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Canon Powershot A20 Review
Features & Controls
The three point AiAF focusing system works from 2.5 ft. to infinity in normal mode and
from 6.3 in. to 2.5 ft. in wideangle macro and 10.2 in. to 2.5 ft. in telephoto macro.
The conversion Lens
Adapter (LA-DC52) is required for use with the wide angle adapter. In addition, the
camera's will also accept Canon's 250D close-up lens along with any 52mm filter for
special effects.
The Wide Conversion Lens (WC-DC52) when attached to the A10 or
A20, creates a wide angle effect equivalent to 24.5mm (35mm format).
The real image optical zoom viewfinder is large and bright with central focusing marks.
It shows approximately 85% of the captured image. There is no diopter adjustment. The
two LEDs indicate focus and flash status.
The controls on the back are minimal but effective. When in record mode the SET button selects the flash mode (auto, redeye, on, off, slow-sync), the LEFT button selects the drive mode (single, continuous or selftimer), the RIGHT button selects the focus mode (normal, macro, landscape). If you're in Manual record the "+/- WB" allows you to set an EV compensation value (+/- 2.0 in 0.3EV steps) or select the desired white balance (auto, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent or B&W).
The MENU button calls up the onscreen menu in record or playback (see the next two pages) and you navigate the options with the LEFT or RIGHT buttons and accept selections with the SET button. The DISPLAY button turns the color LCD on/off and also controls the amount of data overlayed on the screen.
The Mode Dial lets you select Play, Auto Record, Manual Record or Stitch Assist mode
for recording panoramas.
The zoom control button operates the motorized zoom when in Record mode and also serves
as the Index and Zoom control when the camera is in Playback mode.
The PowerShot A20 has a CompactFlash Type I card slot and Canon supplies an 8MB card.
There is an ejector button below the card that makes changing the card very easy but
be ready to catch the card if it's pointed downward!
The I/O ports include the DIGITAL port for connection to the host computer's USB port or
to the Canon CP-10 Card Printer. The VIDEO OUT
port lets you connect the camera to a television set for playback, the format is user
selectable for NTSC or PAL. An optional AC adapter can be connected to the DC IN port.
Unlike most of Canon's other compact cameras the A20 is powered by four AA type batteries. A set of alkaline batteries are supplied but I highly recommend the use of high-capacity NiMH rechargeables.
The internal clock data and camera settings are maintained by a CR2016 lithium battery that is located next to the CF card door.
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Timbuctoo, California facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
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Timbuctoo is an unincorporated community in Yuba County, California. It lies northwest of Smartsville, at an elevation of 397 feet (121 m).
Timbuctoo was once the largest town in eastern Yuba County. Situated strategically on the Yuba River near its gold-bearing sandbars, yet perched high enough into the river's surrounding hills to escape flood risk, the town enjoyed its heyday in the 1850s. Founded by the gold miners working the nearby river placer deposits, the town enjoyed further success with the introduction of hydraulic mining in 1854. Unlike many of the mining camps that amounted to little more than tent shantytowns, the wealth flowing from Timbuctoo allowed for the construction of permanent buildings of wood and brick. Aside from the usual stores and businesses, the town's amenities included a Wells Fargo office, saloons, a church, hotels and a theater. The town was founded in 1855.
A post office opened in 1858.
Origins of the name
Legend has it that the unusual name was coined by an African American miner who panned in the area. He was said to have been from the region of Timbuktu, in Mali, although it is unclear whether or not the town was named by him or after him. In some versions of the tale, he was either an escaped or freed slave.
Hydraulic mining benefited California in three ways; it filled the state coffers, lined the pockets of mining corporations and fueled the boom of the mountain mining towns. Downstream, it was another story. Tons of sediment and detritus from the mining operations destroyed farmland and riparian land. It also changed the course of rivers in the Sacramento Valley. Once out of the steep slopes of the hills and mountains, the river water in the valley ran slower, allowing the debris to settle. Silt began to accumulate on the bottom of the Yuba and Feather rivers, making the channels significantly more shallow, which threatened to end the vital riverboat traffic and subsequent trade with Sacramento and San Francisco. Citizens of the downstream towns and cities such as Marysville became alarmed at the increased risk of flooding the shoaling of the rivers presented. Eventually a system of levees would enclose Marysville to combat the new threat, permanently limiting the growth of the city. Besides threatening urban communities, valuable farmland became buried under the mining debris. Farmers began to see more frequent and devastating flood losses, and soon a legal battle erupted to stop hydraulic mining once and for all.
Ruling in favor of the farmers, the United States District Court in San Francisco effectively put an end to hydraulic mining in 1884. By the time the United States Congress passed an act allowing hydraulic mining to recommence (albeit only after sediment retention dams were erected,) it was too late. It was 1893; the glory days when a single miner could make his fortune, or at least support himself with pick and pan, were gone. The hydraulic mining companies had seen their flume infrastructure washed away in a severe flood in 1891, and now were limited in where they could resume. Lacking an economic foundation, the town was abandoned.
The post office closed in 1883.
Timbuctoo is registered as a California Historical Landmark. While the general area of the "Timbuctoo Diggings" is inhabited, today it is considered by many to be a ghost town. The town site is accessed by the much-neglected Timbuctoo Road, which crosses a stream gulch by bridge in two places, one east and one west of town, meandering in a loop back to Highway 20. The western bridge buckled at the west end in 2008 and was unusable until replaced in 2014. Just to the east of the western bridge lies the ruins of the town's last structure; the Stewart Brothers Store/Wells Fargo Office, erected in 1855. Five miles west of the town on Highway 20 stands a historical marker. According to the 5 Miles Marker,[1] the structure was restored in 1928. However, the plaque that once adorned the facade of the store/Wells Fargo office stated that it was restored in 1925. Whatever the case, the building has since been destroyed. Rumors that hordes of gold were still stored within the structure apparently motivated looters to tear down the walls in search of treasure. Now collapsed, its brick and stone remains, topped by rusty pieces of the tin roof, can be seen behind a fence erected to protect it from further vandalism.
The Timbuctoo Cemetery is still in use, and dates back to 1855. It holds approximately 87 graves, most from the late 1800s and the early 20th century. It is also fenced and gated to ward off vandals.[2]
Timbuctoo was once a minor tourist attraction, enjoying public awareness of its historical significance and widespread enthusiasm for preservation. Despite all of these factors in its favor, Timbuctoo remains today an example of a failed preservation effort.

