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Marvin J. Ashton Quotes About CommunicationQuotes about: Communication
Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us when the opportunity is ours, for there will come a time when we will wish they would come, and do we know but that the interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?
It takes personal sacrifice to communicate when conditions are right for the other person-during the meal preparation, after a date, a hurt, a victory, a disappointment, or when someone wants to share a confidence. One must be willing to forego personal convenience to invest time in establishing a firm foundation for family communication. When communication in the family seems to be bogging down, each individual should look to himself for the remedy.
Marvin J. Ashton
- Born: May 6, 1915
- Died: February 25, 1994
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A Quick Look at the RTC Quick Planner: Part 2 – Quick Planning for Planners
In our previous article, we began exploring features found in Quick Planner, a feature first introduced in the v5.0.2 version of RTC and extended in the just-released V6.0 version. We learned how to use the interface as both developers and team members by looking at and prioritizing assigned work items.
In this article we will look at Quick Planner from the perspective of a ScrumMaster or project manager by exploring the features in Quick Planner that allow rapid work when prioritizing and grooming the backlog, as well as tracking team status.
A Quick Review
In Part 1, we learned that the Quick Planner is accessed by going to our project area, opening the dropdown menu, and selecting Quick Planner. From the Quick Planner, we can view work items according to our selection in the navigation bar, which is pictured below.
Let's take a look at the capabilities offered to team planners.
Quick Scheduling
Incoming Work displays all work items that do not have an iteration specified in the Planned For field. This allows you to schedule the work item for the product backlog or, if there is a specified date, for a release.
The Incoming Work interface, shown below, looks similar to the My Work section shown in the previous article.
From here, by selecting different icons, you can either create a new work item or modify the following fields in an existing work item:
- Owned by
- State
- Severity
- Priority
- Send to Backlog
When you expand a work item, the following fields are available for modification:
- Description
- Filed Against
- Planned For
- Parent work item
- Add Subscriber
Quick Ranking
The Backlog option presents the project's backlog as a Ranked List.
You can rank the work items on the backlog, assign applicable story points, or change some of the following attributes:
- Owned by
- State
- Priority
- Open child work item breakdown
Other options are available when you expand the work item. The following fields are adjustable:
- Description
- Filed Against
- Planned For
- Parent work item
- Add Subscriber
Quick Grooming
The Iteration Planning option allows you to move work items from the product backlog to a specific iteration. To complete this action, select an iteration then drag and drop a work item, found in the product backlog, into the selected iteration. An example of quick grooming is shown below.
Quick Status
The Team's Work option shows the plan for the team area specified in My Team Area. You may view the plan as either a work breakdown list or as lanes based on status. Below, current status for work items in our sprint displays as lanes. Each lane represents the state of work items for that iteration. Inside each lane, the work items are grouped by owner.
You also can review Team Progress via widgets that report hours worked, items resolved, and story points achieved in an iteration, as shown below.
We've now seen that the Quick Planner interface allows for prompt action by developers and planners, complementing the existing planning capabilities in RTC. This added flexibility allows developers and planners to easily add their input to a plan, creating higher levels of accuracy and collaboration within a team.
This blog article doesn't have to be your last look at Quick Planner. The Quick Planner interface is a part of Island Training's Rational Team Concert curriculum. If you're interested in chatting about RTC training, please contact us here!

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In response to what has been widely reported as a knife crime epidemic, one London borough is testing a dubious deterrent method as part of a wider scheme. But the method has drawn fast fire from critics for being ineffective, discriminatory and having "come from nowhere."
Known as the Integrated Gangs Team (IGT), the scheme being trialed by Islington Council, along with the Metropolitan Police, will allow the council to evict families from their council housing homes simply for being related to gang members convicted of crimes.
In essence, punishing the innocent for the actions of the guilty.
The controversial deterrent method, sometimes called "kin punishment," will allow the council to evict residents from their homes even if they haven't been convicted of a crime. According to officials, it's an attempt to tackle the rise in knife crime that's taken the lives of more than 60 people in the capital this year.
Backed by £2 million in council funding running into 2020, IGT sees "youth services working directly with police, probation, Job Centre Plus, an NHS psychologist and voluntary organizations," Islington Council told WikiTribune in a statement.
According to Islington Council, knife crime among young people has dropped significantly in the area due to the work of the IGT. It also said that since the unit was launched two years ago, not a single person under 25 has been killed in a knife attack. Knife stabbing itself decreased 13 percent in the 12 months leading up to January, according to a press release from the council.
If successful, the plan is to make the eviction scheme nationwide.
In June, Home Office minister Victoria Atkins publicly backed the scheme in an interview with The Telegraph. A spokesperson for Atkins told WikiTribune that although Atkins did reference the plan, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is responsible for its implementation. The MHCLG told WikiTribune it's looking into the matter.
Polarizing policy
The new policy created an uproar within the Islington Council shortly after it was announced. Greg Foxsmith, a criminal justice lawyer and former Islington Liberal Democrat councillor, publicly denounced the council's decision in a open letter in the Islington Tribune, describing the policy as "discriminatory and illiberal" and a form of "double punishment."
Foxsmith told WikiTribune much of the policy is driven by "gesture politics."
"I think politicians always feel pressure to be seen to be doing something, and particularly to be seen to be doing something hard and they always like to have crackdowns or punitive measures," he said. "So this was one, but it looked to me very thin in terms of evidence base."
Foxsmith said it is difficult to understand how or where the policy originated.
"It's hard to see actually whether this is government-led or local authority-led, because it looks like it's from the local authority, but then a Home Office minister said she's giving it her blessing," said Foxsmith, referring to Atkins. "But I don't know whether they've legislated for it. It's come from nowhere as far as I can see."
About a week after the publication of Foxsmith's letter, Islington's councillor, Joe Caluori, responded to Foxsmith with an open letter of his own, also published in the Islington Tribune, defending the policy and saying that eviction threat is used only as a "last resort."
"People in the community are understandably fed up with the small minority who ruin their neighborhood; so if households choose to refuse all the support we offer, as a last resort and only in specific circumstances, we will ask a judge to make an eviction order," wrote Caluori.
"This approach has been used on a very limited number of occasions for a number of years, but it is right that this serious deterrent to unacceptable criminality is available to us."
Met Police reiterated Calouri's "last resort" remark in a statement to WikiTribune.
"Ultimately all partners in the IGU work together to avoid (eviction)," the Met Police said.
"Whether it's first or last, it's wrong," Foxsmith told WikiTribune.
But is it legal?
For critics, a major trouble with the council's policy is the legal implication of punishing the innocent with guilt by association.
"Under this policy one person allegedly offending can jeopardize the entire family, where some members may be law-abiding," wrote Foxsmith in his open letter. "Why should they be punished for the action of someone under their roof?"
In the wake of the 2011 London Riots, Prime Minister David Cameron announced that evicting family members of rioters would be a good deterrent and way of "enforcing responsibility in our society."
Wandsworth Council was the first area to enforce such an edict, threatening a mother and her daughter with eviction for her son's involvement in the London Riot.
Tony Belton, the Wandsworth councillor, represented the family at the time.
"I cannot see how any council can use evictions as part of the penal code as opposed to the housing management code," Belton said. "If you take my case … the people who would've suffered most would've been … the mother and the nine-year-old sister [of the rioter]."
Eventually, Wandsworth County court rejected the council's eviction attempt and the mother of the rioter, Maite de la Calva, kept her home.
"Wandsworth Council's threats to make an innocent family homeless are as cynical as they are heartless," said Emma Norton in 2012, the lawyer who defended de la Calva, and who works as a legal representative at the charity Liberty. "Their attempt to be the first council to evict tenants following the riots is shameless self-promotion."
The policy is also problematic because it places eviction in the context of the penal code instead of housing management.
"If [a] person commits a minor offense, let alone an even quite major offense, the building society who runs his mortgage doesn't evict him, they'd only evict him if he can't afford to pay the rent," said Belton, the Wandsworth councillor.
Furthermore, the eviction scheme applies only to those who live in council housing. This, Belton added, also fuels the assumption that council housing is seen as a privilege and signals punishment on a class basis. Council tenants, consequently, are treated as "a different class of citizens, if not second-class.
"It's a legal requirement to provide a council housing. It isn't a privilege, it's a right," Belton told WikiTribune.
Local authorities eventually boycotted Cameron's demands, saying that it's counterproductive and unfair to punish entire families for the action of one person.
Criminal system and structural racism
The analysis only seems to get worse for sponsors of the plan. The eviction policy is targeted at a narrow section of the population. After all, the IGT works with and specifically references "gangs" and not any other form of antisocial or criminal behavior.
"The Town Hall will use intelligence reports from police to decide which families to target for evictions," Councillor Caluori told the Islington Tribune.
But the system under which the police classify gang members is flawed and discriminatory.
Amnesty International published a report in May 2018 that concluded the Met Police's Gangs Matrix database appeared to be an example of "institutional racism" in action. The majority of young men in the database were from black or other ethnic minorities, and many had no criminal convictions. In its study, Amnesty International also called eviction threats "one of three most celebrated tactics" by the Met Police.
Ministry of Justice statistics from 2016 and 2017 show that BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnics) youth are more likely to face a criminal justice system rife with structural racism. The Lammy Review – an independent review chaired by MP David Lammy – published in 2017 corroborated this analysis, finding that BAME young people are disproportionately arrested and imprisoned.
Following the Lammy Review, The Howard League for Penal Reform, found that the "Metropolitan Police made more than 20,000 child arrests in 2016, of which more than 12,000 were of BAME children – the highest proportion recorded by any police force in England and Wales."
Eviction or no eviction? Officials vague
Perhaps because of its controversial underpinnings, the policy doesn't seem to officially exist, despite both Met Police and Islington Council confirming to WikiTribune that the threat of eviction is used as a last resort in some criminal cases.
"Where is the actual policy? What's the detail?" asks Foxsmith.
Met Police directed WikiTribune questions about threats of eviction to Islington Council.
The council in turn said that while no "gangs eviction scheme" exists, it confirmed that eviction is used as a last resort, apparently providing conflicting information. When asked whether threats of eviction have occurred, the council provided no reply.


