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Update: The list is now bookable, but Florida properties are gone.
Well, it's back! I'm always super excited about new IHG PointBreaks list, and this one is no exception. Get ready to book on Monday, for travel through January 31st. It should go live before noon. Some properties are loaded at the discounted rate before the list goes live, so check and see. Since the period encompasses several major holidays, many hotels may sell out fast during those times.
As usual, whether you find the list a stud or a dud will depend on your plans. The cost is 5,000 points per night; 4,500 points if you have a co-branded Chase IHG Mastercard (read about it in this post). Here is the full hotel list Drew at Travelisfree has also put together a map of participating properties.
As always, you have a few options to get the points if you don't already have them in your IHG account:
1) Transfer the points from Chase Ultimate Rewards to IHG 1:1 if you have Chase Sapphire Preferred or Ink Plus cards. Per reports, the points don't always transfer instantly.
2) Buy them directly from IHG at a cost of 13.50 per one thousand points. LINK
3) You can also buy them via "cash+points" trick, where you make a reservation at a random IHG hotel, then cancel it and get the points refunded. That way, they end up costing 0.7 cents each. You have to have 5,000 points to begin with. I don't endorse this method and IHG may suspend your account if you do it too many times, but it's there if you are willing to risk it.
Now on to the title. There are two hotels in Florida that stand out IMO:
Holiday Inn Orlando East – UCF Area
It's possible to put together a nice Thanksgiving or Christmas break vacation in Florida by utilizing those two hotels. The first one is located about 40 minutes driving distance from Fort Lauderdale airport (served by Southwest airlines) and only 2 miles away from a beach. There is also Palm Beach Zoo located nearby. Since it's a Holiday Inn Express, breakfast is included. The hotel is brand new (rooms fit four) and has a heated pool. Check this TripAdvisor page for photos and reviews.
I don't expect that it will stick around on PointBreaks list for more than a few days. I could be wrong, of course, but I would reserve it as soon as it becomes available, especially if you plan on going during holidays. I'm hoping to book a weekend getaway in January. My cousin-in-law Jen, what say you? Care to join us?
Holiday Inn Orlando East is located about 47 minutes away from Magic Kingdom. Obviously, it's not ideal for first-item visitors or those with small kids. But if you have been to Disney quite a few times and just want to have a base to visit Cape Canaveral, Daytona beach as well as Magic Kingdom, this hotel could do the trick.
The third hotel in Florida could also be a good fit for some:
Holiday Inn Express Brooksville
Look at the map:
The arrow points to the hotel (I just love playing with screenshots!) Anyway, if you are planning to visit Busch Gardens in Tampa, Disney, as well as Crystal River (to see manatees), it could just be the perfect location if you don't want to switch hotels.
Bottom line
IHG PointBreaks list will be out shortly. I wanted to write this post a few days ahead so you would have time to look it over and figure out if anything might be a good fit.
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Author: Leana
Leana is the founder of Miles For Family. She enjoys beach vacations and visiting her family in Europe. Originally from Belarus, Leana resides in central Florida with her husband and two children.


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Budapest, April 10 (MTI) – A minister without portfolio will be appointed in the next few days to oversee and manage the upgrade of Hungary's sole nuclear power plant at Paks, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced in parliament on Monday.
Orbán made his announcement in response to a remark by Bernadett Szél, co-leader of green LMP, who had called into question the government's rejection of a referendum concerning the Paks upgrade. She insisted that the government had no authorisation to embark on such a project.
Orbán said the ruling parties' "cards are on the table", arguing that his administration had signed the framework agreement for the project before the last elections in 2014, "so that nobody can say that they are unfamiliar with the energy policy" of the government before reelecting it.
Orbán insisted that his Fidesz party supports both nuclear and renewable energies but it appears the former would be the cheapest "for a good while".
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When a loved one is diagnosed with a terminal illness, it is often a close family member who assumes the role of caregiver — a role over 40 million Americans fulfill. Caregivers, from a heart of compassion, tend to the majority of their loved one's needs."Hospice respite care allows caregivers to get the rest they need." Tweet
Be it assisting their loved one with mealtimes, remembering medications, or providing transportation to doctor's appointments, the responsibilities of caregiving exact a large physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual toll. Over time, the work of providing care for a loved one can begin to wear down even the most resilient of spirits.
What is Hospice Respite Care?
Understanding the demand placed upon caregivers, hospice provides caregivers with a service known as "respite care."
Under respite care, a terminally-ill loved one can be temporarily checked in to a professional care facility, such as a hospital, hospice inpatient care facility, or nursing home. This allows the caregiver to get some much needed rest and time away from the rigorous demands of daily caregiving.
Caregiver Burnout and the Purpose of Respite Care
Though caregiving is an act of loving service to another, it is work and a continuous expenditure of time, effort, and energy. In addition, most caregivers have additional responsibilities that they must fulfill alongside their caregiving duties, such as caring for their own families, or working a full-time or part-time job.
Sadly, as a combination of caregivers' continuous output and a lack of attention to their own needs, caregiver burnout is an all too common occurrence. During burnout, caregivers can experience:
Depression in caregivers manifests over time, often as a result of the continuous stress and demands of caregiving. Left unchecked, these depressive thoughts and feelings can manifest into a caregiver's desire to hurt herself or her terminally-ill loved one.
If you are a caregiver experiencing the desire to self-harm, please contact the National Suicide Prevention hotline immediately. Highly-trained and compassionate experts are available 24/7 to ensure you can find the comfort and help that you need.
Recurring and frequent sickness
As the mind, body, and spirit wear down under stress and the continuous output of effort, caregivers' immune systems can decline, leading to frequent bouts of illness.
Inability to sleep
Caregivers are always thinking of the well-being of their loved one — mental checklists of medications taken, doctor's appointments, meals, transportation arrangements, and the general demands of caregiving make getting truly restful sleep difficult.
Changes to appetite
Sudden shifts in diet often manifest during caregiver burnout. Some may eat to help cope with stress and difficult emotions, while others may lose their appetite altogether.
Should caregivers find themselves experiencing any of these symptoms, exploring the hospice respite care option is time wisely spent — ensuring the health and well-being of the caregiver is paramount to both the caregiver and the care of their loved one.
The Benefits of Hospice Respite Care for Caregivers
For many caregivers, exercising the respite care option may feel as if they are claiming weakness or demonstrating an inability to provide adequate care for their loved one.
Quite to the contrary, a caregiver who uses respite care is one who understands that one's personal health affects one's ability to provide quality care for another.
The purpose of respite care is to ensure that caregivers, with the stress and level of daily effort that their role demands, are given time to rest and recuperate in order to avoid burnout.
Physical benefits of respite care for caregivers
By knowing their loved one is under the compassionate and attentive care of medical professionals, caregivers can begin to attend to their own physical needs.
Improved sleep patterns
With the peace of mind gained from respite care, caregivers are able to get their sleep schedules back on track for more restorative sleep.
Increased energy and improved self-care outlook
By having a break from their care responsibilities, caregivers are empowered with the time to begin investing in themselves and their own personal care.
While it may seem selfish at first blush, proper self-care — through proper sleep, diet, and exercise — is paramount to providing the highest level of care for a terminally-ill loved one.
During the respite period, caregivers can begin taking positive steps toward a more balanced schedule and lifestyle, yielding positive benefits for both themselves and their loved ones.
Mental, emotional, and spiritual benefits of respite care for caregivers
Caregiving takes its toll not only physically, but mentally, emotionally, and spiritually as well. By exercising the hospice respite care option, caregivers allow themselves to the time to heal and reinvest in their personal wellness.
Improved outlook on care situation and the caregiving journey
When given the time to rest mentally and physically during respite care, caregivers often report a greater sense of well-being and an improved outlook on the overall care situation.
