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Set Your Guitar Goals
Learning how to practice effectively can be one of the most valuable skills any guitar player can learn. We'll start by looking at the big picture and then delve deeper into short-term goals and understanding specific practice elements. It's important to work out where you might like to end up in your guitar playing life, but you should also make goals within goals, the aims of your practice sessions and each exercise within it!
The Big Picture
Deciding where you want to go is one of the most important decisions you need to make and the clearer you can make your destination the better. Show me where you want to go and I can help you get there! A student that comes for a lesson and says "make me better" is the hardest student to teach because there are so many things to work on. If you are teaching yourself, don't be that "difficult student" to yourself either!
Be clear about what you want to learn. Write it down. Then think about the skills and knowledge you need to acquire in order to get there.
Getting Help From A Teacher
It's one of the best things to see a good teacher about, someone that understands the various paths available - they can show you the right path to get you where you want to go without taking too many long difficult paths! They might even know some cool shortcuts!
A common mistake made by inexperienced teachers (and one that I made many many times when I started teaching) is I taught what I was into instead of what the student needed. I have heard many stories about beginners going for lessons and being taught the Mixobrainfryinggreekword Scale when they should have been learning how to strum. Beware a teacher that does not try and understand where YOU want to go and what YOU need to do to get there.
Having solid goals will help you AND your teacher (if you have one)
Common goals:
Everyone's goals will be different but some common big picture kind of goals might be:
1. To be able to play some easy songs with my mates at a BBQ.
2. To play regular gigs with a rock band.
3. To make a living from playing guitar.
4. To be the greatest guitar player to ever walk the face of the Earth.
Now of course, each of these requires completely different paths - different skills and not every person could or would want to make each of those journeys.
Many journeys will have very similar paths and there are many skills similar in many styles - you would want to learn your minor pentatonic scales no matter if you wanted to play blues, rock, jazz or country, but would not really be a necessity to a classical guitar player!
This is why this part is so important - and only YOU can make these decisions.
You'll never get there if you're not sure where you are going!
The Little Picture
If you are not clear about the purpose of practising a certain exercise you should not do it. Easy.
If someone, anyone, including me, suggests practising a certain thing, you should question it. Only when you have a satisfactory answer should you start working on it. A reputable teacher should explain the why as well as the how! In this online world where anyone can be an expert you really should assume everything is wrong until it is logically explained. Some of the cowboys teaching out there are not fit for busking let alone advising people to play scales with a certain fingering.
This includes me by the way - if you don't think I have explained the reason for practising or playing a certain way well enough then hassle me (on the forum or comments section) to explain it further, and I will do my best.
Once you have decided that you will practice something and it will help you get to your big goal it can help to decide what it is that will define the completion of the goal, or if it's ongoing.
For example - you might want to focus on learning some jazz chords, and you might define completion as knowing instantly the 10 Basic Jazz Shapes. Then you might make using them the next goal... You might want to get your scale picking up to 16th notes at 150 in position 1. And once you reach the goal you might decide to try and get all five positions to that speed. Get it?
Sure some things don't have a goal like that - and some things just need practice - it all depends on the exercise and I'm sure you will know which is which when you think about it.
It's also a great feeling to realise that you have achieved your goal and can help keep you motivated - which for many online learners is one of the hardest things to do!
The more you know, the more things you realise you don't know. Socrates told a story once and described knowledge as standing in a circle- inside the circle being things you know and the outside of the circle (circumference) being the things you don't know. Of course, as your circle gets bigger (you learn more stuff) the circumference gets a lot bigger too and you realise how many more possible things there are to learn and places to go.
Once you get into the habit of forming and achieving goals you will probably find that it spreads into your whole life, and I think it's a great thing. I meet many people that feel they never get anywhere in their life, mostly because they never set out in a particular direction. Then the problem comes in deciding which direction YOU want to go in. Only YOU can decide that and it's often the hardest part of the whole thing!
It really is a lot simpler to get what you want if you know what it is - the other option is just bumbling around until you stumble on it!
Do It!
You will become better just for having given this some thought! So do it now - grab a pen and write down things you want to do - see if you can define a big goal. Work out the things you would need to be able to do to get there - then work out what things to practice to get your journey underway.
Just try it - everything takes practice - even working out what to practice ;)
And don't forget to have fun!


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I am writing this in solidarity with the crew of the TheDailyBlog*, a left-leaning blog site that publishes new writing about politics in Aotearoa (NZ). I've just discovered they have been subject to attempts at political censorship by the quazi-governmental speech police at the offices of NetSafe. I salute the firm stand taken by editor Bomber Bradbury, and NetSafe would get a similar reply if they contacted me about censoring Disintermedia:
"Netsafe demanded that I respond within 48 hours as to whether or not I would comply with their requests for censorship, so let me respond publicly to Netsafe.
You can censor The Daily Blog the day you take the keyboard from my cold dead hands. The content you have asked to be censored is not defamatory and allowing secret censorship of political blogs is the most dangerous and disturbing part of your powers.
This blog ain't for turning"
NetSafe also sent an email about its desire to police TDB comments to The Standard, a centre-left NZ politics blog, broadly aligned with the NZ Labour Party. True, their editors have expressed open contempt for TDB and Bradbury in the past, and vice-versa, but they obviously can't help NetSafe with their enquiries. Editor LPrent went to some trouble to explain, in detail, with references to the relevant piece of law, exactly how badly NetSafe failed to properly do the job the NZ state pays it millions of dollars a year to do. The incompetence of these digital keystone cops is truly breath-taking, and this high farce on the high seas of the internet would be hilarious, if their job wasn't to undermine freedom of speech online.
The powers NetSafe is trying (and failing) to exercise are delegated to them under legislation passed by the NZ Parliament in 2015. As I said in a somewhat polemical blog piece at the time:
"Parliament called it the Harmful Digital Communications Bill, a valiant attempt at a euphemistic title which would not be out of place in novel by George Orwell, but which turns out to be accurate enough, as it is a Harmful Bill about Digital Communications. However, I prefer to use another title which more accurately describes it's effects; the Harmful Digital Censorship Bill."
In that piece, I used some pretty strong language to describe the MPs who voted for and against this underhanded, anti-democratic piece of legislation. I said I would republish them once the Act had come into effect, as an act of civil disobedience against it. Now that it has, clearly vindicating the criticisms made by myself and many other commentators across the political spectrum, I am furious about this staggeringly stupid piece of law-making all over again. So I say again…
The five Members of Parliament who took a principled stand and voted against this terrifyingly bad piece of legislation are heroes; Gareth Hughes of the Greens, Russel Norman of the Greens, Julie Anne Genter of the Greens, Steffan Browning of the Greens, and David Seymour of ACT.
The MPs who voted for this bill, all MPs from National, Labour, and NZ First, the solo MPs from United Future, and the Māori Party, and the remaining Green MPs including its leaders Metiria Turei and James Shaw, are traitors to democracy, and mealy-mouthed apologists for fascism. I agree utterly with Idiot/Savant of NoRightTurn, fuck you all. You are sad sacks of shit, and I hope you all hang yourselves in your garden sheds if this new law is not repealed.