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Step 6. Make Your Artist Photos
To get started making your artist photos,
you need at least two kinds of high resolution photos of yourself.
1. Live and Recording Studio Photos
Live and recording studio photos are photos of yourself
playing in concerts and recording in the studio.
In these photos, you are in action, completely immersed in your music.
One of these photos should be able to be used as a headshot.
Take what you wrote in your characterization,
and aim to get a shot that expresses your biggest strength, your motivation and your uniqueness.
For instance, if your strength is charismatic leadership,
then a shot that communicates charismatic leadership could show you playing
in a concert where you're guiding the movements of the audience,
where they are following what you are doing.
Likewise, if your uniqueness is your depth in depicting life's struggles,
then a studio shot of you, after a long session, tired, sweaty,
with your eyes closed, listening to a beat intently, would be a good choice.
However, you need to think it through according to what you want to portray.
2. Studio Photos
Studio photos don't necessarily need to be taken in a photography studio.
Rather, the term stands for photos that have you looking your best
outside any performance setting (live or recording studio).
You should be in clothes that capture the life you want to depict.
Think in terms of people looking at these photos to get a feel for who you are
and what perceptions you communicate.
That same strength, motivation and uniqueness that
you characterized needs to be communicated in these photos.
It needs to come through everything from
how you dress, to the camera angle, to your facial expression and body language.
If you hire a professional photographer who has experience
taking studio photos of public personalities, then
you should be able to discuss your characterization with them.
They should be able to help you present yourself the way you define.
If you don't have the funds to hire a professional photographer, then
find a few friends and/or family who have an interest in seeing you reach your goals.
Discuss your characterization with them.
Review how your inspiration/competition presents themselves visually online.
work out the details of:
Clothes – What clothes best communicate your strengths, motivations and uniqueness?
Colors – What colors best communicate your strengths, motivations and uniqueness?
Background/Setting – What background and setting best communicate your strengths, motivations and uniqueness?
Body Language – What body language best communicates your strengths, motivations and uniqueness?
Facial Expression – What facial expressions best communicate your strengths, motivations and uniqueness?
Whether or not you can hold that kind of a meeting,
you can also scan through photos of yourself, picking out things you like and dislike.
Do you like/dislike the way you look from certain angles?
Do you like/dislike certain ways you pose?
Do you like/dislike certain ways you smile?
What clothes, colors, backgrounds/settings, body language and facial expressions do you like most?
Aim to replicate the best in all of the just-mentioned during your photo shoot.
As well as these elements, follow a few photography tips on
how to make yourself look better according to your body type:
If you blink during photos, then close your eyes before the shot, and gradually
open them toward the shot. This also helps to make you more relaxed in your shot
Avoid goofy smiles by putting your tongue
behind your teeth when you smile
To avoid red eye, look at a light
before the photo. This will shrink your pupils during the shot
Turning your head to a three-quarter angle gives more depth
than when you face the camera directly, which can make your face look flat
Standing in front of a white background brightens your facial and skin features. It
also makes it "easier" for the camera to find the right balance settings,
thus avoiding adding too much hue to your skin
Take a lot of photos in your shoot. The more photos you take,
the more photos you have to choose from.
Rarely would you look the way you want in every photo,
so the more to choose from, the better
Make sure the room's light is in front of you, not above or behind you,
otherwise all sorts of shadows will cover you. Look toward the light source to add sparkle in your eyes.
If you're taking photos outdoors, then taking them at dawn or dusk,
when the sun is low, is best for avoiding unnecessary shadows. Likewise,
face toward the direction of the sun when taking the photo
Hold an object. An object both relaxes your posture,
and it also adds to your personality.
Choose an object that best accentuates your biggest strength, motivation and uniqueness.
For example, think of the Eminem chainsaw photo that accentuates the Slim Shady crazy image.
Common ones among many rappers: a mic, the white cup, lots of 100 dollar bills, or
showing off jewelry (chains, rings, watches), and hand signs
Get into a conversation with your photographer during the shoot, and joke around.
A natural smile or any natural emotions you can awaken through a conversation in a
relaxed atmosphere will always look better than fake smiles that are forced
Feel good.
Being in a good mood adds confidence and
projects positively through your photo.
Prepare yourself toward your photo shoot by being around certain friends that you
always feel good around,
have your favorite meal or drink coming up to the shoot (just don't stuff yourself too much),
have a good night's sleep the night before,
and do a bit of exercise in the morning of your shoot,
all with the aim of feeling good and confident when going for the shoot.
Arrange your day where your photo shoot is the central item for that day,
and everything else is there to support it.
You don't want to do it on a tight schedule among the stress
of needing to complete all kinds of other things that same day
To make your face look thinner and eliminate a double-chin, push your face forward a little bit
Practice in front of a mirror. During that time, work out what positions you look best in,
and take mental notes of what you are doing mechanically to be
able to replicate that on your photo shoot day
3. Cartoons, Caricatures, Portraits, Sketches and Drawings
After you've taken your photos, it is worthwhile to turn your
favorite photos into various other graphic formats,
like cartoons, caricatures, portraits, sketches and drawings.
There are a lot of services online to do this without spending too much.
Run searches on Fiverr for the following words:
"draw you"
The same principle of looking for what kinds of images communicate
your biggest strength, your motivation and your uniqueness
applies to the kind of drawing you choose.
For example,
someone who makes funny, goofy caricatures wouldn't be suitable if
you're trying to portray your strong leadership qualities,
but might be suitable if you're trying to express your bizarreness.
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I will send your song to 300+ hip hop/rap/RnB blogs for $5
The Internet Guide for Rappers – 10 Steps to Establish Your Artist's Online Presence and Branding [eBook]Get PDF Version Get Kindle Edition
What is The Internet Guide for Rappers, and what will it give you?
Step 1. Choose Your Artist Name
A step-by-step process of scrutiny on your artist name: its strengths, weaknesses, what you can change, and what you can't.
Step 2. Get Your Artist Name on All the Web Property You Can
A one-time task that will set the foundation of your artist name's online real estate.
Step 3. Characterize Your Artist Profile
An essential process that will guide you to find what will make people want to become your loyal advocates.
Step 4. Write Your Artist Profile Statement
Frame the perception you want others to have of you as an artist in a 1-2 sentence zipped format.
Step 5. Write Your Artist Bio
How to put together a snapshot of your strengths, motivations and uniqueness as a rapper, including examples.
Step 6. Make Your Artist Photos
What kinds of photos you need to have of yourself, and tips for how to make yourself more photogenic.
Step 7. Create a Communication Plan
A guide for how to plan your networking in the upcoming 12 months in order to help you realize your goals, and also to open you up to new opportunities.
Step 8. Implement Your Communication Plan
A checklist for you to apply across all your communication channels to maximize the impression you make.
Step 9. Setup Your Artist Profile as an Extension of Your Personal Brand
The importance of differentiating your artist profile and your personal brand from the very beginning, and how to setup your artist profile as an extension of your personal brand.
Template 1: Artist Characterization Template
A guide to fill out your artist characterization, as described in "Step 3. Characterize Your Artist Profile."
Template 2: Artist Bio Template
The must-have parts of every artist's bio to help you write your bio comprehensively and quickly, as described in "Step 5. Write Your Artist Bio."
Template 3: Communication Plan Example Template
One example of how a 12 month communication plan looks like, for you to apply to your own networking actions over the next 12 months, as described in "Step 7. Create a Communication Plan."
Template 4: Communication Plan Checklist
Template of the communication plan checklist described in "Step 8. Implement Your Communication Plan" for you to apply across all your communication channels, to maximize the impression you make.


