ira Petty. "It restricts access \u2026 in some of the thickly wooded and swampy terrain." Sixty crews of federal agents and military personnel have received special training in handling evidence of the disaster, which NASA warns could be contaminated with toxic chemicals or even small explosive charges. Shuttle engineers have compiled a short list of components on the complex orbiter that are crucial to the investigation. Finding those parts is the top priority of debris crews on the ground, as well as search aircraft and even an underwater robot. Those items include parts of the left wing, data recorders and certain pieces of insulation and tiles. If they are located in recognizable condition, searchers will wrap them in protective plastic and label them with a red tag to alert investigators at debris collection centers. But after four days, searchers were empty-handed. "We do not have any red-tag items," shuttle program manager Ron Dittemore said. The widening search now extends from Louisiana to California. Scientists and amateur skywatchers have reported seeing the shuttle shedding small pieces as it streaked eastward on its descent. "The scale makes it unprecedented," said Dave Bary, a spokesman for the Environmental Protection Agency, which is overseeing the collection of debris. He noted that even in other major disasters _ including the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the explosion of space shuttle Challenger _ the recovery sites were restricted to a central location. In this case, "the debris field is so large _ covering so many counties _ I can't think of anything historically that would compare to this," he said. That could delay meaningful analysis of the collected parts and the role they might have played in the disaster, said NASA spokesman Rob Navias. "We have to put the puzzle together before we see what the mosaic looks like," Navias said. The shuttle was composed of about 2 million parts, many of which shattered into pieces as small as a nickel. At least two possible wing sections have been discovered in east Texas, but authorities did not know which side of the shuttle they came from. A robotic underwater camera was brought in Wednesday to help search a reservoir along the Texas-Louisiana state line where there were reports of debris the size of a small car. Bill Waldock of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Arizona said some pieces, such as the nose cone, could help investigators pinpoint the cause of the disaster. "It didn't look like the nose cone had much thermal damage at all; it's not even really scorched," he said. "It means that area was not exposed to the high temperatures." Federal prosecutors, meanwhile, were cracking down on accused looters. Two East Texas residents were charged with theft of government property for allegedly taking a circuit board and a piece of thermal insulating fabric. They could face up to 10 years in prison. Amnesty was offered through Friday evening for anyone who handed over shuttle parts.


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This Couple Built the Smallest House Their County Would Allow
How one Indiana couple discovered that "just enough" is all you need.
With a firm budget, a series of helpful YouTube videos, and a pared-down approach to decorating, an Indiana couple discovers that "just enough" is all you need.
Less is more for Angie and Alex Wendricks, who built the smallest house their county law allowed (1,400 square feet, for the record). Although they had initially planned to build a larger home, the couple decided to shrink their plan—by more than half!—to 728 square feet, adding a roomy 728-square-foot attached garage to meet the county's minimum. The Wendrickses (@countyroadliving) bought the seven acres of land near Pendleton, Indiana, in 2010 but didn't start construction for five years. "We wanted to move out here with very little debt, so we chose to pay the property off completely before we built on it," says Angie, a product stylist. "We knew we had to put in a driveway, a well, septic, electric, and all that costs a lot of money." While they chipped away at the laundry list of tasks, they also scoured flea markets, estate sales, architectural salvage shops, and old barns looking for the perfect pieces to furnish their future home. "We stored everything in a 10-foot-by-10-foot unit, and then refurbished everything, which saved us tons of money because we did it over time," Angie says. Once the drywall was up and the windows were installed, the couple crafted the rest together.
Angie and Alex dug through a nearby barn (with the owner's permission!) and found a long piece of wood for the kitchen shelf, plus additional wood for the homemade bar stools.
In lieu of kitchen cabinets, the couple opted for beautiful pieces—like this antique wooden shelving unit—at reasonable prices. The simplicity of the piece appealed to Angie, so she left it untouched and filled it with a mix of everyday china from Ikea, Crate & Barrel, and Target.
The Wendrickses purchased an old library door for $50 at an estate sale, sanded and sealed it, and made it their front door. Angie bought the side chair for $5 and removed the orange pleather seat back, sanded it, and left it raw. She liked the scale of the neutral, slipcovered Ikea sofa (the Karlstad), which pairs well with vintage finds. For the loft above, Angie chose raw pine railing to set it off. "I wanted it to look like it could be in a barn," she says.
In a quest to use every square inch, the homeowners turned a nook under the stairs into a dog house for Olive and Bug. The walls are painted Bright White by Menards, while the floors are painted Clean White by Valspar.
Though the Regency wood stove adds charm and serves up heat, Angie is always on the hunt for baskets to store blankets. The stove sits atop porcelain "wood" tile.
A sliding barn door adds charm while eating up less space than a traditional door. The couple found the claw-foot tub at an architectural salvage spot in Indianapolis, a steal at $100.
The clean, crisp palette extends from hard materials like the white walls and pine railings into softer elements, such as the blue-and-white striped bedding, textured pillows, and a simple duvet.
Outfitted with $5 garage sale sinks, the star of the bathroom is a former barn door the couple found in a tobacco barn. They power-washed it, and after consulting a few YouTube videos, figured out how to cut holes for the sinks and added legs made from metal pipes. They added low-cost mirrors to finish the space.
The couple saved money on the appliances by buying the washer, dryer, and stove together as part of a bundle.
"We got this sink at a flea market for $100 and use it for the vegetables we grow in our garden," Angie says. "We also wash dishes out here when we eat outside."
While their minimal style might not work for everyone, Angie says they wouldn't have it any other way. "I've always been the freak of nature with the organized closet and the clean car. I just like things simple and uncluttered," she says. "I wanted the house to be the focus, not stuff."


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It's been almost 2 years since this remake/revival/reimagining/re-whatever you want to call it, was first announced.
Back in early 2010, New Line Cinema was said to be looking for recruits to relaunch the Police Academy franchise movie, with original producer Paul Maslansky back for the encore, which had no writer or director attached at the time.
Fast-forward to today… a new announcement says that New Line Cinema is still in the mix, hiring Scott Zabielski to direct the remake.
