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By Matt's Gallery on 6 August 2018
Upcoming The series of 10-day shows continues from September onwards, plus other events at Matt's Gallery, London Bronwen Buckeridge, Widowhood, Matt's Gallery, London, 2 September 2018, 2-6pm Widowhood is a live audio performance with racing pigeons and the pigeon men who train them. The work is driven by an interest in the complex relationship racing pigeons […]
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By Matt's Gallery on 3 April 2018
Upcoming Jo Bruton, Run, Matt's Gallery, 92 Webster Road, London, 7 – 15 April, Private View 6 April 6-9pm Jo Bruton's second show at Matt's Gallery sees the artist expanding her practice as a painter into a series of printed wallpapers. Hand painted, digitally produced and then pasted to the walls of the gallery, the piece has […]
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Boosey & Hawkes Announces Acquisition of Osvaldo Golijov Copyrights
Boosey & Hawkes Announces Acquisition of Osvaldo Golijov Copyrights
Boosey & Hawkes, an Imagem Company, is proud to announce it has purchased Ytalianna Music Publishing LLC, including the acquisition of worldwide copyrights to all published works by the celebrated Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov. The new core publishing and copyright acquisition places Golijov alongside Boosey & Hawkes' remarkable roster of distinguished composers: modern masters such as Bartók, Copland, and Stravinsky, as well as leading contemporary figures such as John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Elliott Carter, and Steve Reich. The relationship between Golijov and Boosey & Hawkes began in July 2009, when Golijov signed an exclusive agreement for representation of his existing catalog and future works.
Says Zizi Mueller, Senior Vice President, Boosey & Hawkes, Inc.: "Boosey & Hawkes is delighted to welcome Osvaldo Golijov as a core house composer. We are honored that he values our representation of his brilliant work, and has now entrusted us to take care of his catalogue both in the present and the future life of these great musical works. We look forward to a continued and rich collaboration."
Golijov's upcoming projects include a Metropolitan Opera commission and a new violin concerto for Leonidas Kavakos commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic, London's Barbican Centre, and New York's Carnegie Hall, receiving its world premiere in Berlin in April 2012. He has also recently completed the soundtrack for the new feature film Twixt, his third collaboration with esteemed director and producer Francis Ford Coppola. Future highlight performances include his Latin America-influenced oratorio rendition of the Easter story, La Pasión según San Marcos, in January 2012 at Colombia's Cartagena Festival; and his evocative chamber opera Ainadamar, featuring flamenco, jazz, klezmer, and salsa musical styles, which will receive ten performances at Madrid's Teatro Real in June 2012.
Osvaldo Golijov has become one of the most prominent and frequently performed living composers of our time. Born in 1960 to an Eastern European Jewish household in La Plata, Argentina, Golijov was surrounded by classical chamber music, Jewish liturgical and klezmer music, and the "new tango" of Astor Piazzolla. This amalgam of influences features significantly in Golijov's work, and the originality and creativity of his voice has earned him a unique place in contemporary repertoire as well as numerous accolades, including a MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship in 2003.
Golijov's "seductive way with melody" (Washington Post) is on display in his orchestral overture Sidereus (2010), which was commissioned by a consortium of 35 U.S. orchestras, and receives performances in Los Angeles, Washington, DC, St. Louis, Atlanta, Detroit, and Louisville during the 2011–2012 concert season. His string quartet Qohelet was recently commissioned and premiered by the St. Lawrence String Quartet, a long-time champion of Golijov's music, who also premiered and recorded the Grammy-nominated Yiddishbuk (1992). Other recent compositions include Azul (2006), a cello concerto for Yo-Yo Ma and the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Rose of the Winds (2007), premiered by the Silk Road Ensemble and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Miguel Harth-Bedoya; and She Was Here (2008), a work based on Schubert lieder premiered by Dawn Upshaw and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
La Pasión según San Marcos (2000), a telling of St. Mark's passion from the Latin American perspective written to mark the 250th anniversary of J.S. Bach's death, was hailed by the New York Times as "a millennial work of genius. A magnificent triumph." The commercial recording of the premiere of this work received both Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations in 2002. Golijov's "ecstatically beautiful...but also radical and disorienting" (The New Yorker) song cycle for Dawn Upshaw, Ayre (2004), received a Grammy nomination in 2005. Ainadamar (2003), Golijov's opera based on the life of Federico García Lorca, won the GRAMMY for Best Classical Composition in 2006. Since its premiere, this opera has been performed nearly 60 times, a striking number for any new work. Golijov's impact on the concert world was evident in 2006, when Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts presented a sold out festival entitled "The Passion of Osvaldo Golijov," featuring multiple performances of his works over the course of two months. He also enjoys an ongoing relationship with Deutsche Grammophon, who released all three of the afore-mentioned albums. The composer's output extends even beyond the traditional concert forms: he has completed two film soundtracks for Francis Ford Coppola, Youth Without Youth (2007) and Tetro (2009).
> For further biographical materials and catalogue information, click here.
> To watch and listen to excerpts of works, click here.
> To view scores of works by Golijov, click here.
Photo caption: (left to right) Zizi Mueller (Senior Vice President, Boosey & Hawkes), Osvaldo Golijov, and John Minch (Chief Executive, Boosey & Hawkes)


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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Whiskey Wednesday: The Thrill of the Hunt - Dusty Hunting
One of the primary sports of which whiskey fans partake is the dusty hunt. Don't worry, it doesn't involve hounds or horses or bugles of any sort. The dusty hunt is the practice of looking in liquor stores for old dusty bottles that have been on the shelf for many years. You can find rare, out of production whiskeys, usually marked at their original price, if you are willing to do some hunting, well quite a bit of hunting.
Now, I'm an amateur dusty hunter, and while I've found a few out of production whiskies, I can't say I've struck whiskey gold with a real rarity. One key to being a good dusty hunter is having a knowledge of whiskey history, knowing what brands have been discontinued and being able to recognize the various elements on a bottle that indicate its age. This could include the numbering on the bottom of the bottle, the presence of a tax stamp, the distillery address information, the use of metric measurements as opposed to the previous non-metric (i.e. ml vs. quart or fifth) and proof v. abv. For more advice on all of this technical stuff, check out the great series on dusty hunting over at Bourbon Dork.
The other crucial element to dusty hunting is having a sense of where to look for old bottles. You won't find dusties at a specialty spirits store. Your best bet is an old corner market with low turnover on most items, but any old liquor store can be a source of dusties. Keep in mind, though, that nine times out of ten, or maybe 99 out of 100, you won't find anything worthwhile.
The largest cache of dusties I've found so far is at Jubilee Liquors, a Koreatown shop at Third and Hobart. When I walked in, I noticed that in the far corner, there was a whole set of tax stamped dusties: Old Crow from its pre-Beam National Distillers days when it was actually a drinkable Bourbon, Old Taylor and Old Overholt rye also from the pre-Beam National Distillers, Old Forester, and Old Charter from the old Bernheim Distillery. All of these looked to be from the late '70s and early '80s. None of these were from prized distilleries like Michter's or Stitzel-Weller, but they were old Bourbons I hadn't sampled, so I picked up one of each.
The counter guy viewed me with a sort of mix of curiosity and disgust. No one ever buys those, he told me. They are really old. Lucky for me, as is often the case with dusties, I don't think they had updated the price tags, so I paid $7 to $15 for these old whiskeys from closed distilleries.
Over the next few months, I may post reviews for some of these dusty bottles. Meanwhile, if you want to try some, stop by. At my last visit, there were still bottles of all of these except the Overholt at Jubilee, along with lots of really old crap (schnapps, brandy, blended whiskey, etc.).
Happy Hunting!
9 comments:
- Chuck Cowdery said...
Nicely played, my friend. That's exactly how it's done, even down to confusing/amusing the proprietor. Not that many people can say they've done it and bagged anything so good. It's an odd pastime, I agree, but perhaps someday it will be an Olympic sport.
- December 16, 2009 at 3:53 PM
- sku said...
Thanks Chuck. This was certainly the best I've done, but I keep reading about all of those people who find SW Old Fitz BIBs by the caseload and other amazing treasures. Maybe one day I'll stumble onto something like.
And as for the Olympics, maybe if they have them in Bardstown someday they'll add the event. I guess we should all keep up our training just in case.
- December 16, 2009 at 4:18 PM
- AdamH said...