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10 Reasons Quitting the Gym Could Be the Motivation You Need to Get Fit
According to 2015 gym membership statistics in the U.S., about fifty-eight million people hold a gym or health club membership every year, yet a shocking 67 percent of them never use it. And those who do go to the gym only do so about twice a week. With memberships ranging from $20 to upward of $200 a month, that's no small wasted expense.
So this season, why not ditch the gym and make an effort to get fit somewhere else? It can be tempting to think you need a gym membership to motivate you, so we asked our fellow fit friends to share their favorite benefits of quitting the gym.
01. It's Free!
"I don't care to pay a monthly membership." "Working out for free." "The fact that it's free." "No membership fee." "Free, baby." Nearly everyone I interviewed mentioned that exercising for free is a huge plus. Fair enough!
02. Flexibility
Emily, Verily's social media manager, tells me, "I like working out at home (especially since I work from home) because I can do it whenever I feel my body needs it most without the hassle of having to transport myself somewhere." Teacher Christina Grace shares, "I now know how to workout anywhere, anytime—even when traveling." More than working out when and where you want, Matthew, creative director and TEDx speaker, says, "At home [I'm] able to multi-task (workout while listening to a podcast)," whereas at the gym one must bother with headphones, blasting music or chatty neighbors.
03. A Time-Saver
Speaking of multitasking, simply pop a chicken in the oven, and you'll have dinner ready when your workout is through! In all seriousness, saving time is a major perk. "No need to pack or drive—definite timesaver," says Cheryl, a physician associate and mom of two. John Jay Austria, fitness manager at 24-Hour Fitness, says, "You don't have to wait for machines or beating the crowd at rush hours when the gym is packed." Not waiting for people, equipment, or machines was a big plus for home trainers.
04. Cleanliness
Austria adds, "Gyms are one of the most unsanitary places." In fact, infectious disease specialist Dr. Bruce Hirsch tells NBC, you "can pick up a bug if an infected person at the gym wipes his mouth or nose, touches the treadmill or bench press." Saunas can cause rashes. Locker rooms are breeding grounds for bacteria. And showers "are notorious for carrying lots of germs like fungi that can cause athlete's foot," says podiatrist Jane Anderson. Gross.
05. Bringing Bebe
"I take stroller stride classes since I can do it with my son," says new mom, Courtney Ann. "I doubt gyms would let me workout with my baby due to liability." "I also take classes with my kids outside with the stroller, which I couldn't do in the gym, and I work out at home while my kids are sleeping or we have fun together," says Natalie, mom of two young ones. And for those without kiddos? "Working out with my dog next to me!" is a fun plus, says marketing and business development director, Priscilla.
06. Privacy
Lilly, Verily's style editor quips, "I like working out on my back porch area because when a really good Sia or Ariana Grande song comes on, I have to dance. Then I just make the dance part of my work out. I also like being able to do weird butt and inner thigh workouts without feeling like I look like a dog peeing on a fire hydrant." Been there, done that. As Matthew puts it, working out at home means "No judging eyes."
07. Healthy Body Image
Sophie, Verily's special projects manager, admits that when she's exercising at home or outdoors, "I feel so much less self-conscious than at a gym." Christina Grace mentions that "not having tons of mirrors to scrutinize myself in" and "not having other people around to compare myself to" are what she appreciates most. These ladies are onto something. Research shows that frequent exposure to unattainable or idealized body and beauty standards not only doesn't aid in weight loss, but actually results in weight gain.
08. Self-Empowerment
Melissa, and elementary school educator, shares, "[T]he challenge of maintaining the self discipline in working out is something I somewhat enjoy. . . . It almost builds a sense of self-confidence and thinking, 'Hey, I can do this without a gym!' I mean, it may not be as effective, but I'm satisfied."
09. Getting Outside
The overwhelming majority mentioned being in nature as one of their favorite things about exercising outside. "Love going to outdoor boot camps. Helps to get some sun in and a breath of fresh air," says Tana. Austria calls it a chance to get "sun exposure (vitamin D)," vital for curing seasonal affective disorder during colder months. Spending time in nature has also been proven to lower stress levels. Two birds, one stone.
10. The Gold Mine
"YOUTUBE!" exclaims Verily contributor Maria Walley, who personally curated a tried-and-true list of free workout videos to sample if you want to switch up your routine or retire an oft-unused gym membership.
In 2012, I gave up my $79/month NYC gym membership before moving to Europe where, ironically, there is not a health club in every neighborhood. I learned how to stay fit by exercising at home or outdoors, and I haven't looked back since (neither has my wallet).
Let's take advantage of the mild temps and beautiful seasonal changes by taking our workouts outside. The gym will still be around when it gets cold out, and so will our tips on how to get your tush there.
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I like my ASUS Eee PCs. I've got three of them. They've displaced a full size PC laptop and a MacBook (now relegated to being my TV computer) as well as a desktop system. They're rugged as heck--I throw them right into my book bag when I take one (or more) to school. They work well, and I especially liked buying them with Linux pre-installed and configured for the hardware. Though now ASUS appears to have been strong-armed into shipping with just Windows (market demand my foot--like anyone trying to buy a 901 with Linux on it when it was first released would believe that!)
A new model was shown around, a unit that has the entire system built into the keyboard. Expansion ports, connectors, and a touch-screen display. You can see it at slashgear and on Steve Chippy's YouTube video. I thought this was pretty darn slick. I was ready to buy at least one, probably two.
Then they just sort of dropped off the face of the map. They don't appear nor are they mentioned on the ASUS Eee site.
And I haven't heard any follow-up reports since those glowing announcements telling me I was going to be able to buy one last June.
The Eee Touch and Eee Box just don't do it for me. The Eee Keyboard was the killer box. I can't hardly think that I'm so very odd that I'm the only one that was ready for the return of the keyboard console computer.
What do you say?
p.s. ASUS: If you want to recover some costs by selling off a couple of functional prototypes, drop me an email!
Monday, August 16, 2010
Whatever Happened to the Eee Keyboard PC?
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The Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center is opening a new traveling exhibit, which will run until Oct. 15, titled "Crime Lab Detective." It's a fun way to highlight a number of crucial elements of the scientific process. Crime Lab Detective takes visitors into the popular world of crime labs and detective work.
The exhibit focuses on a home that has been burglarized while the family was vacationing. Several items were stolen, and visitors to the exhibit will be tasked with discovering who did it and why.
Visitors will scrutinize evidence left behind while recording their findings in a detective notebook. After investigating the crime scene, visitors will be challenged by the lab activities as they work to decide which of the five prime suspects committed the crime.
"Crime Lab Detective" lets guests be like Sherlock Holmes as they examine clues such as fingerprints, hair and DNA.
From tire marks left outside the crime scene to a cloth fiber on a picket fence, visitors will learn how to collect, sort and analyze evidence and data. Visitors can work individually or as a family to gather clues.
"The GEHC is so excited to host this special exhibit. I can't think of a more fun way to explore the scientific process," said Jason West, GEHC's director of educational programming and development. "The evidence will be right before your eyes. The challenge will be to solve the crime."
To get ready for this exhibition, GEHC is hosting a series of super sleuth movie nights in July. The films will be shown at 7 p.m. in the Cisco Blue Planet Theater, with "The Goonies" on July 27.
Special crime fighting activities and a preview of the exhibit will begin at 6 p.m. each night before the movie.
Admission charges for each movie night are $3 per adult (13 and older) and $1 per child (12 and younger). GEHC members are admitted free.
An additional $1 is charged for out-of-county residents. Movie concessions will also be available for purchase.
The exhibit is included in regular GEHC admission during the course of its three-month run. "Crime Lab Detective" was organized by the Arkansas Museum of Discovery and is sponsored locally by the Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center Foundation.
For more information, visit www.gwinnettEHC.org.


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This black girl rules the roost over at Labradale being a permanent house dog. She also visits with close friends of ours and goes to camp out during the summer with her best canine friends Jill and Cherie as well as visit guests at the Montreal General hospital.
Retired from our breeding program now she had a very exciting show career with multiple best puppy in show wins, multiple specialty class wins/placement in both Canada and the US. Couple this with her wonderful temperament and personality and she's a proud addition to our kennel.
Her niece Ch Labradale's Maid in the Shade is presently having a good career as well, go visit her to find out what she's up to. Other relatives here at Labradale/Highcaliber are Chance, Miranda, Shakira and Blake.


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Maple Leafs-Bruins Preview
BOSTON (AP) -- Forget about the way the Bruins and Maple Leafs stumbled into the playoffs. Pay no attention to how Boston has dominated Toronto in recent seasons. That's what both teams will be trying to do when they meet in the playoffs Wednesday night for the first time since 1974. ''If things would've been going all our way, we would've been downplaying it the same way,'' Bruins center Patrice Bergeron said Tuesday. The Bruins missed a chance to finish second in the Eastern Conference by losing seven of their last nine games. The Maple Leafs dropped four of their last six regular-season games and nine of 10 to Boston over the past two seasons. They've also lost 11 of their last 13 at TD Garden. ''I'd expect we're going to get a Boston Bruins team that's different than the last two weeks of their season and I'd expect we're going to get a higher brand of hockey from our club also,'' Maple Leafs coach Randy Carlyle said. Both teams are likely to get key scorers back from upper-body injuries - Nathan Horton for Boston and Tyler Bozak for Toronto. Horton missed five games and Bozak sat out two. ''I think we're playing a little bit better. We're just not scoring,'' Horton said. ''We get our chances but we didn't put the teams away and we just gave them a chance to stick around. That's how they come back and that's in the past now. We don't want to think of that.'' The Bruins' 131 goals were eighth in the conference and they scored only 18 in their last nine games. The Leafs were fifth with 145 goals and now expect Bozak, who had 12 goals and 16 assists this season, to be ready for the opener of Toronto's first playoff series in nine years. ''When you have a player that takes all the important faceoffs for you, that's the first place you miss him,'' Carlyle said. ''Bozie is a real smart hockey player. He knows where to be on the ice. The puck kind of follows him around and his game is one where he does a lot of the little things that aren't noticed, but you notice them when he's not there.'' One focal point will be former Bruins player Phil Kessel and Boston's Tyler Seguin, two top young forwards. Boston traded Kessel to Toronto in September 2009 for three draft choices, two of whom turned out to be first-rounders: Seguin and rookie defenseman Dougie Hamilton. Both have played key roles this season. In 16 games against Toronto, Seguin has 10 goals and six assists. Kessel has fared much worse against Boston with three goals and six assists in 22 games - and he's had to endure the jeers of Bruins fans. ''They are obviously going to be loud, probably going to be giving it to Phil a little bit,'' Bozak said. ''We're used to that when we go there, but it might be a little bit more upscale this time around.'' Kessel probably will have more problems with a Bruins defense that allowed just 109 goals, second fewest in the East. But the Maple Leafs became a bit tougher themselves against opposing puck handlers as the season progressed. ''I think they've improved a lot really on their forecheck, on the way that they pressure,'' Bergeron said. ''They really come hard, and they're in your face, and they're a pretty physical team. So we're expecting that.'' Boston missed a chance to be seeded second in the conference when it lost 4-2 to the Ottawa Senators in the regular-season finale Sunday. That allowed Montreal to take that spot while the Bruins slipped to fourth. The Maple Leafs earned the fifth seed. ''It doesn't matter if we finished first or eighth,'' Boston goalie Tuukka Rask said. ''You make the playoffs, you've still got to start with a clean sheet. And I think nobody's even talked about the regular season anymore. We're focused on the playoffs.'' --- The Canadian Press contributed to this report.