I apologise to the reader for my unusual gutter language, but *not* to those MPs, who thoroughly deserve it, and worse. Nobody has to read anything on my blog, any more than they have to read anything on theDailyBlog, the Standard, Indymedia, WhaleOil, or any other blog site. If they choose to do so, they can say anything they want to on their own blog in reply. That's how freedom of speech works. You may not agree with this, but if you claim to believe in freedom or democracy, then you damn well better fight to the death for my right to say it.
Finally, for the sake of anyone who works for NetSafe who might find themselves unmoved by these statements of basic principle, be aware that I will republishing this piece on a range of different websites, none of them hosted in Aotearoa, nor subject to the whims of the NZ state and its censorship laws. I am the author and publisher of my blog pieces, and if you have a problem with their contents, you can talk to me.
* For the sake of full disclosure: I've had a few guest blogs published on TDB. But I believe I'd be saying the same thing if NetSafe went after any political blog, regardless of its ideological leanings, in fact I've made a number of comments on TDB defending the free speech of that rumour-mongering pit of McCarthyist foulness, Whale Oil.

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I watched a presentation at BAPCA that consistently talked about 'gays'; 'gay rights', 'gay pride' etc. that's not unusual (although it IS annoying). I spend a lot of my time pointing out to people that 'it's not 'gay pride', is it?'. But there came a point in the presentation where the presenter said 'or LGBT, as we have to say now'. I stiffened, and the presenter corrected themself to 'as we should say now', and moved on.
Later on I was talking to a lesbian and a heterosexual person about that presentation and I mentioned the incident. I found it had been read very differently by each person. The person not identifying as LGBT hadn't perceived it as a problem at all, and indeed had felt it was positive – an acknowledgement that there is more to non-normative sexuality than 'gay'. The person who identifies as a lesbian however, had had much the same response as I had. She had been insulted and felt marginalised by 'or as we have to say', as I had.
I am not speaking for what the presenter meant in their statement, but for how it was received. It was received as an injury, that those of us not 'lucky' enough to be (just) gay, now were causing extra work to people who otherwise think of themselves as inclusive.
Research demonstrates that most people do not think of themselves as racist, homo/biphobic, transphobic, etc. in fact, they work quite hard *not* to be. But in situations where people don't have time or capacity to think, 'slips' happen. And it's those 'slips' from seemingly otherwise non-discriminatory people that hurt the most. Macro discriminations, we often expect. The overt, easy to spot comments. Those are easy to write off as being ascribable to 'a bigot' etc. but the comments from 'supportive' people are harder – 'but they are such a nice person!' etc. The heterosexual person didn't really get why it might be a problem, why LGBT people (of all types- including gay men) might have been affected by that.
These are microaggressions. I'll write more about these I'm sure (and have- people not gendering me correctly is a microaggression), and their effects. But two microaggressions happened in that presentation. First the use of 'gay' for all things LGBT and second the attempted correction.


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New Era For Pulaski Park
New pavilion opens after 10 years. New recreational offerings may combat crime.
The Pulaski Park Pavilion, at 2677 S. 16th St., has officially reopened after being closed for nearly a decade. The Milwaukee County Parks Department and County Supervisor Marina Dimitrijevic hosted its grand reopening with a celebratory event Wednesday evening.
Community members, public officials, park rangers and police officers filled the freshly renovated pavilion to discuss the the park's new changes and brighter future.
"You're going to just feel the positive energy," said Dimitrijevic.
Thus far, the pavilion has gotten the most attention. New bathrooms have been constructed, lighting fixtures have been installed and lead pipes have been removed so the building is now up to health code. The park's indoor pool has also been renovated and is completely usable.
Great changes are also planned for the park.
Patrick Elliott, Project Manager for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD), discussed its plans for the Kinnickinnic River that runs through the park. Currently, the stream has concrete banks installed to help reduce flooding, but this has many negative side effects, and an MMSD project will naturalize the river by replacing the concrete with rocks and vegetation. The concrete made the river look like an open sewer, proved to be a safety hazard and killed the river's natural qualities, as the water whisked quickly downstream. The naturalized river will slow the stream down and widen it, creating riffles and pools that attract fish and aquatic life.
Other plans for the park plan include rebuilding the pedestrian bridge over the stream, and updating and recreating the basketball courts and playgrounds. These improvements will take about a year to complete.
Another project would create a futsal court to add to the existing and upgraded tennis courts. Futsal is a scaled down version of soccer, played with fewer players on a hard surface.
Southside resident Emer Martinez spoke of his concerns for his children, and their love for soccer.
"I moved here in 1994 from from Mexico and not too many Hispanic people were here yet playing in these same parks," said Martinez. "But now, the fields are ugly," and also a safety hazard, he noted. "We have to watch our knees and ankles…we need turf to play on. I don't want my son or the other kids injured. I know I'm not the only one."
Dimitrijevic reminded the crowd that this is the only way they are going to further improve the park: through community participation.
James Moran of Moran's Pub, a soccer bar in South Milwaukee, spoke about developing an Athletics Task Force for all of Milwaukee, believing the more investment made towards the children, the less law enforcement will be necessary. Area Alderman Jose G. Perez agreed to meet with Moran to discuss this matter further.
The park has had issues in the past with vandalism.
"We need your help," said Dimitrijevic. "We want a busy, safe and clean park with your participation."
Moranda Medina of the Sixteenth Street Health Center said the community can positively engage the park through volunteer cleanup efforts.
Written surveys were conducted, and raffle prizes were distributed among the attendees.
Residents will be able to reserve the pavilion for various activities through the County Parks Department. To rent the pavilion, call 414-257-PARK to speak with an associate.


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Stephanie Dickerson, MEd, LPC is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) originally from Sioux City, Iowa. She attended Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri for a Bachelor of Arts degree double majoring in Psychology and Sociology. She then moved to St. Louis to attend the University of Missouri-St. Louis for her Master's in Education in Counseling with an emphasis in marriage and family counseling. Stephanie spent her internship time at St. Anthony's Medical Center in their behavioral health unit working with adolescents and adults in inpatient and outpatient care, which helped her hone her skills in teaching Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to a wide range of people and ages.
After graduation in 2013, she has worked with adults at Comtrea, a non-profit agency working in holistic care in Jefferson County as well as at Youth In Need as a Child, Youth and Family Therapist working in high school settings. Working with many suffering with anxiety, depression, and ADHD symptoms led Stephanie to seeking helpful and tangible ways to help ease their churning minds, which is where she found Mindfulness and its' benefits. She also has worked in the Rockwood School District with elementary-aged children and in the Francis Howell School District teaching Mindfulness skills to both staff and students alike. Stephanie utilizes CBT, Mindfulness, Solution-Focused Therapy, art and sand tray to help with a wide array of concerns including, but not limited to trauma, anxiety and related disorders, depression, suicidal ideations, ADHD, and social concerns.
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Digital marketing company, Group Dane has worked closely with the team at the Beaufort Park Hotel to develop a highly customer-focussed website, which not only helps to deliver an exceptional online experience, but also successfully achieves the business objectives. Take a look at how they did it – there may be useful lessons for your own website, and revenues…
Improved online experience for customers
Beaufort Park Hotel in Mold, North Wales recently won Best Place to Stay at the Flintshire Food and Tourism Awards, and is aiming to mirror the success of their accommodation offering with a high quality online experience.