"But Sku, you're giving away all our best tricks!!!"
- December 23, 2009 at 9:42 PM
- sku said...
Ha! I wouldn't worry too much Adam. While I like to think of my blog as having somewhat of a reach, I'm not thinking it will inspire thousands of dusty hunters to scour the liquor stores of LA.
- December 24, 2009 at 7:25 AM
Keep posting stuff like this i really like it
- January 6, 2010 at 7:55 PM
- Greg said...
Sku - Just saw your post on your dusty hunting. Nicely done. All those bottles in the pic contain good juice, especially the Old Forester. Thanks for the plug to BourbonDork. I'll raise a glass of something dusty to you this evening. Cheers.
- February 9, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- sku said...
Thanks for your comments Greg. Yeah, the Old Forester was gooood.
- February 9, 2010 at 8:28 PM
I recently secured a few bottles of Old Charter 8 year, almost impossible to find in New Jersey. Incredible! My wife and I did a little bourbon tasting, and Old Charter beat out Buffalo Trace, J.W. Dant, Blanton, and Old Grand Dad (80 proof). The Old Grand Dad tasted like rot gut Cowboy whisky, but Old Charter 8 year also beat the other finer, more expensive bourbons for full flavor and complexity. J.W. Dant, also cheap, came in second place. Old Charter is an amazing bourbon. How can it be less popular and less marketed than Buffalo Trace (which came in third) or Blanton? Are contemporary tastes crazy or what?
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- Unknown said...
Bump, lol. I wish this was still possible.
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Fresh from the forest:: Penne with Mushrooms
Kelly Larson of Bagley, Minn., calls herself a fanatic forager of fungal fruits. She's not kidding. When we met at the third annual Fall Mushroom Camp recently put on by White Earth Tribal & Community College (WETCC ) Extension Service, Larso...
Kelly Larson of Bagley, Minn., calls herself a fanatic forager of fungal fruits.
She's not kidding. When we met at the third annual Fall Mushroom Camp recently put on by White Earth Tribal & Community College (WETCC ) Extension Service, Larson was shocked. "What are you doing here?" she asked. "I thought you didn't eat mushrooms." Again, the wild mushroom wizard was not kidding.
Although we'd never met in person, Larson clearly remembered a column I wrote several years ago about morel mushrooms, confessing I'd never developed an appreciation for edible treats from the forest floor. Though prized by many, I was reluctant to eat the morels harvested by a group of foragers I knew.
That was five years ago. An unexpected hunt for chanterelle mushrooms near Duluth in August, and a fortunate new friendship with a farmer who raises shiitakes have completely changed my attitude about the earthy fungus.
After harvesting chanterelles with an experienced forager, I realized that mushroom gathering is not an activity for the uninformed. As I learned from Tom Peterson, one of the very experienced mushroom gatherers at Fall Mushroom Camp, there are incredible edibles growing in the forest. They are joined by other wild mushrooms that are edible and taste fine, some that are mildly poisonous and a few that are deadly. Peterson began hunting for wild mushrooms as a child, accompanying his grandfather on forays through the forest. Now he is a professional mushroom cultivator and sells them every week at the St. Paul Farmers Market.
The Fall Mushroom Camp was held at Little Elbow Lake Park on the White Earth Indian Reservation. The campground is located in a very remote area of the reservation surrounded by a forest inhabited by black bears and wolves and a plethora of wild fungi. WETCC Extension Service staff members set up a well-organized kitchen on the primitive campground with no electricity and no running water. A creative chef from the Twin Cities prepared all of the meals using mushrooms the 25 hungry campers brought in from their forays.
The weekend was an immersive, hands-on, casual outdoor learning experience as the expert team of Larson, Peterson and WETCC Extension Service Director, Steve Dahlberg led campers into the forests they'd scouted earlier in the week. The three teachers displayed an evident love and respect for nature as they showed campers where to look for wild mushrooms, how to identify them and how to harvest them.
I've become hooked on freshly harvested wild mushrooms. They need no packaging, no chemicals to force them to grow, no pesticides, they can be picked locally, and, when I harvest them myself, I don't have to pay for them. What could be any better for the mind and spirit than hiking through the woods on a sunny fall day to hunt for mushrooms?
As I gathered my bags of bright orange lobster mushrooms and little brown honey mushrooms to take home with me, I saw Larson, the well-seasoned mushroom enthusiast, smile and shake her head. "You're hooked on mushrooms," she said. She wasn't kidding.
On my second day back home, I found a large, healthy growth of honey mushrooms right under an oak tree in my yard. I added them to an easy-to-prepare creamy penne pasta dish. If you aren't so fortunate, use shiitake mushrooms as a substitute. I've tried that. The penne is luscious either way.
Penne with Mushrooms
1/2 pound penne pasta
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon butter
1 cup chopped onions
2 chubby cloves garlic, minced
6 ounces fresh honey mushrooms or shiitake mushrooms, sliced
1/4 cup white wine
1/4 cup vegetable or chicken broth
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
Put a large pot of water on the stove over medium heat. When water begins to boil, stir the pasta into the pot and cook according to package directions, being sure penne cooks to al dente, an Italian phrase meaning "to the tooth." It's a fancy way of saying the pasta should be firm, but not hard.
While pasta is cooking, heat olive oil and butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add chopped onions and sauté until tender, but not brown. Add minced garlic and sauté for a couple more minutes. Add mushrooms and sauté for 2 minutes. Add white wine and broth. Simmer until liquid is reduced by half. Stir in the heavy whipping cream and reduce slightly to thicken. Drain pasta and add to sauce in skillet. Season with salt and pepper.
Top with Parmesan cheese and parsley when serving. Makes 3 or 4 servings.
Tips from the cook
--Toasted pine nuts sprinkled over the top of each serving of Penne with Mushrooms are a flavorful addition. Chopped, toasted walnuts would also be good.
--If you'd rather not cook with white wine, use more broth to replace the wine.


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WASHINGTON, Aug. 11, 2010 — The commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan today praised the Afghan defense ministry for growing its army ahead of schedule, while NATO forces confirmed the death of a senior Taliban commander killed in fighting with Afghan and international troops.
Afghanistan has reached its goal of 134,000 trained Afghan soldiers two months ahead of schedule, marking a milestone in the counterinsurgency strategy, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus said.
Less than six months ago, Petraeus said, Afghan army strength stood at about 107,000 trained soldiers, with a target of reaching 134,000 by October. He called the pace of growth "remarkable."
"Increasing the size and capability of the Afghan security forces is a central element of the joint Afghan-ISAF strategy to increase security for the Afghan people in areas challenged by the insurgency," Petraeus said. "Such security provides the foundation on which local governance can be developed, basic services for the people can be improved, and a brighter future for the next generation of Afghan citizens can be built."
Petraeus' comments came as ISAF officials today confirmed that a combined force of Afghan and ISAF troops killed Malauwi Ghulam Haideri, a senior Taliban commander, and Mulauwi Sher Agha, a Taliban facilitator, during an Aug. 4 operation.
During the operation, officials said, an hour-long fire fight that resulted when insurgents engaged the assault force left at least 14 insurgents dead. No Afghan or coalition forces were hurt.
The assault force searched the area and found and destroyed 26 rocket-propelled grenades, multiple automatic weapons, grenades, a recoilless rifle, an antipersonnel mine and about 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
In other operations in Afghanistan:
— Afghan and coalition forces killed nine insurgents during operations in Wardak province today. The forces came under enemy small-arms and rocket-propelled-grenade fire from multiple positions, including a vehicle. Two U.S. Air Force F‑16s provided close-air support with 20 mm cannon fire. No civilians were injured.
— An Afghan and coalition security force detained several suspected Taliban insurgents in Kandahar province yesterday, including a cell commander who directed and facilitated suicide-bomber attacks in Kandahar City. After questioning the targeted compound's residents, the assault force detained the commander and other suspected insurgents. High-explosive material was found and destroyed at the scene. The security force did not fire their weapons and protected women and children.
— An Afghan and coalition force detained two suspected Taliban insurgents in Wardak province's Chak‑e Wardak district yesterday while in pursuit of a Taliban subcommander responsible for bombing, direct-fire and kidnapping operations along Highway 1. The security force found and confiscated a sniper rifle and a shotgun, did not fire their weapons, and protected women and children.