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Cast your mind back to pre-2008 times, when bright and bushy tailed graduates would come out of business school looking for roles in the relevant employers of choice. Generally those organizations were large businesses, providing incentives such as expensive dinners, a career advancement path and generous financial packages.
Well, a lot has changed since then, and one of the benefits generated from the great recession has been the explosion of entrepreneurial activity across all sectors of the economy. This is both a business and societal change, generating amazing wealth and turning successful entrepreneurs into the rock stars of their time. Talk to any business school graduate these days, and what they want is to actively utilize their new found skills to create value, in a supportive, fast moving culture with a broader positive societal impact. The stark reality is that they don't see large organizations providing those opportunities.
Of course, this provides a challenge to large organizations, as they all want to be innovative, but are struggling to adjust to the needs of the business and their employees in this new environment. I have pointed out the desires of new graduates, but this entrepreneurial spirit is relevant to employees at pretty much all levels within an organization. The genie is out of the bottle.
In response, the concept of "Intrapreneurs" has bubbled up within the innovation community, as a way for large organizations to fight back and engage those employees that want to flex their entrepreneurial muscle in ways that drive business value to the enterprise. Leaders of Corporate, HR, L&D and Innovation functions are actively pursuing this concept and approach.
So, before I go further, let me just outline what I think the term "Intrapreneur" means.
To me (the thinking amongst innovation thought leaders is pretty consistent here) they are employees that are encouraged to generate and develop new ideas within the context and structure of an existing corporate organization. The idea is to take an entrepreneurial mindset and approach, utilizing that within a larger enterprise.
Conceptually the definition is simple, but as I talk to companies and think about this area of interest, I see different approaches to building and supporting Intrapreneurs within organizations:
- Intrapreneur consultants: Some organizations choose to develop internal consulting SWAT teams that are charged with generating and deploying new ideas as a full time role. Members of these teams can own the development of ideas at various points, or throughout the whole development process
- Pros: Can be a great way to get focused execution on a limited number of key ideas
- Cons: Can be an expensive model to maintain and cultural benefits from these employees are not leveraged more broadly across the organization. Ownership by business units, at the time of launch / handover, can be challenging
- Intrapreneur as a development opportunity: In this model key employees are given opportunities to work on ideas for a period of time, but then asked to go back into their existing roles. There are a few different ways that this approach can work, including positioning intrapreneurs as part of a high potential / leadership development program or members of a corporate incubator.
- Pros: Can often be easily integrated into an existing leadership or high potential development program.
- Cons: Employees are often dissatisfied in going back to their old day-to-day roles.
- Intrapreneurs as owners: This approach most often takes place when entrepreneurs are introduced into larger organizations through corporate venturing efforts. These entrepreneurs then switch over to being intrapreneurs within the context of the corporate organization.
- Pros: These are expensive individuals with real world experience that is clearly valuable to a large corporate entity. Providing active approaches to support, engage and drive additional value from these individuals becomes a powerful incentive for action
- Cons: These individuals often struggle to find their footing in large organizations (they started out as entrepreneurs for a reason) and so keeping them within a large organization can be challenging.
- Intrapreneur networks: Many organizations are building and supporting networks of intrapreneurial-minded employees. As part of these efforts these individuals are trained in new skills, connected with like-minded individuals and given the opportunity to work on new ideas, often as an extension of their day-to-day roles. I have written about this model on several occasions.
- Pros: Leverages skills across an organization, engages a range of employees, positions key employees to act as catalysts for broader behavior change within an organization, leads to longer-term cultural change.
- Cons: Requires a high degree of commitment from leadership, can require more resources to maintain and track success
This is obviously a high-level overview to the various models and approaches to supporting intrapreneurs within established, corporate organizations. In future articles I plan on delving further into these models.
For my money, the approach around intrapreneur networks is what drives the most lasting impact and ROI for organizations, but of course the specific circumstances and needs of businesses need to be accounted for.
In my next article, I plan to focus on some of the broader benefits of intrapreneurs, and also some actions and steps that organizations can take to support these individuals. Be sure to check back in next week.This article was previously published in Innovation Management.
About the Author
Anthony is the CEO of Culturevate, an organization that empowers a company's employees to execute ideas and inspire a culture of innovation, through employee networks, a resource portal and training programs (developed in association with Professor Chris Labash from Carnegie Mellon University). Anthony is a widely read author, speaker and advisor to industry leaders at organizations such as Pfizer, U.S. Postal Service, Johnson & Johnson, ADP and Fidelity. He previously led the BNY Mellon innovation program and has a Masters of Commerce (University of Sydney) and Bachelor of Economics (University of Newcastle).
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First, New York! Then...Nada.
Mark Schmitt over at TPMCafe writes up an analysis of various Republican presidential contenders and finds a reason to discard most of them, preferring dark horse Newt Gingrinch (!). Kevin Drum over at Washington Monthly reproduces the data, and in the comments, everyone tut-tuts that Schmitt left Giuliani off the list.
George Pataki's name never surfaces, not in Schmitt's analysis, not in Drum's, and not in 95 comments by political junkies.
Pataki, give it up! People aren't even making fun of your aspirations; they're ignoring them.


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Extending the VFP9 Reporting System Part I: Design-time
Among the new and improved features in the reporting system of VFP 9 is the ability to extend the Report Designer to provide easier-to-use, more powerful, and more flexible report writing to your development team and even your end-users. In this session, you will learn about the new Report Builder application, how it captures and handles events raised by the Report Designer, and how you can create your own handlers to extend the VFP Report Designer in ways you never thought possible.
Extending the VFP9 Reporting System Part II: Run-time
In addition to the design-time extensibility of VFP 9's reporting system discussed in Part I of this session, VFP 9 also provides the ability to extend the behavior of the reporting system when reports are run. In this session, you'll learn about VFP 9's report listener concept, how it receives events as a report is run, and how you can create your own listeners to provide different types of output besides the traditional print and preview.