Who's Scott Zabielski? Well, one thing he will be doing is making his feature directorial debut with this project, after directing episodes of hit Comedy Central show Tosh.0 (never watched it). Deadline also notes that he once served as a reserve pollie officer in West Hollywood, so he has some experience with a real-life police academy.
The original Police Academy movie spawned 6 sequels from Warner Bros. All told, the franchise took in about $240 million worldwide and inspired a pair of TV series.
But this isn't another sequel, it's a brand new take on the low-brow comedy.
The series, released in the 80s and early 90s, actually had 3 African American characters in the starring ensemble cast – Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow, and Marion Ramsey. Might the relaunch feature the same group of misfit recruits? That remains to be seen. But if it does, then who can we expect to be cast in the above 3 black roles?
Here's a trailer for the very first movie in the series:


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Addiction is a strong mental and physical dependence on, most commonly, a drug or other substance. Some substances that can lead to addiction are alcohol, illegal drugs, some prescription medicines, inhalants (such as spray paint), and nicotine.
A person who has an addiction, depending on how severe the illness is, may have two or more of the following symptoms:
The tendency to have addiction problems can be passed from parents to their children (inherited). This tendency often is accompanied by mental health problems, such as depression.
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I recently received a copy of Michael Pollan's new and updated healthy eating manual, Food Rules, and here's why I think it's such an important read for every woman...
Food and nutrition journalist Micahel Pollan's newly updated Food Rules will be out next month, and whether you pick it up at the library or buy one to keep, read it. This book is packed with simple, condensed, easy-to-understand healthy eating principles that every woman needs to know about.
Frankly, I haven't seen good advice boiled down to such digestible, erm, nuggets, ever. (And, the new edition is illustrated by the lovely Maira Kalman, which makes the reading experience extra enjoyable.)
Two of my favorite "food rules":
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I have to write about John Green. GAH. (Good GAH. VERY GOOD GAH.)
I finished reading 'The Fault in Our Stars' this past weekend.
I read it in about ten minutes (mom-time – that's about three days – pretty much a small miracle). I laughed. I cried. It was a momentous read for me. I've been reading YA for quite some time now since it's what I'm writing. It's research (how cool is that? reading amazing YA novels for research!). I've read John Green before.
In fact, John Green's 'Looking for Alaska' was the first YA book I read as an adult.
I read it because it had a lovely gold award plate on the front cover. I figured I'd go to the award winners to start my research. LFA knocked me on my ass. I was, like, what did I just read? In a way that I had to step away from anymore Green. (This is not a bad thing.)
Let me explain. Err, let Mr. Green explain.
Below are the lines that I underlined as I read TFIOS. Yes, I just couldn't pass these lines without underlining them. They were…well, just read.
And then we were out of Jesus's heart and in the parking lot, the spring air just on the cold side of perfect, the late-afternoon light heavenly in its hurtfulness. Pg. 18
I mean – heavenly in its hurtfulness? My heart broke open when I read this.
I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. Pg. 31
Mr. Green has his own language – not just a terribly terrific voice – he capitalizes in the most unique unexpected ways. I gotta man who's tenured in the Dept. of Slightly Crooked Smiles. I know what he's talkin' about.
I was thinking about the word handle, and all the unholdable things that get handled. Pg.60
He makes up his own words. Unholdable. Not a word, but clearly it should be. Oye. The sentence runs off your tongue like sweet spit from your lover…
And yet still I worried. I liked being a person. I wanted to keep it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying. Pg. 65
I mean, who writes 'I like being a person'? That's an incredible line. It's beautiful. And I worry. Worry is a side effect of many things.
"That's why I like you. Do you realize how hard it is to come across a hot girl who creates an adjectival version of the word pedophile? You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are." Pg. 123
Mr. Green's characters are just astounding. Witty. Heartfelt. Honest. Creative. You know people like that. I know you do. They're REAL. Mr. Green knows real.
…and I felt like there was something noncancery wrong with my chest as the minutes ticked away. Pg. 144
How beautiful is it to describe a feeling that is outside of all that one feels when one has a disease like cancer? Noncancery is perfect.
"Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-Five about." Pg. 152
What took me most in these sentences is the idea of people being disorganized mourners. It's just a startlingly receptive statement. It's so true. Death becomes us all and yet, when it arrives, or heaven forbid, leaves a message on our machines that it'll be here soon, we can become, well disorganized. How to deal with death is something I think about all the time…
…we sat in the lacey shade of a huge chestnut tree…pg. 209
I've sat in lacey shade many a times…but I've never heard it described this way. Thank you, Mr. Green, for finding a home for outside of my underwear drawer for lace.
I was too scared to ask if I had a reason to be scared. Pg. 211
Have you ever felt this way? Too scared to ask for a reason to be scared? Of course you have. It hit me in the gut to read it written out.
He opened the door for Isaac, and I watched through the mirror as Gus helped Isaac out of the car, the two of them leaning on each other at the shoulder then tapering away, like praying hands that don't quite meet at the palms. Pg. 227
One of Mr. Green's writing talents includes writing metaphors like Michael Jackson grabs his crotch and rocks a stage – KA-BLAM – there it is. A wicked metaphor.
Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Pg. 236
Again with the lovely tree metaphors. My skin yearned for a branch shadow when I read this.
His eyes swam in their sockets. Pg. 246
My eyes were swimming in their sockets when I read this. Why? Because I was crying when I read it. I cried for, pretty much, the whole last chapter of TFIOS. Gorgeous.
Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you. Pg. 286
TFIOS yanks whatever you know about grief with its fingery words and slaps you in the face with the love that organizes it. Oh, and I heart the name Hazel.
The truth on this sunny but chilly Thursday is this:
The world needs Green. John Green. As a writer, I am inspired by many writers. And I believe that when I read a book that racks my soul and rocks my writing world, I need to shout it out. I don't write reviews on this blog. This is not a review of TFIOS but a message about incredible writing. It's a message about how one author can inspire and mentor another writer without the two ever meeting or conversing or knowing each other.