Susan Warnock, Beaufort Park Hotel General Manager said, "Our website is often the first line of contact with new customers, so it's important that we immediately send out a message that customer experience is at the heart of our business."
Asking the audience and setting the focus
Using web analytics, customer research and market intelligence, Group Dane developed a series of web personas that reflected key audience segments. The personas were then used to inform content, structure and design decisions across the site. Real customers were used at various stages of the development process to test the website to ensure the site was delivering the best user experiences.
Going mobile friendly
Web analytics data for the old site revealed that a high volume of the websites users were accessing it on mobile devices, but because the old website wasn't mobile friendly, the layout didn't adjust to smaller screen sizes which made it more difficult to use the website.
Group Dane built the site so the layout automatically responds to the size of the user's screen, which ensures the website always displays perfectly whether accessed on a mobile, tablet or desktop computer.
Opening with a close
For some customers, the decision to book has already been made, so it is important the website is geared to close the sale quickly. To make booking as quick and simple as possible, the form is placed at the top of every page, allowing customers to check availability without having to leave the page. Reducing the number of page loads in the journey is particularly beneficial to mobile users, who may have a slower internet connection.
Giving customers what they want…quickly
Web analytics data revealed that, on the old site, some of the most popular content was buried deep within the site structure, forcing users to take more steps and work harder to find what they were looking for.
On the new website, both the page and the site structures are tailored for the main customer motivations, forming simple and satisfying user journeys that also deliver on business objectives.
Simplifying enquiries
At various points, there are opportunities for customers to request information rooms, services, dining and events. Rather than presenting users with multiple forms for different queries, there is one form that dynamically responds to the users' query automatically depending on their enquiry.
Customers value sharing
Customers often want to share specific information with friends and colleagues for practical or social reasons. To make it easy for customers to share information via social networks or email, specific elements on every page of the site are shareable.
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We first reported in this July 2010 story [July 6, 2010: Walmart Looking for Store Sites in Northern California For 20,000 Sq-Ft Neighborhood Market by Walmart Prototype Store] that Walmart Stores, Inc. was looking for locations in California for its Walmart Neighborhood Market supermarkets, which range in size from about 30,000-45,000 square feet.
To date Walmart has operated its mega-supercenters and discount format stores only in California, many of which it's been converting over the last few years to hybrid supercenters offering food and groceries, but not its Neighborhood Market grocery stores.
We followed our July 2010 report and analysis piece up with other stories, like this one in January 2011 about the Bentonville, Arkansas-based global retailer's plans to launch its Walmart Neighborhood Market format in the Golden State. In the January piece and in others, we reported on specific locations in California where Walmart would be opening its Neighborhood Market stores.
It's been a long reportage road from our first reports in 2010 about the mega-retailer's plans to open Walmart Neighborhood Market supermarkets in California to the present.
But it's been a fruitful journey.
Why? Because Walmart Store's, Inc. has now announced - and in our case confirmed because many of the store locations it's announced are those we already reported on - the first Walmart Neighborhood Market locations it plans to open, beginning this fall, in California.
Inside a Walmart Neighborhood Market supermarket. Photo courtesy Walmart Stores, Inc.
Below are the locations of those 13 (Walmart obviously isn't superstitious) supermarkets, along with all the key data grocery industry wonks and consumers alike like to see.
Walmart has other Neighborhood Market locations already booked in California, a couple of which are mentioned in our previous stories. In addition, the retailer is looking for more sites for its Walmart Neighborhood Market supermarkets throughout California.
We will be writing about Walmart's launch of its Walmart Neighborhood Market supermarkets in California from now until the end of the year, including reporting on some of those additional locations.
We'll be using this header: 'Walmart Neighborhood Market in California,' in those stories.
As of today we expect the first Walmart Neighborhood Market stores in California to open in the October-November time period. One of the first, if not the first unit, will be in Lincoln, California near Sacramento, where Tesco's Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market opened a store in March 2012.
Walmart Stores, Inc. currently has 168 Neighborhood Market stores in the U.S., with plans to double the store- count over the next couple years. As we've said a number of times in Fresh & Easy Buzz, California will play a major role at Walmart in the growing of that store-count. Stay tuned.
[Read our extensive four-plus years of reporting, analysis and commentary about Walmart Stores, Inc., including its Walmart Neighborhood Market and other smaller format grocery stores at the following links: Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Walmart, Walmart Stores.]
The Walmart Neighborhood Market supermarket (an urban version) in Chicago's West Loop Neighborhood, which opened earlier this year. The store is about 31,000 square feet. Photo courtesy blog.chicagoarchitecture.info.
Walmart Neighborhood Market in California
1. City: Los Angeles
County: Los Angeles
Address: Corner Grand Avenue and Ceasar Chavez Avenue. Downtown, on outskirts of Chinatown.
Square-footage: 33K. Ground floor of senior citizens' residential complex.
Current target opening: Early-to-mid-2013. Construction to begin summer 2012
2. City: Huntington Beach
County: Orange
Address: Corner Beach Boulevard and Atlantic Avenue. Former Rite-Aid drug store building
Square-footage: 31K
Current target opening: August 2012
3. City: Rancho Santa Margarita
County: Orange
Address: 30491 Avenida de Las Flores. Avenida de los Flores and Antonio Parkway
Square-footage: 33K
Current target opening: August 2012
4. City: Camarillo
County: Ventura
Address: Camarillo Town Shopping Center. 275 West Ventura Boulevard. Vacant Linens and Things building
Square-footage: 34-36K
Current target opening: Late 2012
5. City: San Diego
County: San Diego
Address: Logan Heights. Imperial Avenue between 21rst and 22nd Streets, near downtown. In historic former Farmers Market building. Neighborhood is underserved by grocery stores offering fresh food and groceries at affordable prices.
Square-footage: 48,800K
Current target opening: Late 2012/Early 2013
San Francisco Bay Area
6. City: Pleasanton/East Bay
County: Alameda
Address: Meadow Plaza shopping center. 3112 Santa Rita Road. Santa Rita Road and Stoneridge Drive
Former Nob Hill Foods' (Raley's owned) supermarket building. Near Safeway Stores, Inc.'s corporate headquarters. Less than a mile from a Safeway store and a Fresh & Easy market.
Square-footage: 31K
Current targeted opening: Late 2012/Early 2013
7. City: San Ramon/East Bay
County: Contra Costa
Address: Country Club Village Shopping Center. 9100 Alcosta Boulevard. Former Ralphs' supermarket and La Asia supermarket building. Closest competitor: Save Mart-owned Lucky supermarket, less than one mile away.
Square-footage: 33-36K
Current target opening: Fall 2012
8. City: Hayward/East Bay
County: Alameda
Address: 2480 Whipple Road. Former Circuit City building
Square-footage: 33-35K
Current target opening: Late 2012/Early 2013
9. City: San Jose
County: Santa Clara
Address: Westgate Mall. 1600 Saratoga Avenue
Square-footage: 38K. Recently closed Safeway store
Current target opening: Fall 2012
Sacramento Region
10. City: Sacramento
County: Sacramento
Address: Taylor Center. 2700 Marconi Avenue. Marconi Avenue and Fulton Avenue. Former Goore's children's store building. Prior to 1999, when Goore's moved in, was a the American Stores' Inc. Lucky supermarket. Goore's closed in fall 2011.