In addition, the rest afforded by respite care is often reported as a contributing factor in a caregiver's ability to adapt to difficult care emergencies or sudden life changes as a result of caring for a terminally-ill loved one.
Improved relationships with family and friends
The stress and constant demand of caregiving often puts a strain on relationships with family and friends. Feeling as if family members aren't helping enough, that friends aren't being supportive, or that others are overstepping their bounds and "helping" a little too much are all common feelings that can arise.
Through respite care, caregivers can have the time to talk with family and friends and begin mending relationships, setting boundaries, and helping others understand in what capacity help is needed most.
Reduced levels of stress and anxiety
With trained healthcare professionals providing their terminally-ill loved ones with attentive care, caregivers often report an improved peace of mind and overall lower levels of stress and anxiety.
The Benefits of Hospice Respite Care for Patients
While providing caregivers with a time of rest and recuperation is key, patients also benefit from periods of hospice respite care. While checked in to the inpatient facility, patients are provided with compassionate care that maximizes comfort according to their specific care wishes.
Physical benefits of respite care for patients
Patients often show signs of various physical improvements during their respite care period.
Improved sense of overall physical well-being and improved physical functioning
Many patients, particularly those who identify as living with highly-stressed caregivers, report greater levels of overall physical well-being and often show signs of improvement in carrying out tasks such as toileting, eating, dressing, and other activities of daily living.
Psychosocial and emotional benefits of respite care for patients
In addition to the physical benefits that respite care can yield, patients often report an improvement in their overall psychosocial and emotional well-being after an inpatient respite care stay.
Reduced care recipient guilt, stress, and anxiety
Terminally-ill patients often report feeling guilty about the care they require and can often feel as if their continued living has become a burden to the loved ones that care for them.
By receiving care from an expert care team, and knowing that their caregiver is getting quality time to relax and enjoy downtime from caregiving responsibilities, patients report feeling reduced levels of guilt, stress, and anxiety surrounding their terminal illness and move toward an understanding that they are more than their illness and that they are never regarded as a burdensome weight.
Improvement in social interactivity skills
When in respite care, patients are checked into an inpatient care facility, allowing them time away from their normal day-to-day surroundings. By regularly interacting with compassionate, friendly people who are dedicated to their care and by being exposed to welcoming and novel surroundings, patients often show an improvement in social interactivity skills during their time in respite care.
Reduced emotional and relational friction with the family caregiver
Respite care allows both the patient and their caregiver some time apart and time to relax and reflect upon the end-of-life journey as a whole.
At the end of the respite care session, many patients report feelings of greater emotional and relational connection with their caregiver, with both parties often citing an improved respect and appreciation for one another.
How Often Can Hospice Respite Care be Requested by a Caregiver?
A caregiver may only request respite care once — a single, 5-day session — each billing period. More frequent use of respite care may be permitted in special circumstances; however, these often require that supporting documentation be submitted to ensure that the request for an additional respite care session is valid.
If a caregiver is frequently requesting respite care, the hospice care team may recommend that a patient be moved from their current home, or caregiver's home, and placed into a care facility that is more readily equipped to maintain the level of care that a patient may require.
This suggestion to change care locations, however, will never supercede what the patient desires for his or her care. Should the patient desire to remain wherever they call home, the patient's end-of-life care preferences are always held in the highest regard and honored by the hospice care team.
Where is Hospice Respite Care Provided?
Respite can can only be provided at a Medicare-certified inpatient hospice facility, or a Medicare-certified hospital or skilled nursing facility that has the capacity and ability to provide around-the-clock nursing care should a hospice patient's plan of care require 24-hour care.
Respite care may only be provided in a Medicare-designated inpatient facility. This means that respite care cannot be provided a patient's home, nor at assisted living facilities or residential care facilities, as they are regulated at the state level and do not meet CMS's federal requirements of being a Medicare or Medicaid-certified hospital, inpatient hospice facility, or nursing facility.
Paying for Hospice Respite Care
Respite care, as a service of hospice, is largely covered by the Medicare hospice benefit; however, you may be responsible for 5% of the Medicare-approved amount for inpatient respite care.
To ensure full understanding of any costs that may be associated with a loved one's respite care stay, contact the hospice organization's billing coordinator.
Caring for Yourself to Care for Your Loved One
It is common and understandable to feel guilty about even considering respite care. At first blush, you may feel as if you're admitting defeat or admitting to the world that you're not up to the task of taking care of your terminally-ill loved one.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The respite care option exists because being a family caregiver is an incredibly demanding experience. Every facet of your being — your mental well-being, your physical person, your relationships, and your spirit — is involved in providing the loving, compassionate care that you provide for your loved one.
Caregiving isn't easy, and respite care isn't admitting defeat. Exercising the respite care option demonstrates a true desire to provide the utmost care for a terminally-ill loved one because you're aware that your ability to provide for another is intimately linked to how much energy you have to give — and that energy cannot be expended if you're physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually exhausted.
The hospice respite care option communicates strength, compassion, and above all, a desire to provide the very best care for your loved one on the end-of-life journey.


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10 Essential Mac Miller Songs
In his final interview, published on Vulture just a day before his death, Mac Miller gave unwitting advice on how best to honor him: "The people that have the best chance of knowing me, that would like to" the late 26-year-old rapper said, "would just be by listening to my music." And while his later music developed an alchemy of complicated sorrow and clear-headed descriptions of substance abuse, one does need not look too deep into his catalog to hear the sweetness that characterized the Pittsburgh rapper's career. From his "EZ Mac with the cheesy rap" (a catchphrase he would come to regret, but endeared him to an early, still passionate audience) days in the late 2000s, to the harrowing and poignant release of Swimming earlier this year, Miller's discography renders a portrait of a full artist who crafted records bleeding with sincerity.
Miller's career had several acts. In its latter stages, after he began to shed the carefree image and work of his early persona and develop into something of an experimentalist, he became a consummate album artist. Some of his best work, especially Swimming, are best taken as a whole. But, to get an idea of how much he changed over his career, and to get a snapshot of why he was so beloved by a such a diverse audience, it's important to take a sampling from every era of his varied career. So, for newcomers and longtime fans alike, we've assembled a (non-chronological) mix of his best-known and obscure tracks in an attempt to introduce Mac to those who didn't get a chance to listen to him while he was still here.
"Donald Trump" (2011)
Mac Miller's earliest hit, from his 2011 project, Best Day Ever, is a time capsule. It's a distillation of the exuberance of a backpack rap generation banking off the mid-00's internet mixtape boom. A precocious talent, Best Day Ever was Mac shedding the final vestiges of his high school life settling behind him, a graduation gift for the four years Miller committed to both school and rap. Over a bouncy, delightful sample of Sufjan Stevens' "Vesuvius," Miller forecasts his seemingly inevitable rise to rap stardom as he plotted to "take over the world while the haters gettin' mad." The raps here are facile rags to riches fodder, yet it's the shrill delivery that, especially listening back now, stands as a reminder of Miller's adroit ability to convey the simple joy of finally being recognized for and profiting from thousands of hours of work. Famously, this would begin a long-running feud with the now-President, a battle that Miller would take seriously (though with his characteristic tongue-in-cheek sense of humor at every turn) throughout his career.