I could go to Mr. Green's website and watch his videos. Read his blog, but I wanted to write this blog first. So it's just me and his words. I hope that when people read my books, they feel how I feel (even a minute amount!) when I read a Green book.
And so, I'd like to say thank you to Mr. Green for writing. For working BICHOK (butt in chair, hands on keyboard) like she's a horny teen, and writing stories that make me underline sentence after sentence because I've fallen. Fallen in love with the words…their meanings and how it all makes me feel.
Thank you, Mr. Green.
I'm reading 'Paper Towns' now. The underlining continues.


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Marketing the Human Element: Moving Beyond Pretty Pictures
In the high-tech world, it's easy for customers to lose their connection to a business when they receive messages from a faceless corporation. Incorporating a nice logo, fancy imagery or personal-sounding copy simply will not warm up marketing content in the same way an actual person telling a story can. But it takes more than just adding the company's CEO in a video clip on the website.
Here are a few ways to integrate the human element into an organization's marketing message and some activities to create a stronger connection with the audience.
Keep It Real
Celebrities, executives and actors have long been used to put a face on businesses. Apple's Steve Jobs is the ultimate example. However, for many business-to-business companies, there isn't a large enough budget to justify the expense of a celebrity or to truly build up a CEO as the company's spokesperson.
A better option is to use a person who is already known and respected in the market. This could be a customer who is willing to talk about his or her experience with the business or an engineer employee who is frequently invited as a knowledgeable speaker at industry events. In both cases, the goal is to leverage that person's equity as a recognized thought-leader. The best "spokesperson" is often the one who has lived in the trenches and is recognized for his or her expertise and knowledge.
Alternately, an organization can build recognized expertise within its team. Let a real person, say "Bob," host a webinar or company event. Send invitations directly from Bob, via personal email and LinkedIn. Give Bob a relatable title (such as Cisco's TechWise "Chief Geek," who delivers webcasts) and give him the opportunity to relate personally to the audience. Over time, he'll become a trusted person to whom the audience will respond. Remember, it won't happen overnight-it takes time and consistency to develop-but the rewards are huge.
For example, in side-by-side tests, emails sent from an established "Bob" outperformed emails from the corporation by up to 4-to-1. People wanted to hear what "Bob" had to say versus the company, even though it was the same message.
A similar, easy-to-execute technique is to have salespeople invite customers to key events such as training sessions, workshops or seminars. This can draw strong attendance as well as aid in forming personal connections with customers.
Everyone loves a good story. That's why case studies and testimonials are such great marketing assets. However, they are often poorly executed or underutilized.
Often, the study quickly drifts off into corporate speak and only occasionally quotes the customer. In other instances, the story quickly goes into product specifications-details that should be saved for data sheets. The customer should remain the storyteller from beginning to end, especially when describing her experience in language all audience members can understand. A person telling the story will trump a dry tech solution manifesto any day.
Because case studies can sometimes be challenging to produce, companies need to maximize that effort by using the content everywhere: brochures, presentations, the Web, tradeshows, press releases and anywhere else it fits. Adding a picture with a pullquote can also make the case study far more effective. Include a short video of the customer speaking: That's the ultimate form of storytelling.
When soliciting a testimonial, try to identify customers who have cachet in the industry, not just corporate name recognition. Look for a company known for innovation. Better yet, look for a customer who is a respected leader in the industry. That individual may have more pulling power with other audience members than his or her company's name.
The phone is still an extremely effective tool for reaching prospects in a personal way-as long as it's authentic.
Don't use a script. Repeat, do not use a script. Speaking from a pre-written document sounds robotic and impersonal. Provide the phone team with discussion guides that enable members to understand the product or solution. Make sure the team is properly trained so they can converse with the customer in an appealing, personal and believable manner.
Take it one step further by using a lead nurturing program. Assign ownership of a particular prospect to one person, so that "Amy" always calls "Tom." He might start as a hand-raiser only, but at some point he is likely to buy from you or a competitor. Throughout the nurturing process, Amy is a consistent and personal connection with Tom, unlike impersonal solicitations.
Companies that want to employ these marketing strategies should first examine the current state of their tools and programs. Next, imagine how a more personal approach could improve them. Then find ways to add that human element. Remember, people relate to people, and they love good stories.
JD Biros is partner and creative director at Sudden Impact Marketing, a Columbus-based firm that serves high-tech business-to-business clients. He can be reached at (614) 942-0908 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Reprinted from the December 2012 issue of Columbus C.E.O. Copyright © Columbus C.E.O.


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The steps in becoming a professional basketball player is not as complicated as one is made to believe.
The internet and the agent market has simplified the search. Yet to be an official pro baller in Europe today (2013), the contract includes a compensation clause for playing.
On the other hand men players can already pick up professional contracts in almost any division or level. This even applies to amateur teams.
In France with Pro A and Pro B as the only professional divisions, all the clubs in NM1 (division 3) and most of the clubs in NM2 (division 4) have rosters mainly made up of full-time professional players and coaches.
This scenario is found in all the nations that make up the FIBA Europe zone.
In women's basketball becoming a professional basketball player is another story: the compensation package cannot be compared with the men one's.
This is the reason why WNBA players come abroad to supplement their income or just minimise their living expenses.
Once a club is paying for your accommodation, you are considered a pro baller in the eyes of the club. The type of contracts varies depending on the country but the principal is the same.
In France for example only players with an FFBB approved contract are registered as professional players.
This means that the clubs have the possibility of interchanging players also in case of injuries.
In the divisions below LF2, such as NF1 or NF2, players are offered all types of contracts which are recognised as employment or training deals. However they are not professional basketball contracts.
Starting from the 2013-14 season womensbasketball-in-france brings to you video articles from players and coaches on their careers and how they they cope in the professional world of basketball.
In the right menu you can find the link to our original series of women playing basketball in France (2007-2013) with its original audio interviews.