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When the trail is good, it is so good. We are settling back into the routine of life on the AT and loving it more and more every day. The weather hasn't been great, but it also hasn't rained while we've been hiking despite the constant threat of 70% chance of rain every day. Thank goodness people don't make plans according to weather forecasts!
We are trying to pick up the pace a little bit, but not push ourselves. We have been having such a great time everyday on the trail, Buddy says everyday is the best day ever! It's nice to start early and get through a 10 mile day by 2pm, then we have time to go down into town all together. We went back into Buena Vista and showered again at Glen Maury Campground, visited their library and went grocery shopping all together. It so much fun to go grocery shopping with Buddy. He brings his Pooh Bear along, puts him in the front of the cart and picks out all the snacks he would like for his hikes. I stopped by the Blue Dog Cafe one morning and got to speak with the owners for a while, they just opened this year and really have a great business going. Their place is fantastic and I would highly recommend stopping off here. The prices are almost as fantastic as their bottomless coffee. I can see that Blue Dog Cafe will quickly become a staple of the trail, the people who own and run it are doing a great job and really know how to cater to thru hiker needs. With a nights stay here you get a free shuttle to and from the trail along with a breakfast sandwich to take back to the trail with you in the morning.
We drove up to the top of Apple Orchard Mountain last night and stayed at Thunder Hill Shelter so we can do this 15 mile section north. While hiking we met up with Stinky Jesus who is trying to catch up with some friends, so we drove him with us up to Thunder Hill. What an interesting character he is! He remembers meeting us somewhere in New Hampshire and was really excited to get to stay with us and ask us a million questions. We just met him in passing up in NH, trying to pound out the miles up there didn't always allow time for lengthy conversations. The rain we had been hearing about for so long finally came our way, and lasted all night and into the better part of the morning. No one slept very well under the tin roof of the shelter, the rain was so loud I thought at first in my half woken mind that it must be acorns. Despite the rain still lingering around, at 10 the boys finally headed out to climb down Orchard Mountain.
Having the Jeep with us proves to be more and more of a blessing the further into our trip we go. We are so thankful we didn't get rid of it months ago when we were thinking about it. (Special thanks to Demos and Darlene!) Being able to decide which direction we want to hike it so great. Avoiding huge climbs to get in more miles is invaluable when winter is right around the corner!
We received the amazing news that Cub does not need surgery on her arm!! They went back to Florida and the orthopedic specialist was able to fix it right in the office. Cub is such a trooper!! We are so excited they are coming back, we are high tailing it through these miles to catch up to our favorite Floridians!


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Urna Chahar-Tugchi, an artist from Inner Mongolia, recently released an album titled Ser, a collaboration with Polish group Kroke. Urna discusses her musical background and her latest projects with World Music Central.
What do you consider as the essential elements of your music?
I grew up in the steppe and the infinite diversity was always a great enrichment for me as a child. The indescribable diversity of nature…The unimaginable spaces between heaven and earth…The invisible energies of the universe…
As a child, I have always been curious about the visible and the invisible. When I sing, I'm in my music (melodies) and live the connections effortlessly and gladly share that with everyone. These moments of being are indescribable and quite simply many of my compositions and lyrics are born even in such moments.
Who can you name as your most important musical influences?
My greatest musical influences are the endless nature! All the beautiful things in the world, my home, the roots of my birth earth, my wonderful grandmother, my parents and of course the always enriching life experiences …
Tell us about your first recordings and your musical development.
My very first recording was in 1991 during my studies in Shanghai Music Conservatory. We had National Folksong lessons and our teacher Ms. Bai once asked me after a lesson, if I would sing some traditional songs from my home Ordos for her, and she would record.
So we started once and she has recorded really many of my songs that I sang, I think … like hundreds? Anyway, a whole book with hundreds of pages every song I sung, all recorded with a pretty old tape recorder. It took many, many, many days.
At the beginning of the 90s, for many students and even many of my friends at the conservatory I was somehow the strange girl of the Inner Mongolian steppe. Because during my studies I was very interested and visited all possible concerts of traditional music, classical music and many other concerts. I also listened to all the different exams, from voice to violin, cello and piano…
It was a nice opportunity to experience many different music and cultures. It was my great bridge from the steppe to the world with my music.
What attracted you to work with the Polish group Kroke?
There are levels when making music you can communicate with the souls. This is simply wonderful.
Kroke are great musicians and I'm lucky enough to work with such wonderful musicians, as Kroke, the Chemirani's and others. I'm very grateful for my wonderful musician friends. Thank you!
The result of your collaboration with Kroke is Ser. How was the composing and recording process?
My basic philosophy for cooperation with people for music: free and peacefully, so will the music swing boundlessly in life. It was beautiful, we have always a lot of fun and joy working together, so we had a lot of joy in the studio. The result can be heard on my Ser CD and I wish really you all can feel it.
You currently live in Europe. Do you keep in touch with Mongolian culture?
Of course I visit my home country and spend time with my parents and family.
Do you have any initiatives to transmit Mongolian music traditions to new generations?
Unlimited music flow is timeless and touches the hearts of people. Today we have incredible possibilities to open our mind. If we look closely, the young generations are expanding great open and fast. That's wonderful!
Free and Peacefully, we humans need the profound vibrations and frequencies of music.
I enjoy always to touch the hearts of people with my music.
If you could bring together musicians or music groups, who would you work with?
Very interesting question; it sounds like you have perhaps certain ideas? Of course I wish to do many great and different projects. It is fantastic to working with great musicians and music groups from small to big all over the world. That brings me a lot of fun and joy and is always fascinating.
Do you have any upcoming projects to share with us?
Yes, at the moment I have some different projects in Asia that one or the other needs something to plan and we are thereby. Therefore, I can not tell you yet publicly 😉
And about my next concert dates, when you're interested in booking concerts, and also with new great projects to realize with me together, I'm glad if you contact my manager Oliver, call +49 172 543 2207.
More about Urna and her discography.
Headline photo: Urna Chahar-Tugchi by Kerstin Stelter