Square-footage: 32-36K*
Current target opening: Late 2012/Early 2013
11. City: Granite Bay (Roseville border)
County: Placer
Address: Sierra Oaks shopping center. Douglas and Sierra College boulevards. Former Grocery Outlet store, plus additional square-footage attached to the building but previously not used by Grocery Outlet.
Square-footage: 43K
Current target opening: Late 2012-to-early-2013
12. City: Lincoln
County: Placer
Address: Highway 65 and Second Street. Former Rainbow Market building
Square-footage: 31-32K
Current target opening: Fall 2012
13. City: Modesto
County: Stanislaus
Address: Coffee and Orangeburg shopping center. Corner Coffee Road and Orangeburg Avenue. Former Dollar Superstore building (26K sq. ft.. Plus, former Leslie Pool Supply building next door (10K sq. ft.)
Square-footage: 36K.
Current target opening: Late 2012-to-early 2013


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Samuel Palmer: Shadows on the Wall
By William Vaughan
Yale University Press 412pp £50 order from our bookshop
In 1824 Samuel Palmer met a highly eccentric and little-known artist called William Blake. As Palmer later recalled, 'He fixed his grey eyes upon me and said "Do you work with fear and trembling?" "Yes, indeed," "Then you'll do."' This brief exchange has the too-perfect air of careful buffing, but whether or not it happened that way, the meeting with Blake was to change Palmer's life. It was also to influence a great swathe of British art.
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How We are Funded
No appropriated funds from congress:
The Commission receives no appropriated funds from Congress. The World War One Centennial Commission Act which established the Commission (part of Public Law 112-272 passed by the 112th Congress and signed by President Obama on January 16, 2013, and further refined by Public Law 113-291, Subtitle J, Section 3091) specifies that "The Centennial Commission shall accept, use, and dispose of gifts, bequests, or devises of services or property, both real and personal, for the purpose of covering the costs incurred by the Centennial Commission to carry out its duties under this Act."
Seeking donations and sponsors from both individuals and corporations:
In order to support the mission, goals and programs, as well as fund the National WWI Memorials at Pershing Park, the organization is seeking donations and sponsors. Here are a few of the ways you can help:
Make a gift on our donation page where you can provide a single gift, a repeating gift, restrict your gift to a listed program, make your donation in honor of a loved one or organization and more.
Purchase official WWI Centennial Merchandise from the merchandise shop. The organization received a portion of all sales to support our programs.
Use Amazon Smile and assign us as your designated charity and we will get 2% of all your purchases
Contact our team for Corporate Sponsorships and OpportunitiesFounding Sponsor:
The Pritzker Military Museum and Library has generously supported the WWI Centennial as our Founding Sponsor, including a matching grant for all general donations. So please give and your $ is worth $$
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To maximize its fundraising potential, the Commission created a supporting foundation to solicit and manage gifts and pledges obtained through a variety of national appeals and campaigns. The United States Foundation for the Commemoration of the World Wars is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt organization whose mission is to support the Commission's programs and activities. The Foundation serves as the principal fund-raising organization for the Commission, and it fully embraces the Donor Bill of Rights established by the Association of Fundraising Professionals.


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Chapters (News from the Local Groups)
The Global Online Chapter started on 22 February 2017 since then we have had chapter events from Europe, North America and Australia. If you have an idea for an online chapter event, please let us know.
We have two new local SFiO chapters: The Italian and French Chapters started in October 2018. Click on the country below for details.
We currently have Chapters in a number of regions and countries: Here you will find information on who to contact and on the latest meetings: Finland – France – Germany – Italy – UK London – UK North – Singapore


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You've seen my Project 365 posts, watched my Adobe digital family video and you are still trying to figure out how to capture your family memories. Am I right? Well, now you will have the opportunity to ask me and 3 other experts any question you have about capturing and collecting families memories.
Talk on the Motherhood Details
What: A live, all-text Talk on The Motherhood, called Collecting Family Memories in the Digital Age. You dust off your camera for family vacations – but have you ever thought about getting it out to capture a regular family dinner night?
Talk with Michele McGraw of Scraps of My Geek Life, along with a great group of co-hosts, about starting your own "Project 365," taking a photo each day and creating a digital scrapbook of everyday family memories throughout the years.
When: Wednesday, September 5, at 1 p.m. ET. We will chat for 30 minutes!
Where: On The Motherhood, right here –
Who: The all-text chat will be hosted by ME!
Co-hosting are these awesome people:
Amy, Snap & Scrap
Katie, Katie Pertiet & Designer Digitals
Stephanie, Bizzie Living
Bring your questions and find out how to start your own Project 365 to collect your families memories.


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Bothnian Bay Between Finland and Sweden65.0N 22.1E
This orthorectified wide-swath ASAR image shows the Bothnian Bay or Bay of Bothnia (Swedish: Bottenviken, Finnish: Perämeri), the northernmost part of the Gulf of Bothnia. Its northernmost point is situated in Töre. The bay is bounded by Finland to the east, Sweden to the west, and the Kvarken sound to the south. The maximum depth of the bay is 482 feet (147 m). The bay has the highest rate of rising of land by post-glacial rebound in the Baltic Sea.
The Gulf of Bothnia (Finnish: Pohjanlahti; Swedish: Bottniska viken) is the northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea. It is situated between Finland's west coast and Sweden's east coast. The gulf is 725 km (450 mi) long, 80–240 km (50-150 mi) wide and has an average depth of 60 m (200 ft, 33 fathoms). The maximum depth is 295 m (965 ft, 161 fathoms). The surface area is 117,000 km² (45,200 sq mi).


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That type of cancer that originates from cells lining the surface of the body or surface of the body channels, such as tissues such as skin cells, testis, ovary, mucus glands, melanin cells, breast, cervix, colon, rectum, stomach, pancreas, and esophagus.
That type of cancer that originates from the blood-forming tissue such as lymphoid tissue, lacteal, spleen, various lymph nodes, thymus, and bone marrow. Specific lymphomas include Hodgkin disease (cancer of the lymph nodes and spleen)
This type of cancer does not form a tumor mass, but fulfill the function of blood vessels and interfere with normal blood cells.
Ie nervous system cancers, such as glial cells (supporting tissue) in the central nervous system.
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Dear Fish,
I know not so long ago I ran for you in the "Heal Bay 10k Run", I am so sorry my run was in vain as this was just announced:
Bush is lifting the ban on offshore oil drilling.
Perhaps now I will have to join a more radical group devoted to saving you fish and our ocean.
Your pal,


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Oro, which means "gold" in Spanish, made his in-ring debut on November 23, 1990. He teamed with Plata (his brother) and Platino as the trio Los Metálicos. It was soon discovered that Oro had something more than his two partners, though. His highrisk moves off the top rope were revolutionary in the day. He made his Japan debutin 1992. Because his name was so big over there, when he came back to Mexico, he began to team with such stars as Mil Mascaras and Ultimo Dragon. Following a shoulder injury in the ring, he knew his career would never be the same. In one of the most famous stories in wrestling, he told his opponents on October 26, 1993 to drop him on his head, a move that had recently broken the neck of All Japan's Kenta Kobashi. One of his opponents, Kahoz, gave Oro a clothline, spinning Oro around,landing him onhis head. He was pronounced dead on the spot.