"REMember" (2013)
Miller's broody sophomore album, 2013's Watching Movies with the Sound Off, pinpoints the moment the artist's growing musical maturity dovetailed with his developing sense of pain. "REMember" is not only a dedication to his late friend, Ruben Eli Mitrani, who passed away the year before, but kicks off a series of melancholic spins (one of which we'll get to a bit later) wherein Miller debuts his creaky, wailing singing voice. The song sits as the first instance of Miller's disillusionment with the bright lights of stardom: "And everybody wanna talk to me about some business shit/Never really listening, couldn't get real interested." But even more, "REMember" found Miller dealing with a growing awareness of his own mortality, balancing the invincibility of his younger self — "I know I've been the shit/All this people full of me" — and the growing shadow cast on the people he thought would be around forever. "It's a dark science when your friends start dying/Like how could he go? He was part lion."
"Ladders" (2018)
Swimming, Miller's final album, released just last month, will stand as his best. It's a tight effort, designed to stand as a whole, and the finest display of both his still-developing musicality and rare ability to craft songs that made listeners feel like they knew him personally. "Ladders" is a centerpiece, a missive that feels like bouncy thesis on the meaning of life from a person very much still figuring it out. The titular ladders are the central metaphor here, focusing on striving for new heights and taking hold of the next run as soon as you can. It could be a heavy subject in another's hands, but Miller (with help from co-producers Jon Brion and Pomo) chose one of the brightest beats on the album to soundtrack it. It's a buzzy, jazzy backdrop, complete with a horn section breakdown designed to dance to; Mac makes it all sound so fun.
"We," feat. Cee-Lo Green (2016)
Breezy and open and relaxed, with a focus on live instrumentation and an improvisational atmosphere, The Divine Feminine served as a remarkably confident announcement that Mac Miller had arrived in the third act of his career (a very real tragedy after his untimely passing is that there was no indication that this third act would be his final one). Long past the carefree party rap that laid the foundation for his career, Mac had spent the last few years mining his darkest artistic impulses; this was his turn back towards the light. "We," which lets Cee-Lo float in as an ethereal presence at the three-quarter mark before exclaiming "You've got to deal with Mac Miller, bitchhhh" with a laugh to close out the track, is a confidently laconic piece of songwriting. By now, Miller had learned how to let songs develop, to breathe, and started to value the kind of song you could keep on repeat forever rather than deploying his ever-sharp writing in bursts. This was one of the best examples of that coming to fruition.
"Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza" (2010)
The chorus of hip-hop artists giving glory Miller's work after his death on Friday shouldn't come as a surprise: The rapper and producer exuded a bone-deep love for the culture's heroes and histories, both in his work and any time he was given a platform. Flipping Lord Finesse's seminal "Hip 2 Da Game" without regurgitating the latter's flow or topicality at the age of 18, Miller paid tribute to the genre while staying squarely in his own lane. Though many would take umbrage at his willingness to touch a classic, Miller would eventually win many of his critics over by simply always striving for improvement (and knowing what he was talking about). The song, another of his earliest hits, kicks off with a customary blunt hit and whining horns signaling an appreciation for dusty boombap cypher sessions at the lunch table when we were just some "muhfuckin K.I.D.S." Although he was still dreaming of the stardom that would subsume him later on, "Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza" was Miller at his most approachable, inspiring teens to press forward in developing their own aspirations by rapping at their level: "I live a life very similar to yours."
"Planet God Damn," feat. Njomza" (2016)
The Divine Feminine found Mac Miller uncharacteristically happy. After three years and three albums doused in shadows, Miller's early glee was finally recaptured on record. Miller's changing sound — from familiar rap samples and breakbeats to live instrumentation — mirrored a changing environment. After moving to L.A.,and getting plugged in with artists like Odd Future's Earl Sweatshirt and Long Beach rap virtuoso Vince Staples, he was starting to embark on a new artistic journey, moving from the beat scene to live instrumentation. His collaborative and compositional ethic played out gorgeously on "Planet God Damn." Alongside REMember label colleague Njomza, the song casts Miller as heartbroken ("I think I'm stuck inside nostalgia/My mind are in the times when this love was so divine"), but skews hopeful as he imagines being laid up on the beach with his lover, feeding each other grapes. Even in his romantic posture, Miller places himself outside the industry; outside its deathly culture of abuse. In an ideal world, "We could quit the whole game, do the real estate thing/It's how you beat the case." Love was always the solvent, even when falling out of it.
"Weekend," feat. Miguel (2015)
One of his biggest hits, "Weekend" is a real charmer. A booming piece of skittering drums and bursting strings with a dance-y breakdown aimed squarely at the hip-hop that was working on the charts in 2015. In many ways, it's a hearkening back to the subject matter that Mac built his career on — it's thesis statement is, essentially, that the weekend is the time to party, and that's when Mac comes alive. However, at this point, far removed from the carefree early days of his teens, there are regrets creeping into the hedonism. "I been having trouble sleeping, battling these demons/Wondering what's the thing that keeps me breathing/Is it money, fame, or neither?" The song is more accomplished than any of the hits that Miller had churned out in his past (and proof that he could still deliver a crowd-pleaser at will), but the edges had begun to warp, regrets were forming, and Mac was aware of all of it.
When Mac Miller relaxes into his flow on "S.D.S." — Somebody Do Something — the Flying Lotus-produced space-age interplay of bass and kickdrum, it's hard to argue the kid doesn't have certifiable rap steez. He spits along the spine of the widening, synth-focused beat, bounces off-kilter at the turn of the phrase and appropriately self-references his own improvement as an artist: "I'm in awe, this jigsaw puzzle, not complete/I'm just an idea, nothing concrete." Though demonstrably nervous about never placing the final piece of the puzzle, he was still convincingly honest and counterintuitively jovial, turning his mortality into a triumph of humor: " The day that I die on will turn me to an icon/Search the world for Zion or a shoulder I can cry on/Best of all time, I'm Dylan, Dylan, Dylan, Dylan." S.D.S was at once a cry for action to the outside world while stating his purpose plainly: "We're here to reinvent music, it's time for a revolution/I'm dying for the movement, trying not to lose it."
"Aquarium" (2013)
Listener discretion advised: only hit play if you're willing to release a tear or two. "Aquarium" re-engages Miller's soft-spoken tenor previously featured on "REMember" on Watching Movies and displays a similar bare interiority. Sampling Tune-Yards cinematically moody track "Powa," Miller questions the trappings and implications of celebrity — a topic he'd return to on Swimming — with a cutting ambivalence. Miller turns his gaze upward and outward, casting aspersions to the ways we "hypothesize on how to monetize and take advantage of/All the time we fall behind, get lost in this aquarium." His rounding delivery unravel how these questions came about, and we start getting glimpses into why the drugs had become a crutch in the first place: "Sedatives that take me to God/Witness his fetishes /We all in search for substance, that drugs you pain and numbness." As if the celebrity lifestyle had already taken the reigns of his psychology he foretells its slow-burning takeover, "I wish I could tell you that I didn't see this coming/But I'm ready for it all to end, die before tomorrow's trend."
"Come Back to Earth" (2018)
"My regrets look just like texts I shouldn't send," Mac opens "Come Back To Earth," and Swimming, his final album. The song, now painful to listen to, is the best example of how simply and directly he was capable of laying out exactly what he was going through on record. Here, he plaintively lays out how hard it is for him to simply be: "I just need a way out of my head," goes the chorus. But in typical Mac fashion, the song isn't a dark diary entry. Instead, it's one of the lightest entries on Swimming, and the darkness doesn't take long to break: "I was drowning, but now I'm swimming." It's unfailingly earnest in its belief that things will get better, and impossibly tragic to listen to today.
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Your Ultimate Guide For Conquering The Billboard Hot 100 Festival
This is your ultimate guide to thrivin' and survivin' this year's Billboard Hot 100 Fest.
Every year (since last year), the heavens above open up and bestow upon our world the glorious gift of Billboard's Hot 100 music festival.
Two days, a boatload of artists, food trucks, backpack sweat and getting a sunburn even though you put a bunch of sunscreen on.