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Throughout the day on the day of the concert there were several interviews and performances from Caro Emerald on BBC Radio 2, giving listeners little teasers for what (more…)


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DFW Airport lowers landing fees for airlines in September
Dallas/Fort Worth Airport is closing out another strong year and airlines are getting a break on landing fees.
Although parking and concessions are generating less revenue than expected, DFW should end its fiscal year Sept. 30 with higher-than-budgeted overall revenue, the airport board was told Thursday. Terminal revenue has risen as more international passengers travel through DFW and its debt service was below expectations.
DFW had its strongest July ever, serving 6.1 million passengers, up 1.6 percent from July 2014, said John Ackerman, executive vice president for global strategy and development. American Airlines' passenger traffic was up 1 percent while international passenger traffic was up 7.6 percent.
As a result, DFW lowered the landing fee to $1.13 per 1,000 pounds, Chief Financial Officer Chris Poinsatte said.
"It's good news if you're an airline flying into DFW right now," Poinsatte told the board at its monthly meeting. "You're getting really good rates."
DFW had already lowered landing fees and terminal rents for airlines for July and August. The landing fee was $2.69 per 1,000 pounds at the beginning of the budget year and had dropped to $1.99 for August.
The airport expects to give back $13.3 million to airline tenants through lower landing fees and terminal rents. Although total cargo traffic grew 3.9 percent for July, Ackerman said international cargo was down 4.3 percent across all regions.
"We've seen a weakening in the global cargo market," Ackerman said.
Separately, the airport announced three new concessionaires for Terminal B and D. Chef Kent Rathbun will bring his Abacus restaurant to Gate D22, with an aviator bar and lounge area. Chef Stephan Pyles will open Stampede 66 Express, a barbecue restaurant at Gate D27.
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1950s and 1960s Muppet commercials
any TV appearances with Fraggle Rock characters (i.e., Cotterpin Doozer on the Today Show)
Ed Sullivan clips: Come Together, What Kind of Fool Am I
Fraggle Rock HBO preview interstitial(s) that aired before the show itself debuted
Fraggle Rock UK episodes not listed
Little Muppet Monsters episodes (any which didn't air)
Mopatop's Shop episodes not listed
Muppet Meeting Films not listed
Muppets on the Arsenio Hall show
Muppets on the Mike Douglas Show
Out to Lunch
Rowlf on the Jimmy Dean Show (full episodes, or just clips - whatever exists)
Sam and Friends episodes not listed
Secret Life of Toys episodes not listed
Sesame Street wrap party tape (end of 34th season)
Sesame Street: Any non-Noggin episodes made between 1969 and 1993 (preferably with episode numbers that begin with 16__, 17__, 18__ or 19__, or even 1-, 2-, or 3-digit numbers).
Travelling Matt presenting Children's ITV
Youth '68
basically, anything Jim did between 1955-1968
Sesame Street sketches wanted
any of the clips listed on the SS Foreign clips section (in English language)
anything with Beautiful Day Monster (not listed), 1969-1970
anything with Professor Hastings
anything with Roosevelt Franklin not listed
2-headed monster: P and R
Caveman Days: getting to school? (first sketch)
Cookie Monster has a nightmare about meeting a giant, talking "monster cookie"
Cookie Monster helps the 2-headed monster solve an argument
Cookie Monster is bothered by a little bug, who only wants his letter Z
Director Kermit on the set with Gladys the cow
E&B: Pretending to be a tree in order to attract birds (with Ingrid, aka Juliette)
Game Show: Beat the Time (with Grover as guest)
Game Show: Mystery Guest (X)
Game Show: The Trading Game
Grover the Waiter: Grover serves The Count hot dogs
Grover, Herbert Birdsfoot and the AN family (3-part sketch)
Hill Street Twos
Miami Mice with The Count
Mysterious Theater: The Mystery of the Missing Cat
News Flash: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
News Flash: Jack Be Nimble
News Flash: Little Miss Muffet
News Flash: Pinocchio
News Flash: Spaceship on Old MacDonald's farm
Song: Google Bugle (Cookie Monster)
Song: Has Anybody Seen My Dog?
Song: I Wonder 'Bout The World Above Up There (Kermit and kids)
Song: Long Time No See (A barber cuts someone's extra-long hair)
Song: One Potato (The Count)
Song: Sad (Little Jerry & Monotones)
Song: There's A Hole in the Bucket
Story: The Boy, The Girl and The Jellybeans (3-part sketch?)
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Tortin Verbier, Switzerland
Take the Lac des Vaux 3 chairlift to the Col de Chassoure, and there it is right in front of you. If you don't like what you see, this is the moment to turn back and take the pleasant red run down to Lac des Vaux. Itinerary route Tortin is marked but not maintained or avalanche controlled and when it's icy, which it usually is, you need razor-sharp edges and a strong nerve. Most probably, you've never before encountered moguls quite like these in size and shape – more 4x4 than traditional Volkswagen Beetle. A fall can result in being tossed down the hill like a rag doll.
You gain entry along an icy rollercoaster traverse, the further you go, the gentler the slope. Often it's safer to dive in early, rather than risk a fall on the bumped-up traverse.