— An Afghan and coalition security force killed two suspected insurgents and detained several more Paktia province's Zurmat district yesterday while in pursuit of a Taliban subcommander involved in all phases of bombing attacks. Two armed insurgents threatened the security force outside the targeted compound. An air weapons team engaged and killed the insurgents, who were armed with automatic weapons, grenades and chest racks. After questioning the residents, the assault force detained several suspected insurgents, one of whom attempted to avoid capture by dressing in women's attire. The force found automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades with a launcher and several hand grenades at the scene, and protected the women and children who were present.
— A combined security force detained more than 20 suspected insurgents in Zabul province's Shamulzai district yesterday while pursuing an al-Qaida member known to bring foreign fighters into the area. The force searched a remote compound and detained more than 15 suspected insurgents after questioning the residents. A separate security force later pursued a group of suspected Pakistani foreign fighters who fled the targeted compound. After clearing the follow-on area, the force detained several additional suspects and found a rocket-propelled grenade and rifle at the scene. The force did not fire their weapons and protected women and children throughout the search.
— A combined force detained several suspected Taliban insurgents in north of the Vazirin Khugyani district in Nangarhar province yesterday while in pursuit of a Taliban subcommander involved in planning attacks against Afghan and coalition forces. After questioning the residents of the targeted compound, the assault force detained the suspected insurgents. The security force did not fire their weapons and protected women and children who were present.
Also yesterday in Afghanistan, three Afghan civilians were killed and two were wounded when their vehicle struck device roadside bomb in Ghazni province's Waghaz district. Another Afghan civilian was injured in an an insurgent bomb blast in Helmand province's Nahr‑e Saraj district, and an insurgent bomb in Khost province's Bak district killed two Afghan civilians was and wounded another.
Two Afghan children were killed and one was injured yesterday when insurgents fired at coalition forces in Logar province's Baraki Barak district with small arms and rocket-propelled grenades. The wounded child was evacuated to a nearby hospital for medical care.
Also, insurgents fired four rocket-propelled grenades at a mosque near Asadabad in Kunar province this morning. One RPG broke windows and knocked down a tree, but no one was injured.
Compiled from International Security Assistance Force and ISAF Joint Command News Releases


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Who it's for: Expectant parents, new parents, other family members and childcare professionals, including private nannies. Details: The Infant & Child CPR class is taught at various office locations. This two-hour American Heart Association (AHA) course life-saving infant and child CPR skills. Participants learn:
- How to recognize the signs of choking
- How to prevent the most common fatal injuries
- How to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
- Up-to-date infant CPR procedures


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As an edtech consultant, a common question I'm asked by teachers and school leaders these days is "Which screencasting software is best?"
In this post I'm going to recommend the screencasting tool that I think is the best for the majority of teachers. But first I've briefly reviewed each of 15 other contenders, in each case outlining it's pros and cons – and pronouncing a verdict on it.
There is no single best tool to use. So much depends on the type of computer you use (Mac or PC*), how comfortable you are with video-editing software, how much time you want to spend making your screencasts and how professional and fancy you want your screencasts to be. There's also an element of personal preference regarding interface design. So my recommendation at the end of this post is no more than my professional opinion.
I've bought and used each of the software titles below, and I've run Professional Development workshops on each of them over the years, as well as making screencasts for my own students since 2006 and having students make and publish screencasts as part of their own learning journey.
[*NB. In this post I have focussed on computer screencasting tools – if you are interested in iPad tools have a look at this previous post]
1. Adobe Captivate
Like most Adobe software, this is a tool for über-professionals. It's adobeously expensive (@ $435 per license), and its interface and workflow is frustratingly non-intuitive for the uninitiated, and it takes me hours to do what I can do in other software in minutes, but you end up with very slick screencasts, and file sizes that are relatively small. If you are a professional screencaster (Ie.If you've been employed to make screencasts and that is your whole job) then you should probably have a look at it. For everyone else, keep reading.
Verdict: I don't recommend it for teachers.
2. Camtasia Studio
Very powerful PC-only software that lets me do almost everything I would want to do in an educational screencast, but I rarely recommend it to teachers who are starting out in screencasting because it costs $179 per license (education pricing) and requires a very steep learning curve.
Verdict: I recommend it only for teachers who have already done some screencasting, are quite comfortable with a PC and demand a professional result.
3. Camtasia:Mac
Although also made by Techsmith, Camtasia:Mac is not the same as Camtasia Studio. It has some really cool, but arguably superfluous features (special effects and filters), is less complicated to use than Camtasia Studio, is less expensive (but still costs $75) and is still somewhat fiddly to use until you get familiar with its tools.
Verdict: I recommend it for teachers who are fairly comfortable with their Mac, have already made some screencasts and want to experiment with cool effects.
4. Screenflow
Telestream's Screenflow is my personal favourite screencasting tool (by quite a margin) and the one I most often turn to for my own screencasts, but I seldom recommend it to teachers because like Camtasia:Mac it's expensive ($110), is Mac-only and is so feature-rich that many teachers are likely to find it daunting and time consuming. However, if you are a Mac user and fairly comfortable with multi-track video editing software, I think it's worth both the money and the learning curve. It has a high power:complexity ratio. It punches well above it's weight in that regard.
Verdict: I recommend it for Mac users who are pretty good with a computer, have made some screencasts and now want screencast super-powers.
5. CamStudio
Please don't confuse CamStudio with Camtasia Studio. It has almost nothing in common with Techsmith's powerful offerings (except that it has shamelessly piggy-backed on Camtasia's good name). CamStudio is an ugly, basic, kludgy, PC-only, dinosaur. There are no good reasons to use it. Even if you don't want to spend a cent, you'll find better choices below. Keep reading.
Verdict: Keep walking, there's nothing to see here.
6. Screenr
Screenr is a web-based, Java tool. As such it doesn't require you to install anything on your computer (you simply go to screenr.com and click the record button) but the downside is that you have to have an internet connection and it's slow to use because you have to wait for the video to upload before you can then download and save it. It doesn't let you record your webcam, and only lets you record for 5 minutes. This is the sort of software that seems simple to use – but ends up creating frustration.
Verdict: Maybe if your IT department won't let you install software … but even then, there are better options. (See Screencast-O-Matic below.)
7. Jing
Jing is another screencasting tool by Techsmith. If you take all the pros and cons of Camtasia Studio and flip them, you have Jing. It's completely free, has a super-simple interface (probably the easiest of all the tools to use), but it lacks features: You can't record your webcam, you can't annotate your videos. It also has significant limitations: You can't record for more than 5 minutes and worst of all, it only publishes videos in .swf format which won't play natively on iOS devices. That's a deal-breaker for me. What's even worse, the particular .swf files produced can't be converted to mp4 even with professional file-conversion utilities. This means there is no way to edit them – unless you buy Camtasia Studio, which can edit Jing files.
Jing is free for a reason. Techsmith has positioned it as a gateway drug – it starts with Jing and before you know it you're using SnagIt or Camtasia.
Verdict: Friends don't let friends use Jing.
8. SnagIt
Techsmith is smart. They know that Jing is going to frustrate you. So they provided yet another simple tool that is very similar to Jing in every way but without some of the frustrations: Ie. you can record for as long as you want and your videos are published in mp4 format. But this time it's not free. It costs $30. It's reasonably good but expensive for what you get. It punches below it's weight.
Verdict: A nice program – but lacking features and expensive for what it is. I think it's worth $10, not $30.
9. Microsoft Community Clips
Community Clips is a Microsoft labs experiment. It's available for free from various sites on the web (but not directly from Microsoft, anymore). It does a reasonable job of recording the screen, but that's all it does. It's probably about equal to SnagIt – except it's free. The videos can, of course, be edited in Movie Maker if necessary.
Verdict: If you are a PC user, this is a better choice than Jing – at least the files can be edited in MovieMaker. Still, there are better choices for features and flexibility.
10. Microsoft Expression Encoder
[Thanks to Thomas Gaffey for reminding me to include this one]. Expression Encoder is more full-featured than Community Clips and is still able to be downloaded from Microsoft. Like Community Clips it's free – but unlike Community Clips it allows you to record both your screen and your webcam and it affords you basic editing options once recording is finished (you can cut sections out, for example). The workflow is less obvious than some other apps. You first record the video and then send it to a separate editor application. This always feels a bit confusing to new users at first but don't let that put you off. It's not difficult to do once you've done it once. And doing this will stand you in good stead, should you decide later to upgrade to Camtasia Studio – because that is how Camtasia works, too. It's not hard to do once you understand the workflow.