What else could you possibly be doing this weekend that would be better than that?
Behold, the mighty festival lineup list.
Billboard, which is producing the festival along with Live Nation, also released a festival map so you can start prepping your epic journey through Jones Beach.
OK, I get it. It's VERY overwhelming. Festivals themselves are logistical messes, and this is one of the festival staples during the summer music season, so OF COURSE it's going to be hard to navigate.
Don't worry, though. I got your back. Here is a basic breakdown of everything important you need to know to make it through this bad boy alive.
Three Key Sets:
Ariana Grande
What are you going to do? NOT see Ariana Grande? Please. She's main-staging on August 20, and you're a fool if you don't think she's a main attraction on your festival "must-see" list.
Hayley Kiyoko
The 25-year-old up and coming LA native is having one bonkers summer. Her smash hit "Girls Like Girls" is smashing its way through music charts and absolutely demolishing the dang YouTube replay counter.
This is her first festival, which means you have a chance to pull one of those "I WAS THERE AT THE BEGINNING!" moves later on when she's massive and you hear cooooool kids at school talking about her.
Fetty Wap
It's Fetty Wap. I'm not going to explain why you should go see Fetty Wap. Just go see Fetty Wap.
Guy's Burger Joint
Yes, the "Guy" in "Guy'S Burger Joint" is Guy Fieri. Yes, he is the sentient version of a deep fried donut fart. Yes, you will get Type 2 diabetes just walking by his restaurant.
But, like, I'm sure it tastes ridiculously amazing. Just eat it, you know you wanna.
Shake Shack
It's a New York staple. These burgers are like an edible version of the Statue of Liberty. The fries, hot dogs and shakes are also things of legends, so feel free to kind of just binge while you're there.
Yeahhhhhhhh, Jones Beach is kind of burger-centric. Sorry about that, non-burger bros. You just gotta bite the meat bullet and settle on into one.
If Guy's place and Shake Shack don't seem your speed, I strongly suggest you consider taking a trip over to BurgerFi. Big THYUCK shakes and onion rings the size of a Jeep Grand Cherokee should fill you up RIGHT.
Have a good festival! Remember to stay hydrated, wear sunscreen and don't take a backpack!


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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Measuring an Agile Product Owner
I went to a meeting last week and we were discussing how to measure a Product Owner. The concept is completely understandable, but there was something about the meeting that didn't sit well with me so I am devoting this blog to trying articulate my concerns and things that I think need to be considered.
The premise is sound – how do you know if the Product Owner is leading you down the right path? What if you build the wrong thing? And how can you assess their mis-direction before precious time and resources are spent?
That is a 100% valid question and one that we should certainly spend time and thought to resolve. The idea that there are ratio-driven metrics to measure the PO's performance, though, seems counter-productive.
First, I think Product Owners have a very difficult job and I think very few people are naturally great Product Owners, if you go by the broad definition. Product Owners are supposed to understand the market place, stay on top of the competition, interview current and prospective clients, and break down all of that data into meaningful features that will be delivered in order to drive the most business value. They are also supposed to be experts at writing user stories, adding acceptance criteria, understanding at least some level of the technical details associated with the application, and they need to be decisive, informed and immediately available for the Scrum Team. That is a tall order. In fact, I recommend splitting the Product Owner's responsibilities between the Product Owner and a Product Manager, as I referenced in a previous blog.
Leadership Traits – Nature or Nurture?
I have been thinking a lot about leadership lately and I have been fortunate enough to work for some amazing leaders – two that come to mind specifically who have shaped my career, urged me to take wise chances and made me a better person, in addition to a better employee. I also had an recent college graduate ask me what it took to be effective in a leadership role. I really had to think about it and my conclusions are contained in this blog. There are loads of books written on this very subject, so I will add my observations to the wealth of research and opinions out there.
1. Process Information Efficiently – all of the leaders that I have witnessed in action are extremely smart. And it isn't specifically
book-smart or street-smart, but they all have the ability to process and assimilate information very quickly. They can take two seemingly unrelated data points and see the connective tissue that everyone else misses. They can thoughtfully consider a catastrophic situation and figure out a way to manage through it. They can ponder a decision and see multiple ways that it might impact future events. It is really remarkable to watch, because an effective leader is always thinking, they don't take anything at face-value, they ask insightful questions and often, they truly are the smartest person in the room.
2. Excellent Ability to Recall – if you pay attention to the effective leaders that you have come across in your career, most have an excellent memory. Most leaders can recall numbers – $2.5M in revenue for that product, a 41.5% margin, a $25.89 stock price – and they can pull these numbers into a conversation at a crucial time. This is not to suggest that they know everything and never refer back to notes or get data from their teams, but most leaders can recall the relevant financial information for their business and can use that data when they are processing information very quickly (see above). They can also recall conversations, decisions, attendees and dates. This ability to recollect pertinent information sets true leaders apart and enables them to make decisions and move forward more quickly than the masses who must look up the facts before they can proceed.
What drives innovation?
We are in the process of converting my 79 year old mother to a smart phone and as I watch her learn and ultimately embrace this new technology, it got me thinking about innovation. What drives our great innovators to constantly create and challenge the status quo?
As a species, we are restless. And innovators are more restless than the general population. This restlessness manifests itself as a need to tinker, to improve, to always look for something better, faster, smaller, bigger, more reliable, longer lasting – whatever limitation exists, the restless innovator wants to conquer. For an example of this restlessness, we can look to aviation. On December 17, 1903, the Wright Brothers flew the first powered flight. Their dissatisfaction with the attempts at that time led them to envision flight differently and they were ultimately successful. But the human condition of restlessness persists and we now have a plane whose cargo bay is longer than that historic first flight in Kittyhawk, NC. (The first flight was 120 feet, the cargo bay is 143 feet). This quote from Thomas Edison sums it up: "Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress."


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At this time last year, it seemed the Giants and linebacker Kyle Van Noy might be a match. It did not happen. Now, the Giants have another shot at him and, given Joe Judge's familiarity with Van Noy from their days together with the Patriots, you never know.
After what appeared to be a successful first year in Miami, Van Noy is expected to be released, assuming the Dolphins can not find a trade partner. The news Tuesday caught most of the NFL by surprise.
Van Noy confirmed this expected break with the Dolphins, in a statement to NFL Network: "I am surprised and disappointed in their decision. As a captain, I gave my all to the team. I fought through a painful hip injury during the season, including spending a night in the hospital after a game. I was brought in there to be a leader and I know my teammates looked up to and respected me. I am looking forward to making an impact on my next team, on and off the field.''
The Giants could not have afforded to trade for Van Noy, 29, because he is only one year into a four-year, $51 million contract that guaranteed him $30 million. Van Noy's salary of $12.5 million in 2021 was to become fully guaranteed on March 19 and the Dolphins will save $9.75 million on the salary cap by letting him go.
At inside linebacker, Blake Martinez is coming off a sensational first season with the Giants, but they could use another versatile linebacker. Devante Downs and rookie Tae Crowder shared the role alongside Martinez in 2020.
Van Noy can play on the edge or off the line. In his one year with the Dolphins, he had 69 tackles, six sacks, 10 quarterback hits, two fumble recoveries and two forced fumbles in 14 games. The Dolphins are expected to replace him on a full-time basis with Andrew Van Ginkel, a third-year player from Wisconsin.
Van Noy and Judge spent four seasons together (2016-2019) in New England, winning two Super Bowls. Van Noy had 16.5 sacks and 35 quarterback hits in 51 games for the Patriots.
After Judge was hired last year, Van Noy expressed interest in coming to the Giants. Perhaps a connection can be made the second time around.


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Residents urged to sign 'Save Free Bus Pass' petition
The people of East Lancashire are being asked to join a campaign to keep the free bus pass.