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Volcom's Peanut Butter and Rail Jam European tour will come to an end with the championships taking place this weekend in Hoch Ybrig, Switzerland.
The tour has seen riders from Italy, Norway, Spain and all over Europe get together for a relaxed and friendly days' riding.
The contest will see the top 3 riders from each stage of the tour competing for a place in the PBRJ finals in Mammoth, Nevada. As ever the competition is aimed at the youth with categories for the girls, under 15s and the 16s and over. The winner from each section will be flown to the US for the finals with the chance of winning $30,000.
Volcom team riders such as Cheryl Maas, IPOD and Markus Keller and others will of course be on the spot, riding, judging and entertaining the kids.
There will be a pre-contest meet and eat session on Friday at the City Bunker in Unteriberg but get to bed at a decent hour as Saturday is an early start.
Saturday kicks off with a 5am obstacle course but the contest itself starts at 11:30am. The usual PBRJ format will apply – 3 rails, a jam session and the best trick from each rail counts.
A barbecue and prize draw will round off the afternoon and those with enough energy left can head to the Bunker for celebratory drinks.
More event and qualifier details are at volcom.com
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Summer Art Challenge 2012
So yesterday I mentioned that this magazine from Somerset Studio was going to be my teacher this summer. I am sooo excited to share what I have planned!!
Remember this movie from a few summers back??
It is one of my very favorite movies and it's what inspired me to start "Words of Me Project". I just loved the whole idea of cooking your way through Julia Child's cookbook. And while I love to cook...I love creating a wee bit more.
So, I thought it would not only be fun but a challenge to "create my way through a book". I chose the Summer 2011 issue of Somerset Studio because it is filled with inspirational paper projects as well as many techniques I have never tried before. Sounds pretty sweet, right?
Here are a pile of tiny canvas's I painted a few weeks ago. Today I finished them using inspiration from the magazine. I can't wait to show you!!!
If you'd love to play along with me all summer long I would love to have you. Here's how it will work....
1. Every few days I'll post a project from the magazine.
2. You can re-create the project exactly OR take something you love about it and create something totally different...this is all about sparking creativity....so go wherever the muse takes you!
3. I will be posting my creation along with the original.
4. We will be using our Mind.Body.Soul. FB page to post our work if you want to play along.
I am excited at everything I will be learning this Summer!!!
Hope you'll join me:)
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sounds fun! i'll do it! :)ReplyDelete
what a very cool idea!ReplyDelete
Sounds like fun to me! ~tinaReplyDelete
this sounds fun!ReplyDelete
Sounds like a good challenge!ReplyDelete
Sounds like fun!ReplyDelete
sounds intriguing, i'd like to have a go at this challenge :)ReplyDelete
Yay!! Happy so many of you are wanting to participate!!:)ReplyDelete
i'll give it a try if i remember to buy the mag, lolReplyDeleteReplies
No need to buy, Jackie!! I will post the pages/projects:)Delete
You are so inspiring! I love this idea . . . and if you recall, I really credit that movie for starting my blog life. And I love that you are following that movie as your inspiration for this next summer project. While I had good intentions to participate in your e-course (and, of course, wasn't able to do any of the prompts), I am hoping to do SOME of these suggestions this summer. LOVE this idea, my friend! Hugs!ReplyDelete
Love this idea!ReplyDelete
This is a super cool idea, Leslie! Sounds like fun.ReplyDelete
Congratulations on another fun idea! Sounds like so much fun ;) xo!ReplyDelete
I'm definately in! You Rock with ideas.ReplyDelete
Hugs, Poe
Oh....i love that movie too....sounds wonderful Leslie ...i say it all yhete time but i love the look of that magazine but we snt have it here...the postage kills the overseas subscription....looking forward to seeing inside and your inspirations ....xxxReplyDelete
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This is a GREAT idea! I'll have to see if I have that issue......
Thank you sweet Leslie (somehow I came up with your nickname - I always say Sweet Leslie!) - I hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day with your beautiful family, xoxo!ReplyDelete
I appreciate your thoughts and ideas...they inspire me!! I will be visiting you soon. Have a CREATIVE day!!


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The Basel Register of Thesauri, Ontologies and Classifications (BARTOC) collects metadata of controlled and structured vocabularies and provides a search interface in 20 languages. Metadata are enriched with DDC-numbers down to the third level and subject headings from Eurovoc, the EU's multilingual thesaurus (© European Union, 2013, http://eurovoc.europa.eu/). BARTOC currently contains about 600 items (Thesauri, Ontologies, Classifications, Controlled Vocabularies, Taxonomies) in 65 languages and is still growing. This web site is a service of the University Library of Basel. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Biodiversity Library Exhibition (BLE) is a virtual exhibition of the digital content in the Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe. It is a dissemination tool which highlights specific biodiversity content and makes it accessible for a wider audience. The first two exhibitions will feature BHL-Europe's content on "spices" and "expeditions", presenting beautiful illustrations and informative text in old and rare books. It will also provide useful information for the visitor, e.g. recipes. The attractive design and easy to use interface of BLE has a great potential to show that historical literature on biodiversity can be interesting to a wide audience. ... [Information of the supplier]
BioLib is non-profit project that can be used as an educational tool. The purpose of this project is to collect biological information and present it to public both professional or just nature lovers. Our first task is to create list of animals, plants and fungi species of Czech Republic, this is about 70 to 90 thousand species. System also contains (or in some cases rather 'will contain') gallery of images connected with records in the species database, database of biological terms, list of literature and links about nature, checklists, language dictionary of species, articles and so on. Project BioLib allows anyone who wants to help to insert data into its databases. After registration the user is allowed to add images, links, write image descriptions, add terms to biological dictionary or texts to species. The submitted data is of course revised before added to database. The purpose of BioLib is to create system that helps people to find as much resources on subject they are interested in as possible, not just in data contained in databases, but also giving them list of links and literature on this subject. ... [Information of the supplier]
This checklist is a contemporary review of moths and butterflies of the Czech Republic. It comprises species occurring at present or at least in the past, migrants as well as species showing irregular occurrence, and synanthropic species. The species whose identifications were incorrect or doubtful as well as species the occurrence of which is not satisfactorily documented, similarly as occasional finds of introduced species developing no subsequent local populations are excluded from the list. ... [Information of the supplier]
The aim of the Czech National Phytosociological Database is to gather computerized phytosociological information (vegetation relevés) from the territory of the Czech Republic in a large database that will facilitate easy access to relevant data for the purposes of vegetation surveys, mapping etc. These activities are a part of wider European projects co-ordinated by the Working Group for European Vegetation Survey of the International Association for Vegetation Science, e.g. SynBioSys. The data are stored in the TURBOVEG database management program by S.M. Hennekens which is a European standard software for phytosociological databases. The Czech National Phytosociological Database is co-ordinated from the Department of Botany, Masaryk University, Brno, with several local co-ordinators in other institutes, namely in the Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The co-ordinator of the database is Milan Chytry. An integral part of the database project is the development of methods for data analysis. Major procedures developed so far are available in JUICE software by Lubomir Tichy. ... [Information of the supplier]
These sites allow the presentation of data on the distribution of vascular plants in the Czech Republic by interactively generated network maps and listings. Gradually, we would like to build a live databank that would be continuously updated. Further development and replenishment of the database will depend in particular on the involvement of the public and botanical exchange of floristic data. ... [Information of the supplier, translated]
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By the middle of the 19th century, lynxes had completely disappeared from Bavaria. It is due to an approved release of 17 lynxes (between 1982-1987) in the area of today's Šumava National Park that lynxes again populate the Bavarian-Bohemian border area. The two national parks (Bavarian Forest and Šumava) currently represent the core lynx habitat, and the centre from which the animals are spreading to new areas. It is the priority objective of our project to collect current data on lynxes and their use of territory, and on the relationship between the predator and its large animals of prey – roe and red deer – within a large mountain forest ecosystem left mainly to nature. The data collection will to be carried out with the assistance of the latest communication technology in accordance with animal protection laws, and without disturbing the animals in their natural habitat. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
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Die Großtrappe (Otis tarda) zählt zu den schwersten flugfähigen Vogelarten der Welt. Sie ist eine in Österreich vorkommende weltweit gefährdete Vogelart. Der weltweite Gesamtbestand umfasst ca. 40.000 Individuen, wovon ca. 2.400 in Mitteleuropa vorkommen. Um der weltweit gefährdeten Großtrappe in Mitteleuropa bzw. in Österreich auch in Zukunft das Überleben zu sichern, werden derzeit in mehreren europäischen Ländern mit finanzieller Unterstützung der Europäischen Union umfangreiche Schutzprojekte umgesetzt. Alle wichtigen Informationen über die Großtrappe und die Bemühungen zu ihrem Schutz erhalten Sie auf diesen Seiten, die regelmäßig ergänzt und aktualisiert werden. ... [Information des Anbieters]
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From Jim Gilliam's blog archivesNapster is officially dead
September 4, 2002 8:19 AM
Napster dramatically changed the media business and wreaked havoc on the recording industry. Napster's impact will be felt for many years to come as the war continues between the rights of consumers and the money obsessed corporate labels. As artists like Prince continue to become disenfranchised with their record labels, they are looking at file sharing in a whole new way. A marketing vehicle that puts them in control of their careers. This will take years to play out, but the writing is on the wall, and the proverbial genie is out of the bottle.
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Poinsettia plants are often associated with the winter holidays, but, with proper care, it's possible to enjoy them all year. Caring for a poinsettia is relatively simple, and it's even possible to get them to bloom again each year. An important tip for poinsettia care is that, in most climates, the plant should be kept indoors to ensure that it has the proper temperature and conditions. A few tips to remember when caring for a poinsettia plant include protecting them from too much cold, providing the appropriate amount of light, and avoiding over-watering. In order to try to make the plant bloom, the amount of time spent in darkness can be manipulated to simulate the natural conditions during the blooming season.
As a symbol of the winter holidays, poinsettia plants are commonly seen that time of year, but are relatively rare during other seasons. Although they are associated with cold weather in many people's minds, poinsettia are native to Mexico and need a warmer temperature in the winter than would be found outdoors in many areas of the world. When caring for a poinsettia plant, the best place to keep it is actually indoors where temperature and other conditions are easier to control. Even though they make lovely outdoor decorations, the cold winter temperatures are very damaging to the plants.
There are several other tips that should be kept in mind when caring for a poinsettia. The ideal temperature range for the plant is 60° to 70° Fahrenheit (15.5° to 21.1° Celsius) during the day and about 55° Fahrenheit (12.7° Celsius) at night. Temperature extremes aren't good for the plant, so it shouldn't be placed on or near heaters or cold windows. It's a good idea to keep the plant in a spot where it gets indirect sunlight for at least six hours daily.
Another important poinsettia care tip is to make sure that the plant gets the right amount of water. It should be watered on a regular basis, and the soil should be allowed to dry out between waterings. The plant needs drainage, so make sure that the pot has drain holes or create some if they're absent. It also should not be kept standing in a dish of water; once the excess water has drained out, it should be removed.
The colorful blooms on a poinsettia plant are actually specialized leaves known as bracts, while the true flowers are the tiny red or green blossoms that appear in the center. Another interesting tip for caring for a poinsettia is that it is possible to encourage it to bloom again each year, also known as forcing. To do this, it's necessary to simulate the light conditions that the plant would experience in nature during the winter blooming season by placing it in cool, completely dark place for at least 12 hours nightly. If winter holiday blooms are desired, this schedule should be followed starting in late September or early October.
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The centre opened in September 2011.
Jardin Eden centre is located in the heart of Yaoundé. It is open all year round, 5 days a week, every day after school from 2pm to 6pm including during the school holidays. It is intended for children aged from 5 to 12 years old, whose families are in a very precarious situation.
The goal of the centre is to provide some of the most disadvantaged children with the necessary skills to develop their imagination and creativity whilst providing the tutoring needed to enable them to keep up with the school curriculum. Children can find a peaceful place in the centre where they can learn. They can also have access to books. Through activities and role plays, they are also learning about hygiene, concentration in class and respect for community rules. Through sport they learn social skills, awareness of human biology, self-control and dealing with the ups and downs in life.
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In order to enrol a new beneficiary, we follow a strict admission criteria regarding the age and the vulnerability of the child, as well as the financial situation of his/her family.
Throughout the year, children take part in fundraising activities for the benefit of the centre such as the end-of-year party, theatre or dance, selling items for Christmas, etc. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the international and local volunteers for their dedication to the centre.