23 October 2013: Women's basketball in France: in the hands of Philippe Legname
17 October 2013: Basket pro: Jimmy Ploegaerts à la porte de succès
14 October 2013: Basket pro vu par Caroline Aubert - Sa carrière, sa vie
29 September 2013: Taelor Karr's challenge from college ball to pro ball
Date created: 10 October 2013
Date updated: 23 October 2013
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Gearbox Housing
A subcontractor for cast parts in Czechia wanted to render the production of 8 bores in a gearbox housing more efficient. Above all, the manual deburring and the related process uncertainties should be eliminated.
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The proposed solution is a VEX drill-combi-tool that also takes care of the chamfering of both bore edges immediately after the drilling, in other words, in a single pass.
Tool: VEX GH-Q-O-4051
Helical drill bit: P-S-B4-0550-1A
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The eliminating of the manual deburring has increased the reliability of the process. 100% of the bores are deburred and in an even manner. The switch to the drill-combi tool has also led to significant savings (2 man-hours per shift).


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Booklet and pictures courtesy of Robert Rust.
Elbert Hubbard Pioneer Advertising Man
by Burton Bigelow, 1931
This booklet measures 7 3/4" X 5 1/2" and has 18 pages plus 8 pages of Roycroft Advertisements. This copy belonged to Emil Georg Sahlin a typographer who worked at the Roycroft from about 1913 to 1915. Emil was the brother of Axel Sahlin who was a typographer at the Roycroft that also became a student of Frederick Kranz. Axel executed some very fine bindings one of which can be seen here: Contemplations, Modeled Leather, #88 of 100.
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Reiki and Brennan Healing Science
Similarities and differences
I practice and teach both of these modalities and therefore often get the question from clients and colleagues as to how these two modalities compare. While I do not like to make comparisons between healings modalities, sometimes it is necessary. I have therefore decided to share my thoughts and experience in this article so people can be better informed.
When a client is drawn to a practitioner I trust that the healing relationship between the two will yield what is needed in the moment. Healing is the result of inner work, aided by tools, the healing container and the healing relationship between the client and the therapist or practitioner.
The therapist or practitioner brings all of him or her self to this relationship, including all prior experiences and modalities learned, whether they are applied or not, they are part of his or her presence and personhood.
The client brings all of him or herself to the relationship, including all life experiences that organize the present moment experience and including the willingness and/or resistance to heal.
So, while we can compare modalities, we cannot be the judge or predict the outcome of a healing session and the results of the healing.
Similarities between Reiki and Brennan Healing Science
Both Reiki and Brennan Healing Science (BHS) work with universal energy or Chi as it is commonly referred to. It has also been called Ki, Prana, Source, etc.
Both modalities are hands-on healing techniques using this universal energy. The hand placements and sequence are different, but both use the major joints and chakras as positions for laying the hands.
Following is a more detailed description of each modality's origin, course content, work methods and the personal development of the practitioner.
Reiki was created by Mikao Usui, a Japanese monk, who, in the late 1800's, "rediscovered" this ancient healing art that has its origins in Tibet.
Reiki has no prerequisites and it is very simple. The fact that it is learned in short courses and is easily accessible to everyone has greatly contributed to its widespread popularity and use.
Usui taught this healing art in Japan for many years and one of his disciples, Dr. Hayashi, taught it to Hawayo Takata, a feisty Japanese-American woman who lived on the big island of Hawaii and later moved to California. Hawayo Takata trained 21 Masters from the 1950's to the 1980's and these 21 Masters eventually spread this healing art to the rest of the world.
Hawayo Takata condensed the original lengthy training consisting of 7 initiations into 3 levels, probably to make it more palatable and accessible to the Western culture and also to make this needed healing art available in the rapidly evolving consciousness of the times.
Takata's 3rd level was the Master/Teacher Level, at which one could then teach and pass on the initiations to others. The Reiki Alliance still maintains these three levels of training.
Dr. Arthur Robertson, a student of Iris Ishikuro who was a friend of Takata, decided to divide Level 3 into two levels and add an attunement, a ceremony and an additional symbol. He formed the American Reiki Master Association and under his lineage there are 4 levels to reach the Master/Teacher level.
Guiding principles
As Usui integrated and developed this new modality, he formulated 5 basic guiding principles for this new healing art. These founding principles are:
Just for today, I will not worry
Just for today, I will not anger
Just for today, I will honour and respect all living things, my elders and my teachers
Just for today, I will earn my living in an honest way
Just for today, I will live the Attitude of Gratitude
After noticing that many of the people he treated without charge went back to their previous state of being, Usui came to the conclusion that in order for the clients to take part in and take responsibility for their healing process, it would be advisable for them to give something in exchange for receiving a healing session. Usui subsequently included this principle of exchange in his teaching of the method.
Course content
While there are many Reiki associations and organizations, there is no single governing body or a single protocol for teaching. The teachings are handed down from Master to student, as faithfully as each Master is able to do so. This inherently brings inconsistency and variations to the teaching, but generally in my experience, the course content of the traditional system is fairly consistent. What I find varies more is the way in which it is taught. Some teach it superficially and others with great respect and sacredness.
During Reiki training, sacred initiation rituals are transmitted to the student. These initiations or attunements increase a person's vibratory level and open up the energy field which helps to channel the energy more easily. These initiations are a very powerful catalyst for personal growth.
The approach to all dis-ease and disease is the same; no specific techniques are taught to treat specific conditions. The student may be briefly introduced to the human energy field, depending on the teaching Reiki Master's knowledge and background. Some Masters, but not all, will teach the students to ground down while giving treatments.
Level 1 is usually taught in 1 or 2 days and includes:
what Reiki is and what it can be used for
method of self-treatment
method of treatment for another person
4 attunements
Level 2 is usually taught in 1 day and includes:
sacred symbols
method of distant treatment
method for mental Reiki
2 attunements
Level 3 in both traditions is usually taught in 1 day and includes:
the Master symbol
the Master attunement (called the 3rd level attunement in the 4-level system)
in the 3-level system, the student becomes a Reiki Master and is taught to teach at all levels
at the discretion of the teaching Reiki Master in the 4-level system, the student is sometimes taught to teach levels 1 and 2, but not the 3rd and 4th levels
Level 4 includes:
an additional symbol
a sacred water ceremony and an initiation ritual
most Reiki Masters in the 4-level system choose to wait until the student has completed level 4 before teaching the student to teach levels 1-4
Total course hours vary between 32-50 hours, plus any additional homework and process work that may be assigned at the discretion of the Reiki Master.