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It's easy.
See, wasn't that easy?
How many times have I uttered those words? Probably more than I realize because honestly, I never gave much thought to what I was actually saying. Most likely I intended the words to be encouraging. Now, I'm not so sure that they are.
Last week, my younger son Jack was testing for his new belt rank in martial arts. For the test, the kids had to do a stick pattern called "windmill." It was similar to another pattern they had previously learned, but just different enough to be confusing to his young mind. It was beyond confusing to my not-so-young mind. I watched intently in class so that I might help Jack practice at home, but I just couldn't get it. Neither could he.
We had two days to practice before the test. But how do you practice something you don't know how to do? We had an idea of what it was supposed to look like but lacked all the intricate details. I instructed my boys to practice the best they could anyway. Needless to say, Jack wasn't thrilled and did his best to whine his way out of it. At his brother Jared's urging, however, he stuck with it. He kept getting stuck at one particular point. One of his sticks must have been in the wrong position because every time he did the second move he ended up hitting himself. We were all pretty certain that wasn't supposed to happen. Finally, Jack dashed downstairs to tell me he and his brother had figured it out and commanded me to come back upstairs and watch him. Sure enough, he was no longer his own worst enemy. We were making progress!
The day of the test came much too quickly. The first part of class was spent reviewing, and Jack's instructor worked with him on his windmill. Jack was still having trouble, but slowly began to get the hang of it. That's when his instructor said to him, "It's easy," words that I have said myself numerous times, but this time, hearing them spoken by someone else, and directed to my child, they stopped me cold.
It's easy.
Only, it wasn't.
As Jack's mother, I had seen him try and try again and just not be able to get the hang of it. It was decidedly NOT easy. I couldn't help but think, what message do we send a child who has struggled to grasp a skill or concept when we say that it is easy? If it's easy, then the kid must be pretty stupid to not have gotten it sooner, right? I know that that is not what Jack's instructor meant, and I don't even think Jack took it that way. I know I have certainly never meant it that way. But that was the unspoken message I sensed lurking beneath those innocuous words.
Sure, it is easy when you've done it a million times. Just like fractions and long division and inferring and writing complete sentences are easy for me. (Yes, I realize I do not always write in complete sentences!) Perhaps the problem is that we have so much experience that we have forgotten what it is like to know nothing and to be learning something for the first time. It seems to me, though, that when we say something that a child has struggled with is easy, we diminish their hard work and perseverance. They then become words of discouragement rather than the words of encouragement we intend them to be.
The next time I witness one of those miraculous moments when a child begins to understand what once was confusing, I won't diminish the accomplishment by saying, "See, wasn't that easy?" which I know very well it wasn't. Instead I will say something like, "See, all your hard work paid off," and thereby acknowledge that I know what that child has done wasn't easy, but I also know that they are capable of learning difficult and challenging things.


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This wasn't the abject confession of error about the surge that conservatives were clamoring for. But, without conceding its wisdom, Obama plainly acknowledged the political legitimacy and good faith of Bush's decisions about the Iraq war. Under the circumstances it would have been not only civically irresponsible, but politically unwise, for Obama to have offered his political opponents anything less. And it will be not only civically irresponsible, but probably politically unwise, if his opponents keep demanding anything more."I am mindful that the Iraq War has been a contentious issue at home. Here, too, it is time to turn the page. This afternoon, I spoke to former President George W. Bush. It's well known that he and I disagreed about the war from its outset. Yet no one could doubt President Bush's support for our troops, or his love of country and commitment to our security. As I have said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hope for Iraq's future."
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The Speech
I wondered earlier today whether Obama has the inclination and the political chops to adapt to the changing political landscape as adroitly as Clinton did after the 1994 elections. I think tonight's speech, especially its well-chosen words about Bush, gave every indication that he has both:
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Czech church best sacred architecture of 2017 in Azure poll
Prague, Dec 29 (CTK) - The new St Wenceslas church in Sazovice, south Moravia, has been listed among the world's top ten buildings and declared the best sacred architecture of 2017 by the prestigious Azure magazine, daily Pravo wrote on Friday.
On the top ten list, the church, designed by the Brno-seated Stepan studio, figures together with projects such as the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi and the swimming pool in Vancouver.
Azure is a North American magazine focused on contemporary design, architecture, products and interiors from around the globe.
"This appreciation has been a Christmas present for me. Judging by the reactions, this is a great success," architect and the studio's owner Marek Jan Stepan told the daily.
His project, chosen by local residents, profoundly differs from the usual shape of churches in southeast Moravia's countryside.
It is a windowless rotunda, a shape derived from the Romanesque architecture of the late first millennium AD.
"A circle corresponds to the present time and liturgy. I think the Romanesque period and the present time have something in common in terms of religiousness and the internal relation to God. A sacral building must address something that is beyond the material reality, which is why I sought [a solution] in my subconsciousness," Pravo quotes Stepan as saying.
To describe the building, he uses words such as lightness, etherealization, abstraction, clarity and naturalness.
He said he wanted the church to look like made of paper rather than bricks.
Inside, the church is not illuminated through usual windows but through kerfs in the cylinder-shaped wall of a thickness varying from 50 to a few centimetres.
The interior is simple in order to bring the feeling of silence and peace to the visitors.
In the past, church interiors were filled with pictures and statues to acquaint illiterate visitors with the lives of Christ and the saints. At present, people are flooded with information. In a church, they should perceive only the purity of space and the peace, and concentrate on their inner own, Stepan said.
He said the Azure appreciation was a surprise to him because the prestigious lists are completed by experts without architects sending any applications.
After the church's recent opening, European and world media started printing photos of it. The projects seems to have something that addresses the present man, Stepan said.
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Race 1 6th September 2017
Report by Cogger with small modifications by Mark
The first action of the evening was Craigie forgetting his New Jib and having to rush home in his hire car (Tors Volvo poorly) to get it. This seems to be a weekly occurrence as Capt Tudur Roberts tried to start race last week with two mains on board. Craigie managed to get back quicker than Tudur and race was started on time.
First to the race course for the second week in a row was Sundancer crewed by George and George.
Mark on yacht Lilly who was preparing for the Pwllheli Dublin race on Saturday kindly video'd the start.
There was a bit of normal Holymed banter on the run to the knuckle in the breakwater.
It went on about the weight of paint used on Con Brio crewed by Bill and Roger how they achieve the quality finish,Pint of water is pound and a quarter but they did win the pretties boat on the water award it sparkled in the sun light. With the tide coming in Granit with Jas and Steve on board went out to catch it, Unfortunately they didn't gain anything and slipped down the fleet.
In the lead at the first buoy, Clippera, was the Cracker team of Tim and Dave, second Patriot crewed by Pat and Cogger then Bobonski crewed by new blood and youth on his side Harri and Cragie.
The long beat was back to IDM (inner distance mark) the fleet split on which way to go with Cracker and Patriot going to Tinto jetty with the others tacking up the breakwater for the tide.