The Love The Bus Pass petition already has 56,000 signatures and campaigners are hoping to boost this to 100,000 in time for it to be delivered to Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday, September 10th.
The petition, supported by the National Pensioners' Convention, is the first major step towards pressuring all major political parties to pledge to keep the bus pass as a universal entitlement.
Richard Worrall, campaign co-ordinator, said: "The huge community, family, economic, health and well being benefits of the pass to society are at risk and politicians need to understand they attack it at their own electoral peril."
Coalition politicians called for reform in 2011 with Nick Clegg saying he wanted to ban "millionaires" joy riding on the buses.
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Anyone who would like to sign the petition is asked to phone 01922 641084 or email [email protected], or by post 46, Winn House, Burrowes Street, Walsall, WS2 8NW. Please include your name and address and a petition will be sent to you.


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Published on February 25, 2019
(Pueblo, CO, Feb. 22, 2019) – Parkview Medical Center is proud to have been honored twice by the American Red Cross during this week's Hometown Heroes Awards dinner.
The nurses working in Parkview's nursery and neonatal intensive care unit and the team of service dogs who brighten people's days and make our patients and staff safer were honored with the Community Partner and Animal Hero awards respectively.
The nurses were honored for the exemplary work in the technically and emotionally difficult arena of assessing and treating newborns suffering from Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, meaning the infants are born addicted to controlled substances introduced in the womb and are suffering withdrawal symptoms.
The nurses were nominated for recognition by a team of "cuddlers", volunteers who work to comfort the babies.
"These nurses are heroes because they are called to do this work and to be the protectors of the innocent; protectors against pain and discomfort, against the odds, and perhaps even against those who originally inflicted this condition upon them," the nomination form read. "They are heroes because they embody experience, compassion, and impartial service to those in need."
The nomination goes on to tell stories of how the nurses work as a team to evaluate the babies and determine the course of their care and singles out an event where an infant began seizing the nurse knew immediately what was happening and arranged a helicopter flight to a facility for a higher level of care.
"The nurses must evaluate what course of life is best for the baby, either returning to their mothers or going into foster care," the nomination said. "If the former, the nurses work tirelessly with moms on bonding, feeding, changing, and overall caring for a baby while providing countless resources to the families. If the latter, they must arrange for social services to intervene. It's a reality that's tough for most of us to even think about, but to the nurses on the NICU, it's their daily work."
Three black Labrador retrievers a pretty common sight around Parkview Medical Center's campus and the affable pups spend their busy days doing distinct and important duties for the Medical Center.
River, Sarge and Celie each are heroes in their own way to Parkview Medical Center and the community for Pueblo.
River is a key piece in an expanded security infrastructure at Parkview Medical Center designed to keep illicit narcotics and controlled substances out of the hospital. River is trained to detect those drugs and alert veteran Parkview Security Officer Arlene Workman to their presence.
River works side-by-side with Workman as she rounds the hospital and visits each of Parkview Medical Center's security checkpoints.
While River's focus is to detect illegal drugs and marijuana in the hospital, it's hoped that his presence will discourage people from trying to bring the drugs into the hospital in the first place.
The work is important because illicit narcotics can interfere with other medications patients are taking, and opioids from outside can have a compounding and dangerous effect if they are combined with other medicines prescribed by doctors on patient floors.
While River is just in his seventh month, his presence combined with the other security measures seems to be having an effect. From January to August of 2018, there were 25 incidents where Narcan, a life-saving medication used to counteract an opioid overdose, was used on a patient floor (rather than following surgery or in the emergency room). Since the new security apparatus was put implemented, that number has dropped to zero.
Sarge has been with Parkview Medical Center a little more than two years now, helping patients at the Parkview Center for Rehabilitation get back on their feet. Patients interact with Sarge in different ways, depending on their needs. Some play fetch, others walk with him, others play tug. The varied, seemingly normal interactions can help the patient work on different aspects of balance and strength depending on their needs.
Therapists have said patients who work with Sarge often are happier and work harder at their rehabilitation, which can help improve patient outcomes in the long run.
Parkview's third black Lab, Celie, hardly goes anywhere without some sensible accessories: A flower pinned to her collar and happy-go-lucky attitude that's the kind of infectious quality welcome in a health care facility.
Celie is Parkview's outreach dog, bringing moments of happiness and fun to staff, visitors and patients alike at the hospital. Celie helps people stay positive, and a good attitude helps morale and the healing process.
Founded in 1923, Parkview Health System in Pueblo, Colorado, offers general acute healthcare and health specialty services. As a private, non-profit organization, Parkview is licensed for 350 beds and provides a full range of healthcare services including a verified Level III Trauma Center along with exceptional comprehensive cardiac and orthopedic care. Parkview Health System is the leader in all service lines in our service area. As a vital healthcare source, Parkview's service area includes Pueblo County and 14 surrounding counties, which together represent 370,000 total lives.
Parkview Health System is the largest non-government, nonprofit, private sector employer in Pueblo County with approximately 3,000 employees and provides a skilled medical staff of over 370 physicians. The impact of our workforce triggers a strong impact on the community as Parkview's annual payroll contributes $232 million to the economy.


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LAUSD Affiliated Charter Versus Independent Charter
In the effort of saving time today, I've posted over at "Ask A Magnet Yenta" to explain what an affiliated charter is as compared to an independent charter. Several schools are in the midst of this process, thanks in large part due to the change in Title I funding, and the loss of the $85,000 "grants" that non-Title I schools have been provided the last couple of years to keep those schools afloat. The blog post appears here. If your school is in the midst of the meetings, or is in the process of voting, let us know what you're going through.
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Zzybalubah says:
I can tell you I think the teacher's union is definitely NOT behind the charter status movement. My child attends Balboa Magnet, we have previously attended charter school. Child came home to tell me that teacher told them they would have a class size of 39:1 in fourth grade if the school goes charter. The union seems to be feeding the teachers lines.
Carpenter seems to be doing just fine as an affiliated charter school, and regular charter schools have a lot more leeway because they don't have to haggle with teacher's union. Charter school teachers generally act vested in the school in which they work; they seem to work with the administration, and the administration has a difficult job of protecting them and serving the parents. Even though there's a higher turnover rate (teachers leave charters because the union gigs are a lot more appealing…full benefits, full pension – even if you are a convicted pedophile!), full charter schools are attractive because they can have a 'focus' or a 'theme' (e.g., following a specific educational model or philosophy, a current fad such as technology, or something like a traditionalist school, or offering a special course of education such as art, music, classical language, science focus, or farm based). Affiliated charters tend to remain loyal to the traditional LAUSD model (whether by choice or by union force I am not sure). Schools are still bound to hire union teachers. Which means God help them if they need to or want to get rid of those teachers. The school gets say on how they spend their funds, generally. If they want to move dollars from one area to another, they have the ability to do that. That's the big advantage to the school. To make a long story short, affiliated charter means the teachers run the school. A full charter school is a real collaboration where there is a board composed of parents, community members, teachers and administrators. It is not run by dictatorship, but by consensus. Everything, from curriculum, to teacher hiring, school start date and time, the hours of the school day, the number of school days, school holidays, professional development, everything is negotiated by committee composed of stakeholders. As you can tell, I'm definitely biased. I have seen both sides now, to paraphrase Judy Collins, and I can tell you — there is a difference. And full charter wins hands down, even though it's a lot more work for the parents and the community, because it's better for the kids. In an affiliated charter, parents are still on the outside. Just my two cents.
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Intruder Review
Before jumping into my 1.5-star rant, you must understand that parts of Intruder genuinely skeeved me out. Our homes are supposed to evoke feelings of safety and comfort, yet filmmaker Travis Zariwny suggests that those connections are nothing but false hope. Locks can be picked while we shower, rooms can be entered when we leave, and faces can be touched while we innocently slumber. Messed up, right?