Personal development of the Reiki Practitioner
While there are no formal guidelines or requirements for the student's personal development work, the Reiki initiations, self-treatments and the Reiki Master's guidance allow the practitioner to grow in consciousness and self-awareness as well as do some clearing of his or her energy field. This helps the practitioner to become a clearer channel for the energy and to improve his or her presence with the client as the student integrates the different levels.
How it works
With Reiki, the practitioner channels universal energy through his or her crown chakra and makes it available to the client through the palm chakras. This is done by laying the hands on positions that closely parallel the endocrine system, the chakras and the major articulations as well as any other part of the body that is in need of healing. The traditional positions go from the head to the feet and then the back.
Emphasis is placed on "getting one's self out of the way" and letting the client's energy field draw whatever is needed. The energy goes where it needs to go to do the work that is needed and ready to happen. The Reiki practitioner simply allows the energy to move through him or her and does not direct the energy or "pull" things out of the field. No specific techniques are taught; the energy simply does the work. The sacred symbols are used to connect more deeply to the client, to increase the power of the energy flow, and to connect at a distance for distance treatments.
The energy of Universal Love and Divine Consciousness that is transmitted helps to balance the energy field, helps to release energetic, emotional, mental, physical and spiritual blocks, thus enhancing the client's well-being. The treatment is usually very relaxing for the client.
Variations and Expansions of Reiki
The system taught by the Reiki Alliance and the American Reiki Master's Association teach what is normally referred to as the traditional Usui Reiki system. There have been many variations that have since developed by Reiki Masters who have decided to expand on the theme and add rituals, initiations and symbols that they have received. Some of the names include Karuna Reiki, Reiki Plus, Lightarian Reiki. A search on the internet will reveal many more variations.
Brennan Healing Science
Brennan Healing Science was created by Dr. Barbara Ann Brennan, a former NASA physicist. At a very young age Barbara was gifted with High Sense Perception (HSP). As her consciousness awakened through personal development work, she began to receive much information from her spirit guide Heyoan and started to work with clients. She eventually wrote her first book "Hands of Light" which has become a classic in the field. Her background in science has given the work a scientific basis. Barbara is very keen in bridging the gap between traditional and complimentary healing modalities so the two can work in concert.
In 1982, Barbara started the Barbara Brennan School of Healing in New York State. In the year 2000, the state of Florida recognized the school as an educational institution and so she moved the school to Florida.
Course content
BHS is taught in a 4-year course which is recognized by the State of Florida as a Bachelor in Healing Science. The school is currently working toward obtaining national accreditation.
BHS can only be learned at the school where the learning and teaching is consistent, rigorous and structured. The only thing that is taught outside the school is the introductory workshop where one can get an overview of the healing science and can experience about 10 of the techniques that are taught at the school, including giving and receiving a chelation (healing).
The BHS course is a comprehensive program which includes about 2,000 hours of courses and personal development work with both in-residence and distance learning modules.
Course content includes:
20 intensive weeks in residence, 5 in each of the 4 years
20 modules of distance learning (homework) and required reading
Approximately 80 to 100 practice healing sessions
Approximately 60 techniques to work in and with the energy field
Integration of 16 psych-development self-awareness and relational skills
A minimum of 18 personal therapy sessions during each of the 4 years
Specific techniques to work with specific diseases, such as diabetes and cancer
Development of personal High Sense Perception skills
Interpersonal energy dynamics
Creative arts
Professional Ethics and Practice
Anatomy and Physiology
Complimentary and Alternative Medicine
Yearly creative arts project
Case study and presentation
Senior project to help the student explore how he or she will bring out his or her healership to the world
Personal development of the Brennan Practitioner
This comprehensive course content and intensive personal work requires a huge personal commitment from the student. The student learns about personal wounding and dynamics in relationship with the self and others. Much emphasis is placed on awakening the consciousness which creates deep awareness and contact with the self. This awakening and the intense personal work done in therapy have the effect of opening up and deeply clearing the energy field, allowing the practitioner to increase his or her ability to channel the energy and to have deep contact and presence with the client.
In addition to this, specific techniques are learned to ground deeply into the earth, to regularly clear and charge the practitioner's energy field, to manage one's own energy field and to prepare for a session with a client.
How it works
In BHS, universal energy is channelled through the crown chakra and also drawn up from the earth to make it available to the client through the palm chakras. Thus, a wider spectrum (frequency) of energy is made available to the client than is available in Reiki. The energy is made available by the laying the hands (called a chelation) on positions (usually on the front of the body) that closely parallel the endocrine system, the chakras and the major articulations as well as any other part of the body that is in need of healing.
BBSH practitioners learn techniques to work with the seven levels of the field, to dissolve the energy blocks in the field (aura), restructure lines of light which are the template for the physical body, and repair the energy field of organs and chakras so that they can metabolize universal energy to nourish the human body and return it to a healthy functionality. Many other techniques are also available to the BHS practitioner, including past life healing, relational cords and spiritual surgery assisted by spirit guides.
BBSH practitioners can also access and work in the dimensions of intention (Hara) and essence (Core Star).
In summary
Both Reiki and BHS healing modalities channel universal energy through the practitioner's energy field to make it available to the client through the laying on of hands on the body joints and chakras. This energy of Divine Consciousness is one that promotes healing and relaxation for the client.
Reiki is learned in 3 or 4 short courses (32 to 50 hours) while BHS is learned in an intensive 4 year program (2,000 hours).
Reiki teaches the basic healing modality within a sacred container and with some encouragement for the practitioner to do personal healing work while Brennan Healing Science teaches a more global approach to healing and the healing practice, also within a sacred container, with specific rigorous requirements for the healer's personal healing work.
The depth of personal work and energy techniques learned at the school give the BHS practitioner tools to work deeply within the energy field, clear and charge the energy field along with an awareness of the client's individual and relational dynamics. The BHS practitioner can more readily recognize when therapy might be an appropriate path for the client in conjunction with the energy work.