First to the windward mark was Patriot with Pat working his sock off. Closely followed by Cracker.
This was spotted by Alkypops whose crew were sitting in the bar having a pint. Gareth and Steve even used binoculars to try and work out what was going on. Should have gone to spec savers!
The antics on the run between Cracker and Patriot enabled Kachina Too crewed by rockstar Richard Date and international judge (sailing) David Battye to catch up Pat who was gutted to get rolled a hundred yards from the downwind leg to the breakwater mark.
Cracker covered Bobonski up the beat to the finish with Kachina Too just getting through to leeward and lee bowing Patriot into 3rd by 2 feet.
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More than 80 percent of Wageningen PhD candidates have difficulties finding a place to live. This was revealed by an extensive survey.
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The survey was carried out by the Wageningen PhD Council (WPC) following a meeting in October of 2018 during which PhD candidates indicated having trouble to find housing.
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A total of 345 PhD candidates completed the survey. Of these, 81 percent indicated having trouble to find housing. At the time the survey was held, 41 respondents did not have a place to live, and the remainder noted that they had had trouble to find housing in the past year. Moreover, 16 percent wrote that they had had to move house four times or more before finding a space where they could stay for a longer period of time. Just over half of the respondents found housing within three months of searching, and 20 percent said that they needed more than six months.
The WPC was unpleasantly surprised by these high percentages. 'It is clear that this is a problem that concerns all of Wageningen', says Bart Lagerwaard, chair of the WPC. 'But the group mostly affected by this are the sandwich PhDs, who have limited funds to find housing which is becoming increasingly expensive in Wageningen.' These PhDs stay in Wageningen on several occasions during their PhD programme and have to find housing each time.
The Executive Board knows of the severity of the results from the survey, says spokesperson Simon Vink. 'The Executive Board and the staff departments are aware that housing is often an issue, for PhD candidates as well, and that solutions are required', says Vink. 'We will discuss this with the parties involved.'
The WPC organises a meeting that will take place on 6 March at 12:30 in Impulse, to present and discuss the results and to search for short-term and long-term solutions together with the various parties involved. Lagerwaard: 'The university, the municipality and parties such as Idealis can no longer simply look away. We are aware that more people are impacted by the issues with housing in Wageningen, but having to move house six times when one comes to Wageningen for six months from another continent, that truly is something we should not want for employees.'
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The solution is very basic: WUR should stop growing, both in BSc and MSc students as well as in PhD numbers. Growing is a choice, not something that just happens. Current student, current staff and non-WUR Wageningers are all fed up with the consequences of the top-down growing intention. Why don't I hear Mr. Vink (or anybody else from WUR) acknowledging this, rather than blaming others?React
Even with a good salary it is not possible to find a house. There are no studios to rent in Wageningen. Many rooms don't even accept foreigners (dutch only, nice). Wageningen is too small for the amount a students and PhD it receives. You have the choice between student apartments to share and apartments for families. There is nothing in between. My suggestion: never come to Wageningen, you will regret when you will have to sleep in your car.React
P.S.: I am still waiting for a formal complain against all the people putting 'Dutch only' in their room offer. It's just illegal and disgusting.
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By Scott Chambers
February 14 2006
Its now 8 defeats in 8 out of Burtons conference meetings with Morecambe. But Burton have every right to be proud of their performance but things just didnt go their way on the day. 2 late goals sank the Brewers after Durcos' equaliser. We'll beat them one day!
A large number of Burton fans made the long trip to Morecambe last saturday to watch the Shrimps beat Burton yet again. Morecambe was a nice place to visit and despire the result it was a strong performance from the Brewers who gave everything but didnt get anything back.
The good game was unsettled by a pitch invader who managed to run the length of the pitch and throw a couple of objects at Burton keeper Saul Deeney without being stopped. Luckily he had an embarassing aim and missed with both throws but it probably shook Deeney up a bit after that.
Burton were forced to make 1 change from the great victory at Grays midweek as Chris Hall was out with illness. Darren Tinson returned to the side after making a recovery. Andy Ducros went out wide to fill in for Hall.
Both sides were quiet in the first half and Morecambe looked the better side. Both sides knocked the ball around well and on the ground, playing good quality football. Neither side looked like getting forward however.
Morecambe gave Deeney a bit of practice with an optimistic 30 yard shot early on. They looked more dangerous a few minutes later when a powerful strike went just wide. Burton looked dangerous from set pieces but Morecambe defended well.
Then the pitch invader struck! Leaving Deeney and the whole side a little shaken. Morecambe must be used to that sort of incident as it didnt affect them and they took advantage of Burtons lack of concentration as Chris Blackburn put Morecambe 1-0 up.
Stride had to be replaced in the 2nd half after picking up an injury. Terry Henshaw replaced him. Albion raised their game in the 2nd half and Harrad created a couple of good chances with his pacy running. The part time aspects of the game showed though as Harrad tired himself out and was replaced by Chris Moore.
Kris Taylor formed a couple of chances. Firstly mishitting a long distance shot, then winning a freekick but curling it over the bar. Andy Ducros didnt stop running trying to create oppurtunities but they wouldnt come despite Burtons large amount of possession.
The few times when Morecambe picked up the ball they looked very dangerous. Thankfully their finishing let them down on a couple of occasions. 1 shot was blazed miles over the bar before another close range effort somehow was hit wide.
Burton kept going and finally got their reward. Chris Moore made a great impact on the game and managed to win a penalty. Aaron Webster took the penalty but Morecambe keeper Drench made a fantastic save! Unluckily though the rebound fell right to the lively Andy Ducros who made no mistake in putting Burton back in the game.
It looked like Burton would get their first ever Conference points against Morecambe but their hopes were crushed late on. Sloppiness at the back led to Stuart Barlow and Garry Thompson scoring for Morecambe, sending Burton once again home empty handed.
The result was rather flattering for Morecambe who were matched by Burton for much of the game. Burton put in a gutsy performance though and may be pleased that Morecambe move 1 step closer to promotion. 6 points could be saved next season if Morecambe are no longer a Conference side.


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NEW YORK - More small businesses than expected are signing up for health insurance on state exchanges that opened this month.
The marketplaces, which began operating Oct. 1 under the new health care law, are designed to offer low-cost insurance for individuals and small businesses. Many business owners have been pleasantly surprised by the rates and coverage, according to accounts from owners and exchange officials, althoughsome are disappointed and say they plan to buy insurance privately.
A spot check of U.S. marketplaces shows that the number of companies that have opened accounts on any state exchange so far tends to be in the hundreds. Officials note it's still early, given that policies sold in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces won't take effect until Jan. 1.
New York, Minnesota and Vermont officials say small-business enrollments have surpassed expectations. But signup rates differ widely partly because of the way the exchanges and plans are set up. In Maryland, the small-business marketplace won't open until Jan. 1. In Washington state, the small-business exchange exists in only two of 39 counties. Insurers aren't offering coverage elsewhere because most employers have private insurance plans or get their coverage through trade groups, says Michael Marchand, a spokesman for that state's exchange.
But even in states where small-business exchanges aren't open, there's interest. Oregon's exchange won't open until early November, but more than 16,000 people have visited sections of the website that detail coverage for small companies.