Verdict: I'd recommend this to PC users as a good option. If you are a PC user, currently using Community Clips, SnagIt, Jing, Screenr, or CamStudio, you'd be better off with Expression Encoder.
11. Apple QuickTime Player
[Thanks to Chris Russell @choirguy_ for pointing out that I had neglected this one in my original post – shame on me! ] QuickTime Player comes installed on every Mac. What lots of people don't realise is that it has a screen recording feature built right into it! Simply go to File > New Screen Recording. It actually works very well, though it's fairly featureless – being about equal, feature-for-feature with Community Clips and SnagIt. But it is free (unlike SnagIt) and a huge boon is that it's already there on a teacher's machine, installed and ready to go. Unfortunately QuickTime Player for Windows does not have this feature – so it's a Mac-only boon.
Verdict: For Mac users wanting to quickly make a screencast with no fuss and without even downloading / installing anything – QuickTime Player is already there at the ready.
12. Snapz Pro
Snapz Pro (Mac only) has been around for years. It's the first screencasting tool I ever used. It has similar features to SnagIt or QuickTime Player but even more expensive ($65).
Verdict: Not my choice anymore, and too expensive.
13. iShowU
iShowU by Shinywhitebox is an evolving platform. It used to be too feature-poor for the price tag ($30) but now they have added the ability to record the webcam, editing and other power-user features similar to some of those in Screenflow and Camtasia. So far though I've been disappointed with its performance. It seems to crash a lot and is a bit buggy.
Verdict: I think it will eventually be a great choice for Mac users, but I can't recommend it at the moment – It's still too buggy.
14. Voilá
I hear a lot of buzz around Voilá but personally I think it's over-hyped at $32. It's a pretty handy screen capture tool (for still screenshots) but that is not what I am really reviewing in this post. As a screencasting tool, Voilá would not be my choice. It allows you to record your screen like any screencasting tool does, or it allows you to record your webcam – but disappointingly, not both at the same time. So for screencasting I'd say it's about as useful as SnagIt – at about the same price.
Verdict: M'eh.
15. Collaaj
Collaaj does something that no other platform discussed here does. Not only does it work on Mac or PC but there is also an iPad app. It's pretty good too – it lets you record your webcam as well as the screen, and all the video is handled by Collaaj's servers which makes for very easy sharing with your students and vice versa. It lets you record your webcam (or FaceTime camera on the iPad) – which is something SnagIt and Jing and several others don't allow. Unfortunately the free version only lets you record for 2 minutes which is just too short to be useful. There are a range of paid plans (a subscription model) that range from $5 – $75 per month depending on your needs. For some schools this might be a good choice but I think the subscription model is probably a deal-breaker for many.
Verdict: I may recommend it, especially in a BYOD school, depending on your budget.
16. Screencast-O-Matic
I think Screencast-O-Matic hits the sweet spot in terms of features, ease of use and price. It's free. It records your webcam as well as your screen, it couldn't be very much easier to use, and it has some really nice features that you don't get in any other free screencasting software. For example, when you click your mouse, it inserts a visible and audible click. There is a Mac version, a Windows version and you have the option of launching it as a Java applet from screencast-o-matic.com without installing any software on your computer. This makes it really versatile and useful. The huge advantage of it being free is that you can ask students to install it on their computers without worrying about hitting the pocket-nerve of their parents.
Videos can be saved to your computer as an mp4, uploaded directly to YouTube or published to Screencast-O-Matic's own video-sharing server (useful if YouTube has not yet been unblocked by your IT department).
While Sceencast-O-Matic is free to use, it will limit you to 15 minutes and puts a small "Screencast-O-Matic" watermark in the lower left corner of the final published video. There is a Pro version which unlocks a LOT more features. The pro version gives you video editing (delete that cough!), the ability to record system audio, and the ability to record for longer than 15 minutes. It also records videos in higher definition, allows publishing in more video formats, removes the watermark – and more. I think most teachers will find that the free version is all they need. But for those who want to take it up a notch – without going all the way to Camtasia Studio or Screenflow, the Pro version of Screencast-O-Matic only costs $15/year.
Verdict: I'd recommend it to almost any teacher who is starting out in screencasting. The free version is better than any other free tool i've found and it's even better than most of the paid tools. The Pro version (for just $15) is better than anything except the really pro tools such as Screenflow and Camtasia, but much more affordable, and easier to use.
[Edit: January 19, 2017 – if you want to purchase Screencast-O-Matic Pro with a 20% discount, you can use this link.
[Edit: December 5, 2017]
17. Screencastify
Another really great, simple screencasting tool that I highly recommend to teachers – especially Chromebook users, is Screencastify. It's as easy to use as Screencast-O-Matic, and has many of the same features, but it runs as a Chrome plugin, and saves your recordings to Google Drive. Having said that, it doesn't just let you record the browser window; you can record your entire desktop and optionally even your webcam (which, like Screencast-O-Matic will appear as a cameo picture-in-picture at the lower right of the video. Screencastify also allows you to annotate over a Tab recording, and has some basic editing features which you can use in post (if you want to).
The free version allows you to record up to 50, 10 minute videos (which in my opinion is long enough) per month, and watermarks your videos with a Screencastify message. To remove these limitations, and to enable editing and cropping, Screencastify Pro costs just US$2 per month.
Because it runs as a Chrome extension, you need to have an internet connection to use Screencastify.
Verdict: I'd recommend it to any teacher – but especially to the growing number of teachers who use Chromebooks, for whom Screencast-O-Matic is not a good option.
These are not the only choices of course. This is an exploding market. Have you used one that you would recommend?
[Edit: I have – and it's so compelling I wrote a whole new post about it here].


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Credit: American Forces Press Service
Dotting the African continent are promising examples of the capable, professional military forces U.S. Africa Command is working to promote.
As Tunisia spawned what became known as the Arab Spring in December 2010, its military opposed then-President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's order to use force against the pro-democracy protesters who ultimately brought down his regime.
The Ugandan army has become a professional force and plays a key role in advancing regional peace and security, conducting humanitarian operations at home while contributing thousands of troops to counterterrorism and peacekeeping efforts in neighboring Somalia.
Uganda is also among four African nations -- also including South Sudan, Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo -- that have come together to fight the Lord's Resistance Army, one of Africa's most violent and persistent rebel groups which has brutalized civilians in the region for a quarter-century.
Meanwhile, Uganda, Burundi and Djibouti are contributing forces under the banner of the African Union Mission in Somalia, or AMISOM, to help Somalia deal with the al-Shabab terrorist organization that threatens its transitional government.
And in Liberia -- a nation long wracked by civil war and instability -- the military once discredited as the puppet of former president and convicted war criminal Charles Taylor has become a respected organization under the direction of the democratically elected civilian leadership.
Officials at Africom, the United States' newest combatant command focused on Africa, see these and other developments as a sign of positive trends they're helping to shape on the continent.
Strengthening the defense capabilities of African countries and encouraging them to work together to confront common security threats and challenges has been a cornerstone of Africom's work since its standup in 2008.
Africom has been instrumental in supporting other promising developments, Army Maj. Gen. Charles J. Hooper, Africom's director of strategy, plans and programs, told American Forces Press Service. "We see increasing trends toward democracy, rule of law and respect for human rights," he said. "And I think Africom has played a very positive role in supporting those trends."
Hooper pointed to the role U.S. military advisors and mentors have played in rebuilding the Armed Forces of Liberia through a five-year, State-Department funded Africom program known as Operation Onward Liberty. For the past two years, Marine Forces Africa has led the joint Marine-Army-Air Force effort aimed at helping professionalize the Liberian military and ensuring it's able to defend the country's borders and come to the aid of its neighbors if needed.
"This small training and education mission [is] focused on developing a cohesive Liberian armed force," said Hooper. "I saw our Operation Onward Liberty mentors assisting them in everything from [establishing] a fair military justice system and teaching the military police to serve, to working in the clinics, all the way to assisting the young soldiers in the Liberian army who volunteered and started an elementary school on their base," he said.
Particularly encouraging, he said, was the Liberian military's new focus on internal development. Engineering units, for example, were using their equipment to build roads and rebuild infrastructure ravaged during years of civil war.