Therefore, because of the above, Brennan Healing Science will usually result in deeper work than Reiki with faster healing results.
With all of this said, each client has different needs and the doorway to healing can come from many different healing modalities. The client's disposition is crucial to healing; healing comes from within, often assisted from the outside by way of traditional or complimentary healing modalities.
What the client brings to the healing and the personhood of the healing practitioner create the healing relationship in which the healing process can happen.
Roland Bérard
Reiki Master
Registered Teacher
Canadian Reiki Association
Brennan Healing Science Practitioner
Graduate of BBSH Teacher Training Program
|Brennan Healing Science
|Ancient Tibetan art of healing, rediscovered in Japan by Mikao Usui, during the late 19th century
|Created by Barbara Ann Brennan, through personal abilities and guidance
|Energy used
|Universal chi, transmitted by laying on of hands, on or off the body, using positions on chakras and major articulations
Frequency associated with violet light
Energy channelled through chakras 7 (crown) to 4th (heart) then through hands. Some teachers, but not all, teach grounding so that Earth energy is also tapped into
|Universal chi, transmitted by laying on of hands, on or off the body, using positions on chakras and major articulations
Full spectrum of healing energy used, including drawing energy up from the Earth.
Energy channelled through all chakras 7 (crown) to 1st (root) then through hands while the practitioner is deeply grounded
|3 or 4 levels, 1 to 2 days in each level, total of about 32-50 hours of training, depending on the teacher.
Some teachers give homework and follow up.
|4 years – about 2000 hrs
5 intensive weeks per year, extensive curriculum including creative arts, ethics, healing science and techniques, development of High Sense Perception (HSP), complimentary medicine, personal process work, homework, reading, case study, graduate project
|A total of 8 initiations over the 4 levels (7 if learned in 3 levels) that are powerful catalysts for opening energy channel and personal transformation
|No initiations.
4 years of intensive work on self and learning energy techniques leads to deep contact with self and other and opening of energy channel
|Symbols are used to intensify the treatment and do distance healing
|No symbols
|Distance Healing
|Work in the energy field
|Mostly on the first 4 levels of the energy field
|Cellular awareness on the physical level
Work on the 7 levels of the energy field
Work in Hara (intention) and Essence dimensions
|Modality of energy flow
|Simply allow energy to flow where it needs to
|Various modes of energy transfer, as required


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Their first character, HazMaPo launched January of 2005. That first offering of 1,800 figures sold in about a month, so they decided to keep doing it. September of 2007 brought the first UNKL character to television. TinPo will support CBS Saturday morning cartoons with 30 second animated shorts. That brings them to where they are now. Making characters they love and getting them out in any way they can to people who also share the love
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Task: Attend a newsworthy event. Broadcast the event online in some fashion (live-streaming video, live tweeting, taking photographs to pair later with your write-up of the event, etc.). Then attempt to locate mainstream media coverage of the event. Demonstrate or articulate how the mainstream media accounts are similar or different from what is conveyed in your coverage of the event.
Not-so-secret objective(s): 1) Explore the way media reports events using real life experience. 2) Encourage involvement as a digital citizen.
See my completed assignment: Bernie Delegates' Protest at the DNC.
Though mine is more epic than most other people could produce, the value in the assignment remains the same.


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Hongkong International Photo Festival
After I have returned from Hongkong and while reviewing all these countless impressions, I somehow feel forced to dedicate a separate blog entry to the HKIPF, the Hong Kong International Photo Festival that currently takes place over there in several locations all over Hongkong. I was lucky to see two exhibitions of it, one in HK Central and another (really big) one in Shek Kip Mei.
Besides the fact that it takes place from October 28th until February 12th 2019, I don't want to bother you with things that everyone can read on the HKIPF-website, in case you are interested. I just want to recommend this wonderful event. Everyone who is seriously into photography must be getting goosebumps seeing this exhibition. What you can see there just grounds you to what that wonderful medium called 'photography' really is, what it is supposed to transmit and what makes its genuine and special way of showing, documenting and also staging things, views, life and moments.
I can say that my view on what I do here, the way I am used to take pictures and my attitude towards the results of it have been unsettled by just seeing this exhibition, or at least my perspective has been straightened a bit, which feels so inspiring and cleansing. We should just give a fuck on trends and glamour, we are not the ones who paint pictures of something we want to see in an optimized or idealized way. We are the ones who are in a position to catch what is real, to play with what is real, to document what is real. And most important: we don't need a disguise for what we do.
Besides the photographs and photographic installations (I was merely impressed by a dark room, the visitor enters with a small LED pocket lamp and having a look around, he becomes part of an indiscrete, yet impressingly frozen scenario, feeling like standing in a dark night in a park, surrounded by couples in action and accidently discovering fragments of this scenario by a pretty small LED light cone) you can also take some gloves and look at several books and publications. To me, one of the most impressing printed publications were the PROVOKE books. These are rare documents of refreshingly untrendy photographic work. Set up by a group of Japanese photographers, this magazine wants to show an extraordinary, noncompliant way of taking pictures. Remarkably founded in the 1970's, unfortunately there have been not more than three issues. From my point of view they are timeless, at least I think that seeing and understanding their content is essential to anyone who considers himself to be a photographer even or just nowadays.
However, everyone who has an opportunity to go there and see it – just do it, it's worth it and it's for free!


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"A Man Without a Country: A Memoir of Life in George W Bush's America"
by Kurt Vonnegut
Bloomsbury | February 2006 | ISBN 0747584060
Recommended by Robert Cawston:
This is a dreadful book. The author has nothing to teach us anymore about our world. He is past his prime and any pearls of wisdom sink beneath a sea of confused grumblings and mumblings.
I am kidding.
And now a confession: I stole that trick from Kurt Vonnegut and his new book A Man Without a Country. But, as much as I would love to do so, it would be hard to keep up the impersonation for long. Part whimsical autobiography, part angry and disillusioned state of the union address, this short work may be the final chance to experience the great American author's unique writing and view of the world. At the grand old age of eighty-three Vonnegut may now admit that he can't "parallel park worth a damn" but he is still capable of the kind of epigrammatic insights that most authors would give their writing arm for.