Zariwny finds much more intrigue here than his shot-for-shot remake of Eli Roth's Cabin Fever – but that's all before his film's unforgivable ending. We're not just talking "bad." We're talking "a monumental let-down in every conceivable fashion." With one soul-sucking decision, Zariwny jumps the shark in the most underwhelming fashion possible – no goods, no payoff, and certainly no grace.
Louise Linton stars as Elizabeth, a concert cellist who's just been accepted into the London Philharmonic. This should be a joyous occasion, but her relationship comes into question when boyfriend Justin (played by Zach Myers) reveals that he can't just abandon his own life. So, Elizabeth goes about practicing, meeting now friends, and wrestling with her life-altering decision, all while having no idea that she's attracted a stealthy stalker. Somehow, at some time, a hooded man let himself into Elizabeth's apartment, and he continues to lurk while staying out of sight. Will Elizabeth notice the clues before her new friend goes from silent to violent?
What Zariwny tries to do here is build a voyeuristic thriller that's not about straight-laced kidnapping or a fight for survival. Elizabeth doesn't sense that someone is always watching her – from inside her own house – as she more-or-less plays a game of close encounters of the duller kind. Her pursuer constantly appears as a background figure, whether it be in a mirror shot, doorway tease, or a bathroom entry – but interactions are at a sluggish minimum. Intruder hits a lesser Hangman vibe, as Zariwny shows more interest in his antagonist's obsessive control fetish than a gory torture-flick.
This, in essence, is fine (for a bit). As the nameless vagrant pisses on dishes and takes bites out of fruit, we grow increasingly uncomfortable. Each despicable act leaves a longer breadcrumb trail for Elizabeth to eventually discover, and tension mounts as we wait for her cataclysmic realization. That's the fun part of these movies, right? When the damsel finally realizes she's been a target for days, and it becomes either time to fight back or scream bloody murder. Any good thriller accomplishes this feat, which explains why Intruder does not fit into such a category.
Just as Elizabeth's predicament reaches a climax – WHAM! A title card flashes that reads "Intruder." You can't be cutting away at the best part. This is a joke, right?
Alas, the credits begin shortly thereafter, and a mundane (yet watchable) buildup is stricken down by an out-of-place ending that delivers in absolutely no regard. It's the moment where Elizabeth's stalker reveals himself (we already know who it is, to no surprise), and she's about to either run for her lift or fight back. Instead, we hear him politely – and, yes, creepily – say "Bless You," signifying that shit is about to go down.
No. Inexcusable. In that moment, a good-enough buildup becomes an incredibly lacklustre feature film, and frustration trumps all emotions.
It's the worst for Louise Linton, because she plays an objectified muse rather well. Linton has almost no support to work with – Moby (yes, that Moby) yells at her a lot, her boyfriend is a tool, an admirer awkwardly banters – yet she somehow materializes a fearful undertone out of thin air. As an unknowing victim, Linton does everything she's asked to and more – it's just nothing that can save an entire movie. I just want it stated that none of this is Linton's fault, and I look forward to seeing her future genre work. That is all.
Well, actually, that's not all – Intruder went from a passable three starts to a "maybe if you're tied in bed and you can't physically change the channel" kind of watch just because of an ending. One single decision that tarnishes an entire ninety minutes. You have to earn the right to be that bold, and unfortunately for Zariwny, he simply does not. What a weird, awful way to go out. I guess that's why I shouldn't get my hopes up so easily…
After being informed that Intruder's climax takes place in a post-credits scene, I will implore you to watch through about 20 seconds worth of rolling text. We do witness Elizabeth's fate, but even with this information, the cutaway is still abrupt, and confusingly jumps from Point A to Point…like…N. We go from Elizabeth hearing someone under her bed, to a kidnap scenario where she wakes up in a strange place. So, yes – there is more finality than alluded to above, but there's still a jarring stoppage and no actual twist. Post-credits sequences are meant for frivolous yet fun additions – not plot-defining climaxes.
It's amazing how Intruder's ending can ruin ninety minutes worth of buildup material in three seconds.


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This is the hardest thing I have ever written and because of that, it is the hardest thing for me to share and subsequently feel it's important to share. This is dedicated to all the people who have suffered in silence or not in silence as the result of being a victim of a sexual assault. Some readers may find this post distressing due to the content. Reader discretion is advised.
I lay with my eyes closed, tears sliding down my cheek, waiting for it to be over. I hear the sounds of something hitting the truck, "What the hell is she doing?!" he shouted. "Your friend is throwing rocks at my truck!! Stop crying, you're fine!!" I clumsily tried to pull myself together.
The passenger door opened abruptly, "Get off my friend!" she growled. She turned and looked at me, "We need to leave now!" I quickly gathered my things and walked to the passenger seat of her car, she yelled something at him and within minutes we were driving quickly down the mountain road.
I sat in silence.
"Are you ok?" She asked.
"I'm fine…"
"No, really, are you ok?" She persisted.
I silently relived the events in my mind. What just happened!? I just wanted him to kiss me. We had been flirting all night. I convinced my friend to drive up to the mountains with him and his friend because I legitimately wanted to sit by a campfire with a cute guy. There wasn't a campfire. Within 20 minutes I was separated from my friend and in his truck making out. That's what I wanted, right? I know I pushed his hand away several times when he tried to unbutton my pants. He didn't force me, did he? Should I have fought harder? I liked kissing him, but I know I said no more times than I could remember.
"I really didn't want to come up here, you just don't go off with guys you don't know…" She continued.
"I know…I'm sorry…"
I just wanted to have fun. He was really nice. A perfect gentleman. He even gave me a jacket to wear because I was cold. I wanted to go with them, right? I couldn't say anything, it was my choice to go. I had talked my best friend in to going! I had done everything that my parents had told me not to do. But I made the choice. The thoughts reeled through my mind of the conversation that every girl has in health class, "if you say no and they don't stop, that's rape." I had said no a lot, right?! I liked kissing him, was it just expected that I go further? I remember vividly the moment when I decided to just close my eyes and wait for it to be over; the realization that I was trapped and saying 'no' was of no value. Was I just raped??
I told my friend half-truths. I told her we had sex. I told her I wasn't sure how it led to that. I told her that I hadn't planned to lose my virginity that way, but it just happened. When we got to my house, she parked and turned to me, "I was really scared for you. I didn't know where you were! His friend wouldn't help me find you guys until I told him that I would kick his ass if he didn't! I was really, really scared. Are you ok?"
"I'm fine…really…I'm fine."
The next morning I woke up in my parents' home. I had moved home for the summer but I was scheduled to move back to my seasonal job within a few weeks. I couldn't face my Mom. Somehow she would know and I would not be able to hide it. Mom's know everything. I climbed in to the shower, turned on the water, and just sat on the floor of the tub. I stared at the water swirling down in to the drain and waited to hear her leave for work. I called a friend and within the hour had a place to go.
I called my Mom and told her a place had opened up and I was leaving that afternoon. She sat in silence, I could hear the irritation in her breathing. I knew she wouldn't like this, but I just couldn't stay. "Well, are you at least going to stick around so we can spend some time before you go? We never see you!" She was even more irritated with my answer, to which I responded as snotty as possible, "I'm an adult Mom, I can leave if I want." I packed up my bags and quickly escaped.
My drive was long and I did it in complete silence. I couldn't cry because I still didn't know what happened. The reality of the situation set in; I was not a sexually active woman and I was not on any form of birth control. I felt certain that he didn't use a condom. How could I, an 18 year-old, go to a doctor without my parents' knowing? I had never even made a doctor's appointment on my own. I drove while nervously biting on my lips until they began to crack and bleed. By the end of the drive I had decided that I needed to go to Planned Parenthood.