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PRESQUE ISLE is currently at anchor about five miles northeast of Erie. When the vessel gets underway it will be inbound for the Mountfort Terminal for shaft seal repairs.
BRADSHAW McKEE, the new tug for the CLEVELAND ROCKS, departed Muskegon, Michigan this morning bound for Erie. The BRADSHAW McKEE should arrive sometime Wednesday to pick up the ROCKS.
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This blog is about Lipsticks, makeup, skincare, travel, life, food and a lot of random stuff that catches my fancy. I yearn for a simple, honest and happy life and this blog is my way of documenting those snippets.
I'm big on local, seasonal and nutritious food and that is at the heart of all my recipes. You will not find terms such as calories, protein, carbs, fat, etc. To me this would be disrespecting food. My Favorite cuisine has to be South Indian and Punjabi & Pizza (who doesn't love pizza?). I can those gorge all day.
I love a peaceful and quiet existence, summer heat, travelling, long walks, cooking food and showing it off to my Instagram-fam.
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BASIC Lesson 10: Family history
*Use o LinguaLeo no navegador para ver a tradução das palavras.
"My great-grandfather came from Ukraine with his parents when he was six years old. His name was Miguel Opulchvisky. He lived in the city of Turvo, a very small village in Paraná, south of Brazil. He married to Ana. He liked to read and received many newspapers from Ukraine. He had books in magazines in German and Polish too. My mother believes my
fondness for languages comes from him. He liked to invent things too, he produced some facilities and devices for their family."
Time line
Brazilian families have many cultural mixes. Can you make a time line of your family, telling where the people came from?
Help lines
- Make a list of possible iterviewees.
- Collect any document you can find.A document can be any thing: a photo, a magazine cut off, a letter, a post card.
They show characteristics of the time and of the person who kept them.
- Interview people many times.
- Discover funny or odd facts.
Being a biographer is not easy but it can be very interesting. Let's make a time line of our family and write a biography of a special person:
- Where and when was he/she born?
- How and why did she/he get to Brazil?
- What was his/her occupation?
- Where and how did she/he establish here?
- How was life at that time?
- What has your family inherited from this person?
- Why is he/she admirable?
After work
Let's analyze the difficulty of this project:
- Did you get the information easily?
- Who did you need to interview?
- Did you find good pictures of the family? Why?
- Did you discover any document of the time?
- What did you learn from this experience?
- What was the biggest difficulty you had?
- What was the most important thing you discovered?
- What information can you use in your future life?
Gammar exercises
Simple past
- Positive statements in the Simple Past — Regular verbs — Exercise 1
- Ending -ed in the Simple Past — Crossword 1
- Ending -ed in the Simple Past — Crossword 2
- Irregular verbs in English — Test 1
- Regular or irregular verbs — Odd man out 1
- Simple Past — Complex Test
- Simple Past of the irregular verbs — Crossword (easy)
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Unlike an electric guitar, much of the work that goes into an acoustic guitar is never seen by the customer- many components, joints, angles, sizes and shapes are hidden for ever when the guitar is assembled. Many of those items are fundamental to the sound of the guitar and to its long term reliability, but the customer will never be able to see for themselves the care and effort involved. That isn't all – a lifetime of learning, experience, testing and investment is also invisible, and is probably even more important. An hours extra work on one guitar might add an hours value, but an hours thought will add to every guitar made thereafter. Thirty, forty, fifty years is a lot of time invested. It isn't just the time spent in making the guitar that defines its worth.
The best timbers and finest workmanship are completely wasted without top quality design, and you don't learn or improve anything by copying someone else's work. Look at it and study it, even reinvent it, but don't copy it. Stradivari violins are rightly regarded as a pinnacle of design and craftsmanship, but in reality, they are only a reference point, violin development did not stop there. If you slavishly copy the "perfect guitar" can the copy be any better? The designs are crucial, decades of experience and study, constantly testing the value of tiny refinements, using engineering and scientific principles within traditional frameworks.