Hooper said he was impressed by the Liberian force that has emerged. "What I saw there was a Liberian military that had a renewed faith in itself, a renewed enthusiasm about being a force for good in its country and serving the people," he said.
Michael Casciaro, Africom's security cooperation programs division chief, reported similar promise in Uganda, where the command is providing training and equipment to build capability and capacity.
Casciaro said he received favorable feedback about the transformation taking place in the Ugandan military from the unlikeliest of sources: an opposition leader. "What he told us was, 'I see the difference in Americans operating in my country… I see the impact of Americans working with the Ugandans because now they … go out and do humanitarian things for their own country, and are being used in a different way,'" Casciaro said.
In 2007, Uganda stepped up to support the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia, followed by Burundi; both remain today as the primary troop-contributing nations. "A major objective of ours has been to prepare Africans to go into Somalia to create stability," Casciaro said. "And [the African militaries] have been instrumental in clearing a prominent terrorist group out of Mogadishu," a first step toward expanding the effort north to regain control of the country.
Army Brig. Gen. Arnold Gordon-Bray, Africom's deputy operations director, called the mission in Somalia "one of the best examples of Africans helping themselves that we are involved in."
The African Union established its African Union Mission to Somalia with a clear vision that a failed Somalia would impact the entire continent, Bray said.
"This collective grouping is epitomizing what Africom is able to do, working with the State Department, working with other international partners, working by, with and through African partners to bring stability," he said. "It is a great mission. It is symbolic of all the great things we are trying to do."
A full range of peacekeeping training and instruction falls under the Africa Contingency Operations Training and Assistance, a program funded and managed by the U.S. State Department. It is designed to improve African militaries' capabilities by providing selected training and equipment required to execute multinational peace support operations. U.S. military trainers play a supporting role, providing mentorship and specialized instruction in areas such as bomb detection or deployment logistics.
Army Gen. Carter F. Ham, the Africom commander, told Congress earlier this year he's also encouraged by "an increasingly collaborative approach" among African nations standing together against al-Shabab. As they rallied to Somalia's aid, the U.S. State Department responded to their requests for help in training and equipping those forces so they would be able to deploy to conduct their operations.
Ham called this effort a model of what U.S. Africa Command is all about: a command able to tap into the full range of U.S. government capabilities to help African nations better provide for their own security.
"And it is starting now to have significant benefit… We are seeing those African forces being more and more successful against al-Shabab each and every day," he said. "This is one example of how building partner capacity really yields a decisive result in Africa," he said.
Ham cited similar success in helping Africans in their fight against the Lord's Resistance Army.
U.S. Special Forces advisors working with the four nations on the ground "are having a very positive effect," he told the House Armed Services Committee in February. "We're assisting in intelligence fusion, in facilitating long-range communications, logistics operations to sustain forces in the field for long periods of time and increased intelligence collection."
"So I'm optimistic," he told the House panel. "But I'm not yet to the point where we see the end in sight."
The result, Ham said, is fulfillment of Africom's goal of enabling Africans to solve African problems.
"If that is successful -- and I believe the trend line is pretty good right now -- that means that's an area where the United States would not have to commit sizable forces to address a security situation," Ham told the House panel. "And that's really what we're trying to do. That's the essence of building partner capability in this collaborative approach with state and defense."


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I realized today that I have come to appreciate the phrase "off the reservation" in comments. I hadn't thought about it being racist at all. But I had started to notice a correlation, how like 60-70% of the time, if someone uses the phrase "off the reservation," they're probably not going to have a lot of things to say that I need to engage with because I'm not going to find them interesting or informative. And then, of course, once you think about what it means–that someone is somewhere they don't belong, somewhere that makes no sense, like an Indian off the reservation–voila, it's not surprising that a majority of people who use it are not people I would want to talk to.
It's a nice sorting tool.
If I heard someone described as a patriarch, depending on the context, I would assume that either the writer was signalling that the "patriarch" in question had some serious, annoying character flaws to go along with his leadership skills–in other words, that the person being described was an exclusionary asshole–or I would assume that the writer was an exclusionary asshole. The term is another nice sorting tool. I hear it used benignly and I figure there's a 60-70% chance of the situation it's used to describe being not worth my bother to try to be a part of.
It kind of doesn't matter what the dictionary definition of the word "patriarch" even is. Because it is a signal word, also, to women who are trying to navigate spaces where there aren't a lot of women. No matter what the dictionary says it means, to us it means, "keep your eyes open for the good ole boys club."
So, you know, I'm not offended to hear Marcus Whitney and Nicholas Holland described as our tech patriarchs. Fine, if I'm around them, I should keep my eyes open for the good ole boys club. Glad to have that clue about them.
But if I were Whitney or Holland and that weren't true? If I'm not at the heart of some woman-unfriendly hierarchy, I'd be at least confused, if not pissed, about having that signal associated with me.
The funniest part–in a funny ouch way, not a funny ha ha way–is that I would bet you good money a woman wrote that press release, so engrained in all of us is the idea that men have their little tech club and most women, if we're going to participate in it, do so in supporting roles.
Anyway, words. They mean shit. Some of what they mean isn't in the dictionary.


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At one point in his 25-year career, cardiologist Edwin Palileo was on staff of more than a dozen different hospitals in the Chicago area. "There were days when I'd drive to three and four hospitals a day seeing patients," he says. Not surprisingly, a typical workday lasted as long as 16 hours. "That takes a toll on a physician," he remembers. "And your car."
The exhausting schedule eventually led Palileo to seek an academic position in teaching and research-and ultimately, to private practice here in Sarasota.
Palileo is one of many physicians who have come to Sarasota from major metropolitan areas. They're here for the same reasons most of us are-quality of life, but also because the city has a wealth of resources available to them. And that benefits all our residents.
A recent study by the University of South Florida ranked Sarasota County second in the state (behind Charlotte County) in overall health status. In counties with populations between 50,000 and 399,000, Sarasota was rated "much better than average" in adult mortality and community capacity and resources, and "better than average" in screening prevention and primary care. That puts it higher than similar counties in the Tampa Bay area such as Lee, Pasco, Volusia and Seminole.
Part of our high ranking derives from our supply of medical professionals. More than 1,300 medical doctors practice here. Sarasota has 2,808 licensed practical nurses and more than 6,000 registered nurses. Three hundred twenty-four dentists attend to our teeth, 51 podiatrists care for our feet and 452 pharmacists dole out our prescriptions every day.
Nearly 200 mental health counselors ease our minds; for serious emotional turbulence, 106 psychologists are available. Four licensed marriage and family therapists can help provide solutions to family tumult, and the city is filled with free support groups for every ailment, medical condition or emotional problem imaginable.
Lifestyle remains a major attraction for these professionals. Dr. Stella King, who practices family medicine at Intracoastal Medical Group, grew up in Naples, but received her medical training in New Jersey. After graduating, she and her husband (also a doctor) interviewed along the Southeast coast but chose Sarasota because it offered a place where both she and her husband could practice. She says their group includes most major specialties and affords them more opportunities for personal autonomy than they might receive in a larger city.
"Often, (doctors) in an urban setting may have to go to multiple hospitals," says King. "In Philadelphia, you may have as many as four, five or six hospitals where you have to see patients every day. That can definitely adversely affect your quality of life. Here, a physician only has to deal with two hospitals that are about 20 minutes apart."
In fact, the bi-county area that includes Sarasota and Manatee enjoys the resources of six hospitals, all conveniently spread throughout the region. With 845 beds, downtown's Sarasota Memorial is the second-largest public hospital in Florida. It is among the top 25 hospitals in the United States in the number of open-heart surgeries performed annually and has the second-largest cardiac program in Florida. It was also ranked among the top 100 cardiovascular and stroke hospitals in the country.
The cancer program at Sarasota Memorial has been fully accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer since 1986, and last year began an affiliation with Tampa-based H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center to provide patients greater access to the center's clinical research programs and treatment for complex cancers.
Near the interstate is the 168-bed Doctor's Hospital, where patient surveys reveal a 98-percent satisfaction rate and recent changes have reduced waiting times at the emergency rooms by 75 percent. The hospital recently added an in-house, state-of-the-art MRI that reduces scan times, and residents can check its monthly full-page advertisement in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune for details of health screenings, lectures and support groups, most of them free.