Just as his infamous novel Slaughterhouse-Five was no conventional war narrative, Vonnegut's "memoirs" never read as a straight autobiography. He never tries to give us any definitive statements, any final summations of his work or the absurd conundrum that has been life. As he is wont to say to his grandchildren, "don't look at me, I only just got here". Interspersed amongst anecdotal remembrances are doodles, ditties, replies to reader's letters, book recommendations, jokes and quotes.
At one point he plots graphs of different narratives, fortune against time. For example, although Kafka's Metamorphosis takes a simple downward plunge from ill-fortune towards infinity ("it's a pessimistic story"), Cinderella fares considerably better. At the end things swing her way towards "off-the scale happy". Most narratives, he notes, end up with more good fortune than at the start that's the way people like things. Plotting the world around him though, Vonnegut sees little reason to be optimistic.
Humour as a defence mechanism against the ill-fortune of the world can only go so far. There is real anger here at the state of the planet and a realisation that "the shit has hit the air-conditioning big-time, big-time". We have trashed the joint and Vonnegut sees little way back. He seems to have given up on the future and on human beings even putting in a request for his epitaph to read "Life is no way to treat an animal".
He is at his angriest and most satirical when looking around at George W Bush's America. A sleazy "keystone-cops style coup" by failed Yale students, an addiction to oil, the "progress" of war, a nation that has moved beyond all humanness and reason led by three men named "Bush, Dick and Colon". All these things have left him feeling a stranger in a land he once fought for, a man now asking, "who the hell's country is this anyway?"
Despite his horror at the mess humans have made of this world Vonnegut manages to retain a fascination of the human species and the simple absurdities of life. And so we are left to muddle through ("we do, doodily do, doodily do, what we must, muddily must, muddily must ") relying on a pseudo Christianity-come-humanism: a supplication to "be honourable", paste the Sermon on the Mount on the wall and believe above all that "you've gotta be kind!"
No big revelation there, you may be thinking. So why should you read this book? Looking at Hamlet Vonnegut concludes that, because every incident is "neither good nor bad", Shakespeare is a poor teller of stories. However, he always sought to tell the truth because in life we can never tell "what is the good news and what is the bad news". For Vonnegut, the hope for his country and the planet lies in this desire to speak out the truth. It is a desire that still exists at the front desks of America's public libraries and in the pages of the books seeking to respond directly to life itself, however good or bad, whether "between Cinderella or Kafka's Cockroach". This is one such book. Plus, it's shorter than Hamlet.
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About the author: Kurt Vonnegut is one of the few grandmasters of American letters, one without whom the very term American literature would mean much less than it does. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on 11 November, 1922. He lives in New York City and Bridgehampton, with his wife, the author and photographer Jill Krementz. His website is at www.vonnegut.com. For A Man Without a Country and Kurt Vonnegut's other works, click here.
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U2360, U2's world tour in support of its new album "No Line on the Horizon," will play stadiums around the world, beginning June 30 in Barcelona, Billboard can exclusively reveal. Details of the tour…
U2360, U2's world tour in support of its new album "No Line on the Horizon," will play stadiums around the world, beginning June 30 in Barcelona, Billboard can exclusively reveal. Details of the tour will be announced March 9.
It's a groundbreaking tour with production that includes a 360-degree audience configuration, ambitious staging and a cylindrical video screen. "We're very excited about the idea to go on the road with this album," the Edge says. "It's an album that I think is going to translate so well to the live context. The songs we've tried in rehearsal are sounding fantastic, so that's got everyone really fired up."
U2 will be playing in a setting unique among all previous tours, by any artist. The tour will be global and lengthy. U2 will stay in Europe through Aug. 22, then hit American shores on Sept. 12 with a show at Soldier Field in Chicago. The band will play in North America until Oct. 28 and plans on working the globe until the fall of 2010. In addition to its production firsts, the tour is destined to become one of the highest-grossing tours ever; at $389 million, the band's 2005-2007 Vertigo tour is second only to the Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang trek.
After playing arenas in North America and stadiums elsewhere on their last few tours, U2 will play stadiums everywhere this time out. "This is going to be completely different, and that's what makes it exciting — finding something new to bring to the touring culture," says the Edge. "It's hard to come up with something that's fundamentally different, but we have, I think, on this tour. Where we're taking our production will never have been seen before by anybody, and that's an amazing thing to be able to say. For a band like U2 that really thrive on breaking new ground, it's a real thrill."
As they have for well over a decade, Live Nation global music chairman Arthur Fogel and his team will produce and promote U2 worldwide. Committing to a global stadium tour is "obviously a major undertaking on a bunch of different levels," says Fogel. "On the last tour it basically broke down indoors in America and stadiums outside of America. Both shows were pretty different and they were both incredible, but I think the general feeling, and certainly mine, was the experience of U2 in a stadium is special and unique, and it would be great for North America to experience that the way the rest of the world did the last time around."
Playing in a 360 configuration will increase the capacity by about 15%-20%, depending on the stadium. The configuration opens up myriad opportunities for scaling ticket prices, an important consideration for Fogel and the band. The top ticket price will be slightly higher than last time and the bottom price will be lower, with the floor seats — the closest to the stage — the lowest priced. In fact, playing larger capacity venues allows for more conservative pricing overall. Field level is going to be $55, and there will be 10,000 tickets a show, every show, at $30, Fogel says. The price points are $250, $90-$95, depending on the market; $55 and $30.
On-sales will begin in Europe in mid-March, and North American on-sales will start in late March/early April. U2 will also resurrect its random upgrade program first seen on the Elevation tour in 2001, where select fans purchasing GA tickets will be moved closest to the stage.
The basic layout of the tour is Europe in July and August, America in September and October with a total of 40-45 shows this year; more stadiums in America in June and July next year, then August and September in Europe. The trek then tentatively will hit South America in the fall of 2010, for potentially as many as 90-100 shows over the next two years.