I sat on the table in the exam room.
"So you had unprotected sex?" the nurse asked.
"Yes." I couldn't stop the tears.
She immediately sat down her papers and wrapped her arms around my shoulders, while I cried. I cried uncontrollably. I apologized over and over again for my emotions. She just held my hand. She calmly asked more questions. I lied. I told her that I was just tired. I told her that I had a lot of stress in my life. I lied. I made up a story about a non-existent boyfriend, whom I had broke up with and was, therefore, heartbroken. I lied. I knew that she knew and I still lied. I was embarrassed. I was a smart young woman and I had made some very stupid decisions and I never, ever wanted anyone to know. She gave me the morning after pill and birth control, along with some pamphlets for a rape helpline and a sexual assault support group. And I silently carried on with my life.
I never said anything. The thought was there, a daily reminder that I had somehow failed in some way. I silently decided that I was not worthy for the guy that I desired. I silently hid in my friends' condo and clung to my small circle of friends. I silently shut my family out. I silently hid in a silent relationship with a man who didn't make me talk much about real things. I silently decided that I wasn't going to be the girl who got raped.
Time moved on, as time does. I really thought I held it all together by not acknowledging it. My only trusted friend was my notebook. I wrote notebooks full of thoughts, stories, and poems; I'm certain it saved me. My notebook knew my secrets and I felt safe from judgement. Looking back I can clearly see that many of my choices were driven by the shame that I carried, but writing was a healthy choice.
There have been a few times since then in which I was forced to acknowledge the guilt, fear, shame, and every thing in between – including some emotions that I still don't have words for. I recognize now that it will always be a part of me and part of my story. I learned that the best way for me to heal was to speak. As hard as it was/is, speak! Tell someone! Tell anyone! Join a support group – tell a stranger! I HAD to give myself a voice because there was a time where my voice didn't matter. The fear of having a person look at me as a victim, as weak, as less than, as seeking attention, as responsible or "asking for it" – it prevented me from saying something for far too long. I agonized for years, holding this story so close that it damaged the relationships closest to me and more importantly the relationship that I had with the power of my own voice.
Every 90 seconds someone in the United States is sexually assaulted and only 15-30% of those are reported. It makes me realize that I have a lot of friends that have experienced the same feelings that I have had, that they may also still have nights when they fall asleep analyzing the situation and wondering, 'Did that really happen to me?' or 'I should have fought harder.' Mocking yourself in silence about things that you shouldn't be afraid of; a car driving by, a shadow in the hall, a real relationship. Afraid to be broken. Afraid to have to talk about it. Afraid to be labeled. Please know, you are not alone.
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Rebel octopus
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The story about Jeanne-Luc, Extinction Rebellion's pink Octopus.
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This week, 7 October 2019, 30,000 concerned people went to the central London streets to protest that the government is doing nothing about the climate emergency. It's the second city protest in London that Extinction Rebellion (XR) have organized. But this time, police were harder. They threatened arrests at peaceful acts like giving out leaflets. Actor Benedict Cumberbatch joined the protest to show support. But one rebel was very famous after the Metropolitan police surrounded him yesterday.
Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) October 9, 2019:
Police surround an Octopus as it tries to make its way down Whitehall in Westminster, central London. Captured by c4news producer @Liam_O_Hare pic.twitter.com/wHLk64AtD5
Ben Hancocks is an artist from Brick Lane and one of the octopus' makers. He talked to New Internationalist about this week's action.
How did the octopus come to be?
Well, six of us from XR Tower Hamlets built Jeanne-Luc (it could be male or female), the octopus. We made it carefully in six days. It is three by two metres. We used painted bowls for its eyes, and sewed on the tentacles and everything. Finally we made it pink because of last year's pink boat on Oxford Street.
The police are taking all XR infrastructure including tea urns and gazebos. How did Jeanne-Luc get to the heart of the protest?
We carefully planned a police-free route to get Jeanne-Luc to join the protests in Trafalgar Square. We wheeled it through Whitehall to show support for those getting arrested. That was when they told us to return immediately or risk arrest. They surrounded Jeanne-Luc. Many people were angry but it also made him a kind of celebrity.
I've heard that Jeanne-Luc is sitting on the floor of a police station. Is that true?
That's not true. Jeanne-Luc is alive and active in Trafalgar Square. The police have even threatened to arrest us many times. They say that if his arms even touch Whitehall property, they will arrest us. So we're just very near Whitehall.
I suppose it's a bit risky for Jeanne-Luc to go too far from the fountain in Trafalgar Square?
Well not really – it's an urban octopus from east London.
Why do you think Jeanne-Luc connects with the people?
Jeanne-Luc represents all sea-life: the destruction of the oceans and the threat to many species. It's said 50 to 80 per cent of all our oxygen comes from oceans, so this is really serious. People feel strongly about it.
This is Jeanne-Luc's first rebellion. How has it been for you, Ben, as an XR rebel?
The police have been heavy-handed this time. We saw a woman handing out leaflets and they threatened her with arrest. I've lived at the top of Brick Lane for years where they allow the National Front [an ultra-right racist group] to hand out leaflets. These are powers not used before. And it was Boris Johnson himself who wanted to use water cannons to stop protestors as Mayor of London.
Jeanne-Luc seems to have made protestors feel better. Did you make it with that idea?
It's entertainment really, to keep stress as low as possible. After 2.7 million tweets about Jeanne-Luc I suppose the police can't really attack it. Two even laughed as soon as they saw it.
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I was a tiny feral kitten when my adoptive human mother found me while venturing from my birthplace under the woodpile. We were instantly bonded as I snuggled into her hair. She bottle-fed me until I could eat for myself. I was a happy kitten with a great big purr.
I was vaccinated, micro-chipped and neutered and grew into a handsome cat with beautiful blue eyes. I was very smart, pampered and a bit spoiled but was the perfect pet for my parents — I even traveled and slept with them. They loved me, and I them.
One morning as I made my usual rounds of our property, I suddenly felt a stinging, burning sensation going through me and all I could think was "get home!" I made it through the pet door and lay on the rug. No one was home, but I couldn't hold on — I died. Mother found me there when she returned. She was broken-hearted. Why would anyone shoot a beautiful, intelligent, loving fellow like me?
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A Snorkel built to carry an inhaler could open up a whole new undersea world for asthmatics.
The Australian-developed MediDive Asthma Freedom Snorkel houses the puffer within a silicon chamber attached to the mask, giving asthma sufferers easy access to medication at the press of a button.
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Not long ago, I needed a way for users to upload files and store them in a database. The platform for the application was Ruby on Rails, and I wanted to share my experience here.
The first thing we want to do is generate the table for the attachments:
script/generate model Attachment
exists app/models/
exists test/unit/
exists test/fixtures/
create app/models/attachment.rb
create test/unit/attachment_test.rb
create test/fixtures/attachments.yml
create db/migrate
create db/migrate/001_create_attachments.rb
This line does a number of things for us, including generating the model class, an associated unit test and fixture, as well as a migration class. The next thing we want to do is fill out the migration class so that we can create the database table. In our case, we will need a filename, content_type and attachment column.
class CreateAttachments < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up
create_table :attachments do |t|
t.column :filename, :string
t.column :content_type, :string
t.column :data, :binary
def self.down
drop_table :attachments
Let's now run this migration to create the table in our database:
rake db:migrate
(in /Users/mattb/Projects/Attachments)
== CreateAttachments: migrating ===============================================
-- create_table(:attachments)
-> 0.0218s
== CreateAttachments: migrated (0.0220s) ======================================
The next thing that we'll need to do is to create a controller to process the submitted attachment.
script/generate controller Attachments show create
exists app/controllers/
exists app/helpers/
create app/views/attachments
exists test/functional/
create app/controllers/attachments_controller.rb
create test/functional/attachments_controller_test.rb
create app/helpers/attachments_helper.rb
create app/views/attachments/show.rhtml
create app/views/attachments/create.rhtml
class AttachmentsController < ApplicationController
def show
@attachment = Attachment.find(params[:id])
send_data @attachment.data, :filename => @attachment.filename, :type => @attachment.content_type
def create
return if params[:attachment].blank?