South County is home to Bon-Secours Venice Hospital and Englewood Hospital, and Bradenton has Manatee Memorial Hospital and Blake Medical Center, which has been a "Top 100" hospital for the past five years. Blake was the first hospital in Florida and the third in the nation to receive an OSHA voluntary protection merit award and has one of the top 100 ICU departments in the country.
"The biggest surprise is how large the hospitals and staffs are and how advanced the medical community is, in terms of up-to-date technology. You usually don't find that except in larger urban areas," says Palileo, a Filipino native who had job offers from New Orleans, St. Petersburg and Venice before selecting Sarasota. "I think you can find almost anything you need right here," he says.
He's right. Besides general practitioners, Sarasota has what King describes as "an incredibly large number of doctors and quite a few different kinds of programs available."
For example, we can boast of 137 opticians and 70 optometrists. At the Sarasota Cataract & Laser Institute, Dr. Harry Grabow participates in leading-edge research, including FDA studies of new products and techniques. This state-of-the-art facility hosts numerous surgeons each year who travel from around the world to learn techniques from Grabow, who founded the institute. At Center for Sight, Dr. David Shoemaker, an acknowledged leader in his field, is a regular featured speaker at national and international ophthalmology conferences. He is among a select group of physicians chosen to serve as FDA investigators for new ophthalmic technologies, including the foldable intraocular implant and the implantable contact lens. And the Sarasota Retina Institute participates in FDA trials for macular degeneration treatments.
The Silverstein Institute is a nationally recognized center for hearing research. Its founder, Dr. Herbert Silverstein, was instrumental in bringing cochlear implants to the American public and is considered a leading authority on Meniere's disease. Now the area has 45 licensed audiologists and 87 hearing aid specialists.
Sarasota has three licensed midwives, five licensed doulas (who provide support and comfort to laboring women) and a hospital obstetrics unit at Sarasota Memorial Hospital to serve women's health issues. The hospital is unique for its neonatal intensive care unit, lactation consultants and a maternal-infant staff available by phone 24 hours a day to answer questions from new mothers. It's also recruiting candidates for a gynecological oncology program.
Men fare just as well, thanks to Sarasota's array of services to treat cancer patients. The Dattoli Cancer Center has pioneered many of the innovations associated with modern prostate brachytherapy. It now has the largest brachytherapy program in the country, and patients come from all over the world to use its services. Dr. Alan Porter of Radiation Oncology Centers offered the first prostate seed implantation here in 1978, and his offices participate in numerous clinical trials in the research and development of cancer treatments.
Sarasota is also home to The Wellness Community, one of only 25 centers in the country dedicated to psychological and emotional support for all cancer patients and their loved ones. It offers one-on-one and group counseling, nutrition counseling, relaxation, yoga and tai chi-all free of charge.
Meanwhile, important clinical research flourishes here. Reproductive endocrinologist Dr. Julio Pabon is one of a handful of fertility specialists in Florida participating in trials for MicroSort, a technique that screens for desired gender in children. Since its inception, MicroSort has garnered an 88-percent success rate for producing girls and a 73-percent rate for boys. At least three couples have tried the procedure at Pabon's office in Naples. Pabon is also the only doctor on the entire West Coast performing a technique called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), where individual embryos can be sampled for gender selection after a mere three days before they are implanted using in-vitro fertilization.
At Sarasota Memorial, Hemolink, an oxygen carrier that may eliminate or reduce the need for blood transfusions during open heart surgery, is under investigation. Its main advantage is that it can be used in any patient, so doctors hope to use it in severe trauma cases where a patient can die in the time it takes to identify blood type. The hospital is also on the forefront of a minimally invasive heart bypass procedure called endoscopic vein harvesting that allows surgeons to graft a vein through a single three-centimeter incision near the knee. Traditional methods involve an incision of 40 centimeters or longer.
This Florida resort destination also has a firm foundation of services for the elderly. Nearly 32 percent of Sarasota's population is aged 65 and over, and for those who need them, assisted living facilities, nursing homes and centers that treat advanced cases of Alzheimer's and dementia are plentiful and of high quality. The Senior Friendship Center offers adult day services, nutrition programs and a Center for Healthy Aging that provides medical and dental care for seniors on limited incomes. Last year the center provided more than a half-million dollars in free care, along with exercise classes, dancing, live bands, crafts and many other activities.
For the estimated 20 percent of Sarasota's population who are physically or developmentally disabled, organizations like Easter Seals and United Cerebral Palsy assist those with cerebral palsy, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, mental retardation, epilepsy, Down syndrome, blindness, deafness and other risk factors.
"As a state, Florida struggles to provide government funding to people with disabilities, so we look to the community to pick up the gap," says Mary Hitchcock, president and CEO of Easter Seals in Sarasota. They compensate with organizations like Manasota Lighthouse and its services for the blind; Children's Haven & Adult Center, Manasota ARC and Loveland Center, which support residents with mental retardation; and Child Development Center, which assists at-risk children.
The alternative healing arts thrive here as well. In addition to 211 chiropractors, Sarasota has 123 acupuncturists and 101 osteopaths. Spa services abound, with more than 1,400 massage therapists to soothe our muscles, 16 electrologists to remove unwanted hair, 33 licensed athletic trainers to whip our bodies into shape and 118 nutritionists and nutrition counselors to make sure they stay fit. After injuries, 274 occupational therapists and 407 physical therapists can get you back on your feet again. We also enjoy a wealth of board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeons.
The abundance of care surprises new residents like Palileo and King, who says, "There's a perception that hospitals that are not tertiary [teaching] centers are not as good, and that's just not true here." King says Sarasota enjoys most of the same services as Tampa, Gainesville, Jacksonville and Miami. When you consider that we also enjoy dazzling beaches, spectacular climate and a superior cultural atmosphere, Sarasota truly is a city of physical, emotional and mental good health.
All figures from the Florida Department of Health Web site, http://www.doh.state.fl.us/IRM00PRAES/PRASLIST.ASP
Most of us already know that we're either a "morning" person or a "vampire," someone who prowls the night only to cringe at the sun's first rays. But few people are aware of the science that has occurred regarding these instincts.
Enter Dr. Matthew Edlund, head of the Center for Circadian Medicine and director of the Gulf Coast Sleep Institute. Edlund, a Sarasota resident, has trained in sleep medicine, occupational health and internal medicine at Brown University, Harvard and the University of California. He is also one of the first physicians in the United States to clinically practice body clock medicine and recently published his first book on the subject, The Body Clock Advantage.
The book is based on Edlund's assertion that each of us falls into one of two groups: "owls," who rage late into the night, and "larks," who spring out of bed at dawn but are crawling by midnight.
Edlund maintains that understanding what kind of "clock" your body runs on can improve every area of your life, from athletics to health, romance and creativity. He also believes that all humans are ruled by "circadian rhythms" that impact how we behave.
Did you know, for example, that most industrial accidents happen between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m.? According to Edlund, many major mishaps, from the Exxon Valdez oil spill to the nuclear accidents at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, occurred during these hours. He even declares in his book, that, "Unless you are a night person, your performance will decline from midnight on."
The good news is that, regardless of your internal rhythms, you can learn from them, and even change them to work for you instead of against you. Recently, Edlund spoke with us about his book and his research.
Q. What exactly is a human body clock?
A. Everyone is born with a particular type of body clock that tells them when to sleep. An exquisite set of genes controls the biological clock. But all of terrestrial biology is based on a daily cycle. If you go into the Pacific Basin, where there is no light, you'll still see organisms existing under a 24-hour system.
Q. How does this clock affect humans?
A. In humans, it means that some people genetically prefer to stay up late while others can't go past 10 at night. Many people select their jobs based on their clock. The trouble starts if you don't know or won't acknowledge what type of body clock you have. Then it becomes difficult to find areas that it doesn't affect.
Q. What do you mean?
A. Take shift work. Humans certainly did not evolve for nighttime shifts. Studies show that people who work overnight have higher rates of hypertension and other health problems, even miscarriage. We have to recognize how to use the body in the way it was built. We seem to want to use our bodies as if they were machines, instead of making sleep patterns more regular so that we stay in sync with our own body clock.
Q. Is that just because larks are trying to work at "owl" jobs?
A. Partially, but the amount of sleep we get has enormous influence over us. And the body clock regulates certain things for everyone. For example, histamine release in humans tends to be greatest between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., so most people have trouble with allergies during those hours.