This will be the first tour under U2's 12-year multi-rights deal with Live Nation, though the band's relationship with Fogel dates back to a show at the El Mocambo in Toronto in 1979. "Arthur and I are great friends and I've been very interested in the Live Nation project for years now, and we've been very supportive of it," says U2 manager Paul McGuinness. "We obviously intend to go on performing for a long time to come and that's what the deal reflects. U2 always had parallel careers as recording artists and a touring act and it was always fundamental to our way of thinking that the two should be complimentary."
[Edit note: The tour name was changed from "Kiss The Future" to "U2360" on March 7]
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At about the same time, 5:15 p.m., I watched a man involved with Ron Paul's Louisiana victory box up phones at an outpost of the Ron Paul Revolution – a place from which some of the dispersed grassroots campaigns were run. Boxing up those phones marked the end of the 2012 phone-banking effort in that remote location. A room that I had seen abuzz with volunteer activity for months from early morning until whatever hour it is that Hawaiians start to no longer accept political phone calls was now being packed into a few small boxes and being shipped away. A few small boxes of equipment, a few hundred dollars to keep the lights on, and a dream for freer times ahead filled rooms like that across the country night-after-night. Tuesday that was all packed up.
The next night Ron Paul's son would show support for Mitt Romney at the RNC. There would be a video played about Ron Paul there, a similar video about the grandeur of George W. and H.W. Bush was also played. Just like the RNC would love to mothball the embarrassing details of the Bushes' time in DC, they would like to see the same done for Ron Paul and the idealism of his time in DC. The campaign had come to an end and in just a short time his career in DC would come to an end as well.
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Earlier that day, a man who'd never spoken about politics with me Googled me. He commented later "I bet you were really disappointed with how that whole Ron Paul thing turned out – how the Republicans treated him – weren't you?"
"No," was my answer. Ron Paul pushed forward the liberty movement in a way that it otherwise would not have been pushed forward. He inspired talented people from around the country; he inspired them to interact, to collaborate, to train together, and work together; he inspired some of them to travel great distances; he created a framework for greater interaction to happen among liberty-minded folks.
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As a result, a discussion took place and continues to take place. It is not the same great debate I had hoped for 10 months ago; it's still a discussion in the right direction. Ron Paul 2012 has solidified a movement that Ron Paul 2008 could not have solidified in the same way.
That discussion among Ron Paul supporters starts with a sentence like this "How can you and I collaborate to make ourselves more effective together than we are separately?" That discussion was repeated ad infinitum over the past year of Ron Paul's campaign.
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Tuesday was a day of saying goodbye to Ron Paul 2012 as I knew it, Wednesday felt like the same – Rand Paul, George W., H.W. Barbara, and Laura Bush, Mike Huckabee, Tim Pawlenty, Condoleezza Rice, John McCain, and Paul Ryan all spoke in a single broadcast to a national audience about electing Mitt Romney.
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I am eager to see what will happen next, yet I realize that good things may take time. Persistence is needed to fell a mighty oak. That the stubborn Ron Paulers persist in the absence of the motivational Ron Paul candidacy will be the true test. With that persistence, Ron Paul's movement will be an engine for growth; it will be a virtual Silicon Valley for political and for the more important non-political activity.
As we move forward with Ron Paul's Revolution, I focus on the themes of books like The Market for Liberty and The Sovereign Individual – books that put politics into perspective. Politics is one way to effect change. The number of non-political opportunities to effect change are uncountable.
Is the Ron Paul Revolution over? I have a phone book full of people who believe in the same ideas as I do about freedom, just as intensely as I do, and who are so very talented and resourceful. Why would I suddenly stop collaborating with those people just because a few suits in Tampa and some loser newspaper reporters who never understood it to begin with now claim that the Ron Paul Revolution has come to an end? If I were the only person with a phonebook full of people like that, amazing things would still come out of Ron Paul's movement simply because of the work that I will bring people together to do. More importantly, there are 10,000 other people similar to me – young in spirit, battle-tested, eager to see greater freedom, with a phone book full of contacts who will eagerly work alongside each other.
Precisely because of that, precisely because Ron Paul brought likeminded people together, his effect on the world will be immeasurable large. Most of that will have little to do with politics. Even the day Ron Paul's revolution marches into DC it'll be clear how insignificant politics will be to pursuits of greater freedom. Politics is just one option out of a limitless number of ways to bring change.
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At that 2016 reunion, something will be clear to anyone who was involved in 2012, 2008, and perhaps even earlier – because a guy from Texas decided to run for president in 2012, an endeavor that most observers will call a failed attempt, because of that, the lives of many people who rally around his message will never be the same.
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Well, here's something for the rest of us to do until the next season of Sherlock airs: watching the trailer where Benedict Cumberbatch (aka "The kind of thing the police ask you to say when you're drunk") plays Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, a role that we assume was a struggle for Mr. Cumberbatch to perform, as it involves changing his British accent to Australian and dying his hair another unnatural color. (Sorry ladies, he's a ginger.)
But the larger question is: Are we ready for a Wikileaks movie yet?
Our guess is: No. The Julian Assange drama is still unfolding, and midcareer dramatizations have always struck us as teh work of impatient screenwriters. (See also: W.) After all, a lot of things can go down between now and October 11th, and by the time this movie premieres, it might need a new ending.
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There used to be a pencil maker whoes pencils were sent to all parts of the world. One day he held one of his pencils and started talking to it. He told it 5 important things that would be imortant for it to be succcessful in its job.
- He said to the pencil : You will be able to do great things,but only if you allow yourself to be in someone's hand.
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We(Muslims) as a nation should also be leaving our marks(ina positive way not the suicding bomner kind of way) but if only we would allow oursleves to be held by ALLAH and agree to whatever He has deciede for us is the best for us.
NEXT month they are bringing mini Morroco in the islmaic center and we would get the chance to experience Morroco in the midst of Jeddah. Cant wait for it cause i am crazy for Morroco, It is placed quite high on my traveling wishlist. You also do try to go if u get the chance.
And please do watch the documentray and tell us your take on it.Happy days


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