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We generally ship via US Postal Service first class or priority mail This service can be a quick as overnight and up to 3 days in the lower 48. They even deliver on Saturdays. For 9 ounces and up the postage is $5.39 - a great value considering the price of gas and your valuable time. Since most teas are $3.50 an ounce, 12 ounces of tea will get you free shipping.
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It's sweet, refreshing, and a natural pick-me-up: Hip Hop Honey Herb and Fruit Tea is a caffeine free blend of sweet and wholesome fruit like apples and currants, fennel, cornflower petals, hibiscus, rose hip pieces, and licorice. Each sip of this tea brings ease to the mind: it conjures images of bees humming and bopping from flower to flower, warm spring breezes billowing through newly-bloomed roses, and the bright meadow sun, bringing warmth and livelihood to all of nature.
Hip Hop Honey delivers myriad health properties that contribute to a healthful lifestyle. The naturally dried apples and currants provide vitamins, while the fennel, cornflower petals, hibiscus, rose hip, and licorice contribute the coveted antioxidants that so many other beverages lack. Hip Hop Honey and Fruit Tea is naturally sweetened by thick, luxurious, golden honey. This natural alternative to processed, granulated sugar provides all of the same delicious sweetness but without any negative health effects or manufactured tastes. Cornflower is used in a multitude of cultures to increase eyes and strength of vision, while adding beautiful blue undertones to beverages. Hibiscus, a flowering plant with numerous health and aesthetic properties, is often used by gardeners to attract bees and hummingbirds. From West Africa to Indonesia, hibiscus is a revered natural cooking element; dried hibiscus is a delicacy in Mexico and is used in a variety of beverages – it's no wonder that Hip Hop Honey and Fruit Tea is delicious and extremely good for the body and soul.
The health properties and delicious flavors infused in Hip Hop Honey and Fruit Tea are undeniably energizing and clarifying. This cornucopia of flavors and nutrients will detoxify the body and mind while providing refreshment and long-lasting enjoyment from dusk til dawn.