Q. How else can your body clock affect your health?
A. It can make you gain or lose weight depending upon when you eat meals. It can affect work or sports performance-sports injuries are highest in the morning, and most athletes perform their best in the late afternoon or early evening. If you want to set a world record, do it between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Q. How do body clocks affect us here in Florida?
A. For humans, light and day set the cycle of life. A lot of people come to Florida during vacation and decide to stay because of the weather. But in many cases, they're really coming for the light. One quarter to 50 percent of people who live in Northern climates have major mood shifts during winter. Here, there's less depression because people have more access to light.
Q. Do owls and larks have anything in common?
A. Yes (laughing). They marry each other. Seriously, many couples are like that, and after a certain number of years, they just end up living with it instead of trying to fight it.
Q. What can you do to change your body clock?
A. You can shift your clock both long-term and short-term, but it takes exercise and sunlight. Owls who want to rise earlier would begin by walking in early morning. Sunlight itself is the main time-giver. Larks can stay up later by avoiding sunlight during the day.
Q. How long does it take to change your internal clock?
A. Depending upon the goal, it can take just a few days, but for long-lasting effects, you'll need to sustain a disciplined system. Humans are profoundly cyclical, but there are ways to use your body clock to its best advantage.
Still not sure whether you're an owl or a lark? Then pick up a copy of The Body Clock Advantage. It contains a handy test to evaluate your "morning-ness" and "evening-ness" abilities and gives a pretty good indication of where you fall in that scale. It also has a sleep table that can help you get a better handle on how much rest you really need, and explains a variety of methods that can help you readjust your own body clock.
(in italic) Matthew Edlund will be discussing his book and signing copies at 7 p.m., March 18 at Barnes and Noble, 4010 S. Tamiami Trail.
Sarasota health at a glance.
1,283 Medical Doctors
2,808 Licensed Practical Nurses
6,313 Registered Nurses
324 Dentists
70 Optometrists
211 Chiropractors
51 Podiatrists
452 Pharmacists
Numbers to know.
Sarasota Memorial Hospital (941) 917-9000
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center (888) MOFFITT
Doctor's Hospital (941) 342-1100
Bon Secours Venice Hospital (941) 485-7711
Manatee Memorial Hospital (941) 746-5111
Blake Medical Center (941) 792-6611
The Wellness Community (941) 921-5539
Senior Friendship Center (941) 955-2122
On the Internet.
Sarasota Memorial Hospital www.smh.com
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center www.moffitt.usf.edu
Doctor's Hospital www.doctorsofsarasota.com
Bon Secours Venice Hospital www.bonsecours.org/venice/
Manatee Memorial Hospital www.manateememorial.com
Blake Medical Center www.blakemedicalcenter.com
The Wellness Community
Senior Friendship Center www.SeniorFriendship.com


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Outdoor Sports Specialists
Welcome to Outside Edge based in Oban on the West Coast of Scotland. Outside Edge is a specialist outdoor sports shop run by enthusiasts for enthusiasts and the West of Scotland is an ideal place to live or holiday if you enjoy the great outdoors.
There are plenty of opportunities here for skiing, climbing, kayaking, diving or walking or cycling and the aim of our website is to help you maximise your time in the Argyll area and to help you with some of the equipment and clothing that is suitable for this part of the world.
- Products gives you a breakdown of the range of products we stock, not all of them because we keep too much to list it all but gives you advice on selecting clothing or equipment suitable for your intended end use.
- Special Offers is kept up to date with all our sale items and special offers throughout the year.
- Outdoor Information gives you a bit of local knowledge before you get here and has articles on specific routes and walks as well as more general info.
- Links gives you access to other websites some for local services and some from product suppliers where you can access more detailed product information than we give you.
- Photo Gallery – As images speak better than word s our Image Gallery show you the vast range of outpuruits which we have available locally.
The shop was set up in 1989 by Dave and June Bleazard who recognised the need for Oban to have a specialist outdoor shop to supply the local needs after having to travel out of the town to buy their outdoor essentials. Dave and June have always been keen on the outdoors and together ski , kayak, cycle and walk having met whilst they were both working at Arran Outdoor Centre. Dave has also extensively dived in the area and is a kayak coach.
Our son Michael features in a lot of the pictures and works at the Glasgow Climbing Centre as a climbing instructor and route setter.
We have been helped in our venture by several members of staff over the years and our current full timer is Iain Marshall who is a keen river paddler as well as being a very good photographer and a competition grade piper.
Our aim is to be able to provide quality advice and recommendations whether on local information or product information so if there is anything you want to discuss then don't hesitate to contact us .


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Best free photography apps for iPhone
iMore's authoritative guide to the very best, absolutely free photography apps for iPhone and iPod touch
Looking for great photography apps for your iPhone or iPod touch? The App Store is home to over half a million apps and games, and a surprising number of them are available for free. Some of the most popular and most-used free apps are free photography apps -- to pair with the iPhone's superb camera.
Instagram isn't just a free iPhone app, it's one of the most popular social photo sharing networks on the planet. It features a large selection of vintage, hip, and fun filters as well as the ability to add the tilt-shift effect to your photos. You can also follow friends and photographers, "like" photos, and leave comments on them. (If you're looking for more great iPhoneographers to share with, check out our Instragram name swap thread!)
- Download Now (opens in new tab)
Facebook Camera
Facebook is actually very similar to Instagram, just restricted to Facebook. You can view a stream of all the photos your friends are uploading to Facebook as well as share your own. Before uploading your photos, you have the opportunity to add a filter (all of which are very similar to instagram), crop, and tag your friends. Of course, you can also comment on and "like" photos that you encounter. It's Facebook for photos!
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There's no denying that the iPhone is equipped with a fabulous camera, but that doesn't mean that many of the images that you take couldn't benefit from a little editing. I dare say that Snapseed is the best free editing tool available for your iPhone in the App Store. It's very robust and super easy to use. Snapseed is actually only free for a limited time, so definitely make sure you pick this one up now! (It's normally $4.99).
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Pic Stitch
There are a lot of collage apps in the App Store, but what's great about Pic Stitch is that it's free! With Pic Stitch for iPhone, you can create beautiful collages that tell a story in just a few taps. It features 32 different layouts and after you've finished your masterpiece, you can share it to your favorite social network or another photography app.
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Camera Awesome
If you're looking for a free app that offers more than the built-in iOS Camera app, look no further than Camera Awesome. This fantastic free iPhone app not only gives you a lot of powerful editing tools and filters, but it also gives more control while taking photos as well by allowing you to select separate points for focus and exposure.
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Snapseed is free til June 7th
You're welcome Leanna...
Awesome! Thanks for the tip! Just downloaded it.
Wait? Is this supposed to be about the most popular photography apps? Because it's far from the "best", most popular? Yes?
what are your opinion of the best that are not on this list?
The title reads "Best FREE Photography Apps for the iPhone" ;)
Title says "best FREE photography app"
Are you interested in making your photographs masterpieces instantly with a few taps? Do you want to make your shots awesome, no matter if they are old vintage, black and white or new high resolution colorful photos, by applying a plethora of special effects? Do you want to use selective colors, variety of brush sizes (adjust manually or automatically), gestures like Pan/Zoom/Splash, unlimited Undos, Colorize, Tintalize, Recolor, blend brush to create custom effects and text blending on your photo? Don't you want to support both landscape or portrait mode and options like loading/importing photo from Cloud, instead of just from camera or photo library? Being an experienced photographer, are you tired of photo editors having several critical limitations? Won't it be cool if you had a choice of 135+ built-in effects on different parts of the same photo and still have the option of creating your own custom effects? Would you like to have option to make favorite list of built-in effects to choose them easily for future? You can also share your masterpiece with your friends through Email, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Picassa, Dropbox or post it in form of the post card, to anywhere in the world. If you are looking for an app with all of the above features, try out Photo Splash FX.
Snapseed is by far the easiest and best photo editing software I have ever used. It adds that finished look to most photos, very much worth getting for free, even more worth getting for the 4.99. It made by nik software they make incredible filters for photoshop, this app lives up to the high standards that nik has always had.
hmm, i dunno if Pixlromatic / picFX / Pix counts.. but good article btw.. yay! =]
i am Using Pix App..Quite Good with Filter and Automaticaly Random Filter..
You can now enjoy instagram user's photo stream whith the new webapp http://gramgram.net !