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Detecting and Managing Code Smells: Research and Practice
Code smells in a software system indicate the presence of quality problems that make the software hard to maintain and evolve. Smells not only impact maintainability but also negatively affect other quality attributes such as reliability and testability. Given the importance of smells and their potential impact on software quality, software engineering researchers have explored smells and various dimensions associated with them in the great width and depth in the last two decades. Identifying code smells automatically and refactoring them help software engineering practitioners to keep the software maintainable. Therefore, the dimension of automatically identifying smells has enjoyed active interest by the research community and appreciated by the practitioners.
We divide our session into three parts. In the first part of the session, we present a comprehensive overview of the literature by covering various dimensions of the metaphor. We present defining characteristics of smells synthesized from a comprehensive set of definitions discussed in the literature. The smell metaphor has been extended to other similar domains such as configuration management, spreadsheets, and presentations. We present a summary of the types of smells described in the literature. Smell could cause from a wide variety of factors including lack of skill or awareness, and frequently changing requirements; we discuss the curated set of ten such factors that cause smells. Further, we summarize the impact of smells on people, artifact, or process. In the second part, we delve into the details of smell detection methods prevailed currently both in research prototypes and industrial tools. Traditionally, smells are detected by metrics-based and rule-based approaches. History-based and optimization-based approaches are alternatives that also have been employed by the community. In the recent times, machine-learning-based approaches have been attempted to detect smells. We aim to present a synthesized overview of the current approaches. Additionally, we present the intricacies of developing a smell detection tool that we learned from developing Designite, Puppeteer and other tools. Designite is software design quality assessment tool that detects smells at implementation, design, and architecture granularity. Keeping the software maintainable is a non-trivial challenge for software development team given the real-life challenges (such as time pressure). The final part of the session deals with such challenges and present actionable and pragmatic strategies and practices for practitioners to avoid, detect, and eradicate smells from their codebase. These strategies focus on three major pillars of software development - people, process, and tools.
The session offers contributions to both research and practice. For researchers, it provides a comprehensive overview of the domain of code smells. Also, it reveals the intricacies of developing a smell detection tool. At the same time, practitioners can learn the potential quality issues that may arise in their codebase to avoid them. Furthermore, practitioners can apply pragmatic strategies planned in this session to identify, interpret, and refactor smells.
Tushar Sharma is a researcher at Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece. The topics related to software design and architecture, refactoring, software quality (more specifically code and design quality), and technical debt define his career interests. He has worked with Siemens Research and Technology Center, Bangalore, India for more than 7 years. He earned an MS degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, Chennai, India, where he specialized in design patterns and refactoring. He co-authored the book "Refactoring for Software Design Smells: Managing Technical Debt". He has also co-authored two Oracle Java certification books. He has developed Designite which is a software design quality assessment tool used by many practitioners and researchers worldwide. He is an IEEE Senior Member.
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I was sitting on the sofa quietly trying to watch tv.
Every once in a while I would hear a faint noise,
I didn't pay much attention to it.
My eyes left the tv screen
and fell upon the eyes of another.
At that moment
I knew for certain
that I was being watched.
I tried to ignore her at first...
She grew more impatient with me and finally,
she came and threw her duck on me.
Play time!!!
Abby hadn't been feeling well, age and the heat have been getting to her, even though she only goes out for a few minutes at a time to go potty. I was really concerned about her last week, thinking her time was starting to run out. But I babied her and begged her not to break my heart and it must have worked because she's back to feeling better. So we played one of our games, "Kill that duck!" and had some snuggle time.
The last picture of her, the settings were off on my camera and in order to salvage the shot I had to process it pretty heavily in lightroom, it was almost completely black. I kind of like how it turned out.
My sofa has a built in recliner /foot rest, I had my legs propped up when she threw her duck up on me. She props her chin on the duck like that, ready for you to try an take it from her. As soon as you reach out for the duck she snaps it up in her mouth and when I holler "kill that duck!!", she shakes it like mad.
Silly ole girl.


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April 23, 2015
The thing I like about having a "real" job, is that it forces me to focus on what I am doing.
Even the Johns Hopkins gig is helping me focus -- teaching Java and their Web Design courses.
The problem with WyzAnt, is finding the right students -- for several weeks I've been trying to convince someone that I just wasn't the right tutor for them. The student wants to learn how to do the cool, fun websites like Wix. Well, I can learn how to do that, but is that the best use of my time?
I end up prepping more than I'm teaching.
So yeah, I sent him on to someone else, which I've been trying to do in email for two weeks.


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There are many things that can harm your smile, and tartar is one of them. Tartar is a toxic substance that threatens your teeth and gums and promotes gum disease. It's best to keep tartar away from your smile as much as possible, and Dr. Grant R Young and our dental team are happy to help you do so.
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This War is for Us
by Ariel Natan Pasko
Arutz Sheva
March, 26 2003
Stop and think for a moment: the last Gulf War in 1991 ended erev - just before - Purim. This Gulf War began motzei - just after - Shushan Purim. Get the picture?
Of course this war against Iraq and Saddam Hussein is for us ...
... this war is for us - i.e., the Jews and Israel. Chazal - our sages - throughout the ages have explained the Torah, telling us that everything that happens in the world is for the benefit of the Jewish People.
Simply put another way, if all the world is a stage, then the Jews - and especially those in the Land of Israel - are the lead actors on the stage of history, and the goyim - the nations, i.e. the gentiles - have supporting roles, while the evil-doers are props and background scenery. As our tradition states, G-D - the great playwright - created the world for the sake of the Jewish People, and it is our responsibility to implement the Torah - absolute morality and the blueprint of creation - in it.
Stop and think for a moment: the last Gulf War in 1991 ended erev - just before - Purim. This Gulf War began motzei - just after - Shushan Purim. Get the picture? In between, "The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honor." (Book of Esther 8:16)
Read the Purim story in Megilat Esther again, it is a rags to riches story on a national scale. Haman, the proto-typical anti-Semite, plans mass murder of the Jews and in the end pays with his life, the life of his ten sons - all hanged - and the Jews kill 75, 800 members of the anti-Semitic - i.e. Nazi - party of the time.
... As I said earlier, of course this war is for the Jews and Israel, and instead of hiding from the accusation, or crying, "anti-Semitic slur", we should gratefully acknowledge what the Master of the Universe is doing to our enemies for us. Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat, Bashar Assad, Osama Bin-Laden, and the other dictators, terrorists and mullahs of the region, are the modern day Hamans ...
Perhaps this Israeli's excitement with wars against "modern day Hamans" coinciding with Purim, the holiday commemorating the Jews' vengeance against Haman, can be understood in light of Judaic messianic prophesy:
"But withal redemption will not be complete until Amalek will be exterminated, for against Amalek the oath was taken that "the Lord will have war against Amalek from generation to generation" (Ex. XVII,16). (Soncino Zohar, Bereshith, Folio 25b)


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The level of ignorance displayed here surpasses anything I have heard slip out of George W. Bush's mouth yet. Modern genetics is built on the work done on Drosophila Melanogaster aka "fruit flies." This is the same ignorance that perfuses so many minds attached to bodies that vote. The fear and ignorance on display here explain much of the reason the epidemic of evangelism has spread so fervently in the United States over the past several decades. A union of scientists should coalesce around this soundbite of stupidity and rally with all their might against Sarah Palin, I kid you not!
Yeah who cares about understanding the biochemical mechanisms of disease? If someone gets sick or is born with a congenital defect it was God's will. Right?
Who are these people and why do they have any political clout at all?
And what happened to Renaissance statesmen/women?
Thomas Jefferson once said "Science is my passion, politics my duty."
This philosophy is worth reviving!!!
See Keith's take on this.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Palin vs Science
Posted by Dr. Bonobo at 5:04 AM
Labels: Sarah Palin, Science, Thomas Jefferson
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She is perfect for America. After all ~50% of you are unable to see that she is absolutely ignorant. Why? Well they are even dumber than Palin. This country is in a really sorry state.
You just got to do something to bring these folks out of the 18th century.
- October 25, 2008 at 1:00 PM
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Dakota Fanning was only 7-years-old when she broke onto the Hollywood scene, holding her own against Sean Penn in I am Sam. By 2005 she had more than 15 films under her belt and was named the most powerful actress in Hollywood by Entertainment Weekly at the ripe old age of 10! But now one of the most famous little girls in the world is not so little anymore.
She had already pushed the envelope with The Runaways, playing rocker Cherie Currie, who experimented with drugs and her sexuality. Now Dakota tackles more risqué material in the upcoming Very Good Girls about two teens who enter into a pact to lose their virginity.
But, Dakota's not the only young star who seems to have grown up over night. Justin Bieber just released his new album Believe in June and all anyone seems to be talking about is his "mature"; new sound. In our most recent interview with the pop superstar, he dishes about "Sexy Bieber";: "I'm growing as an artist and my fans are growing with me, so I'm just making music that reflects that.";
Meanwhile, Spring Breakers is set to help Justin's sweetheart Selena Gomez shed her child star image. The film is directed by Harmony Korine, who's always eager to shock with controversial kids. The film stars Selena and fellow Disney protégé Vanessa Hudgens, who take off on a bikini rampage and somehow their hard partying leads to an armed robbery.
Watch more unbelievable teen transformations in the video below!