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Fall colors in unexpected places. This year is warm - an indian summer. My garden flowers heartily still, and yet the bright leaves fall all around.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007
migration... ation... ation... ation.
It's going to be migration season for a while longer. It's been migration season for weeks and weeks. I am in love with the movement, with the strangers, with the sadness.
Christian leaves tomorrow for Arizona. Migration. Easier with repetition? Maybe eventually.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
making marks
I met today with the administrator of a community arts center here in Madison to discuss a proposal for a drawing class I want to offer through the center. Learn to See... Learn to Draw: A drawing class based on clear seeing. I propose that if we can learn to observe with honesty and attend to actual details of the subject of our art, we not only improve our general awareness of the natural world around us, we also increase our potential to draw the subject with accuracy. I believe that anyone of any skill level can improve drawing abilities using this model of attention to light, shadow, shape, and placement (and maybe color). Willingness is the only prerequisite.
Personally, I realize a fine appreciation and a level of connection to the world each time I practice clear seeing and drawing what I see. I think it's a sort of practice in meditation too. I find that my process of art-making resembles concepts in meditation training.
Truly, despite skill level, I think that the product of the hands and eyes working in conjunction (when practicing clear seeing and clear drawing) is each person's honest art. The hand's honest physical ability and the eye's awareness combined with one's desire to translate a visual image onto paper: these become a genuine expression. I think this is why often adults view children's work as beautiful - it is the child's honest effort at visually translating what the eye observes.
As adults, we can take a leap of faith in our own hand's ability to delineate our eyes' clear observation. We can see it as a rational modality of drawing too. To see clearly is to simplify our mind's work in drawing any subject. We don't guess the details of the subject, we don't try to uncover truths without simply looking right at them. Often, especially as adults, we use tricks of drawing and we use symbols to draw what we wish to express visually instead of just drawing what we see, or seeking the subject of our desire. We then are trapped in our mind's inability to remember details of specific lighting, angles, textures, idiosyncracies that make reality reality. How frustrating! I wouldn't want to draw like that either!
I've gone on and on... I wonder if I write these ideas clearly enough. I've been told I speak them well... I hope that bodes well for teaching a course come Winter/Spring.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Mom in Madison
here we are,
after 5 days of hanging out in Madison,
we chill out at Barrique's Wine Cave, a great cafe, coffee shop, and wine/liquor shop on the West side of Madison. We've been to a lot of the hot spots worth checking out at a leisurely pace, and this afternoon we'll head to the apple orchard, or take a walk at the inner city forest, UW Arboretum. We went to the Food and Wine show in Madison on Saturday after a morning at the HUGE farmer's market (that makes me proud to call Madison home) and an awesome brunch at Marigold's. That day was ideal for Mom, being the foody she is... um, me too.
We went to Taliesin to visit Christian and explore the home and estate of Frank Lloyd Wright. The weather's mostly been gorgeous.
She's back to Virginia, my origin, tomorrow. We've had a lovely time of it. I'm glad to share where and what I am with my family each time I move to a new place. ...I guess that's a good enough reason to keep moving!
after 5 days of hanging out in Madison,
we chill out at Barrique's Wine Cave, a great cafe, coffee shop, and wine/liquor shop on the West side of Madison. We've been to a lot of the hot spots worth checking out at a leisurely pace, and this afternoon we'll head to the apple orchard, or take a walk at the inner city forest, UW Arboretum. We went to the Food and Wine show in Madison on Saturday after a morning at the HUGE farmer's market (that makes me proud to call Madison home) and an awesome brunch at Marigold's. That day was ideal for Mom, being the foody she is... um, me too.
We went to Taliesin to visit Christian and explore the home and estate of Frank Lloyd Wright. The weather's mostly been gorgeous.
She's back to Virginia, my origin, tomorrow. We've had a lovely time of it. I'm glad to share where and what I am with my family each time I move to a new place. ...I guess that's a good enough reason to keep moving!
Friday, October 19, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Skeletons emerge
I have students, and this is one of my students' work. Alex(andrea) is working on a story (of her own writing) about a skeleton who decides his grave is no longer fit for him and goes searching for the right place to fit in. Alex has chosen some adorable and comical scenarios in which the skeleton still finds himself in the wrong place. I'm excited to see what illustrations she comes up with. So far, this character has stolen my heart. She's a forward thinker with plenty of questions about publishing this story as a book for toddlers. ...Let's just get the illustrations done!
I should add, that Alex is 10 and has been taking lessons with me for about 6 weeks. She and I will continue to work together for most of this school year. I also have a student who attends University of Wisconsin for pre-vet, and simply sought better drawing skills. Both of my students are lovely to meet with on a weekly basis.
For those living in the Madison area, feel free to share with friends who might be interested in art or drawing lessons, or let me know of your own interest in instruction. I work with children as young as 4 and adults as old as they come. I'm also in the works for a potential Spring Semester Adult drawing class at the Monroe Street Fine Arts Center.
There's my plug!
If anything, I dig that skeleton!
Friday, October 12, 2007
this week
Going back and looking at all of my images, sketches, paintings, prints of birds as I seek to illustrate Plankton (literary magazine), I've found many many. I can imagine I'll continue to make them. When asked to reason about my art making, I recently said, "My artwork expresses themes of bird habitat and habits, spaciousness and meditation because these are things I believe in."
Monday, October 8, 2007
Chica-GO KARA
My Friend Kara Handy (we've known each other from 6th grade!) ran the Chicago marathon yesterday. Yes, THE sweltering October 7th Chicago marathon in which 1 person died, 40 were hospitalized and they had to cancel after 4 hours because so many people were dropping like flies. She, by grace, was able to recover from heat exhaustion at mile 22 and walk 4 miles to finish with a speedy jog! It was truly an amazing accomplishment as we were part of a march to the finish with many other harried and exhausted runners. I was with Kara for the last 7 miles. I too was uncomfortable, so I can't imagine having run the marathon.
So, to all the runners who gave it a shot, Cheers! I hope you try again on a cooler day! Alaska anyone?
Pictured here, myself and Kara at the end.
You can probably tell that I'm really proud.
Monday, October 1, 2007
This Friday I'll show a more current collection of work that revolves around the color and presence of prayer flags. My work with bird block prints and bright colors gradually led me into this direction and I realize more and more how appropriate the connection has prayer flags reference a religion based in meditation and I've always felt my work is meditative. So, not only is there repetition (part of meditation) in the images of many birds in flight (a migration), there are also repeated images (such as the one pictured above. I've made almost all of my work in squares. The repeated form is found in a string of prayer flags strung like a banner accross an entryway.
Themes of migration seemed to fall into my lap as Spring ended and Summer began. I'd been thinking of doing work with repeated shapes of flying birds for some time, then learning to screen print allowed me to do so. I printed 3 x 3 feet squares of repeated birds in flight onto fabric and paper. Some of these will also be shown Friday. These led to a repeated use of 3 of the same birds in flight onto the walls of my studio and other surfaces. It seems cheesy if I try to imply that the theme of migration relates to the migration of birds this season and/or the migration of my partner and his cohorts to Arizona for the Winter semester, but it is interesting that such a correlation did occur.
Frankly, I love birds. I love repetition. I love simple, bright colors and forms.
Here's an image of my studio Wall:
Wish I could bring it to the show.
Unless of course you're out of the country or out of the state, or just out of bounds, then, I hope to see you Friday at the Show. Lazy Jane's Cafe Williamson Street (1/2 block E of Baldwin St.) Madison, WI
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Fed's Beige Book: Economic activity expanded in the "modest to moderate range" in most Districts
Fed's Beige Book "Prepared at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and based on information collected on or before April 7, 2016."
Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts suggest that national economic activity continued to expand in late February and March, though the pace of growth varied across Districts. Most Districts said that economic growth was in the modest to moderate range and that contacts expected growth would remain in that range going forward. Consumer spending increased modestly in most Districts and reports on tourism were mostly positive. Labor market conditions continued to strengthen and business spending generally expanded across most Districts. Demand for nonfinancial services grew moderately overall. Manufacturing activity increased in most Districts. Construction and real estate activity also expanded. Credit conditions improved, on net, in most Districts. Low prices weighed on energy and mining output as well as prospects for agricultural producers. Overall, prices increased modestly across the majority of Districts, and input cost pressures continued to ease.
And on real estate:
Construction and real estate activity generally expanded in late February and March, and contacts across Districts maintained a positive outlook for the rest of the year. Residential real estate activity strengthened, on balance, with robust growth in San Francisco, Cleveland, and Boston, but more mixed reports from Dallas, Kansas City, and Atlanta. Several Districts credited a mild winter for stronger home sales, and the pace of home price increases picked up in a number of Districts. Multi-family construction remained strong in most Districts. Chicago, Cleveland, and St. Louis also noted some improvement in demand for single-family home construction, and a contact in San Francisco reported backlogs of more than six months for new single-family units. Commercial real estate activity generally increased, with leasing activity and rents rising in many Districts: particularly strong leasing was noted in retailing in Chicago and in the industrial sector in Dallas. Vacancy rates either moved lower or were unchanged in most Districts. Most Districts reporting on nonresidential construction said that demand increased. Contacts in Boston said the education, health care, hospitality, retail, and office sectors all contributed to its recent construction boom. Nonresidential contractors in Cleveland cited broad-based demand, with particular strength in education and healthcare projects, where several builders expressed concern about their capacity to take on additional projects. In contrast, Chicago noted continued weak demand for industrial construction, and Philadelphia reported fewer starts of new nonresidential projects.
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Bradley Manning, born in the US of a Welsh born mother and American father holds dual citizenship. Consequently, Manning is entitled to all the protections to UK citizens imprisoned in foreign countries. Manning has been subjected to solitary confinement for several months causing a deterioration in his mental condition and impairing his ability to fully participate in his own defense.
Amnesty International tonight called on the government to intervene on Manning's behalf and demand that the conditions of his detention, which the organisation calls "harsh and punitive", are in line with international standards.
Amnesty's UK director, Kate Allen, said: "His Welsh parentage means the UK government should demand his 'maximum custody' status does not impair his ability to defend himself, and we would also like to see Foreign Office officials visiting him just as they would any other British person detained overseas and potentially facing trial on very serious charges."
Clive Stafford Smith, director of Reprieve, which provides legal assistance to those facing capital punishment and secret imprisonment, likened the conditions under which Manning is held to those in Guantánamo Bay.
Manning's treatment is considered inhumane and unnecessary, particularly as he hasn't been convicted of any crime.


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Clark County
Police: Couple denied responsibility in girl's death
WINCHESTER — The day before Michaela Watkins died, the 10-year-old and her stepmother got into a "tussle" on the kitchen floor.
Michaela tried to claw Joy Watkins' face. The two ended up on the floor, the woman on top of the 77-pound girl who was just shy of 5 feet tall. She backhanded Michaela twice, hard enough to leave bruises on the child's face. Michaela bit her stepmother. Joy Watkins bit the girl behind the ear.
But Joy Watkins maintained that she was not responsible for the injuries that resulted in Michaela's death on March 11, 2007.
"There was nothing that happened to her that I did," Joy Watkins told police.
That account, a snippet of video footage of Joy Watkins' interview with Winchester police Detective Harold Jones, was shown by prosecutors Wednesday, the second day of Patrick and Joy Watkins' murder trial. The couple have pleaded not guilty in the case.
Prosecutors also showed the jury footage of Jones' interview with Patrick Watkins, Michaela's father. The interviews, conducted March 11 and 12, 2007, were the first opportunity for the jury to hear the Watkinses' side of the story.
The couple's accounts sometimes contradicted each other.
According to the interview, on March 10, 2007, Patrick Watkins sent Michaela upstairs to the bathroom after the girl urinated on herself.
"Next thing I know, I hear water splashing everywhere and her squawking," he told Jones.
Patrick Watkins said they discovered Michaela sitting in steaming bath water. They tried to get the girl to stand up, but she fell and hit her head at least twice in the bathroom.
The couple discovered Michaela had burns on her feet and ankles after the girl made it downstairs. Joy Watkins covered the wounds with first-aid cream and gauze.
The couple said Michaela seemed fine later that night; she watched television with them, ate a sandwich, chips and had an apple for dinner.
The next day, the Watkinses prepared Michaela and their three other children for a trip to the Red River Gorge. During the car ride, Joy Watkins said, Michaela would act "perfectly fine one minute," then her eyes would roll back in her head and she would "flop over" on her siblings.
Joy Watkins said they initially thought "Michaela was trying to pull stunts to keep us from going hiking."
The couple disagrees on what happened next.
Patrick Watkins told Jones that when he touched her on the way home, Michaela's hands were like ice, but her belly was warm. He said she fell down 10 steps inside their apartment, which caused bruising that covered her body. Patrick Watkins said Michaela seemed relatively fine after the fall.
"I want to lay down, Daddy," he said his daughter told him.
Less than an hour later, Patrick Watkins said, he discovered Michaela dead in her room.
But Joy Watkins said Michaela was dead on the drive home from the gorge.
She and her husband repeatedly asked each other, "Is she alive?" Joy Watkins told the detective. "We were literally in shock," she said.
Joy Watkins, who said she is a certified nurse's aide, said she knew Michaela needed medical attention that morning. But her husband was "panicky and scared" because officials might think she was responsible for all of Michaela's injuries.
"It's easy to lay the blame on the freaking stepparent," Watkins told Jones.
The couple also disagreed on who made it to the bathroom first when the hot water scalded Michaela.
Earlier Wednesday, medical examiner Dr. Cristin Rolf testified that most of Michaela's injuries happened within 36 hours of her death. The girl had approximately 35 injuries to her head, including bruises on her eyeballs, and bruises and scrapes all over her body.
Michaela also had bite marks behind her ear and on her ankle. Joy Watkins told police she had bitten Michaela a few weeks before her death after the girl kicked her.
A severe chest injury was the primary cause of Michaela's death. Five of her ribs were crushed, partially causing her left lung to collapse, Rolf said. There was also a large amount of hemorrhaging in the area.
"Every breath that a person takes with this injury is going to be painful," she said.
Rolf said the chest injury was caused by "one quick, hard blow" from a blunt object.
The trial will resume at 9 a.m. Friday in Clark Circuit Court.