In Minnesota, about 350 small businesses created accounts on the state's exchange as of Tuesday morning.
"That's more than we thought we would have," says April Todd-Malmlov, executive director of the state's exchange.
"I thought we'd just have a lot of lookers."
Pleased with rates
Dominique Rodgers is happy with the rates on Louisiana's exchange.
"They looked comparable to what I'm paying now, a little more expensive," says Rodgers, office manager at Reputation Capital Media Services, a marketing firm based in Baton Rouge, La.
She's not ready to sign up for coverage. She'll meet with her company's outside human resources adviser and review the options before making a decision by early November.
Members of the Small Business Majority are generally pleased by what they've seen, said John Arensmeyer, CEO of the advocacy group.
"They're not seeing costs go through the roof," he said.
The unhappy ones
Dr. Leo Lombardo was surprised to learn from the California marketplace that he's unlikely to get a break on insurance for employees he'll soon hire for his clinic.
Under the new law, employers can get a tax credit if the average salary they pay to their workers is less than $50,000. Lombardo, whose practice is in Ventura, expects to pay salaries of $80,000 and more to his staffers, including a nurse and physician's assistant.
"Without the additional tax credit, there's no advantage in going to the exchange compared to going to an insurance company and buying a small-business policy," he says.
And many owners won't buy in the marketplace because they're satisfied with plans they already have, says Todd McCracken, president of advocacy group the National Small Business Association.
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Vibram FiveFingers - Trek Ascent Megagrip Barefoot - Grey Lilac
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The all new Trek Ascent™ with Megagrip™ flexi sole construction for assured grip with high flexibility.
An all over super tread Megagrip™ construction and a robust breathable upper for added durability when heading off the beaten track.
The Ascent™ has been designed as the replacement to the immortal TrekSport™ to meet a demand between it with it's all over softer rubber compound sole and high feel feedback, and the Spyridon™ with it's impact resistant sole that was less flexible than the TrekSport™. As a result, the Trek Ascent™ is probably destined to become one of the most popular shoes in the Fivefingers® collection.
The Ascent™ fits in between with a very durable hi-grip sole that offers greater flexibility than the Spyridon™ but is more durable than the TrekSport™.
This new model aims directly at those who want to go off piste as well as on the roads either running, climbing or simply being adventurous around hills and rocks.
A 4mm thick PU insole adds protection without stiffening the sole so you still get the sensory feedback and the highly breathable synthetic upper provides a cool, robust resistant finish for upper foot protection. Classic VFF rolled toe caps stops the effects of "Toe Stub" and are treaded to provide full traction even when just the toes are in contact with the surface.
Quick release and secure speed lace system now commonplace across the collection and fully machine washable for a quick clean result. Anti-microbial Drilex™ lining helps reduce the effects of foot odour accumulating in your Fivefingers® to keep them fresher for longer but there's always the Toe Socks to help preserve them longer.
So run, walk, climb, rock-pooling, whatever your passion, the Trek Ascent™ has you covered...........
• Built specifically to promote a barefoot-like experience.
• Ideal for off-road adventures and hiking in all conditions.
• Polyester and spandex upper.
• Upper envelopes the foot to help keep debris out.
• Speed lace system allows for quick-and-easy adjustments, and accommodates a wider foot or higher instep.
• 4 mm polyurethane insole with Dri-Lex® sock liner featuring antimicrobial technology for a great in-shoe environment.
• 4 mm EVA midsole provides lightweight cushioning and shock absorption.
• 4 mm Vibram® rubber outsole provides exceptional underfoot feel without compromising abrasion resistance.
Weight: 6 oz
• Product measurements were taken using size 41 (US Women's 9-9.5), width B - Medium. Please note that measurements may vary by size.
*Machine wash cold. Air dry.
Running in FiveFingers allows your foot to land with a forefoot strike, similar to barefoot, but with the protection of a Vibram sole. No running footwear comes closer to recreating this natural sensation. This forefoot style allows you to land directly below your center of gravity, resulting in efficient balance and stability with less impact - as if you were running barefoot. Get back in touch with the ground with FiveFingers. Get grounded - Go forward.
As with any new sport or activity, Vibram recommends you consult your physician or a medical professional to see if natural running in FiveFingers is right for you
For overall fitness from the ground up. Like every other part of your body, your feet benefit from exercise. Whether you are cardio training, lifting weights or powering through a CrossFit routine, many exercises rely on flexible yet stable support from your feet and legs. That's why the unique design of Vibram FiveFingers helps you get the most out of your workout and your body.
In Vibram FiveFingers, your feet can move naturally and flex easily. Five individual toe slots let your toes separate gently, stabilizing your body and providing unrivaled balance and increased muscle stimulation to feet, ankles and lower legs. Our ultra-thin Vibram® sole delivers a sure-footed grip to help generate torque during power moves, and it enhances feedback and lowers your center of gravity to improve balance and agility. By putting your feet on a flat plane, without the downward angle caused by the heel lift in traditional shoes, your posture and alignment will improve and your joints and back will be in position for you to get the most out of your power movements.
When your whole body is engaged from the ground up, you're able to train at a higher level. With Vibram FiveFingers, you can count on increased balance, performance and an overall sense of control during fitness and strength conditioning.
Experience the trail. Designed to replicate being barefoot, Vibram FiveFingers provides a uniquely natural way for you to feel the earth beneath your feet-whatever form that earth might take.
Whether trekking for you means exploring historic ruins or hiking a 4,000 footer, Vibram FiveFingers will allow your feet to move naturally and put your body in an aligned posture. By lowering the heel, your bodyweight becomes evenly distributed across the footbed, promoting proper spinal alignment. Vibram FiveFingers also help to strengthen your lower legs and feet, and encourage sensory feedback from your environment.
While trekking, you're bound to encounter varied terrain, and Vibram FiveFingers provide exemplary grip on a variety of surfaces. Some models are designed with a lightly cleated sole for increased traction on more rigorous and demanding treks. Wherever your next adventure takes you, VibramFiveFingers will let you experience it like no other footwear.
Please remember if you are trying these for the first time....you MUST ALLOW TIME FOR YOUR BODY TO ADAPT.......adaptation = Stress and you are in control. Here is a link to a video which shows how you can perfect a technique to allow you to take up barefoot / natural running without injury, provided you follow the guidelines. Any doubts the contact me through ebay "my messages" and I will give you all the advice to help you avoid the pitfalls.
The video features the Vibram Bikila Evo mens shoe.
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Tinkering and product longevity
By Antony Funnell on Future Tense
We continue our look at the practice of tinkering with Miles Park from the Faculty of Built Environment at the University of New South Wales.
He's been exploring the relationship between tinkering, product longevity and e-waste reduction.
(Do you tinker? Tell us your story and read other contributions on our blog).
Miles Park
Head of Program, Industrial Design, Faculty of Built Environment, University of NSW
Kate: Hi, I'm Kate from Brisbane, and I come from a family of tinkerers. It started with my grandfather he was a melting machine mechanic, but it's my Dad I remember. He really helped my sister when her car broke down, and she was out of town. The heater exploded and spluttered, and so she went to a mechanic, he said it would be a week. So she rang my dad and he said, 'Put the mechanic on', and he said to him, 'Now just get a broom handle and stick it in the hose, she doesn't need a heater' and he sent her on her way.