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When a web browser or the desktop client logs in, a new HTTP session is started. Every request made to the server after that, will use that same session. Sessions automatically expire and are logged out when they have been inactive for 30 minutes. This prevents a session from staying open when you put your computer to sleep or in case of a client crash.
Desktop Client
A special case is the desktop client. When it is logged in, it will make a special request to the server every 5 minutes. This will prevent the session from expiring while the desktop client is open and a user is logged in.
When you close the client or switch user, it automatically logs out the user session.
When the client is closed, the session is ended immediately. In other cases (client crash or when their computer is set to sleep mode) it is always terminated after 30 minutes. The only case where you can have sessions staying open is when people leave the client open while not working with it.
If needed, users can be 'kicked' from the admin interface in System > Manage Sessions tab in the desktop client.
HTTP / API Interfaces
Custom interfaces that use the Elvis API do not keep their session alive by default. If required, this is easy to do by making an AJAX request to a URL on the server every 5 minutes. A special URL is availble for this purpose: http://<Elvis serverUrl>/alive.txt?uid=...
Note: Make sure to append a unique value to 'uid=' with each request to prevent it from being returned from the browser cache or a proxy cache.
Configure session timeouts
This feature requires Elvis 4.6.7 or higher.
The moment at which a timeout occurs for a Web session, Desktop client or InDesign client can be configured to your needs.
The web session configuration affects all web sessions including api-calls, plugins and webclients. It is not advised to use values lower than 10 minutes to make sure clients can send their requests to alive.txt.
# Timeout in minutes used by server to remove inactive web client session.
# Negative or zero values will be changed to default 30 minutes
By default the desktop client and InDesign client will never time out. To change this behavior the timeout of both clients can be set individually with the following two properties:
# Timeout in minutes used by server to remove inactive desktop client session.
# Set to -1 to indicate no timeout while the client has an open connection.
# Timeout in minutes used by server to remove inactive InDesign client session.
# Set to -1 to indicate no timeout while the client has an open connection.
Timeouts for clients are checked on a regular interval of 5 minutes, this means that setting the timeout to 30 minutes will expire between 30 and 35 minutes since the last action. Setting the values to -1 will keep the sessions alive until the user logs out. Clients from crashed or forced quit clients will also be removed when the web session is expired.


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The Early Federal Workforce
How did Americans govern themselves during the Constitution's first tumultuous decades?
This question is animating a book and digital project by Washington University in St. Louis professor of history, Peter Kastor. Kastor, who teaches at Brookings Executive Education's Daring to Lead course observes that although there are a plethora of books on the Founding Fathers, there is scant information about what the early federal government did and who did it. He is addressing this void through a careful analysis of the Founders' correspondence and a massive digital archive of the federal workforce. The project, Creating a Federal Government, is providing answers about the early days of the federal government and the men and women who served. For more information visit https://pages.wustl.edu/cfg for an introduction to the project and its goals. For more insights, read Kastor's paper on the early federal workforce.
About the Author: peter Kastor
Peter Kastor is professor and chair of the Department of History as well as professor of American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author or editor of six books, include The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America and William Clark's World: Describing America in an Age of Unknowns. A 2013-2014 Digital Innovation Fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies, Professor Kastor is currently at work on The Founding Fathers' Government, a project that combines a book about policymaking during the early republic with a major digital archive that reconstructs the early federal workforce.
"A regular guest on St. Louis Public Radio, Kastor has spoken with numerous media organizations about the history of American politics and has written for outlets including The Huffington Post, The Conversation, and Fortune.
In addition to his work with Brookings Executive Education, he has worked with groups from the St. Louis Public Schools, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, and the Air War College.


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Home > New Mexico Bed & Breakfast > Albuquerque, New Mexico > Red Horse Vineyard B&B
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Red Horse Vineyard B&B
- Your host(s):
- Darlene Capshaw & Carl Londene & Kat Capshaw
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- 2155 Londene Lane SW
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- 505-967-7610
- Guest Rooms:
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- Extra Person Fee:
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Red Horse Vineyard B&B
Casual, country setting family homestead on land with historic roots and settled along the Rio Grande Valley. Surrounded by river cottonwood trees an hidden amongst abundant vegetation create an oasis in the desert. Escape the heat of the city and the sun and relax with the hummingbirds and breezes!
With themed rooms the main house is filled with vintage furniture and collections as well art work and ceramics created on property. Stay in the Old West and experience New Mexico in the late 1800's. Or in the Sunrise Suite which can sleep up to 5 people where guests are surrounded by native southwestern art. Downstairs, the English Rose room is the most romantic while the Heritage Room displays family history as guests relax on the king size bed and enjoy the oversize shower. The two rooms downstairs are ADA mobility feature friendly and have doors to the outside private patios and ramp. Common areas include a billard/bar room with a fireplace, living room and reception area, gift shop and dining room. Outside are several patios, sitting areas and water features to relax beside. Enjoy seasonal fruit from the orchard or vegetables from the garden. Participate in the vineyard activities and wine production. Try your hadn at ceramics or riding a horse at the ranch who partners with us. Or simply relax in a rocking chair on the patio and watch the stunning New Mexico sunsets!
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Record Screens & Menus
Here you can see the E-5 in Live View mode. The amount of information displayed on the screen is toggled by the INFO button on the back of the camera. The above animation shows the different screen/info options available:
Information Display On, Histogram Display, and Image Only.
When AF locks, the AF center AF point will turn green to indicate successful focus, or red if it fails.
Here you can see the E-5 recording video in Live View mode. The E-5 can capture HD (1280x720) or SD (640x480) Motion JPEG (.AVI) video with a fixed frame rate of 30fps. The maximum clip size is up to 2GB, due to the AVI format used. The built in speaker record Mono audio, however you can use external stereo microphones with the E-5 thanks to the Mic jack located on the side of the camera.
Instead of the usual Mode Dial, the E-5 uses a menu button in conjunction with the rear control dial to change the exposure mode. You can either look at the top Data Control display, or the screen above on the LCD to choose your Shooting mode. At the same time, you can alter the drive mode by rotating the front control dial.
Camera menu options:
- Card Setup - All Erase or Format
- Reset/My Set - Reset the camera settings to defaults, When powered up the camera will be reset to one of two custom settings
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Yummy cake for HBC Challenge
For the cake:
Plain flour/Maida - 2 cups
Oil - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 2/3 cup
Almond milk - 1/2 cup
Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
Baking powder - 2 tspS
Baking soda - ½ tsp
A pinch of salt
Banana - 1 very ripe
Dessicated coconut - 1/4 cup
For the crisp topping:
Almonds -1/4 cup
Flour-1/3 cup
Sugar-1/4 cup
Cinnamon-1/4 tsp
A pinch of salt
Oil - 2 tsps
1.Preheat oven to 180 DEG.C. Grease a baking pan with butter. Combine the almond milk with the oil, eggs, sugar, and vanilla.
2. In another bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix the dry ingredients gently into the wet ones until combined. Gently blend in the bananas and the coconut. Pour into the pan.
3.In a blender, grind the almonds until coarsely chopped. Add remaining crisp topping ingredients and process into a dry dough.Spread bunches of topping over the top of the cake.
4.Bake for 40-45 minutes, until the top of the cake has risen, the crumbs are golden, and a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.