@attachment = Attachment.new
@attachment.uploaded_file = params[:attachment]
if @attachment.save
flash[:notice] = "Thank you for your submission..."
redirect_to :action => "index"
flash[:error] = "There was a problem submitting your attachment."
render :action => "new"
The relevant snippet of the view code that utilizes this is in new.rhtml:
<% form_tag 'create', :multipart => true do %>
<%= file_field_tag 'attachment' %>
<%= submit_tag "Send Attachment" %>
<% end %>
The important parts of the view are the multipart declaration; without this, your file will not be submitted. Also, we take advantage of the file_field_tag helper method to output the file browser.
If we run the application now and try to upload a file, we will be presented with an error, because the uploaded_file method does not exist on the Attachment model. Let's complete our model.
class Attachment < ActiveRecord::Base
def uploaded_file=(incoming_file)
self.filename = incoming_file.original_filename
self.content_type = incoming_file.content_type
self.data = incoming_file.read
def filename=(new_filename)
write_attribute("filename", sanitize_filename(new_filename))
def sanitize_filename(filename)
#get only the filename, not the whole path (from IE)
just_filename = File.basename(filename)
#replace all non-alphanumeric, underscore or periods with underscores
just_filename.gsub(/[^\w\.\-]/, '_')
The meat of this model is the uploaded_file method, which the controller calls, passing the uploaded file. This method is responsible for mapping the incoming file to the attributes expected by our database schema. Additionally, we're sanitizing the filename, so that we are not only getting just the filename, but we're also cleaning up any extra characters and replacing them with underscores.
I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to associate the attachment with a given user. The "magic" of Rails makes this really straightforward.


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Anyone seeking to gain an appreciation of the FSSC 22000 scheme and the associated management system requirements.
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Key features and benefits of the Food Safety System Certification (FSSC) 22000 scheme
Structure and principal requirements in ISO 22000
Purpose of ISO/TS 22002-4:2013 – Prerequisite programmes on food safety
- Part 4: Food packaging manufacturing, its content and interrelation with ISO 22000:2018
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Last year it came later in August; the year before that, we lasted until September. But in 2013, August 20 marked Earth Overshoot Day – the day that the Earth's 7.1 billion people consumed more resources than the Earth can regenerate in a given year. After that day each year, we dip into next year's account, liquidating stocks of natural resources such as forests, fisheries and soil, while living large on deficit spending to support our current consumption of food, power, transportation and more.
This isn't a rare raid into the emergency fund for an unexpected crisis or occasional over-indulgence. It's been happening since the 1960s. And each year's deficit has a cumulative effect on the planet, much like the annual federal deficit adds to the national debt. According to the Global Footprint Network, which estimates Earth Overshoot Day each year, we now need 1.5 Earths to satisfy our current demands and desires. But that's a global figure. Wealthy nations – such as the United States – have a larger Ecological Footprint than poorer ones, meaning they use larger areas of land and sea to maintain their lifestyles. If everyone in the world lived as Americans do, we would need 5 Earths to support humanity.
If you want to see how your lifestyle compares to the global or national average, take the Global Footprint Network's personal online footprint quiz. You'll get an avatar (complete with customized hairdo and clothes) that wanders around an animated neighborhood avoiding resources that crash down to the ground as you answer questions about your life. So when you indicate how much meat you eat, for example, a butchershop lands on the block. How much do you drive? A car appears in the driveway. At the end of the quiz, the calculator tallies your score and breaks down your resource use into five major categories: food, shelter, mobility, goods and services.
No matter how many Earths we'd like to have, we only get one. And so, based on your answers, the Footprint Calculator gives you options for reducing your footprint. Most of these options focus on ways to limit your withdrawals from the world's ecological bank account: avoiding air travel, eating less processed food, or making other lifestyle changes to limit your impact.
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6 Juices for Tiredness & Low Adrenals
Large numbers of people suffer from fatigue that is not relieved by rest and sleep. This is one indicator that the adrenals are stressed and not functioning well. Stress plays a big part in exhausting the adrenal glands. Stress also affects the liver leading to low orotic acid production. Deficiency of orotic acid causes calcium to be high. This may also interfere with protein synthesis and inhibit replication of cells. This leads to fatigue and low blood sugar. Low adrenal function can contribute to this problem in that the adrenal glands regulate mineral levels. Mineral levels would not be abnormal if the adrenals were functioning properly. (Do not take cod liver oil if your calcium is high.)
Adrenal insufficiency is commonly associated with the following symptoms, which can vary from mild to extreme.
- fatigue
- decreased tolerance to cold
- poor circulation
- low blood sugar level (hypoglycemia)
- low blood pressure
- allergies
- apathy or depression
- low stamina
- low self-esteem due to low energy output
- joint aches and pains
- low levels of gastric hydrochloric acid
- tendency to constipation
- muscle weakness
- need for excessive amounts of sleep
- fears, due to low energy and copper toxicity
- lowered resistance to infection
- subnormal body temperature
Nutritional deficiencies are a common cause of tiredness and adrenal burnout. When you have stress in your life (and frankly who doesn't?), your need for many nutrients increases. If you have a sweet tooth or eat too many carbohydrates in general, you will stress your adrenals. Also, if your diet is too low in protein, you will create deficiencies. Most people eat a diet too low in the nutrients needed by the adrenal glands. It's important to increase the B vitamins, vitamins A, C, and E, manganese, zinc, chromium, and selenium.
What to Juice to Heal Your Adrenals
- Juices High in Vitamin C Vegetables and fruit highest in vitamin C include: kale, parsley, collard greens, broccoli, watercress, strawberries, spinach, and lemon
- Juices High in Vitamin E Vegetables highest in vitamin E include spinach, asparagus, and carrots.
- Juices High in Zinc Vegetables highest in zinc include: turnips, parsley, garlic and carrots
- Juices High in Chromium Vegetables highest in chromium include: spinach, carrots, and blueberries
- Juices High in Selenium Vegetables and fruit highest in selenium include: chard, turnips, garlic, oranges and radishes
- Juices High in Manganese Vegetables and fruit highest in manganese include: spinach, turnips, beet greens, carrots, and cabbage
Turnip Time
NUTRISIP: Turnips have been used as a traditional remedy to strengthen the lungs. To promote healthy lungs, drink two 8-ounce glasses with meals daily.
- 1 small turnip, scrubbed well
- 2-inch-length jicama, scrubbed well or peeled if not organic (optional)
- 1 handful watercress, rinsed
- 4 carrots, scrubbed well, tops removed, ends trimmed
- 1 garlic clove with peel, washed
- 1/2 lemon, washed or peeled if not organic
Cut the turnip and jicama into pieces that will fit your juicer's feed tube. Bunch up the watercress and juice it with the turnip, jicama (if using), watercress, carrots, garlic, and lemon. Stir the juice and pour into a glass.
Serve at room temperature or chilled, as desired. If you have weakened lungs, drink this at room temperature only; chilled drinks are too hard on weak lungs. You may want to dilute this drink with at least 1/2 cup water since the turnip juice is quite strong and distinct-tasting.
Makes 16 ounces
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