Calum Morrison: Hello, I'm Calum Morrison from north-eastern Victoria. I've had a string of successes tinkering over the years, and that's built up a fair bit of confidence and opened up lots of new opportunities. Some of the best work in a lot of interesting fields was done by people who were tinkering, and I think a lot of government agencies and corporations really struggle with a lot of these basic concepts, and that's where tinkerers have the advantage.
Michael: Hi, I'm Michael, I'm a 56 year old baby boomer from Sydney with degrees in medicine and engineering, and I'm a tinkerer, and I've been tinkering with electric bicycles now for many years, but the good news is that these devices have at long last come of age. Now by and large they cruise at anything from 30 to 40 kilometres an hour, and believe me, in city traffic nine times out of ten, I'll beat a car into the city any old day on my bicycle, and not use any fossil fuel and I think they're an ecologically excellent form of transport, plus giving us a little bit of exercise.
Antony Funnell: Yes, make no mistake about it, we appreciate your manual and intellectual endeavours here at Radio National, so send us your tales of tinkering. The details are right there on our website.
And we're getting quite a collection of interesting submissions so when you've got a moment, check out our Tinkering blog and then drop us a line, or send us a video or photo of the way in which you tinker.
And let's end the program today with Miles Park. He's Head of Industrial Design at the Faculty of Built Environment at the University of New South Wales. And Miles has been exploring the relationship between tinkering, product longevity and e-waste reduction.
Miles Park: Well one of the exercises I set myself was to look at well are there examples of prolonged life-spans of things such as consumer electronics? So I looked at various product types or categories. I looked at various behaviours and indeed, systems, that might surround products and behaviours that promote extended product life. So things like secondary markets, like internet auctions, houses and markets and so forth. But one of the things that kept bobbing up all the time was the behaviour of tinkering, and this is where people are indulging in pulling things apart or are customising products so they can textually relative or situationally specific for their particular circumstances. And by doing so, that product remains relevant, and is more likely to have a longer life-span.
Antony Funnell: In terms of the manufacturers that you looked at, the people who make products, how welcoming did you find they were of the idea of tinkering, of the idea that people might muck about with their product?
Miles Park: Well I must say it's very hard to find examples where they do welcome it. It's usually they want to exclude users from tinkering, so we have a situation where we have labels on products that say 'Void warranty if removed', we have situations where we have products glued together which are very difficult to un-glue, or snap locks which should snap open but they usually don't, they usually end up shattering, or security fasteners, or particular configurations of the way the mouldings go together which make it extremely difficult to break them apart.
Antony Funnell: Because I guess it's to their economic benefit, or they'd see it - many of them would see it as being to their economic benefit, to stop you from trying to extend the longevity of your particular, or their particular product.
Miles Park: Yes, well it's a long-maintained belief that manufacturers conspire to make products become obsolete, and I think it's a little bit more complex than that, it's not just the manufacturers. I mean I think technology, fashion, the whole kind of social construction of what products mean in our day-to-day lives, all contribute to this very complex mix of driving obsolescence. But yes, there's no doubt that that definitely has been an agenda, and to preclude people doing dangerous things with their products. I mean I'm sure litigation is in the back of their minds when they conceive of these warnings.
Antony Funnell: When we look at something like the iPhone, where you buy a device, but there is very clearly an expectation that you'll add to that device, that you will build on the applications that are given to you, the basic applications that are given to you. Where does something like that fit into the idea of tinkering, and also the manufacturer's idea of the responsibility for their own product?
Miles Park: Well with the iPhone, the product is fairly well locked down in terms of its physical parameters, indeed to replace a battery is a pretty problematic affair.
Antony Funnell: So even there, there's not much room for tinkering?
Miles Park: Very little room on the physical side, but then we see on the software side, we have a whole series of applications that have been developed by third party suppliers, but they have to be I believe, approved by Apple. So there is some encouragement to the user to tinker on the kind of software side, but it's a very controlled environment. It doesn't really sort of fit the true spirit of open-ended tinkering where new things occur out of complete surprise to the manufacturers.
Antony Funnell: One of the downsides of our heightened consumerism in recent decades has been waste, has been the level, particularly of e-waste, with electronics that we see generated in the world. How do you see tinkering affecting that e-waste? I mean do you see it as a way of actually addressing some of those environmental problems?
Miles Park: Oh indeed I do. I think that's the starting point for my curiosity about looking at obsolescence in consumer electronics. Because we know that e-waste is one of the fastest-growing categories of waste streams, especially municipal waste, and Australia is yet to formalise any agreement on producer responsibility, product stewardship, as it's referred to, about the take-back of these products. So an awful lot of this stuff is going to landfill, huge waste of resources, huge amount of embodied energy in these products that's being lost. So by tinkering, there is a definite connection between the life-span of products and tinkering. If you can slow down that throughput of stuff going into landfill, surely it's got to contribute to reducing that overall burden of landfill waste.
Antony Funnell: Many things, some would say most things in our lives today revolve around money. If there is a financial incentive for major corporations, major manufacturers not to embrace tinkering, is there really any hope of changing their attitudes in future?
Miles Park: Well I think there is. I think there's a missed opportunity here, because there's opportunity about engaging with your consumers and creating an ongoing relationship with them. So instead of just pushing product out the door and hoping your customers are going to buy it, tinkering actually allows companies to create an opportunity to service those users, so we see this with companies that offer third party suppliers for various components. I mean you think of enthusiasts hotting up cars, there's a whole aftermarket of components and products out there which satisfy that tinkering market. So I think there's a missed opportunity here. I think new business models need to be investigated, because there's definitely money to be made out of services, there's no doubt about that.
Antony Funnell: And just finally Miles Park, what are the qualities that you personally admire in tinkerers?
Miles Park: Well I think there's many desirable qualities about tinkering. I mean ultimately it's a creative enterprise, as an industrial designer that's important to me. It's empowering, it's about learning new things, taking things apart is a great way to learn things. It's a decentralised activity, it's all about appropriating things that are to hand, it's resourceful, it's economical, it's opportunistic and as one of your previous speakers has mentioned, it's very much about the top-down meeting bottom-up, so it's the sort of interesting collision between the two.
Antony Funnell: And fun.
Miles Park: And a lot of fun, yes. And indeed, there's a lovely guiding principles of tinkering which has been put together by a fellow called Mark Thompson who is the self-appointed Professor, or Head of the Australian Institute for Backyard Studies, and he's produced a very humorous list of the key qualities of what a tinkerer should be.
Antony Funnell: All right, Backyard Studies and Mark Thompson, we'll try and dig it up and put a link on our website.
Miles Park, thank you very much for joining us.
Miles Park: Thank you.
And staying with technology for just a moment longer, and an update on the internationally acclaimed poet, John Kinsella, who told us back in June that he was preparing to turn his back on the modern information age and go permanently off-line and off computer.
Well, last week he flicked off the switch.
However, before doing so he did agree to catch up with us at some stage next year so we can find out how his neo-Luddite approach to technology pans out.
That's all for another week.
Thanks to co-producer Andrew Davies and technical producer Jim Ussher.
I'm Antony Funnell and this is Radio National.
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