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How Portia de Rossi Plans to Democratize the Art World
The actress talks to Galerie about her new venture
The complex artist-gallery relationship and elitist art market have long been a fraught topic of conversation in the art world. Every so often, new opinions are offered to shake up the system, proposing alternative models that allow a fairer deal for artists and art access to a wider audience.
The art world has traditionally been dominated by an elite fraternity of galleries who sell to a select group of collectors. In recent years, there has been a lot of talk about, and a variety of attempts to 'democratize the art world' or at least offer alternative models to connect art and artists with new audiences.
The latest art-market disruptor is an unlikely contender: Portia de Rossi. With her new startup titled General Public, the award winning television actress hopes to democratize the art world. Launched in May, the company produces three-dimensional reproductions of unique artworks—a hybrid between painting and printmaking—by using a technology she created with Fujifilm. Her aim is to open up the market and render the middleman—the gallery—obsolete. In a collaboration with RH, Restoration Hardware, the company offers design aficionados the ability to find an exclusive curation of nearly four dozen paintings by artists Koen Lybaert, Kali Sanders, Seb Sweatman and Paul van Rij at some 100 stores nationwide.
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In the last few years we have seen technology work in similarly powerful ways. Take Artform for example, a relatively new platform that allows fans to support artists and architects through monthly subscriptions. And just this past week, the investment startup Maecenas, a new online marketplace that promises to give art enthusiasts the chance to buy shares in famous paintings, opened online registration to participate in an event billed as "the world's first ever blockchain-based auction of fine art." Fans of Andy Warhol can now purchase a fractional share of his 14 Small Electric Chairs (1980).
De Rossi takes things a step further by allowing artists to distribute high-quality replicas of their work directly to the buyers, which she hopes puts the control in their hands and empowers the artists. "Support artists, not art," de Rossi tells Galerie. The company offers 5 percent to artists, which is small compared to the sum generally offered by galleries of 40-50 percent. But artists have the potential here to scale up and sell more works. (The works are sold in editions of up to 500.)
Divided into four themed collections: Studiomarks, Colorfield, Found Art, and General Public Domain, the one-of-a-kind works offered by General Public are aimed at people who would like to hang a piece of art in their home but are new to collecting or don't like to buy from galleries. "I like to think of the originals like sculpture molds, and that the prints are as valuable as the original painting," de Rossi writes in a statement on her website.
Spotlighting the synergy between art and technology, the 3-D printing technique is called a "Synograph," and unlike a print or dorm room poster, it also captures the physical texture of the painting's marks and brushstrokes. The synographs are available to purchase from the General Public website for a price tag of between $500 and $4000.
Here, Galerie talks to De Rossi about the project.
How did the idea for General Public first come about?
I wanted to bridge the gap between the decorative and the fine art market. Although many folks have an appreciation of art and would like to own good works by good artists, not everyone wants to learn about the art market or they find collecting—and the galleries—intimidating. We developed a print, called a Synograph, that is an almost identical reproduction of the original painting-complete with texture. The Synograph provides folks with an alternative to collecting paintings and the flat poster-like print. This proprietary technology and our professional curation is how we bridge the gap."
Recommended: Cross-Collecting Is in Full Swing at Masterpiece London
Has your personal experience as an artist played a role?
As an artist myself, I have watched every other art form use technology to cut out the middleman, democratize art, and empower the artist. For example, the printing press and the internet have revolutionized writing; the phonograph and the MP3 have revolutionized music. And yet painters' careers are still controlled by gallerists. I want painters to have the ability to sell editions of their paintings to maximize their profitability. I also want the folks who really appreciate these artists to be able to own and enjoy their works as the artist intended them to be enjoyed.
How do you make sure that the technology doesn't threaten or devalue an artist's original work?
Our technology elevates printing. The Synograph replaces a poster-like print, not an original work. It shows the work as the artist painted it. Without seeing the brushstrokes, you don't get the whole story. It could be argued that the more people who get to enjoy an artist's work, the more celebrated the artist becomes.
What was the selection process behind the artists you currently work with? What are you looking for?
I work with art advisors and gallerists who know more than I do about an artist's technical proficiency. I want to make sure the painting is made by a good painter. So we look at the artist's body of work before selecting an image for printing. I choose artists that I love, admire and want to share.
You are a big art collector yourself. What art do you have in your homes right now and who are your favorite artists?
Ellen and I have been collecting for many years and are fortunate enough to have some great works. Our collection is mostly post-war and contemporary. The fact that I feel guilty that only we get to enjoy these works is one of the reasons I started this company. Great art needs to be shared, and the experience of living with a great painting far exceeds living with a flat, lifeless print. Joan Mitchell is one of my favorite artists and we are lucky enough to live with one of her paintings.
What do you have planned for the company next?
I want General Public to be a trusted, go-to art brand, so we are taking our on-line store to the streets so folks can see and feel the texture in our prints. Our first show will feature LA street artists and will be at Santa Monica Place in the fall. We will have artists in residence so the general public can talk the people behind the paintings and watch them work. It's our mission to lift the veil from the art world and bring art out of the galleries and to the general public.


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Tuesday, 30 August 2016
19 comments:
Lots of layouts going on wow you've been busy for sure like the lemonade one very bright and cheerful funny growing up I thought making 5 selling lemonade was fantastic till the kids on the corner sold lemonade and popcorn and made $110 dollars wow times have changed for sure have a wonderful day Hugs NikkiReplyDelete
Lots of layouts going on wow you've been busy for sure like the lemonade one very bright and cheerful funny growing up I thought making 5 selling lemonade was fantastic till the kids on the corner sold lemonade and popcorn and made $110 dollars wow times have changed for sure have a wonderful day Hugs NikkiReplyDelete
wow. look at all those layouts! Great work. Hope your throat gets better soon. Helen #1ReplyDelete
Your desk looks like mine usually does too. Lovely layouts. I love to scrap but I would soo NOT say I was good at it!ReplyDelete
Happy WOYWW
Gorgeous layouts! Loved the inked edges! zsuzsa #18ReplyDelete
Hi Anne, lovely layouts. I feel you losing your ruler uner paper! I was trying to get all those batch cards done last week, and was forever losing stuff under piles of card blanks/envelopes and such like. Have a great week, Hugs, Shaz #6xxxReplyDelete
Your layouts are great. And you have a busy schedule. I hate the thought of snow, but ours shouldn't be here for a few more months. I love our Fall weather. Snow and Cold is just a LOT of work. One thing it means is rearranging clothes..another time consuming job. Enjoy a fun week.ReplyDelete
Lovely layouts you've made. We had a 'loss' in our family as well but it was found after a couple of days!!ReplyDelete
Have a good although busy week.
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Those LO looks fab.ReplyDelete
Happy WOYWW. I love all of your LOs and your busy craft room. Hope you get the pile of papers on the floor sorted soon! Snow, winter??!! We are having our usual late summer 'heatwave' here in Wales - in other words it is warm and sunny enough for me to not have a jacket on, and the doors/windows are open. I love this time of year and we usually get good weather in September too. Not looking forward to winter. Ali x #25ReplyDelete
So tidy and well organised! Such an impressive working area! TFS! xxReplyDelete
Oh I love the layouts! Didn't get a closeup of the caravan one though!?ReplyDelete
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Great layouts Anne! Still thinking about an ATG .... on my list. I spend half my time searching for things tha are under the layers. I will never be tidy! Happy WOYWW Cindy #27ReplyDelete
Love seeing all your layouts side by side...pretty! Happy Wednesday. Sandy Leigh #33ReplyDelete
That's a lovely little work space and you are having fun with those LOs aren't you! x JoReplyDelete
Hi Anne, your layouts are lovely - beautiful combination of papers and embellishments. Haven't got an ATG yet but I also spend too much time hunting for stuff under layers! Have a great weekend. Hugs, Elizabeth x #38ReplyDelete
Very nice layouts! I need to get cracking and get some of the ones I started on done. I thought about trying a challenge blog but I am worried I would get to stressed with deadlines! Hope you have a great week. Vickie #45ReplyDelete
Your layouts looks fabulous!ReplyDelete
And you did organize everything in a nice way.
SusanLotus nr 42
Your area looks so nice. I luv the distress ink storage. I'm not a scrapbooker but I enjoy seeing them. Yours are so pretty...summer and vintage. It makes me want to try it. Do you store them in a photo album?ReplyDelete