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While at ReMake Group, I worked on the development and production of the p4 Performance Measures document. The 'Measures' were finalized and released in conjunction with the second p4 Conference in October 2016.
The Pittsburgh p4 Performance Measures is a project of the p4 Initiative, an initiative launched in 2015 to create a sustainable, innovative, and incisive model for development designed to establish Pittsburgh as a "city of the future" through a central unifying framework: People, Planet, Place, and Performance. The intent of the Performance Measures was to "create a quantifiable system of metrics that would inform and improve decision-making on public investments in development projects." The Performance Measures are composed of 12 Performance Measures, including: Community, Opportunity, Economy, Housing, Land Public, Connect, Rainwater, Air, Energy, Innovation, and Design.


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An essential oil-infused salve.
Organic olive oil, Eugenia Caryophyllata (Clove), Citrus Limon (Lemon), Cinnamomum zeylanicum (Cinnamon Bark), Eucalyptus radiata and Rosemary ct camphor, beeswax
Suggested Use:
Adults: Massage on chest, spine and feet
Children 1 – 5 years: Massage on spine and feet
Safety & Storage:
Avoid with blood-thinning medications. Avoid placing around the nose and mouths of children 0 – 5 years. Avoid direct eye contact. Store in cool dark, place and out of reach of children and pets.


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Toyota operates plants across the world. Some models, like the Corolla, are both manufactured and sold worldwide. Others, like the Tundra, are built in factories close to their intended market, while still others, like the Prius, are made primarily in Japan, and shipped worldwide.
The interactive graphics show where some of Toyota's models are produced and sold.


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Thursday, 16 April 2009
Six of the Best: Maxi Dresses
9 comments:
- Adventurous Ammena said...
masha'allah.. i just bought a maxi dress from new look (read 35 quid.. and yes still not working *blush*) its gorgeous now just have to find the right bits to make it workable :D
- 16/4/09 11:43
- Iman said...
Wow I love that "secret island dress" - I have been looking for an interesting maxi dress without all the spaghetti sleeves and low cut chests and this is perfect ! Thanks so much for posting, Iman
- 16/4/09 12:39
- Anonymous said...
I think I'm in love. Please tell me these will never go out of style :)
- 16/4/09 19:24
- Elwarda Style said...
I love the middle bottom. I would pair that with red cardigan and pink-ish scarf. :)
- 17/4/09 03:41
- Hamdi said...
they're all beautiful :)
- 17/4/09 04:45
- jamila said...
Mashallah lovely.
I like the orange one.
I recently brought one from new look too..
- 21/4/09 12:34
- kulsuma said...
Mashallah im lovin these maxis!!..
really likin the bottom middle one:)
brought one from new look too, but i think i am bit short for them, as i like wearing flats:S
- 21/4/09 17:37
- Anonymous said...
i need to get me some =_)
- 22/4/09 17:07
- Ioana said...
I think there's an international conspiration against long sleeves.
Or any sleeves at all.
What's happening, people?
Hunting for a dress with long sleeves tends to be the quest for another Graal.
- 1/5/09 00:52


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Our latest product, Lionbridge onDemand, has been a great success and yet it started out so small: we were testing whether we could build a business around a self service video translation site. We built the simplest app possible but left room for growth. We leveraged operational talent that Lionbridge already had and an entrepreneurial spirit that was not being satisfied. We tested different ways to drive customers to the site. We got just enough market response to see a path and keep moving forward. Since our first sale, we have been constantly learning, optimizing, and expanding. Now onDemand is a thriving business with a broad range of services. We translate all sorts of content (over 40 file types) into pretty much any language you can think of. We have a public API and integrations with several popular content management and commerce systems. But most importantly, we have happy customers who rely on the service.
Whenever I want to build a new product, or even add a new feature to an existing product, my plan is to start with an MVP (minimum viable product) and iterate from there. But this article, "I hate MVPs. So do your customers. Make it SLC instead" by Jason Cohen, gave me pause. SLC stands for "Simple, Lovable, and Complete" and, after reading the article, I realize that SLCs are the recipe for success in lean product development; not MVPs.
Here is the difference. An MVP is (in a pure sense) the flimsiest thing you can build to answer a question about a potential market. The emphasis is more on the "M" (minimum) than the "V" (viability) and most interpret that balance as a semi functional prototype. This kind of MVP is frustrating to customers because it doesn't solve their problem in a helpful way. It focuses on validating that the problem exists and that there is value in solving it. MVPs are selfish because they prioritize research over actual customer benefit.
If you really want to learn about customer need, and build good relationships at the same time, you should take one customer problem and solve it well. Build an SLC. I know that the line is blurry here. An MVP could be an SLC if you make lovability a requirement for viability. But often you hear bad solutions as being excused or justified as "just an MVP."
The first iteration of Lionbridge onDemand did what was needed for a successful, gratifying transaction. In particular:
- The customer could upload very large files. This is necessary because video files are big.
- The project was automatically quoted so the customer didn't have to wait.
- The customer could connect with an online sales agent through chat. This turned out to be a critical feature because we learned so much from our customers during these interactions.
- The customer could pay for the service using a credit card so he/she got the experience of a seamless, self-service transaction.
- The operations team was prepared to produce a high quality deliverable in a reasonable timeframe. The customer's need was satisfied.
While we launched the first iteration of Lionbridge onDemand quickly (less than 2 months from concept to first sale) we took the time to get those pieces right. That was a little over 4 years ago and our first customer continues to do business with us.
We are constantly adding new features to Lionbridge onDemand and every time we do, we treat it as an
MVP SLC. We don't launch the feature unless it makes the user's experience a little better by solving a problem (however small) in a complete and satisfactory way.


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