I've been surfing on-line greater than 3 hours as of late, but I by no means found any attention-grabbing article like yours. It is lovely worth sufficient for me. In my view, if all webmasters and bloggers made just right content as you did, the net will likely be a lot more helpful than ever before.
Just found a really cool photography app on AppDictions. Downloaded it and have to say it's freaking awesome. Check it out: http://appdictions.com/turn-pics-retro-with-vintique-vintage-photography...
I keep seeing all these cool apps for the iPhone and it makes me wish that I had one. Thanks for the collection here.
Check out my other post for more other free iPhone Photography Apps


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Supercharged 1994 Ford Mustang GT - Grunt Junkie
It's Not The Looks Of Jeff Honeyman's '94 GT That Puts 'Em To Sleep-It's The Twin-Screw Blown 331 Sucker-Punch Underhood
Horse Sense: Anyone who doubts the power prowess of Kenne Bell's Twin Screw blowers should check out our results from strapping one on the already impressive '03 Cobra. We generated nearly 20 pounds of boost and more than 600 hp at the rear wheels through the stock catalytic converters-not to mention the 600-plus lb-ft of torque.
Addiction is something that often comes on suddenly. Some believe they are predisposed to such conditions. Others believe the object of their addiction is simply far more powerful than their willpower is capable of resisting. Now we're not talking crack, crystal meth, or even gambling here-rather a far more addictive culprit. In this case, the irresistible force is supercharged V-8 torque. You know-the kind of g-generating, grin-inducing grunt that spins tires, plants butts in seats, and all but rotates the earth a bit faster.
For Jeff Honeyman, the car addiction had been around since he could comprehend the benefits of a driver's license. However, it didn't begin with a snarling V-8 Mustang. Jeff's early days were spent in European sports cars. From an MGB to a Fiat 124 Spyder to an Alfa Romeo, these drop-top rides had the wind blowing through his hair-usually as he walked to the nearest pay phone to call a tow truck.
Eventually these fun, but under-powered and unreliable, sports cars gave way to a nice, stock '94 GT. For a while-a short while-Jeff was content with stock V-8 grunt and good, old stock Mustang reliability. However, it wasn't long before he began tinkering with the brakes and suspension. After that, his addiction was headed straight for the engine compartment. A ride in a Kenne Bell-blown T-bird at John Germanson's now-defunct Germanson Automotive sealed the deal. Jeff had to have a positive-displacement supercharger.
In keeping with his desired sleeper image, Jeff kept the GT on the DL except for 17x9 Cobra wheels and a Saleen rear wing. Underneath all that yellow is a Maximum Motorsports Grip in a Box system, which helps apply much of this car's considerable grunt to the pavement.
Rather than just adding to his existing car, Jeff decided that if he was to make a full-out project of it, he'd have to begin with another car-one that sported his fave factory Chrome Yellow hue. Not only does this color shed the effects of dirt, but it also turns heads. Unfortunately, by the time Jeff tracked down the '94 GT seen here, John had closed his doors and headed off to a product-development job at Magnuson Products. As such, Jeff had to find another outfit to help build up his ride. He wanted a shop that would not only screw the hard parts together, but also one that would make them work with electronic tuning.
He ended up at Powertrain Dynamics in Huntington Beach, California, where main man Steve Ridout screwed together a Scat 331 stroker topped off with Air Flow Research 165 heads, a port-matched GT-40 lower intake, and a Kenne Bell Blowzilla screw blower. Combined with Steve's prowess inside and an Autologic chip, the combination rips out an impressive 393.1 rear-wheel horsepower and 413.6 lb-ft of torque on a Mustang chassis dyno from a conservative 5.5 pounds of boost.
Jeff says he could run much more boost with better fuel than his everyday 91-octane. Still, he's not so anxious to bench race boost numbers when the results of this package churn out more than 400 lb-ft from 2,000 to 5,000 rpm. "The broad torque band and seamless feel of the 331/screw blower combination is really nice," he says. "I tried to be realistic when it was my turn to dump a bunch of money into a daily driven car. It's really easy to get caught up in boost numbers and peak horsepower measurements, but I'd rather quote the number of miles between head gaskets." Which means, Jeff hasn't blown any.
The interior of Jeff's GT is almost as sleepy as the exterior, but closer examination reveals a Maximum Motorsports four-point rollbar, which works with full-length Maximum subframes to stiffen things up. The cage and the door panel inserts have been painted body color to help break up the black interior. Cerullo seats add better-than-stock support, and NR Automotive white-face gauges make it easy to see the speedo hit 120. And that's a Bullitt shift knob attached to a Steeda Tri-Ax shifter and a T56 six-speed.
He also didn't blow any money on mismatched suspension gear. Coming out of sports cars, handling was obviously a priority for Jeff. To get a matched setup, he went to Maximum Motorsports in San Luis Obisbo, California, where the crew there set him up with their Grip in a Box system and adjustable rear sway bar, which he said dials out just enough oversteer to make the car fun. Jeff plans to calibrate the driver to the new grip and grunt with a driving school at Willow Springs and a few passes at LA County Raceway, but for now he's just enjoying his driver.
We bet those grinning are about to become grunt junkies too, and the few with the shakes are just going through a little torque withdrawal.
Jeff stepped up the GT's braking prowess with 13-inch, four-piston Brembos up front. Brembo semimetallic front pads and Hawk rear pads help scrub off speed by clamping on Power Slot-prepped rotors at all four corners.
Jeff stepped up the GT's braking prowess with 13-inch, four-piston Brembos up front. Brembo semimetallic front pads and Hawk rear pads help scrub off speed by clamping on Power Slot-prepped rotors at all four corners.
Of course, the Blowzilla dominates the landscape of Jeff's engine compartment, but it's not alone in pumping up the 331 underneath. Aiding the screw terror is the optional Flowzilla inlet, a BBK 70mm throttle body, a C&L inlet pipe, and a Kenne Bell ram-air kit. Working off the March underdriven accessory belt, the 211/42-inch blower pulley pumps up a highly effective 5.5 pounds of boost. However, it's the little things that don't show up at first glance. All the brackets were powdercoated black, the aluminum engine parts were sandblasted and powdercoated clear, and stainless steel fasteners were employed where possible.
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|331 ci
|Scat 4340 steel
|Scat 4340 H-beam
|Comp Cams XE 266
|GT-40 lower (ported)
|Throttle Body
|BBK 70mm
|Mass Air
|Ford 80mm
|Fuel System
|190-lph in-tank pump and 47-lb/hr injectors
|FRPP 111/42-in short-tube headers, Bassani catalytic X-pipe, and Bassani after-cat
|Power Adder
|Kenne Bell 2.2 Blowzilla
|TTC-Tremec T56
|8.8 w/Auburn Pro, 3.55 gears, stock axles
|Engine Management
|EEC IV w/Autologic chip
|Stock w/Autolite 3923 spark plugs
|NR Automotive
|Brembo four-piston w/Power Slot rotors
|17x9-in FRPP '95 Cobra R
|Firestone Firehawk 255/45-17
|Traction Devices
|Maximum Motorsports Panhard bar, lower control arms,and adjustable rear sway bar
|10-in Power Slot rotors
|17x9-in FRPP '95 Cobra R
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Name (Age): Zane Knight (28)
Tribe Designation: Matsing
Current Residence: Danville, Va.
Occupation: Tire Repair
Inspiration in Life: Jesus and my wife.
Hobbies: Working, hunting and fishing.
Pet Peeves: Butt-kissing, lazy people and ice cream sprinkles.
3 Words to Describe You: Influential, opinionated and ready.
If You Could Have 3 Things on The Island What Would They Be and Why? All I need are my old boots (I feel naked without them) and my Yankees hat.
SURVIVOR Contestant You Are Most Like: Brandon. If you all thought he was wild, wait till ya' get a load of me!
Reason for Being on SURVIVOR: I've always wanted my own tow-truck but working like I do now I won't ever be able to afford it.
Why You Think You'll "Survive" SURVIVOR: I believe I can come into this game and make everybody work for me till I don't need them anymore. I can be sweet like Boston Rob, a non-threatening like Cochran, crazy like Phillip or a snake like Russell. I am a million dollars.
Why You Think You Will Be the Sole SURVIVOR: I know I will be the final Survivor because I have the gift of gab. I'm very outgoing and can have a conversation with the President or a crack head. I was made for this game!