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One of the best things about making kombucha is getting to experiment with different flavors. Sometimes it works great, sometimes it doesn't. Like that time I thought that using clove and ginger would be good. Don't put whole cloves in. Maybe it's ok if you put them in for like a day and then take them out. But I put ginger and whole cloves in for about a week. Let's just say that it all got poured down the drain. Lesson learned.
So I usually always make my kombucha base with black or oolong tea. But, I ran out of black tea and decided to try green tea for once. It's great! It has a much lighter taste than the black and oolong. It's also way lighter in color too. I mean, yes, of course, duh, but it still surprised me. I mean, look at that difference.
So, considering it's a much lighter taste, I wanted to pair it with something that would compliment it. I was wandering around the farmer's market, because that's the best place to get ingredients for kombucha. Yes, you can use store-bought fruit or even frozen fruit, but the stuff at the farmer's market just seems to have so much more flavor and freshness. Maybe it's a mental thing, or maybe it's real, but I love the farmer's market. Anyhow, I found pears still in season and we also had some extra ginger at home – so ginger pear kombucha!
When you're using ginger, you want to be really careful not put too much in. It can overpower really quickly. But the right amount can add delicious subtle flavor and spice to your drink.
Pear Ginger Kombucha
- 6 flip top 16oz glass bottles (or whatever sizes you want)
- Funnel
- 12 cups Kombucha base
- 1 Pear, thinly sliced
- 1/2" piece of ginger, thinly sliced (you don't need to remove the skin)
- You should have a kombucha base that has already gone through the first fermentation and is ready for the second fermentation.
- When your Kombucha base is ready, remove the scoby and set aside.
- Stir the kombucha. During the first fermentation, it usually doesn't ferment evenly and you want to mix it all up to even out he brew.
- Set aside 1 cup of your first fermentation for starter for your next batch.
- Evenly divide the pear and ginger slices between your bottles.
- Using the funnel, pour the kombucha on top, leaving 1-2 inches of head space.
- Let sit on the counter and don't forget to burp them (quickly open and close the bottles to release some of the pressure). I burp mine in the morning and evening. If you don't, the bottles can explode from the pressure of the building carbonation. (I haven't had this happen, but I've gotten a few dismayed texts from my mom about bottles exploding and the resulting mess. Quality bottles help, so make sure you're getting ones that are made for fermentation.)
- They should be ready to go in about 5-7 days. When they're ready, put them in the fridge to stop the fermentation process. You can filter the fruit out or leave it in. Sometimes a little scoby will also grow on top of the liquid during this time.


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Published in Water e-Journal: Building a Water Resilient Town
March 19, 2019
March 19, 2019
Integrated water cycle saves water at Googong
By Chiew Wong (Stantec), Katherine Hurley (Stantec), Craig Harris (Googong Township)
This paper presents the journey of Googong IWC project. Conceptualised in 2002, the proejct involved some 15 years of planning, design, approvals, and asset delivery. To date, the Stage 1 IWC assets have been fully delivered. This has enabled Googong to be a thriving town of some 2,000 people after a short period of three years since the first residents moved in.
Preliminary flow monitoring analyses suggest that the town is well on its way of achieving its originally stated goal—to be a water resilient town where 18,000 people will use the same amount of water that 6,500 normally would.


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- Region : Crete
- Prefecture: Rethimno
- Municipality : Foinix
The monastery consists of two main building complexes, the Lower (Kato) Monastery of Saint John the Baptist and the Rear (Pisso) Monastery of Saint John the Theologian, which is in operation today.
The Monastery has a glorious history due to the active and leading involvement of its fellow monks in all national endeavourers for freedom and education of our people.
Thus, it merits specific recognition and respect throughout the island of Crete.
The oldest date related to the monastery is 1594, and it is engraved on a bell of the monastery. The monastery was probably founded during the Venetian occupation by a feudal lord known as Prevelis.
When in 1649 the Turks occupied Crete, they destroyed numerous church establishments, among them the monastery of Preveli.
The monastery was for three centuries the most important center due to its leading role in the local society of Saint Vassilios and Sfakia provinces, where due to the landscaping territory the Turkish occupation force allowed a peculiar system of political tolerance and a limited state of freedom.
The Monastery of Preveli is a religious center and consequently the place of gathering and social contact of the population.
The role of the Monastery in the world war II
The events of the heroic battle of Crete in May 1941 are well known, when the Germans forces met fierce opposition from the Allied Armies and the people of the island.
The Monastery of Preveli, desiring to be faithful to its traditions and having no other way to give help, arranged on a daily basis supplies for the Allied army and the locals during the battle in Perivolia, on the outskirts of Rethymno. However, the seizure of Maleme airport in Chania and the advance of the German forces throughout Crete resulted in the evacuation of most of the Allied troops and the departure of the remnants of the Greek Army to the Middle East.
Nevertheless a large number of English, New Zealand and Australian soldiers remained on the island because they had no means of getting away.
Although the occupying forces ordered very harsh reprisals against the local population if they provided shelter to these remaining Allied troops, the Monastery of Preveli and the neighbouring villages became for many of them a place of safe shelter and a point from which they could escape.
The monks and the local people organized themselves into groups to guard the area, to care for and protect the Allied soldiers who were dispersed in hideouts known only to the locals, where it was not possible for the Germans to track them down, even after constant searching.
Immediately a committee was formed from the inhabitants of the neighbouring villages under the chairmanship of Abbot Agathangelos Lagouvardos to deal secretly with the problems and the expenses of safeguarding the soldiers and that committee continued its work right till the end of the occupation of Greece.
The Holy Monastery of Preveli, to mark the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Crete, has undertaken the responsibility to erect privately and under its supervision, an international memorial dedicated to peace and remembrance. The Memorial has been erected on the monastery's own land, on a site with a stunning panoramic view, overlooking the Libyan sea.
To help raise money for the upkeep of the memorial a cookery book has been produced. The book contains recipes contributed by people from all over the world - people for whom Crete is a special place, and who, in common with the fighters Tom Dunbabin and Geoff Edwards, who had the idea for the erection of a memorial at Preveli, value the courage and kindness of the Cretan people in sheltering and aiding the allied troops.
The Museum
A substantial number of icons is kept in the Monastery of Preveli. The icons compose interesting themes, covering a period from the first half of the 17th to the end of 19th century approximately, an era that the good tradition of Crete has been interrupted by the Turkish conquest.
The painters continue the tradition of the late Cretan school of painting, turning equally into account the austere orthodox tendency as well as the copper painting of the masters of the first half of 17th century in Rethymno and Chania, influenced by the western ones, mainly the Flemish.
The choices made in the selection of the various themes of the icons, indicates a good level of culture of the monks - who purchased these at the end of 19th century, considering the distance from the urban centers and the isolation of the area.
The Following Collections Can Be Seen In The Small Museum At The Monastery
Collection of icons.
Collection of ecclesiastical garments.
Collection of ecclesiastical vessels.
Collection of heirlooms.
superbgreece.com thanks Preveli.org for contributing information and some photos about the Preveli Monastery. Learn more about the Preveli Monastery on www.preveli.org and support the erection of the Battle of Crete Memorial (Preveli project).
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Yard-O-Led Viceroy Victorian Engraved Sterling Silver Fountain Pen
With elegant, slender lines and a gently flared top, the Viceroy Victorian Engraved Sterling Silver Fountain Pen is a slim and delicate instrument from the experts at Yard-O-Led.
Each Viceroy Victorian pen is a demonstration of the quality and design that the experienced craftsmen at Yard-O-Led have perfected over the years, offering a collection to suite all writing styles.
The heavily engraved sterling silver finish of the Viceroy Victorian highlights the intricate work of the knowledgeable Yard-O-Led craftsmen. The each part of the gorgeous Viceroy is finely detailed with a motif meticulously hammered by hand.
Every time you write with the Viceroy Victorian your words will pour out easily onto your paper in elegant style with a wet ink flow. The Viceroy is fitted with an 18K medium nib and is also available in matching rollerball pen.
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Unlocking the hidden European mode in web ads
06 May 2018
It would make me really happy to be able to
Google web ads in Privacy Badger.
(Yellow-listed domains are not blocked, but
have their cookies restricted in order to cut
back on cross-site tracking.) That's because
a lot of news and cultural sites use DoubleClick for
and other Google services to deliver legit,
context-based advertising. Unfortunately, as
far as I can tell, Google mixes in-context
ads with crappy, spam-like, targeted
stuff. What I want is something like Doc Searls
Just give me ads not based on tracking me.
Until now, there has been no such setting. There could have been, if Do Not Track (DNT) had turned out to be a thing, but no. But there is some good news. Instead of one easy-to-use DNT, sites are starting to give us harder-to-find, but still usable, settings, in order to enable GDPR-compliant ads for Europe. Here's Google's: Ads personalization settings in Google's publisher ad tags - DoubleClick for Publishers Help.
Wait a minute? Google respects DNT now?
Google doesn't appear to have their European mode activated yet, so I added a do-nothing "European mode" to the Aloodo project, for testing. I'm not able to yellow-list Google yet, but when GDPR takes effect later this month I'll test it some more.
In the meantime, I'll keep looking for other examples of hidden European mode, and see if I can figure out how to activate them.